Fate's Finger (1914)
The doctor's young wife, jealous because her husband's professional duties occupy the major share of his time, seeks revenge in a dangerous flirtation. The affair has advanced to an alarming stage when her old school friend comes from a distant city to visit her. This unfortunate girl has contracted a clandestine marriage with the other man in the case two years before, and has been deserted by him. At the time she is made the wife's confidant she is too overcome by her conflicting emotions to expose the man. Only a few days later a climax is reached. The friend discovers the young wife in the act of leaving the house to join the other man, and the guilty woman does not deny her intention. Her friend begs to be allowed to accompany her to the rendezvous and once there succeeds in unmasking the traitor. The disillusioned wife turns her footsteps toward home. She had left a written message on the doctor's study table. How its high-flown wording sounded now; how utterly fatal to her future hopes should it reach his hands. Half fainting she regained the house. The study door was closed, and behind it she could hear her husband's steady pacing. Presently he left the room and, rushing in, the wife found the note gone. In its place, its silent message not to be misunderstood, lay her husband's pistol. Ready to embrace her fate, she took it from its case and went to her room. There, through the agency of her faithful friend, her life and happiness were handed back to her by her baby's hands, for the child had been Fate's instrument in saving the fatal paper from ever having reached the unsuspecting husband's eyes.
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