The Idler (1914) Online

The Idler (1914) Online

Sheldon Lewis, a young society man and an idler, is in love with Miriam Morris, a society girl with advanced ideas. She refuses to marry him on the ground that he is an idler, a "mollycoddle," and she wants a strong man, not a weakling. He is dismissed and goes home only to meet with an accident which deprives him of his faculties temporarily. He disappears from his haunts and the papers tell of the young millionaire's disappearance and the matter remains a mystery for over two years. Miriam has mourned him, for she cares for him in spite of his apparent weakness. Lewis wanders into a poor section of the city and foregathers with workmen and a still lower class which leads him into accepting an offer from Jerry Morgan, a burglar, to assist in robbing a house which Morgan has spied out as a good "lay." The house turns out to be that of Miriam's father, but Lewis does not recall it. His memory is gone. He goes to the house with Morgan and meets Miriam, who recognizes him, but he does ...