- After dissolute millionaire George Orcutt stabs his friend artist Lucas Emmet to death during a quarrel over Emmet's girlfriend, Orcutt confesses to his wife Gail. She finds a dazed man on a park bench who looks like her husband, and recalling a dinner conversation in which some judges and her friend, District Attorney John Kent, argued that everyone has a double, lets her husband escape for their son's sake, and has the man, who suffers from amnesia, take his place. The impostor is declared insane and sent to a sanitarium. Upon his release, he lives with Gail as her husband, still without remembering his previous life. Reporter Frank Fisher sees Orcutt in a saloon, and investigates. When Orcutt, jealous of the impostor, breaks into his home to demand money from Gail, the butler, thinking that he is a thief, shoots and kills him. Seeing that the impostor, really Keith Edgerton, who now remembers that he went into shock upon learning that his parents died, and Gail are in love, Fisher and Kent agree to keep the matter secret.—AFI
- George Orcutt, a dissolute young New York millionaire, has forfeited his wife's respect and affection by his infidelities. Gail Orcutt centers her attentions in life on her young son, Vance, and withdraws from society. Although they reside under the same roof, they have long ceased to be husband and wife. Even this slim chain of acquaintanceship is broken when in a quarrel over another woman, George Orcutt kills his friend, Lucas Emmet, after a riotous night in Emmet's studio. In an effort to keep her boy from being branded as the son of a convicted murderer, Gail determines to seek the aid of district attorney John Kent, who is her friend, but she finds the case is beyond either his control or hers. On the way back to her house where her husband is in hiding, Gail comes upon the living double of George Orcutt. This stranger is sitting on a park bench, his mind stunned by a terrific mental shock. Gail determines to palm off on the district attorney this living double of her husband until Orcutt shall have made his escape. She gets the stranger to her house, makes him change clothes and surrenders him to the police as the real George Orcutt. The district attorney and his medical examiners find this false George Orcutt (whom they, of course, believe to be the real George Orcutt), to be mentally incompetent and the stranger is committed to a sanitarium for treatment and observation. In the meanwhile, the real George Orcutt escapes and goes into hiding. He lives on money sent to him by Gail who is, however, in constant terror lest her deception be detected. To her consternation she receives word from the sanitarium that her "husband" has recovered his health and will be free, and the authorities naturally send him back to what they consider his own house. Gail is forced to accept the stranger into her house as her husband. Her whole salvation rests in the fact that although his body is restored to health he cannot remember anything of his life prior to his commitment to the sanitarium. The stranger naturally assumes that he is George Orcutt and finds himself to be very much in love with the woman he believes to be his wife. Gail also takes a liking to this clean cut, clean living man of whose past she knows nothing. But she is harassed by the necessity of making both the stranger and her friends believe this man is George Orcutt, and at the same time the real George Orcutt in the background. A newspaper reporter stumbles upon the fact that Gail has imposed upon the district attorney and then he sees the real George Orcutt in a saloon. He so informs the district attorney. That same night, when the reporter and the district attorney are on their way to Gail Orcutt's house to investigate, Orcutt himself goes there to make a demand on Gail for money. He lets himself in by his own key and finally his wife persuades him to go. He, hardly has left the room when the stranger enters to consult with Gail about her strange conduct to him and to make a demand that either she cease this attitude or that she permit him to depart with Vance and set up a separate establishment. From across Riverside Drive where the real Orcutt is hiding until he can again enter the house where he intends to rob his own wife of the large sum of money he sees her put back in the safe, Orcutt sees the stranger enter his wife's room and a quarrel between the two. He again lets himself into the house by a key, drawing a pistol as he does so. He is insane with jealousy. The butler hears steps below and believes a burglar has entered the house. The butler quarrels with Orcutt in a pistol duel in the dark. Almost immediately afterward, the district attorney and the reporter reach the Orcutt residence. Brought face to face with the situation on her own deception has created, Gail tells the story to the stranger and the district attorney of the substitution she had perpetrated. By means of papers in the suit of clothes which he wore when Gail found him, and which she had hidden in the attic, the stranger's identity is learned. Orcutt's body is taken from the house as that of a thief. The district attorney and the reporter agree to remain silent and the strange romance ends in a quiet wedding for Gail and the stranger.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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