Her Husband Lies

J. Ward Thomas of Park Avenue leads a double life as an investment broker and as notorious gambler Spade Martin despite the protests of his beautiful wife Natalie a nightclub singer who retired when they married. Spade's younger brother "Chick" wires Spade from Seattle that he has quit gambling for a job in real estate and is about to marry a nice girl named Betty. Relieved to find his kid brother is straight Spade sends him $10000 cash as a wedding present. When a woman posing as a pregnant wife comes to Spade for a loan Spade gives it to her. Later when Steve Burdick the woman's supposed husband brags in a bar that he made a fool of Spade Spade's hit man Trigger kills Burdick. Tired of Spade's gambling Natalie books a return engagement at Cafe Nocturne telling him that she is a singer rather than a wife now.