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A young artist and a businessman he thought his best friend, were both suitors for the same girl, and the artist won. The broker concealed his rage under the mask of friendship, and the happy couple never dreamed that he was secretly ...See moreA young artist and a businessman he thought his best friend, were both suitors for the same girl, and the artist won. The broker concealed his rage under the mask of friendship, and the happy couple never dreamed that he was secretly planning revenge. The broker had a stenographer, an orphan girl, who was the sole support of her little sister. The stenographer was in financial difficulties and the broker by accident discovered it. So he proposed to the girl that she aid him in a "little joke," promising that if she did so he would give her, what to her was a large sum of money. Her share in the plot was that she be in the artist's room at a certain hour when the artist would be there, he not knowing of her presence. To strengthen his scheme, the broker induced the stenographer to write a fervid love note, presumably meant for the artist. The broker's plot worked to a charm. He managed to secure a wax impression of his rival's door key, made a duplicate of it, and gave it to the stenographer. Then he waited his time. While calling at the girl's house, ostensibly to play chess with her father, he heard the artist tell his sweetheart that he would have to go home early as he had important work to do. A telephone message enabled the broker to instruct the stenographer to reach the house ahead of the artist, and she concealed herself in an inside room. The note, dropped on the reception room floor was found by the engaged girl, as the broker had planned it, and she hurried off to confront her supposedly recreant lover. The stenographer was found in the room and the explanations of the mystified artist were disbelieved. The girl haughtily broke her engagement and the man who had wrecked two lives was happy over the success of his infamous scheme. But there is generally some little thing that a criminal overlooks that spells defeat in the hour of his apparent triumph. The stenographer and her sister were passengers on a boat, and the artist, broken-hearted and dispirited, was there, too. The little sister fell overboard and the plucky artist, risking his own life, dived over and saved her. The stenographer realized that the man she had wronged had dared death to help a child, and one that was very dear to her. She did not dare to tell him what she had done, but visited the other woman. To her she confessed everything, blaming the broker, who was present, as the author of the plot. The artist sat in his studio, too unhappy to work. Life held but little for him, he thought. But in the hour of his darkest dejection, the woman he loved best in the world entered, confessed that she had misjudged him and promised that if he forgave her, they would go through life together, hand in hand, loving, loyal partners. And the efforts that had been made to part them, in the end, only brought them more firmly together. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less