- The wealthy Schuyler family hires a strict governess, Quincy, to watch over their daughter Marcia. When the parents leave on a trip to Japan they tell Quincy to send Marcia to a boarding school while they're gone, but Marcia--wanting nothing to do with a boarding school--switches places with Quincy's niece, who is being sent to an orphanage. She is "adopted" by the Benton family, who own a farm. Soon the carefree Marcia begins to have an effect on the dour Benton household--but complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Marcia's father hit upon a plan to get rid of Quincy, a straight-laced scientific governess, by sending Marcia to boarding school, while he and his wife would take a trip to Japan. Marcia is delighted with the plan until she learns that the school is conducted on a scientific basis. Catching Quincy at the right moment, when the infuriated woman had just been discharged, Marcia makes her consent to a wild scheme. Quincy has a little niece, who was to go to the orphanage, so Marcia implores her to let them change places. Quincy agrees, so Marcia goes to the orphanage under the name of Jane Perkins. Marcia for the first time plays and lives as a child should. Climbing up a high spiked fence, Marcia slips and falls. Dick Walton, a young college boy, riding by on a horse, sees Marcia and comes to her assistance. Believing her to be an orphan, he determines to have his mother adopt her, but to his astonishment, Marcia refuses. Farmer Benton adopts Marcia. There she meets Dave, the black sheep of the family, and in her he finds a long-needed friend. Dave wins Marcia's confidence when he saves her from a whipping at the hands of his father. Dick, on a vacation, pays a visit to Marcia, and Dave experiences the first pangs of jealousy. Through the newspapers, Marcia learns that her parents have returned and are searching for her. She schemes so that Dave shall receive the reward for her return. Later Dave and Dick find positions in the same office and soon both are in line for a higher position providing they appear at a directors' meeting at eight o'clock. Marcia calls up Dave to come and see her before going. Arriving at her home, Dave is detained until the last moment.
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