The False Friend
Directed by Edward LeSaintGuy Morris, a promising young medical matriculate, is in love with Stella Razeto, but he has a false friend in Henry Walker, who forges a letter from him to the girl, which causes her to dismiss him without explanation. Then the rival having cleared his way treacherously steps in and wins the girl. Ten years fly swiftly by; the medical student has achieved distinction in his chosen profession end gone steadily up, while Henry Walker has gone down. The woman that he married under false pretenses has suffered and shared his ignoble lot uncomplainingly and is left a widow in reduced circumstances. She is compelled to take in sowing. She sends her child out on an errand and the little one is struck by an automobile and appears to be seriously injured. She is carried to a hospital, where Dr. Walker, her mother's former sweetheart, is the interne. The mother visits the place to see the child; the elderly pair meet face to face for the first time since the fatal letter parted them. Through his marvelous skill the doctor restores the child, and from the mother he learns the truth about the forged letter that parted them in the long ago. A new light flashes across the meridian of their lives, the old love lives again and romance becomes a reality.
