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On a lonely island several miles from shore lived a lighthouse keeper and his assistant Dan. The loneliness of his life prematurely aged the keeper. One evening during the monotonous routine of caring for the lights, he observed a storm ...See moreOn a lonely island several miles from shore lived a lighthouse keeper and his assistant Dan. The loneliness of his life prematurely aged the keeper. One evening during the monotonous routine of caring for the lights, he observed a storm breaking, and throughout the night the keeper and his assistant kept a watchful vigil. With the dawn, the storm broke. Through his marine glasses the keeper scanned the shore in search of wreckage. Close to the island he discovered a few spars thrown roughly together drifting inward with the tide. Hastening to the beach he discovered a tiny form lashed to the raft. Wading out, he found a little girl half-conscious. His assistant Dan hurried to him, and as the keeper carried the child ashore, the younger man noticed a bottle drop from the raft. Picking this up, he discovered that it contained papers, and after breaking the bottle he found this to consist of some letters and a will identifying the child. The little girl was taken to the lighthouse and Dan was sent ashore to purchase clothing for her. She and the old keeper soon became boon companions, and as the years went on, he was no longer lonely. During the day time, she played upon the sands and rocks, making toys of the sea weed and the many vari-colored shells. Near the island there lived a family of fisher-folk, and with them a boy a few years older than the little girl. This lad, Edgar Reynolds, had been a pet of the old lighthouse keeper since his babyhood, and he and little Mary soon became close playmates. Later he went away to school, and finally to college. During all of this time, Dan laid his plans to woo and win Mary, and thus gain control of her inheritance. When Edgar returns from school and renews his boyhood love affair with Mary, Dan decides to put him out of the way. Later, when rowing Edgar to the mainland, Dan suddenly attacks him. Dan is thrown into the sea and Edgar returns to the island. During the scrimmage some of the papers which Dan had continuously carried with him, dropped from his pocket and thus Edgar discovered that his sweetheart was an heiress. Soon after they married and went away to make their home in a distant city. The old keeper was urged to go with them, but he preferred to remain at his post. The story closes as the old man makes his way up the lighthouse stairs, lights the lights, as he has done throughout the years, and returns to the living room to sit in loneliness before the empty hearth. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less