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Jacques de Calones is in love with the beautiful Louise Swinton. He learns that he has a wealthy rival. To win her favor he steals a necklace and is arrested. The woman for whom he has ... See full summary

Jacques de Calones is in love with the beautiful Louise Swinton. He learns that he has a wealthy rival. To win her favor he steals a necklace and is arrested. The woman for whom he has sinned turns from him in disgust. Thirty years later we see the return of Jacques. Ragged, his hair cropped close, his face heavily lined, his slinking gait betraying the creature harassed by fate, he forces his way through the window into the room where his former love, now a faded, feeble woman, sits at her writing table. She sees the reflection of the man in a tiny mirror on her desk, and believes him to be an ordinary housebreaker. Jacques slowly approaches, and asks if she does not remember him. A slow recognition dawns in her eyes, and she is horrified. He bids her listen and see the wreck she has made of his life. Then in a sudden flow of vivid ruthless words, that sear her very soul, he paints the story of his ruined life. As he tells the story, he lives again through the horror of past years, ...