The Harvest of Sin
Directed by Walter EdwardsJim Neal, proprietor of the Halfway Saloon, between Tucson and Gold Creek, is discovered selling liquor to the Indians by the minister. When Jim is asked to desist, he tells the minister that he is running the place and he will please mind his own business. The minister pleads with him, telling him that the place is not a fit home for his little daughter. Mrs. Neal, realizing that which the minister says is true, takes the little girl and starts to visit her sister in a distant settlement. She is attacked by the Indians, crazed with firewater. Hiding the little girl in the bushes, she drives on alone, but is captured by the Indians and tied to a tree. In the meantime Jim has gotten into a fight at the saloon and is driven out. The minister finds the little girl and is returning to the settlement with her, when he is seen by Jim who, feeling that he is the cause of his trouble and feeling that he is kidnapping his child, fires at the minister, killing his horse. He is much surprised when he hears the story of the child. He asks the minister to take the child safely to the settlement while he goes to the rescue of his wife. Jim sees troops approaching, and realizing that they are about to be caught in a trap by the Indians, warns them. The soldiers turn the tables on the Indians, capture them and rescue Mrs. Neal. That night they find Jim, dead, with a note to his wife in his hand, telling her that the minister was right.
