Winnie Allen, a pretty western girl, is loved by Dan Wild, whose father owns the Circle C Ranch. Broncho Billy, foreman of the Circle C, also loves Winnie and she favors his suit. Knowing this, and to make his way clear, Dan persuades his father to discharge Broncho. Broncho is unable to learn the cause of his dismissal from Wild. Dan now manages to secure Winnie's engagement ring from her room, forges a note in her writing, telling Broncho she is returning the ring, because he has been discharged for dissipation, then pins the note and ring to the door of Broncho's shack. Broncho finds it, and unsuspicious of the trickery employed, leaves the county. Years later young Wild, now a dissipated ruffian, is married to Winnie. Taking her meager earnings, he goes to the town gambling hall, becomes involved in an argument and kills one of the punchers. Broncho Billy, now sheriff, is advised of the shooting and immediately starts out to find Wild. Mortally wounded, Wild staggers back to his shack, and gasps out his story to Winnie, who does everything possible to alleviate his suffering. Tracking Wild to his shack, Broncho enters and recognizes Winnie. Realizing death is upon him, Wild now makes a full confession of the despicable way in which he won Winnie for his wife, secures Broncho's promise to care for her always, and dies.