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- To celebrate the sale of his painting "The Empress", Louis de Baudry invites his model, Nedra for a holiday in the country. After de Baudry has forced his way into Nedra's room, the hotel owner, Peters, photographs the two of them smiling. A year later, Nedra is married to rich Eric Bruce. Peters has blackmail on his mind.
- A story of a female motorist that is brought to a resort in the Airondacks. Once brought in to heal from her wounds the male patrons find out that she has a rather bewitching way with men with total disregard of her ways.
- Strolling through the park one evening, Travers comes upon a woman about to throw herself in the lake. It is his sister. She tells him she was betrayed by a man who is her son's father, and she is about to end it all because she is no longer able to endure her destitution. Travers soothes her and promises to take care of her and her son. He furnishes an apartment for them and makes frequent calls there. On one of them he is seen and recognized by Mansfield, a clubman of his, who is infatuated with Mrs. Travers and uses this suspicious, though unconfirmed, incident to try to persuade her to give him her love. Mrs. Travers, made credulous by her insane jealousy of her husband, slightly encourages Mansfield, who, with the bravado of his sort, boasts at the club of his affair with her. Travers hears of this and is uncontrollable. He sends for his sister to come to his dressing room in the theatre, and Mansfield, hearing of it, brings Mrs. Travers to surprise him. Here is the big scene of the play wherein Travers demands of Mansfield an explanation of his conduct, and Travers' sister recognizes Mansfield as the man who deserted her. Travers attempts to kill Mansfield, who is saved by the police. Then Mrs. Travers, learning the identity of "the other woman," and ridden by remorse for the jealousy that has made her doubt her husband and lose his love, attempts to poison herself. She is saved, however, and reunited to her husband by a love whose constant light outshines the occasional flashes from her "green eyes."
- An old woman in Frederick, Maryland during the U.S. Civil War displays her American flag in defiance of the armies of Confederate general Thomas J. Jackson. Based on the folk tale that grew from the poem by John Greenleaf Whittier.
- Young Martha Redmond, a poor girl from a small town, leaves to find a singing career in New York City. She doesn't find success as a singer, but finds a job as a model for a prominent artist, and soon becomes his mistress. When her lover throws her over to marry the daughter of a wealthy man, she becomes a "fallen women", a plaything for wealthy playboys. She meets Barrett, a millionaire's son, and begins to wonder if she might have a future with him, but it seems like he'll turn out to be just like "all the others".
- When socialite Ethel Wyndham turns down his marriage proposal because of his working-class status, Jim Carew leaves civilization and goes prospecting in the Yukon. While striking it rich in Alaska, he begins a romance with Little Snowbird, but before settling down with her, he decides to take one last look at life in the big city, and so he goes to New York. At a restaurant there, he sees Ethel, and immediately tells her of his success and proposes once again. Ethel is tempted to accept him until Thomas Martin, who has involved her in a blackmail operation, threatens to expose her if she marries Jim. Once again broken-hearted, Jim returns to Little Snowbird, only to find that, believing that he would never return, she committed suicide. Before dying, however, she gave birth to their daughter, to whom Jim devotes the rest of his life.
- Jean Servian's eyesight is failing and is desperate for money, marries wealthy widower Geoffrey Vane after telling him that he must be satisfied with her gratitude rather than her love. Then, following an affair with artist Philip Derblay, who finally leaves her, Jean settles down to a quiet, boring life with Geoffrey, who knows nothing about her failed romance. Years later, however, after Lucille, Geoffrey's daughter by his first wife, becomes engaged to Philip, Jean feels compelled to tell the story of her own affair with him. The disclosure has little effect as Lucille makes no change in her wedding plans, but then, when she breaks in on a violent argument between Philip and Lucille, Jean accidentally shoots and kills her former lover. A trial results in her acquittal, however, after which Jean realizes that she really does love Geoffrey, who easily forgives his wife for her past indiscretion.
- Two passionate suitors pursue actress Elaine Elton Oscar Billings, the head of several large theaters, and millionaire Jack Dexter, whom she has never met. To force her to spend time with him, Jack pretends to be a chauffeur and gets a job with Elaine, who soon feels quite attracted to him. Then, Oscar combines a marriage proposal with a threat, and tells Elaine that she will never work again if she refuses to become his wife. Elaine gives in and marries Oscar, but then murders him because of his numerous affairs, after which she herself dies while trying to escape from the police. Elaine then wakes up, and after realizing that her marriage and the events that followed it were a bad dream, decides that the nightmare may have foretold the future. As a result, she ignores Oscar's threat to her career, and marries her millionaire chauffeur.
- Young Dudley Kent falls in love with Grace Vaughan and leaves his wife for her. The two are very happy until Kent learns that his young son has died. He blames Grace for "luring" him away from his family and leaves her. Alone and broke, Grace is tricked into working at a "sporting house" run by madam Marie D'Arcy. Desperate to escape her circumstances, she meets a young man who she believes can rescue her from her predicament. He eventually does, but complications ensue.
- The opening scene is of the interior of the Malamute saloon. Dangerous Dan McGrew and the lady known as Lou are seen seated at a table in one corner. A dog-sleigh stops outside, and its owner, a tired-looking, bedraggled miner, stumbles through the door. After treating the house, he sits down at the piano and begins to play. Into the soulful, stirring music he pours his pent up feelings of hatred, sorrow, love, and regret. Years before, Jim Maxwell's best friend Dan McGrew had deceived his wife into believing him unfaithful. Their elopement completely unnerved him for a time. But finally he resolved to forget about it, until he next met Dan McGrew. Years afterwards, while prospecting, he met his daughter, now grown to womanhood and married. Her husband had been arrested for a murder committed by McGrew, and Maxwell assisted in effecting his escape. Just previous to the miner's entrance, Nell's husband had been captured in the saloon by the sheriff. As Maxwell finishes playing, he turns about, faces Dangerous Dan McGrew, and tells him, in uncomplimentary language, what he thinks of a man of his type. The lights go out, two guns blaze in the dark, and both men fall. Maxwell recovers and is reunited with his wife Lou. McGrew dies.--May 22 1915.
- Persis Cabot, daughter of a multi-millionaire meets a young officer, Harvey Forbes, coming from the Philippines and they fall in love. Owing to her father's financial reverses, it is impossible for her to marry Harvey Forbes. She contracts a marriage with Willie Enslee, whose immense fortune makes it possible for her to reinstate her father and give her all the luxuries she has been used to. The marriage is a failure. Persis meets Forbes at a reception given by the Ambassador and they both confess their love to each other. Persis discovers a liaison of her husband with a former mistress and decides that she has a right to take the love which Forbes offers her. On the first occasion of their being alone together, Willie Enslee discovers them and accuses Persis of infidelity. Forbes commands her to choose between them. Persis refuses, and Forbes leaves her in desperation. Left alone together Willie, maddened by jealousy, stabs his wife. A newspaper reporter visits the house and gains information which leads him to believe that Forbes is implicated in the attempted murder. He also visits Forbes and informs him of the fact that Persis has been stabbed by her husband. Forbes hurries back to the Enslee home and tells Persis that he will take her with him, even though she is not willing to go, as they are mated to each other. After the necessary divorce proceedings have been obtained, Persis marries Harvey Forbes.
- Hagar, a gypsy woman, is determined that her child, Eve, shall have a better chance for happiness than her wandering life has afforded her. She leaves her baby on the doorstep of a Quaker family, the Fothergills and little Eve is brought up as their daughter. The ways of the Quakers pall upon Eve when she grows up. She sees merrymaking in the home of the Brandons one evening, and lured by the lights, peers in at the window. The gay crowd notice the Quaker girl, draw her into the house, and amuse themselves by dressing her up in finery. She confesses her loneliness to Arthur Brandon, who tells her of the fascinations of a great city. As their friendship grows, he asks her to marry him. She consents, and for a time revels in gaiety. But it finally becomes clear to her that there is no real happiness in such a life. Brandon is a factory owner, and he is conscienceless in his treatment of his workers. Eve is humiliated by the denunciations of her husband that appear in the newspapers. He also drinks heavily. Richard Blair, a young philanthropist, starts an investigation. While he is visiting Brandon's factory an Italian child, Rosa, is blinded by an accident. Rosa is granted a miserable pittance in compensation for the accident, and Blair tries to force Brandon to do more for her. He refuses. Blair finds work for Beppo, Rosa's father, and sends the child to an institute for the blind. Eve admires the nobility of Blair's nature. Brandon, misunderstanding the friendship of the two, insults her in the presence of Blair, who knocks him down. Eve offers to go away with Blair. He says he loves her. but he will not take her unlawfully. She will not return to her husband, so she goes to the city to fight her own way. She soon finds out, however, that she is unfit for the rough work she undertakes. Deciding that suicide is her only way out, she goes to a park lake intending to drown herself. She hears a girl calling out in distress, and sees the child, who is blind, walking toward the lake. Eve goes to her and finds it is Rosa, who has wandered away from the other children. Eve takes her back to the Institute. Beppo has never ceased to seek for revenge against Brandon. He follows him on board his motorboat, and when the boat is well away from shore he attacks Brandon and tries to kill him. An oil lamp is overturned. It sets fire to the boat, and both men, fearfully burned, sink to the bottom of the bay locked in a death grasp. Blair goes to Eve and tells her the news of her husband's death, saying that the way is now open for them to marry. But Eve's heart is bound up in the welfare of the blind children among whom she has cast her lot. She accepts a position as an attendant at the institute, to give her life to the little ones through whom she has at last discovered the secret of true happiness.
- Sarah Maitland is consumed by two interests, managing her steel mill and raising her children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring. As a result, she is shocked when Blair seduces Elizabeth Ferguson away from his best friend, Doctor David Ritchie, and marries her. Elizabeth soon realizes her mistake and begs David to take her back, but his mother Helena, calling upon personal experience, warns the couple against an extra-marital affair. Then, Sarah is injured in a mill accident and doctors predict that she will die in a few hours. David manages to save her, however, and when Blair comes to see her, he vows to divorce Elizabeth so that she can marry the man she really loves.
- The Russian Czar sends his trusted confidant, Michael Strogoff, to warn his brother the Grand Duke of a Tartar rebellion that will be led by Feofar Khan and Ivan Ogareff. Calling himself Nicholas Korpanoff, Strogoff poses as a trader to journey to warn the Grand Duke. On his way he meets Nadia Fedorova, a young girl trying to join her father Wassili, a political activist who has been exiled to Siberia. Strogoff is captured by the Tartars, who don't believe he is a trader and threaten to torture Strogoff's mother Marfa unless he reveals his true identity.
- Mary O'Brien, daughter of an Irish gentleman of declining fortunes, while fishing, meets Ernest Randal, who is trespassing on her father's land. Randal is the son of an English baronet and his conversation so charms Mary that she invites him to dinner. The next day, while out hunting deer with her father, a poacher mistakes Randal's peaked cap for a deer's antlers, and shoots him through the shoulder. Mary nurses Randal, who is taken to her home. They fall in love and Mary gives her heart to him without reserve, and it is with difficulty that he forces himself to leave to complete his course in surgery. Norah, the old family servant, suspects the truth. Mary confesses to her father, and with difficulty restrains him from taking her lover's life when he returns after completing his college course. At first, Randal says he cannot marry her at that time, and she defends him. However, overcome by her generosity, Randal asks her to marry him, and she finally consents on account of the injustice to the child, which her refusal would cause. She leaves, however, immediately after the marriage. After her boy is born, Mary obtains employment in a cotton mill, becomes prominent in welfare work among the employees, and forms an uplift club, which is cited all over Ireland as a model of its kind. Her employer, O'Farrell, also promotes her to a position of trust, and asks her to be his wife, but on account of her boy, she refuses to divorce her husband. Randal visits her and asks her to return to him, but she declines, reminding him of the fact that he has been wasting his life. Determined to win her respect, he enlists and goes to war. O'Farrell also enlists and leaves Mary in charge of the mill. At the front Randal saves O'Farrell from bleeding to death when his arm is torn off by a shell. Randal later is shot, and reported dead. O'Farrell returns to Mary with the news that Randal's brother has also been killed, and that her boy is the Earl of Randal; and Mary at last realizes what her husband means to her. A great joy comes when she learns that Randal is alive, although temporarily blinded, and she nurses him while he is recovering his sight. O'Farrell once more goes to the front, saying he has one good arm left and is needed on the field. Life now seems perfect for Marv, and her happiness is deepened when her husband gives her the deed to her old house, which had been sold to strangers when her father died and she begins with deep joy her new life as Lady Randal.
- Sonia Smirnov, a Paris opera singer known as "The Black Butterfly", starts an affair with young Alan Hall. Hall, however, is still pining over his previous lover, a young peasant girl. Sonia--a former poor peasant girl herself--discovers a secret involving Hall and his former lover that neither knows about, but that involves an incident in Sonia's youth that could affect all of them.
- John Ashton, a young mechanical engineer, is completing the plans of a new submarine. The government is interested in his work, and he has promised to have it done by the tenth of the month, which gives him only six days in which to complete it. More and more he has been resorting to whiskey to keep his brain active. Robert Gray remonstrates with him, but to no avail. His fiancée, Grace Sealey, telephones him and urges him to attend a dinner party on the ninth. He accepts, though against his will. He falls asleep and dreams that he prepares to attend the dinner; he is still intoxicated when he arrives. Grace's father at once breaks off the engagement, and he leaves the house in disgrace. He goes home and finishes his plans on the morning of the tenth, and then, still wearing his evening clothes, wanders out into unknown streets. He goes into a saloon on the waterfront and drinks until he is insensible. There he is noticed by the captain and mate of a freighter, and shanghaied on board the vessel. When he comes to his senses he is far out at sea, and is told that the cruise will occupy six months, but that he may have all he wants to drink. At the end of the cruise Ashton and the captain, coming ashore, take a farewell drink together. Meg, a human derelict, attracts the captain's attention, and he attempts to force his attentions upon her. Ashton comes to her assistance, angering the captain, who gets two stevedores to attack him. Meg takes him to her own meager quarters and takes care of him. Gradually she induces him to stop drinking. Passing the building where he formerly had his office, he sees Franklin Darrow, a government engineer, and Gray, and hears them speak of Grace's wedding. She is to marry Wilfred Carleton, a broker, thinking Ashton dead. The news sends Ashton back to drinking heavily once more. But Meg learns of his real identity and helps him to win back his self-respect. They are married and Ashton's ambition returns. He resumes his work and seeks out his former friends. But Meg is unused to the new life. Her husband's work takes him more and more away from her, and she decides to take radical measures. Since he fell in love with her when under the influence of drink, she induces him to drink again, preferring his society in idleness and sordid surroundings to his neglect in luxury. The new plans for the government's submarine are made while he is intoxicated. They are wrong, and the crew of the first boat launched is drowned. Meg confesses what she has done, and takes the blame on herself. He flies at her throat, and waking up, knocks over the things on his desk. His original plans are as yet unfinished. He puts from him "the devil at his elbow," whiskey, and he and his fiancée have an early marriage, with the promise of a life full of achievement and ambition that is not clouded by an enemy which steals away the brains.
- Having forced Jim Carson to leave town in order to avoid a trumped-up embezzling charge, now Albert Temple is rid of his only serious rival for Helen, whom he soon marries. Jim goes to Alaska, where he adopts Bob Adams, the son of a murdered friend, and then makes a fortune in a gold strike. After eighteen years in the Yukon, Jim returns to his hometown with Bob, who falls in love with Helen and Albert's daughter Dorothy. Because he so hates Albert, however, Jim refuses to consent to a marriage between Bob and Dorothy until Helen tells him that Albert is not the young woman's father. In reality, Dorothy is Jim's own daughter, and when he learns this, Jim quickly changes his mind about the marriage.
- Prince Adolph of Syravia, while on a pleasure trip through America, meets Jo Sheldon, a charming American girl. Some time later, at a Charity Fete, they again meet and fall in love. Mrs. Sheldon, Jo's stepmother, being deeply in debt, and unable to repay her creditors, forges Jo's signature to a note for the amount of her debts and gets the money from a Mr. Bote, a friend of the family and very wealthy, whose one ambition in life is to have the title of a Baron. The condition of the note is that Jo marry the Prince and have him bestow the title upon Bote. The Duchess Louise, worried by the love of Jo and the Prince, explains to him that he will be able to marry Jo, only by a morganatic marriage. When the Prince proposes this to Jo, she indignantly refuses. Mr. Bote, hearing of this, tells Jo that he will stop payment on the check and send her father and stepmother to prison. Jo, knowing nothing of the note, goes to her stepmother for an explanation, whereupon after being told everything, she agrees to the marriage to save her father. In the meanwhile, the Prince receives a decoy message that his father, the King, is dying. He informs Jo that he must leave immediately, and asks her to await his return. On reaching there, and finding his father in the best of health, he persuades his younger brother to reign in his place, telling him of his love, then escaping for America, to sacrifice the throne and become an American citizen. Mrs. Sheldon cashes the check and runs off to a foreign port, while Jo leaves for the country where her father's factory is located. The King, on learning of his son's escape, sends one of his men to America, to persuade him to return and stop the marriage. The servant arriving there ahead of the Prince, secures a position in Mr. Sheldon's factory. Jo is seriously injured in an accident, caused by the King's servant, who tries to make a getaway, but is caught and severely punished. The story ends happily, with Jo's recovery and a marriage between her and the Prince.
- The sole support of her invalid mother and young crippled brother, Heloise Broulette is forced to become the mistress of Leland Norton in order to secure the money for an operation to save her mother's life. Mrs. Broulette recovers, but when she discovers the real source of her daughter's income, the news kills her. After her mother's death, Heloise leaves her career behind and goes to the country where she takes a job as a secretary to author Carter Vail, who falls in love with her. Ruth finds herself in a dilemma when Vail's sister Alice visits friends in the city and falls in love with Norton. Honor bound, Ruth sacrifices her own happiness to save Alice from Norton. In revenge, Norton informs Vail of Heloise's past, but Vail responds that she has the soul of a Magdalene despite the life that she had been forced to endure.
- Ralph Courtland and Pierre Felix are sitting in their Fifth Avenue Club discussing the eternal question, woman. Ralph contends that it is birth and breeding that make the gentlewoman, but Felix, who is a designer of fashionable apparel, claims in three months he can make a lady of any one he may happen to pick up on the street, simply by dressing her properly. An old organ-grinder and a young woman, leading a monkey by a string, stop in front of the club to gather some pennies, and Ralph and Felix decide to make her the subject of the test. The wager is for $25,000 and expenses and stakes are placed with Allen Tait, a young lawyer. Ralph goes to California, where his aeroplane is to be entered in a race, and Pierre, fitting out Bianca with beautiful clothes and installing her in a handsome apartment, begins his experiment. Bianca wears her new garments as if born to the purple, and is soon introduced to society at a charity ball and bazaar given by Ralph's mother, Pierre introducing her as a Russian Countess. Ralph returns in time to meet her, and not knowing her identity, is delighted with her. He pays her so much attention that Pierre's jealousy is aroused. Pierre, maddened by her exotic beauty attempts to embrace her, when he escorts her to her new apartments after the ball. She is so infuriated that she returns at once to the old organ-grinder. Pierre apologizes profusely, and persuades her to return, so that he may win the wager. Ralph and Bianca spend a great deal of time together. They are out horseback riding when Ralph's horse becomes frightened and he is thrown. Bianca is so overcome with fear that she rushes to him and pours forth her love in a torrent of words. Ralph is not badly hurt, and returning to consciousness, hears her and is overjoyed. He proposes marriage to her, and she accepts at once. Later Pierre reminds Ralph that he has lost the wager, since Bianca has been accepted by society. Ralph's affairs are in a precarious condition, and this threatens to ruin him. Then Bianca tells him her real identity. She is the daughter of the King of Montenaro. Being ordered to marry the Grand Duke Seridan, she has escaped to America, taking Carlo, an old servant, with her. Ralph rushes back to the club and prevents Allen from paying over the money to Pierre, since he is the one who has lost. Pierre, infuriated, vows revenge. He hurries to Bianca and forces her into an automobile. The Grand Duke has come in search of her, and Pierre promises to deliver Bianca to him. He takes her to the Duke's ship, which is in the harbor. Ralph, who has been notified by Bianca's maid that her mistress has been kidnapped, at once follows in his aeroplane, and Allen Tait gets into communication with the government officials to have the ship stopped within the three-mile limit. A cruiser is sent after the boat and stops it, but not before Ralph has dropped to the deck from his airship and fought his way to Bianca. Their immediate marriage puts a stop to further persecution from the Grand Duke.
- Georgiana Carley, the woman, and Richard Coleman, the man, have been friends since childhood, and have grown to love each other without having become aware of the fact. Sam Coast, a wealthy young man, formerly a rough miner, has also fallen in love with Georgiana, and is determined to let nothing stand in his path to obtain her for his wife. Georgiana is of wealthy family, and her brother, through money left him by his parents, has a considerable fortune. This brother, Steven Carley, is of a lovable but weak disposition, given to speculation, and Georgiana has great trouble in preventing him from losing his money. During the Philippine war many young men volunteer for service. Among them Dick Coleman, who obtains a lieutenant's commission, and he prepares to leave for the Philippines. Before leaving he realizes that he loves Georgiana, and decides to propose to her with the intention of marrying her on his return. Sam Coast is aware of the affection existing between Dick and Georgiana. and uses every effort to prevent them coming together. He has himself proposed to Georgiana and has been refused. When Dick calls upon Georgiana shortly before leaving for the Philippines with the intention of proposing, Sam breaks into the conversation and keeps the two young people apart, and finally informs Dick that he has proposed to Georgiana himself and has been accepted. This naturally upsets Dick very much and causes him to leave Georgiana without making any declaration. He acts in such a strange way that Georgiana cannot understand what is wrong with him. He finally leaves for the Philippines followed by an agent of Coast's who has also enlisted, and whom Coast has employed to prevent any correspondence passing between Dick and Georgiana while he is in the Philippines. Sam's next step is to accomplish the ruin of the Carley family. In order to force Georgiana into such a position that she must either accept him and his wealth, or suffer hardship and poverty. Georgiana, however, is obdurate, and in spite of the loss of her fortune and even her reputation, still keeps the family together. Through an ambush of Dick's regiment in the Philippines, Dick is believed to be dead, and Georgiana learns the news in the papers. She is again confronted by Coast, and the situation has become such that he has it in his power to dishonor her brother's name. To prevent this, she makes the final sacrifice of her own love for her family, and agrees to marry him. Dick Coleman, however, was not killed in the Philippines, but simply wounded and taken prisoner by the Filipinos. He escapes and unexpectedly arrives at the Carley home just in time to prevent the marriage.
- Through a real estate purchase Daniel Gaynor acquires all rights in the waterway leading from Moose River to the mill. The original owner has never made use of his rights, but Gaynor, whose one thought is to get power, refuses to allow logs to be floated down the river running through his property. The men resent this injustice, and there is a fight between Gaynor and Bill Jackson, Bill representing the lumbermen. The ruthless way in which Gaynor deals with the men loses for him the sympathy of his one friend, Mary Alden, a widowed school teacher, with whom he is in love. The loggers are forced to sell their output to Gaynor, getting a poorer price for it than ever before. He in turn sells it to the ship company in the city at a lower figure than they have ever paid. Gaynor has had to get the assistance of the sheriff and deputies to protect his interests, and he has won the victory only after many brutal fights. Delighted with Gaynor's executive ability, the firm offers him the position of general manager, at a large salary, and he goes to the city. Mary Alden refuses to accompany him as his wife, for she does not believe that happiness can be built on a foundation of injustice. At the shipyards Gaynor continues in the high-handed way he has begun. He cuts wages, speeds up the work of the men to a cruel degree, and in other ways makes himself a tyrant. So successful is he that in ten years' time he is president of the company. Bessie Alden, Mary's daughter, comes to the city to seek her fortune. She meets Dick Grant, who is employed in the office of the ship building firm, and they are instantly attracted to each other. They are married, and Dick goes to Gaynor and asks for a raise in salary. It is refused. Dick's old grandmother falls ill, and he finds his added responsibilities more than he can manage. A child is born, and Dick is at his wit's end to provide comforts for the child and Bessie. About this time Gaynor's health fails and he is obliged to go to the woods to recuperate. This facilitates the carrying out of the plan that has tempted Dick, and he takes a certain sum out of the cash box each week, telling Bessie that Gaynor has increased his salary. Returning to his old home, Gaynor finds himself thoroughly hated. He is beaten and thrown into the river, but is rescued by Mary. He begins to realize that his power has not brought him the real things in life. Dick's theft is discovered by his superior in the office, and reported to Gaynor on his return. He goes to Dick's house, telling the detective to follow later. Bessie surprises him by thanking him profusely for her husband's raise, and telling all it has done for them. The baby climbs up into his arms and pats his face. Bessie tells him the child has been named for him. It is the first affection that has been shown Gaynor for many long years, and it overwhelms him. When the detective comes, he tells him there has been a mistake, and that there has been no theft. Then, having established the happiness of Dick and Bessie, he goes to Mary Alden and finds happiness for himself.