The Burglar and the Rose (1912) Online

The Burglar and the Rose (1912) Online

The burglar is a young man, driven to crime by force of circumstances. His mother is dying and he has no money to purchase medicine and the necessaries of life. He leaves her and enters a residence and steals a jewel case. He returns home to find his beloved mother dead, and the irony of fate causes him to curse his Maker and dash the baubles on the floor. The girl comes, accompanied by her father. They see his grief, enter the house and the girl places a cluster of roses on the breast of the dead woman, folds the cold hands across the form and goes out, after glancing kindly at the burglar. The remembrance of that scene is fixed indelibly in the mind of the burglar. He is tempted to steal again, but a bouquet of roses brings him to a realization of his crime and he repents. Later he receives a position as gardener on the estate owned by the father of the girl and learns that it was her jewels he stole. He returns them with a full explanation, but is not punished. His reformation ...