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- A frontier plains family has their home attacked by a group of Native Americans.
- Fred, a lawyer and real estate agent in a frontier town, receives a letter that Miss Edythe Sterling, of Dallas, Texas, will shortly call on him. He is to give her all assistance possible as to purchasing a suitable ranch. Edythe arrives. Several weeks pass. She decides on a ranch and Fred makes arrangements for its owner to be out at the place that afternoon. Edythe, who is somewhat a ventriloquist, imitates the sound of a rattlesnake and gives Fred a bad scare. Two crooks, recently released from jail, have sworn to "get" Fred, who, they claim, railroaded them. They have taken up their abode at the deserted ranch that Edythe has chosen. A holdup occurs. The victim rides in for the sheriff. Fred and Edythe arrive at the ranch. While waiting, he proposes to her, but is rejected. Fred decides to ride down to the nearest ranch house and again 'phone to the ranch owner, which he does. The two crooks return to the shack. Edythe, terrified, takes refuge in the closet. Fred returns and the two crooks find that they have in their power the man they have sworn to "get." About to shoot him, Edythe, in the closet, has a sudden inspiration. She imitates the sizz of a rattlesnake. When the two crooks jump, she emerges and gains the upper hand. The sheriff and his posse appear. The ranch owner also appears. The sale is concluded. Fred, looking over the deed, discovers that it has been made out in his name. He soon knows the reason why.
- Betty, a ranchman's pretty daughter, has a birthday. All the cowboys have presents for her in hopes of gaining her favor. There is a cowboy villain in the piece; a comic opera villain. He is very self-important and is certain he will capture Betty with his present. He is a Joke with Betty and the boys, and vows all kinds of revenge. Betty is really in love with Joe Franz, a handsome, but very bashful cowboy. She visits the Padre and tells him of Joe's bashfulness and the Father gives her some advice. Betty starts to flirt to arouse Joe's jealousy and succeeds very well. She flirts with the villain. Joe goes to the Padre for consolation. The Padre advises Joe to disguise himself as the villain, kidnap Betty and meet him at a cave, where he will marry them. The marriage takes place and Betty is scared into keeping it secret. She thinks she is married to the villain and when he sends for her she is about to go, but Joe is on the job. He routs the villain and informs Betty that she is his wife.
- It was an accident that brought Dolly and Fred together, but it was not an accident that caused Jose, the half breed, to lose his job. When he attempted to make love to Dolly, the ranchman promptly discharged him. Jose decides that walking papers are not to his liking. He steals Fred's horse. The ranchman, Fred and Dolly observe him, and, calling in several ranch hands, they give chase. Fred finally corners Jose, but his gun becomes clogged. To escape from the greaser's bullets. Fred takes refuge in a deserted mining shaft, hanging by a rope. Here Jose finds him and cuts the rope. But the earth gives way and Jose, too, falls to the bottom of the shaft, where, after a struggle, he is overpowered by Fred. Dolly and the others hear Fred's calls for help. The two men are brought from the shaft and the story ends happily for Fred and Dolly.
- Frank and Bert are rivals for the hand of Nell. Bert, recognized by the sheriff as a wanted man, is placed under arrest. Frank is accepted by Nell, and the two are married. A year passes. Bert is released from prison and returns home, only to have the memory of Nell haunting him constantly. He goes to the cabin of Nell and Frank, finds her alone, and endeavors to make love to her. She resents and in the struggle that ensues she receives a long scratch on the cheek. But she succeeds in obtaining his gun and ordering him from the house. Frank returns, asks her how she received the scratch and when she tells him that the baby did it, he becomes suspicious. Bert realizes that if Frank should find his gun trouble would follow. He employs Pedro, a Mexican, to leave a note where Frank will be certain to find it, to the effect that he, Bert, will meet Nell at the well at two o'clock. Frank finds the note and goes to the well. Bert then returns to Nell's home. Frank hears her screams and runs back. He enters the house and the two men fight. The stove is overturned, and the house catches fire. Nell seizes the little baby and rushes outside, just in time to prevent Pedro from shooting in the window at her husband. As the men are fighting inside, one of their guns is discharged and the bullet, going through the window, wounds Pedro. The sheriff and posse arrive just in time to rescue Frank from the burning house, which collapses, burying Bert with it.
- It was an accident that brought Fred and Lillian together. When a shoe came off his horse's foot Fred hastened to the blacksmith shop, and it was there that he met Lillian, the smith's daughter. Before he left she managed to slip into his pocket a horse shoe, the symbol of good luck. Fred later finds the horse shoe. As is customary he hangs it over his door. Later he again comes to town and from the express office gets a package of money. Homeward bound, he sees Lillian about to enter her house. In an attempt to become better acquainted with her, Fred feigns illness. He is taken into her home, where mustard plasters and bitter bills fall to his lot. The package of money falls from his pocket. Lillian picks it up. He tells her to keep it until he is better. Charlie, a ne'er do well, a friend of Jay, the blacksmith's assistant, eyes the money longingly. He confides to Jay about the ranchman's money and when an hour later, Fred has recovered and started back to his ranch, they go after him. Charlie with thoughts of the money, but Jay thinking only of beating up his rival. They arrive at the ranch and hold up Fred. But Fred has forgotten the money. Lillian rides after him with it. She hears angry voices in the ranch house. Peering in she sees Jay and Charlie viciously attacking Fred. Then the horse shoe over the door catches her eye. She snatches it up, dashes in the door and orders "Hand up." Taken off their guard, Jay and Charlie comply. They see through the ruse and turn again to Fred, only to find themselves covered with a six-shooter.
- Slim's suggestion that he and the boys take advantage of the special excursion at Breezy Beach starts the cowhands of the Bar S ranch on an outing that deprives them of more than their money. Had Slim known that his sweetheart and her difficult mother had taken an auto trip in the same direction the same day, he definitely would have stayed home, or at least would have deported himself in a more circumspect manner. To secure enough money to pay for his new-found friends' dinners at the Breezy Beach Café, Slim borrows all the boys' suits, socks, and neckerchiefs from the bathhouse. Meanwhile, Slim's intended and her mother have located the girls and incidentally hear of the café engagement. Molly and her mother disguise themselves as the showgirls and meet the café engagement themselves. A note which Slim had unintentionally left behind informed the boys what was to happen, and clothed in bathing suits and pleasant smiles, they swooped down on the café in a body. The incidents that follow are full of ludicrous situations.
- Arthur is ordered by the head ranger to proceed to the Hole in the Wall country, and not to return from there until he has captured Smiling Joe, apparently an insane bandit. Joe, however, is a normal being, when he is captured by Arthur he schemes for his liberty. Joe sees Arthur looking at a portrait of a young girl in his watch case. He tells Arthur that the girl whose photo he is carrying is his daughter. He elaborates and tells of his once owning a small ranch in this region, how his home was destroyed and he was driven out by the cattlemen. At the conclusion of the tale, Arthur decides to set him free again, but on further thought takes him back to headquarters. He then goes to Dolly's home and tells her of his having arrested her father. Joe makes a getaway from the ranger's office. Pursued, he takes refuge in Dolly's home. But the rangers trace him and once again he is captured. Joe sees Dolly and Arthur together and gives Arthur the laugh for having fallen for his untrue story. And as it happens Dolly's real father returns unexpectedly from the east.
- Colonel Custard is awakened from his afternoon sleep by a bugle blowing in his ear. The bugler proves to be his daughter's lover. The irate Colonel hurls a bucket out of the window at the intruder, but instead the bucket falls on the head of Chief Standing Cow, who returns to his people and invites them to the war path. Meanwhile, the boob bugler has taken refuge from the Colonel's wrath in a mortar canon. The Indians arrive and a terrific fight begins. Against her father's wishes Molly sneaks out of the fort to go for help. The Indians see her and pursue, chasing her in a deserted cabin, where, unable to break in the door, they start to burn the cabin down. At the fort the soldiers fire the mortar. The boob is shot into space, and lands on the top of the cabin in which Molly is. He kills the Indians and then the two retreat to the fort. There, too, the bugler puts the Indians to rout.
- Skates salesman Fred Jackson and his wife land in Cuckooville and size up the town for customers. They see Pretzel standing in front of his store. Fred sends his wife over to buy a pair of skates. Pretzel informs her he has none for sale. When Fred shows Pretzel the skates he has for sale. Pretzel immediately buys a pair, and, running after Fred's wife, sells her the pair. She skates around the village. Soon a skating epidemic hits the town. Business is so good that Fred proposes to Pretzel that they start a skating rink, Pretzel to furnish the money. A rink is started. To bolster up business an exhibition skating contest is given, in which Pretzel does fancy skating. Money pours in. Pretzel is delighted, but seeing Fred skating with the girl, he decides to make him mind the box office while he skates with her. This suits Fred. While Pretzel skates, Fred fills his pockets from the receipts and giving the girl the signal, prepares a getaway. Fred and his wife jump into an automobile and start for the station, the skaters following. Pretzel overtakes the auto, and, catching behind, is dragged up to the station as the train pulls in. Fred and his wife rush to the train. Pretzel tries to get to his feet, but the skates keep slipping from under him.
- When Fred, the sheriff of Tulare County, receives word that his younger brother, across the line in Inyo County, has been elected sheriff, he entrusts affairs with his deputies and starts over to offer his congratulations. Jay, the defeated candidate for sheriff, picks a quarrel with Jack, the younger sheriff. He snatches Jack's gun, and coolly insults him. Jack grabs Jay's gun and draws on him. Jay calls attention to the fact that he is shooting in self-defense. When the elder brother arrives he finds his brother dead, and he is prevented from shooting Jay by bystanders who tell him that Jay only protected himself. Jay leaves. Fred examines the gun in Jack's hand, which Jack had snatched from Jay. Finding it empty, he at once realizes that his brother met death through a deliberate murder. He informs the bystanders that he intends to avenge his brother's death if he has to follow Jay to perdition. The man hunt begins. Into the desert the two men go. A sandstorm comes up. Both lose their horses. Days pass. Reduced to his last shell Fred fires, only to miss. Jay sees him throw away his gun and starts for him. Fred is helpless from weakness. Jay kicks and curses him and edges off with his gun covering him. He, too, has expended his ammunition. Knife in hand, Jay starts for him, and with the strength of a cornered beast the sheriff wards him off. The death struggle begins. When the sun sets the sheriff stands over the man, his oath of vengeance fulfilled.
- Fred, the school teacher at Angel Camp, has fallen in love with Edythe, one of his pupils. On account of his small salary he has never dared to propose. A reward has been offered for the capture of a bandit. Through finding a note, Fred learns a robbery has been planned. The day following, when he calls upon Edythe to recite, she tells him she can't, showing him her book with a piece torn from the page. Fred discovers the note he found matches with the torn page. School over, Fred tells Edythe to send her brother to him. The teacher accuses Jay, the brother, who confesses he and another party had planned to hold up the Angel Camp Saloon. Fred ties Jay up, then proceeds to the saloon. First fixing up his arm in a sling, concealing in his hand a gun. Joe enters the saloon, orders a drink and, whipping out a gun, commands hands up. Through his bandage Fred fires, wounding Joe in the arm and overpowering him. Edythe, who has followed her brother to the school, releases him. Jay hurries to the saloon. There he shows Fred a deputy sheriff badge, telling him he had arranged the affair to catch Joe, of whom he was suspicious. A little later Fred tells Edythe Jay is going to divide the reward "With Us."
- Edythe felt her dying father's wish must be fulfilled. She goes to the west, where, heavily veiled, she becomes the wife of Fred, the son of her father's old friend. During the ceremony Edythe notices that Fred is under the influence of liquor. While his cowboy friends are congratulating him she slips away, happy in the thought that her father's hope has been realized, but herself feeling that she never wants to see her husband again. She notices an antique wedding ring, which was Fred's mother's lying on the dresser. Joe, the director of the Standard Motion Picture Company, seeks to make Edythe his leading lady. She refuses. During the filming of a scene the heavy man is suddenly taken ill. Nearby the director observes Fred, a ragged tramp. He persuades him to take the part. The scene is between a brutal husband, Fred, and the mistreated wife, Edythe. Fred's portrayal is excellent, and the director offers him a steady engagement. Edythe recognizes in the tramp her husband. Something about Edythe puzzles Fred. A month passes. Fred has arisen to a better place in the company. Seated by Edythe one day, he has it on his lips to propose, but does not, knowing that he is a married man. A unique ring on her finger attracts his attention. He recognizes his own wedding ring. Edith feels that after all, her father's last wish "was not an unwise one."
- A young doctor, Harry Lewis by name, was bred in the little town town as Abajo, New Mexico. Close neighbors with him was a widow with her daughter, Molly. The two children were raised together from childhood and formed an attachment for each other. As time went on Harry went east to medical college and studied medicine. In the meantime while Harry was at college, Lee Balek, a prosperous young ranchman, began to pay attentions to Molly. A few years later when Harry finished his college term and received his diploma as an M.D., he returned to his little native town and began to renew his romance with Molly. He proposes to her, but she is a little doubtful whether she still cares for him, and he reminds her that she promised, years before, to become his wife. She tells him to return tomorrow for his answer. Lee, who was on his way to call on Molly, sees the little scene being acted at the house of the girl whom he thinks is his sweetheart. He becomes very jealous at this and does not call on her. After leaving Molly, Harry on his way home passes the telegraph station. The operator stops him and delivers a message to him that was just received, offering him a position as intern at a big hospital in a nearby city, but he must take up his residence at once. He discovers that he has not time to return to Molly and tell her goodbye, but writes a short note to her telling her to write to him and send her answer there. Lewis goes on his way to prepare for the journey. In the meantime Lee has come up to the station to mail a letter. The operator, knowing him to be a constant caller at Molly's house, asks him to deliver the note for him. Thinking that if he can get hold of the note he might cause Molly to feel badly towards Lewis, he agrees to deliver the message, which he does not do. Instead, he goes to Molly's home and tells her of Lewis leaving without a word to her, and proves his statement by showing her Lewis getting on the train going away. Molly is grief-stricken, thinking that she has been jilted by Lewis, but it does not help Lee's attentions to her whatever. A short while afterward Molly decades to devote her life to nursing, and she enters the Mercy Hospital at Denver, as a probationary nurse. Time elapses and we find Harry the physician in charge of St. Joseph's and Molly has become quite an important nurse of Mercy Hospital. One day Lee is standing at the railroad station in a little town talking to the operator, when the mail train passes, dropping the mail sack and striking Lee in the side, knocking him down and injuring him internally. He is carried to the hospital of which Harry is in charge. The head nurse there, finding herself short of nurses, wires Mercy Hospital in Denver for a few nurses to be sent on to her. They are sent and Molly is one of them. She is put in charge of Lee's case as private nurse. Upon examination of Lee the doctors agree that the only chance he has for life is to be operated on; Harry is asked to perform the operation. The patient is taken to the operating room and Molly, doing her duty as a nurse, shows Lee every comfort possible, which causes jealousy to spring up in Harry's heart. Just as he is about to perform the operation, the thought comes to his mind that if he should not do the operation correctly Lee might die, and he would have a clear field with Molly. He has quite a struggle with himself between love and professional duty, finally deciding that for Molly's sake, he must perform the operation and bring Lee on his feet again. He does so. A few days later, while in the sick room, he places Molly's hand in that of Lee's and congratulates them, but Molly, thinking more of Harry, decides to tell him so. They leave the room together and Lee, seeing what misery he is causing, decides to confess the wrong he did. He does so and gives the note that was sent by Harry to Molly to her. She reads it and sees how they have both suffered. Happiness is brought to them and even to Lee to think that he has made the girl he cares for happy.
- The political boss in an eastern city learns that Malcolm Blevins, a district attorney is going to the west to draw up a report of incriminating evidence of the graft conditions of his city. Realizing that such a report would be detrimental to himself and his partners in crime he commissions Fred to obtain the report and to silence Blevins forever. Lillian has two suitors, Fred and Jay, and after much consideration accepts Fred. Later her father is mystified by the sudden disappearance of the report which he had placed in his safe. Seated in his office he feels conscious of the close proximity of another. Without changing his position, he grasps his revolver and wheels around just as a hand, which holds a dagger is projected through a picture hanging on the wall. He fires several shots. Lillian, who has fallen in a well while going to the sheriff for her father, and has crawled through a tunnel, comes upon a door she never noticed before, which she enters just as the shots are fired. She is shot but not seriously wounded. Fred, having received a mortal wound, smiles up to Lillian and confesses that he was sent to follow Blevins, and recommends her to Jay's loving care.
- Pretzel and Schnitzel are rivals for the hand of the Widow O'Laughagin. Pretzel is the driver of the bakery wagon; Schnitzel peddles groceries. Frank and his sweetheart Molly quarrel and Frank meets the widow and falls in love with her. She informs Pretzel and Schnitzel that whoever wins a horse race will win her hand in marriage. Pretzel and Schnitzel dope each other's horses, but by mistake the druggist gave the men fast instead of slow dope. The race starts; the dope works. The widow gets tired of waiting, meets Frank, and consents to take a walk with him. Molly meets the cop on the beat and takes a liking to him. The baker and grocer miss their wagons and notify the police. Pretzel and Schnitzel finally get their horses turned around and come back. They are chased by the police, but finally find protection by hiding behind the widow and Frank, and Moly and the cop, as they hold an impromptu double wedding.
- Fred receives an invitation from his uncle to visit him in the west and at the same time that a telegram comes stating that a moving picture concern wants a scenario from a melodrama at 12 o'clock the next day. Arriving in the west, Fred captures a gunman is persuaded to release him by the gunman's sister, Lillian, who takes Fred's eye. Fred loses his heart. Charlie, the gunman, later sees Fred talking to his sister, and thinking that Fred is a government spy stationed in the west to capture a band of counterfeiters, of which he is a member; he tells the rest of the gang about him. They send him a letter warning him to get out of the country. Fred pays no attention to it. They capture him and lock him in a deserted cabin, bound before the muzzle of a gun which will explode as the clock strikes twelve. Lillian hears of it, and rushes to the cabin after phoning the sheriff. Fred manages to free himself, and falls to the floor just in time to miss the bullet, which goes through the wall into the body of Lillian, who has come to lend aid Fred hastens to her and realizes that she is dead, just as he wakens to find himself bent over his typewriter where he has fallen asleep. He proceeds to pound out his story, knowing that his dream will make a plot, which he can easily finish by 12 o'clock.
- Richard's sister arrives at his ranch in the west, where she hopes to regain her health. In preparation of this the town committee has commanded the constable to close all saloons and drive the gamblers from the community. On the day following her arrival she takes a walk. Unfamiliar with the village, she wanders into a questionable part and is insulted by some toughs. Joe Fraser, the gambler king, befriends her by knocking the insulter down and then offers to show her home, an offer which she gladly accepts. When Richard tells her of the gambler's character, she refuses to believe him until taken past the notice which commands all gamblers, particularly Joe Frazer, to leave town by the 25th. Several days later, Lucille and her father, riding in the mountains, are left stranded when the horses bolt. Back in the village, the gamblers are leaving. Frazer comes upon them, weak from thirst and offers them his horse. They accept and Frazer pushes ahead afoot. He finds a bag, lost by the girl, containing jewels. Several days later the father is persuaded to go in search of her lost jewels. After hours of search they come upon the body of the gambler lying in the sands, dead, the mesh bag on his breast and a revolver in his hand. Gently removing the jewel bag from the man's grasp, all notice a card, the deuce of spades, upon which is written, "It was best; I was out of my class,"
- Edwin Wright, an artist, falls in love with his uncle's ward, Agnes Worth. Their affair progresses and he becomes engaged to her. He is desirous of obtaining western atmosphere in his paintings and to that end makes a trip to the far west. He paints several pictures at different spots, most of them near the residence of a band of Indians. One day, as he is painting, he is struck with the beauty of an Indian maiden whom he sees filling her olla at the water hole. He gets her to pose for him and a month later has completed a canvas which he feels he will never equal. The picture is a full length panel of the Indian maiden, Waneta, holding her olla. He sends this cast to Agnes deeming her worthy of his best work as well as of everything else he has that is best. Not long after he has sent the portrait east he receives a newspaper clipping telling him of Agnes' engagement to a boyhood rival. He is heartbroken. The emotional reaction which follows this news, determines him to take Waneta as a wife. He buys her from her father and the two are married after a quaint Indian ceremony. For a time they are happy, but Edwin feels the call of his own kind sometimes and a letter from his uncle crystallizes this feeling into a determination to return to his eastern home and to Agnes. The letter gives him news which forces him to the conclusion that the newspaper story was a false one and be reverts to his original love of Agnes, or so he thinks. He goes back east, and there he is again much with Agnes. She has admired the painting a great deal and when he comes, admires it more in his hearing. Every word, of course, is a reminder of the poor little Indian girl whom he has deserted. His uncle has promised him $100,000 on the day he marries Agnes and is doing everything possible to push the matter along. Edwin is torn by doubts, however, and feels that things cannot return to their old basis between himself and Agnes until he has told her of his affair with the Indian girl. Silas Marler, the uncle, councils strongly against this. His hard, mercenary old soul causes him to tell Edwin to marry Agnes and say nothing of the Indian girl. Both he and Edwin are sure she will never cause trouble, but Edwin is made of finer stuff than his relative and finally confesses to Agnes his love and his sin. Agnes is horror stricken, but despite the revelation, continues to love him as much as ever. Her love is indeed so great that she is unselfish in it, and urges Edwin to return to the Indian girl, to whom he owes a duty. She tells him to go. Obedient to her, he goes. Once back at the Indian village he finds Waneta and with her, his reward, a baby son. Thus out of his sorrow and grief, the obedience to his duty brings him his reward and poor Agnes is left to bear the sorrow that is woman's portion all too frequently.
- Willard and Mary are deeply in love. Willard is the son of a wealthy banker, while Mary is poor. When Willard tells his father, he raves about it. So inflamed does his mind become that even late that afternoon while seated beneath the trees on the lawn with his wife, Mrs. Hammond, enjoying their afternoon tea, the maid happening to slip on the grass spills a cup over the still irate banker. He flies up in a tirade and orders Mrs. Hammond to discharge the girl. Willard hastens to Mary, tells her all about the teacup incident and begs her to take the position of maid. No sooner is she established as a regular member of the household than father "falls" for her charms. He even gives her a bracelet intended for his wife, and Willard finds the card addressed to his mother, and he also finds Mary and Dad in compromising attitude. His plan has worked better than he thought and with this double evidence of his father's susceptibility he forces the game and lays down his pat hand, the note about the bracelet, while Mary wears the trinket before Mrs. Hammond. There is nothing to it, either Dad must confess himself a flirt or a trifler with his own servants or tell Mrs. Hammond it was all a jest, and he takes the latter course, and thus are Mary and Willard united.
- In the days of '49, when the rush for gold was on, Jim Rogers with his wife and their eight year old daughter, Ruth, were among the settlers. They meet the Ward family. A gang of bandits have hoisted their tents in the vicinity of the settlers' camping grounds. That night the settlers are attacked and the bandit chief, after taking the locket from Mrs. Roger's neck, abducts Ruth and one of the Ward children. The next morning, the mother is found by a Westerner who takes her to his home. Six months later the bandit quits the outlaw life. Then years pass by. The outlaw chief tells the children, now grown to man and womanhood that he is not their father, but that he is merely a reformed bandit. The children are horror stricken. One day while the boy and girl are at the village store Mrs. Rogers with the ranchwoman come up to the store just as Ruth and her supposed brother are leaving. The mother recognizes the locket, and after explanations she finds her long-lost daughter. Later Ruth and John plead with the mother to forgive the reformed bandit, for he has been so good to them and is the only father they have ever known. Finally the mother forgives the bandit.
- Jack Bartlett, out west, received a letter from his sweetheart, Ella, saying that as soon as he has acquired the ownership of a ranch she will join him and become his wife. Jack draws his money from the bank, but is prevented from buying the ranch that day on account of the real estate dealer being out of town. He is inveigled into a saloon by some gamblers and in a card game loses his money. Pedro, a cross-eyed Mexican whom Jack has befriended, convinces Jack that he has been robbed. Several days later Ella arrives. She is depressed when Jack confesses his loss to her. However, an idea strikes her and giving the boy some money bids him get a bag of gold ore. She seeks and wins the love of one of the gamblers. He becomes interested in a claim she has staked and when she shows him the remarkable samples in her bag he offers to buy. She disposes of her share for more than enough to cover Jack's losses and that evening as the coach draws out a young couple bid farewell to the camp. The gambler and his friends, descending the shaft, find a note reading, "Crooked card games may be alright, but selling mines is better."
- Mary, daughter of Tom Ashe, revenue officer, is in love with Bud, the son of Lige Stillwell, a moonshiner. Though Bud does not sanction his father's illegal business, he is condemned by Mary's father, and when he finds them together after repeated warnings, he disowns the girl. The minister tries to bring about a reconciliation, telling the police officer that he should not blame Bud for the sins of his father. Mary and Bud make their way to the cabin of his father, where Mary is received with open arms. Here the minister finds them after a narrow escape from death, when he is mistaken for a revenue officer. Determined to gain conclusive evidence against the moonshiner, Ashe and his men search the hills for the still. Making his way to the cabin, he is about to give the signal to his men waiting below, when he observes his daughter being married to Bud by the minister. Ashe observes the old moonshiner forswear his practice and the destruction of the still. As she comes forward and extends his hand to the old moonshiner, who takes it readily, the deadly enmity of years is quickly turned into a strong friendship. Since the officer's only objection to Ligc was the latter's illegal business, he gives his blessings and departs to carry the news to his men.
- The sheriff of Chichise County, Arizona, writes the Tinkerton Detective Agency in Chicago to send out their best man. as the country is being flooded with bad money. The agency sends Frank Newhall. Frank meets and admires Tess, who lives with her father, a rough-looking character of the mountains. Tess sees Frank with a bag of counterfeit money. Frank found it in the road. Tess suspects him of being a counterfeiter. On the other hand Frank sees Jim in some suspicious situations and concludes that he is the bad money artist. Jim is shot from ambush. He is found by Frank, who takes him to Jim's cabin. In the search for water, Frank enters a small room in the cabin. There he finds counterfeit money and other paraphernalia. Tess returns to the cabin. Frank orders Tess to ride for the doctor, which she does. Meanwhile, the real counterfeiters, one of whom fired the shot that wounded Jim, decides to go to his cabin and recover the property which he had taken from them. While Frank is in the second room the counterfeiters enter and cover Jim with their gun. Frank hears them from the other room, and although he can't figure out the situation he comes in and captures the counterfeiters. Tess returns with the doctor and the sheriff, who starts to arrest Frank. Jim pulls back his coat disclosing a detective badge, and so does Frank, clearing the confusion.
- Arthur and Willis quarrel over Edythe. She has shown her preference for Arthur, who has threatened to whip Willis. Willis, the paymaster at the mill, is found in the morning in his office badly beaten up, with the payroll missing. Suspicion leads to Arthur. He is arrested and held for trial. In the paymaster's office Edythe finds a heel. Later, when she sees a tramp with the heel gone from one of his shoes she surmises that he is the guilty party. This, in fact, proves to be correct, and Arthur is released and, of course, wins the girl.
- Edythe, a camera expert, is sent out by her father, the sheriff, to track down two "moonshiners" who are operating a still in his county. In crossing a stream, Edythe drops her camera and as she stoops to get it, a stranger, who has stopped for a drink at the stream, helps her. Edythe seeing that he resembles her description one of the "moonshiners" snaps his picture and follows him to his shack, then starts back to tell her father. The stranger, meanwhile, decides to stop "moonshining" hoping that the "Purty Gal" he met that day will like him better if he does. Headed by Edythe, the sheriff and his men start out to get the two law-breakers. Edythe goes ahead to scout with the understanding that they will follow when she shoots. She is attacked by Dan, Bill's surly partner, but is saved by Bill, who hears her screams. Dan tries to shoot Bill. Edythe pulls her gun and fires, but the shot hits Bill. The posse hears and runs on. Tacked on the door of his cabin, the sheriff and his men find Bill's resolutions to abandon "moonshining" in the note to his partner saying that he is through with the business, since "The Good Book says so, and so does the puniest gal you ever saw."
- Martha is the daughter of Quaker parents newly-arrived in the West and wrapped up in their religion; Martha is denied the various little enjoyments of life. The reading of novels, for instance, is to them a sin. What little pleasure Martha has is derived from playing and the old family organ and singing along, particularly "Abide With Me," her parents' favorite hymn. By accident she meets handsome, wealthy young Harvey Gilmore. The two fall in love, elope, and are married. But their efforts to obtain a reconciliation with Martha's parents are in vain. Time passes. A thief breaks into the Quaker home and steals the bank which for years has been used for their missionary savings. That same night the thief enters the Gilmore home and is detected and captured. The box falls from under his coat and Martha recognizes it. The next day the loss is discovered and the father leaves to notify the sheriff. Martha and Harvey arrive. The mother is finally persuaded to forgive them. The father returns, apparently as obdurate as ever. The bank is returned to him, but he still refuses to recognize them. Martha sits down at the old organ and begins to softly play "Abide With Me." Touched, the old man relents.
- Fred, the sheriff, goes to the neighboring town to congratulate his brother on having been elected to the same office after a visit with Lillian who says that while she loves him better than anyone else she can never marry him while he wears a sheriff's badge, because it was a sheriff who shot her father. On his arrival. Fred learns that Jack, his brother, has been shot by Jay, the defeated candidate, and he determines to track the criminal. On returning to tell Lillian of it, he finds Jay, who proves to be Lillian's brother. Lillian pleads for Jay. Fred promises not to kill him, but makes Lillian telephone the deputy. The deputy learns, en route, that Jack was not killed after all, so the final reckoning is left to Jack. Jay goes to the hospital to take his punishment, and is forgiven by Jack. He then uses his influence with Lillian in behalf of Fred, and Lillian consents to be his bride.
- When a girl decides she should flirt, she usually succeeds, much to the discomfiture of the young man. Dorothy Vernon was no exception to the rule. Her decision to flirt brings her many admirers, among them Harry Willets and Dr. John Roth. At her home she finds Count Von Gasbag, a German nobleman, being entertained by mamma, who has had dreams of a title for her daughter. Dotty takes the cue from mamma, starts immediately to captivate the count, much to the disgust of Willets, He leaves in high dudgeon, bikes to his home and spends the night on the veranda much against the wishes of his mother. He catches a very severe cold, and in the morning a hurry call is sent for Dr. Roth. The doctor comes and seeing his opportunity to dispose of his hated rival, he tells the mother that she must take her son out west, where he can get more sunshine, and live a strenuous life, that he has serious lung trouble. Dotty and the count call and offer their sympathies. Willets asks Dotty to marry him, but she could not think of marrying a dying man. She leaves him to his fate. Later health comes to young Willets. He marries Juanita, the beautiful daughter of the Spanish innkeeper. He then sends a message to Dr. Roth to come at once. Dotty has married the count and they are off on their wedding tour. Dr. Roth boards the same train on his way west to see Willets, who is dying, and his sympathy is aroused. The doctor induces Dotty and the count to get off at Santa Paula to visit the supposedly dying man. Juanita's father meets the doctor and party at the train, and shows them to the hotel. The doctor and Dotty get the surprise of their lives when they see young WilIets so strong. The doctor is very much disturbed, for he feels that he is the victim of the joke. He introduced Dotty's husband, feeling that it will shock young Willets. Willets says, "You have none the best of me, allow me to introduce my wife." Young Willets then tells the doctor he thinks he has something coming to him and that he is going to give it to him. He immediately starts to clean up the street with the doctor, which he does in a most artistic manner.
- Tom Gorman's fondness for glee clubs and fast company causes his father to disown him. After a severe arraignment, Tom boards a train and heads for the west, where he seeks employment on a ranch. Whatever Tom lacks in skill as a cowboy he certainly makes up for it by his playing of the mandolin, and many are the moments he enjoys in the company of Ella, the ranch owner's daughter, herself being a talented pianist. Although young Horace Greeley is one of the wealthiest ranchmen throughout the country, he is the one man Ella utterly detests, but Horace has the approval of her parents, so his visits to her home are most welcome. During one of Horace's calls Ella is asked to play for him. Quickly she feigns illness and begs to be excused. Amazed at her sudden turn, the mother goes in search of her and finds Ella not suffering, but hugely enjoying the mandolin playing of the hired man. Ella is promptly taken in charge and compelled to return to the house where she is commanded by her father to play for Horace. Seeing no way out of it, she obeys very reluctantly. From the facial expressions of all it is quite evident that she has their consent to stop, her discords are murderous. In the door of the bunkhouse, Tom is softly playing his mandolin when suddenly he hears something that causes a happy expression to light his sad face. He goes to a window of the ranch house and peers through the blinds. From her position at the piano, Ella sees the cowboy peering through the blinds, and suddenly inspired, she soon begins playing as she never played before. Totally oblivious, Tom soon forgets himself, and taking up his mandolin, begins playing in perfect accord with the piano. Horace is delighted and applauds Ella vigorously, while on the face of the father a bit of suspicion appears. Ella has finished, but the music continues. Coming towards the window, Tom is discovered. An argument between the father and Tom results in the latter's discharge. In great rage the father, followed by Horace and Ella, rushes to the bunkhouse. Horace is about to take the matter into his own hands when Ella quickly prevents and denounces him. Ella is sent to the house while the father pays Tom the wages due and orders him from the place. Tom and his offending mandolin depart. The father and Horace return to the house, but Ella is nowhere to be found. The cowboys and every man on the place is called and a pursuit of the couple begins. Ella overtakes Tom on a lonely road. An argument ensues over the ownership of the ring. Tom's suggestion, "Since we can't agree, let's be partners and own it together," is quickly assented to by Ella and they repair to a nearby parsonage. After eight hours spent, the posse is just about to give up when all happen to hear the strains of a familiar mandolin, and stealing through the thick woods they surprise the happy young pair and arrest them. The certificate displayed by Ella upon their return home is promptly declared perfectly legal by old Sheriff Kent, who, seeing the humor of the situation, brings about the forgiveness desired.
- Lillian Farley has been somewhat of an invalid all her life and since the death of their father and mother, Dorothy, the sister, has acted the part of the little mother, working as a stenographer. The Y.W.C.A. has been interested in her case and they assist when they find it necessary. One morning after Dorothy has departed for her dally work, Lillian is taken with a bad spell. The Y.W.C.A. nurse is with her and a doctor is called. He orders her to New Mexico for pure air. It is very hard for the sisters to part, but Dorothy has to stay in the city and work hard to furnish the necessities for Lillian. We next see Lillian on the ranch; her health improves and she falls in love with one of the boys. She wires to Dorothy that she has a serious heart affliction, but tells Dorothy not to worry. Dorothy misunderstands the telegram aid feels that Lillian must be very sick. We next see her getting off the train in a little town in New Mexico. She inquires the way to the ranch from two cowboys who are standing at the station. He starts to walk to the ranch and in trying to cut through a barbwire fence gets caught. The cowboys decide to have some fun: they scare her almost to death by chasing her over the hills until a manly cowboy comes to her aid. He assists her to mount his horse: she reaches the ranch just in time to see her sister coming back from the morning ride with her sweetheart. Explanations follow. Dorothy, seeing she has been tricked, decides to go back to the city. The two cowboys, who have fallen in love with the two sisters, decide to keep her there. One of them goes to the village, gets a typewriter and sets her up in business. All the cowboys of the ranch suddenly remember that they should have written many letters and they crowd around awaiting their chance to dictate to the pretty stenographer. Later Dorothy realizes she loves her hero cowboy. Double elopement to the parson's home is planned. The cowboys get onto the scheme; they decide to show them a trick or two. Just as the couple are coming out of the minister's home, the boys come up with a carriage, force the newly married couples in. They rush away with them which ends up in riding the couples into a river and leaving them there to get out in the best way they can. This they succeed in doing after getting a thorough ducking.
- In the little town of Martinez, N.M., lived two brothers, Buck and Dave Conners, who were unfortunate enough to love the same girl, Ruby Howard, the daughter of a rich rancher. Ruby shows her preference for the elder brother, Buck, which causes jealousy to spring up in the heart of Dave. While in this mood he is accosted by a casual acquaintance, a low-browed Mexican, who takes him over to the village saloon where they meet Jack Saunders, a man of bad repute. Through the influence of Saunders and Pedro, the Mexican, Dave agrees to carry out a little job. He agrees to meet them at a certain time at a spot known as the "hole in the rock." In the meantime, Pedro has had a little trouble with an Indian. The Indian leaves him with revenge in his heart. Dave arrives home. Buck, his brother, who has arrived home previously, takes his mother into the house to partake of their supper. Left alone with his own thoughts, Dave discovers that his brother Buck, has left his six-shooter and holster hanging on the wall. Dave, in his jealous anger, sees his chance to repay his brother for winning Ruby's affections; he steals his brother's gun, which is branded on the handle with his name. He goes to the appointed place to meet Pedro and Saunders, and while they are laying their plans they are overheard by the Indian, who rushes into the village and informs the sheriff of what they intend to do. The afternoon stage is on its down trip and Dave, with his two evil companions, carry out their plans, Dave leaving his brother's gun purposely on the ground, so that the blame will fall upon his brother. The stage arrives at the post office, and Ruby'a father and mother tell Ruby what has happened and inform her that her sweetheart, Buck Conners, is guilty of the crime, because his gun was found by the horse's head. She leaves her father and mother and goes to Buck's home, calls his brother at the door and tells him that Buck is arrested for the crime. While Dave is listening to her, he accidentally gives himself away, and she accuses him of doing the job and laying the blame on Buck. She begs and implores with him to save his brother and a good streak of manhood comes to Dave. He leaves Ruby and goes to the spot where the loot is hidden and decides to bring it back to the sheriff. While there, Pedro and Saunders come upon him; he holds them up at the point of the gun and forces them to carry the loot into the village and turns them over to the sheriff, telling him that it was not his brother Buck who committed the crime, but him. Dave afterwards is released.
- Widow Craige has twin sons. Bob is self-sacrificing and the main support of his mother. His twin, Harry, is the opposite type, one who frequents the beer halls and public dances. In one of his drunken orgies Harry starts an argument with an associate over a girl. His friend is accidentally shot with his own gun. Harry, believing himself a murderer, flees from the city. The news of this killing causes the death of the mother. Years pass by and Bob, with his savings, leaves for the west to try ranching. His sweetheart and her mother he leaves behind, with the promise that he will send for them shortly. Meantime Harry, having gone from bad to worse, has joined a band of outlaws. Circumstances bring him near his brother's ranch, with the sheriff hot upon his trail. Bob is arrested by mistake and made a prisoner in the county jail. Harry, having seen the arrest, decides to impersonate Bob and take possession of his ranch. This he does and he even goes so far as to receive the sweetheart and her mother, who arrive from the east several days following. But something tells the girl that all is not well, and she seeks the advice of the sheriff. There is an investigation, which results in the confession and death of Harry. Bob comes into his own shortly afterward.
- When Professor McNutt of Cassline College accepted the invitation of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Faxon and sent a half-dozen of the flower of his flock to spend a week's vacation on their ranch, he was unacquainted with the mischievous inclinations of the Bar S cowhands. The base of the trouble was innocently occasioned by Mr. and Mrs. Faxon leaving for a visit in a distant city a few hours before the professor decided to accept their invitation. When his telegram arrives it falls into the hands of the boys, who immediately seize the opportunity to turn the boss's absence into a holiday. They appreciate the lack of a chaperon and when at their wits' end they finally hit upon the idea of dressing Slim in Mrs. Tom's clothes. Slim, however, objects so strenuously that it takes the combined efforts of all the spare hands to make him see the necessity of the change. The boys attain their desire in the end, however, and they reach Santa Paola depot in time to meet the girls. There was something so ineffably enticing in the kisses of the pseudo Mrs. Tom that the girls freeze to Slim from the jump, as one of them said, "she is such an open-faced old lady." The boys take their medicine as gracefully. Fate treats the boys kindly in the end, with the single exception of Big Bill. Completely snubbed, he tells the girls of the trick Slim has played on them. What the girls do to the poor boob is past description.
- Due to her secret marriage with Fred, a young scientist who has been compelled to join an expedition to South America after a sojourn of several months in the mountains gathering natural specimens. Molly is forced from her father's cabin into the wilderness and told never to return, even if she be starving. She comes upon the little home of Bill and Mary, recently married, where she stays until her child is several weeks old. then leaves for the city with the scanty earnings which Bill and Mary force upon her. But in the city, the poor little mountain girl cannot find employment. She grows paler and weaker day by day. One day Fred, who returned to the mountains after his expedition and told by Molly's demented father that she is dead, goes with his friend, Dr. Grayson, on a hurry call to a cheap tenement house. There they find the emaciated body of a little girl, Molly, who has at last succumbed to the hardness of her fate and to her father's curse.
- Pete Roberts, a no-account fellow, who has a wife and three -year-old boy, is ordered out of the country. Twenty years elapse. Jack Roberts has grown to manhood, and is sheriff of the county. Pete, his father, returns to that section of the country and meets a bandit, who tells him that the sheriff has just received for safekeeping a shipment of gold, and that it can easily be secured. Pete is persuaded to assist in the enterprise and the two enter the sheriff's house that night. The sheriff awakens; there is a fight, the bandit escapes. Mrs. Roberts telephones for help. The sheriff is bested by Pete, who is about to shoot him when Mrs. Roberta enters, recognizes her husband and steps between them. The posse is heard approaching; there is nothing for the mother to do but to disclose to her son the identity of the intruder. Jack is amazed. The posse reaches the house. With a "God be with you," Jack assists his father to escape and when the deputies arrive they find the gold safe and the bandit gone.
- Marguerita, the beautiful daughter of Don Carlos, is beloved by Don Guillermo and Don Pablo. Jealousies exist between the two. Don Carlos is expecting Luis Brandon, an American, to arrive at the hacienda to take charge of his cattle interest, and is telling the rival suitors of this when the American arrives. Pablo is in possession of some secret of Don Carlos, and he uses this to force from the decrepit old Don permission to marry Marguerita. The American sees Marguerita and love comes to them unheralded. This complicates the situation badly, especially as they are observed and their feelings noted by Pablo. Pablo feels that this is doing him a grievous wrong, as Marguerita has been promised to him by her father, and he takes violent exception. Before he can strike Luis, however, Don Guillermo interferes and the American is forced to await an encounter at a later date. Pablo and Guillermo leave. Don Carlos is explaining matters in relation to the hacienda when Padre Flores arrives. The interruption gives Luis a chance to slip away with Marguerita and they plight their troth in a pretty garden. As they are exchanging lover-like confidences, Don Pablo observes them and his anger rises more and more. He rushes in upon them and he and Luis rapidly come to blows. Pablo attempts to stab Luis, but is knocked down, and Marguerita stops the American from pressing his advantage further. Luis and Pablo meet on a road near the hacienda and have a violent quarrel. As they are quarreling Don Guillermo comes along the same road. He stops some distance away and watches them. Then he sees a chance to effectively dispose of both his rivals at once. As they fire he also fires, killing Don Pablo. Luis thinks that he has killed Pablo and flees the place. Guillermo informs the rurals that Brandon has killed Pablo and a search is instituted for him. Brandon has found a friend in Padre Flores who takes him in and hides him from possible searchers in the guise of a lay brother. Guillermo has informed Don Carlos that his foreman is a murderer and using his knowledge of Don Carlos failing as a lover, has forced his constant to a marriage with Marguerita, The daughter spurns Guillermo, at first, but when she learns that Guillermo can send her father to prison, she gives herself to Guillermo to save him. As Luis is working in the gardens Padre Flores the good father is summoned to arrange the marriage articles between Marguerita and Guillermo. He tells Luis of this and the American is distraught with grief. Padre Flores leaves to arrange the articles as he feels he must and while he is absent Guillermo comes for a confessional. He mistakes Luis for a priest, an error which is furthered by the lay-brother, and makes his confession to him. In this be admits the killing of Pablo. Luis uses this confession to secure aid from the rurals and Guillermo is arrested just as he is about to become the husband of Marguerita. Luis, of course, is cleared and is married to Marguerita. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- Joe leaves on a trip to the mining country while Willis, his friend, promises to care for Edythe, Joe's girl, during their absence. His younger brother, Arthur, meets Edythe and becomes infatuated. Bearing his promise in mind, Willis endeavors to cure him. He agrees to try out a plan that Ethel suggests. Willis makes violent love to Edythe and Arthur, seeing them, is disgusted with the inconsistency of women. Discouraged, Joe leaves the mining country and returns home. He sees Willis with Edythe, becomes madly suspicious, and sends a note to Willis warning him that he intends to shoot on sight. Willis ignores the warning, but by the merest chance a tragedy is averted and in the end all comes out right with Arthur, the younger brother, choosing as "his girl," his mother.
- Ill and homeless, Jack Sheldon is walking the streets begging, accompanied by his little child Edythe. Their appeals for assistance meet with no response until Mrs. Preston, picks them up in her automobile. In the machine, Sheldon becomes delirious and is taken to a hospital, where laboring under a strange hallucination, he escapes and wanders in a demented condition, to a sheepherder's camp where be obtains protection. Recovering from the delirium and regaining his strength, Sheldon is about to depart from the camp, when the returning goat herder falls from a high rock, receiving injuries which prove fatal. Nursed by Sheldon, the goat herder before dying, leaves Sheldon all his earthly possessions. Little Edythe, has been adopted by Mrs. Preston and has forgotten her parentage. Fifteen years after, she and her girl friends go picnicking in the mountains, near Sheldon's camp. Sheldon enters into a conversation with her. As the girl leaves the camp, Sheldon utters a prayer that his girl, wherever she may be, is safe from harm. Sheldon now discovers a placer goldfield; is possessed of much wealth and is determined to find his daughter. He sees Mrs. Preston and Edythe enter their motor car. Edythe loses her purse. Sheldon finds it in the street and traces them by means of a visiting card. He feels sure the Edythe is his daughter, and tells to Mrs. Preston and her the story of his life and adventures from the time he escaped from the hospital, gradually leading up to the climax, which he springs when he declares that if Edythe will look on her arm in a certain place, she will find a scar of a certain description. The girl slowly puts her arms around her father's neck. Sheldon assures Mrs. Preston of his gratitude to her and of his wealth and ability to care for the girl. Edythe and her father are reunited.