The Girl of Lost Lake (1916)

• 79%
• 1916
• Drama
• Lynn Reynolds
• Myrtle Gonzalez
• Mary du Cello
• Ruby Cox

When McAndrews was a boy his father took him to Lost Lake for a vacation, and a childish friendship was established between Vaughan and Jude Clark. In later years Vaughan goes to Lost Lake for recreation. Because the hotel accommodations are insufficient, Abner Clark takes Vaughan to his home, where in daily association with Jude the childhood friendship is renewed and gradually intensified. Judge West, sensing the trend of events, charges Vaughan with "trifling" and reminds him that Jud is engaged to marry Dave Bean, a man of her own style. Harrison has induced Jude to pose for him, promising payment of $50 for the service, but the completed picture shows Jude in a pose she had never assumed. When Vaughan sees the picture the opinion he has formed of the mountain girl suddenly changes. Several of the gossips get a view of the canvas and Harrison lets it he understood that Jude posed exactly as she was painted. Jude had spurned the artist's $50 when she discovered the trick he had played upon her, but when her father fell ill and needed hospital attention Jude pocketed her pride and called to get the cash. While she is at Harrison's camp Dave Bean, guided by the village gossips, enters and accuses Jude of lax morality, punishes the artist and declares the mountain girl shall never become Mrs. Bean. When Abner Clark dies Jude is left without a protector or means of self-support, but Judge West intercepts her as she is about to leave Lost Lake and installs her at his own camp as full partner with him in his gold prospecting. Vaughan had left Lost Lake heartbroken because he believed ill of June. Months pass, he writes to Jude that he has reconsidered and asks her to invite him to return. Jude's eager answer is unhappily stowed in Judge West's pocket for an indefinite time, and it is not until they strike gold that the missive is accidentally revealed. Discovery of the letter leads to a speedy understanding.