Mike's eagerness to rid himself of the $25,000, the last tie with his past, almost lost him Elsie all over again. When Mary refused to take the money as a gift, Mike decided to establish an Elsie Warren fund in the town. Each service man's child born since Pearl Harbor, was to get $500. But there were more babies than Mike figured on, so he tried to bet the money on the horses in order to obtain the necessary amount...