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- A boy writes a letter to his best friend about the best memories they shared together.
- Bill Dwyer and Tom Eustace are partners of the North Star Mine. They both love Alice Dowling, and she, in turn, admires both, but finally marries Tom. Their son is named after Bill. Jim Sykes locates a cross "lode" on the North Star and Tom demands its removal. Sykes refuses. In the quarrel that follows, Tom accidentally kills Sykes. Bill, who has witnessed the accident, takes the blame and is arrested. At the trial Bill, seeing that Tom is determined to tell the truth and knowing it will destroy the happiness of Alice and the baby, pleads guilty. Tom's intention is abortive and Bill is convicted of manslaughter. A short time later Tom assists Bill to escape and before parting they agree their signal will be The Sign of the Star. Bill continually hounded takes refuge in a mission and becomes a monk. Twenty years pass and little Billy, now grown to manhood, has prospered and been accepted by Nell Martin. During this entire length of time Tom has faithfully put aside Bill's share of the money derived from the mine. Billy searches for Bill Dwyer, now Father Dwyer, and he gives Billy the money his father had put aside for him. Bill, now having no use for the money, gives it to little Billy as a wedding present.
- When Nell marries Tom, a young miner, Joe, his friend and pal since boyhood, feels that all the sunshine has gone out of his life forever, but with the birth of little Dot, Joe becomes a constant visitor at the cabin, lavishing all his disappointed affection on the child, who adoringly calls him "Uncle Joe." One day while Tom and Joe are at work together blasting rock, Tom is fatally injured by a premature explosion and with his dying breath begs his friend to look after Nell and the baby. Joe promises. The young wife is heartbroken over the tragedy, but bravely faces the future. Joe watches her valiant struggle and longs to take her in his strong arms and shield her from the world. Nell grieves for her husband. When her cousin in the east writes, asking her to come to her and forget her sorrow, Joe readily offers the necessary money on the strength of the old friendship, even though it will take her and little Dot far away from him. But Nellie cannot bring herself to leave the grave, and refuses his kind offer. A year of hardship follows. Nellie's funds are low and her spirit broken by the struggle. Joe observes the pitiful struggle she is making and knowing that Nellie will not accept charity, he puts a bill under the door where she cannot help to find it. Nellie accepts it thankfully. During her absence to the store to get supplies, a Mexican, seeking revenge for a supposed wrong done him by Tom, steals little Dot from the cabin. Nellie returns to the cabin, finds her child gone and also finds the Mexican's hat. She starts in pursuit, meeting Joe and the baby. The child's love for her "Uncle Joe" and the mother's gratitude brings her to a realization of Joe's worth.
- Bill Chambers, a nearby neighbor, is a sort of desperado, who does not stop at any crooked work. He learns from one of his gang that the express company intends sending $10,000 in a strong box on the stage to Eagle Rock. Madge Warren and her brother, Bob, happen to be on this stage, visiting an uncle. When the stage is held up by Chambers and his cowboy bandits, and the $10,000 strong box robbed, Madge surprises the masked Chambers by coquettishly offering him her ring as a souvenir. Chambers has made it a rule never to carry any incriminating evidence about him, but he becomes infatuated with the girl and accepts the ring. The sheriff with the aid of Chambers and his cowboy bandits fails to locate the thieves and returns to town "baffled," but Bob Warren is bound on finding them. He is made captive by the bandits and threatened with his life unless he agrees to be one of them. Bob's father later appeals to Tom Hawley, United States Marshal of another town, to search for his son. Hawley falls in love with Madge. Chambers, haunted by the vision of the girl, returns and calls on her. At first she cannot recollect where she has seen him before, but suddenly she remembers the masked bandit and knows Chambers is the one. Later Chambers, who has fallen in love with Madge, proposes and is accepted. He tells her he has no ring just now to which Madge replies that he may use the one she gave him. Unsuspectingly he places the ring on her finger, and the next moment she has him covered with his own revolver. Hawley returns, having succeeded in liberating Bob, and he soon has Chambers and his cowboy bandits rounded up. Hawley claims the $5,000 reward, but the bandit was rightfully caught by Madge. The matter is finally settled by their agreeing to form a partnership for life.
- Gay Sherman and her unscrupulous guardian live close to the Mexican border. Her guardian and his Mexican accomplice, Peto Montrey, are engaged in smuggling opium into the States, which violation of the law they accomplish by secreting the opium tins in water canteens that Gay unsuspectingly carries back and forth. Frank Weldon, a government officer, who is in love with Gay, suspects Montrey as being the ringleader of the smuggling conspiracy, and starts investigations. He is made prisoner by Montrey, but escapes and tells Gay of the part she has been playing in the operations. Thinking he suspects her, she returns his ring and confronts her guardian with his duplicity. The shock of discovery causes heart failure and he drops dead. Montrey, fleeing from the law, takes Gay with him into the mountains. She longs for Frank but does not know of any way to reach him. Frank, having later found Gay innocent of any part in the smuggling, repents of his hasty judgment and starts to search for her without success. Supplies run short and Montrey disguises himself and goes to town. On the packsaddle, Gay has tied a knot which Frank taught her and prays that he may see it and give him a clue to her whereabouts. Montrey in his disguise passes detection, but the knot catches Frank's eye, and he loosens a rope, unknown to Montrey which drags on the ground, leaving an easily followed mark which Frank pursues and finally reaches the hiding place. Discovering his approach, Montrey shoots Frank, dropping him. Gay finds Frank and seeing her anguish over him, Montrey's jealousy is aroused and he tries to kill her, but Frank rallies enough to send a shot which places Montrey outside the pale of the law. Later, things are satisfactorily explained and Gay again wears Frank's ring.
- Major Harper and Alice, his daughter, eke out their existence by a small annuity which is the remnant of the Major's early fortunes, and by the sale of an occasional painting of Alice. Arnold Gray, an old time friend, is in the secret service and in love with Alice, though she, believing his proposals to be actuated more by charity than love, refuses him. The Major loses his last few dollars in a gambling hall owned by Monsieur Loubert. He confesses to Alice, who bears up under it. In the morning they move to even more humble quarters. They leave no address and Arnold, looking for them, is unable to learn their whereabouts. The tenement into which they move is owned by M. Loubert. He sees Alice the day she moves in, but he also sees the Major and realizes that should he approach them, Harper would recognize him as the gambler and warn Alice against him. Accordingly he watches Alice's habits and learns that she goes into a public park nearly daily and spends an hour or two painting landscapes. The next day Alice is surprised at being accosted by an aged but picturesquely garbed Italian, who shows deep interest in her work. At length she asks him to come to her little attic studio on the following day and pose for her. He agrees. In the days that follow the Italian spends an hour or so each morning with her. Always courteous and willing, at the same time revealing himself as a man of more or less education, he gives the impression of one having seen better days. Alice is grateful to him for the opportunity he has afforded her to make what she believes to be her masterpiece. At this time Major Harper's health fails. The Italian is most solicitous and offers to do what is possible. Alice, trusting him, agrees to meet him that evening and accept a tonic which he says he will give her. Meanwhile Arnold Gray has been searching in vain for Alice. He meets another victim of M. Loubert's, who tells him of the existence of the gambling hall and promises to furnish him more definite information for a raid. Evening comes and Alice goes to meet the Italian. The room is the back room of M. Loubert's hall. The old Italian bids her wait a moment for him and exits into an adjoining room. When he returns his disguise is off and he appears as M. Loubert himself. Alice, frightened at this change, is reassured. Loubert tells her his intentions are philanthropical, that his visits were simply to ascertain if she and her father were objects of a worthy charity. The look in his eyes belies his words, however, and Alice cringes from him. In the gambling hall the players stop and a pounding on the door is heard. The guard of the door reports a raid. Loubert exits back into the main hall, while Alice attempts to escape. Arnold, at the head of his men, breaks into the dive. Breaking into the room in which Alice is hidden Arnold finds her lying in a faint. Taking in the situation at a glance, he orders his men into an adjoining room. As they exit in search of the supposed criminal Arnold has indicated, Arnold quickly takes off his secret service star and pins it on Alice's breast. The men return and Arnold tells them that Alice is his appointee, and it was through her he gained the information for the raid. He points to the badge she wears. Later explanations and the reunion. Arnold takes the Major away from the attic room and with Alice they move back into the little cottage, Arnold, Alice and the Major.
- A young easterner helps a girl who is getting water from the brook and learns she is the daughter of Mountain Charlie, a guide. He is accepted as a boarder during his visit in the west. Black Steve, a half-wit, takes a dislike to him. During a hunt, Mountain Charlie and the easterner take different trails and the easterner, mistaking him for a deer, shoots him. Thinking that he is dead, the easterner rushes to the cabin for assistance and arrives just as Black Steve has about overpowered the girl. Mountain Charlie, coming to his senses, wanders away. When the easterner and the girl arrive upon the scene they find him gone and upon their return to the house they find Black Steve has unbound the cords around him and escaped. That night the half-wit sets a bear trap for the easterner and when he goes to feed the horses the following morning he is caught in it. The half-wit goes for the girl. At a surveyor's camp, to which Mountain Charlie has wandered, he picks up a picture of his home and recognizing it regains his memory and rushes for home. The easterner writes a note begging for help and ties it in the horse's neck. Mountain Charlie stops the horse, reads the note, jumps on the horse's back and starts for home at top speed. He arrives in time to save the girl from Black Steve. They bind Steve and leave him in the back of the house. Hearing screams, they run back to find that he has been bitten by a rattlesnake and is dying.
- George LaMonte, attorney, convicts Jim Street, a crook, thereby incurring his hatred. After his prison term Street watches for an opportunity to get even with LaMonte. LaMonte gives his daughter, Jessie, four years old, a locket in which is her mother's picture. The nurse. takes Jessie to the park and allows her to sit in a boat. When the nurse's back is turned, Street loosens the boat and it floats down the river; it finally arrives at a spot where some gypsies discover it. They take Jessie and decide to take her with them to California. Street, in the meantime, is beginning to repent of his deed. At home they believe Jessie to be drowned, and Mrs. LaMonte is taken sick. To try and save her life they move west. On the desert the gypsies, Street and the child are almost dead from thirst. Street repents and decides to take the child (whom he now loves) home, but before his plan works out he dies in the desert for want of water. However, before his death he writes a confession. Some Indians, traveling across the desert, find Jessie, take her with them and rechristen her Nevada. Fifteen years later finds LaMonte, a broken down derelict lawyer. Lieutenant Hart, escorting some Indians to their new reservation, is in love with Nevada. Grey Wolf and Hart both ask for Nevada's hand in marriage. Big Bear gives her to Grey Wolf. Nevada shoots Morris, who annoys her with his attentions, and Grey Wolf sees her do it. He decides to fasten the blame on Hart. Hart is accused of the crime and remains silent in order to shield Nevada. Nevada, learning of this, escapes and confesses it was she who committed the murder. She is arrested. Big Bear, after being acquainted with the facts, goes to town and sees a lawyer, LaMonte. He tells LaMonte her story and shows him the locket. LaMonte discovers it is his daughter. At the trial the story is told; Nevada is acquitted and goes to the arms of Hart, her lover.
- Delia, a gambler's wife, is informed that her husband has been shot for cheating. She goes away to start a new life and meets Joe, a young mining prospector. A short time after the meeting they are married, and Delia does not tell him of her past. After a few months of happiness Delia's husband comes to the town in which they live, sees Delia, and demands the bag of gold which they have saved. She, stunned, wonders how he escaped death. He tells her he played a ruse on the posse, threw his hat on the water and swam under water to safety. She gives him the money, when Joe's partner, Bill, who lives with them, enters and makes him return the gold. He also gives him one hour to leave the state. Joe, returning home, overhears Bill tell Delia that he won't say anything about the matter. Joe, suspicious, turns Bill out of the house. Bill goes to the saloon, and there meets Delia's former husband. There is a terrific fight between them. Bill is the victor. At home Delia explains matters to Joe and Bill is welcomed back.