Clarry O’Garry and Jan Larose are partners, working the same gold claim on the bank of the river. Jan grows increasingly jealous of O’Garry’s friendship with his wife, Marie. O’Garry seeing that he is causing trouble between the two, decides to go away, first giving his share of the claim to Cummins, Marie’s father. He leaves behind Pitah, an Indian whose life he had once saved, telling him to watch over Marie. O’Garry wanders aimlessly through the wilds until he meets Constable Miller, of the Royal Mounted Police, and the idea of that kind of life appealing to him. He joins Miller’s company. After a year of rough service, O’Garry is promoted to a Constable in the Mounted and assigned to Fort Resolute, a Mounted outpost. One day looking over the records, he sees a photo of Jan Larose, wanted under another name by the Quebec police for murder, with a notation saying that he has left a wife and two children behind him. His superior officer orders him to set out after Larose and apprehend him. O’Garry finds his old partner, and a terrific fight takes place on the edge of a high bluff. Larose succeeds in striking Clarry over the head with the butt of his revolver and throwing the unconscious man over the cliff, into the river. Marie, out riding, sees him fall, lets himself down the side of the cliff with a lariat, and while she is in mid-air Larose creeps up and cuts the rope. She falls into the icy water, but swims to O’Garry, who is sinking, and supports him. Larose draws his revolver and is about to shoot the two in the water when Pitah creeps up behind him and stabs him. Marie and the Indian then rescue O’Garry and carry him back to the cabin, where they care for him until his recovery. He sets out for the Fort to resume his duty, but before leaving Marie proclaims his love and promises to return in the spring and make her his wife.