- Bonnie is the object of a brutish bully who likes to spend his time at her foster father's saloon. Arthur, a playwright has come to town after the woman he loves, has married another man for his money. Arthur marries Bonnie to protect her from the bully, meanwhile, the other woman has become a widow and now wants Arthur back. She arranges to put Bonnie in a compromising position with another man; her plan almost succeeds, but Arthur and Bonnie's strong bond of love cannot be broken.—Pamela Short
- Bonnie, an urchin, is employed as maid of all work. "Bull" Dorgan, boss of the lumber camp, a tyrannical bully, has been waiting for Bonnie to become fully grown that he might marry her. Arthur Wharton is visiting Mr. and Mrs. Grenville at their hunting lodge in the north woods near Gaskell's roadhouse. Wharton has secretly loved Mrs. Grenville, who married for money, and she has not been blind to his admiration. Strolling into the "Half Way House" one afternoon, Wharton is in time to defend Bonnie from an attack by "Bull" Dorgan. Wharton finds himself deeply interested in the little waif and subsequently he is one of an automobile party, which also includes Mrs. Grenville, who come to the "Half Way House" for luncheon. There he again meets Bonnie. Wharton's sister also takes an interest in the girl, but Mrs. Grenville declines to be concerned in Bonnie's welfare. Grenville gains knowledge of the love affair between his wife and Wharton. Wharton and his sister return at once to New York. Awake to the evil of his conduct with Mrs. Grenville, Wharton goes to the north woods and rents a "shack," dooming himself to solitude as a penance for his reprehensible conduct. The news of Wharton's presence reaches the lumbermen who congregate at Gaskell's and Bonnie gains the information by overhearing others tell that Wharton is now alone and ill. Bonnie goes to him and nurses him back to health. "Bull" Dorgan learns of Bonnie's kindness to Wharton, and in a jealous rage he goes to Wharton's cabin. Among the "gang" he has taken with him is a justice of the peace whom Dorgan now decrees shall marry him and Bonnie. But Wharton enters in time to save the girl from her fate, marries her himself, the justice then and there performing the ceremony. In the interest of his health Wharton is ordered to spend a year abroad. He is advised to leave his wife in the care of his sister, the time to be utilized in educating the girl and preparing her for a place in society. Mrs. Grenville, now a widow, has heard of Wharton's marriage and plans vengeance. She waits until Wharton returns from abroad to begin operations, and then invites all concerned to a winter party at Grenville lodge in the north woods. Mrs. Grenville stoops to lying to Bonnie's husband, telling him his wife is in love with another one of her guests, Billy Hamilton. Mrs. Grenville has, in fact, brought Hamilton along, under pay, to compromise Bonnie. When her plans go wrong Bonnie and her husband are more than ever in love and are reunited and happy.
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