Grace's father, a smuggler, is killed in a fight with revenue officers. Grace engages her lover as the skipper of their ship. While on board they have a disagreement in regard to smuggling. As her lover is not a smuggler, he disapproves of it, and decides to take the ship to shore. Upon reaching shore he is taken in custody by a revenue officer and put into jail. He is forced to divulge the secrets of the smugglers, or whatever he knows about them. The revenue officers set out after Grace. John makes his escape from the jail and in a motorboat goes to warn Grace. Upon his arrival he is informed that the smugglers have captured a daughter of one of the revenue men in vengeance for the killing of her father. The officers reach the boat, and Revenue Officer Hardin is surprised to see his daughter a captive. John is holding a gun at her head and tells the revenue officer if he will let Grace go he can take his daughter with him. If he doesn't he will shoot his daughter. The officer agrees to let Grace go free.
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