When the body of Col. S.F. Hargraves was found in a room in the rear of Cradelbaughs, a gambling house, with a bullet in his heart, the police found "Big Jim" Pemmican, the manager of the place, coolly pacing the floor when they arrived.
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Hamilton Revelle as J. Lawrence Challoner
Marguerite Snow as Miriam Challoner
Carlton Brickert as William Murgatroyd
Walter Hitchcock as Graham Thorne
Fred Williams as Colonel S.F. Hargraves
Frederick Heck as Broderick
John Smiley as Pemmican
Ferdinand Tidmarsh as Merrick
Carol Seymour as Shirley Bloodgood
Diane D'Aubrey as Letty Love
United States 10 April 1916
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A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the white roses instead of the red.
10 September 1916
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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