Harold Burton a trusted employee of the Los Vegas Mining Company Mexico is in a quandary and sorely perplexed owing to a letter from his wife who in sympathizing with him in his struggle for fortune The Superintendent is dangerously sick and is lying on a cot in the office Burton believes him dead is tempted to steal the contents of the safe the payroll and go back to civilization but the everwatchful eye of conscience awakes in him In his ambitions for a purer and nobler manhood restoration is made and Harold Burton is happy in the thought of conquered temptations