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Jack Gleason is at his wit's ends because the doctor has given his consumptive wife just one more chance, provided she can go to Arizona, and he has no money for the trip. In a reckless moment he stakes his life's savings on the gaming ...See moreJack Gleason is at his wit's ends because the doctor has given his consumptive wife just one more chance, provided she can go to Arizona, and he has no money for the trip. In a reckless moment he stakes his life's savings on the gaming table, and loses every cent. Going home, the most despondent man in the world, he comes upon a sleeping beggar into whose hat some benevolent soul has dropped a ten dollar gold piece. Remembering that ten is his lucky number, the young man steals the coin and rushes back to the gambling parlor. Sure enough, his luck turns. He wins a suitcase full of money. But the weary face of the old beggar haunts him. At last he goes in search of him, brings him home with him, tells him the whole story, and thrusting upon him the suitcase of bills sends the dazed old man away. But the tramp has recognized in Gleason's wife one who gave him food when everybody else had turned him from the door. A few days later all but $20 of the money comes back, with a note, reading: "Please take the rest to cure the lady, who had pity on an old hobo." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less