- Young Frank McLain loses his position in the east, and resolves to go west to prospect for gold. Arrangements are made that he leave his wife at home, and send for her later, as soon as he has found a position. Frank's prospecting proves a failure, and he is without funds, when his plight is made more severe by receiving a letter from Alice, his wife, stating that she also is out of money, and is threatened with expulsion from their home by the landlord. It is at this moment of despair that an escaping bandit, one "Bad" White, as he is known, enters Frank's cabin, begging protection from the sheriff and posse, who are in hot pursuit, promising Frank a bag of gold if he will secret him someplace about the prospector's quarters. Frank hesitates but a moment, and, finding the temptation too strong to resist, yields. The sheriff enters, and asks Frank if he has seen White, and then leaves when Frank says he has not. Later, Mrs. McLain receives money from her husband, and decides to go west without notifying Frank. She arrives, and takes the stagecoach to Snaketown, a mining town, unaware that her husband and "Bad" White have made plans to hold up the very stage upon which she is a passenger. White, however, learns of her arrival in time to forestall the hold-up, and later, when Frank and his wife meet, the two resolve to give up the game of outlawry, happy at having escaped the disastrous end of Frank's romance, which would surely have occurred had the hold-up happened.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- In an eastern city, Frank McLain, a mechanic, through the slackness of work in his business, is let out of his position and finds himself facing the question of how he will support Alice, his wife. It is a gloomy outlook for them both and after a week of job-hunting young McLain decides to leave the country and go west. Pawning every little valuable they own Frank is packed off, while Alice is left behind with what little money is left, to wait until her husband sends for her. The report of rich strikes of gold in Nevada looks good to the young fellow and a week later finds him in the hills, living the life of a hermit and grubbing for the valuable yellow dust. Luck is against him and when he receives a letter from Alice with the information that she is sick and out of money the poor miner's view of life is through decidedly blue glasses. It is at this crucial moment that something happens to change, at least for a short time, his whole existence. Frank is in his shack, absently re-reading the tear-stained letter, when the door bursts open and a man, breathless, fear written in his face, stands in the doorway. "For God's sake," he cries, "will you hide me? The posse is on my trail." Then, crossing to the table, he throws out a bag which clanks significantly of gold and promises all if the miner will stow him away until the men of the law have passed. Whether through sheer unmindfulness or for a feeling of camaraderie in finding another human driven as desperately as himself, Frank hides the man under a pile of bed-clothes and turns to greet the leader of the posse, who has entered. No, he has seen no man pass, he declares, and finally satisfies the sheriff that it is a waste of time to linger longer. After the sheriff and the others have gone, "Bad" White, as he introduces himself, steps out, and lays the pile of gold in Frank's hand. The bad man likes the easterner's pluck and finally makes the proposal that this latter join him. Frank sorely tempted, finally accepts and the two swear to be faithful to each other. A few days later the little woman back east receives a letter and a money order with the glad news that Frank is doing "fairly well." Alice, homesick to see her husband, decides to go west, and desiring to surprise him, arrives in the western town entirely unbeknownst to Frank, who with White is planning the hold-up of the very stage on which Alice is to go to her husband. White has gone to town to spy upon the passengers, when he meets Alice, with whom he talks and learns that she is Frank's wife. White, whose conscience has awakened, sees there is need to head off his ally and rides in desperate haste a roundabout way to the ambuscade, where he arrives in time to stop the young easterner, as the stage, with Alice, sweeps up the trail. Later man and wife come together and the latter is introduced to Frank's friend, Bob White, a "prospector." "I'm going go stick by that title, too, Frank," says White later, when they are alone together. "I'm going to lead a decent life from this moment on, if you are with me?" There is no need for words as Frank grabs White's hand, while the tears shine in the eyes of both.—The Film Index synopsis
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