Young Tatters ( Violet Mersereau ) is a waif living in a mining camp, who believes she is descended from royalty. In the mining town where Tatters lives, Lem Braxton ( Charles Slattery ) is stirring labour unrest in the mines owned by Hugh Tillson ( Donald Hall ) . Tillson dispatches his secretary, David Grant ( Frank Otto ), to settle with the men, and Braxton, in an effort to prevent a settlement, throws Grant from a cliff. Tatters finds him, and with the help of her friend "Crazy Anne" ( Grace Barton ) brings Grant home and nurses him back to health. Meanwhile, Tillson, alarmed by Grant's disappearance, comes to search for him. Braxton, crazed, determines to rid himself of Tillson by undermining the shack in which the mine's office is located when Grant and Tatters warn Tillson of the danger. Tillson escapes, but Tatters is injured in the collapse and makes her way to Anne's cabin. Tillson comes to thank the little girl who saved his life and recognizes in her the replica of his actress wife, "the Queen of Bohemia," who had left him years earlier.
This early drama, filmed on location in Pennsylvania by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, starring silent film actress Violet Mersereau, is tragically now considered a lost film.
This early drama, filmed on location in Pennsylvania by the Universal Film Manufacturing Company, starring silent film actress Violet Mersereau, is tragically now considered a lost film.
