The Old-timer remarks to Bud Oakley, a fighting cowboy of the old days, upon the change which has been wrought in the wild and woolly west by law and order. Whereupon Bud sets out to tell a tale of the days when shooting irons and not courts were the final word in all disputes. He relates how, twenty years before, he rescued a young woman from a runaway coach and took her to the ranch house, where she fell in love with the boss, Luke Bummers. They married and Luke started in business for himself with Bud as his chief aide. Three years later a sporty chap from the east made love to Luke's wife, and was shot by the latter. Luke visited Judge Simmons and got a decree of divorce and the custody of his small son, but on his return found that his wife had eloped with the stranger and taken the boy with her. Luke finds no trace of his heir for twelve years, when an eastern party again visits Bildad. A youngster dressed in an eastern cowboy costume peppers Pedro with his gun and Luke sets out to avenge the insult to his dignity. He trails the party to the wilds of New York and finds the boy who peppered one of Bildad's leading citizens. Sheriff "Luke," with Bud as his deputy, takes the young fellow back west for trial. Bud notices a scar on the forehead of the boy and recalls to Luke that his own son suffered a similar injury early in life. Overjoyed, Luke reverses his determination to avenge the injury suffered by a Bildad citizen, and digs up the twelve-year-old order giving him the custody of his son. He cuts the Gordian knot by declaring Pedro to be "half Mexican anyhow," and introduces his long lost son to the citizenry of Mojada county, much to to their delight.

Moving Picture World, November 3, 1917