A Marked Man (1917)

Down and out and hungry, Cheyenne Harry (Carey), breaks into the home of Grant Young (Rattenberry) and his daughter Molly (Malone), she recognizes him as the man who held up the train she was traveling on but then allowed her to keep a brooch, a gift from her mother. Grant decides to give him a chance to make good by becoming an employee on the ranch. Harry enters a horse race contest to get enough money to visit his mother, however, road agent Ben Kent, an old friend of Harry, cuts his stirrups. Grant forces Harry to assist in holding up a stage coach, and after Kent kills the driver of the coach, both he and Harry are arrested. A message announcing the pending arrival of Harry's mother (Townsend) results in the postponement of Harry's hanging for a couple of weeks, and Harry is allowed by the sheriff (Steele) to make use of Grant's ranch and daughter to deceive Harry's mother, as Harry had stated in his letters to her that he was an honorable man. After his mother's departure, a telegram arrives that exonerates Harry, and he hurries to see Molly.