The story
“May Pollard defies her parents and elopes. After her husband’s death she writes her father, begging him, for the sake of her child, to forgive her. The old man is obdurate, however, despite the pleadings of his wife. About this time, twin girls, distant cousins of May’s, go to visit her parents. They notice a sad-eyed woman with a baby on the train. She gets off at a station called Grantwood, to send a telegram, misses the train, and the twins decide to adopt the baby. They manage to smuggle it off the cars in their lunch basket. But when they reach Mr. and Mrs. Pollard’s, the baby makes its presence known, and Mrs. Pollard telegraphs Grantwood station, where she relieves the distracted mother, telling her to come at once for the child. May veils herself heavily and comes, much to the disappointment of the twins. Meanwhile, the grandfather has lost his heart to the baby, and when, despite her disguise, he discovers the mother’s identity, he forgives his daughter. Finding that the baby belongs in the family, the twins are partly reconciled to giving it up.”
Summary from Reel Life · 10 October 1914
