- After becoming Adam Keating's partner in a ranching venture, Walt Landis hopes to become his son-in-law as well. Adam's daughter Helen, however, has different ideas, and marries the dissipated Fred Sherwood. Tired of his solitary rancher's life, a disappointed Walt then marries Rose McKee after answering the lonely-hearts letter that she placed in a box of collars. Meanwhile, Adam grows weary of Fred's chronic laziness, and so, hoping that the change of scenery will prove therapeutic, he sends Fred and Helen to Walt's ranch. Thrown together, Fred and Rose soon fall in love, while Helen, bored with her shiftless husband, starts a flirtation with Walt. Then, Rose and Fred get caught in quicksand, and for a moment Walt and Helen, seeing their chance to get married, consider letting them die. They finally rescue them, however, after which Helen and Fred return to Adam's ranch, while Walt and Rose continue their loveless marriage.—Pamela Short
- After a long, dry season, Walt Landis, the owner of an isolated ranch, is in desperate need of water. His cattle are dying for lack of it. The young ranchman tried to persuade his neighbors to let him use their water supply but they refuse to accept bis note, and he has no money. Walt wins the devotion of Wampanah, an Indian, by saving him from a poisonous snake. But he distressed the redskin greatly by killing the snake. It is Wampanah's belief, according to the traditions of his race, that the snake is the messenger to propitiate the rain god. They wait and wait for rain, but none falls. At length, one day, Walt saves the life of an eastern millionaire, Adam Keating. The older man's daughter, Helen, is sent for, and comes west to take care of her father during his illness. Hearing of Walt's predicament and moved by gratefulness, the easterner buys an interest in the young man's ranch, and advances money to help him from his distressful predicament. As the father and daughter linger, Walt becomes more and more in love with Helen. After their return home, he follows them to the east, and proposes to Helen. Used as she is to the more cultivated but more shallow men of the east, Helen sends the stalwart rancher away, and marries a New York club man named Fred Sherwood. Walt, growing more lonely on his solitary ranch, at length marries Rose McKee, a factory girl, with whom he has come in correspondence by answering a note she had placed in a box of collars. As time progresses, Helen's blasé husband tires of married life. On Walt's ranch, Rose, used to the rush and whir of busy life, is palled on by the solitude and pines for the city again. At length, weary of his son-in-law's dissipations, Helen's father sends his daughter and her husband to Walt's ranch, in which he still retains a share, to see if life out-of-doors will not have a regenerating effect upon the young man. Thrown together, the four find themselves turning naturally to their tastes. Helen sees the real worth of Walt Landis. Fred finds Rose more to his taste than his wife. He flirts with her, and she is flattered by his attention. One day, Walt and Helen discover the two in each other's embraces. As they start to cross a stream, Rose and Fred are caught in the quicksands. It seems like a solution to their problem to the young rancher. If the two would only sink to their death he and Helen might he left to face happiness together. But his higher nature gets the better of him, and he saves them from a horrible death. Helen and Sherwood return to their home in the east, mis-mated and unhappy as ever. Rose and Walt remain on their ranch with no bond of sympathy in common to see the wonder of the stars together, and be happy in the beauty of nature.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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