The Trail of the Serpent (1915)
Big Ben, a Western miner, mortally hurt, wills his mine, The Marguerite, to his niece, Marguerite, and makes Bob Hadley his executor. After Big Ben's death, Hadley notifies Marguerite, who starts west to look after her inheritance. On the way she meets Knox, a crook, who ingratiates himself into her favor as her business advisor, and beguiles her into accepting his proposal of marriage. Marguerite and Knox arrive and Hadley at once becomes suspicious of Knox. Hadley shows Marguerite the mine in which he is much disappointed and advises Marguerite to sell it. She decides to do so. In the meantime she becomes impressed with Hadley, and breaks her engagement with Knox, who becomes extremely jealous. Knox discovers Pedro, a Mexican prospector, concealing gold nuggets, and finds that they came from a secret tunnel on the Marguerite claim, which opens up a rich vein of ore. Knox offers to buy the mine at the low price Hadley names, and Hadley signs the deed. Knox drops the deed from his pocket and it is found and returned to Hadley by Carlotta, a Mexican girl, who loves Hadley. She also tells him of seeing Knox and Pedro at the secret tunnel. Pedro happens by the cabin, sees Carlotta talking with Hadley and in a jealous rage fires through the window at him. The bullet hits Carlotta. Hadley discovers the secret tunnel, hunts up Knox, brands him as a crook and flings the money in his face. Knox discovers his loss of the deed, rushes to Hadley's cabin ahead of Hadley in an effort to get it. In the meantime, Pedro plans to attack Hadley and sees Knox's shadow on the canvas screen of Hadley's cabin, supposes it is Hadley returned and fires, killing Knox. Hadley dashes up, discovers the murder and also recovers the deed. Marguerite by this time fully realizes her love for Hadley.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Frank Cooley | Director |
| Cast | Role |
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| Forrest Taylor | |
| Helene Rosson | |
| George Webb | |
| Harry Edmondson |
