The Long Road (1911)

• 45%
• 1911
• Drama
• D.W. Griffith
• Blanche Sweet
• Grace Henderson
• Charles West

At a garden party, Edith, in a spirit of coquetry, arouses the jealousy of Neil, her fiancé, who, taking her action seriously, gives a parasol, which he intended as a present for her, to another girl. This induces a quarrel, and both stubborn, the break is never mended. Hence, he marries the other girl. Heart-crushed, Edith seeks solace in the convent of a Sister of Mercy. Sometime later, fate ordains it that she be assigned to embroider the layette of Ned's first baby, a task often undertaken by the Sisters. This, you may imagine, is a terrible ordeal, but there is no help for it and the task is finished, which brings about the first meeting since the day of the garden fete between the two women. Several years later, while Edith is working among the poor of the East Side, she is startled by the sound of a shot, and following a small boy into the saloon from whence the sound came, finds Ned, who, having suffered business reverses, and become a hopeless drunkard, the accidental victim of the shot, with his child, now grown to boyhood, and his wife by his side. Ned has now reached the final turn in the road.