The Double Cross (1912)
George Carter and William Porter are old college chums who have not seen one another since the latter has married. William sends for George to spend his vacation with him. George leaves to pay a short visit and, while with his friends, through their instigation, he decides to get married if they can find him a suitable wife. George returns home a short time after. Williams is out photographing and comes upon a camping party. In one of the party, Maud Truesworth, he finds the girl for George and takes a picture of the party and sends one of the pictures to George with a cross indicating Maud. The photo and letter duly arrive, but his inquisitive old housekeeper, suspecting his game and afraid to lose her job, changes the cross and puts it under the photo of a plain looking woman. When George sees this he is furious and writes a letter to Williams telling him that he would rather remain a bachelor than marry such a person. Maud is entering into the spirit of the joke, when William enters with George's letter. Maud is furious and picks up the photo and letter and goes to her father and mother and tells them of the insult. A telegram arrives saying that George is going to Seaport and for her to go there and avenge the insult. So she takes her father and mother. Maud tricks George into talking to her, and a week after he is proposing to her when she indignantly shows him the letter. He does not understand. Maud goes to William and George does the same. He demands those three photos of the group and makes up his mind that his meddlesome housekeeper has changed the cross. He rushes to the hotel and gets his photo, and takes them both to show Maud. The old housekeeper appears and finds she is found out and is told to leave with the two pictures. Maud and George become reconciled.
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