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Learn more- Chaperoned by her governess, the granddaughter of a wealthy old man starts out for a walk. After some time they sit down to rest on a rustic bench, when a beggar comes up and obstinately puts forth his hand for a copper or two, notwithstanding the reticence of the two young ladies. A woodcutter working in the nearest thicket, noticing the beggar's impudence, comes forth and vigorously kicks the intruder, thereby permitting the ladies to resume their walk. In departing, however, the young lady drops her purse, but as soon as the honest laborer notices the valuable wallet he picks it up and, running after the owner, reaches the young girl just as she is entering the garden of the castle. He hands back the purse, and the young girl, apparently grateful for such honesty, but likewise finding the handsome stature of the woodcutter very attractive, gives him her hand to kiss. The next day the young heiress comes through the same path again, sees the woodcutter busily engaged stacking up wood, and, profiting of a moment of inattention on the part of her governess, she rushes up to him, and he, forgetful of the great social gulf that separates them, takes her in his arms. Unluckily for the lovers, this scene has had as spectator the rebuked beggar, who, well remembering yesterday's kicks, runs to the castle and tells the old gentleman of his granddaughter's relations with the woodcutter. The old man rushes to the spot indicated by the spiteful cripple and beholds the two still in a close embrace. He seizes his servant by the shoulders and hits him across the face with his riding whip, cutting a bloody streak on his face. Returning borne, still in a towering rage, he bids his granddaughter to depart from his house, and the next scene shows her knocking at the modest hut of her lover. Four years pass by in complete happiness for the now married couple, and we see them, father, mother and a three-year-old daughter coming out of the same modest hut, he bound for his work and the two others bidding him good-bye. He reaches the tree he is going to fell and is seen vigorously striking the trunk, when all at once be blunts his axe. Stopping to look at the damage done to his tool, be does not notice the tree wavering, and suddenly the whole bulky giant falls, crushing the life out of him in a second. At the sight of the dead man, as he is carried home by his fellow workers, the poor wife falls weeping on her knees, but does not give way to her grief long, for she has her child to provide for, and as they are destitute, her only salvation is her reconciliation with her grandfather. The little three-year-old child is sent forth to the angry man's dwelling and timidly tells her story to the ailing parent, who is nursing a gouty leg in the sun. At first he pushes her away, but her sobs soon touch the old fatherly string of love, and the last scene shows the old man being led by the little girl to where the mother is waiting anxiously for the sealing of her fate. A word from the forgiving parent brings her to his arms, and they all go away together. -- The Moving Picture World, April 11, 1908
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