The Atonement (1911)
Philip Gray is the owner of a number of East Side tenement buildings in New York City. Despite the censure of the press and the pleadings of his tenants to repair the buildings, the banker refuses. His wife reads a paragraph in one of the daily papers, which blames Gray for the death of women and children in his tenements, and decides to investigate the conditions. With her little daughter she visits one of the buildings and explores its dark passages from top to bottom and is horrified at the misery of the people abiding there. Entering one of the apartments, Mrs. Gray and Dorothy, who, upon later learning that the child has symptoms of diphtheria, leave the room. Dan Morris, father of the sick child, is advised by the charity physician to get a specialist in children's diseases, who alone will be able to save the girl's life. With waning hope Dan goes to the office of the specialist, where he comes face to face with the banker Gray, who also is seeking the aid of the specialist for Dorothy, who has contracted diphtheria through her visit to Morris' sick child. Both men are pleading with the doctor when the telephone rings and Gray is informed that Dorothy is dead. The doctor then goes with Morris and save the child's life, and later Gray, having experienced a change of heart through the death of his daughter, repairs his tenements.
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