A Friend Indeed (1912)
John Lloyd has an invalid wife whom the doctor orders to go to the mountains. John's daughter Dorothy calls at the office where her father is employed as a confidential clerk, to tell him of the doctor's decision. The junior partner makes advances to the girl, which she repulses. Angry at this, he refuses to give John an advance in salary so that he may take his wife away. John goes home and, after refusing to accept a loan from the senior partner's son, who is also in love with Dorothy, and who both father and daughter favor, John takes out an old painting and hastens to an art dealer. The son, Willard Dowlan, follows and hears the dealer tell John that it is only an imitation. John returns sorrowfully home, but Willard goes to his father's office. He finds that the clerks have gone, but expecting Mr. Dowlan, Sr., back, as the combination book was left on his desk. Willard takes this and opens the safe and gets $500, then writes a note to his father, telling him of taking the money, that he is stopping with friends that night and leaving early in the morning. He then commissions a friend to buy the painting, not telling who it is for. This the friend does, and the next morning John is busy getting his wife's things ready to go to the station when a detective arrives to arrest him. The note was blown down, the money is not accounted for, so the junior partner at home sends an officer for John. John is brought to the office, but his tale of selling a painting at such a price, and being unable to give the purchaser's name, causes even the senior partner to doubt John. Fortunately Willard has left a part of the things he wanted to take at the office, so returns to get them in the morning and makes satisfactory explanation. In consequence the senior partner takes John and his family to the mountains as his guests.
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GenresComedy
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| David Horsley | Producer |
