A badly injured detective is brought to Dr. Roger Condon by two gangsters. When the patient dies, Roger identifies the men presumably responsible for his death, and then, fearing gangland reprisal, hurriedly leaves town. He changes his name to Frank Harlow, takes a job as a sporting goods clerk, and moves into a mountain lodge run by Colonel Maitland, a paraplegic, and his daughter, Laurie. One of the two gangsters, Big Jim Craven, still hiding from the police, tracks Roger down and devises a plan for eliminating him. But the plot fails when the deputy sheriff recognizes Craven. As a result, the deputy is shot and Roger drops his disguise in order to perform an emergency operation. Craven and his henchmen arrive on the scene; but the sharpshooting Colonel Maitland comes to the rescue, the gangsters are apprehended, and Roger is at last able to stop running away from his past.