- Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.
- Grace, the operator at Hillville, is apprised of the fact that train No. 7 will bring to her office $2,000, consigned to the Simpson Construction Company. Jack, the station agent, offers to let her have his pistol, while he is away to lunch, but she scorns this, exclaiming "Danger? Why nothing ever happens in this slow place." However, when the train arrives and the money is placed in the strongbox, he again prevails upon her to take the pistol, but without success. Two tramps, who have come in on the bumpers, see the bag placed in the box, and regard this their great opportunity. Waiting until Jack has gone, they break in and make for the box. It is locked and they must have the key, so they try to get to the girl, who has locked herself in her office. This failing, they load the box on a hand-car to take it away to blow it open. The girl, meanwhile, has telegraphed for aid, and realizing the tramps' design, rushes out and throws herself in front of the handcar. The tramps drag her aboard and are off. They are soon pursued by an engine from the next station ahead, and here occurs, without exception, the most thrilling pursuit ever depicted.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Grace (Dorothy Bernard), a young and pretty telegraph operator for a train line, has many male admirers. She is most fond of her co-worker Jack (Wilfred Lucas) until he steals a kiss. When a message comes that a bank is sending, on a train, $2000 to be picked up at the telegraph office, a pair of tramps who had hitched a ride on the train break into the telegraph office and attempt to open the strong box. Grace urgently telegraphs for help and then tries vallantly to scare off the robbers. Shaken, they decide to take the strong box and open it later. As they are about to make their escape Grace confronts them and they take her hostage. Jack is unhappily walking along the track after the rejection of his kiss, and sees them racing away on a railroad hand-car. He flags done a train and chases after them at full speed they are finally caught and a grateful, forgiving Grace rewards Jack with a kiss.
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