- To curb an unwanted romance, Father sends his younger daughter on an ocean voyage--but her lover, posing as a sailor, accompanies her. His ship sunk by a fire, the dying captain marries the couple in a small boat, but shortly after landing on a desert island, the groom is killed by an octopus. Finally rescued, the Younger Sister solicits the aid of the Elder Sister in hiding her pregnancy from their father. After a secret delivery, the baby is relinquished to a farming couple. On the day of the Younger Sister's wedding, however, the child is returned, and the bride begs the Elder Sister to claim her. Scorned by her father, the Elder Sister becomes a sculptress and falls in love with a painter but, fearing scandal, refuses his proposal. While visiting the artist, the Younger Sister is shocked into confessing her past when her child falls from a window. The child is unharmed, and the husband forgives all.—Pamela Short
- The Younger Sister, a strong-willed girl, is in love with the family chauffeur. To break the infatuation, the father sends her to Europe to school. Before sailing, however, she informs the chauffeur, who resigns his position and books passage on the same ship. In mid-ocean, the ship is sent to the bottom during a terrific storm. The girl, the chauffeur and several passengers get away on a raft. One by one they die, until the captain, the girl and the chauffeur are the only ones left. The girl implores the captain to join the chauffeur and herself in marriage. The knot is tied. Then the captain dies. The raft is finally washed ashore with the two occupants. Several days later the husband is killed by a wild animal. The following weeks, the girl widow, dying for want of food and drink is taken on board a passenger ship and later returned home. She tells of being cast away on the deserted island, but denies that the chauffeur was with her. Shortly after, her physical condition becomes such that she confides her secret in her elder sister. At her father's request, who knows nothing of his younger daughter's condition, the two girls go to an out of the way village, where the baby is born. It is placed in care of a farmer's wife to board. Five years elapse. It is the younger sister's wedding day. As the ceremony is about to take place, a farmer appears with a little girl, announces that his wife can care for it no longer and disappears. Summing up the situation in a trice, the elder sister announces that she is the mother of the child. After the wedding, she is driven from the house by her irate father, taking the child with her. In the city she ekes out a living at sculpturing, her studio adjoining that of a young artist, who, in time, falls in love with her. The younger sister fails to keep her promise and claim her child. The artist proposes to the elder sister, but she refuses to accept his proposal until the stigma has been lifted from her name. One day, the younger sister's husband, as a surprise, brings her to the studio to show her a portrait he is having painted of her. While there her child runs into the room in chase of a kitten. Immediately the mother leaps to her feet and rushes toward the child. But the latter leaps to the windowsill and falls out. Uninjured, the child is brought back to the room. Then the younger sister confesses and tells why she refused to announce her marriage to the chauffeur. "I feared my father's wrath," she declares. All is forgiven and shortly after the elder sister and the young artist are married.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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