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Will, from the city, is testing ore on Silver Ridge, happy in his work and his engagement to May, back in town. Will meets Tremway, a river fisherman, a big brute of a fellow, who is just the opposite of his pretty, fragile wife. Tremway scoffs at Laura's pets and her flowers. Tremway asks Bill to sup with his wife and himself and orders Laura to kill her pet chicken for the meal. Will refuses to partake of the fowl and wins Laura's timid respect. Tremway, however, sulks and conceives a bitter hatred for the young fellow. He attempts to make away with Will while the latter descends the side of a cliff by a rope ladder, but Laura, seeing her husband's knife about to sever the rope, snatches a rifle and fires at Tremway. He is wounded, but not before cutting the rope. Will saves himself by clutching shrubbery on the side of the cliff. He even ascends and ministers to Tremway just as Laura hurries up to say that it was she who shot her husband. Will helps Tremway home and orders him to ...
