By the Law

A group of five gold miners originally from Western Europe find a large deposit in the Yukon. One, after being made to act as a servant, having his food stolen and ridiculed, enters the cabin with a rifle for hunting or protection and, in a moment of madness, shoots dead two of his comrades. The remaining two, a married couple, disarm him but have the dilemma of whether to administer justice themselves or risk waiting for the thaw and then trying to return to civilization to render the offender to the public court.