Laughing Larry O'Doone, corporal of the Royal Mounted Northwest Police outpost, while on patrol duty sees a masked bandit hold up the stage. Larry dashes to the rescue and manages to reach the bandit and fight him, but the bandit slips ...See moreLaughing Larry O'Doone, corporal of the Royal Mounted Northwest Police outpost, while on patrol duty sees a masked bandit hold up the stage. Larry dashes to the rescue and manages to reach the bandit and fight him, but the bandit slips from his fingers, leaving a locket which he had been wearing around his neck. Larry opens the locket and finds in it the picture of the girl he loves, Flora McKenzie. Hastings, a fur trader, tries to kiss Flora. She screams and her father, just returning, hears her cry and dashes in. He tries to throttle Hastings, but Hastings threatens to tell his secret. Peter McKenzie, Flora's father, is the masked bandit. Larry, who has followed Peter from the scene of the robbery, overhears this. Hastings leaves and Larry trails him. Flora sees the mask and some of the loot drop from her father's pocket during the fight and realizes that her father is a thief. She is overwhelmed and begs that they leave immediately and start over again in a new place. Meanwhile, Larry has seen Peter hide the loot in a nearby river, and he dives for it and refills the bag containing the loot with stones and lowers it again. He hides in the bushes when he sees Hastings coming and watches him while he fishes up the bag of stones. Hastings, thinking Peter has double-crossed him, starts out for the McKenzie home. Larry goes to his superior officer and hands over the loot and promises to get his man that night. He starts for the McKenzie home, hating to arrest Peter, but bound to by his oath of service. When he arrives at the cabin he finds Peter dying and Peter tells him Hastings has wounded him and then kidnapped Flora. Larry follows Hastings and dives from the river bank to the river and pulls Hastings out of the canoe in which he has Flora and the two men fight under water. Larry handcuffs Hastings and takes him back, with Flora, to the cabin, and hands McKenzie over to the inspector. Peter dies, and Flora and Larry marry. Written by
Universal Weekly, July 1, 1922
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