The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1914)
Willard Gryson, a clerk in the employ of the government, leads an ideal home life with his charming wife and his two-months-old son. Tyson Rockwell, a capitalist, and his henchman, needs certain private government reports to put over a big deal, and meeting Gryson one day coming from the government offices, offer him a flattering price for the necessary papers. Gryson at first is firm in his resolution not to be bribed, but finally succumbs to the temptation. His wife accidentally finds the slip of paper telling him, "There is $5,000 waiting for you at a certain hotel. Come and get it." Her woman's intuition warns her that her husband is on the brink of an abyss, so when he is leaving that evening, she takes the government reports from his pocket and, substitutes this little note: "Is the father of our baby going to make us ashamed of him?" Which, when he reads it, brings him to his senses and makes him realize what a narrow escape he had.
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