The Great Silence

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John Landon, a young Alaskan, is president of the Nugget Gold Mine Corporation, one of the richest in the Great Silence of the north. He is a fearless, untamed character of the mining camps. The lure of the outside world grips him and he goes to the city, where he is welcomed by Channing, an unscrupulous capitalist. Channing, with his dissolute son. Arthur, plots to recoup his lost fortune through Landon. The Alaskan, who has never before been in love, is captivated by Channing's daughter, Loyal. She is intensely interested in him as a man of a different type from the men she has known, but is not actually in love. When Landon proposes, she at first protests but practically is driven into the marriage through the crafty appeals of her father. When she weds, the Alaskan gives her valuable shares of stock in his mine as a wedding present. Channing gets Loyal to transfer her shares to him, then secretly tries to "wildcat" them on the street. Landon discovers that Nugget stock is being secretly peddled. He traces the deal to Channing, whom he forces to confess. The shock of his exposure brings on a stroke and Channing dies. Landon tells his wife the whole story, but she in her grief for her father, refuses to believe his duplicity and denounces Landon. He leaves her for the great silence of the north. She already has found that she really loves Landon, however, and when her brother reveals the whole miserable story to her, she decides to follow her husband. Arthur, repentant, accompanies his sister to Alaska, where he is given a man's work and is happy, while Landon and Loyal find a new and glorified love.