William McKee gets a position on the sheriff's staff. His first assignment is to get a ''bad man" who is terrorizing the countryside. He buckles on his belt with the regulation six-shooters, but is saved the dangers of the expedition because Charles Puffy gets the job to make good in the eyes of the store-keeper's daughter, Elsie Tarron. To save going for him, Kalla Pasha, the bad man comes into the store and the sheriff's office adjoining and kidnaps a dummy figure which he mistakes for Elsie. Then Puffy starts in pursuit, also in ignorance of the fact that the villain is stealing a dummy. He catches up with him and through a combination of happy circumstances captures the outlaw and wins the girl.