Much to the delight of the simple old father, his daughter becomes engaged to a big-hearted mountaineer. He builds their hut in the wilderness, and she is happy, though she often dreams of the great world outside. Then comes the intruder from the city, a man of the world. He obtains hoard at the girl's home. He blinds her eyes to the beautiful things of the; woods with his talk of pretty places and things of the great world without. He tempts and wins her away from the big-hearted backwoodsman. The young mountaineer, who has been working on his cabin, returns and finds the old man dozing and the girl gone. The simple girl soon discovers the brute beneath the polished exterior of the intruder. She tries to elude him. In this predicament, the mountaineer catches up with the couple. He shoots the intruder, wounding him slightly. He takes the repentant girl back to her mountain home and the little cabin he has built for her in the woods.