- Having won fortune in the new land of America, Madame Desvarennes, an expatriate French woman, looks forward to the happy marriage of her daughter, Micheline, and her foster-daughter, Jeanne. Her protégé, Pierre, is Micheline's sweetheart, a young man of no especial fortune, but destined to succeed in business. His affairs necessitate a trip to France. During his absence Serge Panine, a penniless nobleman, is introduced into the household. He falls in love with Jeanne, but realizing that Micheline is the better match, determines to marry her for her fortune. Jeanne returns the adventurer's passion and scorns the suit of Cayrol, a banker, who loves her. On discovering the baseness of Serge, she accepts Cayrol through pique. Micheline, dazzled by the prospect of marrying a nobleman, forgets Pierre. The latter returns unexpectedly from France, and learns his fate. After the double wedding Jeanne confesses to Madame Desvarennes her love for Serge. The old woman, aghast, sees the happiness of her two girls in danger, and when Cayrol plans to leave home on business she urges him not to go. Serge leaves his wife and ventures at dead of night into Cayrol's home, where Jeanne receives him with rapture. Cayrol, returning, discovers them together, in his wife's boudoir, and is about to attack Serge when be falls dead from excitement. Serge hastens home and tells Micheline that he may be held responsible for Cayrol's death, so she must give him money with which to get away. Micheline breaks the tragic news to her mother, who counsels Serge to kill himself. When he refuses she, seeing in him the destroyer of her girls' happiness, makes up her mind. A shot is heard. The police find Serge Panine dead, with a pistol by his side, and Madame Desvarennes standing ominously by.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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