STORY

Frank Edmanton, secretary to the president of the First National Bank, is a married man, yet he is infatuated with Lila Holmes, a woman of the half world. Lila herself is disgusted with the part she plays in life, especially so when her mother refuses to accept money from her, knowing her mode of making her living. Lila’s mother has all her savings in a small country bank. Lila waves aside Frank’s entreaties that she join him, with the statement that she can never consent to such a proposition unless he can supply her with the luxuries she has been accustomed to. There is a run on the country bank in which Lila’s mother has her money. The president ‘phones the First National in the city, asking for aid to ward off the rush of depositors demanding their money. Frank is selected by the president of the First National Bank to convey a large sum of money to the country bank.

Feeling the money once within his hands, Frank is tempted to use it, and goes to Lila’s apartment, shows her the money and begs her to flee with him. Lila, realizing in him another victim, consents. She bids him wait below until she gets ready to leave. Suddenly her eyes fall upon a paper naming the depositors of the bank. She then realizes that her mother’s savings are in jeopardy unless the money reaches the country bank. Seizing the bag containing the money, she leaves the house secretly, and forcing Frank’s chauffeur to do her will, is driven to the country bank, where she arrives just in time to allay the fears of the frenzied depositors. Her mother is in the crowd at the door, and recognition between them follows, with forgiveness.

Frank, meanwhile, has found Lila absent from her apartment and decides he has been tricked. He goes home with the intention of quitting life, but his wife finds him with the revolver in hand about to kill himself. He tells her the whole story from beginning to end. His wife calls the country bank on the ‘phone, where she learns what has happened. The president of the bank puts Lila on the ‘phone and she asks for Frank. She dismisses him with the statement that she is going home with her mother, and admonishes him to be good to his wife. Frank explains to the bank president that, falling suddenly ill, he had turned the money over to Lila for delivery and no one except his wife and Lila suspects his intended absconding.
Written by Moving Picture World