- Unhappy with her shotgun marriage to Southern aristocrat Arthur Heatherway, Valerie Marchmont leaves her new husband and, after giving her infant daughter to a Virginia family, goes to Alaska to work in a dance hall. Years later, the daughter, Adrian Gardiner, wants to marry Richard Carver. Richard's father Robert, refuses them to marry because Adrian cannot provide any information about her parents. Following a hunch, Richard goes to Alaska to find the mother Adrian never knew, but just after locating Valerie, he is shot by saloon owner Jim McNeil. When Adrian and Robert go to Alaska to be with Richard during his recuperation, Robert recognizes Valerie as the wife of his old friend Arthur. As a result, he approves of the marriage, but the celebration accompanying the news is cut short when Valerie and Jim kill each other in a fight.—Pamela Short
- The picture opens with the meeting between Richard Carver and Adrian Courtney in an art gallery. Adrian is standing before a portrait, whose subject resembles her so strikingly that Richard comments on it. After they have grown to know and love each other. Adrian confesses that the woman might have been her mother, of whom she knows little. Carver, Sr., will not sanction his son's marriage until he learns who her mother is, so Richard goes in search of her. A clue brings him to Alaska, and he discovers the woman is Valerie Marchmont. a worthless dance hall habitué. McNeil, the saloon owner, does not like the growing friendship between Valerie and Richard, so he provokes a quarrel with the latter and shoots him. Shorty, a pal of Richard's, telegraphs Adrian and Robert Carver of the accident, and the two arrive in Alaska. The elder Carver recognizes Valerie as the secret wife of one of his friends, Arthur Heatherway, and knows that her maudlin condition has been brought on by neglect and abuse from Heatherway. Carver gives his consent to Adrian's marriage with Richard. Then the party learns that Adrian has been imprisoned by McNeil in his cabin. They pursue and reach the place just as the girl is fighting off McNeil's attentions. A hand-to-hand combat follows. Valerie is wounded fatally, but with her last effort, she kills McNeil as he is overcoming Richard. Carver and his posse leave the cabin, with Adrian weeping softly by her dead mother, and Richard sitting by her side, comforting her.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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