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Anne Carlton, a hospital nurse, volunteers when Doctor Hunter expresses the wish to try his new serum on a human being; but Doctor Gordon, who loves her. interferes angrily. The slightest overdose of the serum, Hunter acknowledges, will ...See moreAnne Carlton, a hospital nurse, volunteers when Doctor Hunter expresses the wish to try his new serum on a human being; but Doctor Gordon, who loves her. interferes angrily. The slightest overdose of the serum, Hunter acknowledges, will prove fatal, and Gordon fears for Anne's life. In a struggle with a deranged patient Anne's wrist is broken, and an X-ray is taken of the fracture. As a result of his quarrel with Gordon, Hunter resigns. Anne goes to join him in his work. He effects a marvelous cure in a distant city. Gordon reads of it and visits him. Alone in the offices, he sees the skeleton of a woman with a broken wrist. Comparing the fracture with the X-ray photograph he becomes convinced that Anne is dead. When Hunter returns, Gordon seizes him, binds him to a chair, and is on the point of injecting an overdose of the serum into his neck when Anne appears. Explanations ensue, and Anne, promising to take no more risks, consents that her lover shall have the power to order her life for the future. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less