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Mary has come to Gunsight for two reasons, the first to regain her health, which has impaired her hearing, making necessary the use of an ear trumpet, and second, to recoup her fortune, lost in the East. It is the thought of this that makes her offer her entire savings about two thousand dollars to Jones, as she says she has always wanted to invest in a mine. After some argument, Jones does accept her money and rides back across the desert to his mine.
At the end of a hard winter's work, Jones has the mine in such shape that he can get a Wall Street financier to back him, keeping, however, fifty-one per cent, of the stock in his own hands, giving the banker, Stoddard, forty-nine. After the capitalist has gone back East, Rimrock rides into Gunsight with, as he expresses it, "a roll of money big enough to choke a crocodile.” He pays off his accumulated debts and goes to Mary's office to square off with her.
The girl refuses to accept the money, however, saying she prefers to keep the stock. Jones realizes that this leaves himself and Stoddard with forty-nine per cent, each and the controlling voting power in Mary's hands.
It is shortly after this that McEain again attempt s to steal Jones ' mine by seizing the apex, but this time is unsuccessful because Mary warns Jones, of whom she becoming more than ordinarily fond, and Jones reaches his property just in time to stop the thieves. There is a quarrel and McBain is killed. Jones, held to await his trial, is only able to manage affairs at the mine with the help of Mary, who visits him in prison and takes his orders .
When Jones is acquitted, he finds Gunsight wearing a new air of prosperity, due to the renewed activities at the mines. Stoddard, the banker, in the meantime, sees that in order to control the mine, he must break up the growing friendship between Mary and Jones, which enables them to use their shares together to control the mine.
To accomplish this Stoddard sends an adventuress, Mrs. Hardesty, to Gunsight to distract Jones' attention from Mary. In this she is unexpectedly successful, for Mary, becoming jealous, leaves the town for the East for a long deferred operation on her ears. Jones follows her, but is unable to locate her in New York, partly due to the efforts of Mrs. Hardesty who has in turn followed him, and who keeps Stoddard informed as to his goings and comings . Jones becomes involved in a Wall Street deal and sends to Mary for a tremendous sum of money— an advance on the coming dividend. By this she realizes that trouble is brewing, probably at the hands of Stoddard, and so is not surprised to learn by pretending to be still deaf soon after, that the latter plans to seize Jones' mine on a flimsy legal pretext that he has not re-located it. Mary takes a wild horseback ride to the location and stakes it for Rimrock, but is caught by the marauders who in turn are caught by Jones, whom a premonition of evil has brought post haste to the spotAfter the affair is over, Jones and Mary find that after all, they will keep the controlling interest in their hands, under the combined names of Mr. and Mrs. Rimrock Jones.
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