The story
“Harry Dana’s married life is unhappy because his wife is suspicious and petulant. Discovering that his stenographer, Doris Hall, is ambitious to study art, he persuades her to accept a check for four hundred dollars to be spent for an evening course in modeling. Shortly afterward Mrs. Dana visits her husband’s office and discovers in a bunch of vouchers, returned monthly by the bank, the check in favor of the stenographer. Convinced that Dana is faithless, she purloins the check as evidence and secretly prepares to begin divorce proceedings. Doris has witnessed the removal of the incriminating check, but she hesitates to inform Dana. Later she learns from the stenographer employed by Mrs. Dana’s attorney that a divorce is impending. Determined to prevent the wrecking of Dana’s family life at any cost, Doris goes to the attorney and makes a confession of crime, declaring that she forged the check.
“Dana receives a note from the attorney. Placing it in his wife’s hands, utterly puzzled, he hurries away. She is now convinced of her error in suspecting him. Taking the check from its hiding place, she chokes back a sob, permitting the bit of paper to slip to the floor. Before she can recover it the check is drawn into the fire and destroyed. Dana, meanwhile, has learned the truth. He is trying to dissuade Doris from her sacrifice when his wife bursts into the office and tells of the destruction of the check. As the evidence is lost no one now can be found legally guilty. Mr. and Mrs. Dana leave together. Then Doris, who has momentarily disappeared, returns to receive the earnest compliments of Lawyer Morris and his son, Boyd, who is in love with her.”
Summary from Reel Life · 2 January 1915
