The Rose of Kentucky

The little girl, having lost her mother by death, would have been a homeless orphan had not the generous natured planter adopted her. He sends her to school, and as he watches her progress he also realizes a growing interest in her that digs deep into his heart. Feeling that he is too old to be her husband, he encourages her interest in his partner, who is a younger man. But she, in spite of the planter's efforts at concealing his love, appreciates the fact that he is making a sacrifice for her welfare, as he sees it. However, she herself loves her benefactor, and is given an opportunity to reject the younger man, as he shows the yellow streak, when the night riders attack the planter's tobacco barns.