The Bachelor and the Baby (1910)
Secretly married, Letty Holcomb is now the mother of a sweet little baby boy: she is impatient that Hugh Channing, her husband, announce their marriage and give the child its legal name. Hugh, who is presumably a bachelor among his friends, refuses to publish their wedding, and while he is living in swell apartments Letty is living in a couple of poorly furnished rooms, trying to protect herself and baby from calumny and shame. Her husband not only refuses to make their wedding public but he entirely denies it, sending her a statement that it was a mock ceremony. Crushed and stunned, she feels helpless. Recovering from the blow, she decides to strike back, goes to the apartment house where her husband lives, she locates his rooms, which are next to a suite occupied by a young bachelor named Benson, who is engaged to be married to a very pretentious young lady of aristocratic importance. The young wife returns to her home, takes her baby and carries it to Hugh's apartments with a note telling him she is going away and leaves his child for him to support and care for. In her excitement and anxiety she mistakes young Benson's apartment for her husband's, and leaves the baby on the bachelor's bed and makes her escape from the building without being observed. The young and aristocratic fiancée of young Benson sends him word that she is coming with her mother to visit his rooms and learn some of the mysteries of a bachelor's life. They arrive and are charmed with his home, but are very much startled and shocked when they discover the baby in his rooms. Benson is as much mystified as they are, and. rushing into his bedroom, they find Letty's baby and the note. Disappointed and lonely, Benson sympathizes with the poor kid, and resolves to adopt it as his own and forever remain a bachelor. Hugh Channing Is taken fatally sick, sends for Benson, and before he dies gives him a confession that he had lied when he told Letty that her marriage to him was a sham and he had grievously wronged her. The child grows to be a bright and handsome boy, and Benson finds him a very companionable chum and they pass most of their spare time together. One summer at the seashore the boy tears his trousers. Benson takes him to a young seamstress, who lives there, to have her repair the boy's clothes. While she is measuring the boy's waist she sees a ring on his finger and recognizes it as the one she had tied around her baby's neck when she left it in Benson's room. She asks Benson about it; he tells the woman his knowledge of the child and she learns that the boy is her own child. Benson shows Letty her husband's confession, and while she is happy at finding her child, he hates to be separated from him, but the situation is easily relieved when they find that they are both in love with each other in their mutual love for the boy, and decide they can better care for him by becoming husband and wife.
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