The film stars George Hernandez, Myrtle Gonzalez, Fred Church, Frank MacQuarrie, Val Paul and Countess Du Cello.

Chet's hopeless situation becomes even moreso when his mother dies and the deacon turns him out of his house, so he abandons his love for Emily and leaves for the timberlands with hopes of making his fortune.

The next day, Deacon Todd has disappeared, and Major Burke, seeing vultures circling over a nearby swamp, fears he has killed him.

When he discovers some scattered bones picked clean by animals, he keeps quiet about what he believes is murder, although Emily soon learns of his guilt when she hears him muttering in his drunken slumber.

Then, just before Chet can be convicted, the deacon appears in a Model T Ford and reveals that after the buckshot narrowly missed him, he left town for a few days to purchase an automobile.