Fast-talking reporter Pat O'Brien is trying to smash the local rackets .A young lad (Bobby Jordan) whose mother has died and has become a runner for the racket through the influence of his older brother. O'Brien's girl is fellow-reporter Joan Blondell. She exposes the racket's use of children as employees, and the boy is sent to reform school. She feels so badly about it that she agrees to marry O'Brien, but with a condition that he doesn't want to hear - that they adopt the boy. O'Brien says nothing doing. Jordan intends to bolt as soon as he gets out and away, but she feeds him supper, and supplies a soft bed, so he is hooked for one night, at least. In the meantime, O'Brien has had a change of heart and comes back to the honeymoon apartment - for three.
O'Brien gets Jordan a job on the paper as a photographer. But his brother calls him from prison and asks him to get $500 for him. The cops question O'Brien, and he kicks Jordan out of the house. Jordan discovers that his brother has escaped from prison and is on the run, intending to kill the man who doublecrossed him, which he does, but he is also killed. Jordan is wounded by the police. But all ends happily.
Blondell and O'Brien
Bobby Jordan
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