The Man Who Died (1910) Online
James Jardine is wealthy, but he would willingly give his money to regain his health, though the best surgeons have pronounced his paralysis incurable. William Jardine, his graceless brother, comes as a self-invited guest and usurps to himself the rights of the household, and even comes to regard James as an intruder. He is rather well pleased when it is believed that the helpless man has rolled into the lake, and takes complete possession of his legacy. But James Jardine was not drowned. As he sat in his wheelchair a couple of automobilists, with alcoholic kindliness, decided to give the invalid a ride, and in raising him to put him into the car they knocked the chair into the lake. Soon they tired of their company and unceremoniously dumped him beside the road, where he is found by Dr. Griggs. Griggs tells Jardine that his paralysis is curable, and while the treatment is being given Jardine gives no hint to his brother. Love comes with health and Alice Griggs goes with him as his ...
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 | Harry Myers | - | William Jardine |