The sheriff and his deputy are rivals for the hand of Nell. She chooses the sheriff, though she likes the youthful deputy well. The latter, hearing the news, is crushed, but carries his defeat manfully. Nell and the sheriff are married and...See moreThe sheriff and his deputy are rivals for the hand of Nell. She chooses the sheriff, though she likes the youthful deputy well. The latter, hearing the news, is crushed, but carries his defeat manfully. Nell and the sheriff are married and all goes well until her brother, a weakling, is inveigled into a raid by a gang of cattle thieves. While out riding Nell observes her brother with the thieves and rushes back to her home where the deputy, seeing her agitation, inquires the cause. She informs him that her brother is in trouble sod then turns away, noting the approach of her husband. The sheriff, taking in her agitation and their secret conversations, becomes suspicious. When word comes of the theft both men depart to hunt down the culprits. Parting ways the deputy comes upon the brother with the cattle and successfully urges him to return with the cattle for his sister's sake. The deputy then returns and tells the sister what he has done, but while they talk the sheriff approaches from the outside. Discovering the deputy is in his house the sheriff is furious; he tears the badge from his coat. At the end the brother pays dearly for his crime and the sheriff is made to realize his awful mistake in believing his wife untrue. Written by
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