Carl Wagner's good wife was dying. His heart bled at the thought of losing her, his life-long loyal helpmate. And his opera was almost completed, after spending months of weary hours to make it perfect. A pretty daughter tried in vain to brighten the overhanging gloom. Finally the composer, after a superhuman effort, and with a soul filled with sorrow, finished the last act of his score and hurried away to the impresario for a hearing. Here he was assured of an immediate reading and the return to his humble tenement was made with a much lighter heart. The doctor paid another visit to his patient and left a prescription to be filled. Carl reached home and realized how much depended upon the medicine ordered to possibly save a life most dear. Taking his cherished violin, the only article of value remaining, he rushed off to the pawnbroker and negotiated a loan. Meanwhile, the sad-faced patient and tender wife and mother quietly passed away, breathing a prayer for the future of her husband and child. The doctors say something snapped in Carl Wagner's brain when he entered that room and saw his wife lying there cold in death. At any rate, they gently led him away to a quiet sanitarium, where, for days, he stared vacantly into space and never uttered a word. The opera was passed on favorably. Word was sent to the musician's home and Alma went to the impresario's in answer to the summons. A reigning prima donna, then starring at the opera house, refused to go on at the last moment. Alma heard the controversy as she sat waiting. Then she thought of her musical education, of the poor old man in the sanitarium and bravely volunteered to understudy the prima donna. In a night she rose to fame. The metropolis was at her feet. Then came offers of marriage. At the stage door she was besieged by admirers. Even the manager proposed. How she met these advances and ultimately fell victim to a brave man's devotion, after a wild ride with a designing scoundrel, is only equaled in interest by the experience of Carl Wagner returning home after being mentally made sound.