- A woman wins back the love of her husband by risking her life to save him from disgrace.
- A young scientist with a wife and young daughter is greatly interested in some explorations he has planned to make which he believes will bring him fame and fortune. He is thinking of starting on the trip when he receives a letter from another member of the proposed party, saying that unless the sum of $2,000 can be raised immediately the expedition cannot sail. It is suggested that the scientist borrow the money from a wealthy old man who lives in the scientist's home town and who is known to be interested in such affairs as the expedition. Although knowing the rich old man to be something of a miser, the scientist goes to him and is successful in borrowing the money after explaining that his chief ambition is to do something for the sake of his little daughter whose picture he shows to the rich man. The picture is in a locket which the scientist uses as a charm on his watch chain. While the rich man gets the money, the scientist is so interested that he does not refasten the locket securely and it falls to the floor unheeded. After the scientist has gone, the rich man sees the trinket, and knowing how greatly prized it is, goes out to try to overtake the younger man and return it. On his way, the near-sighted old man stumbles and falls over a high cliff and is killed. His body is not found for several days, and knowing nothing of what has happened, the scientist leaves for a distant country with his expedition. When the rich man's body is finally discovered, the locket is found clutched in his hand. It is generally believed that the scientist has murdered him for the money he was known to have obtained the night before leaving. The neighbors believing the scientist guilty and that he has fled, turn against his wife and child, their former friends, and completely ostracize them, making life miserable for the wife and daughter. Knowing nothing of what has happened in his absence, the scientist returns unexpectedly in hopes of giving his family a glad surprise. He is surprised and angry at what he has learned. The murdered man's butler has seen the sudden return and reported it to the police. In the meantime the little daughter, who was picking berries at the foot of the cliff on the day of her father's return, has stumbled on a worn pocketbook. It is the pocketbook of the rich man which had fallen from his pocket when he fell from the cliff, and contains, among other papers, a note given by the scientist for the money. The note exonerates the scientist of the charge of murder.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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