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.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Jesse L. Lasky, Cecil B. DeMille
Director of Photography: Karl Struss, Alvin Wyckoff
Story: Jeanie Macpherson