- A weird story of a large diamond abstracted from an image of Buddah and which is followed around the world by a Hindu in his efforts to recover it and return it to its rightful place. The sailor who removed it from the temple in India is finally found in a dying condition in the United States and is conveyed to the home of a physician, who, with the assistance of another medical man, attempts to resuscitate him. By the side of the sailor had been found a bottle which contains an unknown poison, which the physicians attempt to analyze in order to procure a proper antidote, but being unsuccessful, the man dies. Before dying, however, he reaches in his bosom and brings forth a chamois skin bag containing the diamond, which he has had set in a bracelet. This he presents to one of the physicians. The doctor, in turn, presents the bracelet to his young wife. The Hindu having failed to take the diamond from the sailor has lingered about the doctor's home and through a window has seen the sailor give him the jewel. He then, through letters of introduction, meets the doctor and his wife at a reception and observing the bracelet on her arm, tells her where it came from. Before he can tell her more, he is interrupted by the entrance of the husband and his physician friend, who are going home. That night, as she is removing her wraps in her bedroom, she is startled by the sudden entrance of the Hindu through a large window. He goes to her quietly and informs her that he must have the diamond at once. She attempts to escape from him, but he prevents her and renews his demand. She, in great fear, removes the bracelet from her wrist and hands it to him. The Hindu then gives her, in exchange, a beautiful pearl necklace and is just placing it about her neck, when her husband enters unobserved by either of them. He is horrified at the sight and believing the worst of his wife, quietly withdraws and staggers away heartbroken. The Hindu then leaves as he entered. The husband, seated in his study crushed by the blow he has just received, notices the bottle of poison left on his table after the death of the sailor and decides to use it as the means of escaping from his sorrow. He therefore makes his last will and testament leaving everything to his wife, and drinks half of the contents of the bottle, which taking immediate' effect, he falls heavily. The noise of his fall brings his wife to his side, who summons the other physician. This doctor, who had suspicions regarding the Hindu and has been watching the house now appears with two servants dragging the Hindu with them, he having been captured in trying to make his escape. Doing to the side of his dying confrere, the physician noticing the half empty bottle and reading the will, comprehends the situation at once and rushing back to the Hindu, demands the antidote. The Hindu sneeringly tells him there is none. In order to test the truth of this statement, the doctor, with the assistance of the servants, starts to force the bottle between the teeth of the Hindu and thus compel him to take a dose of his own poison. This terrifies the Hindu to such an extent, that he begs for mercy and reaching into his pocket produces a small vial which he hands to the doctor with the necessary directions. The poisoned physician's life is saved by means of this antidote and the Hindu is thrown off the premises. Of course, the wife explains to the husband the scene in her bedroom and the harmony between them is restored. And the grim likeness of Buddah is again bedecked with its baleful eye.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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