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Two young prospectors, while exploring for sites in the northern wilderness, are arrested in their walk by the report of a gun. The signal is repeated, and following in the direction of the shot they find a little fair-haired child sitting...See moreTwo young prospectors, while exploring for sites in the northern wilderness, are arrested in their walk by the report of a gun. The signal is repeated, and following in the direction of the shot they find a little fair-haired child sitting at the edge of an old shaft, weeping. Upon further investigation they find an old miner at the bottom of the shaft. The revolver in the man's limp hand and the broken windlass tell too plainly of the fatal mishap and the victim's frantic appeal for help. The old miner is maimed beyond all human help. In dying he begs the two youths to care for little Babbie. The boys decide to remain on the spot, taking up their abode in the cabin which the accident has left without a tenant. The first few days of mortifying blunders in their attempts at supplying the maternal relation to a little lady of six, convinces them that at least in one department even a squaw can beat the combined forces of two of England's best younger sons. Reed-on-the-Wind becomes the duly accredited nurse and foster mother to the little Babbie. A dozen years later, when the bud has unfolded into a glorious flower, Jack and Fred become rivals for the favor of their ward. Each vies with the other to outdo him with the gifts. When Fred brings back from Skagway a shawl such as no other girl on the Yukon has seen before, Jack tops him with an offering of a little plaster Cupid. Sentiment enjoys a temporary triumph over lavishness. Babbie takes the little love god to her heart, and a breach is opened between the two men. Before long this settles into enmity. The bad blood is finally precipitated by a dispute over a mining claim. There is a wild race to the claim office. Fred, having borrowed Babbie's wolf to lead his team of huskies, outruns his onetime partner and files a prior claim. The other, enraged at his defeat, challenges the successful man to argue their rival claims both to the mining property and to the girl with Colts at twenty paces. The duel is just about to start when they are thrown into sudden consternation by the spectacle of flames pouring from the doors and windows of Babbie's cabin in the valley close by. The men forget their quarrel in the urgent necessity of saving the girl they both love from the impending death in hideous guise. Jack finally succeeds in carrying her from the pyre. He then returns to his erstwhile partner, whom he has left inside, overpowered by the smoke. Just as he raises the helpless man the charred flooring gives way and both are hurled far below into the abandoned shaft which twelve years before had claimed the life of Babbie's father. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less