The Lightning Bolt

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Held and Brady are fellow officers of the mounted police, and both love the same girl, while Brady's affection is overshadowed by a deep hatred for his rival. The two men are dispatched into the surrounding forests to look for timber fires. Brady's hatred comes to master him and when Reid bends over a stream to drink, his rival strikes him on the head with his revolver butt and leaves him there for dead. An old hunter finds Held and nurses him back to life. In the meantime, Brady returns and tells the girt that Reid was accidentally killed. He continues to press his suit and she repulses him. One night, during a big storm, Brady comes to the girl's hut drunk. He takes her in his arms by force, and as the man and woman are straggling. Reid arrives from the forests. He sees the struggle through the window, lifts his gun to fire, but a bolt of lightning strikes Brady dead before Reid can execute his purpose.