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Mr. and Mrs. Horton go shopping and leave their little son in the automobile at the curb. The boy steals out of the car and explores the neighborhood. He finds his way to the stage entrance of a theater and enters. There is a rehearsal in ...See moreMr. and Mrs. Horton go shopping and leave their little son in the automobile at the curb. The boy steals out of the car and explores the neighborhood. He finds his way to the stage entrance of a theater and enters. There is a rehearsal in force and the leading lady sees the boy and makes friends with him. The rehearsal is temporarily suspended, and the actresses crowd around the bright-looking boy and make much of him. In the meantime the Hortons return and miss the boy. They begin a search for him and find him in the theater. The mother is shocked to find him in the arms of an actress and denounces the stage woman. The actress, wounded and hurt, vows vengeance. She immediately inaugurates a siege against the husband, exerts all the wiles of which she is mistress and wins him. He lavishes jewels and costly gifts upon her, and neglects his wife and son. At last his infatuation utterly overpowers him, and he deserts his wife. In poverty and helplessness, she moves into a squalid little room with her boy. Accustomed to having everything she wanted, her destitution is doubly severe. In the meantime, the actress' purpose accomplished, she rejects the man's further advances, secretly and sincerely despising him. Things go from bad to worse with the other woman and her boy, and at last, in despair and buried pride, she applies for a position in the chorus. On the stage both women meet; the actress glories in the degradation of the other, when the child, recognizing her, runs to her arms. The child touches the warm spring of sympathy and true womanhood in the actress' heart, and she walks toward the woman whom a moment before she had been persecuting, and offers the hand of friendship. She forces her to accept the jewels her husband had given her, telling her they belong to her, and when she refuses, urging her to do so in the name of her boy. Both forgive and forget, and the woman become sisters. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less