Tom Lawton is married to a trusting and devoted woman, who in her implicit faith is ignorant of the fact that her husband is at the head of a gigantic organization in the unlawful traffic ... See full summary
The Smuggler's Game (1910) Online
Tom Lawton is married to a trusting and devoted woman, who in her implicit faith is ignorant of the fact that her husband is at the head of a gigantic organization in the unlawful traffic of opium, with quarters in the notorious joss house of King Yen Lo, of 'Frisco. Lawton engages as his house servants Chinese, in order that he may carry on his work with a surer degree of safety. One day as he was walking through a public park he chances upon Margarie Ward, to whom he previously made overtures, and who, not being aware that he is married, is cordial in her treatment and falls an easy victim to his pretended admiration. John Mason, a suitor for Margarie's hand, meets them on one of the lawns and plainly shows his keen disappointment that a man known to him as was Lawton and his reputation should force, as the thistle and the thorn, its way into undefiled innocence, and he vows to place Lawton in his prober light. Accordingly he calls on Lawton the following day. Desperate that be may ...