Pete Roberts, a no-account fellow, who has a wife and three -year-old boy, is ordered out of the country. Twenty years elapse. Jack Roberts has grown to manhood, and is sheriff of the county. Pete, his father, returns to that section of the country and meets a bandit, who tells him that the sheriff has just received for safekeeping a shipment of gold, and that it can easily be secured. Pete is persuaded to assist in the enterprise and the two enter the sheriff's house that night. The sheriff awakens; there is a fight, the bandit escapes. Mrs. Roberts telephones for help. The sheriff is bested by Pete, who is about to shoot him when Mrs. Roberta enters, recognizes her husband and steps between them. The posse is heard approaching; there is nothing for the mother to do but to disclose to her son the identity of the intruder. Jack is amazed. The posse reaches the house. With a "God be with you," Jack assists his father to escape and when the deputies arrive they find the gold safe and the bandit gone.