- Mountain boy Steve O'Mara, living in the Adirondack Mountains, who loves to fight, is taken in by a well-to-do family after the death of his foster father. Steve is attracted by a young girl, Barbara, who is visiting his family, but she is repelled by his violent behavior. He fights another boy over her affections and then vows not to return until he corrects his ways and makes good. Ten years pass, and Steve has become a road construction engineer with the East Coast Railroad Company. He is trying to complete a railroad being built through his home town. Barbara is now engaged to Archie Wickersham, who for financial reasons is trying to prevent the railroad from being completed. After several delays, Steve brings his rival's unscrupulous business practices to light. When Barbara witnesses the fight that ensues between Steve and her fiancé, she runs off and gets lost in the forest. After a search party is formed, Steve finds her and she realizes that she loves him. Harrigan, one of her fiancé's henchmen, witnesses this tender scene and shoots Steve. Barbara then draws Steve's pistol and shoots Harrigan dead. Only wounded, Steve finally is embraced by Barbara.—Pamela Short
- Little Steve O'Mara had been taken care of by an old woodsman who protected the child until his twelfth year. Steve's father, a brilliant lawyer, died from an over strenuous life, but the boy, brought up in the forest among the woods and streams of the woodland, retained his father's traits and seemed to combine, in one, the intelligence of the city and the breath of the woods. Upon the death of old Tom, who had cared for little Steve, the boy started out to find the world. After three days of wandering he arrived in the lumber town of Morrison, where he was befriended by an old bachelor named Caleb Hunter, who lived with his sister, Sarah, in a fine Colonial home. There Steve was initiated to the refined side of life and fell into it naturally. He met the daughter of the lumber king, Dexter Allison, and fell in love with little Barbara on first sight. One of her playmates had an argument with him one day which resulted in a fight, in which little Archie Wickersham received a trouncing. Barbara scolded Steve and sided with Archie. Steve, turning to her, said: "So I ain't good enough for you, but I am goin' to be, and when I am, then I'll come back to you." Ten years elapse; Steve has now become an engineer in charge of the construction of the lumber pier of the East Coast R.R. Company. He is sent for by the president to meet Dexter Allison, one of the stockholders of the road, who has obtained a loan from the now grown-up Archie Wickersham, the financier of this road. Allison and Archie plot to gain control of the road by inserting a clause in the contract that unless the road is finished by May 1, the road must be repaid and the contract to move Wickersham's timber will be withdrawn. Steve tells the president that he will have the road ready to haul the timber by May 1, and the contract is signed. Steve meets Barbara, his childhood sweetheart, and the love he has patiently nursed all these years becomes even stronger when he sees her a grown woman. Barbara has, in the meantime, become engaged to Archie, and while she has always kept very warm the remembrance of little Steve, she does not know in her heart that she really loves him. Wickersham has a double purpose in crossing Steve, first, because of the railroad, and then because of Barbara, who seems to grow fonder of Steve as she is thrown more in contact with him. Archie tries in every way to break Steve as the road is progressing better than expected, and he is forced to use more strenuous means. He employs a fighting bully named Harrigan. first to steal the plans, then get the man to quit and finally try to break down Steve's bridge by starting a log grab down the river. All these are unsuccessful so Harrison decides to finish the boy engineer with his fists. He has a fight, but he had not reckoned with his host. Steve had the better of the argument. Barbara witnessed the fight, and was so horrified at the sight of blood that she sought solitude in the forest. Here she became lost. A searching party was formed and Steve found her. After caring for her during the night, he took her to her father the next morning, and returned to his work. Barbara realized that she now loved him and that she despised Archie for his underhanded methods. She started off on horseback to overtake Steve. When she reached him, a shot rang out from the nearby bushes. Steve was wounded. As she stooped to assist him, she heard Harrigan shout, "Now I will finish him." Quick as a flash, Barbara drew Steve's pistol, and with a lucky shot, brought down Harrigan. She then tells Steve that she can now love only him the way he would expect a woman to love, and the picture fades out with the two in each other's arms.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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