Bill Bradley, bachelor rancher, allows Betty Brent and her younger brother, whose father has been killed, to continue to homestead a grazing section on his ranch. But Betty is eighteen and the town gossips are wearing out their wagging tongues, so Bill asks the sheriff and his kindly wife to take them into their home.

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