- Victor Gilmore, a composer, is in love with his father Cyrus' secretary Dorothy Eldridge, but Dorothy marries his brother Robert, even though a doctor has told them that Robert can never father children. Dorothy, however, has never lost her hope to have children, and doesn't know that Robert is secretly supporting his former lover Flo Merrivale. The brothers' father eventually dies but leaves his estate to Robert, saying that he didn't believe that Victor was his son. This causes a huge rift between the brothers and a fight ensues, resulting in Victor's being thrown out of the house and family. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Cyrus Gilmore, retired, lives in New York with his sons, Robert, a lawyer, and Victor, a composer. Other members of the householder are Martha, the housekeeper, and Dorothy Eldridge, Gilmore's secretary. Robert, weary of his past gay life, decides to marry. Victor, wrapped up in his music, worships Dorothy at a distance. Robert marries Dorothy in spite of his doctor's warning that he will never be a father. Flo Merrivale, a woman with a past, has been in Robert's life for some years, and although married, he cannot shake off the old bond between them, and Flo lives out of Robert's purse. Old Gilmore, in failing health, alters his will. The reason he tells his lawyer is a doubt he entertains regarding Victor's right to his (Gilmore) name. The domestic life of Robert and Dorothy is clouded. Dorothy, sadly neglected by her husband, and missing the pleasure of motherhood, frequently quarrels with Robert. On these disputes old Gilmore takes sides with Robert. Victor can see Dorothy's side of the question, frequently expresses his opinion, and shows his sympathy for Dorothy to his brother's disgust and annoyance. His sympathy is misunderstood by Robert, who becomes intensely jealous of Victor, and his conditions continues until old Gilmore dies. The old man bequeaths his fortune to Robert, providing a legacy of $25,000 to Martha, the housekeeper, and only $1.00 to Victor. Robert declines to help Victor in any way. He is glad of the opportunity to revenge himself for imaginary past wrongs. When Victor protests, Robert tells him that there was always a doubt about his right to the name of Gilmore. Victor, horrified at the slander against their dead mother's memory, hurls himself upon Robert. A fight ensues, and Robert orders Victor out of the house, despite Dorothy's attempts to reconcile them. A wandering, starving outcast, Victor is picked up in the street some years later. At the hospital, unknown and friendless, he decides to notify Dorothy of his plight. Dorothy arrives, and stricken with pity for the wretched man, forces him to come home with her. Flo Mellivalle, has become more insistent in her demands upon Robert that he should divorce Dorothy, and marry her. She taunts him with Victor's supposed love for Dorothy, and finally resorts to threats. Dorothy's sincere and affectionate pleadings in Victor's behalf make a deep impression upon Robert's callous heart. He succumbs to her pleadings and with sincere feelings, reinstates Victor in his affections. Dorothy leaves the brothers alone. A touching re-union between the brothers follows. Old times are discussed, when, without warning Robert falls forward, dead. A shot from unseen hand has found its mark. The chain of circumstantial evidence is so strong that Victor, after trial, is convicted and sentenced to die. Nobody but Dorothy believes in his innocence. An attempt to save his life is futile. Dorothy then insists that Victor marry her on the eve of his death, so that she may proclaim to the world her unshaken faith in him. The marriage takes place. On the morrow Victor starts his last day on earth. Unable any longer to conceal the truth, Flo, her conscience haunted by thought of an innocent man going to his doom for the crime she herself committed in a moment of insane passion, confesses her guilt. Months later Victor and Dorothy plan the future of their newly-arrived son and heir, Cyrus Robert Gilmore.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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