- When Dad Petzel is swindled out of the Busy Bee mine, his partner, Duke Farley, ventures East to capture the crooks. Meanwhile, Summers, one of the grafters, learns that Farley's other mine, the Worm, has struck gold and determines to take control of it, too. Using Meta Cooper, an innocent girl to whom Farley is attracted, Summers frames the cowboy for the Mann Act, hoping to force him into selling the mine, but Farley thwarts Summer's plan when he marries Meta instead. Undaunted, Summers hires a sea captain to shanghai Farley. At sea, Farley discovers that Petzel and the rest of the cowboys on their ranch had come East looking for him and were shanghaied by the same captain. Together, they take over the ship and return to land in time to save Meta and arrest Summers.
- Duke Farley and Dad Petzel own two mines near the town of Green Water. The name of one was the Worm, and because it had never yielded anything was thought worthless. The other was a heavy producer, and they called it the Bumblebee. Dad was induced, in the absence of his partner, to part with the Bumblebee to a pair of clever crooks for $50,.000 worth of bum stock. Dad had been deceived because the swindlers had a girl with them whose face he believed in. He liked her countenance so much that he asked for her photograph and got it. The two partners took their loss philosophically, and started to work the Worm. Duke then told his partner that he was going east. His avowed purpose was to get the swindlers who had stolen their mine, but his secret intention was to find the original of the photograph. He got both. He had no sooner left Green Water than the Worm turned. Dad sold it for half a million the next day. Duke didn't know this, but the swindler had an agent in Green Water, who informed him. Using the girl as a tool, he managed to gain Duke's confidence, and framed him with a nasty charge involving the girl's honor. The swindler almost got away with it, and if it had not been for a very fortunate circumstance, there would have been another ending to the story. Old Dad, failing to hear from Duke, decided to take the bunch and go east to look for him. After a week of wonders, they finally wind up on board a sailing vessel, shanghaied. Duke makes an appointment for the swindler at the dock. Thus the partners and their miners are united to bring the swindler and his band to justice, and it is some justice.
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