- When George Estey dies just after completing an important invention, his friend, John Miller, steals the plans and makes a fortune selling them. Then, stricken by a guilty conscience, he adopts Jane, George's orphaned child and the rightful owner of the invention. Years later, after having raised Jane as his own daughter, John dies. In his will, he discloses his theft of the plans and reveals Jane's true identity. He then leaves all of his money to Kent, his worthless son, provided that he marry his "sister." Jane, however, wants to marry Gordon, her other "brother," who is determined that Jane get all of the money from George's invention. Furious, Kent tries to murder both Jane and Gordon, but he fails, and the police quickly arrest him. Jane is then awarded the rights to George's invention, after which she and Gordon plan their life together.
- Estey, a young widower, and the father of Little Jane, is employed in the locomotive works. Always of an inventive turn of mind, Estey invents a vacuum air brake which he intends to sell to the company. At the moment of the brake's completion, Estey is seized with an attack of heart failure, and falls dead at his work bench. Miller, Estey's bosom friend, also a widower and father of Little Kent, calls at Estey's home, and finding Estey dead, steals the drawings and the model of Estey's air brake. He buries them in the cellar of his own home. Later Miller, anxious that his child shall have a mother's care, and needing a housekeeper to manage for him, marries a widow named Luther, who is the mother of Little Cordon. Realizing that there is no one to dispute his claim, Miller claims Estey's invention as his own and sells it for a large sum to the railroad company. Miller's conscience troubles him, however, and he tries to get right with himself by adopting Estey's little daughter, Jane. Thus we have a house divided, to wit: Miller and his son Kent, his wife and her son, Gordon, who has fallen in love with Jane that is now to live with them. Twenty years after we see Miller still a workman, having spent all the money he falsely obtained from the sale of Estey's patent. Gordon is now grown to manhood, and is employed in the office of the locomotive company. Kent inherits his father's evil tendencies, and is a hanger-on at the saloons and dance halls. Jane has blossomed into a sweet young woman, beloved by all. Gordon and Jane are still friends as they were in childhood and Kent, conscious of this mutual regard, resents the friendship. When his conscience troubles him, Miller looks at the plans that he has kept hidden in the cellar. Jane, suspicious of her stepfather's actions, follows him to the cellar and sees the plans, but is not conscious of what they are. Kent, who has come home intoxicated, watches Jane as she goes to the cellar, alone one night, and sees her with the plans in her hands. He frightens her away, gets the drawings and learns of his father's theft of twenty years before. In the meantime, Mrs. Miller, seeing the love of Gordon for Jane, and knowing their true relationship, pleads with Miller to tell all and give the children happiness that is rightfully theirs. Miller, fearing the consequences of his act, threateningly demands her silence. Kent finds employment as a switchman on the railroad, and one day sees in his mirror the reflection of the locomotive works on fire. Knowing that his father is in the building, Kent rushes to see if Miller has escaped. Miller, always haunted by his guilty conscience, thinks that this will be a good way to end it all, but he is rescued from the burning building and is carried to the hospital, where the doctor pronounces his burns fatal and tells him he has but a little while to live. Miller makes a hurried will and leaves everything to Kent. Jane, finding the plans again, sees written on the back of them a note from her father saying that if anything should happen to him. all his inventions and everything he owned should go to her. Then Jane realizes who she is. Kent, upon learning that Jane is not his sister, tries to get possession of the plans. One day, as Jane and Gordon are on the limited train going to the city, Kent, knowing that Jane has the plans in her traveling bag, determines to get them at any cost, and deliberately throws the switch, with the result that the limited crashes into a freight and is wrecked. Gordon and Jane, pinned under the wreckage, are found by Kent. He tries to get the plans and is arrested. Later Gordon and Jane are convalescent and we see them looking forward to a life-long happiness together.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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