- Melodrama of a young Italian lady induced to emigrate to New York where her patron abandons her. Her brother then follows, to avenge her dishonor, using a dagger belonging to an artist, who is incriminated.
- Lisetta, daughter of an old fisherman, Luigi Maseto, lived in a little settlement on the shore of the Isle of Capri, off the coast of Italy. Very often, when alone in her father's hut, Lisetta would gaze out to the sea and wonder where the passing ship went to, dream of the great countries they would visit, and secretly long to be away from her narrow environment. When Serrani, an Italian artist, who had lived in New York, and was now home on a visit, chanced one day to see Lisetta, he made himself known to her and began at once to practice his wiles upon her. Serrani prevailed upon the girl to go with him to America, leaving behind only a note to her father that she was weary of the life she led and longed for a change. Soon after reaching New York, Serrani tired of Lisetta and cast her aside. She fell under the influence of Dago Joe, frequenter of underworld cafés, and became his consort in dances and revelries of the disorderly type. Graham, a sculptor, in his search for models, discovered Lisetta in one of the cafés and secured her consent to pose for him. Later Graham became enamored of her beauty and the really fine mental poise of a person from whom so very little in the way of fine sensibilities might be expected. And his love was reciprocated. The news of Lisetta's betrayal reached the little fishing village in Italy, and her brother, Domenic, journeyed to America to avenge his sister's wrongs. He located Serrani now a prominent artist in Washington Square and went to his studio to exact Serrani's life. When Domenic climbed through the studio window he saw Serrani seated with his back to the light. Domenic snatched a dagger from its resting place upon the table and left it sticking in Serrani's heart when the avenger disappeared. The original ownership of the dagger was traced to Graham, who had given it to Serrani, and the sculptor was condemned to die, proof having been produced that there had been ill-feeling between Graham and Serrani over the girl Lisetta. Domenic lingered in New York, earning his living as a laborer, and had watched the progress of Graham's trial for the murder of Serrani. When the day approached for Graham's execution Domenic's conscience began to smite him, and finally he hurried to a police station and confessed his crime, thus saving Graham from execution. Her experience in America has been so distracting, and her heart was so full of disappointment and grief, that Lisetta decided to go back to the little fishing village in Italy from whence she came. There Domenic joined her, after he had served a prison term as punishment for his vengeful crime.
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