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Heartaches (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Heartaches (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Stonewall Jackson Hunt, the crack sprinter of Harvard, received a letter from his grandfather, Judge William Randolph of Virginia, telling him that he can send Jack no more money, as the plantation has been mortgaged ever since the war, ...See moreStonewall Jackson Hunt, the crack sprinter of Harvard, received a letter from his grandfather, Judge William Randolph of Virginia, telling him that he can send Jack no more money, as the plantation has been mortgaged ever since the war, and only the leniency of the holder, the New York Trust Company, has saved him from utter ruin. On his way to the inter-collegiate games, Jack Hunt sees Virginia Payne and is interested in her. Virginia is living alone in Cambridge with her aged grandmother, Virginia Warrington Payne. Virginia makes her grandmother comfortable in her wheelchair, gives her an old silk bag that her grandmother always keeps by her, and leaves an old gown of Mrs. Payne's girlhood on a chair where she can see it. Virginia then joins a couple of her chums. At the games Virginia sees Jack with a handicap, defeat Yale men and cheers him wildly. In the absence of Virginia her grandmother sits dreaming of William Randolph, her old sweetheart. She sees a vision of him as he was when she parted from him in the early 60's; she goes to sleep and never wakes. At exactly the same hour, Judge Randolph, sitting by his fireside, sees a vision of Virginia Warrington, as a girl, standing before him with outstretched hands. When Virginia Payne returns from the games she finds her grandmother dead, and her hands are grasping a sealed package addressed to her, but not to be opened until the day she is engaged. Also a letter sealed and addressed to Judge Randolph. The letter is mailed and received by the Judge. It tells him that Virginia is alone in the world and asks him for old times' sake to take her and protect her. He immediately wires her to come. Jack loses all the money he has in a poker game. For two or three days he haunts the home of Virginia, sees crepe on the door, and is relieved to learn that it is not she who is dead. He and Virginia leave on the same day for Virginia, he trying to "beat" his way on the blind baggage. He is thrown off, but Virginia recognizes him and offers to pay his fare. He refuses until he learns that she is going to his grandfather's. They surprise the Judge, who finds Virginia the counterpart of Virginia Warrington as he remembers her. He discovers that Jack has been gambling and tells him that if he wants to live like a gentleman he will have to work like a negro. Jack accepts the challenge and goes to work on the plantation. The Judge discovers him making love to Virginia and warns him that there is to be no trifling with her affections. Jack assures him that he is not trifling with her. The young lovers quarrel over a small matter and when questioned by the Judge as to the cause say it is nothing. The Judge tells Virginia that "nothing is the beginning; nothing is the end, but many heartaches lie between." He then tells her the story of his quarrel with her grandmother, over nothing, and their parting, never to meet again. The story melts Virginia, and she begs him to speak to Jack. He does so and orders Jack to tell Virginia that he is sorry. Jack has been taught that no gentleman ever lies, and refuses. The Judge then tells him that no gentleman ever lies to a gentleman, but a man who won't lie to a good woman to make her happy is a cur. Jack tells the Judge he is sorry, and the Judge replies: "You're a liar, sir, but you're a gentleman." Jack promises that he will make peace with Virginia. She comes to Jack in the old gown that her grandmother wore the day she quarreled with William Randolph, and Jack takes her in his arms. Virginia opens the sealed packet that her grandmother left for her and finds that it is the mortgage from William Randolph to the New York Trust Company, but it has been assigned to Virginia Warrington Payne. She realizes that her grandmother has lived for years in comparative poverty in order to save the Judge's home for him. She takes it to the Judge and for an instant as she appears before him in the old-fashioned attire, he thinks it is Virginia Warrington come back to him. Then he realizes the truth, that Virginia Warrington always loved him. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Emory Johnson Stonewall Jackson Hunt Stonewall Jackson Hunt See fewer	The Phantom Express (1932)
Alfred Allen Judge William Randolph Judge William Randolph See fewer	An Old Fashioned Boy (1920)
Dorothy Davenport Virginia Payne Virginia Payne See fewer	Human Wreckage (1923)
Helen Wright Virginia's Grandmother Virginia's Grandmother See fewer	A Stranger from Somewhere (1916)