Ralph buys a wife for himself – a girl named Jocelyn Leigh – little knowing that she is the escaping ward of King James I, fleeing a forced marriage to Lord Carnal.

The pirates gleefully play on with Ralph's masquerade, until he refuses to allow them to rape and pillage those aboard Spanish ships.

Returning to the colony, he gives his information, only to be told that Jocelyn had made her way to the forest in search of him after his absence was noticed, with Jeremy Sparrow, and that they had not been found.

After a long and seemingly fruitless search, Nantauquas himself, though he had turned traitor, leads Ralph to where Jocelyn is staying.

The two are reunited, and at the end of the story intend to go to England, where Jocelyn's lands have been restored to her and they can finally live in peace.

The first version was a silent film released in 1916 by Jesse L. Lasky’s Famous Players–Lasky company, was directed by George Melford and starred Wallace Reid and Mae Murray.