Neil Allison (Harry Carey) is tricked into assaying some false samples from a young crook's mine. When Neil sees that he has been duped, a quarrel ensues, and Jim Starke (Edmund Cobb), the youth, is stabbed by an unknown assassin. Neil runs away thinking he has committed murder and becomes the unwitting partner of the victim's father. They adopt a baby whose parents died in a snowstorm, and events take them to town, where Allison is finally cleared of the murder charge.