- An Irish couple comes to America to find their fortune. Tom becomes successful in business and Eileen returns to Ireland to visit her mother. While there, she has a baby. She comes back to find Tom embracing the stenographer.
- Young Tom Murray, son of the "ould sod," has heard the call of America. An uncle in New York has told him of the chances in the land of the free. He is in love with Eileen Ryan, and gives her a sprig of shamrock, with the assurance the he will love and cherish her. Only a short while after his marriage to Eileen he gets another letter from his uncle telling him that, if he still feels like coming to New York, a good position is awaiting him. They deride to set out together. Bidding the old mother good-bye they sail away, and are soon settled in New York, with Tom filling a promising position in his uncle's office. A year has passed, and Eileen one day gets a letter from the old village doctor in Ireland, saying that her mother is in very poor health and is yearning for her daughter. Unable to go with his wife, Tom urges her to return and comfort the old lady. Back in Ireland, Eileen finds her mother has picked up in health but she is so glad to see her girl again that Eileen promises to remain for a while. Tom waits for several months, but he has cause to wait with love and pride in his heart. Meantime a new stenographer is engaged by Tom's uncle. She is the type that so commonly is found in the offices of the big city, pretty and brainless, but with sufficient powers of attraction to exert an influence on a susceptible young man which Tom proves to be. Nevertheless he is overjoyed one day when he receives a cable-gram telling him that he has a son, whom Eileen has named after him. A few months later a letter comes telling him that she is coming back to him, and asking him to meet her with the baby at the pier. Tom has asked the stenographer to take dinner with him on the evening his wife's boat is due, but the letter comes that afternoon, and is carelessly tossed upon the desk when the stenographer receives it from the postman. Consequently Eileen finds no one waiting. When he gets to the house rather late, Tom finds his wife and tells her that he has received no word. The next morning, however, Eileen goes to the office and catches Tom trying to kiss the stenographer. Eileen tells Tom that she is through with him. She goes to a boarding house. In the evening Tom finds his wife has left him. The next day the postman hands him a small package addressed to his wife, in her mother's handwriting. He runs across the nurse with the child. The girl tells him that his wife has been crying all through the previous night. Conscience-stricken and thoroughly repentant he accompanies the nurse to where Eileen is stopping There he begs her forgiveness and gives her the package that has come from Ireland. Opening it she finds the little sprig of shamrock tucked away in a small Bible.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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