A Mother's Devotion; or, The Firing of the Patchwork Quilt
A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home when she discovers that a railroad trestle he must pass over has been washed out. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.
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"Railroad man Robert Gaillard lives with his aged mother, Mary Maurice. When he goes out on the great iron road, she prays for his safety. During a high wind, she sees through lightning flashes that a trestle has broken, and the train he is returning on will plummet to its doom. Mrs. Maurice caught the acting bug when she was 24. She joined Vitagraph in 1909, and by the time she died in 1918 at the age of 73, had appeared in approximately 150 shorts and features...."
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A mother is waiting or her son, a railroad engineer, to return home when she discovers that a railroad trestle he must pass over has been washed out. She must try to get word to him before his train reaches the trestle.