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- Tucson, a gun fighter, is the terror of the town. Rhita, the gun fighter's girl, is extremely fond of their baby, whom Tucson detests and considers an unwelcome intrusion. Tucson commands Rhita to get rid of the baby, and she, afraid to disobey him, leaves it on the bank of a stream, where it is found by Ada Lawson. Ada takes the baby home and she and her husband become very fond of it. The Lawsons are homesteaders and decide to settle on grazing ground just outside the village. They establish themselves and soon afterward are ordered by Santro, a Mexican rancher, to vacate. Lawson refuses to do so and Santro hires Tucson to kill him. Tucson horsewhips Lawson in the village store and orders him never again to enter the village. A few weeks later, however, exhausted supplies make it imperative that Lawson return to town. Tucson is informed of Lawson's presence in town and prepares to carry out his agreement with Santro. Rhita, determined that her baby shall not be deprived of a good man's care, resolves to sacrifice the gun fighter. She fastens his pistol in its holster by means of a rawhide thong, thus making it impossible for Tucson to draw his gun. Tucson proceeds to the village store, where he confronts Lawson. Lawson pulls his gun and shoots Tucson, who is unable to draw his gun.
- When the Civil War begins, young Billy runs away from home to enlist in the Northern Army as a drummer; he's wounded in battle and taken prisoner. He manages to escape and deliver an important message to his commanding officer, but loses his life in the process.
- Jack Williams and Nellie Wayne are in love, but her father favors the suit of a rich easterner, Wm. Ford, who is vacationing in the west. Jack resents the latter's attentions, and during the argument, knocks him down. Ford attempts to draw a gun, but the two are separated. A horse thief gets away with Ford's horse, and as Jack has left a few minutes before, Ford thinks he has taken the animal. As Jack is rolling a cigarette by the roadside the thief asks him for a match, and when Jack goes to comply with his request, he leaps on Jack's horse and gallops away. Jack mounts the stolen horse and starts in pursuit, but is left behind. The posse catches up with him and he is accused of being a thief. When he is brought to the sheriff's office, Nellie pushes him through a door and covers his escape with a gun. A reward is offered for his capture and Nell determines to win the money. She goes in search of the real thief and by a clever lariat throw, holds him prisoner while she ties him to a tree. She then captures Jim and secures the reward, after which she tells the sheriff where to find the thief, who is taken prisoner. Jack is released and elopes with Nellie. Her father and Ford arrive too late to prevent the marriage, and the old man gives his blessing, while Ford goes away in a rage at having been outwitted by a cowboy.
- "Bat" Peters, reformed gunfighter turned prospector, travels to Chicago to collect on a business deal with a mine promoter who turns out to be crooked.
- Rio Ed comes down from the mountains and invites all the men in the saloon to drink with him. They are all afraid to refuse, excepting Dick Wayne, who tells Rio he is particular with whom he drinks. This infuriates Rio and he forces Dick to the bar and orders a drink for him. Dick throws the drink on the barroom floor, and deals Rio a stinging blow across the face with his open hand. Dick is pretty far gone with consumption, as a result of his dissipation, and the exertion is too much for him. He falls back weakly into the arms of the man nearest him, coughing violently. Rio, seeing Dick's weakened condition, does not continue the fight, but says he will get Dick into condition to fight with him. He takes Dick forcibly to his cabin in the mountains and there proceeds to nurse him back to health, with the one idea in view, that of getting Dick into condition to fight with him. Dick's sister comes to the town to search for her brother. When she finds him in Rio's cabin she is under the impression that Rio is nursing Dick for friendship sake, and neither man undeceives her. She tells Rio she will now take care of Dick and Rio allows Dick to depart with Madge. Dick's health improves fast and he is at last able to go to the village. On his first trip there he sees Rio and they go to the back room of the saloon to fight it out. Mercidio, a low white man, owner of the saloon, covets Madge, but has been ordered by Dick to keep away from her. Mercidio determines to get Dick out of the way and during the fight between Dick and Rio, Mercidio stabs Dick in the side with a knife which he has previously dickered for with a half breed in the presence of Rio. Dick is taken to his cabin and all are under the impression that the stabbing has been done by Rio, who is unable to prove otherwise. Dick's wound is not fatal and he is recovering when Mercidio comes to the cabin and forces his attentions upon Madge. Rio, who has at last recollected seeing the knife in Mercidio's possession, is on his way to the saloon when he sees Mercidio near the cabin. He tracks him there and through the window sees Madge struggling with him. He goes into the cabin where he forces a confession from Mercidio as to the stabbing. In a fight outside the cabin Mercidio is shot. The story ends with a pretty love scene between Madge and Rio.
- An Easterner wins his battles in the West by using his fists.
- The minister of a village is in love with a young girl of the village, but she is saving her charms for the young schoolteacher, a "man of the world," and they elope. The villagers, a puritanical lot, turn their backs on the young couple for their "sin", and they decide to leave the village, but they return soon after to warn the people of an impending Indian attack.
- After the round-up the ranchman sends Shorty to the city in charge of some cattle. Arriving in the city and having settled up his employer's business, Shorty leaves to see the sights. He meets Madge, a flashy dame, and she takes him to a restaurant to dine. She and the waiters do Shorty right. They get him drunk and rob him of his wad. After shooting up the restaurant Shorty goes on his way. He gets into a fight with a party of gangsters in trying to protect Nell, a working girl, from them. This fight is witnessed by Brady, manager for Bull King, a prizefighter, and seeing in Shorty a new protégé, Brady makes him an attractive proposition. Shorty accepts and enters the ring with Kid Mason. The Kid is afraid of Shorty's punch and his manager doctors the Kid's gloves with plaster of Paris. Shorty is getting the worst of the fight when he orders the Kid's gloves examined. New gloves are ordered and Shorty delivers the Kid a knockout blow. Brady tries to persuade Shorty to stay in the business, but he says back to the ranch for him. At the railroad station he meets the Kid, who starts to jeer at him. From the back of the observation car Shorty throws his rope and lassos the Kid, and the picture finishes with the Kid dangling along after the fast-moving train.
- Mildred loves her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr, but her new stepmother wants her to be rid of his influence, because of his drinking.
- Vera Ashton's brother has led her into a life of crime, and forced her to assist him in his criminal operations. The night on which the story opens they have committed a robbery and stolen some valuable jewelry. The police are summoned and given a description of the stolen loot. Jennings, a detective, finds Jim Ashton's jimmy and on it Jim's thumb print. He takes it down to headquarters. Several days later Jim visits a pawnshop to pawn the loot. Vera takes advantage of his absence to pack up and get out. The pawnbroker recognizes the loot offered for pawn by Jim as the proceeds of a recent robbery. He secretly notifies the police and detains Jim until they arrive. Jim is arrested and taken up to the central station, where he denies the crime and offers the alibi that a friend gave him the jewelry to pawn for him. The police take Jim's thumb prints and compare them with these on his jimmy and find they match. Suspecting that Jim's sister is implicated in the robbery, the chief sends two detectives to place her under arrest. She sees them coming and escapes in a series of exciting scenes across the roofs of nearby tenements and makes good her escape. Jim is convicted and sent to prison. Vera becomes a stenographer and secures employment with Dixon and Co., a wealthy contracting firm. Three years pass. Vera and Dixon are in love. She is a trusted employee. Dixon goes to lunch leaving the outer safe door open, but the inner door locked. Jim, paroled from prison, learns from a friend where Vera is working and calls upon her at the noon hour. Vera is astounded to see him, believing him still in prison. Jim proposes to her that they rob her employer's safe and she indignantly refuses. Jim overpowers her and starts to rob the safe. She secures his pistol and shoots him as he refuses to put back the loot. Dixon returns and Jim, dying, accuses Vera or being bis sister and tells him that she has been a fool all her life. The police sent for by Dixon, arrive, and recognize Vera. They start to handcuff her, but Vera tells them that they are mistaken in their identity and Dixon tells them that she has been his stenographer for three years and is his affianced wife. Jim has died and the police have no means of proving it otherwise, so they leave the girl and Dixon in each other's arms and carry Jim from the scene.
- Learning that his rival David Durard, son of wealthy Southern wholesale grocer Colonel Durard, has won the heart of Marion, Jim Black plans to separate the lovers before war breaks out. Soon after, war is declared and David is given the captaincy of a company. Before David leaves for the front. Jim takes an actress friend, Miss Gordon, into his plot and has a letter written to David asking him to call upon the actress at 11:00 to secure some valuable information. Another letter is written to Marion telling her to be around the house mentioned in the letter at 11:00 if she wishes to avoid an unhappy marriage and learn of her sweetheart's infidelity. David arrives at the house at the stated time, and in accordance with Jim's plot, Miss Gordon suddenly becomes sick and falls into David's arms just as Marion appears. She observes the actress in her lover's arms, and, taking it for granted that he is only having her as a plaything, returns home and sends back their engagement ring with a note that it is all over between them. David comes for an explanation, but Marion will not receive him. Four years later David is instructed by General Lee, who has taken his headquarters in the Durard mansion in Petersburg, to gain information concerning General Grant's plan to wipe out his starving army. Following out their pre-arranged plan, Old Mammy, the Durards' old servant, is chased by some Confederate soldiers dressed as overseers into the Union camp. Informing the Union soldiers that she has run away from a cruel master, they take her to the officers' headquarters, where she is given work. She hears that Grant contemplates making an attack on the left wing of Lee's army, and bringing into play the secret code made between herself and the Confederate soldiers, hangs certain wearing apparel in certain positions along the clothes line. This is observed by the far away Southerners through their field glasses, and Lee makes a very successful attack. Marion, whose home is near Petersburg, and which is within the Federal lines, has been entertaining some Union soldiers. On one occasion, when Nelson, a Union captain, was playing with her little sister, a note drops out of his pocket, which gives the information that Colonel Mosby's cavalry is coming to reinforce Lee's army. Marion makes a copy of the message and hurries to the Confederate lines. She reaches Lee, who forthwith details David with a dispatch for Col. Mosby to hurry along. Unable to get to her home, Marion becomes a nurse in Lee's army. In the meantime General Grant has held a secret meeting in order to discover the leak of information. Suspicion rests upon Old Mammy, their suspicions are confirmed when Old Mammy is caught reading her code. She is court-martialed and shot. In order to deceive Lee, Grant has certain clothes placed in such positions on the line, which, when interpreted, convey the information that Grant is going to attack the left wing of Lee's army, when in reality he is planning to attack the right. Lee's army is being badly annihilated when Col. Mosby's cavalry arrives and drives the Unions back. Jim Black is badly wounded, and just before he dies confesses to Marion of how he estranged her from her lover. The battle still rages and Col. Mosby mines the bridge. As darkness sets in, there is cessation in the hostilities. David is shot in the shoulder and is brought to the field hospital for treatment, where he meets Marion. He learns of Jim's confession and forgives Marion for her past actions towards him.
- Billy Gordon and Pierre Deschamps both aspire to marry Joan Froulard. Gordon wins out, and Deschamps, in a jealous rage, slanders the girl in the community. His evil tales reach Gordon's ears. He compels the "Frenchy" to apologize to Joan and to the settlers, and then drives him from the town. Several years pass. Gordon and his wife, Joan, are living in a lumbering town further north. Deschamps happens to come there to work in the camp. He gets into a quarrel with his foreman, whom he kills, and makes his escape. The lumbermen start to track the murderer and Gordon joins them, unconscious of the identity of the man they are seeking. Meanwhile, Deschamps has applied at Gordon's cottage for shelter. Joan fails to recognize him with the heavy growth of beard he now wears. Supposing him an honest lumberman worn out with travel, she hospitably welcomes him. That night Deschamps cuts off his beard and goes into Joan's room. A fierce struggle ensues, in which she loses consciousness. Deschamps carries her to the top of a high cliff and is on the point of flinging her over onto the rocks below, when Gordon leaps out of the thicket. The next instant, Joan is in her husband's arms, and Deschamps is lying senseless under the precipice.
- Lieut. Cole is a prime favorite at the fortress, and his love is reciprocated by Vera, the daughter of the Colonel. He asks for her hand in marriage, and the Colonel gives his consent, but when the chaplain is called in he tells them the wedding cannot take place, and, sending the girl from the room he tells them of a secret he has regarding Cole's birth. The story as told is pictured in the film, showing Cole's father wooing and winning an Indian maid, secretly, being married by the chaplain who tells the story. At the birth of their child, Lieut. Cole, the chaplain acted as godfather and placed about the neck of the infant a gold chain. Prior to the birth of the boy the Indians, resenting her marriage to a white man, had branded the Indian girl's forehead with a cross, and the child was born with a birthmark in the shape of a cross on its forehead. The father was killed, and to prevent its being harmed, the Indian girl left the baby at the gate of the fort one night. The chaplain knew the parents of the infant from the gold chain about its neck. The baby was cared for by the chaplain, and as it grew up became the mascot of the fort. The chaplain had guarded the secret, and the boy became a stalwart man, enlisted as a soldier and won a lieutenancy. The kindly old chaplain in telling his story had endeavored to be as tender and gentle as possible. Lieut. Cole, however, raged at the hand of fate which had intervened to darken his life at this time. All the wild blood of his Indian ancestors, which had lain dormant all his life, surged riotously through his veins, and he ran to his room cursing his birth and the white race. He tore the buttons and epaulets from his uniform and dashed them to the floor, and without a farewell to any of the people who had raised him he went to the Indian village. His knowledge of war commanded the respect of the redskins and they made him chief, and with a fierce desire for vengeance burning in his heart he drilled the Indians until they were as perfect as the soldiers at the fort. When the Indians went on the warpath a detachment of soldiers is sent out to check them, and instead of meeting a disorganized body of redskins they are amazed to find their opponents being led by an able chief, who maneuvers them into an ambush and slaughters them in a terrific fight. The victorious Indians march on to the fort, and the frightened settlers hurry to the fort for protection. A messenger is dispatched to the next fort for aid, as the Colonel realizes the seriousness of the situation. The battle rages with tremendous fury, and the Colonel realizes that it is but a matter of a few hours before the fort will be taken. He sends up a flag of truce and mounts the stockade. To his astonishment, Cole comes up to speak with him, dressed in war paint and feathers. Cole agrees to withdraw the Indians if the Colonel will give him his daughter. The soldiers, lashed to fury by this request, shout their determination to fight to the death, and the Colonel draws his revolver, and holding it at the head of his daughter, tells Cole that he will kill her with his own hand before he will permit her to fall into Cole's hands. The danger to the woman he really loves brings Cole to his senses, and as the angry Indians renew the attack he tries to stop them. Infuriated, the Indians turn upon him and be goes down beneath a rain of blows. The soldiers from the next fort have received the message for help, and are coming to the rescue as fast as their horses can carry them. The Indians are surprised by the cavalry which swoops down upon them, and are soon routed. The body of the dying Cole is brought into the fort, and, forgiven for his acts, he passes away with the old Chaplain's arms about him.
- James Brandon, sexton of Grace Church, and his daughter, Ethel, live together, the daughter being the organist of the church. The congregation, in appreciation of her services, offer to send her away to Boston to complete her musical education. She goes with a letter of introduction to Bishop Neal. The Bishop asks her to stay in his home until she can be located in a boarding school. She accepts the invitation and meets his son, also John's college chum, Aaron Bront. At a fraternity gathering Bront insults Ethel, and John fights with him. As the result of this all dances are forbidden. John and Ethel are married secretly. The college boys attempt to give a Halloween dance in the dormitory, but are discovered on account of Bront sending a letter to the president of the college. Ethel, the only one of the girls who succeeds in gaining the dormitory, is disgraced and expelled from the school. The Bishop and John, who is studying for the ministry, refuse to hear explanation and she returns home. The war breaks out and John joins the Northern army and is sent as a spy into the enemy's country. He is discovered and wounded. He finds his way to Grace Church, where he hides. Ethel discovers him, is touched by the remorse of his treatment of her and his present plight and gives him a horse and assists him to escape.
- Pastor Holt of Arizona has a daughter, Ellen, and a son, John. John is inclined to be a trifle restless under the home discipline. The pastor gives John a sum of money to deposit in a bank at Grey Rock. This money is for the erection of a new mission. Ellen meanwhile has sold her horse, Jim, to complete the sum necessary for the erection of same. Bill Evers, a gambling house keeper, is in reality the "Desert Scourge," an outlaw. He buys the horse of Ellen from a trader, and while robbing the stage the horse breaks its tether and returns to the parsonage. John Holt arrives at Grey Rock and loses both the money and his watch at the gambling hall. The watch contains a picture of his sister, and Bill Evers is greatly smitten with the girl's appearance. He meets through an inquiry in the newspaper, stating that the horse has returned, Ellen Hold, and falls in love with her. She reciprocates his affection. John is sent to the bank where he says he deposited the money. While en route he attempts to rob the stage to recover the church money he lost in gambling. He is wounded and the horse carries him home. Bill Evers, who is engaged to marry Ellen, is calling at the house. The posse follows the boy by a trail of blood and Bill Evers makes the great sacrifice of taking the boy's place and announcing his identity. He is removed by the posse but escapes, and the story ends in the reunion of Ellen and Evers.
- Jack Krone, a blacksmith, lives with his father and sister, Edna. The squire's son, George Burns, lives in ease and idleness. There are mutterings of war, and the local militia is in frequent ride practice. George stops to have his horse shod, and takes advantage of the opportunity to force his attentions on Edna. As he is attempting to forcibly kiss her he is knocked down by Jack, who reports the incident to his friends and George is expelled from the militia. The war breaks out and Jack goes to the front. Bitter at the southern boys, George secures a commission in the northern army, as he is the crack rifle shot of the locality, and sharpshooters are in great demand. As the fighting progresses and time goes on, little Bud Krone, Jack's brother, enlists as a drummer boy, and one day during an engagement, George is up in a tree picking off officers and sees him. Taking careful aim George brings the boy down. Jack looks at his dead brother for a moment, and then leaps towards the clump of trees from whence the firing had come. He sees George and shoots him through the shoulder, and when he discovers the identity of the man he has shot he attempts to kill him, but is captured by a squad of Union soldiers. Wounded, George goes home on a furlough, while Jack languishes in prison. Poverty has forced old man Krone to mortgage his property to Squire Burns, and the latter demands payment. George makes ardent love to Edna, and to save her old father she consents to marry him, not knowing that he is the slayer of her brother. Jack finally secures his release from prison and comes home, learning of the marriage of his sister. He sends her a note to meet him, and Burns sees them together, away in the distance and shoots Jack. Edna manages to support her brother to a negro's cabin, where he is hidden, and determines to ride to the nearest Confederate encampment for assistance. She dons Jack's coat and hat and mounts his horse. Burns sees her, and thinking she is Jack he lifts his rifle to his shoulder and takes careful aim. A storm is approaching. With a sacrilegious boast Bums says, "With my eye upon the sight, not even God can save him." And as he goes to press the trigger a blinding flash of lightning destroys his eyesight. Groping along in terror, he is harassed by visions of his foul deeds, and finally falls over a cliff. Edna reaches the soldiers and saves her brother.
- Jim Gross is a drunkard and neglects his wife, Myrtle, and the baby. One night he comes home intoxicated and strikes Myrtle, who takes the baby and leaves. She finds a purse containing a ticket for Alaska; also some money, which has been lost by a young chap, Tom Winters. Myrtle makes use of the ticket and later we find her in an Alaskan village, where she obtains employment in a restaurant and is held in high regard by the miners. Winters and his friend Bob also come to the town, and Tom becomes very ill with fever and Myrtle is persuaded to nurse him. They fall in love and without telling him her past she marries him and they are very happy. In the meantime, Jim has been arrested for drunkenness and is serving a sentence. Upon his release he visits his mother-in-law's home and intercepts a letter from Myrtle, which tells of her marriage to Tom. Jim goes to Alaska and hunts up Myrtle and tells her that she must leave with him or he will expose her. Much terrified she consents and he is helping her pack up when Tom, who has been informed that a stranger has been hanging around his home, comes upon the scene and shoots through the door, which Jim has locked, and kills Jim. So Myrtle's past remains buried.
- Because the girls in the dance hall refuse to dance with Shorty, who is a little worse for liquor, and because the cowboys play a joke on him by having one of the boys dress up as a woman, he proceeds to shoot up the place. The boys see no way out of the excitement but to put Shorty aboard a freight train bound for parts unknown. Shorty comes to himself with a very bad head and the sounds of a quarrel in another part of the car. He investigates and finds a bum abusing a boy. Shorty interferes and gets the worse of it. The brakeman hears the noise of the struggle and attempts to stop the fight by drawing a gun, but the bum takes the weapon from the brakeman and shoots him. Shorty is accused of the crime, but the sheriff happens to be the boy's father; he gives Shorty money and returns to his home ranch.
- Shorty, after reading "Robinson Crusoe," falls asleep and dreams of hair-raising adventures on a cannibal isle. He is about to meet his fate in the boiling pot and be served up for the cannibal king's supper, when he wakes, to find the underbrush around him on fire from a lighted cigarette he has dropped, and the cowboys rushing to his rescue with buckets of water.
- "Shorty" Cline collects graft from saloons and gambling resorts in the tenderloin for the political boss of the eighth ward, "Big Steve" Cassidy. On one occasion he rescues Molly Norton's stolen purse from "Buck" Hogan, leader of an East Side gang, thus incurring the gangster's enmity. When Cline leaves Cassidy's employ, determined to live honestly in the hope of someday winning Molly for his wife, Hogan and Cassidy frame up a plot and manage to get Cline sentenced to prison for three years. During a mutiny among the convicts, he saves the life of one of the prison guards, for which he is reprieved. He returns to New York. Cassidy soon after succumbs to heart disease, and '"Shorty" and Molly are married.
- Jim Hardy, serving time for safe cracking, receives notice that his term has expired, and tells his cellmate, Rusty, that he is going to start life anew and keep straight. Rusty laughs at him and tells him he will not get a chance to reform, as the police will hound him to death. Hardy receives a new suit of clothes and five dollars, and is met up the prison door by his daughter, Helen. He gets work in a grocery store, but a detective recognizes him and tells the proprietor that he is harboring an ex-convict, and Hardy is discharged. Helen has been working and saving her money, and she suggests to her father that they go west and start life anew in the west. Hardy is given a chance to make good, being employed as a watchman in the little western bank. Lieut. Baker, of the U. S. Cavalry, meets Helen, and the two young people fall in love. Hardy writes to Rusty as follows: "Dear Pal Rusty: Got a good job as a night watchman in a bank. Don't laugh. It's on the square. Can you imagine me watching a safe with twenty thousand in it and dead easy to crack, but I'm temptation proof as long as I can let the Amber Devil, whiskey, alone. Look for a letter from you shortly. Your old pal, Jim Hardy." A week later Rusty takes advantage of visiting day to secure access to the lockers, and escapes dressed in a guard's uniform. He makes his way to Hardy's town, and is taken in by the latter and fed and clothed. Detective Burton, on the trail of the escaped convict, follows his man. Rusty sees him in a saloon and rushes back in fear to Hardy. He plies Hardy with whiskey, and tells him that the detective will make him lose his Job, and that he had better crack the safe and get away with the money. Helen tries to interfere, but Rusty roughly tells her to keep still or he will tell her sweetheart her father is an ex-convict. That night they attempt to rob the bank. Rusty keeps watch while Hardy enters and blows open the vault doors. The detective is on the job, however, and Hardy finds himself looking into the barrel of a pistol held by Burton at the window. Rusty sneaks up behind the detective and deals him a crashing blow, rendering him unconscious. Helen, who has mustered up courage at the last moment to attempt to stop the robbery and save her father from crime, rushes up and is attacked by Rusty. Hardy runs to the defense of his daughter and in the scuffle is shot and killed, Rusty making his escape. The banker believes that his watchman has been killed by the burglar. Helen confesses everything to Lieut. Baker, who goes to the detective, when he has regained consciousness and persuades him to remain silent regarding Hardy's past. He tells Helen that she is not to blame for her father's sins, and marries her. Rusty flees into lands occupied by hostile Indians, and is attacked, meeting a tragic death.
- A prospector by the name of Worth, lives with his son, a youth of about 15, and his daughter, a girl of twenty. While father and son are at work a stranger comes to the cabin and is given a meal by Miss Worth, and he repays her generosity by endeavoring to embrace her. She indignantly slaps him and endeavors to escape into another room, but the now thoroughly angered man attempts to bar her way, and it is only after a struggle that she reaches it and bars the door. Little Bob, returning home, hears the noise inside, and finding the door locked, peers through the window. The sight within sends him scurrying to his father, who grabs his gun and runs home. Inside the stranger has succeeded in forcing back the door, and has seized the girl. Gordon breaks the door down with an axe and attacks the intruder, and when Jack rushes in he is brushed aside by the stranger, who is endeavoring to escape. The sight of his dead father on the floor infuriates Jack, and he leaps at the man like a panther, and his attack is so furious that for a few moments the man has his hands full handling the boy, who is finally struck a blow and knocked aside. The stranger mounts his horse and gallops away. Years later Jack is a government scout, and is sent on a mission by the colonel. Stopping at a settlement he enters an inn, where men are playing cards. The stranger, who is a gambler, is cheating, and Jack takes advantage of the situation to interfere. One of the gambler's victims is a consumptive, pale and hollow-eyed, and while Jack is struggling with him the consumptive fires a shot which lays the gambler low. Everyone thinks Jack has fired, and he backs away, leaps on his horse and escapes, a fugitive. Some days later the colonel's daughter is in a stagecoach which is attacked by Indians. From a distant hill Jack sees the driver shot from his seat, and driving the spurs into his horse's flanks, he gallops madly across the hills, and heads it off. Dismounting at a gallop, he catches hold of the coach while the horses are going at break-neck speed, pulls himself to the top and guides the swaying vehicle towards the fort, though severely wounded. The soldiers, hearing the shooting, ride to the rescue, and the colonel is filled with gratitude toward Jack, while his daughter falls in love with him. The news of Jack's heroic deed spreads through the settlements, and the sheriff, who has been looking for him, calls at the fort. The parting is intensely pathetic, as the sheriff dislikes his unwelcome duty, and the colonel is compelled to give up the prisoner, though his daughter weeps bitter tears as Jack is led away, handcuffed. As the sheriff and Jack ride along they are attacked by Indians, and in most thrilling scenes the two fight for their lives. The sheriff unlocks the handcuffs and gives Jack a revolver, and they jump about through the hills, keeping the redskins at a distance. The sheriff is finally wounded, and Jack carries his unconscious form to the top of a hill, where, from behind a huge rock, he makes his last stand. Jack's wounded horse limpingly makes his way back to the fort, mute evidence of what has occurred. The colonel calls out the troop and they gallop madly to the spot from where faint echoes of the shots are carried to their ears. With anger in their hearts, the soldiers dash among the redskins, and a furious battle ensues, in which the Indians are badly routed. Jack and the sheriff are tenderly carried back to the fort and revived, and nursed back to health. The colonel's daughter proves a tender nurse for Jack, but the specter of the charge against Jack hovers over their happiness. The consumptive, who has been guarding his guilty secret, nears his last hours, and in a repentant mood confesses to the physician. The doctor makes haste to lay this confession in the hands of the colonel, and Jack is restored to his position.
- The wife of a Raffles, a dress-suit thief, who makes an occasional haul at social gatherings, witnesses the arrest of her husband when he is followed home by detectives and caught with the goods. She is overwhelmed with shame upon his acknowledgment of guilt and subsequently humiliated by her neighbors. She finds relief in an opportunity to teach school in the Far West and there begins a new life. Among her pupils is the little son of a widowed military officer stationed at a nearby post. The father of the little boy becomes interested in the girlish-looking school mistress and finally asks her to become his wife. It is at this point that the current of her thoughts is shown by double exposure. Her mind reverts to the imprisoned man she promised to love, exhibiting her loyalty and tenderness of heart. The thief does not escape from jail, but he enters upon a violent struggle when being carried to a distant point in the Far West to give testimony relating to a more important criminal, and jumps from the train while it is going at full speed. He is seen rolling down into a gully and is soon after announced as dead. He is in truth revived by some friendly Indians and becomes one of their number, acting as their interpreter in dealing with military forces near their reservation. The school mistress sees the announcement of his death and weds the officer whose little child she has been teaching. In the course of time the thief, now a renegade Indian, comes to parley with the military men in relation to a treaty violation, and the officer's wife recognizes the man she believed to be dead, though she is not seen by him. She is overcome, but does not confess to the officer she has married in good faith. Troops are drawn from the post to the protection of a body of white invaders, and the place falls into the hands of the Indians after a fierce engagement. They murder or torture the helpless inmates until the renegade comes suddenly upon his own wife and the officer's child. In a saving moment he defends her against the redskins, holding them at bay until the troopers return. He spares her and the child, but is shot in trying to escape, killed by the officer whose family he protected.