- Baby Wilton, while selling the pretty shells she picks up along the beach, comes upon two sweethearts, sitting on the sand. While the sweethearts are "playing hands" the girl suddenly discovers that she has lost her ring. Both start up and search the sands for it, but are unable to find it. Baby Wilton timidly approaches the young couple and offers to help them. "I play every day on the beach and maybe I will find it," she explains. The man hands her his card, which reads, "Alfred Clark, Huntington Hotel," and tells her that if she finds it to bring it to him at the address on the card. A rough beachcomber learns from Baby Wilton of the loss of the ring and sternly tells her that he will look for it. Little Baby Wilton runs home to her mother, weeping at the harsh way the beachcomber treated her. She finds her mother, a confirmed invalid, only partly conscious. A doctor is at her mother's side. He tells the child that only an operation can save her mother. "And operations cost a great deal of money, little girl," he smiles sadly. "I would not attempt to take the case, as only a skilled surgeon could handle it. It might cost all of a hundred dollars." Next day Baby Wilton starts to look for the ring on the beach, but is ordered away by the beachcomber, who hopes to obtain the reward himself. Wearied with trying to sell her shells, Baby sinks down to sleep beside a big rock. As she drifts away into dreamland, the big shell changes form and soon a beautiful fairy steps out of the shell and starts talking to her. "I will grant you any wish, little girl," smiles the good fairy at Baby Wilton. "I wish that my mamma would get well and that I could find the ring to pay for her operation," says Baby Wilton. "Your wish is granted," declares the fairy. And then, while Baby Wilton looked on in amazement, the fairy drew back into the shell and faded from sight. Waking from her dream, Baby Wilton looks about her. She finds near the great rock against which she has gone to sleep a large beautifully-colored shell. She thinks of what the fairy has whispered in her ear, and taking a stone, cracks open the shell. There, inside, where Mr. Clark's fiancée had put it in an idle moment, lies the ring. Dodging the ugly beachcomber, who suspects her purpose, Baby Wilton takes the ring to Mr. Clark, who is overjoyed to get it back again. Mr. Clark gives Baby $100 for her trouble as a reward. And then, with the check tightly grasped in her hands, Baby Wilton runs back to her mother. "See, mother," she cries, "here is money to pay for your operation. Now you will soon be well."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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