Whoso Diggeth a Pit (1914)

• 77%
• 1914
• Drama
• Wallace Reid
• Lurline Lyons
• James Neill

Wally and the girl are in love. The rich broker covets the girl, but is rejected. The broker bids the father good-bye just as the latter receives a telegram, telling him that he is a large sum short on margins. The broker reads and tells the father he will help him if he is allowed to marry the daughter. The father agrees against his will. The girl agrees to the self-sacrifice to save her father's honor. Money triumphs, and the broker and the girl marry, but as time goes on, he ill-treats her shamefully. She meets Wally and tells him why she could not marry him. The broker, returning home one night in an ugly temper, comes upon his wife sadly contemplating Wally's photograph. She flees before his threats to her room and telephones to Wally to help her. Wally hurries to her as the broker pounds on her door savagely with his revolver. It goes off and seriously wounds him. The distracted girl opens the door and picks up the revolver. Wallace finds her thus. The policeman, who has heard the shot, joins them. Wally thinking the girl fired the shot, tells the police he did it and is taken away. The broker continues to remain unconscious. The doctor reports to a galvanic battery. He recovers long enough to say that he shot himself.