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The fashionably-gowned woman brought her two daughters with her to the "summer resort hotel." The family seemed happy enough, but there was a skeleton in their closet. There was not a wide difference in years between the sisters, but the ...See moreThe fashionably-gowned woman brought her two daughters with her to the "summer resort hotel." The family seemed happy enough, but there was a skeleton in their closet. There was not a wide difference in years between the sisters, but the determined mother had decided that the younger girl should be kept in the nursery, so to speak, until big sister was safely married. The "side-tracked" sister mourned in secret, but finally determined to assist fate. The elder girl had a suitor, but he had not reached the proposal stage. Little sister determined to be Cupid's assistant, and arrange things so the young man would have a chance to save big sister's life for, as the junior reasoned, "heroes always marry the girls they save from watery graves." She scuttled their boat, just like a pretty pigtailed pirate, but it did not lead to a proposal. The young man couldn't swim. The elder girl could swim, but was a coward, and saved herself, which left it strictly up to "little sister." She rescued the young man and he was grateful, but she never forgave him. He did not marry "big sister," he simply went away and it was lucky for him that he did not come back, for the girl who had saved his life would gladly have drowned him had she been able to put her hands on him. He didn't really do anything awful, he simply was guilty of a lack of tact, and a weakness of observation which won him the scorn of the woman who had plucked him shrieking from the briny deep. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less