Dismissed from the church because of his seemingly undue intimacy with the schoolteacher the young minister becomes an evangelist and after an incident in which he thrashes the drunken sheriff is appointed sheriff by the mayor In the girls home he sees a picture of her father whom he recognizes as identical with that on a circular calling for the arrest of Idaho Mac a notorious desperado He promises the girl that he will never use his gun against her father but sends his deputy the exsheriff to apprehend Idaho Mac at the border The bandit badly wounded by the deputys bullets reaches his daughters house and she thinks the sheriff false to his word