Bachelor Bill's Birthday Present
Directed by Edwin AugustBachelor Bill is reminded of his birthday by a postcard from his brother. Edna Vale, a young widow with a baby, sick and almost starving, enters Bill's shack, and finding it empty, decides to leave the baby, with an appeal that it be cared for. Bill comes home, finds the baby on his bed, and has a hard time looking after it, until he advertises in the post office for a nurse girl. Edna sees the ad, applies, and is accepted. Besides caring for the baby, she takes charge of the house and Bill enjoys home comforts of which he never dreamed. His satisfaction gets a rude jolt, however, when Edna finds a note from the Vigilance Committee, objecting to Bill's mode of life and advising him if he wishes to avoid trouble to get rid of the pretty nurse or get a chaperon. Bill expresses his opinion of the committee but Edna, fearing trouble for him, decides to go. When it comes to leaving the baby, her mother heart fails her and she takes it along. Bill comes home, and starts after Edna, as he says, to get the baby. He finds Edna seated by the roadside, crying from weariness and desolation. He asks for the baby. She refuses to give it up. Bill says it's his baby. Edna says that it was hers first. Bill asks why the kid's father isn't looking after his women-folks? Edna replies that he is dead. Loath to give up the baby, Bill asks Edna to sit down till he thinks it over. The parson comes up the road on horseback and gives Bill an idea. He asks the parson if he wants a job. Hearing that he does, Bill invites him to marry him and Edna. She is tempted to run away, but a look at Bill convinces her that he would run after her if she did, so she gives in with good grace.
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