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Stanley Phillips has a beautiful wife, but she is a social butterfly and the affection between them is only lukewarm, their only tie being their little boy of three years. Phillips leaves for a hunting trip in the mountains. Far away in ...See moreStanley Phillips has a beautiful wife, but she is a social butterfly and the affection between them is only lukewarm, their only tie being their little boy of three years. Phillips leaves for a hunting trip in the mountains. Far away in the mountain wilds lives a child of nature, Edna, with her feeble old father. A great misfortune comes into the life of the girl when upon awakening one morning she finds her father has passed away. She leaves her mountain home and goes away in search of she knows not what. Three days later, weak, hungry and faint, she falls from the steep mountain trail to the roadway below. Stanley's auto coming along the roadway, runs over the girl before his driver can stop the car. The machine is stopped and Phillips, picking the girl up tenderly, takes her to a hospital in the city and sees that she is given a private ward and cared for in the best possible manner. As the girl grows stronger she develops a great love for the noble man who has saved her life and he also finds in her that which is lacking in his own married life. Upon her recovery, he places her in an elegantly furnished apartment and sees that she lacks nothing in the way of comfort. He prepares to take his family for a trip abroad, and then comes the great struggle with himself. Shall he go to the one he loves or return to his family and his disdainful and supercilious wife? His little boy climbs to his lap and he finally sees his only course. He will see his "Fairy of the Mountains" and bid her a last farewell. While his wife is making arrangements for the trip he goes to the florist's and buys a bouquet of roses, little knowing that he is followed by his small son at a distance. He takes the flowers to the girl's apartments and tells her he must leave her forever. She protests, but just at this point Phillips' little son breaks into the room and with opened arms rushes towards his father. All is finally explained. With great emotion, Phillips pleads his love for the girl, but she tells him she understands and for him to go, it being his duty as a married man. The concluding scenes show Phillips standing sadly beside his wife and boy on the steamer, looking over the distant sea, while in her apartment the girl he has learned to love crushes a rose in her hand. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less