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Jimmie, a small-town boy, visits a traveling circus which came to town. He falls in love with Pansy, the daughter of the circus' tightrope walker, after he saves her from a gang of thugs. The circus leaves, though, and Jimmie, also determined to become a tightrope walker, sets up a wire in his backyard to practice. When the circus returns, Jimmie goes and visit them again, but he soon becomes involved in a tragedy involving Pansy's father and a plot to take over the circus by a former employee.