John Humperdink Stover, otherwise known as "The Varmint" for his pestiferousness or as "Dink" when in special favor, was expelled from a boarding school and sent to Lawrenceville Academy. On the stage on the way to the school he meets a silent man whom Dink sizes up for a salesman and he proceeds to wax eloquent on the subject of his past career and the reason he was expelled from his previous school.

Jack Pickford
as John Humperdink Stover

Louise Huff
as Laura

Theodore Roberts
as A Roman

Henry Malvern
as Tough McCarty

Ben Suslow
as White Mountain Canary

Milton Schumann
as Caramel-Colored Angel

Maurice Kessell
as Cheyenne Baxter

Maxfield Stanley
as Doc MacNooder

Robert Gordon
as Tennessee Shad

Edward Sedgwick
as Butsey White