- Young Bettina Warren inherits a construction camp. She brings along her lawyer, Walter Daniels, to inspect the camp and to run it until Bettina gets married. However, Daniels' heavy-handed management style--which included firing popular and experienced foreman Herb "Overalls" Drew and replacing him with inexperienced and roughneck alcoholic Buck Savage and his cronies--results in tensions boiling up in the crew, who wants Savage thrown out and "Overalls" brought back, a sentiment shared by Bettina because she has fallen in love with him. Daniels, however, is determined to do things his way. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- The plot of the story is woven around Herbert Drew and Bettina Warren, the orphaned daughter of a wealthy magnate, the heiress of his property. Over her, as her guardian, is Walter Daniels, an unscrupulous young lawyer, who determines that he will marry her and keep the money in his control. After the days of her mourning for her father, Bettina decides to go west to visit the construction camp. Daniels goes with her. When they arrive in the crude little western town, Daniels is disgusted and is all for going back, but the capricious Bettina determines to stay. The easterner enters the sitting-room of the Widow Malone, the boarding-house keeper, where her daughter, Peggy, is busy scrubbing the floor. The girl accidentally splashes some dirty water on his trousers. In a rage he kicks over the pail, whereupon the irate young Peggy attacks him with her scrub brush. At this auspicious moment young Drew, the construction boss, enters and forces the dude to apologize. On the other hand, Bettina wins the heart of everyone but Peggy, who realizes at once the great difference in their stations. When Daniels learns that Drew is the construction boss, he fires him and engages in his place the good-for-nothing Irishman, named Buck Finnegan. Bettina protests, but Daniels impolitely reminds her that he is manager until she is of age. The change causes much dissatisfaction among the men. Finnegan's band starts a riot. Bettina is caught in a riot, and is rescued from harm by the deposed boss. Soon after, the Widow Malone decides to give a dance in honor of Bettina. Finnegan's crowd come to break it up. After the fight, Bettina demands that Daniels reinstate Drew. He refuses. But realizing down underneath that there may be real danger in it, he conspires with Peggy to break it up. The next day the widow's daughter appears with her mother's ring on her finger, which she pretends is the gift of Drew. Believing that the former boss loves Peggy, Bettina tries to occupy herself. But he again shows his cowardice and his caddishness by deserting her in a threatening danger from which young Drew bravely rescues her. The easterner arranges that Finnegan's men shall "spread-eagle" his rival between two saplings. When Drew does not appear at the boarding house, both Peggy and Bettina are seized with fear for his safety. They come together in their common anxiety, and inveigle one of Peggy's suitors, Flap Jacks, to go and search for him. He and his friends come upon him under the saplings which hold up the fainting form of the young foreman. In his delirium, Drew repeats again and again the name of the woman he loves. Peggy confesses to Bettina the truth about her ring. Drew is still diffident about speaking of his love to Bettina, and if it had not been that Flap Jacks, happy in Peggy's love, had not assured him that, "clothes don't cut no figure a-tall and that's why Cupid don't follow the fashion," the picture might not have ended so happily for all as it does.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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