- A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
- Tom Hansell, a struggling young lawyer, occupies the attic room in Mrs. Jones' tenement rooming house. He has as a partner John Stone, once a successful lawyer, but now a relic of the past, due to over indulgence in drink. Their practice is limited to little or no clients and only through Tom's hard and studious work are they kept from starving. The house is practically cared for by Flo, a slavey, whom Mrs. Jones adopted when but an orphan child, and who has been raised without the advantage of education except that which she managed to scrape up through a natural desire for the better things in life. She notices the plight of Tom and the great privations he endures and at various times while he is absent from the room, she brings bits of delicacies and places them on his table. Tom is so disheartened by ill luck he never thinks to inquire who his strange benefactor is. Even when she is cleaning his room he never stops his studies to look up and answer any questions she may ask him. One day Tom comes home, and sitting at his table, takes up his studies. The room is chilly and damp and he decides to light the stove. It is a bit old and does not respond readily, so he pours the kerosene from his lamp on the flames. Instantly there is an explosion which blinds Tom. The room enveloped in flames and smoke. Tom gropes around in his helpless condition and finally drops to the floor, suffocated. Flo sees what has happened and, seizing a dampened apron, rushes to Tom's room and drags him out. She reaches the landing below with him when she is overcome by the flames and smoke and dropping to the floor both are left to perish. Luckily the firemen find them and carry them to safety. Tom is brought to the hospital, where he is nursed back to good health, physically, but his life is darkened forever as the physicians declare he will be absolutely blind the rest of his days. Flo begs Mrs. Jones to take Tom back, but seeing no way of getting any money from him for the room since he is blind and unable to work, she refuses. Flo begs piteously and upon her promise to double her efforts in her already hard task of housekeeping, Mrs. Jones consents. John continued the law practice of the firm, and loyally sticks to Tom, dividing his scant earnings with him. Flo is also of great comfort to him. This raises the ire of Mrs. Jones and one day. Missing Flo about the house, she goes to Tom's room and discovers Flo reading to him. She pounces upon them and accuses them of misconduct, of which they are innocent. She tells Tom he must marry Flo and she leaves immediately to get a minister to perform the ceremony. Tom protests against this, for although he loves Flo he knows in his present helpless condition he can only be a burden to her. At this moment John enters the room with a letter for Tom. It is a notification of the death of his the sole heir of his immense fortune. Tom is in a position now to marry Flo and he loses no time in asking her, to which she readily consents. We next find them in their home. Flo is surrounded by servants in a luxuriously furnished home. The maid's dress appeals to the simplicity of Flo's mind and she insists on wearing one as a house gown. While reading a newspaper, John sees an article about an eye specialist restoring the sight of a man whose blindness was caused in the same way that Tom's was. They have him come to the house and examine Tom. He consents to undertake the operation. Everything is made ready, the operation performed, and the doctors return to the library to await the result of their work. While they are waiting, Tom leaves his room, and going to the window where the light is strong, he finds a faint light piercing the bandage on his eyes. Raising them he finds that he can see, and tearing the bandage from his head, runs about the room. His thoughts now are only of his wife. Rushing downstairs he calls for her, and going through the hall he passes Flo and the servants. In her maid's dress he mistakes Flo for a servant, too, and rushes by her still calling for his wife. Flo fears that he may not love the simple little girl now that he can see, and goes to her room weeping. Tom comes back and asks the servants for his wife. They tell him she has gone upstairs. He goes to the room and closing his eyes to bring on the same effect as when he was blind, he strokes Flo's head with his hand. The sense of touch tells him that it is the head of his wife. Clasping her in his arms, he tells her again of his great love.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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