- Amos Brandt is a miser, but his children don't know that he's actually very wealthy. His daughter Lola has been proposed to by both wealthy Richard Denton and not-so-wealthy George Gray, and decides to choose love over money and accepts Gray's proposal. Denton then invests in a company that defrauds the public, and just as he's facing criminal charges and bankruptcy, he learns of Amos' real wealth and decides to rob him. However, things don't go quite the way he planned.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Lola Brandt, upon her graduation from high school, enters college. She is not encouraged in her ambitions by her father, who is a miser, so she finally decides to work her way through without his aid. George Gray and Richard Denton are suitors for her hand, and although Denton is far more wealthy, Lola shows a marked preference for George, and before she is through college they are engaged. Meanwhile a company has been organized and urges the people to place their earnings in a twenty percent investment. Many foolishly do this. Denton becomes a member of the firm and with the president, he continues to exploit the fraudulent scheme. Amos Brandt, Lola's miserly father, makes her a present of a dollar bill, as a reward for working her way through college. One night Denton's business is investigated by the postal authorities, and in order to save himself from the penitentiary it becomes necessary for him to raise $10,000. While at a nearby café he learns of old Brandt's wealth and determines to use this means out of his difficulties. While he is visiting at the house that evening a thundershower comes up and makes it necessary for him to remain there through the night. Coming upon the miser when he is counting his hoard, he learns the secret hiding place, and late that night, when he believes all to be sleeping, he descends to the library. Just as he is about to extract the money, Brandt appears, and a struggle ensues in which the old miser is killed. In the morning when the old butler, who discovers the body, is accused of the murder, Denton believes himself freed of all complications and returns to his office where he is arrested by the postal authorities. The dollar bill which was given to Lola falls into the hands of George Gray, and he finds upon its face the initials which her father had placed there, proving it to be the same bill, and the bloody fingerprint. Lola and George rush to the authorities with the bill, and the finger mark thereon is found to agree with that found on a wine decanter the night of the murder. This evidence points to Denton, and placed under the third degree, he confesses his guilt. Lola, now wealthy through her father's years of hoarding, proceeds to put the money into circulation by depositing it in a savings bank, and George is able to claim the bride who has waited so long.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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