Elizabeth's Prayer

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Henry Ashton is very happy with his wife, Margaret, and his little daughter, Elizabeth, until one day the former is called to her home on account of the illness of her mother, and takes the child with her. This illness in lingering, so that the wife is detained longer than she expected. The husband is irritated over the situation and writes of his loneliness, blaming his mother-in-law for their situation. While he is trying to "make the time fly," he goes to a café, where he meets Hilda Crosby, and falls under her spell. When the wife and child finally return, they find the husband and father much changed. The child, who seems to be a half cousin to Willie Getit, goes to Ashton's office and observes him embracing the actress. She tells her mother of this, who goes there and confirms the rumor through her own sight, and retreats broken-hearted, dropping her bag in the outer office. The bag contains a letter from Henry to Hilda, which has been intercepted. Henry finds the bag and then conscience-stricken, realizes that his wife has found him out. That night, Margaret, in her despairing sorrow, prepares to take poison. Little Elizabeth, missing her mother from the bed, and perturbed over her mournful aspect of late, kneels and prays God to make mamma happy again. The mother in the next room, with the poison to her lips, hears the childish petition and hesitates at the rash act she is about to commit. At this moment the father, who has been tortured by his conscience, steps in to look again upon the mother and child and witnesses the pathetic scene. There is a complete change of heart: he gathers the mother and child in his arms, and the family are reunited to begin life again.