Broncho Billy is elected sheriff. Marguerite, the daughter of the village hotelkeeper, loves the new sheriff, and is very much delighted with his new appointment. A stranger comes to town, and like most country girls, Marguerite becomes greatly interested in him. The man has a fiendish influence over her and would have taken her away from her home and friends forever had it not been for Broncho Billy, who saves her from destruction, and also captures the stranger, who happens to be a fugitive from justice.