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Jack's mother idolizes him. When she receives a letter that he must have five hundred dollars more in order to buy law books, she is worried. Her only resource is to mortgage the farm. She goes to Lawyer Robbins, who promises to raise the money for her. After she has gone, the lawyer's daughter enters and becomes interested in Jack's mother. Lawyer Robbins become worried when he learns that his daughter loves Jack. He has a friend in the city, who investigates the young man, thus learning that the boy is leading a wild and extravagant life. Jack's "law books," this friend finds, are mainly playing cards. So Lawyer Robbins and his daughter leave to investigate for themselves. They arrive at Jack's apartments while a wild stage racket is in progress. The old man takes him to task and tells him that instead of studying law and dissipating he should be home working on his mother's farm. Jack tells the old lawyer and his daughter to mind their own affairs and leave, which they do. Then he dismisses his friends whose gibes at the rural appearance of the visitors, have infuriated him. The lawyer's contemptuous words burn in his brain and he thinks of his poor little mother whose toil-stained hands have worked so long for him, and he packs up. The next day the lawyer and daughter visit the mother to advise her not to mortgage the farm as the money will be wasted, when the girl's sharp eyes see the son plowing in the nearby field. They go to him and Jack expresses repentance and is restored to the good opinion of those who have always loved him.
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