- The central interest of this drama is the tender love and devotion of a father for his motherless daughter, to whom he not only fulfills the duty of both parents, but makes himself her companion in all her interests and pastimes. Periodically they visit a little wayside shrine, where they offer up prayer and do homage to their patron saint. The little girl grows into womanhood, and one day, as they visit the shrine, they find a young and handsome artist sketching. They at once become interested in his work and incidentally the young girl and fellow are attracted to each other. By glance and action you can see that it is "love at first sight." The artist asks the father of the young girl if she can pose before the shrine while he completes the picture. The father consents. From this point their attachment and association increase. The village priest notices this and warns the father of the possible danger of trusting an unsophisticated girl so much in the company of a man of the artist's experience and possible worldliness. The father heeds his words and does not encourage the young man's attentions. It is too late, however; the girl is too much in love with the young artist to distrust him. The young man agrees to marry her. She leaves a note for her father, explaining that she has fled with her lover. The old man's agony of sorrow when he finds the note is pitiful, but his love for her and his faith in God sustain him. Through the long months of his loneliness and his daughter's absence, he keeps the little home in order, where we saw her as a child and as she left it when she went away, never ceasing his vigil for her return, keeping a lighted candle in the window at night. Deserted by her lover, she returns to the scene of her childhood and seeks the wayside shrine in penitence and remorse. As she beholds the familiar and sacred place, she falls in a swoon. Her old father discovers her, clasps her in his arms and leads her home, then to her little bedroom, which the dear old father has kept just as she left it. He kisses her "good-night." and, when the old village priest again calls to console the father, we behold her peacefully sleeping in childish repose of home, sweet home.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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