Through the arrest of her father and only guardian a little girl is left upon the hands of a party of Royal Mounted Police, of the northwest woods. The men draw lots for the possession of the child. Sue is awarded to Jimsey, a young Englishman, who proceeds with the assistance of a Chinese servant to rear her as his own. Sometime after little Clara is rescued from a dangerous situation by Morgen, her own father, who having escaped the hands of the Mounted Police, is living as an outlaw in the woods. The child not remembering him, cries for her papa Jimsey. When the father cannot endure her cries of hunger and grief any longer, he voluntarily puts his head into the noose by taking her back to the fort. There he finds Jimsey alone. The latter’s gratitude at having his little darling restored to him is so great that he is willing to conceive at Morgen’s second escape. The outlaw is apprehended in his attempt by the returning Mounted Police. Jimsey puts the proposition to them. If they send Morgen to the gallows they can never look their darling in the face again. Morgen is supplied with arms and ammunition and sent to shift for himself down the river.