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Nellie Gray, a sweet little maiden of sixteen, is discovered surrounded with all the loving care of a dear old-fashioned home and a mother and father who worship her. Unused to the ways of the world, she steals away from choir practice one...See moreNellie Gray, a sweet little maiden of sixteen, is discovered surrounded with all the loving care of a dear old-fashioned home and a mother and father who worship her. Unused to the ways of the world, she steals away from choir practice one evening to take an auto ride to the big city with a salesman who has come to town. Eager-eyed and wonder-marveling, she is induced to take supper at one of the gilded cafés of a great city, where the bright lights glitter and fascinate the unaccustomed stranger. Here in this heated atmosphere her companion endeavors to persuade her to take her first glass of champagne. In her weakness she tries to resist his persistent pleadings, but at last she yields to his demand. Opposite her at a table sits a woman of the world into whose soul, at the sight of this young girl, has crept the memory of all that she has lost and ere the tempting glass reaches her lips, this frailer sister has knocked it from her hand. Lightly turning the accident into a joke she succeeds in getting her companion away for a moment, and with all the compassion of a woman of the world to her purer sister, she gets little Nellie Gray home and safe into her mother's arms. Here one good turn produces another, and the woman finds the little girl's prayer book and hymnal which she has left behind. On the fly-leaf are inserted the words, "Your mother's prayers are always with you, my child." Something has been awakened in the woman's soul; she falls upon the table sobbing, crying for the better, purer things in life. Along the streets in the darkness she comes, hopeless, alone. Across her path steals a stream of light from the open doors of the city church and its kindly light leads her into a better and purer life. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less