A Wayward Daughter (1908)
A young man just released from prison joins the Salvation Army workers, in order to regain a foothold in life. One day, while at work in the industrial home, a message is brought to the superintendent in charge, requesting that he find a suitable young man to fill a position as coachman in a wealthy family. The superintendent asks the recently released criminal if he will accept the position. An evil thought enters the young man's mind, and he gives an affirmative answer. In the family there is a young and beautiful daughter, who soon becomes enamored with the young man. Ho makes ardent love to her until the father one day finds his daughter in the embrace of the coachman, and he is immediately ordered from the premises. The fellow, however, is not to be so easily kept from accomplishing his will, and he plans an elopement, to which the girl readily consents. No sooner has she become his wife than we find him again on the downward path. After squandering her money, he pawns her jewels, which she permits him to take; and finally he sells her sewing machine with which she has for some time been earning a living for herself and child. Things go from bad to worse, until finally the man is arrested for stealing a pocketbook, for which act he is again sentenced to prison. The poor wife is forced to become a washwoman to support herself and child. One day while delivering some washing, the child, which she has left on the front steps, ventures in the street and is knocked down by a carriage. The neighbors and occupants of the carriage carry the little one to its home, and when the mother rushes out she comes face to face with the lady who had been an occupant of the carriage. Recognition dawns, and the mother and daughter embrace each other. The wayward daughter's troubles are at an end, and she returns with her child and parents to the old home.
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