Philip Dean, a New York society youth, carries his gambling too far, and finds his father has refused any further loans to him. Philip is told he is a disgrace to his family and is advised to leave the city. He does. A few months later finds him in a small mining camp, in the West. Mary Martin is a student of the convent of San Rafael. At the Christmas holidays she leaves for her home. That night, just as she is about to get into her berth on the train, she decides to go out on the back platform of the observation car. The train stops. Mary seats herself on the steps of the car swinging her feet. Over her night dress she has a white dressing sack. Suddenly one of her slippers flies off and rolls down over the edge of an embankment. Mary goes after it and just as she obtains it the train pulls out. When she reaches the track, the train is disappearing in the distance. It is Christmas Eve. Nearby Philip and his companions are celebrating noisily. Mary finds her way to the cabin and opens the door. Some of the men, seeing her standing in the doorway, reel toward her drunkenly, but Philip, desiring to protect the girl, overthrows the lamp and in the darkness escapes with her. Some miles away Philip takes the blankets strapped on his burro and arranges a bed for Mary. Exhausted, she falls asleep. Nearby Philip sits and watched her. He bends down by the sleeping girl. She awakens with a start. Confused and ashamed, he tells her that he had only wanted to see that she was all right. Again she falls asleep, with Philip, now brought to his senses, watching over her. With the dawn Philip places her on his burro and starts for town. He stops in the cabin on the way, and there finds a woman of the dance hall. He begs some clothing from her for Mary. She offers him a gaudy dress, but he throws it on the floor angered at the thought of a woman like Mary wearing such a costume. Martha reads his thoughts and goes to a small trunk on one side of the room. From it she takes a simple white gown, which brings memories of happy days. With this dress and a pair of old shoes Philip starts back, when the woman stops him and pleads to accompany him. He agreeing, they come to Mary. The woman bathes the bruised feet of Mary, and then from a distance watches the couple disappear over the brow of the hill. Slowly she enters her cabin, picks up the gaudy dress, and then hurling it from her, kneels by her bed sobbing. The train comes and Philip tells Mary that someday, when he is a better man, they will meet again. Another Christmas comes. Mary recalls her adventure in the hills, and brings out the same dressing sack and night gown she had worn on that occasion. She dons them and goes out into the garden, thinking of the man who had done so much and yet so little for her. And there in the garden he finds her. - Moving Picture World, August 26, 1916