Jean Carson, an Eastern bred girl who teaches school in the Yukon, marries Steve Fallon, a gambler, after her father and his partner Ned, who is Steve's brother and who also loves her, go prospecting for gold. She leaves Steve after he drunkenly boasts of having another wife elsewhere. When Ned returns and proposes, Jean confides in him. She travels to New York to visit her ill sister Helen, and after learning that Steve died, she marries Bruce Graham, a broker. Five years later, Jean is happily married with two children. Doc Sloan, a former gambling friend of Steve's, tells her that Steve is alive and threatens to reveal her past if she interferes with his pursuit of Helen. Ned, who now lives in New York, informs Jean that he buried Steve. Ned lures Sloan to his office to kill him and claim that the murder was done in self-defense, but Jean, hiding in an adjoining room, shoots Sloan herself. Ned takes the blame, but is acquitted, and marries Helen.