A White Lie (1912)
Grace and Dick Spencer are orphans. Dick goes west and becomes a cowboy. Eventually the ranch boss is unable to condone Dick's fits of intemperance any longer and dismisses him. Dick drowns his sorrows at a saloon and joins a game of cards, and in a half-drunk condition he makes mistakes, is accused of cheating and ejected from the saloon. Dick sits down by the roadside and makes resolutions for the future. Bess, the sheriff's daughter, is out riding. She dismounts to pick some flowers and is bitten by a rattlesnake. Dick hears her cries and running to her he kills the snake and cuts around the bite and sucks the poison out. He attempts to carry her back, the horse having run away, but dissipation has sapped his strength, and he makes her as comfortable as possible and hastens into town to get help. The sheriff and some cowboys see the riderless horse. On the outskirts of the town they meet Dick, who is exhausted and falls, hurting his hip. He rises as the sheriff asks him where his daughter is, and what he is doing here. Dick attempts to speak, and places his hand to his injured hip. The action is misjudged and he is shot by the sheriff. Dick motions to one of the boys and gasps out the facts. The sheriff is overcome with grief at his hasty action and, bidding the boys take Dick carefully to his house, the sheriff rides on and brings Bess back. Grace is sent for, but does not arrive in time to see her brother alive. Before he dies Dick freely forgives the sheriff, whom he begs not to tell Grace he was a "bad man." Dick dies smiling and with Bess's kiss upon his lips. The boys all agree that Grace shall only know the good about her brother, and are just in time to finish the roughly-hewn and inscribed headstone when she arrives. Grace reads the fact that Dick died a hero, and adds to the numerous wreaths on the newly made grave, and the sheriff tells her that he now has two daughters, instead of one.
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GenresDrama
Short
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| David Horsley | Producer |
| Cast | Role |
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| Harry A. Pollard |
