For Her Brother's Sake (1913)
Grace Merrill and her brother Edwin, orphans, are doing light housekeeping in a cheap apartment, when a letter reaches them from a wealthy uncle on a Southern California ranch offering them a home with him. Grace welcomes the opportunity, but Edwin objects to leaving the city and persuades her to go without him. Upon her arrival at her uncle's ranch Grace meets his foreman, Jack Winston, and they are mutually attracted. Jack has been engaged in a love affair with a Spanish dancer employed in a concert hail frequented by the Mexicans, but when he meets Grace he promptly breaks with her. Inez creates a scene in the concert hall by trying to stab Jack, and when he leaves she follows him and discovers his relations with Grace. After a time Grace and Jack are married and establish a home, and Inez broods over the loss of her lover. In the east, Grace's brother finds it difficult to make a living: he is broke and the prosperity of the western country attracts him and he decides to follow his sister. Arriving in the western town he visits the town drinking place to make inquiries and through no fault of his becomes involved in a quarrel with a drunken cowboy, who picks a fight. In attempting to disarm the cowboy the revolver is discharged and Edwin finds himself in the position of his slayer. He flees from the place with the crowd after him, but dodges his pursuers and takes refuge in the barn on the premises where his sister lives with her husband. There she finds him and consents to hide him until night and obtain money for his escape. Inez sees Grace and a stranger together in the barn, hears the appointment for that night made and decides to make use of the information. She lies in wait for Jack and makes one last desperate effort to win him back. When he tells her that his wife is the only woman he can love she tells her story and again urges him to take her. Jack is suspicious and determines to watch. At night he retires and pretends to sleep but listens and watches. He hears his wife leave the house, follows her and sees her embracing a strange man who escapes before he can reach them. In his excitement he accuses his wife in a manner that so angers her that she refuses to explain and they quarrel and separate. A week later a letter comes from Edwin and Jack opens it by mistake. It throws a flood of light on past events and shows him his mistake. He goes at once to acknowledge the wrong he has done Grace and she, convinced of his love and loving him in return, consents to a reconciliation. Meanwhile, Inez also has found a way to mend a broken heart.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Bertram Bracken | Director |
| Siegmund Lubin | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Henry King | |
| Velma Whitman | |
| Ray Gallagher |
