Saved by the Enemy (1913)
John Hartley and Edward Kincaid had loved Belle Varney ever since they had been schoolmates together. At the outbreak of the Civil War, Kincaid resigned from West Point, and came home to offer his services to the Southern cause. The day after he arrived, he discovered that Hartley and Belle were engaged. It is doubtful if there was ever a woman who was not attracted by the gold lace of a soldier. When Belle saw Kincaid, tall and handsome in his new uniform of Captain in the army of the Confederate States, she found a place in her heart for regret, and two or three days later broke her engagement with Hartley. It is a woman's privilege to change her mind as often as she likes. As soon as she had broken the engagement Belle was sorry, and met the infatuated Kincaid with a coldness that astonished him and filled him with bitter resentment against his rival. Actuated partially by patriotism and partially by pique, Hartley enlisted as a private in the Southern army. Kincaid in pretended friendship, had him assigned to his own company. One night, on the eve of a battle, Kincaid taunted Hartley with his ill luck in love. From veiled innuendo he proceeded to active insults. Hartley stood it as long .as he could and then knocked the other down. Belle read in the papers that Hartley had been condemned to death for striking his superior officer and instantly set out for the Confederate camp. She told General Gordon the entire story of the bad feeling between the two men, and begged him not to punish Hartley for an action which had been committed solely in defense of a woman's honor. The General was sympathetic, but powerless to act. At his advice. Belle rode to Richmond and interviewed Jefferson Davis. On the way she was captured by Union scouts who, when they learned the purpose of her mission, released her and hastened her on her way. President Davis granted Hartley a reprieve of one week in order that he might make a thorough investigation of the case before giving a final judgment. During the week that followed, the Union scouts cut the wires between Richmond and General Gordon's division, and twisted to their own advantage all messages sent in either direction. The scouts were captured by Kincaid at the very moment the message from Davis ordering Hartley's pardon had reached them. Kincaid refused absolutely to allow them to carry out their generous plan of transmitting it to Gordon. At the risk of his life the Union operator sent the message. Hartley was freed in the nick of time and Kincaid was stripped of the uniform he had disgraced.
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GenresDrama
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| George Lessey | Director |
| Milton Nobles | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Mrs. William Bechtel | |
| Yale Benner | |
| Robert Brower | |
| Edna Flugrath |
