Silent western. Bud Steele, a lawyer from the East, goes on vacation to the mountains of the West. There he meets Caroline Wells, an heiress who undergoes the advances of Edward Hurley, a dowry hunter. Hurley plans a fake kidnapping, intending to arrive in time to save Caroline and look like a hero. But it is Bud who arrives first to come to her rescue. Later, Hurley tries to implicate Bud in a murder, but Caroline steps in and justice is served.