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- Dick, a pugnacious boy, possessing the gambling fever, is expelled from school. In his anger his father also expels him from home. Dick bids his sister and sweetheart farewell, leaves for the West, and obtains employment on the I.X.L. Ranch. There Dick meets a notorious character, Black Pete, who entices him to become a cattle rustler, thereby losing their jobs. While on a drunken spree, Pete determines to seek revenge on his former employer and Dick consents to go with him. Black Pete shoots the employer from behind an old barn and the employer, while falling, spies Dick riding away and concludes that he is the shooter. The cowboys are notified of the affair and give chase. Black Pete is shot and captured, but Dick, who is also shot in the arm, makes his escape. In falling off his horse Dick bends his gun, and in order to repair it with one arm, he ties the gun to a tree. While fixing the gun, Dick spies the posse coming, and to escape being captured, demands of his trained horse to shoot him which act he does. Dick is taken back to the ranch. In the meantime, Black Pete has confessed. Dick's father is notified and he takes his prodigal son back, and all is forgiven.
- Lillian Wiggins, a society girl and an admirer of fine arts,, while motoring along a rocky beach, comes across Jack Bryce, a handsome young artist, who is painting a herd of seal. She stops to admire his work. They become acquainted and exchange cards. Lillian is infatuated with the artist, and the romance of his profession appeals to her. The next day she writes him asking him to call and arrange for painting a portrait of her. He accepts the commission. Her love is reciprocated as the picture proceeds, and soon he proposes and is accepted. Soon after the betrothal, Lillian, again riding along the country road, stops her car at a scenic point. Suddenly she beholds a little girl fighting with a great eagle. As she rushes to her rescue, the eagle flies away and perches on a rock above them. Lillian then learns that the eagle had stolen the little girl's baby brother and carried him off to its nest from which the baby had been rescued by the courageous sister. Lillian took the baby and the girl, Violet, into her car and drove to the children's home, where she found their mother sick in bed. One object in the poorly furnished room where the sick woman lay attracted the attention of Lilian. It was a picture of Jack, her fiancé, holding the little girl on his lap. As she washed the child's wounds, Lillian asked Violet who the man was. "My papa," was the reply. Surreptitiously slipping the photo into her bosom, she asked the sick woman's permission to take Violet home with her that the wounds may be properly dressed. That evening, when Jack calls at Lillian's home, Lillian accuses him of being married. He denies it until Lillian calls his daughter, Violet, from the next room. Jack hangs his head in shame, takes his little girl by the hand, and goes home. Gathering his sick wife in his arms, he asks her forgiveness, though she had not known of his perfidy. While that scene is being enacted, Lillian, seated at her fireplace, tears Jack's photograph to pieces and throws it into the grate. The fire flares up and fades out.
- Stella, a New York dancer, tires of her life on Broadway, and severs her connection with George Sinclair, "a man about town," when he refuses to marry her. Determined to work and earn an honest and respectable living, she accepts a position as dancer and entertainer at The Silver Grill, Wild Horse, Col. Leaving an explanatory note for Sinclair, she starts for the west. Sinclair learns where she has gone and makes a note of her destination. On her arrival at Wild Horse, Stella finds conditions at the hotel unpleasant, owing to the fact that she is obliged to room with the other dance hall girls, who are jealous of her. She rents a furnished cottage from Andy Sims, owner of Bar X Ranch, who becomes interested in her. Prior to the opening performance, Stella receives the following note from Andy: "We're short on flowers, but strong on pianos. I'll watch you tonight and wish you success." The note is followed promptly by his gift of a piano, and some sheet music, "The Songs That Mother Used to Sing." Stella is pleased by Andy's manner of extending hospitality, and realizes that he is different from the other men of the place. The opening night at The Silver Grill. Stella's beauty and dress create a sensation. "Grouch" McCoy, the foreman of Andy's ranch, who is present, recognizes in Stella a girl he met the previous summer in New York. As the summer passes, "Grouch" notices Andy's growing interest in the dancer. Having a sincere liking for Andy, the foreman tries to warn him against Stella. Andy refuses angrily to listen, stating, "I have asked the lady to marry me." "Grouch" retorts, "She ain't fit to be your wife," and a bitter quarrel ensues. The seeds of suspicion are sown and Andy reconsiders his offer of marriage to Stella. He finds, however, that he cannot give her up and later they are married. Later George Sinclair is called to the Pacific coast on business. En route his train stops at Wild Horse, Col., and the whim seizes him to stop off and look up Stella. They meet that evening at The Silver Grill, where the proprietor introduces Sinclair to "Mr. and Mrs. Andy Sims." Andy, in his friendly western fashion, invites Sinclair to call. Unseen by Andy, Stella scribbles a note on the edge of the menu, which she passes to Sinclair, telling him that she is married to a good man and very happy and begging him to go away. Sinclair, who is still sore over Stella's former treatment of him, calls at the cottage during the absence of Andy, and tries to induce Stella to return to New York with him. When she refuses he tries to force her to go. Andy returns unexpectedly, and is an unseen witness and listener to the scene and conversation which takes place between them. When Sinclair attempts to use force with Stella, the husband comes forward. Stella runs to him for protection, but he waves her aside and tells Sinclair, "There's a train to New York in half an hour, and you're going to take it." Sinclair laughs in Andy's face, but Andy's statement is repeated a second time, and emphasized with a revolver pointed straight at Sinclair. The New Yorker protests but is finally escorted to the train by Andy at the point of the gun. Stella, believing that Andy will never forgive her, decides to leave and starts to pack, but breaks down when she comes across their favorite song, "Love's Old Sweet Song." Andy returns, finds Stella packing, and thinks she is going to join Sinclair, but she denies this indignantly, telling him that until she met him (Andy) she never knew what true love was, and that now she has started she intends to keep on the right road. When it comes to the final parting, Andy cannot let her go.
- John De Forrest, owner of a fashionable gambling den, seeks out fortune-possessing persons and through the aid of Lil, a beautiful but heartless blonde, lures them to his gambling den, where he rids them of their fortunes. In this manner, De Forrest lures a young millionaire named Jack Bryce, to his den, where Bryce loses all his fortune. Bryce feels his disgrace deeply and leaves for the west. He arrives in a mining town and is befriended by the minister because he saved his life. De Forrest, meanwhile, makes advances to Phillis, Bryce's sweetheart, and they marry. He gives Lil some money and tells her to go away. She arrives at the same town where Bryce is and engages herself as a singer in Gus Ward's gambling den. She becomes stranded and writes to De Forrest for more money. He refuses. She is very angry and informs against him. The police raid his place, but he kills a policeman and escapes. One night Bryce meets Lil in Gus's den and she tells him of De Forrest's schemes. Bryce returns home and finds the minister dead, who wills Bryce his entire fortune, provided he becomes a minister. Phillis, meanwhile, also arrives in the same town where Bryce and Lil are and is engaged in Lil's place. She meets Lil and they quarrel and are separated by Jack. He recognizes Phillis and shows her a notice of De Forrest's death. Seeing that, she marries him. A year later, De Forrest wanders into the same town, and sees Jack and Phillis with their baby. He is greatly angered and goes to Gus's den, where he meets Lil, who is now a charity worker. He wants her to take a note to Phillis demanding money or he will expose her, but she refuses. A quarrel follows in which De Forrest kills himself accidentally. Lil breathes a sigh of relief when she sees that she saved, by her atonement, the lives of two happy people.