Quarrelsome Jack gets into a brawl with some ruffians in a saloon; he knocks one down and, thinking he has killed him, rushes off to his hoarding house, packs his grip and goes to another town. Arriving there he is walking along the dock when he sees a simple fisher girl waiting in the porch of a hut for her father. Old Joe, a fisherman, passes and nods to Jack. Old Joe is on his boat in the docks and finds his man, Jim, asleep. He is tired of his lazy ways, awakes him and discharges him. Jack overhears the conversation and applies for the job which Joe gives him. Jim is angry and tries to prevent Jack from entering the boat, but Jack knocks him down and leaves him on the sand threatening vengeance. Jack and Joe return and Joe points out a boarding house where Jack can stay, he engages a room and starts to go upstairs, but is tripped up by a drunken sailor. A fight commences while Jim, who has planned it, looks on. Jack has fallen in love with Peggy, but she does not approve of his quarrelsome ways, although she likes him. One day he is walking along the cliffs and falls over; he is seriously hurt and is carried to the cottage where Peggy and her father live, where she nurses him back to health, and gradually gets to care for him. Peggy’s father is an invalid and dies suddenly leaving Peggy all alone. Jack, returning from his work, learns of her father’s death and is told that Peggy is on the cliff: he goes to find her and, holding out his arms, she goes to him.