In the parlor of a southern mansion a girl is seen scaled at the piano, idly drumming the keys, as if expecting someone. Her father is sitting on the veranda reading. Two rival suitors for ... See full summary
The Girl and the Judge; or, A Terrible Temptation (1910) Online
In the parlor of a southern mansion a girl is seen scaled at the piano, idly drumming the keys, as if expecting someone. Her father is sitting on the veranda reading. Two rival suitors for the girl's hand arrive at about the same time and are shown into the parlor. She appears to favor each alike and they ask her to choose between one or the other just as her father enters the room, and she sidles up to him and intimates that this is her choice. Both arc discomfited. While the young lady is dismissing one caller, the other accompanies the father into his study, where he is shown a collection of antique firearms in the center of the table on which the weapons are displayed there also stands a large microscope. The young man here begs the father for the hand of his daughter, but is told that he first must win her heart, and loud words are spoken. The young man at last apologizes and departs. While he is in the next room, locking up his hat, gloves and riding whip, he hears a report of a...
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 | William Humphrey | - | The Judge |
 | Maurice Costello | - | The Young Lover |