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- Elderly millionaire James Rance, whose only passion is chess, warns his grandson Tommy, who missed the previous evening's game because he played poker with his uncle Gilbert, that should he miss another game, Gilbert will gain the boy's inheritance. During another poker game the next night, Gilbert provokes a fight between Tommy and another player that results in the other player's supposed death. Meanwhile, Terrence Redmond, the guardian of an orphan he found while fighting in France, falls in love with Dawn Moyer. During Elsie Rance's party at the Hotel Plaza, Terrence gallantly offers to assist Elsie whenever she needs him. The next morning, when Tommy's absence is discovered, Elsie calls Terrence, who, after beating Gilbert's Japanese servant in jujitsu, locates Tommy and Dawn at Gilbert's country home. After Gilbert's attempt to poison Terrence is discovered when a cat dies after drinking Terrence's cream, Terrence fights Gilbert's henchmen with broadswords and wins because of his inherited penchant for violence. Tommy returns in time for the chess match, and Elsie becomes engaged to Terrence's friend Bruce, leaving Terrence free to romance Dawn.
- Believing her husband to have died on an allied mission to Russia, wealthy Englishwoman Rosalind Dane devotes her life to her three-year-old daughter Patty. When a gypsy band arrives, Rosalind is strangely attracted to them and permits them to camp on her estate. She falls in love with one of them, Ben Galli, and throws a lawn fete, during which Rowena, a fortune-teller, predicts that there will be a tragic death in her family and that she will leave with the gypsies. During the party, Rosalind's husband Ralph returns with a man who is a secret agent for the Soviets. Ralph threatens to divorce Rosalind and take custody of Patty when he learns of her love for Ben, but Rosalind, who by an overheard conversation has learned that Ralph is in the pay of the Bolsheviks, says that she will kill him before allowing him to have their daughter. Ralph is murdered by the agent for refusing to carry out instructions from the Soviets, and because of Rosalind's threat and circumstantial evidence, she is about to be convicted, when Mario, a gypsy brought to the trial by Ben, testifies to the agent's guilt. Rosalind, who had learned from Rowena, really her grandmother, that her mother was a gypsy, leaves with Ben and the band.
- Aviator Keith Elliot returns from serving in World War I in France to his Long Island estate to find that his wife Constance has tried to overcome her sorrow at his absence by giving house parties in which she and her guests indulge in drinking, gambling and cigarette smoking. Constance resents Keith's demands that she stop, and when he states that the word "obey" in her marriage vow has no meaning for her, she says that he has absorbed too much military atmosphere. When Keith orders her former suitor, Butler Hayes, who has designs on her, to leave, Constance accuses Keith of attempting a "social court-martial." Keith kidnaps Constance and flies to a small island on which he owns a hunting lodge. After he forces her to keep house there, she contacts Hayes in Keith's absence. Hayes arrives, but Constance repulses his advances, and when Keith returns, he thrashes Hayes. Constance stops Keith from leaving alone, and declares that she has learned her lesson as they fly away together.
- Despite his timid streak, John Ramsey joins the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and shows such promise during training that his commander does not mind his budding romance with his daughter, Margo. The commander sends him out to track down a gang of smugglers responsible for the death of a guard. However, his courage fails him on his first assignment. He returns claiming he narrowly escaped an ambush, but the commander dismisses his excuse as cowardice. John overcomes his fears and brings back both the leader and the killer, regaining the respect of his colleagues and the love of Margo.