Refused credit at the grocery store, to save his starving wife and child, a young man steals some money. The woman, weak from privation, passes away and he is arrested. In a dramatic courtroom scene he is convicted and sentenced to the ...See moreRefused credit at the grocery store, to save his starving wife and child, a young man steals some money. The woman, weak from privation, passes away and he is arrested. In a dramatic courtroom scene he is convicted and sentenced to the penitentiary. The doctor raises his boy, who becomes a successful physician and marries the doctor's daughter. The father serves time and emerges a bent and broken old man, with hoary head and palsied hands. Through an advertisement he is engaged as butler for his own son, keeping his identity secret to save the young man the disgrace of having an ex-convict father. The two meet at the grave of the wife and mother, and father and son are re-united. Written by
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