The Ghost of Granleigh
Directed by J. Searle DawleyOnce upon a time, a man married a beautiful woman, and then neglected her. Beautiful women cannot live without attention, and the Other Man came into the story. When the beautiful woman tried to run away with the Other Man, her husband killed her; whereupon the Other Man killed the husband, then the Other Man entered a convent to forget. When, four hundred years later, John Newcomb began to neglect his wife for the sake of his chemical experiments, the ghost of the Other Man who became a monk could no longer be quiet in his grave. John Newcomb loved his wife, but he was so busy with his experiments that he sometimes forgot her for considerable periods of time. Amy, the wife, did all she could to please him, but he paid so little attention to her that she at last was glad to accept the attentions of Arnold. At this point the phantom monk appeared on the scene, but his mysterious influence seemed to be of slight avail. Momentarily he could make Amy shrink from Arnold's embrace, or make Arnold cease to tempt her, but he knew that the bonds of love were knitting the two ever closer together and would soon be too strong for his unaided force to break. And Newcomb would not be aroused. Try as he might, the monk could not draw that massive brain away from its abstract reasoning. Even when the monk caused the vision of his own fatal experience to appear to the sleeping chemist, the awakened Newcomb failed to place any significance in the fanciful dream. At last the night came when Arnold in his automobile drew up at the front of the house, and Amy stole down and entered the machine. All the time Newcomb worked unconcernedly in his laboratory, while the monk, in a frenzy of despair, used his powers of influence against him in vain. As a final resort, he caused the great crucible over which Newcomb was working, to explode. Just as the machine was starting, Amy heard the report, and insisted on returning. She nursed her husband back to health, and whether it was the old monk's magic, the shock of the explosion, or the tender look in Amy's eyes. It is quite certain John Newcomb was a changed man.
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