The Wolf's Daughter (1914) Online

The Wolf's Daughter (1914) Online

Edward Clark, under the name of John Bright, is posing as an oil and mining stock broker in an eastern city. Clark is a clever swindler. His misuse of the mails attracts the notice of the U.S. Secret Service. Two detectives are sent to arrest Clark, but the latter cleverly slips through the net and boards a train for the west. Clark lands in a western city, where his daughter Dora is in a convent. The girl, left motherless at an early age. Has since lived and studied in the cloister. She knows nothing of her father's knavery, supposing him to he a prominent financier. In the same city live the Right Rev. James Nolan, a Catholic bishop, and his nephew, Clarence Nolan, a lad just twenty-one years old. Clarence is in love with both Dora Clark and Effie Ryan, the latter a daughter of an attorney, but the boy cannot decide which girl he loves the better. On the day of Clark's arrival Clarence, being of age, is given control of $50,000 left him from his dead father's estate. Clark, entering...