- Schoolteacher Frances Angel finds herself attracted to wealthy rancher Jim McPherson but finds his rough-hewn ways objectionable, so when he proposes marriage she rejects him. Her father asks her to return to his home in the East, where her former boyfriend Chet Condon now holds the mortgage on the family home and is threatening to foreclose on it unless Frances marries him. When she also learns that her recently-widowed sister Jane is also moving back east with her newborn, Frances is torn between her duty to her family and her love for Jim.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Sam, a rough but wealthy rancher, seeks Frances's love. She scorns him till he rescues her from stranger's advances, but leaves for home without giving him any hope. On her arrival at her father's she finds Chet, an old admirer, owns a mortgage on the home and is also anxious to marry her. This mortgage he is using as a lever to force the acceptance he wishes. While Frances is debating whether she should sacrifice herself for her parents, word comes from her sister, whose husband has died and left her penniless, that she is returning home with her baby. When she is told the news by her father, Frances realizes that it would be a hopeless struggle, and she consents to marry Chet for the family's sake. The train bringing the sister and her baby east is wrecked by a collision with another train just outside the town where Sam lives, and Sam himself goes to help rescue the survivors. The sister, fatally injured, prevails on a minister to christen the baby before her death, and Sam is pressed into service as godfather. The minister promises to take the baby safely to its grandfather's home. Impressed by this incident, Sam buys a Bible, and defends himself from the taunts of the "boys" when accused of "pulling freight for Heaven" and becoming a "child of God." Interest in his godchild leads him to take a trip east to see it. On his arrival he finds himself in the home of Frances, who has just accepted Chet. Sam and Chet immediately clash over Frances, and when Sam learns that Chet is using the mortgage as a club he kicks the bounder out. This done, he assures Frances, who has shown that she loves him, that he will take care of the mortgage and of her, too.
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