- The rejected suitor breaks into the bride's room immediately after the wedding and her husband discovers him there. He leaves her, meets the rival and a fight occurs in which the husband is knocked unconscious. Ten years later they meet again and when Helen discovers the identity of the bearded stranger who has been boarding in her house, she soon makes him remember the past.
- When Frank Barry married Helen Mayo, John Delaney, who also loved Helen, became bitterly jealous. One-half hour after the wedding ceremony while Helen was preparing to depart on her honeymoon, John Delaney stole into her room and begged her to fly with him. While he was kissing her hand in a last farewell the door was suddenly opened and Helen's husband entered the room. John Delaney quickly disappeared by way of the window and fire escape. Frank would listen to no explanation from Helen. Flinging her from him roughly, he rushed from the house like a madman. Twenty years elapse. Helen conducts a little novelty shop and lets rooms. Ramonti, a bearded violinist, takes lodgings there and a strong attachment soon springs up between him and Helen. Then another lodger arrives, a man in the early forties, with strange, mysterious, haunting eyes. He also displays great interest in Helen, but her preference is for the violinist. One day Ramonti declares his love, telling Helen the story of his life. When a young man, he had been found lying in the street with a deep wound in his head, and taken to a hospital in an ambulance. His life up to the time of leaving the hospital was a total blank to him. He knows not who he is nor where he came from. His concern manager gave him the name of Ramonti. Now, Helen loves Ramonti, but has become convinced that lodger number two is her husband who has come back after twenty years. And then lodger number two also declares his love to Helen, begging her forgiveness for the wrong he has done her, and she learns that he is John Delaney and that Ramonti, the violinist, whom she really loves, is Frank Barry, her long lost husband.
Moving Picture World, February 2, 1918
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