Sylvia Dunbar, whose aged father has been accused by Jack Borden of the murder of Sheriff Castle, rescues a stranger who has been shot by the Borden gang and is now being pursued by them. She hides the wounded stranger and returns to her father's cabin for food and bandages. Borden meets her and demands to know where she has hidden the stranger, but she knocks him down and reaches her father, followed by Borden who tells the old man that if he does not arrange at once for his marriage to the girl he will make him face new murder evidence that will surely condemn him. Dunbar is knocked out in the scuffle that follows, but Sylvia gains a long lead on Borden, who pursues her. Catching the limb of a tree and concealing herself in the foliage, she jumps on Borden as he passes under the limb and gets the drop on him. The stranger, in the meantime, has lighted a smoky fire that draws the balance of the Borden gang out against him. The ruse is well timed and the Borden gang fall for it, dropping cleanly into the hands of a posse from the neighboring county that is working under the stranger's direction. When Sylvia turns Borden over to the posse, it turns out that the stranger is the son of the murdered man, who has absolute evidence against Borden but has permitted Sylvia's father to remain under suspicion to keep the Borden gang from fleeing the country. He looks at the girl and tells her that from now on he wants to be a little more than a friend, and she consents.