- Young Joy ( Baby Marie Osborne ), the sole survivor of a shipwreck that killed her parents, is rescued by fishermen and then placed in an orphanage. Although reputable on the surface, the home really functions as a front for some crooks who want to keep Joy there because she carries with her all of her mother's jewelry. Joy manages to escape, but without the jewels, and then stows away on a train heading out West. After arriving, she meets Hal Lewis ( Henry King ), who has been made an outcast by his upper crust Eastern family. Hal soon adopts the little girl and, becoming stronger and more serious through the responsibilities of parenthood, he returns home with Joy. Then, after receiving his father's forgiveness, Hal breaks up the orphanage gang and retrieves Joy's jewels.—Pamela Short
- Some fishermen find, lashed to a frail raft, a wee survivor of a ship that hit a mine, "My name is Joy," she said, "Mama's joy, and Papa jus' fell in with the fishes and ain't back yet." The fishermen take Joy and the curious oriental casket clutched in her chubby hands to the Haven Orphanage. The institution proves to be a haven for other things than orphans, for its heads are a clever gang of crooks, who, with criminal cleverness, have recognized an orphan asylum as the last place the police would suspect. Joy tells them the way her mother showed her how to punch the dragon's eye on the casket and open a drawer with "pretty stones." The secret drawer reveals a small fortune in gems to the crooks' eyes. Joy, to keep from telling others, is kept a prisoner, but manages to escape in a large baker's bread hamper about to be shipped. Suffering only minor bumps caused by the train's jolts, she arrives in a mining camp. There she brings a ray of sunshine into the life of a man struggling to forget his past and start his life anew, who adopts her and eventually through the child's influence returns to his home where a welcome and a forgiveness await him. Later he finds the thieves who took Joy's "pretty stones," and recovering them, breaks up the gang. Joy rewarding her adopted daddy by faithfully promising him, "when I get big, I'll be y'ur best sweetheart."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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