The story
“The ‘Skinflint’ refuses to help his son when he gets into a tight place, and he turns away his daughter when she comes to him telling about her sick husband and needy children. But there’s many a man leading just such a crabbed, dehumanized life, who, like Silas Keene, would change his habits if only through some pin-hole of a crevice in his hardened character a bit of sunshine might pierce its way into his soul. Silas sees himself, in a kind of dream, as the man he might have been. He decides that the vision isn’t too good to come true. So he goes to the rescue of his son and his daughter and her family, and then he buys a big, homey house and surrounds himself therein with his kith and kin, and lives out the rest of his days a happy, human, grandfatherly old man.”
Summary from Reel Life · 20 March 1915
