A young girl, Gertrude, is the daughter of a thief. She induces her father to go to the country to begin life anew. They do this avoiding the old man’s accomplice in crime, who is obnoxious to Gertrude. They find quarters in a country boarding house. The minister of the village church, Jim, and the country storekeeper, both fall in love with Gertrude, and the fact that her father was a criminal is unsuspected. Gertrude secures a position as clerk in the store, and received the storekeeper’s attentions unwillingly as she loves the minister. The storekeeper discovers that Jim is his successful rival, and becomes inordinately jealous. But the knowledge of her father’s past life keeps Gertrude from becoming the wife of Jim. On an unlucky day fate brings the old man’s accomplice to the village. He plans to rob the boarding house, and, in carrying out this design, is detected by the storekeeper, and by Gertrude’s father. The accomplice at once recognizes the old man, and the storekeeper learning that the father the knowledge of her father’s past life keeps Gertrude. But love and Christian principles prevail over the jealous man’s denunciations. The old thief’s repentance is regarded as sincere, by the villagers. In time his sins are not only forgiven, but forgotten. And the culmination of the joy of their new life comes, when Gertrude becomes the wife of the minister.