- Jim Maitland (Gordon Mullen) loses his last cent gambling the Double Stamp saloon and gambling hall, and shortly after it closes, he robs the proprietors "Keno" Bates (William S. Hart) and "Wind River" (Herschel Mayall) are robbed, at gunpoint. After the surprise, they track Maitland down, and Keno shoots him dead on self defense. Keno goes through his belongings and finds a letter and a locket; the letter announces the arrival of the deceased's sister, and the locket has a cameo picture of Doris Maitland (Margaret Thompson). Thus, Keno tells Wind River they must do a heap of lying. Meeting the girl at the stagecoach's arrival, Keeno feels responsible for the innocent and attractive Ms. Maitland; he tells her a white lie, that her brother was a good man, "killed in a mine accident," who had left her a cabin and money - and Keno turns his own cabin over to Doris. Keno and Doris began to fall in love. Anita (Louise Glaum), a dance-hall girl, aggressively tries to seduce Keno. Keno repels her, and later, the dance-hall girl catches sight of her rival when Keno muses on the cameo. Anita decides to expose his lies to Doris in a private conversation at the cabin. First, Doris gets into a fight with the saloon girl but then Doris accepts the painful truth. Furious, Doris confronts Keno outdoors, and his admission of having killed her brother is followed by her sending a bullet into his body. Keno, disillusioned, wounded, staggers back to the Double Stamp, asking Wind River for his saddle bags so he can ride out. But not far from town, as he lays dying, Wind River tells Doris all the facts about her brother. They find Keno, and Doris nurses him back to health.—Artemis-9
- Keno Bates and Wind River are proprietors of the Double Stamp gambling and dance hall. Keno presides at the faro table and Wind River dispenses beverages. Keno is soft spoken, while Wind River is jolly and boisterous. The Mexican dancer, Anita, is infatuated with Keno, but he puts her aside. As they are closing early one morning when Keno and Wind River are alone in the place, a man quietly enters and holds them up and escapes with the bank roll. In the pursuit, Keno kills the bandit, and on taking the money from his shirt, finds a miniature of a sweet-faced girl and a letter to the bandit brother, saying that the writer, his sister, will arrive on the stage the following Thursday. Keno and Wind River return to town and report the killing of the bandit and warn the townspeople to say nothing of how the man was killed to the girl on her arrival. When Doris arrives, Keno meets her and tells her that her brother was killed in a mine accident and that he was his partner and turns over his cabin, money and saddle horse to the girl. A friendship follows that ripens into love. Anita, in a jealous rage, goes to the cabin and tells Doris that Keno killed her brother. Doris is horror-stricken and when she sees Keno climbing the trail to the cabin, gets a small revolver that Keno has given her and shoots Keno in the shoulder. Keno staggers from the cabin. Anita confesses to Wind River that she told Doris the truth concerning who shot her brother. Wind River goes to the cabin and tells Doris that her brother was a thief and that Keno shot him in self-defense. Doris rushes from the cabin and down the trail where Keno is slowly mounting on his way from the camp. She halts him and stammers out her sorrow and he slides to her feet in a faint. On ripping open his shirt Doris is horrified at the wound she has inflicted. Wind River takes Keno to the cabin, and Doris nurses him back to health and strength.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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