My Partner

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• 1916
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Saunders, Siskiyou's leading Citizen, miner, gentleman and all-around favorite, has Mary Brandon, the daughter of Mathew Brandon, ever since he had come to Siskiyou as a child. And it is not strange that he has, for Mary is a sweet, gentle-mannered girl of nineteen. Together with her younger sister, she keeps house for her father, and furnishes the only spot of light and joy to the hearts of many of the rough, kind-hearted men of the town. Mary knows of Joe's devotion, and loves him too, in her simple, girlish way, until one day Ned Singleton, a young stranger, comes to town. He is a handsome, enthusiastic chap, and he soon wins the love and respect of the entire community. He gains the unbounded admiration of Joe Saunders by catching a Mexican who cheated at cards, and Joe asked him to become his partner. In the meantime, Mary, too, has become interested in the fascinating young stranger. On a prospecting expedition, Joe and Ned find gold, but the younger man falls from a cliff and is carried back to the little mining town unconscious. Due to the tender care of Joe and Mary he recovers his health, but seriously loses his heart to the girl. Mary has grown to care more for Ned than for Joe. On the night of Mary's twentieth birthday, Joe follows her when she leaves the happy party given in her honor, into the woods. He tells her of his great love for her, and asks her to marry him. Mary is forced, for the first time, to confess to Joe her love for his partner. She leaves him, heartbroken and sad, and goes on to keep her tryst with Ned at lover's rock. Joe comes upon them just as Mary pleads with her lover to marry her at once, as he had promised. The big, kind-hearted miner steps in and forces Ned to promise he will marry her at once. In the meantime, Scraggs, the villain, who loved Mary's mother and now loves her, has tried to force his suit. He goes to Ned's cabin, bent upon stirring up trouble, and sees Joe as he rides away after trying to divide up and split partnership with the boy. When Scraggs accuses Mary of being Joe's mistress, Ned jumps at his throat, and in the tussle which follows, he is killed. The villain tears one bloody cuff from his shirt and hides it in the holes of the hearth from which Joe had taken out their strong box before leaving, and runs to the village to say that Ned Singleton has been murdered and that he had seen Joe Saunders leave the cabin. Whrn the men arrive at Ned's shack they find Joe bending over the dead body of his partner. He had returned too late to proffer the hand which he had refused before. At the trial Joe is acquitted. Scraggs is accused, and in the face of everyone Joe marries Mary because he loves her, and to preserve her good name.