Old Silas Gregg lives with his pretty daughter, Vedah, in the western hills, unknown to the girl. Gregg is the leader of a band of smugglers, who have their rendezvous in his barn. Vedah is loved by Brant Graham, a sturdy young Hillman, and to insure his future, Graham gets the sheriff to appoint him a deputy, receives his badge, pins it inside his sleeve and is ordered to be on the watch for smugglers, who are continually getting goods across the Mexican border, Graham promises and leaves. Later he goes to Gregg's shack, puts the ring on Vedah's finger and asks to see her father, to gain his consent. Finding he has gone down to the barn they start in search for him. In passing the barn Graham suddenly discovers Gregg and his gang sorting over their goods inside.

A girl's warning causes a bandit chief to exchange glasses with a hired assassin.

In Corsica, a lieutenant trails brigands and saves a captured flag.

The Lieutenant is saved from kidnappers in time to win a boxing match and the colonel's daughter

The Lieutenant saves a spy's daughter from a fire and she saves him from the sewer.

In Algiers, brigands throw the lieutenant over a cliff and sailors save him from a flooding cave.

The Lieutenant stops rebels from extinguishing a lighthouse beam as a signal for an uprising.

In Jamaica, a girl signals the Lieutenant's ship for help when rioting workmen set fire to her father's plantation

The Lieutenant saves a dancer from a jealous lover's mob.

A naval lieutenant saves his fiancée from drug smugglers.