Drury makes plans to meet Elaine in New York and arranges for her to destroy $300,000 worth of bonds, which are of no use to him because they are registered, and to pay Bill in gold securities to cover the $50,000 bail that he will have to forfeit. When the district attorney locates the girl Drury had in his car the day of the robbery, Bill convinces him to jump bail and leave the country because one more conviction would mean a life sentence. Elaine, fascinated when she hears that Drury is a bank robber, flirts with him, and they surreptitiously begin a romance. When Ruby's brother Drury pulls a bank robbery netting him $500,000 in bonds and currency, Bill convinces him to give himself up and post a $50,000 bail with the option of jumping the bail if things turn bad for him. Ruby Darling, Bill's lover since the days when he was poor, learns about his growing infatuation with Elaine, but he tells her that no one could ever take her place with him.
Elaine's father explains that she has an "underworld mania," and that she is extremely fond of detective stories and movies. Elaine invites Bill to a luau at her father's Brentwood estate, where she tells Bill that if she met a man who would be her master and give her a good thrashing, she would follow him around like a dog on a leash.
Through his influence with the Merchants' Protective Association, Bill has the manager of the department store drop the charges. Bill becomes attracted to Elaine Talbert, the wealthy daughter of an important capitalist connected to various Hawaiian concerns, when she comes to him after she has been charged with shoplifting. Bill Bailey, a former police officer who became a bail bondsman after he was thrown off the force, is an influential force in Los Angeles with politicians, judges, police and the underworld.
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