The Troubadour's Triumph (1912)

• 73%
• 1912
• Drama
• Lois Weber
• Phillips Smalley
• Cleo Ridgely
• Wilbur Hudson

The Lady Lilitha didn't hate him, she merely disliked him. There was something wrong about him. Sir Guy Lancaster might have been considered a cavalier by the gay members of his set, and a thorough gallant by all others, but Lilitha knows somewhere in his heart was malice and dishonesty. So she frowned upon his suit, angry as it made her father. There traveled through the country a troubadour. None knew whence he came nor whither he was bound, but the manly figure and the clear eyes made friends along the long way. He was walking through the woods one day, and detected a few outlaws evidently waiting for their intended victim to pass. He hid behind a mass of bushes. Along came the king and Lilitha, who were immediately attacked by the waiting outlaws. The troubadour came to their rescue and routed the assailants. The King thanked him and invited him to the palace. When Sir Lancaster saw the troubadour and learned of his favor with the King his heart filled with rage and envy. Passing the scene of the conflict he found the bag which the troubadour had carried and which he had thrown aside when he ran for shelter and concealment. In the bag was a letter signed by his brother, to the effect that he was bidding his son, the troubadour, to proceed to the King and prove that the charges made by Guy Lancaster (himself) were untrue and that the lands and possessions that had been confiscated should be returned, and enclosing the family jewels as a gift to the King and a token of regard. He at once knew that the troubadour was his nephew, the son of the brother whom he had tried to depose from power, and calling his faithful servant to him, explained the missive and gave him possession of the letter and the jewels. Sir Lancaster pressed his suit, and finally won the King's intervention. Lilitha was by this time in love with the troubadour, as you must have divined. Unwillingly, her consent was forced to the betrothal. Sir Lancaster offered the jewels of the brother as the bridal gift, but the court jester, who had overheard the conversation between Sir Lancaster and his servant, was determined to righten things, and did. He got the servant drunk, his favorite pastime, stole the letter from his bodice, and placed it in the jewel-box instead of the jewels. Therefore it followed that when Sir Guy Lancaster presented his prospective with the box in which he thought the jewels reposed, she found instead the proof of his deception and dishonesty and the high birth of her lover, whom she had believed but a humble troubadour. And to climax the happiness, the jester appeared with the jewels rightfully belonging to the troubadour, but which later was bestowed upon Lilitha, that is, when their marriage was consummated.