- Impoverished Molly Hanlon is befriended by crooked gambler Lee Kirk, she marries him in a phony ceremony. While frequenting Kirk's gambling den, Molly meets Miles Rand, the dissolute son of Judge Rand, whose obvious attraction for her encourages Kirk to swindle him out of his money. Penniless, Miles accepts a loan from Molly and returns East to study law. On the day that Molly learns that her marriage is not legal, the gambling den burns down and Kirk is presumed dead. After escaping with Kirk's money, Molly goes East where she encounters Miles, now a district attorney. In spite of the objections of Judge Rand, Molly accepts Miles's proposal, but after Kirk arrives in town, she calls off the engagement. When Kirk enters her apartment through a window, Molly kills him in a panic and is arrested for murder. The still faithful Miles defends her in court, and after her acquittal, she confesses her past and reunites with her old love.—Pamela Short
- Through the death of her father, Molly HanIon, of Mona Diggings, is left destitute. Leaving the general store, where she makes an unsuccessful attempt to get credit, she is insulted by a drunken cowboy, but is befriended by Lee Kirk, a gambler, who, after Molly has left for her shack, learns that she was refused credit, whereupon he purchases and sends to her a basketful of food. When she empties the basket she finds a note from Kirk proposing marriage. But Kirk is not truthful and when he receives Molly's acceptance, he has a false wedding performed. Sometime later to Mona diggings comes Miles, the carousing son of Judge Rand, who fled from his father palatial home in the east on account of a reproof his father had administered to him for his drinking habits. Miles visits the gambling joint owned by Kirk and is rebuked by the proprietor for his amorous glances at Molly. Miles resents and a fight is started, in which he is shot by one of Kirk's underlings. When he has recuperated, Miles begins to dissipate again, and in gambling with Kirk, he loses all. He is finally persuaded by Molly to go back east, where he finally becomes district attorney. Meanwhile, Molly has learned that her marriage with Kirk was not legal, and the gambling joint is later set afire, following a fight. Molly escapes with the money, and believing that Kirk as well as the rest of the men has perished, she leaves for the east to look up Miles. In the city, Miles has renewed his friendship with June Markworth, daughter of an old friend of his father. Molly, arriving in the city, goes to a fashionable hotel, and deposits her money, $70,000 in all, according to the posted rules of the establishment in its safe. Subsequently she learns of Miles' success as a district attorney, and having now become thoroughly familiar with city manners and modes of dress and having made careful investments which enable her to live in luxury, she calls upon Miles at his office. Their old acquaintance is renewed, and when Molly tells him that Kirk is dead he shows greater interest in her, and decides to introduce her into society. The attention Miles is bestowing upon Molly is called to his father's attention by Mr. Markworth, who sometime ago had come to an understanding with the former that the families be linked together by the marriage of their respective children. After being admonished by his father to have nothing more to do with the strange woman. Miles decides to introduce his parent to Molly. The Judge is very much disappointed upon meeting the girl, and is completely astounded when Miles tells him that Molly is his promised wife. Kirk escaped the fire, and owing to the antagonism existing in Mona Diggings, comes east. He learns the whereabouts of Molly through a newspaper article. Molly is almost paralyzed at the sight of Kirk, who promise to refrain from making public her past relations with him for the hush money that she gives him. Fearing that she will injure the career of Miles, she calls up the Judge, who had previously asked her to give up his son and to which request she refused to listen, saying that she has reconsidered his pleadings and that she should like to see Miles that evening. Molly, by a prearrangement, has one of her other suitors call upon her and when Miles arrives he is so shocked by her apparent carousing with another man that he leaves in disgust. She then dismisses the man, for it was only a ruse to break with Miles and shortly afterward Kirk puts in an appearance via the window. She refuses his demand for more money, and in a fight that follows she secures his gun and kills him. Miles attends the coroner's inquest, learns the truth of Kirk's return, and for the first time he doubts Molly. Following a mental struggle with himself, Miles decides to defend Molly. After the acting prosecuting attorney has made a plea to the jury for a verdict of first degree murder. Miles puts forth a strong argument for acquittal. He wins, and the young people are not only brought together, but they win the consent of Judge Rand to marry.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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