Success is often coveted instead of honestly earned. Through honest effort the farmer was enjoying the fruits of his labor. A large irrigation well was among his new acquisitions. Therein his designing helpers held him prisoner while they left with his wealth and his daughter. There is an old saying, however, that an evil purpose always defeats its own end by some committing act.
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Lionel Barrymore as The Farmer
Claire McDowell as The Farmer's Wife
Harry Carey as Giuseppe, the Farmhand
George Beranger as The Accomplice
United States 12 June 1913
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