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  • The Unexpected Reward (1910)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Unexpected Reward (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
The unexpected reward happened one day in spring when a fair pink and white miss had reached the alluring age of sweet eighteen. Upon her birthday her father presents her with a beautifully carved bracelet. Scarcely have the blushes of ...See moreThe unexpected reward happened one day in spring when a fair pink and white miss had reached the alluring age of sweet eighteen. Upon her birthday her father presents her with a beautifully carved bracelet. Scarcely have the blushes of pride died away when a dapper young suitor for her hand arrives with an invitation for an auto ride to the seaside. Soon the gay party arrives at the beach. An hour has scarcely passed before the young miss and her girlfriend are disporting themselves in the water. Suddenly the father hears s cry of alarm! Yonder, far out at sea, his daughter is waving signals of distress and is being swept farther and farther seaward by a heavy undertow. At once the fond parents turn for help to the girl's suitor, but he fails to be equal to the occasion. Fearing for his own safety he refuses to go. A stranger hears the appeal for aid and, seeing the dangerous position of the girl, in a moment strips off hat and coat and dives headfirst into the water from the pier. The long, steady strokes of the swimmer soon prove to the frantic mother and father that he will reach the girl in time. The surf is stronger than they reckoned, however, and before the swimmer can reach her side she gives up from sheer exhaustion and sinks beneath the waves. A moment of despair and then the watchers on the shore see the rescuer dive under the water and bring forth the limp body to the surface. After a hard swim back to shore willing hands drag them both to safety. An hour later the girl has revived and the party is returning home when the daughter discovers that she has lost her bracelet. This fact comes to the ears of her brave rescuer, and he decides to recover the lost article if possible. He succeeds in doing so, too, after numerous dives around the spot where she sank and where the bracelet had fallen from her wrist in her struggle for life. Needless to say the bracelet is returned to the fair owner, greatly to the chagrin and anger of her cowardly suitor, who quickly sees that the hero of the seaside is fast holding full sway in the thoughts and mind of this fair miss of eighteen. The cowardly gallant decides to humiliate his proud rival before the eyes of the girl at the earliest opportunity, which chances to be the following day. While out driving with the young lady they chance to meet the finder of the bracelet, and, driving up to the curb, the dainty miss insists on again thanking her rescuer. The jealous suitor succeeds in humiliating his rival so that hot words are exchanged, and in a fit of rage at the fond admiration for the manly young fellow which the girl so plainly shows the coward raises his whip to strike. The next moment it is wrenched from him by fair hands, and sweet young lips, hot with anger, politely inform him that he may drive on alone, which he does in a towering rage. Her hands are placed in that of her hero, a quick glance of love, and he knows that all is well for him. A few days later little Dan Cupid inveigles the two into a visit to a shady nook in the garden by the fountain, and what the fishes saw they never told, but the bees among the flowers heard the faintest sound of a kiss and only buzzed the louder to drown the sound of others that they knew would follow. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated Jul 29, 1910
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Jul 29, 1910 (United States)

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