The Flame of Youth (1917)

James Gordon Sr owner of the Gordon syndicate dispatches his roughneck son Jimmy to investigate why production has fallen off in his opal mine on an island off the coast of lower California After an argument with his fiancée socialite Lucy Andrews Jimmy leaves for the island where he is met by Juan McCools servant who along with Jasper Sneedham has been cheating the company On the launch Juan tries to eliminate Jimmy by hitting him over the head but the lad escapes and swims to shore where he is rescued by Sneedhams stepdaughter Nadine Nadine takes Jimmy to the hut of mine foreman Fred Haimer the only honest man on the island