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Learn more- Harry Drake, agent for the Romaine Pulpwood Co., of New York, while exploring the great North woods for a new pulpwood forest, runs across a high water falls in the midst of a valuable tract of pulpwood and, learning that it belongs to an invalid who lives alone on the place with his daughter, he plans to get the property away from them. Romaine conspires to rob Gregg and Nell, by means of a fake deed which they represent to Gregg as a lease for the water power rights. Nell's sweetheart, Ned Early, who runs an artistic camera shop in the village, sees Romaine and Drake looking over the falls, and suspicious of their actions, he calls on Nell to warn her. The conspirators are already there and Gregg is about to sign the deed when Ned discovers that it is a deed instead of a lease as represented. Nell upbraids Ned for interfering with their plans as she and her father are in urgent need of cash, and as she does not understand the difference between a deed and a lease she is very bitter. Ned offers to loan her some money, but she disdains it. Returning to the hotel, Romaine and Drake try to think out a plan to achieve their ends. The next day Nell comes to town and Romaine sees her and tells Drake to follow her and get into her good graces. Drake does so and he and Nell walk toward her home. Passing Ned's studio he comes out and meets them. Nell snubs him. Following them, he overhears them on the bridge and tries to explain to Nell that Drake was trying to rob her father. She refuses to listen. A quarrel takes place when Drake interferes and he and Ned grapple, Ned nearly throwing him from the bridge. Drake returns beaten to the hotel, while Ned and Nell go toward her home. Drake meets his half-breed guide on the hotel steps. The guide has seen the quarrel and a sudden desire for revenge prompts him to offer the guide $50 to put Ned out of the way. The guide follows Ned and Nell and watches him leave Nell at the steps. When Ned returns he decoys him to the edge of the high falls with a cry of distress and as Ned looks into the gorge the guide shoots his staff from his hand and Ned plunges over the edge of the cliff. The carnival at Saranac begins and Nell is the "Lady of the Snows." Drake is very attentive and as Romaine sees that Drake is winning her confidence he proposes that Drake elope with her to Canada and desert her while he, Romaine, puts pressure on Gregg forcing him to sign away his property. Nell allows Drake to attend her at the carnival events and when she finally learns that Ned has been missing several days she is sorry that she treated him so badly and broods over it until she is conscience stricken and loses all interest in the carnival sports. She asks Drake to take her home. They start. In the meantime Ned has been rescued and carried to shelter by an Indian trapper, Scarface. He slowly recovers from the shock of his terrible fall and finally feels well enough to return to the village. On the way he and Scarface visit the spot where he landed to recover his camera and there they find the broken staff which plainly shows the mark of the bullet. They climb to the top of the gorge and find the tracks of the guide and trail him toward his cabin. Nell and Drake have reached the forest near the guide's cabin on their way to her home and Drake proposes marriage to her and asks her to elope with him to Canada. She is on the point of consenting when she thinks of Ned. She repulses Drake and starts for home. In front of the cabin of the guide, Drake feigns a sprained ankle and lures her into the cabin and bribes the guide to decamp. Drake, once they are alone, throws off all restraint and attacks her. Ned and Scarface see the guide and as they approach he runs, followed by Scarface. Ned watches. Suddenly Ned hears Nell scream, and rushing to the cabin, grapples with Drake and in the struggle is knocked out. Drake escapes, leaving Nell behind. Ned and Nell make up and start back to town. Drake in escaping has joined the guide and together they arrive at the hotel in the dog sledge. Drake tells Romaine of the position he is in, and getting money from Romaine, Drake and the guide make a dash for Canada. Romaine, feeling that the jig is up, sneaks from the hotel to make his way to New York. Ned and Nell arrive in town and relate their adventures. Their friends go after Drake and Romaine. They roll Romaine in the snow. Drake and the guide are on their way. In the early hours of the next morning wolves follow Drake and the guide and they are lost. Ned calls on Nell for her answer and is blessed by the father, Gregg.
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