Plot

She was not a Magdalene, as portrayed in this beautiful film sermon, but when she accepted the love of one man and became his wife, then deserted him for one who had been his rival for her hand, Alice Donaldson sinned. But this unholy passion soon turned to dead sea fruit, for the man she had gone to, Walter Rust, soon tired and sickened of her, and the man she had so basely deserted, Thornby Roberts, went forth into the world broken-hearted, and so they both tasted the bitterness of sorrow. Out in the far west a young Roberts found solace in the wild whirl of a cowboy's life. Possessing all the requisites of courage and dash, he found himself in his element with the men of the plains. He met Mary Darley, a true western girl and the daughter of an old ranchman. They soon became attached to each other and loved happily. He revealed his past to her, and then, 'mid the joyousness of his life, came a cloud. Alice Donaldson read of the approaching nuptials. But her attempt to mar a second time the happiness of Roberts was unsuccessful, for the law of the state declared that willful desertion of a spouse for seven years or more warranted life separation. Already the wedding band had been placed on the finger of sweet Mary Darley, and the guests were joyfully toasting her, when Alice arrived. She was overwhelmed with shame and sorrow. The ranch hands regarded her with amazement, but Robert and his bride pitied the wretched woman as she left in deep dejection the scene of festivity. Deprived of a husband's love and protection, despised and driven forth by the man for whom she sacrificed all, Alice turned for comfort in her miseries, not to self-destruction, as so many erring ones do, but to religion. In the garb of a member of the Salvation Army, Alice Donaldson went among the sick and lowly, administering the word of truth.—Moving Picture Weekly