Dorcas Dale, a little orphan girl, leaves the orphanage to go to the city home of Louise Edgeworth, where she is to work. Miss Edgeworth fails to meet her at the train, and while wandering in the streets is run over by an automobile. The driver proves to be Jack Marston, a young millionaire, who that day had been declared insane by specialists and was attempting suicide. The accident clears his mind, and Dorcas is taken to his home, where she is nursed back to health. While there, Billy Tyne, another little orphan, visits her, and Marston takes a fancy to him. Marston sends Dorcas away to a convent, then takes Billy out west, where they live on a ranch. Years later Dorcas, now a grown girl, goes west and finds Marston, who is overjoyed at seeing the little waif who had made life worthwhile for him.