- Titled Englishwoman plays fast and loose with sincere lover, who shoulders her blame and finds happiness in the wilderness.
- Lady Beaumont was electrified. Gordon, returning from an inspection of his Canadian properties, assured her that he had seen her former suitor, Sir Dorian Mars, in hiding there. She wanted him, but how? Her solicitor, when summoned, suggested that as business was taking him into Canada, he personally would deliver her message to Sir Dorian. After a hard journey the solicitor found himself in the most primitive of huts, facing a stalwart Englishman, a pretty squaw, and a vivacious child. Sir Dorian, when assured that there was no danger awaiting him in England, admitted his identity. Lady Beaumont's summons "home" swayed his senses like old wine. For a moment he wavered, his squaw and baby gazing at him questioningly. Then he struck a powerful fist on the rude table and shouted, "By God's grace, listen and see whether you'd respond in my place. Lady Barbara Beaumont, knowing my great love for her, played fast and loose with love from the time we were youth and maid. Her extravagances had her in hot water all the time. My funds were great. I placed them constantly at her disposal, which she accepted because of our expectation of marriage. Bridge was her complete undoing. She'd lose five hundred pounds at a sitting and think nothing of it. Barbara met Captain Ferris, unscrupulous, scheming, irresistible, and came under his domination. To further some base plan, he placed Barbara under great obligations by discharging her growing gambling debts. She refused to dismiss me in his favor, and his plan had a new impetus. Barbara got into a very tight place financially and dared not appeal to me. He frightened her into tricking Christie, the pawnbroker. Under his tuition she placed her tiara, on which Christie was to let her have ten thousand pounds, into one box and into the other box she placed coal, black diamonds, Ferris called them, with her seal. By a clever substitution, Christie got the black instead of the real diamonds. Ferris relieved Barbara of the surplus funds, placed them on "Vanity" in the Ascot races, and, every cent was lost. He intended forcing her into marriage with him by compromising her honor. At a ball given in her honor, Lady Beaumont wore the famous diamond tiara. Ferris had invited Christie. Christie blinked at the circlet of diamonds, bowed suavely to Lady Beaumont, and requested her presence at his office next day. She went, getting word to me first to be on hand, as she might need a friend. Coached by Ferris, she proposed to give Christie a potion in water, exchanging the boxes while he was in a stupor. Christie was old and he sank into a deathlike coma. Barbara fleeing, encountered me and gave me the telltale box. To make my escape I had to overpower an officer, who attempted to trip me up at the landing where my motorboat was moored. The police-boat followed. It was only by a streak of luck that I was able to elude it. I fled here and was placed on the Royal Mounted Police, Naturige, whom you see here, saved my life at the risk of her own, and nursed me to health when I was sorely wounded. I married her. This is our little 'papoose.' Out in the great world, in England, in London, all is vanity. But here, Naturige knows no artifice. Her days are a litany, chanted to me, her deity. So, I ask, would you, in my place, be foolish enough to go back?" Lady Beaumont waited and waited. The peacocks on her lawn preened their iridescent plumes in the sun. Wearily she turned away, blinking brilliant big tears from under hot-lidded eyes.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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