Opal, who knows nothing about her ancestors, falls in love with G. D. Stanley, the strange young man who is her closest neighbor in the Canadian wilderness. One day, Opal is informed that she is really the princess of a small country and must return to her native land to marry the neighboring king to save her people from invasion. Opal decides to sacrifice her love for Stanley, but before she departs, she spends one hour alone in his cabin. On the eve of her wedding to the dissolute king, it is discovered that Stanley is actually Stanlai, heir-apparent to the throne. When the drunken king attempts to attack Opal in her boudoir, Stanlai kills him, thereby becoming the ruler of his country, and Opal becomes his queen.—Pamela Short

The story opens in the Adirondacks where a young woman, Opal, and a young man, Stanley, are the principal characters. Opal, wandering through the snow, takes refuge from a pack of wolves and is rescued by Stanley. During a hand-to-hand fight which he has with one of the brutes Opal falls through an air hole into icy water. Rescued by Stanley a second time, she is borne to his cabin, where only his prompt aid in removing the drenched garments saves her life. During the ensuing months the two young people find themselves in love, then a shadow crosses their happiness. From a small European kingdom comes a trusted diplomat to take the princess (Opal) back to her native land, of which she has so far known nothing. Seeking to escape, she flees to Stanley and is followed by her uncle, aunt, the diplomat and others of the household, and in the fight which follows Stanley is left unconscious upon the floor of his cabin and Opal borne away. Arriving in the palace, where she is to marry the king of a neighboring monarchy, a marriage with a beast which is entered into to save her own people from conquest by war, she awaits a future filled with misgivings. Here, too, comes Stanley, who, it develops, is the nephew of the brutal monarch who is about to marry the woman Stanley loves, the woman whose whereabouts and identity he now learns for the first time. Attempting to enter Princess Opal's apartments at night while in a state of intoxication, the king is attacked by Stanley, who hears Opal's cries for help and arrives at the opportune moment. In the struggle between the king and Stanley the former dies of his exertion and Stanley, now king, finds the barrier between him and Opal raised.—Moving Picture World synopsis