After dissolute millionaire George Orcutt stabs his friend, artist Lucas Emmet, to death during a quarrel over Emmet's girlfriend, he confesses his crime to his wife Gail. She is not so much concerned for his well-being, but rather that of their son, Vance, who would be socially ruined if his father were a murderer. By coincidence, on her way to consult with her friend, District Attorney John Kent, she sees a man who remarkably resembles her husband sitting on a park bench, and upon approaching him, she realizes that he is a dazed amnesiac. Recalling a dinner conversation in which Kent argued that everyone has a double, she lets her husband escape for their son's sake, and replaces him with the man without a memory. The imposter is declared insane and sent to a sanitarium. He regains his sanity but not his memory, and upon his release, he returns to live with Gail as her husband. Reporter Frank Fisher sees Orcutt in a saloon, and investigates. When Orcutt becomes jealous of the imposter, he breaks into his home and demands money from Gail. The butler, thinking that Orcutt is a thief, shoots and kills him. Seeing that the imposter, whose name is really Keith Edgerton, now remembers that he went into shock upon learning that his parents died, and that he and Gail are in love, reporter Fisher and D.A. John Kent agree to keep the matter secret.