John, the Wagoner (1913)
John thinks all the world of his little wife, Edna, but does not possess the delicate art of showing it. She even has to remind him of that good-bye kiss at times, for Edna has a great capacity for loving. Roy, a deputy sheriff, a good-looking young fellow, calls upon her by chance and is struck by her youth and beauty. Being of an unsuspecting nature, and flattered by the attentions of this attractive man, who reads her like a book, Edna unwittingly encourages him. In time John begins to take notice, and although he does not affect to see anything, he grows more taciturn and morose. One day his suspicions aroused, he halts his wagon and returns to the house. He hears voices nearby and following the sound, discovers his wife and the tempter, who is telling her that her husband neither understands nor loves her. John sees the man's arm steal around the waist of his wife and turns and goes, but seeing that she resents the familiarity. His smoldering passions roused, John goes to his house and gets his revolver and goes into the woods to form his revengeful plans. Roy returns to the town and the sheriff tells him to go with him to hunt a desperado who has just robbed the stage. At the crossroads the sheriff and Roy separate and Roy, well pleased at the chance, rides towards Edna's home. Edna sits, torn with doubts, when she is confronted by the hold-up man, who demands that she hide him. They hear an approaching horse and the man runs into an inner room, threatening to kill her if she discloses his whereabouts. Roy enters, but does not understand her terrified looks. He goes to her and takes her in his arms, the hold-up, thinking she is giving him away, confronts them from the inner door. Roy has drawn his gun, but drops it in his fear, and John, who has come to his conclusion and returns, sees the trio thus. Roy, his yellow streak to the fore, hides behind the terrified Edna and the outlaw slowly covers them both. John is roused to action. He shoots and the gun drops from the hold-up's maimed hand. John picks up Roy's revolver, and throwing Edna off as she runs to him, marches the two men before him, and taking Edna with him, goes to the sheriff's office. The sheriff has returned, and after a brief recital of the facts, he arrests the hold-up, and tearing the star from the craven Roy's coat, sends him on his way. Despite her entreaties, John slowly points Edna to follow Roy. She, bewildered, comes up with the coward, when he turns and appeals to her and she lashes him with her tongue until he cowers and hurries away. John, the reaction having set in, goes slowly home. He buries his head in his hands and then looks unconsciously for the pretty little woman who was such an integral portion of his home. His hand goes out and he takes a shawl from the back of a chair and it goes to his lips as Edna, her face full of appeal and misery, kneels at the threshold with her arms outstretched. John sees her and his great love banishes all else from his mind, and he gathers the sobbing girl to his breast.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| David Horsley | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Gordon Sackville | |
| Helen Case | |
| Tom Forman | |
| Charles K. French |
