Trapped in his job as a junior clerk, young lawyer Robert Swan is not displeased when his client, Miss Cornelia Alster, is murdered, leaving him sole executor of the massive estate. Swan rents an office, steals his old firm's stenographer, and sets out to help Miss Alster's two adopted daughters, Beatrice and Linda, sort out the family affairs; but detective Trask is on the scene, and quickly discovers that the sisters are not telling all they know about the night of the crime.