In the Black Hills (1910)
"Let not thy angry passions rise." But, as with most of us, Henry Russell remembered this wise advice too late, and now could only sigh as he thought how easily he might have avoided the quarrel with Joe Wilkes, one of the assayers in the stamp mills, for it had resulted in their both being discharged when Supt. Bedlow appeared on the scene. The pretty little home that he and Dora had planned became a mere speck in the distance. It would be months, and perhaps years, before he could again work himself up to a position equal to the one he had just left. The young wife, after trying in vain to comfort her discharged husband, donned her hat and stole out quietly. She would go to the mills and plead with them to give Henry one more chance. At first the superintendent was inclined to refuse; then, struck by Dora's ingeniousness, he gave her a note reinstating the young man. Fred Bedlow was a good husband and counted an honorable man, so it might have been the little wife's enthusiasm or a man's inborn curiosity which led him to call on her the next day. There he soon learned her true sentiments and would have withdrawn after humbly begging her pardon, so that nothing could have come of the incident, bad not Joe Wilkes, knowing that Dora had succeeded in having Henry re-engaged, called to urge his own case and, being again ordered from the premises, had followed the superintendent only to see him enter the Russell cottage. Here was a chance for revenge, Without waiting an instant he ran to the mills and scratched off a few lines to Henry, who, although he implicitly trusted Dora, decided to find out what Bedlow's idea was in calling upon his wife. And although he arrived to find Dora in tears and the superintendent begging her pardon and trying to pacify her, all might still have been explained away, had not Mrs. Bedlow, accompanied by her father, sailed in to accuse her husband, for, in going to the mills to examine some newly discovered ore, the unsuspecting wife had smoothed out the very note Henry had dropped on which to examine her specimens. Mrs. Bedlow, after relieving her mind of what she thought of Dora, her husband and men in general, departed for her automobile, leaving the superintendent to hurry after her and implore the lady's father to intercede for him. So it was, still in hot discussion, that Henry found them just outside his gate, as he ran distractedly from the house after reading the pitiable little note declaring her innocence, which Dora had written while he had been packing his things. The note wound up by saying that he would find her body on the railroad tracks. Frantically he showed it to the now half reconciled Mrs. Bedlow and the superintendent solemnly swore Dora had written the truth. She commanded them to enter her car. Already they could hear the whistle of the approaching train and, as they swung into the road, which ran parallel with the track, and turned on full speed, they were just even with the engine. A wild race of over a mile followed, and scarcely had Henry and the superintendent snatched the half unconscious Dora from the tracks when the train dashed by. Quickly they bore her to safety, where reconciliations between four hysterically happy people were soon made.
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| Filmmakers | Role |
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| Milton J. Fahrney | Director |
| David Horsley | Producer |
