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While sightseeing among the ruins of an old mission on the Mexican border, Mary Blake and her father come across Tony, the Greaser, strumming a guitar. Tony is instantly attracted to the girl. Mary listens entranced until the music is ...See moreWhile sightseeing among the ruins of an old mission on the Mexican border, Mary Blake and her father come across Tony, the Greaser, strumming a guitar. Tony is instantly attracted to the girl. Mary listens entranced until the music is finished, then offers him money, which he gently refuses. She smiles at Tony and he stands looking after her with a rapt expression, already in love with her. A little further on, her father falls and sprains his ankle. Unable to help him, Mary runs back to Tony, and between them they get Mr. Blake to the carriage. He gratefully offers Tony employment on his ranch. Mary smiles in a friendly manner and Tony eagerly says he will come. At the ranch, Tony receives rough treatment at the hands of the foreman and cowboys, and seeks solace in his guitar alone in the moonlight. Mary sees the boys tormenting the Mexican and takes his part. Later, Hammond proposes to Mary and is accepted. He speaks to her father, who approves the match. Tony one day asks Mary for a handkerchief she has been hemming and she says, "Why, certainly, you may have it." The foreman and some of the boys try to take it away from him and there is a desperate fight. She then tells the Mexican that, while she takes a friendly interest in him, she can never love him. Tony is heart-broken and goes back to his old life in the Mexican quarter. Becoming mixed up with the insurrectionists, he learns that they are going to attack the Blake ranch. His love for Mary is still strong, and he decides to warn the Blakes. Stealing a horse, he rides like mad to the ranch house. Finding the men have all ridden out on the ranch, he tells Mary to ride after them and he will defend her home. She dashes off and Tony, with the bullets tearing holes in his shelter, holds off the Mexicans. Mary arrives with the cowboys, who, after a sharp fight, drive the insurrectors into full retreat. Tony has been mortally wounded and dies in the little room he has defended so ably, surrounded by the respectful cowboys and soothed in his last moments by Mary's kind administrations. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less