- Maud was married to a very well educated man, who had drifted down to the lowest depths and had become associated with several men of very bad character. On the day the story opens Ralph Ansell, her husband, returns, followed shortly after by one of his original friends, who proposes that they should commit burglary and endeavor to obtain some very valuable jewelry, which he has located in a wealthy residence. Maud, hating the life that she is being forced to lead, decides to leave her husband and go away. The poor girl wanders about homeless and is taken care of by some nuns, who train her as a nurse. Meanwhile Ralph Ansell and his friend, Joe Carter, in the act of committing the burglary are discovered and traced to their hiding-place. A desperate encounter follows. Ralph is shot by the police while trying to swim the river, and Joe Carter is caught and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Maud is not aware of these facts, and some years later, while nursing the Earl of Bracondale, she reads the news of the release of Joe Carter, and the history of the case is revived and mention made of her husband's death. At this time the Earl of Bracondale has become infatuated with Maud and proposes marriage. While they are spending their holiday at the Seaside. Ralph Ansell, who is supposed to have been fatally shot by the police, but who had cleverly escaped, recognizes his wife. He follows her and endeavors to blackmail her. He is successful in forcing her to make an appointment at midnight, when she promises to hand him over her jewelry, as she had no actual money to give him. By curious coincidence, Joe Carter had that night intended to burglarize the place, not knowing who resided there. He breaks into the house and is disturbed by footsteps. Hiding behind the curtain, to his astonishment he sees Maud enter the room, followed immediately after by Ralph Ansell (whom he thought dead) and notices the passing of the jewelry. A dispute arises between Maud and Ralph and he is about to kill her. This is too much for Joe Carter (who had always had a secret love for Maud) and in a fit of desperation he shoots his late co-partner in crime. Realizing that he has aroused the household with the noise of the revolver, he begs Maud to accept the revolver and suggests that Ralph was killed in self-defense, he escaping unknown. The family believing this "The White Lie."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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