- Esmeralda ( Mary Pickford ) a simple farm girl is in love with country boy David ( Charles Waldron ), but her mother yearns for a high society city life. Ore is discovered on their farm and the money rolls in. The family is packed up and moved to the big city where Esmeralda is forced into an engagement with a wealthy Count. Suddenly the ore is depleted and a fresh supply is discovered on David's farm. Much to the delight of Esmeralda, her impending marriage to the Count is off and her mother happily consents to a marriage between Esmeralda and David.—Pamela Short
- The unexpected good fortune which falls to Esmeralda Rogers in the discovery of a valuable vein of ore on the old farm of her parents, where she and Dave have known and loved each other from childhood, result in Esmeralda being at once removed by her over-ambitious, society-stricken mother from the humble associates of her childhood and young womanhood to the society into which her mother seeks admittance. Both Esmeralda and her father are very much upset and ill at ease at this sudden wealth and the decided change in their lives. Dave leaves prior to the Rogers' departure when he realizes that he must make something of himself to be ever able to claim his sweetheart from her ambitious mother. Esmeralda, despite the many protests of her mother, remains true to her sweetheart and refuses to listen to her mother's protestations to marry suitable suitors, all of whom are nothing more than fortune-seeking men. But the mother becomes more firm when she learns that the Marquis de Montessin is seeking a bride. The mother overlooks the fact that he is nothing more than a poverty-stricken nobleman ready to sell his title, and to force Esmeralda to consent to marrying him she spreads the report that David Hardy is dead. Esmeralda is easily blinded and preparations are quickly made for the wedding, but when, on the day of the marriage, Dave finally confronts her, after reading the notice in the paper just before he is about to do away with himself, the wedding is stopped and the lovers are reunited. Later he learns that the ore has given out on the Rogers' farm, but that a wealthy vein has been found on his own property, thus enabling David to care for Esmeralda's parents and finally gaining their consent to his marrying Esmeralda.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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