In the Deep South, plantation owner Col. Webster, who is in dire financial straits, is offered a loan by wealthy neighbor Sam Logan on the condition that Webster's beautiful daughter, Madonna, marry him. Webster turns down the offer, thus angering Logan, who is further enraged by the fact that Madonna prefers the attentions of a stranger who proclaims himself an outcast from Virginia. After Logan abducts Madonna, she is rescued by the stranger, who is then arrested by the local sheriff for bank robbery and murder. It is then revealed that the stranger is a police official on an undercover operation to apprehend those responsible for counterfeiting and various robberies.