A young easterner helps a girl who is getting water from the brook and learns she is the daughter of Mountain Charlie, a guide. He is accepted as a boarder during his visit in the west. Black Steve, a half-wit, takes a dislike to him. ...See moreA young easterner helps a girl who is getting water from the brook and learns she is the daughter of Mountain Charlie, a guide. He is accepted as a boarder during his visit in the west. Black Steve, a half-wit, takes a dislike to him. During a hunt, Mountain Charlie and the easterner take different trails and the easterner, mistaking him for a deer, shoots him. Thinking that he is dead, the easterner rushes to the cabin for assistance and arrives just as Black Steve has about overpowered the girl. Mountain Charlie, coming to his senses, wanders away. When the easterner and the girl arrive upon the scene they find him gone and upon their return to the house they find Black Steve has unbound the cords around him and escaped. That night the half-wit sets a bear trap for the easterner and when he goes to feed the horses the following morning he is caught in it. The half-wit goes for the girl. At a surveyor's camp, to which Mountain Charlie has wandered, he picks up a picture of his home and recognizing it regains his memory and rushes for home. The easterner writes a note begging for help and ties it in the horse's neck. Mountain Charlie stops the horse, reads the note, jumps on the horse's back and starts for home at top speed. He arrives in time to save the girl from Black Steve. They bind Steve and leave him in the back of the house. Hearing screams, they run back to find that he has been bitten by a rattlesnake and is dying. Written by
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