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John Brown is discharged by the Green River Oil Company. He returns home only to find that his little daughter, Florence, is sick. The doctor is called, and the case pronounced serious. A month passes, and the child's condition is critical...See moreJohn Brown is discharged by the Green River Oil Company. He returns home only to find that his little daughter, Florence, is sick. The doctor is called, and the case pronounced serious. A month passes, and the child's condition is critical, owing to lack of medicine and proper nourishment. He tries the drug stores in an attempt to have a prescription refilled on credit, but in vain. Seeing a bank messenger enter a bank with a shipment of currency, Brown resolves to ask for a small loan from the bank. The bank president curtly refuses. Brown sees a revolver laying on a desk, seizes it and compels the banker to lend him ten dollars. Later, Brown is going for the doctor, when he sees a small child in danger of being run down by an automobile. He rescues her. The mother of the child succeeds in obtaining his name and address from the doctor. That same day Brown receives a letter from the oil company, stating that a mistake was made in his being discharged, that another John Brown was intended, and enclosing a check for time lost and instructions to return to work immediately. At this point Mrs. Blair, the mother of the little girl that Brown rescued, arrives with her husband. who proves to be the bank president. Brown explains the conditions under which he was driven to force the loan, offers the check from the oil company to cancel the debt, but the bank president tells him that "his loan has been paid in full." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less