- Mallard, a crooked mining stock promoter, swindles Silas Clayton, a farmer, out of $3,500. Clayton has mortgaged his property to buy Mallard's worthless stock, and later finds himself and his family dispossessed and almost penniless. The Claytons go west to take up a homestead claim. Jim Howard, an Arizona ranchman, falls in love with Ellen Clayton. She shows him a snap-shot which she happens to have of Mallard, and tells him that he is the man who ruined her father. Howard runs across the original of the kodak picture in a Tucson hotel. He decoys Mallard to an abandoned mine and holds him prisoner while he goes for Ellen and her father. They return with Howard and identify the swindler. Howard tells Mallard that unless he puts down $5,000 for Gold Mining stock he will never get out of the mine. Mallard comes across with the check on a Tucson bank. Clayton cashes it. Mallard is set free. The promoter is then presented with the worthless stock which he formerly had sold Clayton. Mallard starts back across the desert, on foot, eighty miles to Tucson.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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