Charley Latimer from the east wins the affections of sympathy Sal, who keeps the eating house at the station, and is besieged by admirers. They plan to be married secretly by the circuit minister. Seth Shelby, who also loves Sal, determines to stop the wedding. He sends word to Latimer’s father that his son is about to marry an eating house girl, and the proud old gentleman starts west by the next train. Nearing his destination he is taken ill, arriving at the station in an almost unconscious condition. He is put into a wagon and the driver told to take him to the nearest doctor. On the way the driver meets an acquaintance, who tells him that his passenger has smallpox. The two men unhitch the horse and escape, leaving Latimer, Sr. in the cart by the roadside. Just then Sal comes along on horseback on her way to be married. Though the fleeing men warn her, she cannot leave the helpless stranger. She gets him into a deserted shack nearby, where she is found by Latimer, Jr., who, seeing her with a strange man, for she and his father have their backs turned, shoots at his rival. He hits Sal. Charley Latimer nurses them both back to health. And Latimer, Sr., is entirely converted to his son’s choice of a wife.