The story
“Watson was so absorbed in business that he did not realize that he and his wife were drifting apart. Away from home, night after night—she never doubted his truthful excuses. But when he surprised her—coming home unexpectedly one evening—with Jack Dacres, a reckless fellow, moving in their social set, and appearances were against her, Watson suspected her of the worst. In his fury, he drove her from the house—and though later he as impulsively relented, circumstances had by then ensnared Margaret and compromised her reputation so seriously that he gave her up forever—and she was obliged to seek refuge with a man who had caused her ruin. Twenty years later, she and Dacres are running a gambling house in New York, when a young district attorney enters in the guise of a player, to secure evidence and order a raid. The woman recognizes the young attorney as her own son whom she has not seen since a baby. When a scuffle ensues between him and Dacres, she grapples with the gambler, who shoots himself by accident—and thus saves the life of the young Watson. In his gratitude, he prevails upon his father, who is an influential lawyer, to defend the unknown woman, who has been arrested for murder. Not until the lawyer meets his client in the prison cell does he know that it is his wife whom he has promised to vindicate. For the sake of the son, her identity is kept a secret between them—Watson wins the case—and Tom Watson is satisfied.”
Summary from Reel Life · 24 January 1914
