Harry, preparing to leave on a business trip, tells Bessie that her photograph will always be with him. To test his sincerity she removes the photo from his bill case, and when he writes her that he is looking at her picture, she writes back that she knows otherwise. Realizing that he has been found out, Harry obtains his mother's photograph of Bessie, and upon his return home convinces her that he had it all along.
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Billy Quirk as Harry
Mary Pickford as Bessie
Marion Leonard as At the Hotel
Arthur V. Johnson as At the Hotel
D.W. Griffith Director
United States 16 December 1909
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