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Learn more- Mona Darkfeather, daughter of the Indian Chief, War Cloud, is in love with Waco, a half-breed, but her father, who disapproves of him, has already chosen Eagle Mate for his daughter. That evening, Waco returns to Mona's tent and induces her to go away with him. Later, Waco discovers the "Lost Mine" and filling a bag with gold nuggets, he goes to a nearby village to spend some of his newfound gold. There he meets Joe Barker, a dope fiend, in whom he confides his discovery of the "Lost Mine." The following day, Joe secretly sends out a prospecting party to search for the mine. In the meantime, Joe gets a craving for the "dope" and goes to a hop joint run by a Chinese laundryman. Joe is "broke" and cannot pay for it, whereupon the Chinaman refuses to supply him. In his rage, Joe picks up a flat iron and hurls it through a door, killing the Chinaman's sick child in the room beyond. The party of prospectors sent out by Joe returns and reports their unsuccessful attempt to locate the mine. Joe and his pal Bill then frame up a plan whereby they ensnare Waco to the hop joint. They put him under the influence of the dope and remove his bag of gold nuggets from him. They plan to get the secret of the mine from him, then murder him and get rid of his body in a barrel. The Chinaman, concealed under the bed, overhears everything and decides to save the half-breed. A quarrel ensues about the gold wherein Bill is choked to death, and as soon as Joe leaves the room the Chinaman creeps out from his hiding place and frees Waco. He then places Bill's body in the barrel meant for the half-breed and it is later removed by Joe's pals. Not being able to overcome his desire for the drug, Joe again returns to the Chinaman's shanty and while he is under the effects of it, the Chinaman ties him to the bunk on which he is lying, then placing a barrel of gunpowder nearby, he put a lighted candle on it. Gathering up his few belongings he leaves his shanty, and joins Mona and Waco, to whom he returns the bag of nuggets left behind him. On waking the dope-fiend is terrified at the position he finds himself in and makes many frenzied attempts to blow out the candle. It is just beyond his reach, and all his efforts to release himself from his fate failing, he is doomed to perish in the forsaken shanty.
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