The story
“A shortage is discovered in the accounts of John Hill, a young bank cashier. The manager of the bank agrees to give him three days’ time in which to make good the shortage. John confides in his young wife, May, and a young reporter interviews May about her husband’s shortage. He becomes interested in the plucky young woman, and decides to suppress the story. The husband fails to raise the money, and leaves his clothes, with a note telling of his intended suicide, on a wharf at the water’s edge. After five years the young reporter wins May for his bride. On the day of their wedding, John is attracted to the house where the ceremony is to take place. Hearing of the many rich gifts which the bride has received, he enters the house, and witnesses a love scene between the young reporter and his (John’s) wife. He finds it impossible to escape by the way he entered, and attempts to leave by the floor window, falls to the ground and is killed. Here Hastings finds him, and has the body carried away, and leads May to the altar.”
Summary from The Bioscope · 22 December 1910
