To avoid seeing Marjorie Dare, Jim Allen visits Stewart Leighton at the latter's country home. (Five years earlier Jim's engagement to Marjorie Dare was broken when her mother was killed and his father disappeared.) Through certain circumstance Marjorie also becomes Leighton's guest, and Jim moves out into the woods. There he meets Smiles, a little girl in the care of strange old Ben Tangleface. Leighton wishes to wed Marjorie for her money and is trying forcefully to persuade her to accept him when Jim comes to the rescue. But Ben, his memory stirred by the sight of Leighton, kills him. Explanations reveal Smiles to be Dorothy's sister and Ben, Jim's father. He was wounded while defending Marjorie's mother, whom Leighton killed.
Norma Shearer
as Marjorie Dare
Gladden James
as Jim Allen
Yvonne Logan
as Smiles
Richard Neill
as Stewart Leighton
Charles Miller
as Sam Slocum
Frederick Eckhart
as Ben Tangleface
Martha Langford
as Mrs. Davenport
Marion Bradley
as Mrs. Davenport's Maid
