Pete conducts an illicit still. Sheriff McCall is on his track. Magnus sees the officer approaching and wounds McCall. Nora, the moonshiner's daughter, hears the shot and comes upon the prostrate body and assists him to her home. She sees his badge and extracts the warrant for her father's arrest from his pocket. Her father returns and is enraged at the sight of the sheriff. Nora interferes, but he cannot control his rage, throws his daughter aside and would have killed the sheriff had not the deputies appeared upon the scene, subdued Magnus and placed the handcuffs upon him. Nora, while nursing McCall, becomes very fond of him and he falls in love with her. Pete Magnus escapes and begins life anew.
