Philip Hyde, American attache, receives a visit from his friend, Omar Khan. Neva, Philip's wife, supports her dependent cousin, Joan, whose life is not a pleasant one. Neva is a brilliantly beautiful woman, disloyal to her husband, who tells Omar Khan that he does not like the attentions that David Harcourt is paying to his wife. When Neva leaves for a society event, little Joan clasps a photograph of Philip to her breast. Joan loves Philip. Joan finds in Neva's room a note from Harcourt. She has an idea. She shows the note from Harcourt to Omar Khan, and says that if Philip finds his wife is disloyal to him, he will kill Neva and Harcourt. She pleads with Omar Khan, and cries, "You are his friend. Can't you do something?" Meanwhile, in his official stronghold, Amir Pasha dreams of a white woman for his harem. Slowly a smile passes over his cruel and dissolute features as the big idea comes to him. He will have a white woman, the loveliest white woman that money can buy. He executes his command and offers a thousand pounds in gold for a girl to suit his fancy. A week later Omar Khan receives the offer from Amir Pasha. Joan, in the meantime, finds a letter written by Neva to her husband in which she says she will leave him forever. She shows this letter to Omar Khan. Harcourt and Neva elope. Their carriage is stopped in a lonely spot by Omar Khan and his Nubians. Both are taken prisoners. Philip returns to his home, finds his wife's letter and his heart is broken, Harcourt is left alone on a desert waste to die. Omar Khan, with Neva as his prisoner, arrives at the palace of Amir Pasha, and says to him, "And this, Amir Pasha, is the present I have brought thee, a white woman for thy harem." He hands over the faithless Neva to the Pasha. In the years that follow, Joan and Philip Hyde marry, and Omar Khan is glad because of the happiness of his friend.