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Other men have wandered, others have found the trail, lost it again, and crawled back, worn and wearied, to find it a path of thorns, as did Phil Stanton, the Stranger. He meets Nell, who is the pianist at a café, and the music her fingers...See moreOther men have wandered, others have found the trail, lost it again, and crawled back, worn and wearied, to find it a path of thorns, as did Phil Stanton, the Stranger. He meets Nell, who is the pianist at a café, and the music her fingers create steals into his soul and steals his heart. Timidly he asks the old question, tenderly she gives the answer and herself. Soon after, Phil becomes infatuated with another girl in the town. Her lover becomes aware of the situation, meets the man, and compels him to leave the town at once. Dazed, in despair, the trusting wife hears and realizes: just another aching heart, just another sundered soul passing into the night, once again man's ruthless hand, and the destruction and devastation resultant. At last, through the Salvation Army, she obtains a position in a near-by town. The months go by; she meets another. It is now two years since Phil's departure. She is certain he has met with disaster, death. The man asks her to marry him; she consents. The months go by, and one night a heavy storm forces a wanderer to seek shelter. Phil comes to the home of Nell, entreats lodging for the night. The woman looks at the man, and knows! Her mind conjures up a grim shadow, like a child painting phantoms upon the darkness. The man looks at the woman, and recognition dawns! And with recognition, the privilege he had owned and forfeited, the desire for his own, returns. She tells him of the other man, and weeps in the telling. In his fury, he attempts to push her away from him, and a little white ruffled thing falls to the ground. He stoops to pick it up, and finds it to be a child's dress. A moment he stares, looks quickly at the woman, and in her blanched face he sees the answer. An unborn child, his wife's child, whose father he is not! And in the death struggle of vengeance and despair, the right of things triumphs. Slowly he turns and walks from the room, into the storm and the night. A few days later Nell and her husband come across a frozen body on the silent, snowy wastes, the man dead with his secret, the silent heart as white at last as the driven snow that was his tomb. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less