The Adventures of a Watch; or, Time Flies and Comes Back
Directed by Hardee KirklandHal Collins has just presented his fiancée, Marion Franks, with an engagement ring. Her mother gives her a watch to match the ring. In an engagement party that follows she loses the watch, which is picked up by Homer Wilson, a dissipated young man, who recognizes it as belonging to Marion. She is alone in the sitting room when he approaches her and presents the watch. She is more than delighted and gives him a rose from her hair. Coincident with this, Hal comes in, and his jealousy turns love to hatred. He demands his ring back, and, although Marion tries to explain, he refuses to listen. A few days later, Marion, out shopping, again loses her watch. This time it is picked up by a little boy, the son of a drunkard, Tom Babbitt. He shows the watch to his father, who immediately confiscates it and then sells it to a pawnbroker. Old Mr. Morton, the uncle of the dissipated young man, disinherits him. Previously he has visited the pawnbroker's and purchased Marion's watch. He concludes it would be a nice present for her, little knowing that she was the original owner. He is taken suddenly and seriously ill, but, admiring the girl, makes her the sole beneficiary under his will, and additionally sends her the watch. Just about this time Hal Collins finds out he has been very much mistaken about Marion; they are reunited, and all goes well.
