- While waiting for the detained Lord Traverse, the guest of honor at an English society party, the guests play a game wherein each must tell a complete story before a cigarette burns out. Heléne Dearing relates that her proud father John left England after being exposed as a card cheat and became a whiskey runner near a Canadian lumber camp. John and his partner Pierre escape jail, and with Heléne, are pursued by Ralph Connell, a young Canadian Mounted Policeman, whom Heléne loves. John, wounded before they can reach the border, gives Pierre permission to marry Heléne, but a sympathetic curate reads the ceremony in Latin and has Ralph, as the witness, take the groom's marriage vows. After Pierre is captured and Heléne learns the truth about the marriage, Ralph leaves on a secret government mission. Heléne, who has since inherited a fortune, confides to the guests that she never saw Ralph again. After Lord Traverse arrives and turns out to be Ralph, he and Heléne leave the party to begin their belated honeymoon.—Pamela Short
- The story opens in the drawing room of a wealthy English society woman. For the amusement of her guests she suggests a faggot party, in which each person present shall place a faggot in the fire and tell a story during the time it burns. When it comes to Helene's turn, she tells a story, thrilling indeed of her former life in the Canadian woods, of the man she met and loved, but whom since she has never seen, of the half-breed Pierre, who came between them and threatened to kill the other, Ralph, if she married him, of the curate, who eventually actually did wed her to Ralph, while Pierre thought she was being married to him. The astonished guests turn to her and ask, "And you have never seen your husband since?" "No," she replies, "he left the next day on a secret government mission." At that tense moment a new guest is announced. Lord Traverse. He enters the room, and Helene is confronted by her husband.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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