Her False Friend (1914) Online
Laura Greville, secretly in love with her cousin, Henry, is first heartbroken, then furious, when she learns of his marriage to pretty Edith Day. With all the cunning of a woman cast aside, she lays her plans of revenge. By chance she teams that Edith has a brother, Paul, whom she has never mentioned to her husband, and who has been serving a prison sentence after having been convicted on circumstantial evidence of a crime he never committed. By intercepting letters passed between the brother and sister, she succeeds in making Henry suspicious of his wife's fidelity. Hoping to cure her of what he believes to be a foolish infatuation, he charters a yacht and together with her and Laura sets out upon a cruise of the Mediterranean. One day the crew suddenly discover that there is a fire in the hold of the vessel, and within a few moments the sturdy craft is a pillar of flame. The captain and sailors, panic-stricken, take to the lifeboats, and Greville, believing his wife safe, succeeds ...
Original Italian title is undetermined.
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