For Home and Honor (1912)

Edward Stanton, an Englishman, lives unhappily with his wife. Out hunting one day he meets Margaret King, a country maiden. He wins her confidence and persuades her to elope. The wife is deserted and the couple go to Liverpool, where Stanton weds the girl, despite his previous marriage. An accident to his first wife, however, prevents the crime of bigamy, being thrown from a carriage and instantly killed. Stanton soon tires of the girl and begins a flirtation with another woman. Margaret becomes indignant and takes him to task. They quarrel. Margaret leaves him and comes to America, where she becomes the wife of an estimable man. While stopping at a Washington hotel, she again meets Stanton, again a desire to possess her is aroused within him, but Margaret climbs the fire escape to the room occupied by Stanton and there demands him to cease his persecutions. He refuses and she shoots him. Her arrest and trial soon follow. Stanton is not dangerously wounded, and when he regains his better nature he makes a clean breast of the true facts to the Court and completely exonerates Margaret.

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