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The Mystic Jewel (1915)
Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

The Mystic Jewel (1915)

Short | 20 min | Short, Drama

The brothers, John and Charles Burton, have a quarrel over a stenographer, to whom Charles makes advances, not knowing that his brother and the stenographer are engaged. Charles terminates the quarrel by leaving the office. Later we find ...See moreThe brothers, John and Charles Burton, have a quarrel over a stenographer, to whom Charles makes advances, not knowing that his brother and the stenographer are engaged. Charles terminates the quarrel by leaving the office. Later we find John visiting Charles at his bachelor apartments to explain to him that he and the stenographer are to be married. Charles is very much surprised and makes known to John that he had no intention of insulting the girl and did not know that John was interested in her. They fix up their differences and drink a toast to John's future wife. The last we see of the brothers they are drinking together. The next morning they are discovered by the butler. Charles has been murdered and John is unconscious. The room is in a disordered condition. The butler calls the police and the family physician. The police suspect John of the murder, and finding a picture of the stenographer with a knife through it, come to the conclusion that the brothers quarreled over her. They send for her and question John and her and arrest them both, against the advice of the family physician. The police leave with their prisoners, leaving the physician to make his report to the coroner. The physician searches the room and discovers in a secret drawer an Oriental jewel, which brings back the memory of his younger days in India, where he remembers having once seen a native render another unconscious by the use of a poisoned blow-pipe. He recognizes the odor which he has discovered in the room. He decides that the crime was committed by an outside party in search of the jewel, which he has discovered. He consults with his friend, the editor of the newspaper, who publishes in scare headlines the fact that the doctor has in his possession this wonderful jewel. The doctor, in the meantime, prepares his trap for the suspected criminal, whom he thinks will endeavor to regain possession of the jewel. Later we find a young Oriental woman coming to the doctor's office and trying to overcome him with the poisonous fumes of the blow-pipe. The doctor, prepared in advance, overpowers her and obtains from her the story of the loss of the jewel, which Charles had stolen from her years before, and she, in trying to obtain it the night before, entered his apartments, and after searching through the drawers of the desks in the room, murdered him in the heat of passion. After hearing her story the doctor conducts her to the police station, where John and the stenographer have been undergoing the third degree. Here the Oriental woman, after her confession to the police judge, poisons herself with a needle and the prisoners are released. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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8 cast members

Name	Known for
Seena Owen Amy (as Signe Auen) Amy (as Signe Auen) See fewer	The Flame of the Yukon (1926)
Charles West Charles Burton, John's Brother (as Charles H. West) Charles Burton, John's Brother (as Charles H. West) See fewer	The Road to Yesterday (1925)
Joseph Henabery John Burton - Charles' Brother John Burton - Charles' Brother See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
Lucille Young A Woman from the East A Woman from the East See fewer	The Strange Story of Elsie Mason (1912)
Spottiswoode Aitken Doctor Ames Doctor Ames See fewer	The Birth of a Nation (1915)
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