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Aunt Mary owns property in the village, and having a distrust of banks, she hides her savings behind a loose brick in the fireplace at home. Aunt Mary has reared Hester Lane. James Carter, a drug clerk, courts Hester for mercenary reasons,...See moreAunt Mary owns property in the village, and having a distrust of banks, she hides her savings behind a loose brick in the fireplace at home. Aunt Mary has reared Hester Lane. James Carter, a drug clerk, courts Hester for mercenary reasons, and Robert Dunlap, a traveling drug salesman also becomes interested in her. Carter learns the whereabouts of Aunt Mary's secret hoards. He is ambitious to buy the village drug store. He adds the word "thousand" to a letter received from a lawyer, enclosing a check for eight dollars making the letter read "eight thousand dollars." Carter secures Aunt Mary's money. Aunt Mary soon discovers her loss. One day Aunt Mary, reading her Bible finds Carter's letter and discovers the typing in of the word "thousand" and she also finds a button from Carter's sleeve. Carter is confronted with this evidence and signs over his drugstore to Aunt Mary. Dunlap becomes manager of the store and later Aunt Mary is made happy in the knowledge that Hester and Dunlap are to form a life partnership. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less