Old Morgan, an eccentric millionaire in a western city, has a dissipated young son. He has also a very sweet adopted daughter, Edwina. One day the son is waylaid near the railroad yards, stripped of a big "roll" and thrown unconscious into a box car. He finally emerges from the box car two hundred miles away, dazed and lonely. He drifts into a hobo camp, and in time joins the order of tramps. He becomes the most famous of them all and is known as "The Crow." Old Morgan provides in his will that in case the son can be located within a certain time of his (the father's) death, the bulk of the fortune shall go to him, but if he is not found, it shall be divided between Edwina and the lawyer who handles Morgan's business. Edwina is in love with a young man named Chester Thompson. She mates her marriage to him conditional on his finding her brother for her. He gets a tip from an article in a paper that "The Crow" is none other than the brother, and he himself dresses as a tramp and starts out to find him. The lawyer, in the meantime, learning the conditions of the will, makes every effort to keep the brother from being found, and hires detectives to thwart Edwina and her lover at every turn. The lover eventually succeeds in his quest, however, and everything ends happily for all save the avaricious lawyer.