Chris Buckwell (Warner Oland), cruel and greedy czar of San Francisco's Tenderloin, San Francisco, is heartless in his persecution of the Chinese, though he himself is secretly a half-caste. Buckwell, eager to possess the land of Don Hernández Vásquez (Josef Swickard), sends Michael Brandon (Anders Randolf), an unscrupulous attorney, to make an offer. Brandon's nephew, Terrence (Charles Emmett Mack), meets the grandee's beautiful daughter, Dolores (Dolores Costello), while Vásquez refuses the offer. Terry tries to save the Vásquez land grants, but when Chris causes the grandee's death, Dolores takes an oath to avenge her father. Learning that Chris is a half-caste, Dolores induces his feeble-minded dwarf brother (Angelo Rossitto) to denounce him; he captures her and Terry, but they are saved from torture and death by the great earthquake of 1906 that kills the villain.
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