- "Old Man" Morgan is dead. The children are too late to say a last good-bye. Janie, who works in a store in New York; Jim, a taxi driver in Chicago; and Budd, a telegraph operator in Pittsburgh, arrive at the ranch. At first they find the place "dead slow" and the old woman, their mother, who speaks of simple things as they sit over the fire at night rather tiresome. They gradually begin to enjoy the healthy pleasures of the open free life of the west and compare it with their former lives in the city. Janie has had an apartment on Riverside Drive; Jim is marker in a billiard saloon, while Budd lives by taking any odd job that comes along. The boys go out shooting and return to a hearty meal cooked by mother, who has been teaching Janie how to cook. Janie finds that making a cake can be mighty interesting. They return at last to their respective cities, but the lure of the west and its freedom is on them. Janie starts to bake a cake but the man enters her apartment and laughs at her. She packs her bag and returns to the west for good. The gang plan a burglary. Budd is in on it. There is a fight. Budd enters the house alone and is surprised by a master crook whom he thinks is the owner. After a short fight between the two Budd leaves the man for dead and makes for the west. At the saloon in Chicago, the dive where Jim is employed, gets on his nerves and he tells his boss he intends to quit. Once again mother's children are all back again with her. Budd tells her of the affair in shooting. But a local paper copies a story of the shooting, and they learn that Budd's victim is not dead but under arrest for a series of the most daring robberies in the police records. Around the ranch fire reunited wanderers realize that "Home Sweet Home" is best place of all.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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