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When opium-smuggling increases alarmingly, Captain Banes of the Revenue Service details his cleverest man, Ferron, to run down the guilty ones. He goes to the suspected district near a small fishing village, where he saves a young girl ...See moreWhen opium-smuggling increases alarmingly, Captain Banes of the Revenue Service details his cleverest man, Ferron, to run down the guilty ones. He goes to the suspected district near a small fishing village, where he saves a young girl from drowning, during which he gets injured. He is carried to her home, where he learns that her name is Edith McKnight. While she nurses him back to health, Ferron falls in love with her and proposes. While he is convalescing, he overhears her father and some other men in conversation, and decides he has accidentally stumbled right into the smugglers' nest. Ferron learns that a vessel is due with the smuggled drug aboard, concealed in a catch of fish. On the date of its arrival, he manages to hide himself aboard the boat that goes to meet the steamer, and after some exciting adventures, succeeds in corralling the gang by locking them in a wharf shed. He notifies the police, and while awaiting their arrival, Edith appears. She anxiously inquires if her father is in the shed, and on learning that he is, pleads with Ferron to release him. He gently but firmly refuses, at which she demands that he choose between letting her father go and breaking their engagement. In the midst of a terrific struggle with himself, betwixt love and duty, Captain Banes and his men arrive. Ferron silently points to the shed door. The door is flung open and the smugglers made prisoners. To everyone's surprise, it is learned that Mr. McKnight is a Revenue Officer from another department, who, to obtain evidence, has been masquerading as a smuggler. This clears the situation and Edith makes no protest when Ferron slips the engagement ring back on her finger, while her father looks on with a smile. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less