An All-star cast compliments this rural comedy drama taken from the popular poem by John Greenleaf Whittier. Young Dick Alden (Frankie Lee) is the impetuous child who is blamed for all that goes wrong in his small country town. His only friend is his playmate Mary (Gertie Messenger), who soothes the pain of the troubled child. Dick runs away from home when he is falsely accused of treachery once too often. He returns as an adult (John Bower) after he has made his fortune to seek vengeance on those who caused his childhood trauma. Mary (Marjorie Daw) is reunited with her old friend and persuades Dick to abandon his plans of revenge.