Woman's Honor

• 1913
• Other, Drama

Madge Williams, shawl about her figure, crept into the little town a cast-off woman. Billy Wayne made love to Jessalyn on the front porch of the rector's house and Father Bob, the handsome young priest, stopped to smile at Billy's evident love and Jessalyn's coquetry. The next week young Benton was making violent love to Jessalyn and Father Bob frowned; Benton was a backslider with a bad reputation known all over town. Meanwhile, Madge Williams sought out Benton, her destroyer, and begged him to marry her, but he refused and cast her off. The climax came when Jessalyn, with a small package under her arm, fled with Benton. The priest saw and followed to the little village park. The four met: a priest, a backslider, an innocent girl, and a woman who had been wronged. Hot and hasty words followed; Benton struck at the priest, who delivered a blow that laid Benton flat on the grass. When he rose the priest joined his hand with Madge's and made them husband and wife. Just then, Jessalyn's father, the village sexton, hurried to the scene, gun in hand. But the affair was over for Jessalyn, and she went quietly back home with her father. Father Bob took his way and the newly-made husband and wife faced each other; the woman smiled, kissed her ring, and bade him farewell forever.