The story
“Sparks learns, upon visiting his fiancée, Bianca, an art student, that his friend, Tom Brown, a writer, is living across the court. He soon sees that Bianca and Brown are mutually attracted and plans to play a joke upon his friend, which shall make the latter doubt his own sanity. He persuades Bianca to enact a scene with him before the drawn window curtain in which she is attacked by a man with a pistol and drawing a dagger from her bosom, defends herself, killing her assailant. Brown, seeing all this in silhouette on the shade, rushes to Bianca’s assistance. He finds her reading peacefully, and is told that the incident must have been a hallucination of his own brain. A few evenings after this Bianca actually is attacked by a burglar. Brown, who now is ‘on’ to the fact that in the former instance his friend Sparks had designs upon him, at first thinks this also is another of Sparks’ ‘jokes.’ However, he goes stealthily to investigate—and is just in time to save the girl, who breaks her engagement with Sparks and marries Brown.”
Summary from Reel Life · 6 February 1915
