The Call of the Blood (1912)
John Ford, chief of a party of civil engineers, woos and weds a gypsy girl whose tribe are encamped in nearby woods. After two years the chill of normal life palls upon her. With the arrival of spring comes a longing for the woods. From her drawing-room window she sees the light of a campfire, and unable to resist its appeal, she answers the call of the blood. Forsaking husband and child she steals to the woods and sits upon the earth, attired in her evening gown. A year later, a gypsy woman peddling her laces near the Ford home, sees doctors coming from the house. She learns from a maid of the fatal illness of the child. Going into the woods she gathers herbs and brews a mystic medicine. Later that night she looks through a window of her former home and sees a despairing group gathered about the child's bedside. When the nurse dozes the gypsy steals in and administers her medicine. The child cries and the mother hides behind a portiere as the father and doctor enter the room. The doctor pronounces the fever broken and the crisis passed. The gypsy looks longingly at her husband and child then steals away. Later she joins her gypsy band and as they pass from the town she looks back once toward her home and her child.
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