- Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. Pauline sees Morris from her window and recognizes him as the man who deserted her after fathering her child. One night she escapes from her room, takes her daughter's shawl, and stabs Morris to death. Returning home, she touches her daughter's hair, leaving blood stains on the sleeping girl. Morris is found murdered, the young girl's shawl is found near his body, and his blood is found on the still sleeping girl. The niece is arrested and convicted of murder, but Pauline is found dead in her room clutching a watch taken from Morris, and the young girl is cleared.—Pamela Short
- Dr. James Gibson's mother on her death-bed makes him promise that he will find his sister, Pauline, and give her a dying mother's blessing. He seeks Pauline out. He finds her with a nameless child in her arms. Shame and sorrow have so preyed upon her that she has become insane. Dr. Gibson takes her and the baby to his home. A score of years pass. The doctor's niece grows up in ignorance of the conditions of her birth and is led to believe that she is an orphan. Pauline, her mother, is kept confined in a room, the door of which is kept locked, except when attending nurse comes and goes. The niece is engaged to marry the prosecuting attorney, a rising young man. Dr. Gibson is making a study of hypnotism. John Morris, a wealthy neighbor, is likewise interested in the same subject. To settle a point in an argument on the subject, one night Gibson hypnotizes his niece and pointing to Morris, tells her, "Your worst enemy sits upon that chair. Kill him." She goes to a table and reaches for a paper knife, but is given a piece of paper instead. With the imaginary weapon in her hand she goes to Morris and goes through with the action of stabbing him. A short time afterward, Pauline, the insane woman, sees Morris from her window. Dim recollections of the past are recalled. Morris is the man responsible for her ruin. When Gibson learns this all his relations with Morris are broken off. In the meantime vague ideas are fermenting in the mind of the crazy woman, One night she escapes from her room and creeping downstairs finds her daughter asleep in a chair. She takes a shawl from the daughter's shoulders and leaves. She finds John Morris and kills him with the same paper knife used in the hypnotic experiment. Returning she finds her daughter still asleep. She strokes her hands and leaves bloodstains upon them, then returns to her room. Morris is found murdered. Gibson is called and finds his niece's shawl near the dead man. The girl is then located asleep in a chair, and the blood upon her fingers is discovered. She is arrested and convicted of the murder of John Morris. At last, however, God's charity intervenes. Pauline, the insane woman, is found dead in her room. In her hand she holds a watch which she took. Her daughter's innocence is established.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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