- A prologue introduces author Charles K. Harris at his window, viewing a crowd that has gathered around an ambulance. Harris says to his clerk, "Only an abandoned child," and then dictates the following story. Richard Hartley, a millionaire's son, marries Vera Walton, a musical comedy dancing girl, while he is intoxicated at a party. Richard regrets this rash act when he becomes sober, and because he is under twenty-one, his father is able to have the marriage annulled. Richard goes abroad, during which time Vera gives birth to their son, whom she then deserts. When Richard returns, he weds his former fiancée, a respectable girl from his own set. Childless, the couple adopts Victor, Vera's child, unaware of his parentage. Twenty years later, Victor, a physician at a New York hospital, is engaged to Muriel Worth. Meanwhile, Vera, who has trained to be a nurse to be near Victor, is recognized by Richard's father, at the hospital after an accident. When a rival for Muriel's affection tells the Board of Governors of an exclusive club that Victor is trying to join that his father's a crook, Vera discloses her secret to them but keeps silent to Victor. Richard, whose wife died years earlier, learns about Vera's devotion, and marries her.—Pamela Short
- Dick Hartley hastily marries a dancing girl. As he is under age, his father, a wealthy man. objects to the marriage and succeeds in having it annulled. He sends the boy to South Africa. A son is horn to the divorced girl. When Dick Hartley returns from South America, he works hard in his father's office and in due time, forgetting his divorced wife, marries another girl. The marriage is happy but childless. It chances that the dancing girl's little boy is adopted by young Mr. and Mrs. Hartley in ignorance of his origin. Twenty years pass. The boy becomes a successful doctor working in a New York hospital. The elder Hartley, father of Dick, meets with an accident and is taken to the hospital for treatment. In the hospital, the dancing girl of twenty-one years before, is now placed as Sister Ursula, vowed to a life of ministration to the afflicted. Old Hartley recognizes the former dancing girl in Sister Ursula, and she also recognizes her own son in the young Dr. Hartley. But the ex-dancer voluntarily remains in the hospital, and thus the younger Hartley and his wife do not have their happiness menaced.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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