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Children of Banishment Synopsis

Foreman Dick Bream, of the lumber firm of Hill and Burchard, resigns from his job to buy a profitable tract of land with stranger Allen Mackenzie. Dick's former boss Hill, desiring the land, attempts to buy out Mackenzie without Dick's knowledge. After Hill tries to prevent Dick from shipping logs over his territory, to stop them from reaching the railroad, Dick fights Hill and dynamites the logs Hill placed as an obstruction. When Dick discovers Hill's dealings with Mackenzie, he forces Mackenzie to put his shares in his wife Eloise's name. As Mackenzie begins to act honestly, Dick discovers that he is falling in love with Eloise. Not able to eat or sleep because of his love for her, Dick leaves the camp. Mackenzie, who ascertains that Eloise has been faithful, follows Dick and falls into a mountain stream. Dick saves his life, but soon dies from pneumonia after wishing happiness to Mackenzie and Eloise.

Jacques of the Silver North Synopsis

Trapper Jacques La Rouge loves Memory Baird, the American daughter of a trading post owner, but because he is a half-breed, his love can only be shown in friendship. While deer hunting with Jacques, Memory gets lost and enters a notorious roadhouse. Owner Jim Blake and the other patrons, thinking she is a dancer, begin to abuse her until fugitive Joseph Clyde Treffery, whom Memory earlier hid from the police, claims she is to be his wife. When Blake forces them to marry immediately, Treffery assures Memory that he will have the marriage annulled later, but after Memory falls in love with American Warren Sherman, Treffery comes to get his wife. After he fights with Memory's father, who dies, Memory finds Treffery at the roadhouse where she dances disguised. Treffery kidnaps her, but Jacques, in a dog sled, chases them. After Treffery is killed by wolves, Memory marries Warren, and Jacques leaves singing to hide his broken heart.