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Jack's lease on the mine is out. He has done well and the check he will go to get from the smelter tomorrow will give him and his wife, Mary, enough to go and buy the farm they longed for. Tom is a rascal. He mistakes Mary's interest in ...See moreJack's lease on the mine is out. He has done well and the check he will go to get from the smelter tomorrow will give him and his wife, Mary, enough to go and buy the farm they longed for. Tom is a rascal. He mistakes Mary's interest in him for a deeper feeling. He knows of the savings in Jack's home, and he covets Mary, He waits until Jack goes to the smelter, and shaking off the attentions of poor Sadie, he goes to Jack's cabin. Sadie, inflamed with jealousy, follows and watches him. She creeps up to the window in time to see Tom terrorize Mary, who has repulsed him, and to see him write a note and leave it on the table, seize the baby and tell Mary that if she wants it she had better follow him and get it. Mary follows the brute, frantic in her fear for her child's safety, to a shack in the hills and Sadie follows cautiously. Tom locks the woman and her child in the shack, and barring the window he goes to bury the bag of savings which he had forced Mary to give him. Sadie creeps up to where Tom has thrown his coat down and takes the gun from his pocket. She runs to the shack, smashes the window in, and releasing Mary and the child, she sends them home, refusing to go herself. Sadie has a mission to perform. She gets in the window and awaits the coming of the brute she once loved and now hates. He enters the shack and is taken aback. He attempts to bully, but Sadie holds him up in a determined manner. She backs him out of the shack and makes him dig up the bag of savings and throw it to her. She then tells him to hit the trail and to keep going, because she intends to put the sheriff upon his trail. He goes, cursing her. In the meantime Jack has returned home and has found a scrawled note telling him that his wife has left for good with Tom. Jack cannot believe it, but failing to find Mary, he is crushed. His grief turns to rage. When Mary appears he will not listen to her, and matters are at a crisis when Sadie appears with the money. Jack is penitent and all is well, except with poor Sadie, who, refusing to go with them, goes away to fight out her battles alone. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less