- Norton Burbeck, a young man in line for a large inheritance, is in love with the beautiful Beatrice Gaden. What he doesn't know is that she is conspiring with Norton's cousin Howard to swindle Norton out of the inheritance. Norton, however, has an ace up his sleeve that Beatrice and Howard don't know about.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Norton Burbeck, a young clubman, becomes infatuated with Beatrice Gaden, an adventuress, who pretends to be in love with him. By the terms of a strange will, Burbeck is to receive a large fortune provided he is married by a certain date. If he fails, the money is to be forfeited to his cousin, Howard Curtis. Leatrice Gaden is in league with Curtis to keep Burbeck from receiving the money, and she is married to a man who aids her in the plot. Years before, while Burbeck was traveling in Ireland. Timothy McNairn had done him a service, and was told at the time to call upon the American in any time of need. On his deathbed, McNairn tells his daughter, Jerry to go to Burbeck in America, since she is left almost penniless. One night Burbeck finds her asleep in the hall of his house. He gives her the title of "guardian of his comfort" and she sets about her new duties of mending his socks and sewing on his buttons. While calling on Beatrice, Burbeck learns that she is married as he surprises her husband in her apartment. Beatrice insists that her husband is a brute and that she does not love him, whereupon Burbeck proposes that Gaden grant her a divorce, which he promises to do. Jerry is sent to Beatrice with a present from Burbeck. In the presence of Jerry the adventuress states her real opinion of him and discusses with her husband the way in which they will spend the money out of which they expect to hoodwink him. Jerry is determined to save her benefactor from their plot to ruin him. On the eve of the date mentioned in the will. Jerry marries him herself, assuring him that the marriage will be one in name only and that she will have it annulled as soon as the money is safely in his hands. The Gadens become desperate. Gaden goes to Jerry and promises to keep Beatrice away from Burbeck in the future in return for a large sum of money. Jerry refuses the offer and decides it is time her husband should know what a pair of scoundrels the Gadens are. She asks Burbeck to send for Beatrice and tell her the marriage is to be annulled. Mrs. Gaden is told that there is one drawback, that Burbeck will have to forfeit all his money to win his freedom, and come to Beatrice a poor man. Gaden loses all interest in Burbeck when this news is told her, and tells his she has become reconciled to her husband. He asks her to leave his house, as he thinks over recent events he realizes the nobility of Jerry's character, and what she has done for him. Jerry cannot be found. She has stolen out of the house early in the morning, leaving a note saying that she intends sailing on a boat bound for Ireland, and that she will have the marriage annulled as soon as possible. Burbeck hastens to her, and pleads with her to remain, declaring that she is sailing away from happiness instead of toward it. Jerry confesses that she has loved him all the time. At this moment they discover that the boat is in motion, and deciding that they might just as well spend their honeymoon abroad, the happy pair watch New York's sky-line recede in the distance.—Moving Picture World synopsis
It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Be the first to contribute.
Learn moreContribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content