When Tom Redding's wealthy father dies and it turns out that all he left Tom was a mountain of debts, all of his "friends" desert him--except young Mary Austin. Determined to get out from all his debt, Tom heads west and eventually strikes it rich with an oil well. Now wealthy, he hatches a plan to get even with his "friends" in his hometown--by pretending to return home broke but having a colleague secretly buy up as much property in town as he can.
as Tom Redding
as Mary Thorne
as Otis Grimley
as Eustace Grimley
as H.H. Hornby
as Olivia Hornby
as Aggie Twaddle
as John Thorne
as Mrs. Redding
as Billy Andrews
as Horace Beemer
as Policeman
as Collector
