The famous safe cracker Jimmy Valentine, once again going free, calmly takes on the old. A series of impudent robberies follows, losses are considerable, and evidence is insignificant. The case takes such a serious turn that the investigation is entrusted to the famous detective Ben Price, which allows the owners of the safes to breathe a sigh of relief.
Meanwhile, Jimmy Valentine arrives in a mail carriage to the town of Elmore in Arkansas. Of course, he is interested in his local bank. However, going to the bank, he meets a girl, and this meeting radically changes his fate. Now Jimmy decides to stay longer in Elmore and opens a shoe store under a false name. Jimmy Valentine's business venture is booming, and he - of course, under an assumed name - is becoming a prominent figure in the city. He meets the charming daughter of the banker Annabel Adams, becomes his man in the house of her parents, who favored the young businessman, and therefore it is not surprising that when he made the offer, Annabel was favorably received.
Jimmy writes a letter to an old Friend, where he reports that he decided to give up the old and is going to live honest work from now on. According to him, immediately after the wedding, he will sell the store and, together with his young wife, will go west - “there is less risk that old things will come up”. He arranges with a friend about a meeting in Little Rock, where he wants to hand him his precious suitcase with a set of drills and master keys, which served him faithfully, and now have become unnecessary.
But the day before Jimmy's departure, Detective Ben Price arrives in Elmore. He quickly finds out everything that interested him. “Want to marry the banker's daughter,” he mutters with a grin. “I don’t know, right ...”
Jimmy is going to Little Rock. At the bank, a crew is waiting for him to deliver to the station. But there is still time before the train, and the banker invites all his relatives and Jimmy to the bank to show the newly equipped pantry with a safe. While everyone is looking with interest at ingenious locks and bolts, Ben Price appears at the bank and waits with a smile for his booty.
But then the unexpected happens. Annabel May, a ten-year-old niece, locks her little sister Agatha into the pantry. The banker is terrified. The clock mechanism is not installed, and the door just does not open. You can call a specialist from another city, but during this time the girl may die from a lack of air and fear. Annabel looks at the person she worships and begs her to do something. Jimmy asks her for a flower as a keepsake, opens her briefcase and gets down to business. Having broken all records, he opens the safe, and the girl, safe and sound, finds herself in the arms of her mother. Jimmy puts on his jacket and heads for the big man who blocked the passage, saying: "Hello, Ben ... He got to me. Well, let's go. Now, perhaps, I don’t care. ”
But the great detective behaves unexpectedly. He assures Jimmy that he most likely was mistaken, because they are unfamiliar, and in general, it seems, the crew is waiting for him. Having agreed, Ben Price leaves the bank and leaves along the street.
