The husband and his wife live alone in the mountains, where he is working out a claim. A stranger from a distant mine is injured in the vicinity. The husband nurses him back to health. During his convalescence the stranger persuades the wife to elope with him.
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Wallace Reid as The Prospector
Dorothy Davenport as The Prospector's Wife
Ed Brady as The Stranger
United States 28 January 1914
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