Ben F. Wilson

Dorothy Phillips

Joseph W. Girard

Katherine M. Davis

Bob Burton, who has finished a law course at college, spends most of his time playing tennis and enjoying other outdoor sports. His sweetheart, Daisy Adams, also has a taste for outdoor games, and Bob spends most of his time with ...

The Force of Example

Drama and humor

A combination of drama and humor, featuring Ben Wilson and Dorothy Phillips. The lover reads in a paper of a murder committed by a jealous dope fiend; he then dreams and goes through a similar experience. This is well-pictured, but the horrors of the nightmare are too strong and the humor accordingly suffers. - The Moving Picture World, June 5, 1915

Bob Burton, who has finished a law course at college, spends most of his time playing tennis and enjoying other outdoor sports. His sweetheart, Daisy Adams, also has a taste for outdoor games, and Bob spends most of his time with her. Bob's father, a corporation lawyer, decides to take Bob into partnership, and if he proves equal to the task, to turn the entire law business over to his son. Bob wins case after case, and the clients increase to such an extent that Bob has to work night and day to keep up with his practice. At last this gets on his nerves, and one day while his father is congratulating him upon the masterly way he handled a certain case, he rushes out of the office. He goes to his home and endeavors to quiet his nerves. In reading the evening paper he sees an account of how a dope fiend killed a girl. He throws the paper aside and goes into the air. He sees Daisy playing tennis and later finds she has two strings to her bow. Bob remonstrates with Daisy, but she resents his interference and continues to receive the attentions of other men. Bob becomes insanely jealous. He remembers the article about the dope fiend killing the girl. Bob changes his clothes, so no one will recognize him, buys a drug and steals into Daisy's room at night and chloroforms her. Remorse overtakes him. Turn where he will, he sees the face of his dead sweetheart. He leaves town hurriedly. In the meantime, his description has been sent broadcast. When he leaves the train, in a small western town, a detective follows and tells him he is under arrest. There is a struggle and Bob wakes to find his father waking him from a nightmare. At first Bob is dazed, then he remembers his dream and rushes to the house of his sweetheart and finds her alive and well. He tells her of the horrible dream he has had and they decide upon an early marriage as the picture fades out.

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