To help his dying father, assistant bank cashier Arthur Mansfield enters a fake sum in the bank's account book, but before carrying out the pilferage, he confesses to cashier Slayton, his superior. Slayton, who needs money to pay for his unsuccessful speculations, goes at night to take the money that Mansfield planned to embezzle, so that Mansfield will take the blame.
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James Morrison as Arthur Mansfield
Paul Scardon as Walter Slayton
Betty Howe as Enid Chamberlain
Edward Elkas as Jarboe
Stanley Walpole as Mansfield's Attorney
Robert Whitworth as President Chamberlain
United States 07 August 1916
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16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
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On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage.
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Mr Vang, a clerk, has just moved into the fourth floor of a block of flats – and he has already gained a reputation as something of a troublemaker.
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Scott Wells, a lowly clerk in the offices of railroad magnate David Haldeman, overhears a plot to ruin Haldeman.
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Mary Doone (Theda Bara) is a poor British girl who runs away from her adopted family because the father made a pass at her.
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When her husband Jim strikes it rich, Grace, who has had a lifelong fear of poverty, strictly raises her daughter Florence to accept only luxury.
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