- The story is of Angelina Allende, who is left an orphan by the suicide of her father, a real-estate visionary who has beggared not only himself but his friends in a vain attempt to "boom" the deserted hamlet of Anne's Bridge. Receiving news of his death, Angelina returns home, where she is presently inveigled into a trip to New York by two men, one of whom wants the property and the other of whom wants Angelina. In a restaurant scene which follows, Bink, the elder of the conspirators, makes advances to Angelina, is repulsed and then is shot by Wolver his fellow conspirator. The police enter, Angelina is accused of the shooting, and she is sentenced at length to a three-years' term in a home for delinquent girls. Emerging at the expiration of her sentence, she returns to Anne's Bridge. Here, in the lonely days that follow, she advertises for boarders and is at last rewarded by the appearance of James Deane. It is here that the love story begins; and it progresses until Angelina is cleared, through Deane's efforts, and, finally, is free to marry him. - New York Dramatic Mirror, November 10, 1917.—Pamela Short
- Anne's Bridge, a one-time prosperous village and its unused chemical factories, represent the former fortune of Angelina Allende's father. He and his daughter still live in the old estate which comprises 3,000 acres of land, on which he is trying to borrow money, as he has only $600 left in the bank and his daughter is in college. An unscrupulous real estate broker refuses the loan, but suggests that if he could have Angelina the loan might be forthcoming. Ordered from the house, the agent points to a rifle and suggests that the old man would be doing the community and his child a favor if he used the weapon on himself. An hour later Anne's Bridge is shocked by the suicide of Allende. The real estate broker seeks to force his attention on Angelina, on her return from college, but she loathes him. He induces her to go to New York on a pretense that a syndicate is prepared to buy her acres. His plan is to get her to sign away all title and thus get her in his power. With another man, and a woman posing as his wife, they take Angelina to a café where he attacks her in a private dining room. The other man interferes and is shot. By perjured testimony they escape and Angelina is sent to a Samaritan home for three years. Returning to Anne's Bridge she is shunned as a jail bird by the older people and feared by the children, whom she loves. She advertises for summer boarders, but gets only one, a young New Yorker attracted by the trout streams on the Allende estate. He falls in love with Angelina and asks her to marry him, but she refuses on account of her prison record, which she keeps a secret. She loves him, nevertheless. He returns to New York and learns the truth. Then he returns to Anne's Bridge and finds he has removed the only barrier to their happiness.
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