The political boss in an eastern city learns that Malcolm Blevins, a district attorney is going to the west to draw up a report of incriminating evidence of the graft conditions of his city. Realizing that such a report would be detrimental to himself and his partners in crime he commissions Fred to obtain the report and to silence Blevins forever. Lillian has two suitors, Fred and Jay, and after much consideration accepts Fred. Later her father is mystified by the sudden disappearance of the report which he had placed in his safe. Seated in his office he feels conscious of the close proximity of another. Without changing his position, he grasps his revolver and wheels around just as a hand, which holds a dagger is projected through a picture hanging on the wall. He fires several shots. Lillian, who has fallen in a well while going to the sheriff for her father, and has crawled through a tunnel, comes upon a door she never noticed before, which she enters just as the shots are fired. She is shot but not seriously wounded. Fred, having received a mortal wound, smiles up to Lillian and confesses that he was sent to follow Blevins, and recommends her to Jay’s loving care.