Nancy Hall, the village belle, and Jack Fisher, a farm hand, are sweethearts. Ernest Ashe, Jack's employer, a wealthy grower, chances upon them and is taken with Nancy's beauty. Ashe pays court secretly to Nancy, until Jack, stumbling upon them, learns the truth. They quarrel and Jack is discharged, infuriated. Ashe continues his work of collecting rents. Old Tom Moore is in arrears in his rent and trembles at the approach of Ashe. Spying his tenant's horse, Ashe insists upon its surrender for debt. Moore has to submit and tries in vain to subdue his grandson, Teddy, who is heartbroken at the loss. Next day Jack goes to collect his wages from Ashe. Directed by his fellow workers, he meets Ashe coming out on Beauty, Moore's horse. They settle their account. Two bright eyes are watching them, for Teddy is trying to enter the stable. Looking after Jack in vile temper, Ashe returns to the road, where Beauty has wandered to the field to graze. This provokes him to brutality. As Teddy sees him lash his pet he is seized with blind fury, and picking up a rock he hurls it at Ashe, who falls. Horrified at his act, Teddy dashes across the fields and to the railroad crossing, where he crawls inside a freight car, crying himself to sleep. Five minutes after directing Jack to Ashe, the farmhands find Ashe unconscious. Jack is suspected. Meanwhile Jack meets Nancy and is reproaching her, when he is interrupted by the law for the murder of Ashe. Protesting innocence, he is dragged to jail, while Nancy flees to the Ashe borne. Ashe regains consciousness and sees Nancy enter his chamber. Fearing death and believing her the cause, he denounces her. Nancy is turned out of doors. She realizes her folly. Teddy, in the meantime, is carried off in a western-bound train. He is found and cared for by trainmen who finally return him to his home, where he is snatched to his granddad's breast and sobs out his tale. Nancy happens in to console the old man and hears the tale. Grabbing Teddy, she dashes off to the jail, where all may learn of Jack's innocence. Nancy then turns away very sorrowfully, but is followed by Jack and all is forgiven.