As a surviving partner of a gold mining enterprise, Joe Meadows has also been raising the late partner's daughter Mickey. Now that she has grown up, Joe plans to send her to New York to live with her aunt Mrs. Drake. At the same time, Mrs. Drake hopes that her daughter Elsie will marry another miner, Herbert Thornhill, to alleviate the economic difficulties of the Drake family. When Thornhill went to California to inspect his mine, he met Mickey and fell in love with her. Later, when Mickey went to live with the Drakes family in New York, she found herself in an uncomfortable situation.