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- This is a bogus title which appears in The Universal Silents by Richard A. Braff. No film of this title was either produced or released at this time.
- "The Woman in White" is the story of a bold substitution made because a young wife refused to transfer her property to her scheming husband, Laura being the wife and Sir Percival Glyde being the husband. The Woman in White of the story is a girl of about Laura's general age and personal appearance, who has exhibited mental peculiarities from childhood. They were harmless in a way, one of the principal eccentricities being that of always dressing in white. When she finally became a source of distress to her own mother, the latter preferred to have her placed in a private establishment rather than a pauper asylum, and the mother thus played a part in the strange deception which was practiced by Sir Percival Glyde and Count Fosco. In order to obtain an enormous estate which would descend to Sir Percival in case of Laura's death without issue, the feeble minded and feeble bodied Woman in White was drilled to impersonate Laura while the latter was incarcerated in a private madhouse. Such is the plot of the story with Count Fosco as the principal conspirator and a little Italian named Professor Pesca as the real instrument of justice, although Laura's lover, Walter Hartwright, was an active agent. The photodrama opens with a revelation of the existence of one of those brotherhoods organized in Latin countries for political or criminal purposes. The members of the secret society are all gathered when Count Fosco betrays them by signaling to the police. A raid and terrific struggle follow; but little Professor Pesca escapes to the consternation of the Judas who has betrayed his fellow-members of the society. The love story of Walter Hartwright follows. He is the drawing master at the home of Laura and falls deeply in love with her. His love is reciprocated by the charming young girl, but the usual obstacle interposes that makes stories oi this kind interesting. Laura's husband has already been selected for her and the discovery of her affection for the drawing master results in his discharge. An end being made to the intimate relations she enjoyed with Walter Hartwright, and the young girl being completely under the dominance of her English father, she is compelled to marry the baronet that he has chosen, Sir Percival Glyde. Sir Percival Glyde is one of the decadent gentlemen of title who come to this country every year in search of some weak-minded heiress; and as his main purpose in matrimony is that of obtaining property he falls into the scheme of substitution suggested by bold Count Fosco. He has borrowed money from Fosco, and is such a moral idiot himself that he consents to have his wife drugged and incarcerated in a madhouse when she refuses to transfer her inheritance to him. It is almost unbelievable at this stage of our civilization that such a scheme could be carried out without immediate discovery because of the large number of people involved in transferring the young wife from her home to the private asylum and in the acceptance as a substitute of the half-witted woman who is nearly at the point of death. There could be no intelligent and honest acceptance of the sickly idiot in the place of the bright and charming girl she resembled, but as a matter of fact, the use of private asylums in England for the purpose of incarcerating people who are in the way was so common at that time that the great novels of Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade on that subject stirred up a political and moral revolution. Laura manages to escape from the private asylum after her substitute has died and been buried and she visits the graveyard where a stone has been raised sacred to her memory. Walter Hartwright meets her there. Believing her to be dead he visits her tomb as a matter of sentiment and finds a woman in black who is none other than the one supposed to be lying beneath the sod. The story now turns to the re-establishment of Laura's identity and this is brought about by the intuitive steps taken by Hartwright to follow up the associations of Sir Percival Glyde. He finds him in company with Count Fosco, then shadows the latter persistently, but without result, until he describes the arch villain to his particular friend and associate, little Professor Pesca. Pesca has not forgotten the treachery of Count Fosco and might be excused for writing the latter's death warrant on the spot. Instead, he gives Walter a communication to deliver which warns Fosco that he will meet his death by secret violence unless he re-establishes the right of the living Laura to her inheritance and to her place in society. Armed with this letter Walter extorts a written confession from the arch conspirator, the consideration being that Count Fosco shall be permitted two days' time to escape vengeance at the hands of the Brotherhood. The interesting and impressive Count Fosco, one of the boldest villains ever delineated in the social drama, removes the hirsute ornaments on his face and otherwise disguises himself to escape what should be coming to him. We feel that he is well out of the way, but what about the drunken decadent of attractive title, Sir Percival Glyde, who has slipped into matrimony and a tremendous inheritance with a conscienceless lack of scruples peculiar to his kind? A visitation of God causes the death of Sir' Percival Glyde in a highly dramatic fire scene. He is partially destroyed when rescued by Walter Hartwright and carried into the open to perish miserably. His dying confession completes the chain of evidence necessary to prove his own infamy and the true identity of the young wife he had placed in a private madhouse. The play ends with the final terror of Count Fosco. He has been detected by members of the Brotherhood in spite of his disguise and is shadowed from point to point in some very effective scenes until we see him in the last one lying dead at the heads of those he betrayed, alone in a humiliating end of a long life of degraded ability.
- Ferdie and Bertie are persistent suitors for Ethel's hand. Ethel loves Jack, who is absorbed in his books and pays little attention to her. Ferdie and Bertie are actually loved by two charming girls but ignore them. Not knowing which to select, Ethel offers her hand as a prize for a fishing contest; the winner shall marry her. Ferdie and Bertie are at once on the job, but are annoyed by their other sweethearts and catch no fish. Jack forgets about the contest until roused by Ethel, then falls asleep while angling. The other boys, in despair, each secretly buy an enormous fish from a small village lad. Ethel, seeing the wonderful fish they have caught, and so that neither of the despised suitors may win her hand, secretly buys an enormous fish from the boy and attaches it to the hook of sleeping Jack and steals away. Bertie is at the hotel and as he displays the wonderful fish; he is the hero of the hour when Ferdie comes in with a still larger fish; in fact a young whale, and is about to claim Ethel's hand, when Jack dashes in with a fish of gigantic proportions and claims the girl, much to the amusement of the small boy, who discreetly maintains silence.
- The Governor's daughter has many suitors. She tells them all that the one who brings her a branch from the Indian's sacred tree at the top of Montmartre shall win her hand. Two of the suitors accept the challenge and start out. Both arrive at the mount at the same time. A duel takes place between them and the defeated suitor apparently leaves for home, but realizing that the captain will win the hand of the girl, he plots with the Indians to do away with him for having dared to touch the tree which they think is sacred. The Indians come upon the captain as he descends the tree with the precious branch and invite him to a feast. In the meantime several of the savages have loosened the roof of the cave and as the captain enters, the top caves in. The captain's life is spared, but he loses his eyesight forever. He becomes the charge of the superstitious Indians and is given to a squaw, who is instructed to take care of him. Months afterward, the blind captain tells his faithful guard of his lost love and why he risked his life to climb their sacred tree. In the meantime, the Governor's daughter, believing the captain dead, consents to marry his rival, who has claimed that he was wounded while endeavoring to reach the tree and carried back the tale that the captain was killed. The Indian girl, after hearing the captain's story, yields to his entreaties to help him escape, and arriving at the Governor's house they learn that the ceremony is about to take place in the chapel. As the Indian girl leads the blind captain into the church, the priest who is about to pronounce the rival and the Governor's daughter man and wife, is stopped by the cries of the captain. He tells his story and the Indian girl also tells the plot of the rival. The rival rushes from the church and the Governor's daughter, realizing the great wrong which she has done the captain, falls on her knees to ask forgiveness, which is gladly given and the captain leads her to the altar and the ceremony is continued.
- Tom Clifford wrenches his ankle while shooting in the forest. He is found by Indians and taken care of. He falls in love with White Dove, the promised wife of Black Owl, a rich Indian. Iron Hand, the chief, suspects Tom and warns White Dove against eloping with him. They elope, however; the Indians discover their flight and the chase begins. They are almost caught when White Dove remembers a bear trap set up a few days previously. Both take their chance and hide in it, thus saving their lives. Tom takes his bride to his parents, but he soon compares her to brilliant Nan Travers, who has been in love with him for some time. He, beginning to love Nan, neglects White Dove, who, wounded in her love for him, runs away. We next see White Dove in a shabby room, sewing while her baby sleeps near her. She resolves to go back to Tom for the baby's sake. Arriving at Tom's home, she witnesses a love scene between Tom and Nan. Black Owl, who has sworn revenge on Tom, is also watching. White Dove sees him level his gun at Tom, jumps in front of him and saves his life. She begs Tom to take care of her baby and dies happy in his assurance that both Nan and he will look after him.
- Billy and Tessie are greatly in love with each other. Tiring of sitting around the house and doing nothing, Tessie decides to learn manicuring by correspondence. Billy tries to dissuade her, but doesn't succeed. After her third lesson, she persuades her father to let her work in his barbershop. Her first customer, Percival, is practically butchered and when the porter upsets the water intended for his hands down his neck, confusion reigns.
- Zingara, a gypsy woman, to revenge herself on her husband, who has treated her cruelly, leaves their child on the doorstep of a wealthy family, who adopts it. In the palm of the baby's hand is a birthmark. Twenty years later, Judith, the Gypsy child, becomes engaged to John North, a nephew of her foster parents. While out motoring in the country with her foster parents and fiancé, they discover a Gypsy camp and Judith has her fortune told. When the Gypsy woman, who is Zingara, takes Judith's hand she discovers the birthmark and recognizes her daughter. She, does not reveal herself, but tells Judith's fortune, which is that she will come back to her own some day and marry the son of a king. Pedro, the son of /the Gypsy king, is attracted by Judith, and she is impressed by him. A few days later Judith slips away to the country. She again meets her mother and Pedro, and the latter fascinates her more than ever. She returns home and that night Pedro meets her in the garden. Sometime later, while waiting for him, she has a quarrel with John, who returns to the house. Shortly after Pedro comes, and takes her in his arms, just as John appears. Pedro draws his knife, and John takes out a pistol, but Judith separates them and John orders Pedro from the place, and takes Judith into his house. Later Pedro returns; Judith is in her room. Pedro throws a pebble against the window, and she answers it. He persuades her to go away with him. She leaves a note for her foster parents, climbs down the ladder Pedro places against the house, and they go off to Gypsy camp.
- It all depended on Bernice. Whether her consumptive brother obtained the light and air that meant life to him, and whether her aged mother and little sister ate dally and slept nightly, all depended upon her. Bernice made a few dollars as a stenographer. One day her pressing needs presented a new view of economics to Bernice. Her employer had too much money, she had nothing. The checkbook lay open on the desk. He would never miss it; why shouldn't she. Her employer did miss it, and sent for a detective. She was suspected. The detective called at her home in her absence, and questioned her family. The consumptive brother admitted that she had given him a sum equal to the amount missing. Bernice was arrested. A short while after the incident, her mother went to the little prison where Bernice was awaiting trial, leaving the sick boy to take care of the baby June. In the boy's mind was conflict, in his heart was war. Long he thought, and then his resolution was formed. Taking the tot, he rallied all his weak strength, and started for his sister's employer's office. The walk was long, he was weary and exhausted, but he stubbornly continued, reached the door, and fell fainting. Baby June entered the office, and walked straight to the employer. He looked into June's eyes, and saw the eyes of his own love lost. The baby's story was told, and the baby fingers led him to the door where the unconscious boy lay. The invalid was revived, the girl's sacrifice explained. At her employer's request, she was liberated from prison and her position was returned to her. The consumptive went to Mexico at her employer's expense, and Baby June won a life-long friend.
- Claude Petreaux is an old doll maker, who lives with his daughter, Lucille. He has an apprentice, Villon, by name, a worthless man who loves Lucille. The young folks wish to marry, but Claude denies his permission. Villon persuades Lucille to elope. The old man is broken down with grief and swears that she will never darken his door again. Five years pass. In a distant city the young people are struggling to make a living. As a doll maker, Villon has not achieved success and he has already began to descend the steep roads of dissipation. A little girl, four years, has been born to them. One day the little girl brings home a dog to the already half-starved household. Villon, in drunken anger, at having another mouth to feed, kicks the dog brutally, and would put him out of doors, but the little girl takes the dog in her arms and pleads that it may he kept. In this she receives the support of her mother. In rage he vows that he will never feed them and leaves them to shift for themselves. The old man, in the meantime, feels that death is near, which increases his longing for Lucille, who paints a miniature of her baby and sends it to her father. He receives the miniature and calls in a notary. He disposes of his stock, and, using the miniature as a model, he fashions a doll and dispatches it to them. The wolf of starvation has made its appearance to Lucille and her child. She is anxiously awaiting a return to her letter. The packet with the doll arrives. The little girl is delighted with it, but the mother is keenly disappointed that no tangible help has been vouchsafed, and gives way to despair. At this time Villon returns deeply repentant with promises of reformation which woman-like, she accepts. The father takes the doll away from his child and throws it out of the window. The dog runs after it and the little girl sobs for her new toy. The father scolds her and the mother tries in vain to give her comfort. In the meantime the dog has found the doll in the yard and proceeds to tear it apart. The child seeing this, sobs even more piteously than ever at the destruction of her plaything. The mother's heart relents and she bids Villon go and rescue it. He brings it in, in a mangled condition when to their surprise and delight they find the concealed money.
- The tongueless man comes into the lives of a young artist and his wife in a rather mysterious manner, but later proves a valuable help in straightening out the tangle of their lives. He becomes the devoted servitor of the artist and enters into their life as though he had ever been a part. The couple are dissatisfied with their lot, each not knowing why their love for the other has grown cold. She has not awakened to the full realization of her love for her husband, and he, man-like, allows the days and weeks and months to drift by without one demonstration of love. One day a supposed friend, mother artist, comes into their lives, and, realizing the situation, makes desperate love to the wife. He falls in his conquest in compromising the wife, but instead awakens in her the real love for her husband, but the observant husband sees nothing but that his wife has ceased to love him and loves another. At last, in desperation, the husband goes out with the intention of destroying his supposed rival, but the tongueless man stops him at the psychological moment and rescues him from a serious attempt at crime and untangles the situation by showing the husband that his wife has done nothing but indulged in a light flirtation, and proves that the wife really loves him. The supposed friend is frightened away by the tongueless man, and a happy reconciliation is affected.
- Jean, a young Briton fisherman, is betrothed to his cousin, Yvonne. A few days after the betrothal, Jean returns from a fishing trip. While sorting his fish on the beach he is accosted by the lady of the chateau who, attracted by his youth and strength, pauses to examine and buy his fish. She tells him to bring the fish along and they go together to her home. There she dismisses Jean, bidding him, however, to return the next day with more fish. Jean, dazzled by her beauty and grace, returns home to his good mother and little cousin in a trance. They cannot understand the change in their kindly good natured Jean. Milady flirts with Jean for several weeks and the simple fisherman falls deeply in love with the lady of high degree. He repulses his mother and sweetheart, who try to show him the folly of his infatuation. One day going to the chateau to see Milady, he meets her coming down the drive escorted by a man of her own caste. They are laughing and chatting together and Milady passes Jean without noticing him. For a moment he gazes after her stunned, then turning runs frantically along the beach in pursuit. His old mother sees him and calls after him in vain. Jean overtakes Milady and her escort at the great rock which had been the scene of many of their rendezvous. Milady casually says. "This is my fiancé. Count Augard, Jean," then turns away and leaves him stunned. Jean sees them ride away and in an outburst of and despair loses his footing on the rock and falls, striking his head. He lies there until found by his mother, who has searched for him for hours. She finally gets him into a boat and home, where she and Yvonne nurse him back to health and reason. Love for his little cousin again fills his heart and he begs her forgiveness, which she readily accords, neither guessing that at that very instant the devoted old mother had met and defeated Milady in her effort to regain Jean. And the Briton sun covers the laughing ocean with its red warmth, casting a glow of cheer and courage over the happy love of the three.
- They were a successful family, because they were happy. Their home was the greatest temple in the world, because it sheltered contentment. And then the child came. They loved each other so much, it seemed they couldn't spare enough for the little stranger, but they did; love multiplies itself. Then he met her, the pretty, dark-haired, dark-eyed, sweet-voiced Italian girl. She worked in his strawberry field, and he saw much of her. And something stirred and wakened in her and clamored in her heart for freedom, the imprisoned love that had smoldered in her being all the years of her youth. All the pulse and impulse of her race, all the fire and faith of a first love, all the timid tenderness and trust and truth of a woman-child molded and melded into a blind passion. He took an interest in the girl, which she mistook for affection. He placed her in charge of the pickers; he was kind and gentle to her, and in her eagerness to do so, she recognized his kindness as love. Later he began to feel the strange power overwhelming him, and gradually submitted to it. There was fascination in her, a luring challenge, a dominant seduction. Her lips were inviting in their freshness, her voice soft and sweet, her eyes contained forgetfulness, and he forgot. In those eyes were all the innocence and all the sin of the world; in their black mystery was conflict, the soul-struggle of all humanity on the battlefield of the world; yet, in their dark depths was peace. His wife first doubted, then suspected, then realized the bitter truth. Almost at the same time the girl learned of his wife and child. But her love was too strong, too reckless, to be conquered by her knowledge of right and wrong, and her passion was only increased by the furious rage of the realization. Once she saw the child, with its sweet, little face and laughing blue eyes, and realized in it her most dangerous rival for the love of the man she loved. But, had be not told her that he loved her? Yes, and had he not asked her to go away? Ah, his wife, his child, were nothing. It was she! And their love, their love that was stronger than his soul. Then Something took the matter in its own Mighty Hands. The child walked down to the sea one day, and in childish daring was about to step into the water. The girl saw, and felt a fiendish. inhuman delight at the promised destruction of the greatest obstacle in her path. Then God permitted her to see her error; she realized a human life was even greater than a great love, and she flew to the bank and rescued the child from the impending peril. Almost tenderly, she led it from the threatening danger, straight to the arms of the distracted parents anxiously searching for it. The father pressed the child to his heart, and in the vast joy of its safety, drew his wife to him and kissed her. Then the three walked off, forgetting the girl and her sacrifice, never thinking of the bitter cost of their happiness. But God whispered to the girl that she was right, and her heart sheltered a giant joy.
- Jack Downs goes on a motoring trip and locks up his apartment in the city, dropping his keys in the operation. A tramp comes on at this time, picks up the keys and takes possession of the apartment in the owner's absence. He adorns himself in Jack's clothes and then decides to rent the apartment. Nancy Butler meets Jack on the road and they become acquainted. On her arrival she seeks an apartment, and by one of those peculiar turns of fate answers the tramp's ad. She is shown the apartment and rents it, the tramp leaving happily after consummating a clever deal. One night Jack returns and then complications arise. Nancy recognizes him and claims the apartment, but Jack convinces her it is his. She decides to leave, but he, pleading illness persuades her to remain. She in sympathy, telephones a D.D., mistaking him for a M.D. In the meantime, a maiden aunt calls and Jack in desperation, claims her niece as his wife, and then at last the D.D. arrives in time to straighten out the tangle.
- Somewhere in the West of Europe, lying on a cozy stretch of fertile land, was a principality where love was king of everything and everything was fair. There was a princess, a bright, blithe, buoyant, vivacious miss, who life was a toy and the world a play-ground to. The fires and forces of youth firmly emphasized the dominant spirit and the tender strength of her charming femininity. The courage and confidence of youthful years reinforced the happy contentment of her carefree nature. Yet, often when the twilight fell, hushing the din of the day, and a lone star glimmered in the western sky, whispering with wondrous witchery of the day's decease, she would sit in pensive musing and gaze across more miles than the eye could see, seeming to listen to a vague voice within her, the soft, still call of slumbering love. Across the mountains to the westward, nestling in the lap of the foot-hills, drowsed a little municipality in peaceful but unproductive slumber. The ruling prince was a statesman. A long hereditary line of political marriage and mirage had subdued whatever poesy or romance he might otherwise have possessed. He had the advertising instinct. He was not a visionary, but he had the foresight to realize that an alliance with the striving, thriving community across the mountains would result in good and gain for his own dominion. So he dispatched his heralds to advise King Theold that he was coming to sue for the hand of the princess. The king was old. The years had written their weary record on the scroll of his soul. He desired the princess to wed before the grave sent its silent summons. He exhorted her to marry the prince; but the wee whisper of that subtle power slumbering somewhere in her soul wakened and warned her to war. She donned the peasant's garb, left the grim grandeur and the menacing mockery of the castle, and went out into the world. And there she met one whom ages ago Fate had coupled with her, one who kindled into flame the spark of love and longing that had flickered somewhere in her superconscious being, like a torch showing her soul its way through man's defiance and destruction of nature's prerogatives, to the haven that had been designed and assigned for it. She did not know that he was the prince incognito, nor he that she was the princess; such is the mystery of fate's mastery. But it was given them to see and know and understand.
- Bertie Cecil is a member of England's nobility and of the National Guardsmen. He finds particular diversion in innocent flirtations with married women. Lady Guinevere likes him in a silly sort of way, and determinedly resolves to keep the romance from her husband's observation. Bertie's brother Berkeley, loses heavily at gambling and asks Bertie for financial assistance. Bertie patiently but sadly explains that he cannot meet his own debts. At nine o'clock that night Lady Guinevere visits Bertie in his home. Berkeley goes to a Jew money-lender, offers a note tor sufficient money to cover the deficit, and signs his brother's name, endorsed by a friend, Lord Rockingham. A little later the last slim vestige of Bertie's fortune is wiped away. Rockingham's eight-year-old sister comes to him and offers him some gold. Bertie tells her be cannot accept the money, and that when she has grown to womanhood she will know the reason. He asks tor the little enamel box in which she has carried the sold pieces as a memento, and receives it just as he is summoned by a messenger to Rockingham's quarters. He finds Lord Rockingham and the Jew money-lender, with the forged note. Rockingham pleads with him to deny the charge, and explain where he was the night the note was executed. If Bertie speaks, he must soil a woman's name; if he spares her, his silence must be accepted as admission of his guilt. He keeps his silence and his faith with Lady Guinevere. It is only a few minutes later, when the Jew attempts to place the handcuffs on him, that he realizes he is under arrest. However, he escapes and goes to Africa and engages under the French flag. Cigarette, soldier of France and daughter of the army, loves Bertie. He looked upon her wild dances and riotous revelries with a little disgust and a great pity. Ten years he had lived under the French flag and the African sun. But the memory of before still lived and lingered with him. To Africa came a party of tourists from England. They visited the barracks. Among the women in the party was a sweet, young, beautiful slip of a near-woman. She was to Bertie a link of the past, a vision of the happy yesterday that had died. He was, to her only a soldier of France. But somehow they became acquainted, and somehow she became interested in him. And Cigarette saw it all. When he fell wounded in battle. Cigarette dragged him from the red field to a shack in the outskirts. And through the long, black night she nursed him. Then, faintly, feebly, she heard his voice and a name. Eagerly she listened, her heart beating a prayer, the only prayer her being was ever known to make. But the whispered name was the name of the other. She choked the sob and flew from the tent, that he might never know. One day the English woman saw the little enamel box, now rusty, battered and tarnished. She saw it, and started and stared, and asked him where and how he obtained it. He related the incident, and she told him it was she! She explained that Lord Rockingham was with her in Africa, and begged him to stay until her brother returned to the house. With a sudden, startled fear he begged her not to disclose his presence, and flew from hers. Once, on a street in Algiers, he looked into his brother's face. He greeted Bertie with a vague, trembling fear. But Bertie told him to leave Africa with his title and his honor, return to England and live his life according to them. An irresistible something drew him back to the woman. The colonel of Bertie's regiment saw him come from the house, and in jealous rage demanded to know why he had gone there. Bertie was silent. The colonel sarcastically insinuated that the aristocrat was cold to her equals, and carried on her midnight intrigues with the blackguards of his camp. A moment after the deed, Bertie realized that he had struck him. He was court-martialed, found guilty, and sentenced to be shot on the morrow. Cigarette heard, and. frantic with grief and dismay, she ran up the street, and stopped to peer into a face. The face was the face of Bertie. She stopped him and excitedly told him all, and learned he was Bertie's brother. To her the boy confessed all, and not waiting, she had him write his statement, snatched the paper and dashed off for the marshal's tent. Her story was told and proved. The stay of execution of sentence was given her, and she resumed her break-neck ride. She rode into the scone of the execution just as the command was given to fire. Her shouted "Stop, in the name of France!" came a moment too late. The command had already been given, and the guns were speaking their dirge. But even fleeter than the leaden death, she hurled herself from her horse, in front of Bertie. After the first moment of dull, despairing astonishment, he realized that she had sacrificed her life for him, realized in the last chapter all the devotion and integrity of her love. Slowly he dropped his head until his lips met hers. But the long-longed-for sweet had come too late, and the victory of her love was too late to be anything but defeat. Once she smiled, a sweet, fleeting smile of triumph, and in the kiss that she had hoped and lived for, she died. In England Bertie and Guinevere sat together. Sadly they smiled at each other. They were thinking of a distant grave, the human cost of their happiness.
- Lawrence, the son of wealthy parents meets Miriam on a highway. He is attracted by her beauty and sweetness and upon a second meeting, invites her to the county fair. While they are taking in the exhibits, some of the playful rubes begin throwing confetti and some of it is thrown into Miriam's eyes. Lawrence takes her home. The country physician is called. He recommends a specialist he sent for. Lawrence persuades Miriam and her mother to allow him to assume the expense. He then goes home and tells his father of his love for Miriam. The father angrily dismisses him. The specialist arrives. Miriam's eyes are bandaged with the strict command that the bandage should not be removed for three days if she is to regain her sight permanently. Larry, the following day, is thrown from his horse over the edge of a cliff. He grabs hold of some small shrubs and hanging there calls for help. Miriam hears Larry's call and gets up frightened, and gropes her way out of the house. As she draws closer to the place from which the cries had come, she listens intently for a repetition of the cry for help. In great anguish she snatches the bandage from her eyes, sees Larry, grasps his arm and calls for help. Larry's father, walking down the road, hears her call and rushes to the scene, and he and Miriam together pull Larry up to safe ground. The father turns and calls to Miriam. She turns in the direction of his voice and staggers toward him, for she has become totally blind. The father, realizing the terrible sacrifice she has made for his son, goes to her, takes her in his arms and gives her to Larry and though blind, she snuggles contentedly in Larry's arms.