Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
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Creighton Hale as Charles Stoddard
Gladys Leslie as Ruth Gardner
Bobby Connelly as Walter Stoddard
Julia Swayne Gordon as Paula Harrison
Anna Lehr as Catherine Bell
Ruth Sullivan as Sylvia Stoddard
United States 01 April 1920
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