Mollie Owens, affianced to Dick Calvert, deputy sheriff, is taken captive by Monk Turgis, an outlaw, and imprisoned in "death cabin." Turgis and his pal try to frighten money out of Mollie's mother. Dick Calvert is put on the trail of the bandits. He happens to see one of them going into the cabin, shunned by everybody on account of two mysterious murders once perpetrated in the shack, and immediately investigates. He is seized by the outlaws, who truss him up. While they are forcing Mollie to write another threatening note to her mother, Calvert manages to slip a scrawled line into the pocket of one of the bandits, who later drops it in the town gambling room. The clue is taken to the Sheriff, who rides post haste to "death cabin," captures the outlaws and rescues the lovers.