Riley Hatch

Adrian Plummer (Ernest Torrence) is a narrow-minded preacher; Charles Chew, the richest man in the town (George Fawcett) is a confirmed atheist. So when Plummer's son, Guy (Broadway star Glenn Hughes) and Chew's daughter, Bee (May McAvoy), fall in love, neither family looks well on the union. Cod Dugan (Riley Hatch), who runs the local poolroom, has gotten fed up with Plummer's lectures, so he decides to get back at the preacher.

John Keefe, a gambler, shoots and kills Robert Barrington in an argument over a card game. Keefe steals Barrington’s papers and forges a bill of sale to himself for Barrington’s stable of race horses back east. The stable includes the prize filly, Wildfire. Meanwhile, Barrington’s daughters, Henrietta and Myrtle, are becoming worried about their father’s long absence in the West. John Garrison, the sheriff of the town in which Barrington was killed, goes East to investigate.