The Detective's Conscience Filming Locations

Bud Carter and his sister Nell, live among the foot-hills of Texas, near the little town of Sandson. They are the only remaining members of a family, which for years had lived in Southern Tennessee where they plied the rather hazardous industry of manufacturing illicit whiskey, doing a fair business. The appearance of illicit whiskey has not escaped the eagle eye of the sheriff, and he wires the facts to the Chief of the Revenue Office for the section. Delmer Campbell is sent to co-operate with the sheriff in breaking up the still and arresting the offender. Upon his arrival Campbell, disguised as a convict, gets the sheriff and his posse to pursue him past the Carter homestead. The pretended convict pleads with Bud to save him, which he does. An unlooked-for complication arises when Nell falls in love with the disguised revenue officer. Campbell is quick to use the opening thus offered to aid him in his work and takes advantage of it. The result is that he falls in love with the girl, but is not willing to relinquish his task of jailing the brother. Campbell tells Bud that his sister and himself are lovers and contemplate marriage. Suspicious by nature, Bud suggests that the marriage had better take place at once and backs up the suggestion with a significant movement toward his gun. Campbell is in a dilemma. To refuse would probably cost him his life and anyhow would certainly mean the defeat of all his plans to capture the moonshiner. He consents and the party seek the nearest parson, where the knot is tied. Bud welcomes him as one of the family and shows him the still as well as gives him all information regarding its operation. Campbell then seeks the sheriff and the still is raided and Carter arrested. Campbell returns to St. Louis, cruelly abandoning his young wife. Two years pass, Bud is serving his sentence. The heart-broken wife is striving to support a little stranger which has come to her. Campbell has been made chief of the St. Louis Bureau. His conscience, however, gives him no rest. Finally he can stand it no longer. He returns and the little woman forgives. Shortly after, Bud Is released and returns with a firm determination to kill the man who betrayed him. His first thought is for his sister. He goes to Sandson, and, entering the house, finds Campbell. Bud picks a knife from the table and a struggle begins. It is interrupted by Nell, who with the baby in her arms, enters the room and interposes herself between the two men. At first Bud is obdurate but the baby finally wins a way into his rugged heart and prompts him to forgive.