- Physician Edmund Stewart is devastated when his rich society fiancée, Emily Thurstn, dumps him and marries a wealthy stockbroker, Benson Heath. He gives up his practice, moves out to the countryside and becomes a hobo. Emily's father later dies and leaves her no money; broke, the couple move to an isolated home in the country to escape demanding creditors. Matters deteriorate quickly, and when Heath's dead body is found in the house one night with an unconscious Emily next to him, suspicion for the murder falls on her.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Dr. Edmund B. Stewart, a talented young physician, is bending all his energies to the building up of a reputation and practice. He is engaged to marry Emily Thurston, an heiress, reputed to be wealthy. Miss Thurston's father and the circle in which they move, congratulate Emily on a match with such a talented and successful man. Emily does not agree in the opinion. Though she loves Stewart devotedly, she suffers the breaking of many social engagements because of Stewart's loyalty to his practice, and her injured pride constantly rebels. In one of these moods, Benson Heath, an idler, who has recently lost heavily in the stock market, takes advantage of Emily's wounded dignity, and induces her to break off her engagement with Stewart and become engaged to him. The announcement of the marriage is the final blow to Stewart's seriously overworked constitution. On the advice of his physicians to seek the open for his health, he takes to the country. Despairing of relief from his secret sorrow, he notices two tramps apparently happy, and tearing off collar and tie, plunges into a nomadic career on the open road, a king among them all. Later he joins the tramps who relieve him of the balance of his money and leave him in reality a tramp. Six months later, Thurston dies leaving no fortune, to Heath's anger and disgust. Heath passes a check on an overdrawn account, gambles the money and slips away with Emily to avoid arrest. They turn up at a lonely house in the west. While Heath is absent one day, a bunch of tramps pitch camp near Emily's home. Two tramps enter the house to ransack and steal. They hear Heath returning, drunk, and they hide in a closet. Emily takes the bottle away from Heath. He turns upon her in fury. The tramps open the closet door slightly and gaze in horror at the scene. As Emily is being slowly choked to death, one of the tramps rushes out of the closet, struggles with Heath, whose gun is discharged, and Heath falls dead. The tramps flee. The sheriff catches them. Stewart rushes up from the camp, turns the dead man over, recognized him, identifies Emily, who is still in a faint, and to prevent her arrest by the sheriff and not knowing the circumstances, he takes the blame for the killing. She recovers from the faint, declares that Stewart is not the man who was struggling with her husband, recognizes him, then falls into his arms and while he is being released by the sheriff sobs out her real love on his shoulder, while the sheriff retires in the conviction that the dead man got only what he deserved.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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