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Frank Wake, a young fisherman, walking by the sea, comes across a few bodies washed ashore from a wrecked vessel out upon the waters. One among them, a girl, is still living, and at once he carries her to his cottage, where he and his ...See moreFrank Wake, a young fisherman, walking by the sea, comes across a few bodies washed ashore from a wrecked vessel out upon the waters. One among them, a girl, is still living, and at once he carries her to his cottage, where he and his mother resuscitate her. The girl is the girl of his dreams, the incarnation of his ideal, the consummation of vague visions born in fairy wreaths of smoke in the lull of twilight hours. And as time, the greatest of all aviators, flies by, he learns to love her as a man loves but once in his life. Day by day she regains more of her health and strength. He proposes, when... A villager finds a chest, washed ashore from the wreck, and brings it at once to the Blake home. With much excitement the villagers open it and discover in it the log of the ill-fated ship. The secret is out; the girl is found to be a leper who was being transported to an isolated island when the wreck occurred. The father demands that the girl leave at once, but the lover tells of his determination to go with her. In spite of the girl's protestations and her plea to stay with his father, he leaves with her and they both put out in a boat, headed for a little island. That night, as he is sleeping in the rude temporary camp he had constructed, she weighs in her mind the man's sacrifice for her, and determines to pursue the only course at her disposal to alter his. She goes back to the remorseless see that had before yielded her up, to be its own bride forever. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less