

78 minutes
10/16/1920
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.

Elliott Dexter
as David Markely

Gloria Swanson
as Ruth Anderson

Monte Blue
as Jim Dirk

Theodore Roberts
as Luke Anderson

Claire McDowell
as Housekeeper

Michael D. Moore
as Bobby Markely (as Mickey Moore)

Julia Faye
as Alice Blair, Banker's Daughter

James Pier Mason
as Country Masher

Togo Yamamoto
as Servant

Theodore Kosloff
as Clown

William Boyd
as (uncredited)