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  • The Past Forgiven (1913)
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The Past Forgiven (1913)
Short | Short, Drama
Margaret Reeves, an unfortunate girl, who has fallen into the clutches of a white slaver, is induced by a Salvation Army rescue worker to give up her present life, and make a new beginning. She decided to redeem herself in the new west, as...See moreMargaret Reeves, an unfortunate girl, who has fallen into the clutches of a white slaver, is induced by a Salvation Army rescue worker to give up her present life, and make a new beginning. She decided to redeem herself in the new west, as a helper to an overworked wife on a big cattle range out West. She meets the foreman of the range. Attracted by Margaret's reserve, he falls in love, and tries to win the girl as his wife. A conflict between conscience and love rages in the girl's mind and love wins. She pushes the past far behind her and takes a chance for happiness. Secure in her Western home, her joy reaches its zenith when their child is placed in the foreman's arms. The first jar to her happiness comes when she meets the keeper of the dance hall. She pleads with him for the child's sake, to keep her secret, and leave her secure in an honest man's home. Pretty faces being scarce, the man follows her home and forces his attentions on the terrified girl. The foreman, entering unexpectedly, sees him and hurls the intruder against the wall, and the disgruntled man sneers his revenge to the husband, leaving a shattered faith and a wrecked home. The husband, unforgiving, drives the shrinking wife from his hearth, and, snatching their baby girl from its cradle, sweats she will never follow in her mother's footsteps. Margaret, bereft of home and child, wanders into the open, and encounters a young Indian mother playing with her papoose. The desolate woman, hungering for her baby, caresses and croons over the Indian child, and so wins the gentle young squaw's heart, that she takes Margaret home to her people. In her simple way, the Indian wife sees the white woman is in great trouble, and draws the story from her. She determines that Margaret's baby shall soon "rest in its mother's arms." Stealing away from the camp, she locates the home where the lonely man mourns ever the motherless baby in its cradle, and, in her tragic, broken English, shows the husband his cruelty in keeping the child from its mother. With barbaric gestures she depicts Margaret's remorse, and, seeing the man's face softening, she gently places the sleeping child in his arms and leads him, with his precious burden, to the camp which shelters a bruised and stricken woman. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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Updated May 9, 1913
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May 9, 1913 (United States)

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Darwin Karr primary photo
Darwin Karr
The Ranch Foreman The Ranch Foreman   See fewer
Eugene Wrayburn (1911)
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Marian Swayne
Margaret Reeves Margaret Reeves   See fewer
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Blanche Cornwall
The Indian Mother The Indian Mother   See fewer
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