Peggy and the Law (1916)
With the death of her grandfather Peggy Sanford is left with a heavily mortgaged home and Mandy, a faithful servant. Judge Harkness, an old friend of the family, calls and tells Peggy that Stanley Rose, a city chap, has foreclosed the mortgage. Soon afterwards Stanley Rose calls at the office of Judge Harkness and requests him to take the necessary steps in the matter of the foreclosure. The judge is in a quandary as to what to do, but finally says to the sheriff: "We've known Peggy since she was a baby, but the law is the law, and you've got to put her out." The sheriff and his deputy have to perform their disagreeable duty. Mandy exclaims: "Jess' lemme see somebody put ma honey out." The sheriff and his deputy have scarcely left when Stanley Rose arrives in person and Peggy comes demurely in to face him. Stanley has imagined Miss Sanford to be a tall old maid, probably too mean to pay anything she could avoid. He smiles pleasantly and says: "I asked for Miss Sanford, the tenant here. I suppose you must be her niece." Peggy explains that she is the only Miss Sanford, and the one against whom he has set the mighty machinery of the law in motion. Stanley assures her that the lawyer must have made a mistake, and says she must remain with him. Neither he nor Peggy give any thought to the question of propriety and they spend a delightful afternoon roaming about the place. That evening Mandy announces that it is bedtime. "Run off to bed, honey," she says, "Ah found a place in de barn fo' the gemman to snooze." Peggy protests at this, but Stanley insists that he intended to sleep there and Mandy makes him as comfortable as possible. The next day Stanley realizes that his stay at the house would occasion gossip, so he goes to Judge Harkness and requests him to draw a lease in favor of Miss Sanford, as he is going to board in the village. Meanwhile Peggy tells Mandy that they can't stay there. Armed with a lease, Stanley starts back to the Sanford homestead, where he finds Peggy in the parlor surrounded by her most treasured possessions, including the cat, which she intends to induce him to sell to them. Stanley hastily exhibits the lease and Peggy, in her excess of joy, throws her arms around his neck and kisses him. Then, realizing her action, she runs out of the room. Stanley runs after Peggy and finds her. "Don't you think the parson could arrange it so I could stay, too?" he asks, as the willing captive nestles in his arms.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George Ridgwell | Director |
| William Addison Lathrop | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Edith Roberts | |
| Harry Benham | |
| Nellie Slattery | |
| Frank Smith |
