- Trying to cope with the bleak reality of the slums by indulging a taste for fiction, Maggie becomes a compulsive liar. As a result, when she pleads innocent to a shoplifting charge after the real thieves accuse her of the crime, no one believes her, and she is thrown into jail. While Bobby, a reporter who has taken an interest in her, works for her release, Maggie keeps a journal. Then, when authorities give the journal to the judge who sentenced her, he recognizes Maggie as a gifted writer, after which Bobby presents him with evidence clearing her of all guilt. Bobby and the judge rush to the prison to release Maggie; sadly, they discover that she has taken her own life in her cell.—Pamela Short
- Maggie McDonald, daughter of a poor laborer, is a problem to her parents because of her romantic temperament. Her unbelievable stories finally make them think her an incorrigible liar, and as punishment she is placed out to work in a boarding house. There she meets young reporter Bobby, shoplifter Fanny, and Dick Slade, department-store floorwalker and Fanny's accomplice. Boarding-house drudgery does not cure Maggie of her lying proclivities, and when Fanny and Slade are in danger of being caught for a bold theft, they escape arrest by fastening the crime on Maggie, whose reputation as a liar acts against her and she is convicted. Bobby continues to believe in her, however, and while she is on probation, he works to clear her of the stain of guilt. He finally succeeds, but not until Maggie has again brought disgrace on herself by her persistent fabricating. Finally disheartened by her treatment at the hands of the world, Maggie determines to write her own story on paper, then take poison. She is finally sent back to the judge, who placed her on probation with a recommendation that she be placed somewhere so that she may be cured by her failing. The story Maggie has written is turned over to the judge, who reads it and recognizes the girl as a genius for fiction writing. At the same time Bobby presents the evidence he has collected and which not only clears Maggie of the crime for which she is to be punished, but fastens it on Fanny and Slade. Maggie, unaware of the turn events have taken, takes the poison. She is eventually saved from death; the judge announces his determination to make her his ward and to encourage her in her writing and she and Bobby start to work together to turn out some masterpieces of fiction. The parents and acquaintances of the young girl who have been so ready to brand her, now wish to idolize her, but the judge will not allow them to either see her or profit by the gift they have all but destroyed.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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