All for His Sake
Directed by Charles BrabinWhen his daughter, Fanny, married George Archer, Edward Thornton, the wealthy connoisseur of gems, shrugged his shoulders. Archer was a nice enough chap, to be sure, but he was actively engaged in business. Thornton always felt somewhat suspicious of business men. His suspicions were brought to a certainty when his son-in-law asked him for a loan of $30,000 some months after the marriage. Thornton refused him the money. He believed a man should stand upon his own feet, and he suspected Archer of speculating. Archer had long been interested in a risky western land venture. The venture failed, and he found himself deeply in debt to one of his business friends, Paul Bruce. Unknown to Archer, Bruce had fallen in love with his wife. Although the affair had never gone as far as an open declaration on Bruce's part, Fanny sensed his feeling toward her, and feared him. When she learned that her husband was in debt to Bruce, and that Bruce refused to grant him an extension on his loan, she realized that a net was closing about her. When Thornton refused to give Archer the money. Fanny decided on a desperate plan. She stole eight valuable fire opals from her father's collection and sold them. But because the jeweler would not give her quite enough on the opals, she added to them a valuable ring of her own. She gave the money thus gained to her husband, lightly passing off her means of getting it. The desperate Archer took it gratefully, but after he had paid Bruce, was tormented with doubts. Who had given Fanny the money? Long brooding on the subject at last convinced him that Bruce could have been the only source. Confronted by the angry husband, Bruce neither admitted nor denied his guilt. Meanwhile Thornton, by accident, had recovered possession of the jewels and had recognized Fanny's ring. He arrived at Archer's house in time to interrupt a strong scene between Bruce, the husband, and the wife. For when the anguished husband, after denouncing wife and friend, demanded that the stricken Fanny confess where she got the money, Thornton entered and said quite simply, "Why, from me, of course."
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