A well to do young man imagined he was very much in love with a certain actress. He lavished presents upon her, and expected that shortly they would be married. Much to his surprise and grief, however, he found that she was only mocking him, and in rage and disappointment, he forsook his old friends and determined to live a simple life in the country. Being young and impressionable his grief did not last, and meeting a sweet girl In his rural surroundings, he married her, and decided he would be happy after all. Five years later, the actress and a party of gay friends who were on a yachting trip, happened to land at the little seashore village which was now the home of the once man about town. The actress met her old sweetheart, and the fascination she once exerted was again experienced by him, for it must be admitted that he was growing tired of his quiet, uneventful life. At the suggestion of the girl, he took her out for a sail on his little boat. She flirted with him and he had no desire to withstand her fascinations. Suddenly in the midst of one of his impassioned speeches he experienced a feeling that someone was looking at him. Glancing up he saw his four-year-old daughter, who, unknown to her father, was aboard the boat, gravely regarding him, and evidently not knowing what to say or do. The actress was pettishly angry because the third party had spoiled her afternoon. The man was humiliated, and conscious stricken. Still, under the spell of the fascination the woman exerted, he tried to remove the baby hands that were tightly clasped around his neck, but she clung to him, and he realized that the ties that bound him to his simple life were as tender, yet as firm as the clasp of the child he loved. Reverently he kissed the little hands and without another word to the woman, he turned the boat and put back to shore, the spell of the siren being broken forever.