An old man named David cleans a saloon every day for his living, but one morning he discovers the owner of the bar dead upstairs. As he sits outside turning people away from the bar, a fancy woman named Amy Silverstone walks up to the saloon. She’s gained notoriety on the Erie for managing to outdrink every man who challenges her to a competition, and now she claims that she’s the new owner of the bar. David takes the day off to go fishing, and as he does he thinks about his daughter Molly, who ran away from a perfectly good arranged marriage and left him to be a destitute bar cleaner. With this in mind, the next morning he returns to the saloon to clean, only to find it already spotless. Amy comes downstairs and tells him that he can stay on as her cleaner, as long as he fixes up his standards. He asks her if she’s seen his daughter, to which she replies she has not, and she thought he was mean to her anyways. Then she tells him her secret to winning drinking competitions, which is a “special mixture” that really is cold tea.  On the night the bar opens, David is angry and resentful of Amy’s controlling behavior and criticism of his work. He and a couple other bar patrons decide to get back at her by switching out her mixture for real alcohol while one of them challenges her to a competition. To their surprise, she doesn’t seem fazed at all by the switch, and even wins the competition. Only moments later, she collapses dead to the floor. The barkeep takes her upstairs and finds her papers, which say her name was really Molly Johnson. In shock and grief, David begins to sob as he realizes his trick killed his own long-lost daughter.