Anna Mason, sister of Jim Mason, the sheriff, is in love with Jack Lewis. Lewis gets into a dispute in the gambling house, and the sheriff hustles him out, just as Anna is passing. She breaks the engagement. Lewis returns to the saloon to drown his sorrows in drink. An escaped bandit, his eye on the faro bank, waylays the gambler that night, murders and robs him. Finding a revolver in the path, he leaves it near the body. The weapon belongs to Lewis, who in his tipsy state has dropped it going home, and in its identification leads to his arrest and a prison sentence. Shortly after, however, he makes his escape, and appeals to Anna Mason to hide him. The bandit and a companion enter the house, ransack it and threaten Anna, who is defending the sheriff's money. Lewis comes to her rescue killing one of the thieves and mortally wounding the bandit. His dying confession exonerates Lewis, and Anna and her lover are reconciled.