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James Clark, an ambitious young lawyer, is too engrossed in business affairs to attend a social affair with his wife. The young wife feels she is being neglected and her friends persuade her to attend the reception regardless of her ...See moreJames Clark, an ambitious young lawyer, is too engrossed in business affairs to attend a social affair with his wife. The young wife feels she is being neglected and her friends persuade her to attend the reception regardless of her husband's wishes. While there, she meets Carl von Liebohen, a musician, and a too friendly intimacy springs up between the young wife and the musician. The husband is too busy to notice any change in his wife's actions. One evening the musician gives a supper party in his apartments and the young wife attends. After the supper, the young wife is detained by the musician and it is then that she realizes the follies of her actions. The musician avows his love, and the young wife, frightened into sensibility, hastens home. She now realizes her own love for her husband. The musician broods into despondency. He sends the wife a message; that since she has refused his love he will seek consolation in death. The wife hurries to the musician's apartment, but too late to prevent his death. Out of the dead man's hand she takes a note. The musician is dead, and the young wife escapes unseen from the house. The police enter upon the scene. A strange man is seen leaving the house. He is caught and brought to the house where the dead musician is discovered. All indications point to him as the murderer and the man is arrested. The affair has caused considerable comment. The young husband has been engaged to defend the accused man's case. The ambitions of the young lawyer spurs him into the realms of fame. His wife has possession of the two letters that would vindicate the accused man. The lawyer's case is a hard one. Circumstantial evidence is too strong against the prisoner. On the day of the great trial the wife attends and listens to the evidence, which points to the accused man's conviction. The great ordeal and strain of this conviction prompts her to her better self and she confesses all to her husband. The young wife takes the witness stand and tells all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less