- In the guise of a hunted moonshiner, the revenue officer gained the moonshiners' confidence. It was the girl who discovered his perfidy. She had some difficulty in making the moonshiners believe. She permitted the man's escape on account of his baby, but perhaps they understood better when the young revenue officer never returned.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- He was a young man and out of work. The baby was about to come and he was in despair. He took a position with the revenue officers who were about to leave to suppress the manufacture of illicit whiskey. Down in the Kentucky hills they were sent on the trail of the moonshiners. They seemed a hard band to capture. The young officer hit upon a plan which would gain admittance into their hard and secret natures. He posed as a hunted moonshiner and the other officers were on the trail. They pursued him to the cabin of the old leader and then across the valley to another cabin where dwelt the old man and the girl. The girl was impressed by his story and agreed to save him from the officers. She hid him in the cabin and the officers went their way leaving the young man a spy. On the old father's return, he believed the young man's story and when the other moonshiners, a father and his young son in love with the young girl, came in, they consented that he should join the gang. Soon he was at work on the still with them. But down in the valley the officers called to him. The moonshiners heard and covering up their still with the brushes which they use for this purpose, they compelled him to be blindfolded and led away from the territory. He asked for one moment to be alone and was given a little freedom. He had arranged with the officers that a certain tree should act as their post-office. The girl who had climbed a tree nearby saw one of the officers come to the appointed tree and leave a note behind. Her curiosity overcame her and she went to the tree and took out the note and read: "Your wife sends this and longs to see you now the baby has come. The chief says now is the time to strike the moonshiners." A photograph of the baby was also enclosed. The horrible truth dawned upon the girl; the man was a spy, yet the baby in her young mother heart aroused her sympathy and her heart went out to the man. From a distance she watched him approach the tree, take out the letter, which she had placed back, and return to the shack. The other members of the gang, however, had become suspicious and coming into the shack they declared that the man was a spy and demanded that he be searched. In the next room, however, he heard them and escaped through an open window. He was pursued, brought back and tied. They decided to wait a few days and then make away with him. The girl, who had kept the copy of the baby's photograph, left alone in the cabin with the man while her boy lover paraded outside, looked at the picture of the baby. Again her sympathies were aroused. She thought of the little baby and the mother waiting at home. She went into the next room and let the man go. There was another chase over the mountains, but this time the man got away by hiding in a clump of bushes. The girl tried to explain that she did it for the baby, but naturally the moonshiners could not understand. Perhaps they understood better when a letter came, telling them that the young revenue officer had left the service and would never return to molest them.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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