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Edith is a model to a fashionable modiste's shop. She has to wear gorgeous gowns all day, and at night she returns to her child who is dying. Mrs. Devereaux comes into the shop on her way to the theater with her boy. The night before the doctor told Edith that her child must he sent away for the summer or it will die. Edith sees Mrs. D's purse which she has left behind and as she is about to restore it she has a vision of Mrs. D's child on the beach and her own in the torrid room. She takes the purse, but the forewoman discovers her. Mrs. D does not want to press the charge, but the store insists on doing so to protect its patrons. Edith is sent to the reformatory and her child to an asylum. Mag, an inmate of the reformatory, befriends her. Mrs. D secures Edith's parole and lends her one hundred dollars. But Edith finds that when she applies for her child she cannot have her, as the court has decreed that she is an improper guardian. Unable to stand the child's cries for its mother, ...

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    • Author: JoJosho
    This story gets an interesting start, the observer becoming quite interested in the young widow who attempted theft and was placed in the reformatory. Later she escapes from the institution, kidnaps her own child, and is married The appearance of the second couple was not well accounted for, and the story ended rather weakly. The photography was good throughout - The Moving Picture World, October 4, 1913
  • Cast overview:
    Irene Hunt Irene Hunt - Edith
    Anna Luther Anna Luther - Mag
    Paul Scardon Paul Scardon - Dick - Edith's Husband
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