- Lillian Hillary's mother encourages her to marry a rich man after her father's death and the loss of the family fortune. She chooses Bert Werden, who is more wholesome than her other wealthy suitor, financier Graham Henderson. When Werden loses his fortune, Lillian's goading causes him to work night and day dealing in the stock market. Although he regains his fortune, his health soon suffers and he develops an obsession with making money. Werden neglects Lillian, who misses his attentions. After Werden forgets their third wedding anniversary, he responds to Lillian's displeasure by coldly handing her a $50,000 check. When Henderson tries to gain control of a syndicate to bankrupt Werden so Lillian will leave him, Werden, to save himself, asks her to give the check back, but she refuses. Thinking that Lillian will accept Henderson, Werden is about to shoot himself when he overhears her tell Henderson that she refused Werden's request so that he would go broke and forget about greed. Werden sends Henderson away and is reconciled with his wife.—Pamela Short
- A young society girl marries a wealthy young man for his money after her father dies and she and her mother, who have been accustomed to a life of luxury, have been plunged into genteel poverty. Suddenly the husband loses his fortune through the "pinching out" of a silver mine. His wife goads him to restore her to wealth and luxury; he works night and day and beats the stock market. His health is almost wrecked and he becomes money-mad. On the third anniversary of their marriage, the wife goes to her husband's office thinking that he will give her some token in remembrance of the occasion. She is grieved by his lack of memory of the event and by his lack of sentiment when he writes her out a check for $30,000 and hands it to her coldly. Then a rival in love and business finds a chance to put the husband in difficulties in the stock market. The husband appeals to his wife for the gift so that he might retrieve himself. She refuses and his fortune is swept away. He is about to shoot himself in his home, when he overhears his wife conversing with his rival, who is trying to win her away and asks her why she refused to help him with the $30,000. The wife tells the rival that she did it to get her husband away from his money-mad career. The husband enters, sends the rival away and is reconciled to his losses in the knowledge that he has his wife's love.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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