Her Husband's Friend (1914)

• 79%
• 1914
• Drama
• Robert G. Vignola
• Tom Moore
• Alice Hollister
• Bob Walker

Believing her husband no longer loves her, Alice Lund consents to elope with Cater. She writes the man a note to this effect. Dane and the Lunds are warm friends. He decides to surprise them by taking them to the theater. Dane calls at the Lund home in time to see Alice preparing to run away with Cater. He sees the woman rifle her husband's safe of a large sum of money. She is just about to hand it to Cater, when Dane steps between and seizes the money. He orders Cater from the house. Alice perceives sorrow of the step she contemplated. In gratitude, the woman embraces Dane. Lund enters in time to witness the act. Fearing lest Dane betray her secret, Alice decides to disgrace him. The woman tells her husband that she had caught Dane in the act of robbing the safe and was pleading with him to return the money. Dane realizes the motives which prompted Alice to tell the outrageous falsehood. He remains silent when Lund, unwilling to believe the story, pleads for his side of the matter. Dane is ordered from the house. In need of money, Cater determines to blackmail Alice by threatening to show Lund the note in which she had consented to elope with him. Terror-stricken, Alice is an easy victim. In desperation, the woman decides to plead with Dane to get the note from Cater. Despite the wrong he has suffered at her hands, Dane listens to her plea. Later, he chokes Cater into submission and gets the incriminating missive. The blackmailer sees him depart for the Lund home. He tells Lund that Dane has a tryst with Alice. Filled with rage, Lund hastens home, accompanied by Cater. This time, however. Alice rises to the occasion when Lund faces Dane. The woman confesses the whole miserable story and exposes Cater's villainy. The blackmailer shrivels beneath Lund's scorn and slinks from the house. Dane's nobility overwhelms Lund, and he begs forgiveness. Dane smiles, places his friend's hand into that of Alice, and quietly withdraws.