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Ethel Gerhart had long been jealous and envious of the popularity of Norrine Lucas, who was unselfish and winning in her ways. When the two went to the same private school their respective dispositions quickly gained the same reputations that they had at home. Finally Ethel conceived a plan to discredit Norrine. She contrived that a sum of money should be taken from a girl's room and hidden among Norrine's belongings. When it was discovered, of course. Norrine was in disgrace and was expelled. Ethel took good care that the scandal was spread at home through the agency of her mother, who was a past mistress of the art. The truth was finally brought out by a young evangelist, who was attracted to Norrine. He preached a sermon which powerfully effected Ethel. She jumped up hysterically and declared her sinister plot. Norrine became the minister's wife.

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    • Author: watching to future
    This very dramatic tragedy has a heart interest that held the audience very closely. The situation is created at a girls' boarding school and is carried to its climax in the home village. There were two girls from the village in the school. One was jealous of the other's popularity and contrived to have her expelled "for theft," then brought the news home to the scandal mongers of the village. She digs a very deep pit for herself and then falls in it. She makes a public confession. It is simply acted and effectively conducted. The happy ending, that is the very happy ending after the heroine's exoneration, the proposal of the young minister and the "bless you, children, at the gate," is perhaps weak. The reviewer sat in the balcony. The people around him watched the picture very intently till that end, and that they guyed. Yet, perhaps they liked it, nevertheless. It isn't, strictly speaking, a part of the story, and it is made a part of nearly every story. - The Moving Picture World, November 4, 1911
  • Cast overview:
    Ormi Hawley Ormi Hawley - Norinne Lucas
    Isabel Lamon Isabel Lamon - Ethel Gerhardt - the Daughter
    Irene Crane Irene Crane - Jessica
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