There are counterfeiters working out of the staging town for the railroad, and Henry Victor has been sent to deal with them. He goes undercover, and when station manager Helen Holmes has no explanation for how all that fake money wound up in the safe, he tells the local cops to let her go. Then he discovers that she isn't wiling to sit around and wait for him to save her. No, she charges into the situation, and then he has to save her.

A dozen years earlier, Miss Holmes had been one of the Queens of the Serials, starring in THE HAZARDS OF HELEN, until she and her director/husband J. P. McGowan left to make their own pictures. They were successful, but after about 1920, she started playing reporters instead of women who didn't need any man to rescue her from a railroad, and her popularity declined.

Idiocies in the story aside, Miss Holmes and her director were trying to replicate the things that had made her such a star a dozen years earlier, and the movies had moved on. Neither was she fighting the "oh, girls don't know anything about railroads" stereotype in this one. While she's smart and good, and willing to jump two flights while costar Henry Victor cautiously climbs down, and holds a gun on the bad guys, they now can take it away from her, and she must depend on the men for raw strength, instead of her brains.

Who knows what might have happened if Miss Holmes didn't need to depend on men to get her out of trouble in this movie? We'll never know, because after this, she gave up the movies, although she returned to them occasionally. She died in 1950 at the age of 57.

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A federal agent is sent to a small town to bust up a counterfeiting ring, which is apparently headquartered in the local railway station. The counterfeiters have framed the station's manager for the crime, and she must work with the agent to clear her name and get the goods on the real counterfeiters.

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