Shorty and Anita set out to arrest a band of counterfeiters. Ruby, the daughter of the head of the gang, is forced to pass out bad money and, upon being discovered, leaves for the Arrowhead ranch country to become the school teacher. Shorty asks Anita to marry him, but she demurs, and tells him that love and work do not harmonize. Shorty returns to the ranch and there finds that Ruby is about to be married to Ralph. Shorty and Ruby go to town and there the head of the counterfeiting gang sees the girl and demands that she pass more bad money. The girl, frightened because he might tell Ralph about her, takes the money. She tells Shorty of the trouble after he has passed some of it over the counter. Anita has come to talk things over with Shorty. He is arrested for passing bad money, but is freed through the persuasion of Anita. Ralph and Ruby decide to get married at once, as do Shorty and Anita, but Shorty forgets the license.