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The Torn Letter (1912)
Short | Short, Drama

The Torn Letter (1912)

Short | Short, Drama

John Arnold is a fugitive from justice, charged with a crime of which he is innocent. One night be pays a visit to his home town and sends a note to his sister to meet him at an appointed place. In her excitement, Mabel tears the note in ...See moreJohn Arnold is a fugitive from justice, charged with a crime of which he is innocent. One night be pays a visit to his home town and sends a note to his sister to meet him at an appointed place. In her excitement, Mabel tears the note in two, one-half of which falls to the floor as she hides the portions in her dress. Throwing a shawl over her head, she hurries from the house to meet her brother. Scott Mabel's husband, is of a very jealous nature. Returning home in the absence of his wife, he finds the part of the note which Mabel had dropped, reads it, and believes his wife guilty of being untrue to him. On returning, Mabel is confronted by her husband, who demands that she tell him the name of her lover. In order to shield her brother Mabel refuses to talk. Scott goes to his room, packs suit case and disappears. The following morning Mabel finds letter from Scott, saying he has drowned himself. A searching party, on dragging the river for his body, come across Scott's hat and coat (which he had purposely placed there) and all believe him dead. Two years later, Mabel, having to look around for a means of livelihood, becomes governess to the six-year-old child of Doctor Robert Ford, a widower. The child loves Mabel at once, the doctor later. He gains her consent to lead her to the altar. In the meantime. Scott and the fugitive brother have met in the mines in the Colorado mountains and neither knowing the history of the other, by an inscrutable decree of Fate, they become partners and close friends. Both remain in ignorance of each other's past life. Mabel, having learned at last of her brother's whereabouts, writes to tell him of her husband's (Scott's) jealousy and suicide, enclosing in the same letter the other half of the letter which had caused so much pain. Scott, upon seeing the handwriting and postmark upon the envelope, believes John to be the lover of his wife and he endeavors to get John's gun with which to shoot the supposed-to-be destroyer of his home. After a severe struggle, Scott is subdued and explanations follow. Scott compares the half of the letter he has always carried, since discovering what he thought his wife's perfidy, and finding the words and indentures complete, is broken in spirit, and in penitence starts for the east, a race with time, to repair the ruin his jealousy has wrought. Heart failure, which he has contracted through his passion and brooding during the interim, prevents him making great speed, and he arrives upon the day of the wedding of Mabel to the doctor. He witnesses the ceremony through the window and attempts to ascend the steps leading to the house, but the shock has aggravated his complaint and he passes away upon the doorstep of the man who has just claimed Mabel for his wife. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Harold Lockwood Scott - the Husband Scott - the Husband See fewer	The Promise (1917)
Dorothy Davenport Mabel - the Wife Mabel - the Wife See fewer	Human Wreckage (1923)
Henry Otto John Arnold - the Wife's Brother John Arnold - the Wife's Brother See fewer	Big Tremaine (1916)

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