- French Canadian Jacques Fontaine shoots a man in a tavern brawl and then flees, a fugitive from the North West Mounted Police. Fifteen years later, he wanders into St. Croix, Alberta, where he meets Lupine, a repulsive half-breed trapper, and his enchanting daughter Wild Sumac. Also in St. Croix is Pierre du Fere, the son of Armand du Fere, the man who is building the railroad through the town. Du Fere falls prey to the whiskey and cards that Lupine traffics at night and when he accuses the half-breed of cheating, Lupine shoots him. Lupine accuses Sumac of the crime, and she is arrested by Sergeant Lewis. She is saved by Jacques, who, in a fearful fight with Lupine, wrings a confession from him. The half-breed also confesses that Sumac is not his daughter, but the niece of Armand du Fere. In the excitement Jacques betrays his own identity, but Sgt. Lewis informs him that the man he shot did not die. All ends happily as Jacques is acquitted of charges and returns to Sumac, his love.
- Jacques, a big-hearted woodsman of the Canadians of the Northwest, whose hasty action with a gun had driven him into fifteen years' exile, finds a half-breed, Lupine, wreaking vengeance on the family of DuFere. Lupine kills DuFere's son and tries to fasten his guilt on Sumac, a girl whom he had stolen in infancy after murdering her parents, DuFere's brother and sister-in-law. Sergeant Lewis, of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, in the district looking for Jacques and the DuFere murderer, holds Sumac on the circumstantial evidence which Lupine has cunningly provided. She is seized by the people, and is about to be burned as a witch when Jacques, after trapping Lupine, rescues her from the flames. Through Lupine's squaw DeFere learns that the girl is his own niece. At the same time Lewis discovers that Jacques is the man he seeks, and the woodsman, confident of his early release, takes with him Sumac's promise to wait for his return.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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