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Harris, a north woodsman, is lying sick, attended by his devoted wife. The only chance of saving the sick man's life is by taking him to the famous specialist in Seattle, but their funds are low and there seems but little chance of this. ...See moreHarris, a north woodsman, is lying sick, attended by his devoted wife. The only chance of saving the sick man's life is by taking him to the famous specialist in Seattle, but their funds are low and there seems but little chance of this. While at the general store the wife learns that there is to be a dance that night at the Town Hall. That night when the sick man is dozing, she throws a shawl over her head and steals off to the dance to watch for a while the pleasures of life she is denied. In the midst of the dance, Pete, the bad man of the camp, comes in loaded down with gold which he has struck in the creek. Martha is barred at the door, but Pete, struck by her beauty, forces the doorman aside. Pete asks her for a dance. Martha refuses. The bad man says he will pay her 100foronewaltz.Thinkingonlyofherhusbandandtheirdireneedsheconsents.Peteoffersher100 for one waltz. Thinking only of her husband and their dire need she consents. Pete offers her 100foronewaltz.Thinkingonlyofherhusbandandtheirdireneedsheconsents.Peteoffersher1,000 for a kiss. The sick man's wife hides her revulsion and while they are dancing allows him to kiss her. He tries to seize her again, but she breaks away, and rushes to her cabin, followed by the bad man and the village gossips. Pete rushes in and, throwing the sick man aside, seizes the wife. The husband, armed with a poker, kills him. The gossips arrive but before they enter the two hastily place the dead man's body on the couch and throw a rug over it. The crowd tells the husband what they have seen but he refuses to believe it. When they have gone the wife and husband quickly pack their things and take to the trail. After a terrible journey they come at last to a cabin, inhabited by a whiskey runner who is plying his illegal trade under the very eyes of the revenue officers. Martha gives him the gold and he arranges with one of his men to take the sick man to Seattle the next morning. Bidding each other good-bye, he leaves his wife at the cabin, while he proceeds with his companion to the city, where his only chance for life lies. Martha takes the place of the whiskey runner's helper and charmed by her simplicity and sweetness, the revenue officers are thrown off their track. Six months later she receives a note from her husband saying he is entirely cured and is on his way to again rejoin her. Overjoyed, she starts off to take the whiskey bottles to their hiding places, but is detected by the revenue officers. They follow her. In her race back to the cabin she pushes one of their guns into the camp fire. The cartridges explode and she is mortally wounded. The revenue officers carry her body to the whiskey runner's shack. Here her husband eagerly awaits his wife. Wild with grief and rage at his wife being snatched from his arms after they struggle so desperately to live for each other, he jumps at the whiskey runner. The strain is too much and be falls dead. The next day the revenue officers silently mark the graves with two tiny crosses, and then lead the whiskey runner off to jail. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less