John Craig, leaving prison, determines to live straight. He becomes a real estate and mine dealer and earns the respect of Luther Patten, a mine investor, and the love of his daughter, Laura. Tom Watson, a mine shark, offers his outworked mine for sale through Craig’s office. Craig advises Patten to take a ten-day option on it. Patten takes the option and then cancels it. Craig goes to Watson’s mine to tell him of Patten’s decision and discovers that a landslide has uncovered a rich vein of gold, Craig goes to Patten’s home to tell him of this. Watson, realizing that be is about to lose, tries, through his foreman, to injure Patten, and does so before Craig sees him, Craig, to save the day, forges Patten’s name for $2,000 and cashes it to pay Watson, When Craig sees Patten he confesses his past as a forger, and Patten forgives him.