[5] Sam Flood, a gambler in a small Western mining town, is in love with May, the daughter of Harper, who runs the local pub.
A fight ensues; the revolver goes off, but nobody is hurt, and at last Dick secures the weapon, calmly takes the cartridges out, and returns it to Flood.
Flood and three accomplices arrange to stick up a gold escort, and their plan is overheard by May and her little brother Jack.
They take May with them, and after they are gone, Jack comes out from his hiding place and runs home, where he tells his parents and the miners what has happened.
While getting out the gold boxes and mail bags, Dick and the miners ride up, firing a volley as they do so, and the men, with the exception of Flood, are captured.
[6] A contemporary critic called it "a powerful drama taken from the early days of Australian gold mining" which "supplies plenty of excitement and sensation and it possesses a good moral lesson.