- Lem Hardy leaves his home and aging mother to work at a lumber camp owned by Henry Colby. Lem falls in love with Colby's daughter Evie. Harry Blake, who is the superintendent of the camp, also wants Evie, so he steals the company payroll and pins the crime on Lem. Lem is convicted and sent to prison. Evie, who assumes Lem was guilty, marries Blake. Blake then induces Colby to speculate in stock, which leads to Colby's ruin and death. Blake and Evie move to the town of Red Dog, where Blake sets up a faro game. Meanwhile, while in prison, Lem meets Father Rochelle, the prison chaplain, and becomes deeply religious. Upon his release, he becomes a preacher. As he travels the country, he stops in Red Dog and encounters Blake. When Blake is killed in a gambling brawl, Lem and Evie are reunited.—scsu1975
- Lem Hardy, a Kentuckian, comes from a long list of fighters who have won renown for courage on the battlefield and in the daily walks of life. Hardy is working in a lumber camp owned by Henry Colby when he falls in love with the latter's daughter, Evie. He is not the sole aspirant to her hand, however, for Blake, the camp superintendent, is also an admirer of Evie. Blake and one of his workmen steal the company's payroll and lay the blame on Hardy. Unable to refute the evidence brought against him, Hardy, now reduced in the eyes of Evie, is sent to prison. During his imprisonment Evie marries Blake, who, gripped by the gambling fever, induces his father-in-law to plunge in the stock market. Upon Hardy's discharge from prison he becomes a minister and returns to the small community in which he lived when wrongfully charged with crime. His first church service is interrupted by a gang of toughs whom he finds it necessary to evict. His action, of course, arouses horror in the hearts of the church heads, and he is about to be unfrocked when he decides to go west. Blake and Evie, now poverty stricken as the result of the former's drinking and gambling, have also struck out into the west. Hardy is aware of this fact and he is also aware that it was Blake who sent him to prison. Hardy begins a campaign of conversion in Red Dog, but his efforts do not meet with approval by the miners. He is preaching in a saloon when the bully of Red Dog orders him to quit. Not until he has licked the bully, who afterwards becomes his staunch supporter, is he allowed to continue the service. Hardy eventually meets Blake and Evie, but just what happens at the meeting or just how it happens is best left untold. Suffice it to say, therefore, that the climax of the picture is big.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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