Bill Chambers, a nearby neighbor, is a sort of desperado, who does not stop at any crooked work. He learns from one of his gang that the express company intends sending $10,000 in a strong box on the stage to Eagle Rock. Madge Warren and ...See moreBill Chambers, a nearby neighbor, is a sort of desperado, who does not stop at any crooked work. He learns from one of his gang that the express company intends sending $10,000 in a strong box on the stage to Eagle Rock. Madge Warren and her brother, Bob, happen to be on this stage, visiting an uncle. When the stage is held up by Chambers and his cowboy bandits, and the $10,000 strong box robbed, Madge surprises the masked Chambers by coquettishly offering him her ring as a souvenir. Chambers has made it a rule never to carry any incriminating evidence about him, but he becomes infatuated with the girl and accepts the ring. The sheriff with the aid of Chambers and his cowboy bandits fails to locate the thieves and returns to town "baffled," but Bob Warren is bound on finding them. He is made captive by the bandits and threatened with his life unless he agrees to be one of them. Bob's father later appeals to Tom Hawley, United States Marshal of another town, to search for his son. Hawley falls in love with Madge. Chambers, haunted by the vision of the girl, returns and calls on her. At first she cannot recollect where she has seen him before, but suddenly she remembers the masked bandit and knows Chambers is the one. Later Chambers, who has fallen in love with Madge, proposes and is accepted. He tells her he has no ring just now to which Madge replies that he may use the one she gave him. Unsuspectingly he places the ring on her finger, and the next moment she has him covered with his own revolver. Hawley returns, having succeeded in liberating Bob, and he soon has Chambers and his cowboy bandits rounded up. Hawley claims the $5,000 reward, but the bandit was rightfully caught by Madge. The matter is finally settled by their agreeing to form a partnership for life. Written by
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