Miss Adams, the North Fork schoolteacher, is pressured to leave her job and the town. She is accused of being too progressive, because she champions women's right to vote. The mob against her is led by an influential rancher whose older son had studied at her school. Lucas befriends her and learns that the real trouble stems from lies circulated about Miss Adams by the rancher's son. Lucas then faces the difficult task of persuading a father that his son has been dishonest.