Jim Kennedy is an all-around good fellow and one of the best liked men in the mining camp. One day he sees Spanish Dan ill-treating his wife, Kate, and interferes in her behalf. Dan at once draws a gun on him and Kennedy falls to the ground severely wounded. The gunman is obliged to flee for his life. Kennedy is carried home by the boys and a doctor sent for. While they are waiting for his arrival, Kate enters the house and announces her intention of looking after the sick man until his recovery. The man has been severely wounded and it is a long time before he is able to go out again. When he is better he asks Kate to stay and keep house for him as news has arrived that her husband has been killed in Mexico and she has now no home to go to. After a time Jim is able to go prospecting again, but meets with a run of bad luck and is not able to get even a small quantity of gold. The luck runs just the other way with some of the other men, who strike a regular Klondike and bring back some large nuggets to the camp. Kennedy is such a popular fellow that they ask him to go along with them and share in their good fortune, an offer that they would not have made to any other man in the place. Kennedy goes home and commences to get ready his bit for the trip. While he is packing he finds some baby clothes that have been carelessly left in the cupboard by Kate. He is at once filled with pity for the poor woman, who, now that her husband is dead, will have no means of supporting the little one. He feels that he owes his life to her careful nursing and, in gratitude for what she has done for him, he decides to marry her and bring up the child as if it were his own. He gives up the idea of going out with the gold diggers and rides off to fetch the parson instead, with whom he shortly returns. They are quickly united in holy wedlock, the woman being overjoyed at the prospect of a bright future with the man she has come to love.