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.
Director
Cecil B. DeMille
Elliott Dexter
David Markely
Gloria Swanson
Ruth Anderson
Monte Blue
Jim Dirk
Theodore Roberts
Luke Anderson
Claire McDowell
Housekeeper
Michael D. Moore
Bobby Markely (as Mickey Moore)
Julia Faye
Alice Blair, Banker's Daughter
James Pier Mason
Country Masher
Togo Yamamoto
Servant
Theodore Kosloff
Clown
William Boyd
(uncredited)
US
