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  • The Yankee Girl's Reward (1910)
  • Short | Short, Drama
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The Yankee Girl's Reward (1910)
Short | Short, Drama
What a price pride has paid in this world of ours. Had only young Mrs. Druce frankly told her husband, the only part of her family history with which he was not familiar, there would have been no family skeleton to rattle its bones in ...See moreWhat a price pride has paid in this world of ours. Had only young Mrs. Druce frankly told her husband, the only part of her family history with which he was not familiar, there would have been no family skeleton to rattle its bones in their household. Her only brother had been a wayward and dissolute boy, and as a man committed a crime for which he was sentenced to prison under an assumed name. Being one of several convicts to successfully escape from prison, he obtained shelter in the home of a poor hardworking brother and sister, gaining their sympathy in the guise of a workingman who had been injured by a fall and temporarily unable to labor. According to the demands of her convict brother for funds necessary to his flight from the country this weak sister took to him her pearl necklace, a recent present from her husband. All might have been well, had her husband been less proud of the personal appearance of his handsome young wife, for when he requested, then insisted, that she wear the necklace at a function they were to attend, the aid of the police was solicited to unravel the supposed theft. The convict did not want pearls, he needed money and not being well enough to attend to the matter, his young benefactor gladly conveyed a note and an innocent little package to a friend of the sick workingman. Now the police happened to have the addresses of all the connoisseurs of pearls, who were not out of town, and one of the first visits they paid was to the saloon in which our convict's pal made his headquarters. They arrived in time to get the pearls but they were still in the pocket of the convict's messenger. Silly little wife; your husband loves you; he didn't marry your family, he married you. Why don't you make a clean breast of it? But no, she must revisit her brother and demand back her necklace, perhaps she thought he would loan it to her for just a day or two. That is how she happened to be in the room with her brother when the police brought back the messenger to identify the poor sick workingman, who had sent him on an errand. That's why she left the room so unceremoniously with her convict brother by way of the ladder to the roof, and that was the cause of her descending to the street by means of the fire-escape, and that's how she arrived home and kept her terrible secret from her husband. For when the boy could not produce the poor sick man, the police had the thief who stole Mrs. Druce's pearl necklace. Nor did his little sister's story enlist any consideration until later on. This poor, little sister was a different kind of a sister, her wits had not been dulled by sitting on a family skeleton, but had been sharpened by fighting the wolf of hunger from the door, so she took a hasty trip to the roof and not fancying the view, sought the street via the fire escape, and being interested in the poor, injured workingman, found the one she wanted and when he was comfortably settled in one of his haunts she lost no time in making a call on the nearby police station. There she found a man in blue, they are not all alike, this one had some gray matter under his hair, that's why he wore some gold braid on his coat and that's why he had captain on his cap and that's why they call him chief to-day. He listened to the little sister's story; he took several officers with him, and he captured an escaped convict for whom the State had offered $1,000 reward, dead or alive. You know who deserved the reward and, of course, she got it, but best of all, she and brother gained a friend, for brother is now private secretary to the chief. Young Mrs. Druce? Why she buried her family skeleton. The convict had no reason to tell who he was. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less
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William Steiner
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Updated Sep 26, 1910
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Sep 26, 1910 (United States)

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