A stagecoach robber falls in love with a saloon girl. However, she falls for a pastor, who converts her; she marries him. The robber is so impressed by this that he decides to turn over a new leaf. However, a shady gambler sets his sights on the former saloon girl, and the robber has to protect her from his advances.—[email protected]

Belle Shields, a dance hall girl, who is the sweetheart of Texas Smith, the silent road agent, is much taken with Austin, the new parson who comes to town. The cowboys joke and kid Texas about the parson cutting him out and a fight follows. Austin, who learned more at school than theology, comes to Texas's assistance, rescues him in a smashing set-to and they become fast friends. Austin and Belle are married, but Texas keeps a watchful eye on Belle so that she will not side-step. Soon Belle makes a visit to a nearby town, and in a spirit of recklessness, attends the dance hall. Jack Malone, who is very much the lady's man, decides that he must have Belle and immediately takes possession of her. It is when they are standing at the bar about to take a drink and Jack kisses her, that Belle awakens to what she is about to do. She immediately returns home, but Jack is undaunted and sends her a letter telling her that he will expect to meet her at the cross roads that night. She confides her troubles to Texas, who holds up the night stage, taking Jack out. He walks him across the desert and is about to turn him loose, when Jack wheels around and fires. Texas is too quick for him, however, and Jack is shot and killed. Texas returns to the Austin cabin, then, feeling that he has repaid Parson Austin by saving his wife for him.—Moving Picture World synopsis

When Alexander Austin, the new parson come to a small frontier town, he attracts the attention of Belle Shields, a dance-hall girl who is the sweetheart of "Texas" Smith, an outlaw. The barflies in the saloon rib Smith about being beat out by a sky-pilot (preacher), and Smith takes on the crowd but Austin, a trained boxer takes his side and they prevail. The two men become good friends. Belle and Austin marry and are happy. Belle goes to a neighboring town to visit a friend. Texas learns that "Handsome Jack" Malone, a gambler and former lover of Belle's, is threatening to tell her husband unless Belle meets him clandestinely.—Les Adams <[email protected]>