Eric, a strolling artist, meets Rosalia Dale and learns to love the maiden. Arnold Dale, Rosalia's father, does not approve of the love-making and with every means in his power endeavors to separate the young pair. A stable boy, working for Dale, in revenge, steals into the house and discovers the hiding place of a pearl necklace which he takes, together with a framed miniature portrait of Rosalia. He takes the necklace and throws away the miniature. Dale, discovering the theft, believes that the artist has stolen both the portrait and necklace. In the meantime Eric finds the framed miniature, and he takes it with him, believing that it is a sign of Rosalia's love. Months later Arnold Dale and his daughter visit Eric's studio. There Dale sees the framed miniature of his daughter from which Eric has painted a portrait. He touches a hidden spring and the real pearl necklace is found, the necklace stolen by the stable boy being but a counterfeit. Dale then makes no further objections to the courtship of the artist and his daughter.
—Moving Picture World synopsis