Gene Gauntier works in a New England cloth mill and her boss is getting grabby, not only with her (which earns him a slap in the face from her and a punch from her boyfriend, depending on the occasion), but with the company pay roll, which he steals, and then frames the boy friend for stealing.
The only copies of this early Biograph melodrama available for viewing are in pretty poor shape. Perhaps better copies will be pulled off the Library of Congress' Paper Print collection one of these days, but as things stand, the only worthwhile points are Miss Gauntier's first known screen appearance and what may be some decent location shooting around the rapids and small falls that powered the mills -- again, the poor prints make it impossible to say with certainty which mills, although given that the camera work is credited to Billy Bitzer, I'm granting its excellence.
The pacing of the movie is also poor, with a combination of scenes that could have been written out or extended (the party scene's plot points could have been added to the scene in which the supervisor tries to take liberties with Miss Gauntier; the dog that finds the buried loot fetches people seconds after the villains have buried it). Let it stand that the movie as it exists is a mess and hope that a better copy demonstrates it was not really as bad as all that.