Trama

Calliope Martins, the sole support of his widowed mother, leaves for the west to make his fortune. Three years elapse and he falls into evil ways. Turning to drink and gambling, things go from bad to worse until he is stamped as a thoroughly bad man and gun fighter. Meantime the mother, unable to stand the suspense, packs up and departs for the west in search of her son. Just before she arrives in the village the above mentioned running gunfight takes place. The boy has taken refuge in the station. A sheriff has followed and has been subdued by him and as Calliope rises to gaze out the window at the other pursuers he sees his mother alight from the train. It is a great moment; the man loves his mother more than drink, more than gambling, more than anything in the world and his heart grows heavy with the fear that she will discover him as he is. Pinning the badge of his captive on his own breast he meets the little mother as she enters. The reunion is pathetic. She leaves the room for a minute and Calliope now thoroughly ashamed returns the badge and gun, offering to give himself up. The sheriff says, "Keep the badge on, I have promised her and you shall be sheriff until she leaves town." They leave the station and later Calliope is sworn in as a deputy sheriff, under the promise that he will make good for his mother's sake. How this man-boy makes good, how he goes out single-handed and brings about the capture of Mexican bad men is all interestingly portrayed in scenes of exquisite coloring and vital action.—Moving Picture World synopsis