The valley girl is spurned by Jackson, who woos the planter's daughter. The poor girl, however, loves another neighbor. Jackson, holding a mortgage on her lover's farm, offers to cancel it if the young man will step out of the way, but his proposition is refused. The valley girl in despair, commits suicide, and her father vows vengeance on Jackson. Jackson fires at the lover and wounds him, and the valley girl's father in turn wounds Jackson. Later, while drunk, Jackson falls over a railroad viaduct. The girl's grandmother dies, and bequeaths her an old arm chair, which is burned. When the fire is extinguished, the grandmother's will is found, and the girl discovers she is heiress to an immense fortune. The lovers are then united.
