After School (1912)
After their mother's death, Jane Terrell agreed to stay home and do the housework while her little sister Bessie attends school. When the new schoolmaster, Jack Redmond, arrives, he comes to board at their home; admiring Jane's kindness, he decides to give her lessons at home. Both girls learn to admire, then love, the handsome teacher, and when Bessie sees that he gives all his evenings to Jane, she resents it and tells her that she loves him. Jane sacrifices herself, discontinues her lessons, and avoids Jack. He doesn't understand her actions, for he has become deeply interested in her, while he looks upon Bessie as an interesting child. Then salesman Jim Reeves stops at the farm. Soon Bessie is more interested in him than she is is in Jack. She finally runs away with him to the city one night, leaving a note. One morning Jane finds her little sister near the door. She sobs out the miserable story to Jane of betrayal and desertion. Jack Redmond finds them and when he learns the truth swears to track down the salesman and force him to make retribution. Fearing the father's wrath, they conceal Bessie in the barn and the schoolmaster hurries to the city. Jack finds the girl's betrayer and asks him to come with him. Reeves is defiant until Jack shows him that the suspicious-looking bulge in his pocket is a revolver trained on him and he is forced to go with Jack to a justice of the peace. The three of them return to the farm and under the tree where Jim had met little Bessie the justice performs the ceremony. Jack tells him to be gone and never come back. But with a newly-awakened manhood he decides to live with the little girl, of whose innocence he had taken advantage, and together they go to the father. When Bessie shows him she is married, the father forgives them and takes Bessie back into his heart. And out under the tree another romance reaches its culmination, for Jack and Jane reach a perfect understanding at last.
All Releases
Domestic
–
–
International
–
–
Worldwide
–
–
| Filmmakers | Role |
|---|---|
| Allan Dwan | Director |
| Cast | Role |
|---|---|
| J. Warren Kerrigan | |
| Pauline Bush | |
| Jack Richardson | |
| Jessalyn Van Trump |
