- The man Giovanni is very well drawn and his character interests and obtains sympathy. His employer, Gardoni, who is a widower with a charming daughter, has married again, a young and lovely woman being his choice. She falls passionately in love with Giovanni and finding him indifferent to her subtler advances finally steps over the bounds of propriety heretofore observed and sends him a note, asking him to come and see her in her sitting-room during her husband's absence from the city on business. Giovanni, though he has pretended not to have seen the marks of her favor, heretofore has avoided temptation by keeping out of her company as best he could. The note further tells him to send the clerk out of the office, which be it noted, is in the private residence. Now that same morning before Gardoni's departure he has sent the clerk to the bank to cash a check for 30,000 lire, which sum is placed in the office safe pending the employer's return. Giuseppe plans to make the money his own, and when Giovanni after moments of doubt and decision on receiving the note finally accepts the invitation and sends the clerk out of the office, the intending thief sees his opportunity and does not leave the house at all. Concealing himself he sees the secretary go into the private apartments. The coast clear, with the key Giovanni has left on the desk he opens the safe, takes the cash and then leaves on the errand upon which Giovanni has sent him. Meanwhile Giovanni has had a hard fight with himself against Helena's wiles, but finally flees from temptation, much to her chagrin. When Gardoni comes back the theft is discovered. Detectives are called in and though at first Giuseppe is suspected he proves that he was sent on an errand. His testimony implicates Giovanni, who is at once apprehended, to the misery of his fiancée and the bewildered astonishment of himself. How to save Helena's honor he keeps his lips sealed as to his whereabouts when the money was taken, how the torn note of Helena is found by the chief detective who thereupon sees a light, how the clerk's fingerprints on the safe finally prove his guilt, make a line ending to an unusually fine drama.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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