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Duke is thrown from his horse one day and seriously hurt. Nan comes to nurse him at the hospital where de Spain has been since he was shot. De Spain leaves soon after her arrival, but comes to see her under the pretext of bringing supplies. It is while there that she at last surrenders to his pleading and consents to become formally "engaged,” although she fears their happiness cannot last.
Gale learns of the affair and tells Duke, her uncle. Nan is forced to confess her love for de Spain and her uncle angrily tells her that she will never marry him. Nan so fears for his safety that she begs him to give her up, but he tells her that they must stick together and all will be well. Gale, however, wins old Duke's permission to marry Nan and the girl is kept a prisoner in her room until she will consent to the marriage her cousin and uncle desire.
One night de Spain gets the following message from Music Mountain: "Take me away from here as soon as you can." The messenger will say no more, but he knows it is from Nan. He rides cautiously to the Morgan ranch, and after dismounting, walks to the sitting room window and overhears old Duke and Gale planning Nan's marriage to take place that night. Suddenly he reveals himself and holds the men at bay while he and Nan, who has appeared, made good their escape.
As they have no horses, they are obliged to climb Music Mountain to reach safety. Sassoon nearly kills de Spain, but the latter manages to get a successful shot at his enemy and they reach town, where he takes Nan to the home of one of his friends.
The next day de Spain learns that old Duke Morgan was the one who had killed his father. Nan is broken-hearted, and at once starts back to her uncle to learn the truth. She tries to bring him to de Spain, but they are caught in a terrific blizzard, and only saved by de Spain just as they are about to succumb.
Duke tells de Spain that he and Sassoon both shot at his father that terrible night, but that they never knew which shot proved fatal, and they learned to their horror soon after, that de Spain was not the man they were after — who had killed a m'ember of their clan. There is a make-shift wedding ceremony performed right there in the snow, for old Duke gives in at last to the lovers, but later at the settlement there is a more elaborate wedding, which serves to unite the two enemy factions — the stage and the railroad men and the Morgan gang with their neighbors.
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