Frank Wilding, owner of the Lost Hope mine, is just setting out for the mine with the pay budget, when the stage arrives and reports another hold-up. Afraid to venture with the money, he entrusts his errand to Edith, his wife, as he figures the bandits may not suspect a woman of carrying so large a sum. She is followed in the stage by Jim Brandon, a bandit in disguise. Jim defends her from the attentions of a drunken gambler, and wins her confidence. Later, the coach is attacked by Juan, a Mexican thief, who robs the driver and Brandon, and tells Edith that he will take nothing from her save a kiss. Though her money is safe, she resents the insult and she slaps the thief across the mouth. Ordering her companions to drive on. Juan drags her to a deserted shack. Brandon returns on their trial, arriving just in time to rescue Edith.