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George Wilke is sent to manage a bank in a Queensland mining town. There he falls in love, but his sweetheart is actually in league with another man who plans to rob the bank. When the robbery plan goes awry Wilke is lauded for his courage, although he knows his success was more due to luck.
Sitting around a campfire in Australia a man tells an unlikely tale of his previous life as Count Barenzik, imprisoned for disagreeing with the Russian Czar.