New York (1916)

The story concerns itself with Oliver King, a patrician who becomes interested in a chorus girl who "works" him. Learning her true character, he gives her up, but is thereafter blackmailed with a baby. Later the girl dies. King raises the child, a boy, but refuses to acknowledges his parenthood. He marries a girl who knows nothing of this incident. Wendell, the boy, now a young man, is expelled from college and takes up his residence at the former home of King's wife. He is visited by Mrs. King, and in a maudlin drunken state attacks her. In the struggle she kills him. The coroner finds a verdict of suicide. Next day, Mrs. King confesses to her husband. Thinking the murdered boy his, he turns from her. The chorus girl's mother comes to collect her "hush" money, and when King refuses, she tells him that the boy was not his own, and threatens to tell the world of his ridiculous position. Her story, however, has just the opposite effect. King is glad the boy was not his son. He goes to his wife, who has become a mother, and a touching reconciliation follows.