When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were planning to extort the unscrupulous trio quickly substitute his double Jack Trevor who by chance was on the same locomotive but knocked unconscious. Once awakened, Jack realizes the duplicity but plays along to try and foil the plot and save the estate for Barney’s cousin Helen who is the true heir and with whom he has fallen in love.
George Walsh
as Horace Barney
Edith Stockton
as Helen Townsend
Ralph J. Locke
as Maurice Claypool
Frank Beamish
as Thomas Farrel
Robert Lee Keeling
as Dr. John Wallace
Matthew Betz
as Giles
John T. Dillon
as Dobbs
Elizabeth Garrison
as Mrs. Townsend
Marcia Harris
as Mrs. Eleanor Davies
Henry Hallam
as Johnny Thomkins