- Even though he had saved her father from a financial crisis, Jennifer Hale refuses to marry wealthy Stephen Weldon, who tries to ruin the Hales. They leave for their summer home in the woods where Jennifer falls in love with wealthy James Murray, a lumber camp foreman. After Weldon finds them and threatens Hale with exposure unless Jennifer marries him, Murray marries Jennifer. Weldon then convinces him that Jennifer and he had a secret romance, and that she married Murray for his money. Murray's sister Agnes becomes Weldon's lover, and when he prepares to leave, she kills him. After Jennifer takes the blame to save Murray from learning of Agnes' disgrace, Murray, although he now hates her, takes Jennifer to the mountains to escape the law. Just as the posse overtakes them, a man rides up with the news that Agnes fell over a cliff and confessed before she died. Their love renewed love, the couple are now reunited.
- Jennifer refuses to marry Stephen Welton, the man who makes her hand the condition of his helping her father out of his financial crisis. Jennifer and her father leave for a lumber camp in the west, resolved to renounce society. Here Jennifer meets James Murray, owner of a lumber tract, with whom she falls deeply in love. In the meantime Welton has discovered a spurious note which Jennifer's father had issued before he left the east, and tracing him locates and threatens him with exposure unless Jennifer is compelled to marry him. When Welton learns of her marriage to Murray, he seeks the latter out and tells him she has married him for his money, offering such convincingly circumstantial proof that Murray leaves Jennifer. In the subsequent development of the story, it transpires that Welton has had a previous affair with Agnes, Murray's sister, who, when he is about to leave, pleads with him to marry her. Upon his refusal and in the desperation of her plight, she kills him. Jennifer discovers the murder, and to save Murray from learning of his sister's disgrace takes the blame upon herself. Murray at last learns of the heroic sacrifice of his wife and seeks her out, with a greater love and regard.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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