- A couple is married by proxy, but do not meet until many years later.
- When Warren Bradley, a promising young city lawyer, learns that there is a peculiar provision in his uncle's will which bequeaths him half of a very large fortune, he loses no time in finding out the details. Very simple; he is to marry a distant relative, a young lady whom he has never seen. In order to get the money he is quite satisfied to marry almost anybody, but not so the young lady. Mary Burns, a prim and pretty country school teacher, with quite firm notions of her own, spurns the proposal, and refuses to have anything to do with him, even so much as see him. "Then you will marry me without seeing me. Come." This is what he wires in answer. Mary would ignore this appeal also but for the distressful financial conditions her uncle at the time is plunged in. So she goes to the city and the marriage is performed with the couple standing at either side of a pair of curtains and she leaves without either she or her husband seeing each other. However, they do have an awkward encounter on the street later, but both are unaware of their relationship. Mary returns to the farm and saves her uncle, then she decides she wants to become a business woman and studies stenography. Through a kindly old lawyer, who had befriended her in the city at the time of her marriage, she applies for a position. This wily old chap has a scheme of his own and when Mary arrives at the address he has sent her she finds herself face to face with her husband. Mary is ushered into young Bradley's office by the young lawyer himself, while the poor girl is struggling with a thousand conflicting emotions. What a handsome fellow. How kind and solicitous. What an opportunity to study him. Yes, and there have been other young ladies who have thought the same thing and at this moment calls. Mary immediately ends herself becoming jealous and in a panicky moment tries to escape, but is not successful. Six months pass and Bradley has fallen in love with his stenographer. Now he deplores that idiotic marriage for money and why on earth doesn't that country school ma'am try to get a divorce? He decides to write and insist on her starting suit or he will do so himself. When he dictates this astounding letter to Mary, who, of course, is now under an assumed name, a thousand fears assail her. He wants to get a divorce from her, so she thinks, so he may be able to marry this society woman. She never finishes the letter, for while he is out of the room for a moment she seizes her wraps and runs away. Later, in the form of a telegram: "Then you will marry me without seeing me," which Bradley finds in Mary's desk, the young lawyer learns that the masquerading stenographer is his wife. In a few minutes he is at her room and has smothered her with kisses. Love came in where only sordid money desires had been before. The little country schoolma'am knew how to work it.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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