The Scandal Mongers (1911)

Ethel Gerhart has long been jealous and envious of the popularity of Norinne Lucas, who is unselfish and winning in her ways. When the two attend the same private school their respective dispositions quickly gained the same reputations that they had at home. Finally Ethel conceives a plan to discredit Norinne: She contrived that a sum of money should be taken from a girl's room and hidden among Norinne's belongings. When it is discovered, of course. Norinne is in disgrace and expelled. Ethel takes good care that the scandal was spread at home through the agency of her mother, who was a past mistress of the art. The truth is finally brought out by a young evangelist who is attracted to Norinne. He preaches a sermon which powerfully effects Ethel. She jumps up hysterically and declares her sinister plot. Norinne becomes the minister's wife.

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