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- Fred Madison, a drug fiend, who wants to overcome the pernicious habit, is accompanied by his wife into the desert of the western country. On their way to the sanitarium where a former lover of Mary is the doctor where Fred hopes to cure himself, they are lost. Fred, without his drug, becomes almost insane and wanders off from Mary to fight his battle out alone. During his absence Mary is nearly carried away by a drunken brute, but the doctor from the hospital, on his way to meet his old friends, finds her. With him and Mary, Fred goes to the sanitarium, and the close of the picture sees him cured and strong.
- Jennie Holland, the daughter of Rev. Thomas Holland, yields to the temptation of her false lover, Will Roland, and is scorned by him after he becomes more infatuated with a former sweetheart. Belle Mathews, whom he meets at the country club one day. Jennie, driven to desperation, disappears, and is thought to have committed suicide, having last been seen wandering near a lake in a deserted park. Seven years later, she is seen again as "Holland Jinny," the proprietress of a gambling place in the west. A miner, the exact image of her betrayer, comes down from the hills to gamble, and "Holland Jinny," thinking it is Will, gives the order to have him fleeced. Later, Will's lather, a railroad president, is called to the mining town, bringing his son with him. At the same time, the fleeced miner comes back for another try at the gaming table. Jinny sees the two together, and realizing that the miner has been cheated, she gives him back his money and tells him the story of her life. The miner starts a fight with the railroad president's son, which soon gains proportions that it gets beyond Jinny's control. Will is forced from the place, but meets his death out of doors by an exploding mine. The miner is captivated by the charms of Holland Jinny's little girl, and in love with the little girl's mother, takes them back with him to the hills.
- In the little meeting house in the mountains, Billy Whiskers, the bandit, is converted through the efforts of the evangelist and his daughter after the outlaw and his gang have robbed the stage coach on which the minister evangelists arrive. Billy marries his daughter, and all goes happily until one day Ruth falls and hurts her ankle. "Billy" terrified lest she is seriously hurt, runs to the drug store for medicine, and learns that the bank has been closed through the misappropriation of funds by the cashier. His outlawry blood arouses and he and "the boys" rob the bank for the $37 in it which belongs to Bill and his wife. They ride to the mountains. Bill is shot and brought to jail. The old lawyer and his wife come to see him, and though Ruth is filled with disappointment at what has happened she is assured that her husband will be released. In the next cell is the cashier of the bank, and Bill, opening his copy of "The Word" hands it through the bars to his neighbor in captivity.
- "The Parasite" makes his last raid on the village bank and escapes to the hills. When the reward for his capture is posted, along comes his double, a stranger of questionable character, who, upon seeing the reward card and photograph of his prototype, fears that he may be taken for the original and shaves off his beard. "The Parasite," too, returns to the village, clean shaven, at the time when his double takes advantage of an old miner's inebriety to rob him of his gold. "The Parasite" checkmates his rival's movements in the little community, and going to the sheriff of an adjoining county, where he, himself, is wanted for numerous deeds of outlawry, is made a deputy. He immediately sets to work to "get" his rival, the murderer of his sweetheart's father, and the working out of the love episode between '"The Parasite" and the orphaned girl makes this two-part western drama a real live "thriller."
- Mong, in love with Myrtle, is jealous of Ralph, who cares for Myrtle also. Ralph receives a telegram from a moving picture company asking him to gather fifty cowboys together for a picture. He goes away to make arrangements, and while gone receives a letter from Myrtle complaining of Mong's jealousy and asking for assistance. Myrtle and Ralph meet and are married. The moving picture company arrives and starts rehearsals when George Ralph's brother, intoxicated, breaks up the rehearsals and starts shooting. Myrtle interferes before Ralph can hurt his brother, but not before Ralph is injured. On his way to the doctor, he stops in the saloon, where Mong taunts him about his wife. Ralph shoots and kills Mong, and gets away. Hidden in the house of a friend, he sends word to his brother, asking for an Indian disguise in which to escape across the border. George, responding to Ralph's request, goes to Ralph in the disguise, but he is tracked by detectives. Ralph and George escape from the detectives on a hand car. The detectives pursue them in an automobile and reach the turnpike in time to see an oncoming train rush into the hand car. The two brothers are thrown. Ralph is instantly killed and George is mortally wounded and dies immediately afterwards.
- Old man Wagner, the driver of the Wells Fargo stage between Wells and Rose City, was found one winter afternoon, lying across the seat of the stage dead, with a rifle bullet in his brain. The cowboys who found him drove the stage to Rose City and brought the old man's body back to his home, where his daughter, Ruth, who was all that remained of his family, received it. With her was the sheriff of Rose County, who was courting Ruth. She had accepted her the week before and when the sheriff saw the body of his "father-in-law-to-be," and found that he had been shot by a cowardly assailant from behind, he kissed Ruth good-bye, and started to hunt the murderer. There had been in Rose City a young man named Luck Schrade, who had been the sheriff's rival for Ruth's hand, and had taken his defeat poorly, even though one of the other girls of the village loved him dearly and wanted him much more than, perhaps, he ever really wanted Ruth. She was an attractive girl, too, and daughter of the man who ran the Rose City general store. This young man was in the store when the gold, which had been left there overnight for old man Wagner to take to Wells in the morning, was deposited there, pending its journey to the railroad. The gold was, of course, missing when Wagner's body was found, and the express company immediately offered $2,000 reward for the capture of the highwaymen, dead or alive. It was with the thought of the murderer of Ruth's father in his mind, not of the reward, however, with which the sheriff set out after the marauders, on the same day that Ruth, without telling him, decided to take her father's place on the stage and drive another consignment of gold to the railroad herself. He became separated from his deputies, in the course of his following of the highwaymen's horses' hoofs, the prints of which were rapidly becoming more and more indistinct as the result of the wind, and it was near evening that he suddenly came upon the deserted hut of a one-time prospector hidden below a shoulder of the foothills. From the shack, to his surprise he saw smoke rising. He tethered his horse and cautiously approached on foot. As he reached the window and peered through it, he saw young Schade in the act of trying to kiss Ruth, who was disheveled and violently resisting, while Schade's accomplice, another young tough of the county, looked on laughing. With a bound the sheriff was through the window. In alighting within, he dropped his revolver and grappled with Schade, man to man. A terrific fight followed. Schade's accomplice pushed Ruth into a small inner room, closed the door, and then joined in the scuffle, the two robbers eventually succeeding in handcuffing the sheriff with his own handcuffs. Ruth's abduction, her rescue by the sheriff, their pursuit by wolves, the terrible fate of the bad men who were overtaken and killed by the starving animals and the unexpected climax o( this drama brings it to a novel and exciting close.
- When the son of Sir Gilbert Lonsdale disappears, with his infant daughter in the heart of the Rockies, an old trapper finds the child and takes her to his cabin, where she is reared and cared for by his daughter, who is being courted by a young mountaineer. In after years the young man turns his affections to the now grown daughter of the titled Englishman. The father of the child, who has lost his reason, and is known as the wild man of the hills, is at last discovered by his father. The identity of the daughter is proven and father and girl are taken back to England, where the insane man is cured of his illness, and the beautiful young woman marries a wealthy man she loves. Happiness and contentment settles down upon the daughter of the trapper and her mountain lover.