Nancy's Husband (1914)

Percival Winthrop finds himself heir to quite an estate, providing he will not go on with his announced marriage that is distasteful to his uncle. To be certain that there will be no chicanery, his uncle's will demands that he marry someone else within a month. The lawyer suggests that he marry someone else and later get a divorce. This is agreed to, providing the lady is homely. This stipulation is made by the widow whom he has promised to marry. The lawyer presses into service the daughter of an old friend of his and so as to overcome the widow's objections as to appearance, Nancy, the girl, changes clothes with a scrubwoman. They are married and immediately separate. He meets his wife under more pleasant conditions and circumstances and falls in love with her, discarding the thought of separation. Ho tries his best to lose the widow, whom he has found he doesn't love. The lawyer helps him out and leaves him happily united with his wife.

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