The Girl in the Barracks (1910)
A young Russian soldier has a sweetheart, a young peasant girl, whose father, a cruel, overbearing character, will allow his family no privileges, and very strongly objects to his daughter receiving any attention from the young soldier. He catches her and the young soldier walking together and making love. He drives his daughter home and locks her in her room, taking her shoes away from her so she cannot leave the house. She has another pair of shoes under the bed, and after her father leaves the room she escapes from the house and goes to the barracks to tell her lover all about her father's objections to his courtship and the treatment to which she has just been subjected. The young Russian and his messmate are busy cleaning up the General's office when they hear the young girl coming. They think it is the General and immediately heroine very much interested in their work. When the girl enters they are very much surprised and appreciate the joke. The girl tells her beau her story, and when in the midst of it they look out the window and see the General approaching. They hide the girl in the closet. The General enters, looks over his mail and becomes absorbed in correspondence. While thus engaged, an anarchist, previously selected in secret council, stealthily enters the room through the window and is just about to stab the General when the young peasant girl from her hiding place sees him, sneaks from the closet, seizes a revolver and checks the assassin in his purpose. The Russian General is astonished when he sees that his protector is a young girl. He asks her how she happened upon the scene; she explains. The General calls his soldiers, who arrest his would-be murderer, then he calls the young soldier, pretends he is provoked at his breach of discipline in allowing his sweetheart to enter the barracks, but he is too well pleased with its result to his own advantage to hide his feelings. He commends the girl for her bravery and encourages the young fellow in his good fortune in making so estimable a choice. The girl leaves the barracks with her lover, and together they go to her father and plead their case and ask his consent to their marriage. The father refuses and severely denounces the lovers. The General has not forgotten his preserver, and on a mission of acknowledgment and appreciation he enters upon the scene and tells the girl's father how she saved his life, and highly commends the young fellow as a faithful soldier and a trustworthy man whom he has decided to promote to sergeant. The parents of the girl are pleased with the General's visit, and the father is taken back and ashamed of his harshness. He consents to his daughter's marriage, and the young folks are at last happily betrothed.
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