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- A young girl is a talented violinist, and wins a scholarship in a school of music. In the village is a banker who is a deacon of a church of whom everybody is afraid. He convinces the father of the girl that music is leading her astray, and declares that the only way to save her is to make her his wife. The father falls dead at the wedding. A year later a child is born. The young wife leads a life of sorrow and abuse. The husband takes her violin away from her and refuses her girl friends permission to come and see her. When she rebels, he drives her out of the house. She goes to the city and makes a name for herself as a musician. Her husband, chagrined at her success, tries to worry her. He sends a box of crepe intimating that their baby is dead. Being unable to stand the strain, she hurries home. He refuses her any information but takes her to the cemetery where there is a freshly made grave and makes her believe her child is buried there. Friends intercede in her behalf and she finds her child is alive and well. The banker and deacon is a hypocrite. The climax of the picture is his denunciation in church by his wife. She is aided and her charges are proved by his housekeeper who, up until the last minute, had been a staunch supporter. The picture ends with him fainting on the steps before the congregation.
- The story opens in a New York tenement where Miss Leonard is living in hopes of finding the means to support herself and little baby. A month before her husband had been killed in a mine accident and Miss Leonard sought the city, leaving her child m the care of a neighbor. She is aroused by a knock on the door. A youth of the underworld, struck with her beauty, has followed her home. He tells her where she can secure work. When he offers her money to pay for a new dress, she understands, and drives him from the room. Another knock. It is her landlord. She must pay her rent in the morning. Her eye falls on the card left by the "cadet." That night she appears at the dance hall. Once within her soul revolts. A "cadet" endeavors to restrain her, but the proprietor ejects him. At this moment a woman in evening dress arrives on a slumming tour. There is a pistol duel between two gangsters and the woman is injured, but not seriously. She confides in Miss Leonard that she is married to a young Englishman, heir to his father's fortune, and is on her way abroad. She engages Miss Leonard as nurse companion. On board ship the woman proves to be a drunkard. A storm arises. The lifeboats are wrecked. The two women are washed ashore on a desert island and are sheltered by a sailor, himself a victim of a previous shipwreck. The sailor and the Englishman's wife begin a drunken carouse on rum that has washed ashore. Miss Leonard fails to arouse them from their stupor when a sailing vessel comes to take them off. Swiftly she gathers the woman's proofs together, exchanges wedding rings and a month later lands in England and is accepted as the son's wife. After a time the true wife appears but is turned away. In the moment of her triumph she realizes the futility of it all, and leaving a note of confession disappears. A nephew, who has fallen in love with her, follows her to America. Just as she is about to leave with her baby from the city, he finds her and there is a joyful reunion.
- The story opens with Miss Leonard, now a woman past the prime of life, relating the sad, romantic story of her life to her dearest niece, who is engaged to be married. As in a vision, the story shifts back forty years and discloses the interior of an orphan asylum. Three babies are there, two boy babies and one baby girl, awaiting adoption into a good home. Years pass and the orphaned children have grown up in three different homes. Miss Leonard's dearest treasures are a pair of tiny baby shoes and a faded plaid shawl given to her foster parents by the asylum nurse. Of her twin brother she knows nothing, except that he too has a tiny pair of shoes like those in her keeping. She loves and is loved in return by a dashing chap, whose mother had adopted him when a baby. They decide to elope, but are stopped by the groom's mother, who thinks she has discovered that Miss Leonard and her son are brother and sister, at least the baby shoes tend to prove it. In a quiet village Miss Leonard discovers her real brother, a clergyman, whose foster parents had lost his tiny shoes at the time of his adoption. She returns to the city and witnesses the marriage of her beloved to another woman. So ended her romance while all the years she treasured the tiny baby shoes that had brought her face to face, with a great tragedy.
- A girl marries a wealthy pawnbroker in order to get money for her poor lover, who is an artist. When the pawnbroker dies, his son forces the girl to marry him, but he is killed and she marries the artist. Various problems arise after their marriage, but eventually they are happy together.
- John Evans and Thomas Barnes were both employed by the banking house of H.M. Cruze and Co. They also occupied an apartment together. Barnes received a tip to play C. and S. stock for a rise. But instead of rising it fell, and he was notified by his broker to send five hundred dollars the next morning to cover the margin or be wiped out. He had no money of his own left, and waiting until everyone had left the office, Barnes opened the safe and took out five hundred dollars. Going home late he met Evans, who had been at a card party at the home of Marion Harley, a society leader. Evans said he lost all his money and asked for a loan so that he might return and retrieve his losses. Barnes gave his pal two hundred dollars, cautioning him to return it without fail. Evans hastened back to the house of Marion. The game was still in progress, and he plunged into it again. His luck continued against him, and his hostess won the money he had borrowed from his friend. Empty-handed he went home and told Barnes. The latter in frenzy deplored the loss and confessed that he had stolen it from the firm. Evans returned to Marion and begged her to give him back the money. She refused. Then he told her that he had taken it from the firm himself and faced jail unless he returned it. The woman was about to return it when her mother warned her not to allow her sympathy to get the best of her reason. He left in despair. In the meanwhile Barnes had received a peremptory note from a creditor stating that unless the money due was paid by 10 o'clock the following morning the law would be resorted to. This was the last straw. Barnes took what was left of the five- hundred dollars and fled. Evans, returning late to the apartment after his unsatisfactory interview with Marion, found a burglar at work. There was a fierce fight, which ended in Evans knocking the thief senseless. He then started to call the police, but opening the door fell back before an inrushing volume of smoke. He tried to bring the prostrate burglar back to consciousness, but the advancing flames made him seek his own safety. As it was, he was only rescued by the firemen in the nick of time and taken to the hospital unconscious from smoke. In the ruins the police found a charred body. It was unrecognizable, but the official conclusion was that Barnes had perished in the flames. The next morning the banker discovered that the sum of five hundred dollars was missing from the safe. He notified the police, and an investigation was started. Marion, reading of the theft in the newspapers, sent word to the banker that Evans had confessed to her that he had stolen the money. He was arrested and convicted solely upon the testimony of Marion, in spite of his declaration that Barnes had taken the money. Barnes, hiding in a little summer resort, read the accounts of the fire, the finding of the charred body supposed to be himself, and the conviction of his friend for his crime. He felt that he was perfectly safe. In the city the social season had ended, and Marion went to spend the summer with an aunt who lived in a little seaside village. It so happened that it was the same town in which Barnes was staying, who had assumed the name of Lewis, and Marion met, loved and married. Then they returned to the city to live. One day the two met the banker, who greeted Marion; Tom turned his face to escape recognition. When Marion remarked about this strange action, he declared that he did not know the banker. From that time on Tom felt like a hunted man. One day Marion suddenly entered his room. He was absorbed in a newspaper clipping. When he saw her he sprang back in alarm. In answer to his wife's inquiries as to what the paper was, he answered that it was nothing of interest and tossed it into the open grate. He abruptly left the room. She snatched the clipping out of the fireplace. It was an account of the supposed death of Barnes and the conviction of Evans, with a picture of a man who strongly resembled her husband. Marion took a photograph of her husband to the banker, who at once identified it as Tom Barnes. Marion recalled Evans' statement at his trial, that Barnes had stolen the money. Determined to do her duty as she saw it, Marion delivered up her husband to the law, but he was led to pay the penalty of the life into which he had drifted.
- A young farmer visiting a gypsy camp to have his fortune told, meets the gypsy princess and falls in love with her. She pretends to return his affections. She warns him of a plot which the men of her tribe have laid to rob him, and he is induced to place in her hands for safe keeping, a large amount of money. He is attacked by the girl's jealous gypsy lover, but overpowers his assailant. When he goes to reclaim his money, with great cleverness, and in a flood of tears, she declares that it has been taken from her, meanwhile patting the knot in her sash where she is concealing the money. The youth touched by her apparent grief forgives her and after rescuing her from violence at the hands of her gypsy-sweetheart, he takes her to his own house to live with his mother. Here she is willful, ungrateful, and disrespectful to the kind old mother of her sweetheart. Her only desire is by fair means or foul to obtain from him every cent she can. He blinded to her faults by his love, marries her. Before the flowers of her bridal roses have faded, she heartlessly forces his mother from her home, to live with friends on a neighboring farm. Ungrateful for the home, love and station that her husband has given her, she turns upon him, bleeding him with fiendish rapacity of his money. In vain he reasons, pleads and makes a costly peace offering to her. She meets her old gypsy lover, and conspires with him to rob her husband of his last dollar and then run away together. The hour of her desertion arrives, the gypsy goes to her house to carry out the robbery. As she is about to leave the only home she has ever known, the faint voice of an awakening conscience whispers to her that perhaps she is not doing right. Her companion insists upon having every dollar she has extorted from her husband. She refuses to deliver it. The man at the pistol point attempts to force it from her, in the struggle he is shot and killed. Her husband hearing the report of the revolver, rushes into the house, sees his wife, whom in spite of her failings he has always trusted, arising in alarm from the dead body of the gypsy. Her head falls in shame, her conscience fully awakened thunders burning reproaches into her ear. With breaking heart she sinks to her knees before him, begging forgiveness. But his faith in her is shattered, his eyes are opened, and he refuses to take her back. Deserted by her husband and her former associates she determines by work and service to win back the home and love she has lost. At last the gray-haired mother whom she has treated so cruelly is touched by her efforts. Forgetting the injuries of the past the noble old lady pleads with her son for the forgiveness of the wife. The pair are reunited. She has learned by bitter experience it is only by a life of love, duty and unselfish devotion that lasting happiness is attained.