Broncho Billy, foreman, finds Tom Warner has squatted on a section of Stockdale's ranch. He complains to the owner, who tells him to oust Warner. The squatter, however, refuses to go. Marguerite, the ranch owner's daughter, while on a shopping trip to town, has trouble with her saddle. Warner goes to her assistance and man and girl immediately fall in love with each other. Warner meets the girl again, but Broncho Billy, who is also in love with Marguerite, and the father, on finding the pair together, are furious. Father orders the daughter home and tells Warner never to speak to the girl again. Shortly afterward, the ranch owner is shot. Broncho Billy, to get even with Warner, secretly arranges things so that his rival is accused and finally banged on circumstantial evidence. The following fall, Broncho Billy proposes to Marguerite, but visions of the dead man haunt him, and in trying to get away from them, he hacks out of an opening in a barn loft and is killed,