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  • The Housekeeper (1912)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Housekeeper (1912)
Short | Short, Drama
A miserly widower has a young and pretty daughter whom he neglects, urged on to do so by a scheming housekeeper, who has designs upon his wealth. The housekeeper has a lover in the person of the widower's clerk, who also has designs upon ...See moreA miserly widower has a young and pretty daughter whom he neglects, urged on to do so by a scheming housekeeper, who has designs upon his wealth. The housekeeper has a lover in the person of the widower's clerk, who also has designs upon the old man's money, through his influence with the housekeeper. The housekeeper cajoles the widower into a promise of marriage, and thus winning his confidence, learns the combination to his safe. The clerk then persuades the housekeeper to take the widower's money and elope, arranging that she is to place the money in the daughter's traveling bag and throw it out of the window to him. The plan works all right, excepting that the clerk hears the daughter coming around the house just as the housekeeper throws out the money, and he dodges around the corner out of sight. It thus follows that the daughter is almost struck by the bag, which falls at her feet. Led by natural curiosity, the daughter stoops and opens the bag and finding therein her father's money, she quickly decides that certain suspicions she has had are correct, and dropping a large stone in the bag in place of the money, she hastens with the latter to her father. The widower then realizes the extent of his folly in permitting the housekeeper to steal not only his affections, but his wealth, and acknowledging his error to his daughter, he begs her pardon. In the meantime, the clerk has returned, picked up the bag, and has joined the housekeeper. The two proceed to the railroad station, where they gleefully open the bag to count their ill-gotten gains. When the paving stone is brought to light, and they realize they have been duped, the love of the clerk cools most rapidly and be climbs aboard an outgoing freight train and disappears. The widower and his daughter sit down to their evening meal, when, to the astonishment of the old man, his daughter mischievously calls in a new housekeeper she has engaged, a large colored woman, guaranteed perfectly harmless. At the same hour the former housekeeper is occupied in a foot race with an active member of the police force. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Pat Powers
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Updated May 25, 1912
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May 25, 1912 (United States)

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