Broncho Billy, through a notice posted on a tree, learns he can go free if he will give himself up. He keeps the notice, and, as he rides away, comes upon a little girl, who wandered from her mother, when an accident happened to the stage coach in which the two were riding. The mother, frantic, starts in search of her child, and meanwhile the coach drives on. She finds the little child in the arms of Broncho Billy, who takes mother and child to the home of the young woman's parents, the deacon and his wife. Broncho Billy is welcomed there, and later, attending church with the deacon's daughter and her child, is so impressed with the deacon's sermon that he goes to the sheriff's office and gives himself up. He wins his chance to begin life anew.