The story opens in a western dance hall. Flora, who is Bill's sweetheart, is taken ill. Bill, who has been drinking in the adjourning saloon, comes in and insists that she dance with him, but she escapes his embrace and leaves the hall with Bill following. Outside Flora confides to Bill that for the sake of a little soul to come she must leave the life she has been leading. Bill combats her desire and starts to take her back by force. Joe, the piano player for the dance hall who loves Flora, has followed the couple out and interferes with Bill's efforts to take Flora back into the hall. Flora escapes and Bill, after telling Joe to mind his own business, re-enters the hall and starts dancing with another girl. Joe, follows Flora to her little cabin and asks to marry her, but she refuses. Notwithstanding this refusal, Joe devotes himself to her welfare until after a child is born and he takes the blame for her degradation upon himself. A year has passed and a blind girl and her father come to town. The old man is unable to proceed and dies, leaving the blind girl helpless. She strays into a canyon and meets Bill and tells him of the tragedy. Bill sees in her a new victim and takes her to his cabin. She is about to enter when he seizes her with intent to kiss her, but in the very act, something in the blind appeal in her eyes causes him to release his intended victim, and, carefully taking her into the cabin, he leaves her. Going to a nearby cabin he secures the services of a woman to look after the blind girl while he takes his blanket and sleeps on the ground outside the cabin. In the meantime he has buried the father and after lapse of time, proposes marriage to the blind girl and is accepted. Joe happens to be a witness to the scene of love and hurrying to the cabin of Flora informs her of the instance, hoping thereby to gain her consent to a union with him. Instead, she rushes from the cabin and finds Bill and the blind girl in each other's embrace. She pleads with Bill to return to her and protect the child, but Bill roughly forces her from him and sends her back to her cabin. He then turns to the blind girl to renew his embraces but she gently repels him and points out his duty. Unwillingly he listens and unwillingly obeys and in the end gets the preacher, takes him to Flora's cabin and has the ceremony performed. Joe exits from the cabin leaving the couple together. The blind girl is left with bowed head on the path where she parted from Bill.