When Joe, the young sheriff, discovers that Edythe prefers Arthur, a newcomer from the east, he plans a dastardly revenge. In Arthur’s cabin he fixes a gun arrangement so that when the door is opened the gun is discharged. A bandit that has been terrorizing the country holds up the stage. The sheriff and posse go in pursuit. Arthur returns to his cabin. With him is Edythe’s dog. Arthur starts to open the door, but the dog enters ahead of him. The gun within is discharged and the bullet wounds Joe. Searching for the bandit in that vicinity, Edythe, meanwhile, has been warned that Joe has threatened the life of Arthur. She rides to warn him. En route she finds the body of the bandit. Arriving at the cabin, she finds Joe accusing Arthur. Edythe clears this by telling of finding the real bandit. Joe, feeling that death is near, confesses that it was he himself who arranged the ambush.