Plot

Dan Mallory, a confirmed gambler, through a gambling scrape, is convicted and imprisoned. His son is cast upon his own resources. The son and a hired girl, on the farm where he works, fall in love and put their savings aside toward a place of their own. Long before the sum is completed, Molly is fired through no fault of her own, and young Tom Mallory goes with her. They marry, pay a deposit on a small farm, and start in bravely to work it together. Their crops are successful, and they are at last able to finish paying off the debt on the farm, when Dan Malory is released from prison. He comes to his son's home, and hearing of their returns from the harvest, madly entreats Tom and Molly to loan him the money, that by one last deal he may triple the amount, repay them and escape to another state. They refuse. Later he returns and steals the money. In the den the old father loses every cent. The following day he sees his son and his son's wife turned off the farm, broken hearted. Touched by their suffering, Mallory attacks the Mexican, who has won the money away from him and gets back the cash. Husband and wife overcome with joy buy back the place. But the old father, returning to the town, pays with his life for his last deal, at the hands of a band of Mexicans.—Moving Picture World synopsis