A Cowboy's Pledge (1910)
Mary, fearing that mayhap her lover might follow in the footsteps of her father and become a drunkard, exacts a pledge from him that he will not touch liquor as long as he lives. The father cannot appreciate the seriousness of the pledge and during the festivities of the betrothal coaxes the cowboy into taking just one drink in honor of the occasion while Mary's back is turned. Mary, however, unexpectedly sees the man she is to marry drain the glass. She shudders with fear as she realizes that her lover, not strong enough to resist temptation and weak enough to break his pledge, might take to the path of her father. Her forebodings come true. Her sweetheart and father become constant habitués of "Pete's Saloon." Day after day, night after night, both can be found drinking or drunk. She determines to break off her engagement and signals her state of mind then she snubs her fiancé when he and her father stagger from the barroom while she and her younger sister are passing on horseback. The old man and the cowboy, after a moment's pause of stupefied consternation, link arms and seek consolation at the bar. It does not take the young fellow long to become a drunken sot. Indian Joe carries the news of the father's debauch to Mary and her mother. The women mount their horses and gallop to the saloon to save the father and husband and punish the lover. The wife arrives in time to support the head of her dying husband, who has fallen to the floor, and Mary to stare with accusing wrath at the man she was to marry. In an instant she grips her whip, and with well-directed blows, smashes bottle after bottle to atoms, until the place reeks with the odor of spilled liquor. The cowboy at last attempts to stop the frenzied girl in her destruction, but she recoils from him, and before he realizes what she is doing, brings the whip down upon his head, face and shoulders. After the funeral of the old man, Jack goes to see Mary for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation, but she will not listen to his pleadings and he decides to go away and try to atone. She tells him that if in two years he becomes a man and finds he still loves her to come back. And now the two years are passed and she wonders, as she leans against the tree where they parted, whether he will come back to her. Scarcely has the thought been formed when she hears his steps upon the gravel, and with bursting heart, throws herself into the arms of her cowboy lover, come back a parson.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Mark M. Dintenfass | Producer |
