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Billy Barton, a bank teller (Douglas MacLean), gets himself in a load of trouble when he takes responsibility for some money stolen by Fred Kingston (Louis Natheaux), the son of the bank president (Bert Hadley). Fred has promised to come clean but he never does and Billy finds himself on a train, headed for prison. But the train wrecks and he winds up in a small town where he goes to work for a farmer, Silas Harkins (Willard Robards). Since Harkins is short on money, he pays Billy with a mule (whose tricks add quite a lot of humor to the film). Billy falls in love with Mary Spivins (Madge Bellamy), the daughter of that town's banker (tto Hoffman). Spivins and Harkins have a long-standing feud so Billy tries to negotiate a truce between them. But right when he's making some headway, crooks rob the bank and bound and gag Spivins. Billy tries to rescue him and gets locked in a vault. His mule kicks through the bricks in the wall, saving him from suffocation, but a little boy thinks he has a better idea to solve the dilemma -- dynamite. As a result, just about everybody involved lands in the hospital. But the robbers are caught, Billy proposes to his girl and all ends well. This picture contained a lot more slapstick than the usual light comedy.