- Christoper Foy, who is running away from the authorities, is injured during his escape and takes refuge at the mountain cabin of Colonel Vorhis and his daughter Stella. Stella takes pity on Foy, and the Colonel, admiring Foy's confession of guilt, takes steps to have him pardoned. He and Stella fall in love and Foy remains honest, but when he is accused of cattle stealing, he again runs away. When John Wesley Pringle, who also loves Stella, learns that Foy is innocent but is the object of a conspiracy, he helps Foy by uncovering the plot. Despite his love for Stella, Pringle helps to prove that Foy is innocent so that Stella can find happiness with the man she loves.
- Col. Vorhis posted a reward for the capture, dead or alive, of Christopher Foy, the "cattle rustler." Betrayed to the sheriff by one of his friends, Foy is attacked by the officer and his posse, is severely wounded in the shoulder, but escapes. The horse he rides has been stolen from Col Vorhis, and knows the way home. Weakened from loss of blood, Foy is unable to guide his horse, and as a consequence it lands Foy in the Vorhis front yard. The "rustler" slides from the saddle and is dragged into the house by Stella Vorhis. Although she has at her mercy, with license to kill him, the man who had stolen her father's property, Stella confesses she hasn't the nerve to shoot. On the contrary, the girl binds Foy's wounds and when she hears approaching footsteps, hides her patient in a closet. Her father enters, asks about Foy and opens the closet door just before Sheriff Matt Lisner arrives to make an arrest. Touched by sympathy through his daughter's humane action, Col. Vorhis tells the sheriff that he will not prosecute Foy; that he will not sanction his arrest and bids the officer depart. Upon closer acquaintance Col. Vorhis finds Foy hails from Virginia and that settles it. "We are Virginians together, and nothing real bad ever came out of the Old Dominion." Another Virginian was on his way west at the time these incidents transpired; John Wesley Pringle was coming to visit is old friend, Col. Vorhis. Foy was fully restored and had secured a job as ranch foreman by the time Pringle sauntered into the trading post, near the Vorhis ranch, and registered at the town's only hotel. Entering the saloon, Pringle heard whispers of a conspiracy against Foy. Not knowing anybody in town, but resolved that square deals were in order, Pringle scraped Foy's acquaintance and tipped him off to a plot Sheriff Lisner was hatching to fasten a murder onto Foy and thus cause the ex-rustler to be run out of the country. Going on to the Vorhis ranch Pringle heard more about Christopher Foy, hooked him up with the Old Dominion, and the three Virginians resolved to stick together. Pringle further investigated matters, devised ways and means to combat the conspirators and when Sheriff Lisner came to a show-down, Pringle had "the goods" on the officer, proved that he was the real murderer and then went back to the Old Dominion, his visit to Vorhis having developed just the brand of excitement Pringle longed for but could not find at home. Stella Vorhis had nursed Foy's injured arm, had seen him quit his wild ways and settle down to useful occupation, and as a natural consequence, they later married.
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