- Millionaire John Huntley-Knox, the owner of the Boston Star , fights political corruption with the aid of William Wendell, the reform district attorney. One day John receives word that he will be visited by Janet Dare, the daughter of a man who once saved John's father's life. John's mother, apprehensive about the "Western" girl's visit, writes a friend about it, but her letter gets crossed with one extending an invitation to Janet. Although she is Eastern bred, Janet decides to play the part of a wild Westerner. Despite her tricks, she and John fall in love. One night, while looking through some papers, John learns that Janet is heiress to a large fortune. He also discovers a confession signed by a man who committed a murder of which John's father was accused. When the gang that is trying to ruin John attempts to kidnap his sister Henrietta but gets Janet instead, John and a group of boy scouts come to her aid. They discover, however, that Janet has held her own against her captors with a gun. All ends well when Janet is freed, John wins an important city election, and Wendell, who loves Henrietta, discovers that she loves him too.—Pamela Short.
- John Huntley-Knox, the last male in a line long distinguished for wealth and political prominence, is the millionaire owner of the Boston "Star." He is opposing the corrupt ring befouling the city government and is aided by William Wendall, reform candidate for the office of district attorney. When the "gang" threatens to "get" him, John laughs. To protect his interests in case of need, he has the district attorney swear in his reportorial staff to the number of a dozen, as special police. John is a clever boxer, and when, at one of his political meetings, a husky attempts to disturb the proceedings. John takes off his coat and puts his opponent out for the count. One morning while at breakfast with his mother and sister. John finds in the mail a letter from Red Dog, Wyoming, announcing that Pete Smith, the distinguished Justice of the Peace, is sending east a girl named Janet Dare, daughter of Jim Dare, who, in the letter states, once saved John's father's life in the early frontier days. That same day in a letter to a friend. John's mother expresses the hope that "at least the girl won't eat with her knife." She also writes Janet, extending her a welcome. Janet gets the missive intended for Mrs. J. Derpont Lorgan containing the words so feelingly expressed that "at least the girl won't eat with her knife." Janet arrives, and although reared in an eastern college and possessing all the culture and accomplishments that wealth can bestow, she punishes the Huntley-Knoxes by appearing in wild western garb and perpetrating upon them all the indignities her fertile intellect can command. In spite of it all, John begins to love her from the first and though, for a time, she successfully hides it, Janet returns the feeling. The political pot commences to boil and John is waited upon by a heeler who threatens exposure of his father's past. The opposition papers stand ready to publish the details of a murder said to have been committed by John's dignified father in his early life on the frontier. John trembles when he contemplates the effect of such a disclosure on his mother and sister. In this mood he goes home to supper, and after the meal, while seated in the library and about to put away the legal papers committed to his care by Janet on her arrival, he decides to first ascertain their nature. He is astounded to find that the simple little Janet is heiress to a fabulous fortune in land and livestock in Wyoming. Finally he discovers that the murder attributed to his father was committed by a Mexican, through a written confession, yellowed with age, that is with Janet's papers in the box. The "gang" attempt to kidnap John's sister, Henrietta, through the aid of a worthless but aristocratic rake, Harland Rowe, upon whom Henrietta had bestowed a measure of encouragement. The plans are well laid but the conspirators get Janet by mistake. While she is held captive, John presses his reporters and newsboys into service to locate Janet. In a few hours they capture the taxi driver, who reveals the hiding place. In the meantime Janet has put up a valiant fight with her gun and at the moment of the raid comes within a second of shooting John, mistaking him for one of the gang. Terror and anxiety draw them closer and closer together and they confess their mutual love.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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