- Yukon Ed has asked saloon owner Ruby McGraw to marry him several times, and has been turned down each time. She falls for Jack Sturgess, a no-account who has seduced and abandoned a poor young girl and is escaping from his father's anger. She takes up with Jack to Ed's dismay, and soon the thing that Ed feared would happen does happen.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Jack Sturgess, a cad, gets into a mix-up with a young girl at home and his father orders him to either marry her or leave the house for good. He considers the girl beneath him and leaves, going into the Yukon district. There he is heartily despised by all the men, and on his arrival at Hope City, he is met by Yukon Ed and a bunch of miners, who proceed to have a little fun with him because of his superior attitude. They bounce him around from one to another of the miners, making him dance and teasing him unmercifully. Ruby McGraw, proprietor of the store, finally rescues him and becomes his willing slave. After several days, Yukon Ed, who is very much in love with Ruby, calls on them, bringing a minister along, and Jack, who has already begun to tire of Ruby, is forced to marry her. After the wedding he neglects her and spends his evenings at the saloon with the dance hall girls. One rainy night he fails to come home and Ruby goes in search of him. She finds him in a drunken stupor on a lonely trail, and being unable to get him home, she sits all night in the rain with his head in her lap, her cloak covering him. Pneumonia is the result of the exposure and the only other woman in town nurses Ruby. The night of the crisis Jack is sent for the doctor, but goes to the saloon instead hoping Ruby will die so that he can go back to the States. She does die, and Yukon, learning of Jack's neglect, goes for him, leads him to Ruby's bedside, and sends him to meet Ruby on the "darkening trail."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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