While visiting Canada on business, Tom Morse falls in love with Jessie McRae, a headstrong girl who was adopted as an infant by Scotsman Angus McRae after her parents were supposedly killed by drunken Native Americans. Angus has a longstanding grudge against Tom's Uncle Carle and forbids the younger Morse to see Jessie. The Scotsman then "sells" her to bootlegger Bully West, while Tom is commissioned by the government to halt the illegal liquor trade. After Tom settles the feud between Angus and Carl, he rescues Jessie from Bully and returns her to her repentant father, who reveals that she is his actual daughter.—AFI