Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is then killed in a subway accident. Markley offers to marry her in name only to protect her new son.
as David Markely
as Ruth Anderson
as Jim Dirk
as Luke Anderson
as Housekeeper
as Bobby Markely (as Mickey Moore)
as Alice Blair, Banker's Daughter
as Country Masher
as Servant
as Clown
as (uncredited)