The hotel proprietor is a grouchy piece of humanity, and when his daughter receives attentions from young men he becomes very irate. To cap the climax, his daughter falls in love and becomes engaged to a fine-looking young chap. When the father discovers this, he rushes out and shoots his daughter's sweetheart. The wounded man is carried into the hotel and when his fiancée attempts to dress the wound, she is stopped by her father. Broncho Billy, who happens to be a guest at the hotel, hears the disturbance, and while a friend is rushing for the doctor, he holds the angered parent at bay at the point of a gun. The father then is forced to consent to his daughter's engagement.