- Richard Francis, cashier of the Security Bank, sat alone, long after business hours, in his cage, the rays of the electric light above his head forming the sole spot of light in all the pitchy blackness that surrounded him. Frowns of perplexity and wrath played alternately on his forehead as he gazed on a note held in his hand. The note was a confession of attempted misuse of the bank's funds which the banker's son left with the old cashier to convey to his father on the next morning, and the banker's son was the man to whom the cashier's daughter had given her heart. Francis pocketed the note and took it home. The next noon, when Harry Morrell, son of the president of the bank, saw his father at luncheon he discovered that the note had not been delivered. He could not bring himself to the point of confessing his guilt. Gambling and carousing, these had been the causes of his financial transgression. He rushed to the bank to learn from his prospective father-in-law that the note had not been delivered, that he had taken it home by mistake and left it there. The cashier desired to see Morrell at his home. In his mind he had a scheme to assist the young man to remove the blemish from his name. Morrell, not waiting to answer, dashed out of the bank and made for the Francis home. Entering softly, he made his way to the library undetected and began feverishly to ransack the desk. In the midst of search he heard a step. In a jiffy he had the tell-tale note in his hand and started to rush from the room. It was Mabel, his intended, who blocked his way. Not waiting to explain and wishing to impress on her his unworthiness in a decisive manner, he knocked her brutally to the floor and fled. The cashier, alarmed by the young man's state of mind while in the bank, hurried home to find his daughter unconscious. He telephoned this bit of news to the Francis home, where the butler gave it to the younger Morrell as he entered. His father entered shortly after and Harry, unnerved by his act of desperation in felling Mabel, confessed all. The banker laid his hands on his son's shoulders, "You have wronged the girl more than me. Ask her forgiveness and make amends, and then come to me. I have lost my boy but have gained a man for a son." And Mabel, receiving the penance of Harry later, felt that the one who had wooed and had struck her to prevent his one unworthy act to come to her knowledge was worthy to be her husband.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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