- A wife hides her lover when her suspecting husband suddenly returns home.
- Duane Lovett's husband adored and trusted her, although she squandered his money madly. Her husband, Graham Lovett, was one of those simple men who work, play, love and hate with quiet intensity, presenting to the world an unruffled calm. One evening Lovett presented her to Daredevil Dan Hargreaves, the millionaire explorer. One of her old lovers, Malcolm Leroy, watched the introduction, and became desperately jealous. He took rooms across the street, whence he saw Lovett leave and Dan arrive every day. One night Leroy, making certain that Dan was with Duane, hastened to the club to warn Lovett. And as Leroy talked, suspicion grew in Lovett's thoughts, and he determined upon desperate measures. When he entered his home that night, he was seen by the maid, who rushed to Duane to warn her. She hid Dan in the wall-safe in time to open the door for Lovett. He saw that she had been packing to go away. He also saw the corner of a coat sticking through a crack of the safe door. With tranquil cruelty, he slowly smoked four cigars, all the while talking carelessly, while he watched her agitation. He finished his last cigar, and bade her a cold good-night. Duane rushed to the safe, and opened the door. Dan's body fell out before her - dead. She looked about and saw Lovett standing at the door. She backed away from him to the window, and Leroy, watching from across the street, saw Lovett's shadow approach Duane's, grab her by the throat, then suddenly flinging her from him leaves the room. Leroy dropped the curtain, hate left his face; love, pity and horror at himself overwhelmed him. Duane stood staring at the body of Dan. At last, she had paid.
Moving Picture World, August 4, 1917
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content