jane's former husband, jim cranshaw (harry towb), suddenly appears at the pub, having escaped from prison several days earlier, and demands that jane hide him and arrange with duncan to transport him across the channel to france. he threatens jane that unless she helps him, he will tell authorities that she has been hiding him ever since he escaped, making her look complicit. under pressure, jane agrees to hide jim, but refuses to tell duncan or involve him in the matter. meanwhile, a newspaper runs a story on the escape revealing jane's past involvement with jim. helen jealously reveals the story to duncan and jane in an attempt to break up their relationship, and makes clear that she suspects jane of being involved in jim's most recent escape. fed up with helen's interference, duncan fires her from the model job and tells her to leave town. duncan then learns via lefty and elsie that jane is hiding jim in the pub's attic. in order to protect jane, duncan and lefty secretly move jim from the attic without jane's knowledge, and spirit him away aboard duncan's boat for transport to france. as a result, when the local police come to the pub searching for jim, he is gone, but helen, who has not left town as directed, hints that he went to duncan's house. bromley chases after duncan's boat and sees that duncan and jim are on board, but jim then draws a gun on duncan, causing the two men to fight and fall overboard. bromley and lefty rescue duncan, but jim is struck by bromley's boat and killed. bromley, who has become aware of duncan's love for jane, says he will tell police that jim stowed away aboard duncan's boat and that duncan should go along with the story as it would be best for jane. duncan returns to a waiting jane, who is now free to love him.