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The girl had two devoted suitors, and when she made her choice the rejected man remained her devoted friend. In her married life the girl was not as happy as she had expected to be, and she and her husband frequently quarreled. It was not ...See moreThe girl had two devoted suitors, and when she made her choice the rejected man remained her devoted friend. In her married life the girl was not as happy as she had expected to be, and she and her husband frequently quarreled. It was not surprising, therefore, that her thoughts turned to the "other man," and in the course of time she believed she would be far happier with him. After a particularly bitter quarrel with her husband one night, the wife, yielding to impulse, determined to run away and join the other man. She found him in his rooms, but he wouldn't let her remain. He talked to her of her baby, and finally induced her to return home. The man called a taxicab, and with the woman started for her residence. On the way the taxi was wrecked, the chauffeur killed, but the occupants were picked up by another auto, party and taken in the direction they desired to go. The couple reached the house unobserved and it appeared as though the woman's impulsive fault would never be revealed to the world. Just before they left the man's rooms, however, a dissolute friend of his called, much under the influence of liquor, and had been left in the house by them. Wandering about the place in a half-dazed state, he found his host's revolver, thought of his own financial troubles and ended his life. No one saw the man the moment he entered the house. No one saw the man return. The first that was known of the suicide was when the tenant called for help and policemen and others who knew him, found the lifeless victim. A doctor who examined the body said the man had been dead for several hours. The suspect could easily have proven his innocence by telling that at the time indicated he was in the taxi wreck, some miles away. But to speak would have ruined a woman's reputation, and he kept silent. At the time of the accident, when questioned by the police, he and the woman had given fictitious names, and there were no others to prove that the facts were true. The woman also did not speak until the man was on trial for his life. Then remorse overcame her and she made a full confession, clearing the man, but so angering her husband that he drove her from him, refusing to listen to any explanation she or the man might make. Five years later the husband, lonely and unhappy, was convinced that he had been unjust. He waited for a chance to make amends with his wife, and the chance came. He found that her heart was wrapped up in their child and while she might have been foolish, yet she had not sinned and heartily repented of her past conduct. Furthermore, he saw that he had been much to blame himself, and vowed to make amends in the future. And so they took up life together again. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less