A Question of Identity
Directed by Charles BrabinAt her death, Lady Barrington, whose dissolute habits had caused her to break with her husband, placed Robert, one of her twin sons, in the charge of Father Journet, who apprenticed him to old Jacques, the clock maker. Several years later, Robert, having fallen into bad habits, became associated with a band of anarchists and was chosen, by lot, to kill Chevalier de Lausan, the Minister of the Interior. At the same time the Chevalier became incensed at the dissolute conduct of young de Brissac, and an open quarrel took place, in which the Chevalier forbade Claude to pay further attentions to his daughter, Mademoiselle Clarice. On issuing from the house, after the scene, the Chevalier was shot down on his very doorstep and the gendarmes arrived on the scene just as Claude came upon the body. Seeing him standing there with the revolver in his hand, they at once arrested him on the charge of murder. There was, however, a witness of the crime. Louis Norton, from her house across the street, saw the whole thing, but, to her horror, the culprit was the perfect image of Richard, her sweetheart. Realizing that young de Brissac was entirely innocent of the crime, she appealed to Richard to clear him. Richard, however, was completely puzzled by the whole thing and could do nothing. Driven to desperation, Lois went to the Cardinal to appeal to him to save Claude and to ask for advice. After telling him what she had witnessed, she gave him a locket which had been given her by Richard. On opening the locket, the Cardinal was truck with the resemblance of the enclosed portrait with that in a locket given him by Lady Barrington several years before. Realizing that he held the threads of the mystery in his hands, the Cardinal took Lois with him and visited the shop of Old Jacques. Her recognition of the real culprit was immediate. On her accusation, the detectives attempted to take Robert in charge, but he broke away and escaped. In the chase one of the detectives came face to face with Richard, and, arresting him, took him to the station, where the Cardinal and Lois awaited them. More complications were added by this last episode, when suddenly the other detective entered and announced the capture of Robert, who had been killed in resisting arrest. The mystery of the twin brothers then came out and de Brissac and Richard were liberated, to the great joy of their respective sweethearts.
