Silver Plume Mine (1910)
"Extremes arc ever neighbors." So the wise-heads nodded and smiled their approval when David Silver's staunch, energetic daughter, Mary, became the bride of the indolent, self-indulged and fickle John Plume. Mary would arouse his ambition and instill new blood into his veins; and they beamed with satisfaction when they learned that the young wife had already successfully planted the gold-bee in his bonnet, and the couple were departing to search for a claim. The claim, when staked out, they called Silver Plume, and until John was laid up with fever, both husband and wife worked it unceasingly. Mary, however, was not to be discouraged. Every moment she could spare from John's side was devoted to the mine. But lack of sleep and proper nourishment was commencing to tell upon her, and it was, therefore, small wonder that upon picking up a piece of quartz in which she discovered free gold, all else was forgotten, even the blasting powder and her lighted cap, forgotten until the cap fell and an explosion followed. Painfully Mary groped her way out, but when at last the miners found and helped the unfortunate wife home, the doctor held out very little hope for her sight. A letter was hurried off to her father, who answered he would start at once, bringing with him Edith Ausdel, her Eastern cousin. In the meanwhile, as the fever left him, not only did John's old indolent disposition return, which caused him to gladly dispose of his share of the mine, but likewise his fickleness. Edith Ausdel was a new toy and he gave himself up to a flirtation with her with all the relish of his self-indulging soul. In the very room with his blind wife the deceitful couple would show their infatuation. However, Mary was not yet blind, she but awaited the doctor's permission to remove the bandages. At last the permission came, and oh! happiness supreme; she could see! Joyfully the little wife parted the curtains to tell her husband and Edith, but, to her horror, beheld her cousin in John's arms. And he, finding that reconciliation with Mary was impossible, whispered to Edith he would meet her at their old trysting place and there he waited and waited and waited, while Edith stole quietly out of camp and boarded the first train going east.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Milton J. Fahrney | Director |
| David Horsley | Producer |
