The story
“Violet Grey’s fiancé, Henry Williams, doubts the integrity of Lawyer Newell, executor of his dead father’s estate. On a certain evening, Williams failing to fulfill an appointment with Violet, she is seized with dread foreboding, as, to her knowledge, he was to have had an interview with Newell that afternoon. As she hears nothing from him the next day, she determines to call at the lawyer’s office. Newell is out. But Violet finally frightens his stenographer into confessing that the night before her employer and an accomplice had taken away the young man, who had been closeted by Newell in the private office. Of his whereabouts the girl was entirely ignorant. Violet decides to be her own detective. To this end, she induces the stenographer to go away on a visit, paying her liberally. She then takes her place in the office. Lawyer Newell falls in love with Violet. She finds in his safe a letter, which gives her proof that her lover is a prisoner in a private asylum for the insane up the state. She goes to his rescue, outwits the crafty executor, and Williams comes into his rightful property.”
Summary from Reel Life · 16 January 1915
