From a Life of Crime (1915)
In her dying moments, Mary Bowers writes a portion of a letter addressed to her parents. Her daughter, Marcia. a child, is at the bedside, and takes the unfinished epistle, together with a locket which the dying woman has tried vainly to put around the child's neck. The few lines of the letter were an appeal to Mary Bowers' parents to forgive her and to care for the child, Marcia. When Marcia is unable to awaken her mother she invokes the assistance of Phineas and Sarah Craft, a couple of underworld characters, who live next door. The Crafts see in Marcia a tractable pupil and destroying the letter adopt Marcia. The girl grows up steeped in vice and is used as an assistant in the robbing of the home of a minister. Sarah Craft feigns illness and while the minister is giving her attention and some money Marcia picks his pocket. She is caught red-handed, and after the minister severely flayed the maker of thieves, Marcia consents to remain in his household and be reformed. With him she does mission work. Marcia, overhearing a remark of the minister's sister to the effect that when one is a thief he is always a thief, leaves the house and returns to her erstwhile haunts. She is welcomed by the Crafts who immediately plan another robbery with Marcia as the central figure. She answers an advertisement and gets a place as a domestic in the home of Mr. and Mrs. John Fletcher, Mary Bowers' parents. She has dropped the key of the house out of the window to her associates when she sees a portrait which she recognizes as that of her mother. The likeness in the locket corresponds with the large portrait. Marcia is overcome but the key has been dropped and it is too late. The Crafts are trapped when they enter, Marcia having told her grandparents, the Fletchers, of the contemplated burglary. The minister, a visitor at the Fletcher home, reclaims Marcia.
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