At Rolling Forks (1912)

Tom Howard and Lee Williams are in love with Hetty. Her father has selected Lee as her future husband, telling Tom that if she accepts him, she is no longer a daughter of his. Tom, Hetty and her mother plead with the father in vain. Hetty and Tom go away and are married. The father remains bitter, so much so that he will not permit his wife to take Hetty a basket that she has prepared for her. Lee comes to the ranch and offers to take it to her. He goes to the Howard shack and gives the basket to Hetty. Tom finds him there, and believing the basket only an excuse to see his wife, he throws it outside. Lee is ordered out. He goes indignantly. Later, Hetty's father starts off on a prospecting trip with a number of others. Tom and his partner also start on another trip. The father and Tom meet at a general store, but the older man refuses to speak to Tom. The father is hurt by a blast from a mine, and the men bring him home. Lee, who was one of' the party, is begged by the mother to run for Hetty, as she fears her husband may die. He goes for Hetty, but while he is imploring her to come home to see her father, Tom returns. One of his pack mules having died on the way, he had returned for another. He watches Lee and Hetty from outside, but unable to overhear what they are saying. Hetty agrees to go. Tom gets his guns ready, but Hetty steps between Tom and Lee, quite unconscious that she is preventing a murder. Lee and Hetty hurry out and Tom follows. Reaching her old home and rushing inside, they find the family assembled around the deathbed of the father,

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GenresShort Western