A little country village comedy in which Mr. Costello plays a young grocer's clerk. This clerk and the daughter (Clara Kimball Young) of a G.A.R. fire-eater (Mr. Eldridge) are in love, much to the old man's disgust. He wants his daughter to marry a brave man, a soldier. AN unexpected denouement makes the clerk seem to be a hero.
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Clara Kimball Young as Mabel Kemp
Maurice Costello as Joe Godfrey
Charles Eldridge as Mabel's Father
James Young Director
United States 07 June 1912
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