In a small western town, Melville has long been the express agent. His son, Frank, who acts as a clerk in the office, is one day out hunting when he meets Mary, whose father earns a scantly living from his bees. Mary tells that her father will not allow her to see any man other than Bert, who someday she is supposed to marry. She adds that she detests Bert, and is willing to meet Frank. As the months go by, Frank and Mary meet almost daily. Their love develops and when Frank proposes marriage, Mary accepts him. Melville's greatest ambition is that is son shall have a college education. HE confides to his wife that he needs but $200 more before he breaks the news to Frank, and his reference to the money is overheard by Frank, who is puzzled by it. Addison, the sheriff, an old friend of Melville, has a dog that has the habit of burying any object that it finds. One day, as Melville as checking up, and a bundle of currency falls, unnoticed to the floor, the dog picks it up and buries it under the building. The auditor arrives, and Melville learns that he is $200 short. Frank recalls his father's statement that he needs $200, and, convinced that his father has taken the money, determines to save him. He leaves a note, saying that he is the guilty party, and that he will return again when he is able to make good for the loss. This done, Frank rides into the foothills and there finds work with an old miner. Melville makes good the loss to the auditor, who promises that the matter will go no further. Having saved up $200 by hard work, Frank returns home. But Addison's dog again comes into the limelight when he carries a ball under the office, and going after it, the small boy owner of the ball brings out not only the ball, but the missing currency. Addison recalls that one the day the money was found to be missing, that his dog had been burying something under the building. Frank, upon arriving, hands the money to his father, only to learn that the currency had been found, and that it was unquestionably been the dog that took it. As Frank is hurrying out to see Mary, she is in her cabin with a revolver in her hand, and outside the cabin, Bert, her rejected lover, is endeavoring to break in. Frank rides up just as Bert is about to enter. Bert flees, and Frank hearing Mary's call for help, dashes toward the cabin. Inside, thinking that it is Bert entering, Mary fires and then starts back in horror. Her bullet has gone true, and Frank lies stretched out on the floor. She has killed him. Moving Picture World, May 6, 1916