An Unusual Sacrifice (1912)
Two young composers love the same girl, one of them is injured in a football game and so considers himself out of the race. Between the boys there is a sympathetic feeling which amounts to a mental telegraph system, what one thinks the other knows; when an accident happens to one the other is conscious of it. After the wedding the crippled youth tries to forget his love in his work. He achieves success. His one-time pal and the girl they both love find times very hard; things go from bad to worse with them until the girl is ill and the young husband, away from his partner's influence, seems utterly unable to write any more successful songs. Meanwhile the cripple has composed a song which means fame and fortune and greater influence than he has ever had. Just as he is about to have it published he learns definitely that his telepathic impression is correct; that his partner and the girl are at the verge of starvation. Going to his room he fights the battle with himself and decides to make the telepathic sacrifice of his great song. By means of their mental bond he transmits the idea and rhythm of the great song to his pal in Chicago and the latter believing it is an inspiration straight from Heaven writes down the song and puts it out as his own. Its success is instantaneous; his fortune is made. The story closes with the cripple's receipt of this news.
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