It is no easy matter for a girl to deliberately face three hardened burglars of the worst type and to calmly contrive to hold them in the house until their captors arrive. She discovers that the burglars are about to enter the house, she steals downstairs to the telephone and ‘phones to the station agent of the railroad of which her father is President, and orders out a special engine and wrecking crew to come to her aid. Then she succeeds in a very effective and feminine manner in detaining the burglars in the room downstairs without disturbing her sick mother in the least. This scene is intermingled from time to time with views of the engine and the wrecking crew tearing down the track at sixty miles an hour. At last three long blasts from the steam engine give her warning that the house is surrounded by men. In the next instant she is in the arms of her father, while the dumbfounded burglars are confronted by a crowd of blue coats and the dirt-begrimed men of the roundhouse. She has done her heroic work well without disturbing the mother, who has been kept in ignorance of it all and who is sleeping peacefully.