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- This is a bogus title which appears in The Universal Silents by Richard A. Braff. No film of this title was either produced or released at this time.
- Jack Downs goes on a motoring trip and locks up his apartment in the city, dropping his keys in the operation. A tramp comes on at this time, picks up the keys and takes possession of the apartment in the owner's absence. He adorns himself in Jack's clothes and then decides to rent the apartment. Nancy Butler meets Jack on the road and they become acquainted. On her arrival she seeks an apartment, and by one of those peculiar turns of fate answers the tramp's ad. She is shown the apartment and rents it, the tramp leaving happily after consummating a clever deal. One night Jack returns and then complications arise. Nancy recognizes him and claims the apartment, but Jack convinces her it is his. She decides to leave, but he, pleading illness persuades her to remain. She in sympathy, telephones a D.D., mistaking him for a M.D. In the meantime, a maiden aunt calls and Jack in desperation, claims her niece as his wife, and then at last the D.D. arrives in time to straighten out the tangle.
- It required an effort for the old violinist to sell his machine for food and heat. He loved his instrument as though it were something human, and dear and kind to him. But the little one was crying for food, and the instrument was compelled to earn it. Walking away with the money that it procured, he ran across a little street Arab, soiled, hungry and dirty, and his heart went out to the mite. He took the boy home. A few days later a celebrated musician brought his violin to the old man to be mended. He took his overcoat off to explain the defects in the instrument, and the little erstwhile waif, in child play, put on the big overcoat upside down. As he did so, the wallet that the musician had carried in his pocket fell into an umbrella standing nearby. The musician left and later discovered the loss of his money. He at once returned and had the old violinist arrested. It was not before his trial that the boy found the money in the umbrella and hurried to the court to explain the circumstance. The musician saw his mistake, and returned with the liberated violinist, and as he passed from the house he put the roll of bills that the wallet had contained into the hands of the boy who had shown him his mistake.
- Little Dorothy Blaisdell begs her father to let her have a birthday party. She writes the invitations herself and accompanied by her nurse goes to deliver them. On the way they come across a poor little girl selling her papers by the roadside. Dorothy asks the nurse if she can give one of her invitations to the poor little child, the nurse says, "No." The father coming on the scene allows her to do so. Just before the party is to be given, little Dorothy falls ill and is to be taken to the hospital. The children come to the party hut the nurse turns them away, saying that poor Dorothy is sick. The poor child also comes but is snubbed by the rich little children and is also sent home. In her delirium the nurse overhears Dorothy murmur in her sleep about the party. The father is consulted and brings the children to the hospital, where the feast is prepared. Dorothy gets up but does not see the poor little girl among the guests. One of the nurses is dispatched for the little girl, who is brought to the party, which makes Dorothy's recovery and happiness complete.
- Years before he had gone away, had crossed his native mountains into a country where might is measured by other things than the strength of arm and the amount of arms one possessed. He had gone and got cultured, that's what. He had exchanged instinct for intelligence, cunning for intelligence, stealthiness for strategy. He had bartered brawn for brain, but he kept enough of the former for emergencies. He had studied the law and was returning to introduce and enforce it in a place where the only law was the denial and defiance of it. As he rode along the narrow road he came across Judith, a playmate of the old years and the sweetheart of his kid-hood days. She was now a woman, with the tender suggestion of young and yearning womanhood expressing itself in her shy recognition and bashful welcome. He gazed at her, and a dead memory of the young yesterday was resurrected and restored. Then, his eyes feasting on her pensive face, as though they were reluctant to look away from the sympathy and sincerity growing and glowing there, he rode on into the town. The mountaineers muttered sullen words when they saw the shingle, "Clem Parker, Attorney at Law." They resented his return and intrusion, and disliked the significant suggestion of the sign, to them a sign of no good omen. For between you and us, they were moonshiners, and his face looked too honest and earnest for their future prosperity and security. It happened at Judith's birthday dance. The leader of the clan, inspired by a quantity of whiskey, attempted to kiss Judith, and Clem struck him down. That night the clansmen held council in the old barn and decided to take peremptory vengeance on the offender. Judith, eagerly and anxiously listening, heard all, and quickly apprising her father they hastened to prepare Clem, but arrived just in time to be a little too late. The wounded lawyer and the fleeing riders conveyed the grim, graphic tale. Their second attempt to wreak their wrath upon Clem, when they hurled him over the precipice, only resulted in the discovery of the distillery in the cave below. Even their attempt to kidnap Judith was frustrated by a kid who had learned their purpose and communicated it to the sheriff. Determination and courage eventually triumphed over disorder and cunning, as they generally do. And the triumph included the victory of a greater law than that prohibiting moonshiners. For one night, while the old moon was smiling down upon a silly earth, Clem whispered something to Judith that brought a sweet blush to her cheeks and a tender glow to her eyes. And Judith said "yes."
- Three centuries ago among the prehistoric Indians of Northern Canada, a young chief and a brave fought in their primitive fashion for the band of a young squaw, the brave seeking to possess her by force, but she is rescued in time by the chief, whom she really wants. The old medicine man of the tribe unites them and gives them each an amulet which has the magic properties of keeping them both from harm and bringing them both together in some future life. The same four souls are reincarnated in the present day inhabitants of the east side of New York. The medicine man as a settlement worker, the chief as a factory hand, the squaw as a factory girl and the villainous brave as an east side gangster. Again the villain seeks to possess the girl after the manner of his kind, but she is saved by the factory hand with the assistance of the settlement worker. The two souls discover their former identity by the possession of the amulets have been handed down to them as heirlooms, and remember again their former incarnation as they are reunited. In this life the villain is regenerated by the efforts of the settlement worker.
- Billy and his sweetheart have had a little quarrel, and just to make him jealous, she accepts the attentions of another suitor. When she thinks she has punished Billy enough, she decides to break her engagement with Billy's rival, and to again accept Billy's attentions. But before doing so she requests Billy's rival to return to her the letters that she had written to him during their short courtship, which he absolutely refuses to do. He informs her that he is going to Europe, and that when he returns he will amuse the boys at the club with the letters. In desperation she informs Billy of his rival's intention, and informs him that she cannot accept his offer of marriage while his rival retains those letters. On Billy learning that his rival, whom he has never met, is about to sail for Europe, he decides to burglarize the house and get his sweetheart's letters. But, unfortunately for Billy, his rival misses the boat and returns in time to catch Billy robbing the house. Not knowing Billy, and thinking that he is a burglar, the rival 'phones for the police. He then confronts Billy, who in turn thinks the rival has gone to Europe, mistakes him for a burglar, and when the police arrive Billy has him arrested; but as they are taking him away, the butler, whom Billy has robbed of the keys so that he could enter the house, arrives with a policeman and identifies the rightful owner. They then return to the house to arrest Billy, who succeeds in getting out of the house with the much coveted letters. He returns them to his sweetheart, who then accepts his proposal.
- Robert Warning, very much in love with his wife, and detesting that dog that is invariably placed at his table, decides to decapitate the canine. His wife circumvents him. A row ensues and the husband leaves for his office in a huff. A month passes and still the coldness exists between them. Warning gets a telephone call at his office that the stork has arrived. Elated, he dismisses his office force, hies himself to the club, and his fellow-members and drinks to the health of the stork's gift. Arriving home, he is almost prostrated to find a bouncing puppy instead of a bouncing baby. Indignant at the misunderstanding, he resolves to go to his uncle to recuperate from the shock, only to he confronted at every turn by dogs of all descriptions. In the midst of his turmoil at his new abode, he receives a wire to return home because the stork has made another visit. Thinking to please his wife, he purchases clothes for the puppy's outfit and departs for home. Imagine his utter amazement and joy when he discovers that the stork has really left a baby this time.
- A bevy of chorus girls, at the close of a successful season, decide to go on a spree, to a quiet beach resort. They plan beautiful designs in bathing suits. The country rubes go crazy over them, but the local Spinsters' Club is aroused and the girls are all arrested in their bathing suits. The judge fines them each five dollars. There is no money in their bathing suits. The judge pays their fines himself and, later goes to collect the money. The girls give him the time of his life. From being a "Rube Town" the conditions become altered, but the Spinsters' Club gets busy and the girls aid them ; eventually a good moral lesson is given to the community.
- Jean, a young Briton fisherman, is betrothed to his cousin, Yvonne. A few days after the betrothal, Jean returns from a fishing trip. While sorting his fish on the beach he is accosted by the lady of the chateau who, attracted by his youth and strength, pauses to examine and buy his fish. She tells him to bring the fish along and they go together to her home. There she dismisses Jean, bidding him, however, to return the next day with more fish. Jean, dazzled by her beauty and grace, returns home to his good mother and little cousin in a trance. They cannot understand the change in their kindly good natured Jean. Milady flirts with Jean for several weeks and the simple fisherman falls deeply in love with the lady of high degree. He repulses his mother and sweetheart, who try to show him the folly of his infatuation. One day going to the chateau to see Milady, he meets her coming down the drive escorted by a man of her own caste. They are laughing and chatting together and Milady passes Jean without noticing him. For a moment he gazes after her stunned, then turning runs frantically along the beach in pursuit. His old mother sees him and calls after him in vain. Jean overtakes Milady and her escort at the great rock which had been the scene of many of their rendezvous. Milady casually says. "This is my fiancé. Count Augard, Jean," then turns away and leaves him stunned. Jean sees them ride away and in an outburst of and despair loses his footing on the rock and falls, striking his head. He lies there until found by his mother, who has searched for him for hours. She finally gets him into a boat and home, where she and Yvonne nurse him back to health and reason. Love for his little cousin again fills his heart and he begs her forgiveness, which she readily accords, neither guessing that at that very instant the devoted old mother had met and defeated Milady in her effort to regain Jean. And the Briton sun covers the laughing ocean with its red warmth, casting a glow of cheer and courage over the happy love of the three.
- During his mother's severe illness Bobbie Brown reads in a fairy legend, that rust taken from a church bell after midnight will restore a sick person to health. At midnight he goes to the church and while taking rust from the bell, rings it accidentally. The town is aroused and the villagers swarm to the church. The minister finds Bobbie who explains. They return to Bobbie's home and find the mother has passed the crisis in her fever and is out of danger.
- It all depended on Bernice. Whether her consumptive brother obtained the light and air that meant life to him, and whether her aged mother and little sister ate dally and slept nightly, all depended upon her. Bernice made a few dollars as a stenographer. One day her pressing needs presented a new view of economics to Bernice. Her employer had too much money, she had nothing. The checkbook lay open on the desk. He would never miss it; why shouldn't she. Her employer did miss it, and sent for a detective. She was suspected. The detective called at her home in her absence, and questioned her family. The consumptive brother admitted that she had given him a sum equal to the amount missing. Bernice was arrested. A short while after the incident, her mother went to the little prison where Bernice was awaiting trial, leaving the sick boy to take care of the baby June. In the boy's mind was conflict, in his heart was war. Long he thought, and then his resolution was formed. Taking the tot, he rallied all his weak strength, and started for his sister's employer's office. The walk was long, he was weary and exhausted, but he stubbornly continued, reached the door, and fell fainting. Baby June entered the office, and walked straight to the employer. He looked into June's eyes, and saw the eyes of his own love lost. The baby's story was told, and the baby fingers led him to the door where the unconscious boy lay. The invalid was revived, the girl's sacrifice explained. At her employer's request, she was liberated from prison and her position was returned to her. The consumptive went to Mexico at her employer's expense, and Baby June won a life-long friend.
- Tom Clifford wrenches his ankle while shooting in the forest. He is found by Indians and taken care of. He falls in love with White Dove, the promised wife of Black Owl, a rich Indian. Iron Hand, the chief, suspects Tom and warns White Dove against eloping with him. They elope, however; the Indians discover their flight and the chase begins. They are almost caught when White Dove remembers a bear trap set up a few days previously. Both take their chance and hide in it, thus saving their lives. Tom takes his bride to his parents, but he soon compares her to brilliant Nan Travers, who has been in love with him for some time. He, beginning to love Nan, neglects White Dove, who, wounded in her love for him, runs away. We next see White Dove in a shabby room, sewing while her baby sleeps near her. She resolves to go back to Tom for the baby's sake. Arriving at Tom's home, she witnesses a love scene between Tom and Nan. Black Owl, who has sworn revenge on Tom, is also watching. White Dove sees him level his gun at Tom, jumps in front of him and saves his life. She begs Tom to take care of her baby and dies happy in his assurance that both Nan and he will look after him.
- A Mexican bandit with his motherless girl is chased by a sheriff's posse, and the little girl is lost in the race. The bandit is captured, tried and sentenced to be hung, while the little girl is found by a traveler and placed in an orphan asylum. The bandit escapes and swears vengeance on the judge who sentenced him. In the meantime, the little girl is adopted by the judge, who finds a locket on her neck. Fifteen years after, the bandit captures the judge's adopted daughter, not knowing she is his own daughter, and takes her to his hiding place, leaving her in charge of a mute. He goes to send notice to the judge that he can have his daughter by paying a large ransom. During his absence, the girl gets the better of the mute and almost escapes as the bandit returns. He sends the mute outdoors and tells him to shoot, and shoot to kill, if anybody as much as moves the blanket at the window. He then locks the door. The girl attacks him, and in the scuffle he finds the locket by which he recognizes the girl as his own daughter. He goes to the window to tell his men to let her go, and as be moves the blanket the mute shoots, and he is mortally wounded, but has strength enough to call his men and tell them the ransom is paid, and for them to escort her to safety. As they leave the room he falls dead without telling anyone she is his own daughter.
- Ferdie and Bertie are persistent suitors for Ethel's hand. Ethel loves Jack, who is absorbed in his books and pays little attention to her. Ferdie and Bertie are actually loved by two charming girls but ignore them. Not knowing which to select, Ethel offers her hand as a prize for a fishing contest; the winner shall marry her. Ferdie and Bertie are at once on the job, but are annoyed by their other sweethearts and catch no fish. Jack forgets about the contest until roused by Ethel, then falls asleep while angling. The other boys, in despair, each secretly buy an enormous fish from a small village lad. Ethel, seeing the wonderful fish they have caught, and so that neither of the despised suitors may win her hand, secretly buys an enormous fish from the boy and attaches it to the hook of sleeping Jack and steals away. Bertie is at the hotel and as he displays the wonderful fish; he is the hero of the hour when Ferdie comes in with a still larger fish; in fact a young whale, and is about to claim Ethel's hand, when Jack dashes in with a fish of gigantic proportions and claims the girl, much to the amusement of the small boy, who discreetly maintains silence.
- Adolph, a half-witted hunchback, loves a girl who is loved by Miles, a lighthouse tender, whose affection she returns. They have a clandestine meeting, as her father objects to Miles. Later Miles and the girl are married in a boat, while the father rages on the shore. A month later Adolph cuts the wires and punches holes in the oil tank at the lighthouse. Miles, the keeper of the lighthouse, finds that the light will soon be extinguished, as holes have been bored through the oil tank. He goes ashore for oil. The hunchback, who is laboring under a delusion that the lighthouse keeper's wife is held a prisoner by her husband, comes in the house and asks her to go away with him. She refuses to leave, and he ties her to a chair. Then he goes up to put out the light. A steamer is seen approaching. Adolph is just about to put out the light when the wife breaks loose, runs upstairs, and after a fight she throws him from the lighthouse window and manages to keep the light burning until the ship is safe. Then she and her husband search for the hunchback and find him clinging to a boat and almost dead. They resolve to care for him in the future.
- They were a successful family, because they were happy. Their home was the greatest temple in the world, because it sheltered contentment. And then the child came. They loved each other so much, it seemed they couldn't spare enough for the little stranger, but they did; love multiplies itself. Then he met her, the pretty, dark-haired, dark-eyed, sweet-voiced Italian girl. She worked in his strawberry field, and he saw much of her. And something stirred and wakened in her and clamored in her heart for freedom, the imprisoned love that had smoldered in her being all the years of her youth. All the pulse and impulse of her race, all the fire and faith of a first love, all the timid tenderness and trust and truth of a woman-child molded and melded into a blind passion. He took an interest in the girl, which she mistook for affection. He placed her in charge of the pickers; he was kind and gentle to her, and in her eagerness to do so, she recognized his kindness as love. Later he began to feel the strange power overwhelming him, and gradually submitted to it. There was fascination in her, a luring challenge, a dominant seduction. Her lips were inviting in their freshness, her voice soft and sweet, her eyes contained forgetfulness, and he forgot. In those eyes were all the innocence and all the sin of the world; in their black mystery was conflict, the soul-struggle of all humanity on the battlefield of the world; yet, in their dark depths was peace. His wife first doubted, then suspected, then realized the bitter truth. Almost at the same time the girl learned of his wife and child. But her love was too strong, too reckless, to be conquered by her knowledge of right and wrong, and her passion was only increased by the furious rage of the realization. Once she saw the child, with its sweet, little face and laughing blue eyes, and realized in it her most dangerous rival for the love of the man she loved. But, had be not told her that he loved her? Yes, and had he not asked her to go away? Ah, his wife, his child, were nothing. It was she! And their love, their love that was stronger than his soul. Then Something took the matter in its own Mighty Hands. The child walked down to the sea one day, and in childish daring was about to step into the water. The girl saw, and felt a fiendish. inhuman delight at the promised destruction of the greatest obstacle in her path. Then God permitted her to see her error; she realized a human life was even greater than a great love, and she flew to the bank and rescued the child from the impending peril. Almost tenderly, she led it from the threatening danger, straight to the arms of the distracted parents anxiously searching for it. The father pressed the child to his heart, and in the vast joy of its safety, drew his wife to him and kissed her. Then the three walked off, forgetting the girl and her sacrifice, never thinking of the bitter cost of their happiness. But God whispered to the girl that she was right, and her heart sheltered a giant joy.
- Bill Downing and Jim Redburn, two burglars, are in the hands of the police. Jim Redburn's wife, Mary, comes to the District Attorney and pleads for her husband. The District Attorney influences Jim to turn state's evidence and Downing is sentenced to prison. Downing swears to get even when his prison sentence is up. Five years elapse. The District Attorney has helped Redburn to a steady job. He has lived straight and has his wife and child in a nice home. Bill Downing is released from prison. He returns to New York to look for Redburn. He goes to the old thieves' haunts, but cannot find his man. He meets Jordan, another thief, and Nance, who tell him of Redburn's new address. Downing makes his way to Redburn's house in the country. He tells Redburn that he has come to kill him. Redburn admits Downing is justified, explains that he did it for the sake of his wife and child. Redburn gets up and writes a letter to Mary, telling her goodbye, and shows Downing that he is ready to take his punishment. Downing is impressed by Redburn's courage, and asks Redburn if there is a chance for him to live straight. Redburn shows him a letter from a man in the west who wants an electrician. As Downing has no money Redburn gives him $100, and he departs.
- Billy and Tessie are greatly in love with each other. Tiring of sitting around the house and doing nothing, Tessie decides to learn manicuring by correspondence. Billy tries to dissuade her, but doesn't succeed. After her third lesson, she persuades her father to let her work in his barbershop. Her first customer, Percival, is practically butchered and when the porter upsets the water intended for his hands down his neck, confusion reigns.
- The tongueless man comes into the lives of a young artist and his wife in a rather mysterious manner, but later proves a valuable help in straightening out the tangle of their lives. He becomes the devoted servitor of the artist and enters into their life as though he had ever been a part. The couple are dissatisfied with their lot, each not knowing why their love for the other has grown cold. She has not awakened to the full realization of her love for her husband, and he, man-like, allows the days and weeks and months to drift by without one demonstration of love. One day a supposed friend, mother artist, comes into their lives, and, realizing the situation, makes desperate love to the wife. He falls in his conquest in compromising the wife, but instead awakens in her the real love for her husband, but the observant husband sees nothing but that his wife has ceased to love him and loves another. At last, in desperation, the husband goes out with the intention of destroying his supposed rival, but the tongueless man stops him at the psychological moment and rescues him from a serious attempt at crime and untangles the situation by showing the husband that his wife has done nothing but indulged in a light flirtation, and proves that the wife really loves him. The supposed friend is frightened away by the tongueless man, and a happy reconciliation is affected.
- Somewhere in the West of Europe, lying on a cozy stretch of fertile land, was a principality where love was king of everything and everything was fair. There was a princess, a bright, blithe, buoyant, vivacious miss, who life was a toy and the world a play-ground to. The fires and forces of youth firmly emphasized the dominant spirit and the tender strength of her charming femininity. The courage and confidence of youthful years reinforced the happy contentment of her carefree nature. Yet, often when the twilight fell, hushing the din of the day, and a lone star glimmered in the western sky, whispering with wondrous witchery of the day's decease, she would sit in pensive musing and gaze across more miles than the eye could see, seeming to listen to a vague voice within her, the soft, still call of slumbering love. Across the mountains to the westward, nestling in the lap of the foot-hills, drowsed a little municipality in peaceful but unproductive slumber. The ruling prince was a statesman. A long hereditary line of political marriage and mirage had subdued whatever poesy or romance he might otherwise have possessed. He had the advertising instinct. He was not a visionary, but he had the foresight to realize that an alliance with the striving, thriving community across the mountains would result in good and gain for his own dominion. So he dispatched his heralds to advise King Theold that he was coming to sue for the hand of the princess. The king was old. The years had written their weary record on the scroll of his soul. He desired the princess to wed before the grave sent its silent summons. He exhorted her to marry the prince; but the wee whisper of that subtle power slumbering somewhere in her soul wakened and warned her to war. She donned the peasant's garb, left the grim grandeur and the menacing mockery of the castle, and went out into the world. And there she met one whom ages ago Fate had coupled with her, one who kindled into flame the spark of love and longing that had flickered somewhere in her superconscious being, like a torch showing her soul its way through man's defiance and destruction of nature's prerogatives, to the haven that had been designed and assigned for it. She did not know that he was the prince incognito, nor he that she was the princess; such is the mystery of fate's mastery. But it was given them to see and know and understand.
- The Governor's daughter has many suitors. She tells them all that the one who brings her a branch from the Indian's sacred tree at the top of Montmartre shall win her hand. Two of the suitors accept the challenge and start out. Both arrive at the mount at the same time. A duel takes place between them and the defeated suitor apparently leaves for home, but realizing that the captain will win the hand of the girl, he plots with the Indians to do away with him for having dared to touch the tree which they think is sacred. The Indians come upon the captain as he descends the tree with the precious branch and invite him to a feast. In the meantime several of the savages have loosened the roof of the cave and as the captain enters, the top caves in. The captain's life is spared, but he loses his eyesight forever. He becomes the charge of the superstitious Indians and is given to a squaw, who is instructed to take care of him. Months afterward, the blind captain tells his faithful guard of his lost love and why he risked his life to climb their sacred tree. In the meantime, the Governor's daughter, believing the captain dead, consents to marry his rival, who has claimed that he was wounded while endeavoring to reach the tree and carried back the tale that the captain was killed. The Indian girl, after hearing the captain's story, yields to his entreaties to help him escape, and arriving at the Governor's house they learn that the ceremony is about to take place in the chapel. As the Indian girl leads the blind captain into the church, the priest who is about to pronounce the rival and the Governor's daughter man and wife, is stopped by the cries of the captain. He tells his story and the Indian girl also tells the plot of the rival. The rival rushes from the church and the Governor's daughter, realizing the great wrong which she has done the captain, falls on her knees to ask forgiveness, which is gladly given and the captain leads her to the altar and the ceremony is continued.
- Claude Petreaux is an old doll maker, who lives with his daughter, Lucille. He has an apprentice, Villon, by name, a worthless man who loves Lucille. The young folks wish to marry, but Claude denies his permission. Villon persuades Lucille to elope. The old man is broken down with grief and swears that she will never darken his door again. Five years pass. In a distant city the young people are struggling to make a living. As a doll maker, Villon has not achieved success and he has already began to descend the steep roads of dissipation. A little girl, four years, has been born to them. One day the little girl brings home a dog to the already half-starved household. Villon, in drunken anger, at having another mouth to feed, kicks the dog brutally, and would put him out of doors, but the little girl takes the dog in her arms and pleads that it may he kept. In this she receives the support of her mother. In rage he vows that he will never feed them and leaves them to shift for themselves. The old man, in the meantime, feels that death is near, which increases his longing for Lucille, who paints a miniature of her baby and sends it to her father. He receives the miniature and calls in a notary. He disposes of his stock, and, using the miniature as a model, he fashions a doll and dispatches it to them. The wolf of starvation has made its appearance to Lucille and her child. She is anxiously awaiting a return to her letter. The packet with the doll arrives. The little girl is delighted with it, but the mother is keenly disappointed that no tangible help has been vouchsafed, and gives way to despair. At this time Villon returns deeply repentant with promises of reformation which woman-like, she accepts. The father takes the doll away from his child and throws it out of the window. The dog runs after it and the little girl sobs for her new toy. The father scolds her and the mother tries in vain to give her comfort. In the meantime the dog has found the doll in the yard and proceeds to tear it apart. The child seeing this, sobs even more piteously than ever at the destruction of her plaything. The mother's heart relents and she bids Villon go and rescue it. He brings it in, in a mangled condition when to their surprise and delight they find the concealed money.