“Ruth Morgan, an orphaned girl, and Allan Buchanan, a young physician, leave their respective homes in the village to seek their fortune in the city. Ruth Morgan obtains employment with a metropolitan florist, while Allan Buchanan works hard to establish a big practice. Ruth meets a fascinating man-about-town, who betrays and deserts the young girl, leaving her the victim of remorse and despair. Allan Buchanan makes a mistake in a prescription which causes the death of a child, and this tragedy, combined with the horror of his sister’s pathetic death in a railroad accident, drives him to the river’s edge, in search of merciful oblivion. On the very brink of the depths, he meets Ruth, who has come hither bent on the same tragic purpose. The two waifs of misfortune, thus strangely thrown together, save each other from suicide, and begin the struggle back to hope and faith together. Allan chances to be of service to a wealthy young man, hurt in an accident, who gratefully obtains a paying position for Allan, enabling him and Ruth to marry. The benefactor calls one day, and proves to be the man of Ruth’s wretched past. In agony and shame, Ruth confesses her pathetic history to Allan, who finds this new sorrow greater even than those of his own past, but at last his love and loyalty to Ruth prove stronger than all the doubts and griefs of the moment, and in the light of a new happiness and a truer faith, they forget the shadows that lay behind them.”—12 Sep 1914 Moving Picture World ...