Jack Manly, our hero, is in love with a pretty shop girl, Eleanor Wilkens. Eleanor's father is a drunkard, and Jack's love is the one gleam of happiness that has come into her life. Our ... See full summary
One of the Bravest (1908) Online
Jack Manly, our hero, is in love with a pretty shop girl, Eleanor Wilkens. Eleanor's father is a drunkard, and Jack's love is the one gleam of happiness that has come into her life. Our opening scene is the squalid home of the Wilkenses. The drunkard abuses his daughter and staggers upstairs to sleep off the effects of a debauch. Eleanor sinks sobbing at the table; her chum calls and tries to cheer her up, when a knock at the door announces our hero. Eleanor's chum says: "Two is company and three is a crowd, so I'm off." Left alone with his sweetheart, Jack asks Eleanor to become his wife, and to allow him to take her to a home of comfort. At this moment the course of true love, which never runs smooth, strikes a rough spot. A stranger arrives and asks for an interview with Wilkens. That worthy is called from his peaceful slumbers to receive the shock of his life. The stranger produces a document and informs Wilkens that, through the death of his brother in Australia, he is left sole ...