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The story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child and follow her to America. She eventually leaves ...See moreThe story opens with Count Gaston seen on the deck of a boat as a deckhand. Before him passes the vision of his early infatuation for an actress who prompted him to leave his wife and child and follow her to America. She eventually leaves him for another and he returns to his native land and sinks to the lowest rungs of depravity, in which condition he is found by a friend and advised to make peace with his wife. Naturally, his advances are repulsed. His daughter, having grown up, is put in a boarding school, where Gaston goes to implore the Padre, an old friend of his, to allow him just one look at his child. It is arranged that he should take his place in line on Easter Sunday, when a dinner is to be given to the poor, but he must not reveal his identity. The Padre tells him he will know his daughter by a golden cross which will hang about her neck. The child has become fast friends with a little orphan and, on Easter Sunday, when all the other children are passing with their presents, the little waif sits alone and disconsolate. In a beautifully touching scene the daughter takes the cross from off her neck and places it on that of her little friend. Gaston, not having seen his daughter through all these years, naturally mistakes the little orphan for his own flesh and blood. He meets the child regularly after this, until one day she fails to appear, having been taken violently ill. The poor man, in distraction, is finally admitted to the sick room and his grief on seeing the poor child suffering in its last throes is pitiable. The Padre realizes the awful mistake that has been made, but dare not break in on the poor man's misery to tell him the truth. After the death of the child the truth of the situation is gradually brought home to the man, and the wife, realizing that he has suffered, relents, and all is forgiven. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Director
Renzo Chiosso
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Ernesto Maria Pasquali
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Updated Sep 29, 1913
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Dec 1913 (United States)

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