George Marston leaves his home to go to his work. He is a clerk in the office of Wm. Hall, a broker. On his way to the office, Marston meets two friends, who insist on treating him. He accompanies them into the saloon, and calls f...

The Fatal Glass

George Marston leaves his home to go to his work. He is a clerk in the office of Wm. Hall, a broker. On his way to the office, Marston meets two friends, who insist on treating him. He accompanies them into the saloon, and calls for a temperance drink. They ridicule him for this and insist on his taking a glass of liquor. He succumbs to their ridicule and tastes of the liquor, and that one glass proves fatal to him. When he arrives at his desk in the broker's office he is very late and slightly intoxicated, for which two reasons the broker very promptly discharges him. In his befuddled condition he threatens the broker, and he is ejected from the office. Shortly after this a blackmailer turns up at the broker's office. Confronted by a "ghost of the past," the broker is driven to desperation. The "blackmailer" gives the broker 15 minutes to decide on making an impossible payment; to make the payment he must rob the firm, and it is disgrace or death, and he chooses the latter. In the meantime, the clerk, Marston, has returned home, bringing sorrow to his wife and babe. The tears of the wife arouse in him his latent goodness and manhood, and he solemnly vows he will never again taste the fatal glass. With this resolution made, he starts back to the office to make a plea for reinstatement. He arrives just as the broker has committed self-destruction, and Marston is accused of the crime. He is convicted and receives a life sentence, and we see him working out the weary years on a stone pile. In the meantime, his wife goes back to the home of her childhood, taking her little boy along. Years pass, and the boy grows to manhood. He marries, and brings his wife to live with his mother, and a beautiful little girl blesses the union. In after years the blackmailer gets into the tolls, being caught red-handed in a burglary. He is convicted, and makes an attempt to escape from prison and is shot and mortally wounded. Having recognized in prison the man who was wrongly accused of the crime of murder, he tells all that he knows concerning the matter, and Marston is liberated and starts for the place where he won his sweetheart. He arrives in the village and is begging for food, when a child takes pity on him. The child proves to be his granddaughter, and the meeting leads to a visit to his wife, and the reunion is graphic and intense, a reward for years of suffering.

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