The Floor Below (1918)

Patricia ORourke a goodnatured prankster who works as a copy girl for the Sentinel angers her coworker Stubbs and is about to lose her job when the managing editor offers her one more chance Her assignment is to explain the clue that links the Hope Mission a derelict home run by millionaire Hunter Mason and his secretary Monty Latham with a series of local robberies When Hunter discovers Patricia in his office he assumes that she is a crook in need of reforming and takes her into his home to be cared for by his mother