Jack Edwards was the younger son by the second wife of Colonel Edwards. He loved the Colonel's pretty ward, Vivian, who responded to his affection. Harold, his step-brother, never liked Jack, and lost no opportunity to say a defamatory word when the occasion offered. Jack came home drunk one night, and Harold informed the father, who, in a fit of anger, drove Jack from the house. He went West, secured work in the Lazy Dog Mining Camp, where he was soon elected sheriff of the town. His letters to Vivian were always intercepted by Harold, and both came in time to think the other did not care for them. One year after Jack left home the Colonel became interested in some mining claims in the Lazy region. In company with his capitalists and with Harold, Vivian, and his wife, the Colonel was held up in his auto close to town. In the fight that followed the mother escaped and made the town, where she was met by Jack. A posse was hastily organized and with Jack as their head, affected the rescue of the party after a stirring battle. Reaching town, they went straight to the hotel. Before Jack could have a word with Vivian, Harold too him to the register, showing him the names of "Mr. and Mrs. Edwards," and telling Jack that he and Vivian had been married. At that instant the Colonel entered and from him Jack heard the truth. -Moving Picture World, July 27, 1912, p. 376.