- When a man's wife is accused of adultery, her insanely jealous husband gives her young son away to a traveling band of gypsies. Years later, when the son grows up, he sets out to prove that his mother wasn't guilty of adultery but was actually trying to help her sister-in-law escape the clutches of a blackmailer.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Ramon Martinez has married, contrary to his mother's wishes. He and his wife Alice have a son, Bobbie. Ramon's sister, Carmen, has unwillingly married the man picked for her. She becomes involved with Harvey Clegg. The evening before she is to depart for Central America, Clegg threatens to expose their relationship unless she comes to him. In desperation, Carmen turns to Alice for help. Alice promises to see Clegg and plead for Carmen. Ramon returns unexpectedly from a six months' trip to the Orient, and Carmen tells him his wife has gone to visit her mother. Alice succeeds in getting Clegg to return compromising letters. When she returns to her husband, her inability to explain matters to him causes a misunderstanding. Clegg, on his way to Alice's home with the letters, is killed in an auto accident. The letters are stolen by two passing gypsies, Red Lynch and Amaryllis, who plan to break into the Martinez home that night. Ramon discovers an unaddressed, unsigned note from Clegg to Carmen in Alice's purse, which reads "If I give you up, every time your child calls him father it will be like a knife in your heart." Red Lynch breaks a window and enters the Martinez home. In a wild burst of anger at his wife, Ramon takes Bobbie, whom he now believes is not his son, and turns him over to Lynch, paying him several thousand dollars to carry him off. Years pass. Carmen is dead, having been killed when her ship sank. Ramon and Alice have separated. Bobbie has become "Spud" - living on the road. His companion is "Sliver," a boy suffering from consumption, whom Bobbie looks after. Meanwhile, Lynch and Amaryllis, penniless, return west after several years to find the parents of Spud, hoping to get money from them. Spud and Sliver run across Alice at an ice cream peddler's cart. Seeing how Sliver is ill, she invites the two boys to come see her. Lynch finds Ramon and agrees to deliver the boy to him. Ramon goes with Alice and Lynch to the camp where the boy has been staying, but he is no longer there. Lynch hands over Sliver instead, deciding that the parents will be none the wiser. Alice is a bit suspicious, but accepts Sliver as her missing son. Spud appears, and overhears Alice and Ramon discussing letters from Carmen to Clegg. Ramon still has doubts about his wife, but Spud knows there are some old letters hidden in the trunk belonging to the gypsies. He goes to get the letters. Ramon arrives at the camp to pay off the gypsies. But he is held prisoner until his check can be cashed. Spud gets the letters, frees Ramon, and the pair head for Ramon's house. Alice overhears Spud talking things over with Sliver. After questioning Spud, she and Ramon realize he is Bobbie. The gypsies resolve to kidnap Bobbie. One night while Ramon is away, they break into the home. But Sliver sounds the alarm and the police arrive to apprehend the gypsies. Sliver is taken into the Martinez home as their son, and the family of four live happily ever after.
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