The sheriff is a youngish man devoted to his wife but of such unyielding integrity that he has no patience with his brother-in-law who is a young man more weak than vicious, putting in most of his time at gambling. Being absolutely without funds, this young man conceives the desperate idea of holding up a stagecoach, thinking probably as all gamblers do, that if he can only get some money to start with he will have no trouble in re-establishing his finances. The actual hold-up of the stage is not shown on the screen, but it is made evident that the coach has been robbed and that the robber got away with the mail bags after receiving a wound in the arm. As the sheriff is out on the trail of the robber the latter comes to his home and his sister meeting him, is not long in getting it the facts. Repentant, he promises, if allowed to escape, to lead a better life and she aids him unknown to her husband, who she is perfectly certain would never allow a guilty man to escape, even though he were a relative. So, with a woman’s art, she keeps the sheriff in the house by suddenly arousing his jealousy so that for the moment all thoughts of his duty go out of his head. Suddenly the sheriff’s riderless horse comes back to his house with a note from the brother saying that he is returning all that was stolen from the stagecoach and that with God’s help he will lead a better life henceforth. The wife is forgiven for her innocent deception.