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Learn more- The hero, a young and trusted employee of a large lumber firm, is greatly in love with a pretty young lady who is stenographer to the president of the company. He is not alone in this inclination, his progress being diligently opposed by the foreman of the yards, a jealous rival who resorts to every conceivable method of villainy to wrest him from the girl's favor. The first scenes, occurring in the office and different portions of a modern lumber yard, show the hero's love for the girl and trouble between the rivals as a consequence. Jack Gray, the hero and girl's sweetheart, knocks his aggressor to the ground. The villain, now reeking with revenge, is next seen, in company with two of his friends, drinking and planning an evil plot against Jack Gray. At a gay and peaceful party given in honor of the engaged sweethearts, the villain and his two dissolute companions are seen to enter and attack the hero. A stirring scrimmage ensues, and again Gray floors his antagonist, but not without upsetting the festal spread. The knave manages to arise and possess himself of a lighted oil lamp, which he cowardly hurls at his rival with deadly intent. Gray barely dodges same and the dangerous missile goes wild, crashes through a mirror, and explodes, setting fire to the place. The other gentlemen guests have, in the meantime, ably subdued the villain's affiliates, and, as the smoke from the explosion clears. Gray again has the instigator under control and all three intruders are roughly ousted. The news of this disgraceful affair reaches the head of the firm, and Gray is called upon for explanation. He places the blame where it justly belongs and the treacherous yard foreman is discharged. Burning with hatred for his successful rival, the persistent villain next incites a number of his former underlings to try and induce the owner to reinstate him and discharge Gray, under the threat of serious trouble should their demand be refused. The villain and his gang are then seen out in the lumber yard, riotous and threatening. Needless to say, their demonstration is ignored. Still intent upon his purpose, the villain employs an Italian workman, who also has a grievance, to help him put his rival out of the way. Then follows the purport of one of the most dastardly crimes ever concocted for the riddance of an enemy. The scene is the interior of a large saw mill. The machinery and huge saws are in operation and the workmen are busy at the levers and at planing. Jack Gray enters and consults one of the sawyers in connection with an order for material. The workmen depart to fulfill same. In the interval Jack's sweetheart has learned the former foreman's purpose, and at this point warns Jack that his life is in danger. In being a brave fellow, Jack does not heed her advice, further than to sincerely thank her for the interest she takes in him. The girl leaves him, after which there is no one in the mill but Gray. The villainous scoundrel, accompanied by his murderous hireling, then sneakingly enters and attacks the hero from behind. Gray, now forewarned, is alert and opposes his assailant in a life and death struggle; but to no avail, for his antagonists are prepared to fulfill their intention, and Gray is soon knocked unconscious and subjugated to a helpless heap, at the mercy of his murderous enemies. They lose no time, for although, all the entrances are bolted, the crime which they now contemplate would subject them to the severest punishment that the law imposes. In an instant they lift the unconscious hero, throw him across the traveling table of the huge log saw, start the machinery, and leave their victim to an apparently horrible death. But our brave little heroine, in hearing the scuffle, rushes back from the office once again, to assure herself that her sweetheart is in no danger. To her intense surprise she finds the door locked, looks through the window and almost prostrates from the ghastly sight that greets her eyes; the form of her sweetheart slowly but surely gliding into the jaws of death. She breaks the window panes, trying to reach the door bolt in this manner, every moment is precious, but her efforts are futile. Horrified at this discovery, she summons her entirety of admirable courage, secures a plank and thunders it against the big door until a panel is knocked out, sufficiently close for her to reach the bolt. She is next seen swiftly speeding toward her betrothed, who by this time is dangerously near the huge saw. She drags him from the table and partly rouses him from his stupor. Her screams have, by now, attracted the attention of other employees, together with the president of the mill, who quickly start in pursuit of the two scoundrels, and after a short but thrilling chase, in which the villains fire at their pursuers, they are captured without loss of life on either side: a remarkable feature to this production, considering the unceasing thrilling and sensational constituency of some. The chase covers an odd piece of ground, and, from its impressively rustic formation, affords a most beautiful background to this stirring picture. The closing scene shows where the mill owner makes our hero foreman of the plant, bestowing a written notice to Jack in person, at a party where his friends are completing their festivities, formerly interrupted, and adding to their joy and thankfulness over the safe and praiseworthy rescue of their friend, crowned by all with the pleasing news of his promotion and impressed with the generosity of the excellent character, the mill owner, at which they rejoice and conclude their party with an old-time Virginia reel. -- The Moving Picture World, April 11, 1908
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