The Cross in the Cacti
Directed by Webster CullisonJack and Mark, brothers, are suitors for the hand of Rose, the belle of the eastern village. Jack is an upright fellow, while his brother is inclined to seek the crooked path, though he is a fine looking chap. Jack enters a saloon brooding over his love affair, and falls asleep. Mark enters. is given a knockout drop by the bartender and struck on the head. His pockets are then rifled, and into the hand of the sleeping Jack a gun is thrust. Jack awakens and imagines that he has killed his brother; he flees west. There he buys a worthless mining claim. He falls in love with the hotel keeper's daughter in time, and she returns his love. In the meantime, Mark's health has broken down and the doctor advises him to go west. By chance he goes to the same town which his brother lives in. Immediately he returns to his evil ways and joins a crowd in holding up the paymaster. A letter which Mark drops is found and compromises Jack. The cowboys and miners start out for Jack, but his sweetheart reaches him first. There is a wild chase; Jack and the girl manage to ensconce themselves behind a barricade of rocks. A lively battle begins and the girl is wounded. Meanwhile. Mark, in an argument with a gambler, is shot and fatally wounded. Just before he dies he writes a confession of his crime. Jack's faithful Indian servant rides furiously to save his master. He arrives in the nick of time. Jack and his sweetheart return with the boys, the hero and heroine of the day. The body of Mark is borne out to the desert and laid to rest beneath the cacti. A rude cross is erected, which marks the end of a wayward and misspent life.
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