- The sole survivor of an Indian massacre, a baby called Jack Trail, is raised in the shadow of an overhanging eagle's nest by the Silsbees, two immigrants. Meanwhile, Geoffrey Milford, the partner of Jack's deceased father, forges his signature to use money from his property. Years later, Milford's partner, Robert Blasedon, desiring to marry Milford's daughter Rose, who rejected him, seeks to recover the papers and force the marriage. After Jack saves the Milfords and Blasedon from a runaway coach, Mrs. Silsbee, while trying to protect Rose from Blasedon, is killed in a scuffle. Accused of the murder, Jack, who now loves Rose, saves her from Blasedon, but Rose marries Blasedon when he threatens to kill Jack. After Blasedon steals the forged papers, Jack pursues him through the mountains until their struggle ends in Blasedon's fall into a ravine. When Milford learns of Jack's origin, he offers the papers, which Jack declines, saying that Rose is all the wealth he wants.—Pamela Short
- Before Philip Dane starts for the west as an emigrant he gives the deeds to his property to Geoffrey Milford, his friend, fearing to take the papers on the journey. Milford gives Mrs. Dane a little whip as a farewell present. On the journey, Dane and his wife are killed, and their child, a boy, is found by Silsbee and his wife. The little boy is the only survivor of an Indian raid. Taking the child and the whip, which they have found beside him, the Silsbees go on, locating at a spot in the mountains which they call "Eagle's Nest." Milford hears that all have perished, and later, when in need of funds to finance a business deal in Sacramento, he forges Dane's name to the deeds and raises money on his property, thinking that no one will suffer. He goes to Sacramento, taking his little daughter with him. Dane's son, known as Jack Trail, grows up with the Silsbees, and when Silsbee dies, he is the idol of his adopted mother. Twenty years later, Milford is a wealthy man. His partner, Blasedon, discovers evidence of the forgery on which Milford's fortune is based, but keeps the fact secret, hoping to use it to force a marriage with Milford's daughter, who has rejected his love. In the mountains Jack has won the gratitude of Dibsey, an unsuccessful lawyer, by rescuing him from fighting miners. On a business trip in the mountains Milford and Blasedon, accompanied by Rose, are in an accident, from which Jack rescues them. Jack takes them to the cabin, where Milford leaves Rose and Blasedon, first giving Rose the papers belonging to Philip Dane. While waiting for the next stagecoach, Rose is much in the company of Jack, and love quickly springs up between them. Jack gives Rose the whip, telling her its story. During Jack's absence, Blasedon forces his attentions upon Rose. When he tries to take her in his arms, her screams bring Mrs. Silsbee from the cabin. In anger at the interruption, Blasedon seizes Jack's gun and shoots Mrs. Silsbee dead. Rose escapes across a narrow foot bridge, followed by Blasedon, but succeeds in eluding him. Jack is accused of the murder of his mother, but is saved from the anger of the miners by Dibsey, who takes him to his cabin. Rose has been taken to the cabin of Sierra Suze, a woman of kindly heart. Blasedon, under the name of Crofton, searches for Rose in the town of Red Dog, near Suze's cabin, and takes into his service Sykes. a justice of the peace, and Slater, two unscrupulous miners. They succeed in capturing Rose, but Jack, disguised and aided by Dibsey, rescues her. She is taken to Suze's cabin. Dibsey has fallen in love with Suze, and has gained her promise of an early marriage. In the cabin, he finds the papers belonging to Dane, which Rose has asked Suze to keep for her and thinking them the property of his prospective wife, he appropriates them. Blasedon and his accomplices surprise Rose and Jack during the absence of Suze and Dibsey, and Blasedon forces Rose to marry him, threatening Jack with death if she refuse. Sykes, the justice, performs the ceremony. Blasedon then locks Jack in the cabin and sets it on fire. Suze hears Rose's scream, and reaches the cabin in time to rescue Jack. But Blasedon has made off with Rose. When Dibsey took the Dane papers from the cabin he put blank sheets in their place, and these Blasedon found and took with him, thinking them to be the originals. He now believes that he will be able to bring Milford and Rose to terms. Accordingly, he takes Rose to her father's house, and announces that they are married. When he produces the papers he finds them only blank sheets. Jack has followed Blasedon, and when the latter escapes, knowing that he will be accused of the murder of Mrs. Silsbee, Jack follows in pursuit. Blasedon returns to the mountains, and Jack tracks him. Milford and Rose go in search of Suze in an effort to recover the real papers. Blasedon sees them as they leave the stage for the Silsbee cabin, where Suze and Dibsey, now married, are living. He follows them. Dibsey is about to hand the papers to Milford when Blasedon rushes from hiding and grabs them. He turns to escape, when Jack appears. He and Blasedon grapple in a desperate struggle. Blasedon is overpowered and the papers recovered. As Jack releases him, he makes a dash for liberty, but falls from the bridge into the ravine. His life is dashed out on the rocks below. Later, in the cabin, Rose finds the whip. She tells her father the story of it, that it was found beside Jack on the open trail. Milford recognizes the whip as the present to Dane's wife, twenty years before. He knows that Jack Trail is really Philip Dane. He holds out the papers, telling Jack that they are his and that the wealth based upon them is his also. Jack waves them aside. He takes Rose in his arms. Wealth means nothing to him, now that he has her love. Milford smiles upon them as he leaves them in the "Eagle's Nest" together.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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