The story
“Tom Sykes adopts a baby girl, one of twins, to solace his wife, who is heartbroken at the loss of her own child. At the same time a wealthy couple by the name of Gale adopt the other twin. A dozen years later finds Madeline, her foster mother dead, the unwilling accomplice of Sykes, who has turned burglar—and Marion, a generous, openhanded child, loved by rich and poor in the community. Sykes enters the Gale home and is shot and killed Mr. Gale in self-defense. Madeline, meanwhile, at Sykes’ orders, has been working in Marion’s room. The shot wakes Marion, who on seeing Madeline poorly clad, and looking wonderfully like her own photograph, is filled with sympathy for her unhappy double and invites her to share her bed for the night. In the morning, Mrs. Gale, on discovering two Marions in bed, cannot believe her senses—until her husband tells her about their little adopted daughter being a twin. Marion, too, learns that she has found her own twin sister—and, of course, after that the two girls are never separated.”
Summary from Reel Life · 12 December 1914
