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Lavishing all his love and devotion on his gentle wife Miriam, won after hardships and toil, Gordon Bennett is plunged into darkness and hatred of all mankind by her death at the birth of their daughter. Denouncing the innocent baby as a ...See moreLavishing all his love and devotion on his gentle wife Miriam, won after hardships and toil, Gordon Bennett is plunged into darkness and hatred of all mankind by her death at the birth of their daughter. Denouncing the innocent baby as a murderess, Gordon leaves the sacred precincts of his home to wander aimlessly. For 18 years his conscience is dulled and his is an unhappy existence, despite financial success. At last, "from somewhere out in the light" Miriam comes to him in a vision and asks him why his arms are empty. Overcome by this vision, Gordon at last summons courage to touch the little volume, kept inviolate all these years, from which Miriam had read to him every evening in their happy married life. It is the means of disclosing a long-hidden letter from the sweet-souled Miriam. The letter revolutionizes Gordon's feelings, and at last he starts to find his daughter after 18 years. Chance throws a clue in his way in the person of a nurse who had charge of Miriam's baby. He follows this slight thread, and seems at last to have found the object of his search. The girl, already drawn to the lonely, heartsick old man, seeks counsel of a friend, and together they decide that to tell him his search has failed would only be to plunge him deeper into the ashes of his hopes. So she decides that silence is best, and the old nurse dies with the unrevealed secret of his daughter's fate on her lips. But Gordon has found peace and happiness, and the girl feels that she has done the right thing for both of them in guarding the secret of Gordon's error. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less