Romance and Reality
Directed by Harry A. PollardRobert Milbank, a rich young New Yorker, is in love with Claire Rich. Claire is secretly engaged to another man and secretly regrets the step, for Robert appeals to her greatly. One evening, returning from a ball, he tells her of his love and she is obliged to admit that she is promised to another. Robert takes the news hardly and leaves her, going on a hunting trip to the west. Robert secures a little cabin upon the Green Ranch where he becomes intimately acquainted with Mr. and Mrs. Green and their daughter Dorris. Robert makes love to her and she falls under his spell readily. The process of this love passage is watched by a cowboy, Dick Miller, who would readily give his life to make Dorris happy. The wedding is near and the pretty dresses have been duly admired when Robert received a brief note from Claire. It tells him that she has broken off her marriage with her fiancé and that she is free again. All the old love for the girl who is in his own stage of society surges up and he writes a brief note to Dorris and rides away. The cowboys ride after Robert and catch him and bring him back unharmed at the request of Dorris. Mr. Green would shoot the man but Dorris tells them that if he is harmed she will kill herself so he is allowed to go. Robert marries Claire and finds a handsome but cold partner, while Dorris pines and dies with faithful Dick near at hand.
