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Before sailing for America, George Blake, who is in love with his cousin Jane, meets her in the park, and she bids him adieu and promises that she will always love him. The boat on which he... See full summary
Before sailing for America, George Blake, who is in love with his cousin Jane, meets her in the park, and she bids him adieu and promises that she will always love him. The boat on which he sails is lost with all hands, and Jane marries. In spite of family ties, her heart is still sore for George. Slipping up to her rooms, she gets a packet of letters from George. These she takes into the park and reads them through. Her husband is making paper boats for the amusement of the little girl; the supply of paper runs short and the child snatches up one of the letters and runs off with it. The father merely takes the letter and without glancing at it, folds it into the form of a paper boat, which he places in the water, where a favorable stream carries it beyond possibility of mischief. The past is buried and life resumes its usual course.

Released in the US as a split reel along with the documentary St. Malo and the English Channel (1911).

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    • Author: Aurizar
    In this picture, somewhat out of the beaten track, a girl's lover is lost at sea and she marries another. Years after she is reading some of the old letters in the park near where her husband is making paper boats for their child. The supply of paper runs short. The little girl picks up one of the letters, carries it to her father, who makes a paper boat of it without looking at it. A favoring current bears it away where it can do no mischief. There is a tense moment, however, when the letter is placed in the man's hand. The background of this picture is a pretty park scene well photographed, like all of Gaumont's outdoor films. - The Moving Picture World, August 5, 1911
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