- After marrying her criminal sweetheart in a prison ceremony, a young woman realizes her mistake when she encounters true love, but remains forever "chained" to her degenerate convict husband.
- The story concerns the love of Ruth Keene, a beautiful young girl, for Harry Madden, a handsome and presumably upright and conscientious fellow. On the eve of their engagement Madden becomes entangled in a card game with some dissolute companions in the loft of a barn, detects one of their number in the act of cheating, a quarrel ensues and Madden, in the struggle, kills the man with his own revolver. Crazed with fear he attempts to escape and is captured in Ruth's home, where he seeks protection. The result of the trial is a sentence of fifteen years in the penitentiary. Ruth's innocent love now causes her to do a strange thing. She marries Madden in the jail, in spite of the protests of friends and the clergyman, and swears to be ever faithful until he comes back to her. Securing a position in the office of Robert King, a wealthy young lawyer, Ruth finds that King loves her dearly and desires to make her his wife. Gradually a kindred love springs up within her, a love that she battles against desperately, but in vain. King reveals his love, and the wretched girl is forced to confess her marriage and the fact that her husband is a convict serving time for murder. King begs her to divorce Madden. With a new hope for freedom, Ruth journeys to the penitentiary and is shocked to find Madden now a degenerate, brutal creature who coarsely refuses to consent to a divorce under any conditions and becomes so violent that the guard has difficulty in removing the girl from the cell. Returning to King she hysterically tells him the hopelessness of their love and he heartbrokenly allows her to go. Chained to the degenerate who languishes in his cell, Ruth stumbles from the room and, with the awful truth ringing in her ears, "Until death do us part," gropes her way blindly into the unknown future that stretches blackly before her.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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