A Warning from the Past (1914)
Arthur Trevor loved two things more than all the rest of the world. One was his wife, Anne, and the other was fox hunting. Because Arthur was her sole and only love, Anne was jealous of her husband's other love. Time and again she begged him to give it up, but Trevor, a cool, dauntless rider, laughed her fears to scorn and continued to live up to his reputation of being the most daring rider in the country. The finest of all Trevor's horses was a powerful brute with the inauspicious name of Satan and a variety of vicious qualities thoroughly in keeping with his name. The grooms in the stable feared and hated him. Money could not have persuaded one of them to mount on his back. Yet Trevor, glorying in his own strength and skill, rode him frequently. Anne, knowing how dangerous Satan was, had frequently begged her husband not to ride him and at last, as a result of her constant pleading, Trevor acceded to her wish. On the day of the great Holiday Fox Hunt, Anne experienced a terrible premonition of danger and started a note to her husband, begging him not to go. Feeling ashamed of her fears, however, she stuffed the note in a green sofa and said nothing. But when she learned that Trevor, despite his promise, had taken Satan from the stable, her fears returned with redoubled force. Her fears were justified. Trevor was killed. Years later, Anne Trevor's granddaughter was married to Phillip Sayre. One morning, Sayre received a note from a friend, inviting him to make a flight in his new aeroplane. Sayre. deeply interested, hurried off to the field. Left alone on the old green sofa, Anne Sayre experienced the same terrible premonition which had visited her grandmother so many years before. Half unconsciously, she drew a crumpled sheet of paper from the sofa. On it was written, "I feel that you are in danger, and I long to keep you from it. I know you will be angry but..." With all her fears crystallized into action, Anne hurried to the field and begged her husband not to attempt the flight. Sayre, in some anger, humored his foolishly anxious wife. But his anger was changed to an entirely different emotion when his friend's aeroplane, tilted in mid-air and fell four thousand feet to utter ruin.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Richard Ridgely | Director |
| Bannister Merwin | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Herbert Prior | |
| Mabel Trunnelle | |
| Yale Benner | |
| Bigelow Cooper |
