A railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a murder he didn't commit in order to get his son the operation.
Harry Carey
as Big Bill Benson
Frankie Darro
as Little Bill
Edith Roberts
as Nora Burke
Wallace MacDonald
as Malcolm Gregory
Frank Hagney
as Red Burley
Duke R. Lee
as John McFarlane