The Red Woman

Morton Dean, the spendthrift son of a millionaire mine owner, is asked by his father to develop some properties in New Mexico. Morton refuses to go, using as an excuse his impending marriage to socialite Dora Wendell. This angers his father, who changes his will so that Morton will inherit only a few thousand dollars and deeds to the mine. Upon his father's death, Morton discovers that Dora loves only the money that he was expected to inherit. Spurning her, Morton goes to New Mexico. Meanwhile, Maria Temosach, an Indian maiden, graduates with honors from an Eastern school, but she is not accepted socially. She gladly returns to her home in New Mexico, where she repulses the advances of Sancho, a cattle thief. When Maria shows an interest in Morton, the jealous Sancho wounds him in an attack, but he is rescued by Maria and taken to her cabin. They fall in love, and she destroys the idol she has worshipped, declaring that Morton now will be "her god." One night, Maria walks in her sleep to Morton's bed. When Sancho, with Dora, comes looking for Morton, Maria paints him as the idol and places him on the idol's pedestal. Although Sancho and Dora do not find Morton, when Maria learns from Dora that Morton's father has left another will giving him the entire estate, she convinces him to go back with Dora. Later, Maria becomes pregnant, and Sancho claims that he is the father; however, when the baby is born with blonde hair and white skin, Maria realizes that it is Morton's. Although Dora has tried to win Morton back, he returns to New Mexico to the love of his Indian maiden.