The Voice of Silence (1914)
The unfortunate fact that Sue Smith was deaf and dumb did not in any way prevent her from being a remarkably pretty girl. So Stephen Gaines thought, at any rate, when he looked up from his telegraph key, and discovered her staring at him through the window. She had gone out that morning to fish, had lost her oars, and had been carried by the tide out to Cliff Island, where the big wireless station, under Stephen's charge, was located. Stephen got some dry stockings and a pair of rubber boots for the shipwrecked girl, gave her a new pair of oars, and sent her home. The next day she came out to see him. A friendship rapidly sprang into being between them, and Stephen found himself looking forward to the visits of the shy little girl with a considerable degree of interest. Discovering that she could both read and write, Stephen soon taught Sue the wireless code, and occasionally, to her great delight, he allowed her to send some of his less important messages. When Big Tom Curry, Slim Eastman and Maggie Black, unfavorably known to the police of three continents, made their latest and most daring bank robbery in a northern state, they set out in accordance with a preconceived plan for the South. Curry, Eastman and Maggie were by no means ordinary criminals. They had tremendous resources back of them. In this case, they had arranged to have a steam yacht waiting for them off Cliff Island to provide a means of escape from the thoroughly aroused police. But when the three worthless arrived on Cliff Island, after a motorboat ride from the mainland, and went to the wireless station for the purpose of sending a signal to their confederate in the yacht, they found Stephen reading a reward notice, containing a detailed description of each of them. Without hesitating for a moment, they overpowered Stephen, threw him into the boat and put out to sea. But they reckoned without Sue. Discovering her friend's plight, she sent out a general alarm call on the wireless. The message was received by a passing ship, which pursued and captured the motor boat. The first thing Stephen did when he got back to the station was to send a wireless north, claiming the liberal reward offered for the arrest of the criminals in the name of his little friend, Sue Smith.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Richard Ridgely | Director |
| Richard Ridgely | Writer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Mabel Trunnelle | |
| Arthur Housman | |
| Bigelow Cooper | |
| Alice Washburn |
