A romance of happy valley

John L. Logan (Fawcett) and his wife are very religious, and are taken aback when John Jr. (Harron) announces that he plans to leave their Southern farm and go to New York City to get rich. He is gone seven years and returns a rich man, but is not recognized when he returns home. Meanwhile, his father has fallen on hard times and is trying to get money to pay the farm's mortgage, and plans to murder the stranger staying at his home, not realizing it is his son.