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Jennie is a slavey in a theatrical boarding house. To her the actors are all wonderful, but Montague Booth is the chief. In an accident Booth is disfigured for life and is saved from suicide by Jennie. They join a medicine show in which Booth is lecturer, but Jennie cannot stand the road. Booth leaves the show and takes up a homestead claim. The manager of the show sends one of Booth's old loves to get him back, for his services are valuable, but Belle fails after very nearly wrecking everyone's happiness.

Lucille Westbrook in vain tries to solve her problem, but when Jo Marshall bitterly tells her that the love of luxury stands between them, she tells him that she will marry Paul Belmont, the wealthy man. After the wedding Lucille is the neglected wife and finally her husband declares his intention of divorcing her for the sake of a society vampire, Mrs. Randolph, whose name has long been connected with his. Disgusted with life, Lucille decides to end it all, and after killing Belmont, shoots herself. When Belmont arrives for his answer, his ring awakens the girl, who has fallen asleep in her chair and has dreamed the story. Awake at last, Lucille tells Jo that he has always been the one.

"The Deacon," considered the most harmless of the inhabitants in town, disposes of a double-dyed bad man, and the fact that he has no reputation as a shooter makes it appear outrageous to the citizens. They pursue him into the hills with intent to lynch, believing that this amateur could not have vanquished anyone except by treachery. Hope Grayson, the dining-room worker at Mrs. Rucker's, turns the trick that proves the "Deacon" to be innocent of the suspicion, and she also proves the means of making the young man happy in love and wealthy in more material possessions.

Don McLane and Julia Wharton are engaged. Rufe Dorsey, the local boss, who is above the law, covets Julia and "frames" Don for murder. He is given a prison sentence. Don is liberated at a junction point by Julia's brothers and they beat a retreat to the Wharton homestead, whither Dorsey goes to get the prisoner again. A stranger who recently appeared in the town joins the defending forces and when the fight goes against them he reveals himself to Dorsey as the Governor of the state. Dorsey has gone too far and determines to kill the Governor too, but the Governor has sent for the militia and they arrive in time to rescue the besieged, while a friend of Don's rides in with the "murdered" man, who was "very much alive this morning, but plenty dead now," for he had been shot in self defense.

A well-dressed young man registers at the Astor Hotel. An interesting young lady follows with a signature having a delicious foreign flavor. The two are assigned opposite rooms on the same floor. A flirtation on the roof garden follows, and they fall in love. This movement is watched by a mysterious individual who looks like the ambassador of a foreign court watching an escaped princess. It turns out that the young man and the young lady are a couple of pretenders after all, and are brought to a confession of their timely comedy when the mysterious man turns out to be a mere house detective.