A family quarrel and the sight of a large roll of money, the pay roll, so influences the mind of the laborer's daughter that she dreams of terrible things happening to her father, brother and sweetheart, the paymaster. In dreamland she sees her father drug her sweetheart's liquor and taking him home, proceeds to rob him of the pay roll. Coming upon them unawares, the girl manages to get the father out of the way, then summoning all her strength literally carries the young paymaster out of the house. In the meantime, her brother, a shiftless character, returns home and resolving to take things easy, falls asleep on the bed where the old man had placed the paymaster. On returning from his errand, the father sees that the coast is clear, steals to the bed, still intent upon securing the pay roll and unaware of the fact that the figure on the bed is his own son instead of the intended victim. A struggle ensues in which the father chokes the son to insensibility and is discovered by the girl. At this juncture the men return from work and find the girl moaning in her sleep. With her awakening comes the realization that her terrible tragedy happened only in dreamland.
