- Cowboy Mark West lives with his sister Mary, who suffers from a serious spinal disorder. While on vacation at the West's ranch, Violet Ridgeway, an Eastern socialite, toys with Mark's affections and then promptly forgets him. After Violet leaves, Mark works hard and earns the money to pay for an operation for his sister, which Doctor Welsh and Doctor Boyd agree to perform even though they know that it will probably result in her death. As expected, Mary dies, and Mark receives a letter detailing the doctor's risk-taking. A vengeful Mark kills Dr. Boyd, but Welsh, who is engaged to Violet, flees to safety. Mark goes to prison, but later Violet marries him in order to satisfy a stipulation in her late aunt's will. On his way back to jail, Mark escapes, and when Welsh and Violet reunite, they travel past Mark's hideout, and he captures them. Peblo, an evil Indian who is infatuated with Violet, kidnaps her, but Mark kills him. During the fight, Welsh behaves like a coward, and an enlightened Violet escapes to freedom across the Canadian border with Mark.—Pamela Short
- Mark West, a young cowboy, worships his crippled sister Mary, his one desire being to make enough money to take her east, where he has been told she can be cured of her illness by an operation. One day, while acting as a guide to an eastern party, he meets and falls in love with Violet Ridgeway, a young society belle, but realizing his responsibilities and the difference in their positions, he conceals his feelings. She toys with him as with her other admirers, lightly gives him a ring as a parting remembrance, and then forgets all about him. Upon her return to the east, she becomes engaged to Dr. Welsh, a famous surgeon. At last West has accumulated the necessary amount and he and his sister come east. Dr. Hamilton and his co-worker, Dr. Boyd, are interested in an experiment which concerns the cutting of the spinal cord. Anxious to try their experiment on a human being, they willingly agree to take Mary's case. After an e examination they are convinced that an operation is almost sure to prove fatal, but they decide to go through with it in order to test their theory. As they anticipated. Mary dies under the influence of the anaesthetic. The doctors cover up their work with a death certificate. Seeing an opportunity for another experiment in the "interest of science,'" Dr. Boyd writes to Dr. Hamilton and through error the letter is placed in an envelope addressed to West. West, brooding over his sister's death, is horror-stricken when he receives the letter telling of the dastardly work of the noted surgeons. Seizing two pistols, he rushes to Dr. Boyd's office, facing the doctor, he tells him he has come to kill him, but will give him a better chance than was given to his little sister. In the struggle that ensues, Dr. Boyd is killed and West calmly gives himself up to the officers of the law. Dr. Welsh leaves for the west to escape questioning and notoriety. While he is away, Violet Ridgeway's wealthy aunt dies, leaving all of her property to Violet on condition that the girl marry within three days. It is impossible for Dr. Welsh to return in time to fulfill the conditions of the win, and Violet in desperation consults the family attorney. As a last resort the attorney tells her about the convict West, who is to be hanged within a few days, and urges her to marry him merely as a matter of form, then after the execution she will be free to wed Dr. Welsh. West is finally persuaded to submit to the ceremony. He is astonished to recognize in his bride the girl whom he loved, but Violet has forgotten all about her flirtation with him. On his return trip to the prison after the ceremony. West breaks away and escapes. Back in his shack in the western country, he is greeted by his faithful Indian servant. One day he reads in the paper that Violet, accompanied by her fiancé, Dr. Welsh, is on her way to Reno to obtain a divorce from her convict husband in order that she might marry Dr. Welsh. West determines to revenge himself on the man who helped kill his sister, and at the same time claim his wife for his own. Together with his Indian servant, he holds up the stage and bears Violet and Dr. Welsh away to his shack. The hold-up is witnessed by Peblo, a half-breed. Attracted to the girl by her good looks, Peblo determines to get her for himself. Pretending friendship, he lures her to his shack. She realizes all too late his intentions and fights desperately. Her strength exhausted, she is overcome and bound, but is rescued by West, who trailed Peblo. West and the girl finally reach his shack, closely followed by Peblo and his men, and then ensues a desperate battle. West is shot, but though wounded succeeds in killing Peblo and frightening off his comrades. Dr. Welsh acts the arrant coward, and only upon a threat from Violet does he consent to help the injured West. As West gradually recovers from his wounds all the good of his nature comes to the surface. He tells Violet he is going to surrender himself to the authorities and begs her to return to civilization with his Indian guide, but Violet has come to love her husband and under pretense of giving him up to the sheriff, she leads him over the border line into Canada and safety.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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