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- Rodney Marvin hears a vague account of a dispute between Mayor Gorham and Matt Hayward from Hayward's daughter, Virginia. She is employed by her father on his paper the Gazette, a sworn enemy to the Mayor. Rodney outwits the Mayor and buys from him a note that would have endangered the fortune of the Gazette. Rodney realizes that the only remedy for the situation is to get the two men to shake hands and be friends. He gets himself a job as partner to Hayward and then in a puzzling series of maneuvers accomplishes his purpose. He almost loses all his friends, including Virginia, in the process, but his final victory makes him a hero In the eyes of all.
- Will appears as a tramp who hears a street minister preach on the power of faith. Chance leads him to a place in the desert where he finds a baby. He adopts it and then finds work is not so distasteful after all. He marries to get a "mother" for the baby, and then the child's father returns. Finding how much the couple love the child, who is now four years old, the real father departs and happiness again reigns.
- 'Lucky Dan' is a reckless, carefree, daring young cowboy in love with a pretty lass. The latter returns that 'on-to-the-altar' admiration, but her daddy is one of those gentlemen with Missourian leanings, namely, he must be shown. And at the outset daddy doesn't think much of Dan as a business man. But then inheritances always do come in handy and in this particular instance, an unexpected inheritance not only made popper see things different, but incidentally earned a wife for our hero--thus leaving no doubt that between the two the much-welcomed inheritance would be well taken care of. And so it ends.
- Kate Van Dyck, society girl, is secretly engaged to Phil Bradbury. While he is in South America, she falls in love with Mark Leveridge. A mysterious murder in her home makes Phil appear guilty, and he escapes by climbing into a railroad engine and driving away with it. Some time later, after he has settled in the town of Marlow, where Ruth Blake is the attraction, Kate and Mark come upon the scene. Mark is led to suspect Phil, despite his new name, and frames him. Ruth is banished from town because she shields Phil, who is suspected now of robbery. He prepares to leave town. A forest fire starts and he saves the villagers by driving an engine to a train of box cars where they have taken refuge and bearing them from danger. Soon after word comes that he has been proved innocent of the murder. Ruth and he are reunited.