STORY

Ruby is the daughter of Colonel Granden of the “Twenty-first” and is the pride of the regiment. Jim Austin, the Colonel’s orderly and she are great chums. Mrs. Granden thinks that it is a slight to the dignity of the household for her daughter to be on familiar terms with the soldiers and especially with the orderly. Jack Raymond, old flame of Mrs. Granden, arrives, and is installed as one of the household. His admiration for the Colonel’s wife breaks out anew. The orderly, being in the house a great deal, one day comes upon the pair in an almost compromising attitude. Ruby is suddenly taken sick and the nurse sends Jim for her mother. Jim comes upon Mrs. Granden and Raymond as they are about to embrace. He tells her of the child’s illness. She leaves hurriedly. Raymond realizes that the child is the only bond that keeps Mrs. Granden from leaving with him. The child recovers, but Mrs. Granden and Raymond decide to elope but the nurse finds the note telling Mrs Granden where to meet him. She shows it to Jim who finds Raymond and thrashes him and makes him leave alone. Then the woman realizes what she has been saved from. She and the Colonel make up and Jim is now thought worthy to be the guardian of an officer’s little daughter.
Written by Moving Picture World