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Sickness had come to the young widow and deprived her of health and the position which meant support for herself and her child. Despair gripped her as she realized that she needed to give up the little boarding-house room which had been ...See moreSickness had come to the young widow and deprived her of health and the position which meant support for herself and her child. Despair gripped her as she realized that she needed to give up the little boarding-house room which had been home to her and the child. She was penniless and did not know what to do. The door opened softly and a woman stepped into the room. She was showily dressed and lived with her husband in a handsome suite in the boarding-house. None of the other boarders knew the husband's occupation, but he talked grandly of "winnings in the Street," so they classed him as "a Wall Street man," and envied him accordingly. The visitor took the despairing widow in her arms and soon had the whole story. The well-dressed woman gave the destitute woman a loan, which was gratefully accepted. When the woman and her husband asked if they could take the child out for short walks the widow gladly consented. The well-dressed pair were in reality well-dressed and skillful thieves, and their motive in befriending the widow was merely to secure possession of the child and use her in their schemes. A frequent caller upon the lawbreakers, a man whose reputation seemed as bad as their own, learned of their plan and told the widow of the peril of her child. At first she refused to believe that her benefactors could be guilty of such acts, but her new friend soon proved his charges and then surprised them all by revealing himself as a detective and placing the couple under arrest. The detective decided that the widow was altogether too young and lacking in knowledge of the world to be unprotected, and as the girl had grown to care for the man whom she once thought "a crook," in course of time the little child got a father well-qualified in every way to see that never again should she be made a victim of unscrupulous people who were "playing the game." Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less