Colonel Rand, a hunter and explorer and uncle of Philip Blackton, in order that he may break the hereditary craving for drink of his nephew, takes the young man on a trip to the African Jungle. While on board the ship, Philip's desire for liquor again manifests itself, and it is with difficulty that the Colonel manages to keep him away from drink. A few months later the expedition reaches the wild country, and Philip in the new surroundings has completely conquered his longing for intoxicants. Wandering miles from the camp one day, Philip comes across a young white girl playing with a couple of pet leopards. Being informed that her name is Lola, Philip, who is about to speak to her and who has been warned by the white girl to keep away, is attacked by the beasts. Before the leopards have inflicted much harm, Lola drives the animals away, and Philip is ministered to by Lola and her companion, an old negress named Wambi. When he regains consciousness, Philip asks the reason why she makes her home in the wild jungle, but his request is waived aside and the women depart. Philip is subsequently rescued by the searching party, but when he begins to recount his tale to the Colonel and the other men in the camp, they place no credence in his story, concluding that he has been drinking again and that his utterances are the hallucinations of an intoxicated mind. The next day, Philip, who is deeply angered at the attitude of the men, goes far into the forests to locate Lola, and is prevented from shooting a lion about to attack him by the girl he is in search of. After Lola has driven the beast away he pleads his love for her and again inquires why she chooses to live in the forests. She at first refuses but at length relents and tells him that her father, Blake, is the chief of a tribe of natives. She also informs him that her mother was a black woman. A strange look comes into the face of Wambi, whose tongue had been cut out, and she leaves them only to return shortly with a photograph which she gives to Philip. Just then Blake appears and, scenting trouble, Philip has him tied to a tree. A wild expression appears in the eyes of Blake when he hears Philip remark that he believes the woman in the picture is Lola's mother and that Blake is not her father. Philip thereupon demands of Blake under penalty of death to tell what he knows concerning the photograph. Blake then relates how, years ago, he murdered the young husband of a woman he coveted; how the woman was accidentally shot in a struggle with him; how he went into the jungle with the woman's baby (Lola) and how in order that Wambi could not talk of the incident he cut out her tongue. As he finishes the tale Wambi's rage, which she has suppressed for years, comes to the surface and she kills Blake. Meanwhile, Colonel Rand, unable to find his nephew, goes home, and many months later Philip receives a letter from him, stating that he will pay them a visit. With a happy heart, Philip takes his wife and baby in his arms as the picture ends.
