During a violent disagreement, a miner strangles his partner and accidentally shoots the man's wife. He then deserts his own wife and son to elope with the saloon keeper's daughter. As they are fleeing, the girl discovers the deed and insists upon caring for the baby found in the dead wife's arms.

• Universal Film Manufacturing Company
• Dorothy Phillips
• William Stowell
• Lon Chaney
• J. Edwin Brown
• William Clifford
• Evelyn Selbie
• Tom Wilson
• Claire Du Brey