The False Bride

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Florence has married Lester Gould, a young man of wealth. In Lester's employment is a butler, an honest man, but addicted to drink. While out carousing one evening, he picks up with a party of underworld habitants. Among them is one Amy St. Clair, a double of Flo. The butler is amazed at the striking resemblance, in fact it startles him so much that he returns home to assure himself of the two women's separate personalities. Florence and Lester quarrel. Florence, in a temper, returns home to mother. Lester follows and has a talk with the mother, who advises that he go away for a short time and give the girl a chance to come to her senses. He returns home to prepare for the trip and finds the butler drunk. The butler is discharged. Lester departs. The butler plunges further into drink and is thrown again into the company of his underworld acquaintances. He tells them of his discharge and, taking advantage of his drunken state, they derive much information about his former employer's wealth, the quarrel, the separation and trip and they conceive a diabolical scheme of having Amy St. Clair replace Florence. Florence is kidnapped and made a captive. Amy goes to Lester's home and setting herself up as the wife, waits the homecoming of the husband. Lester returns home and is deceived. Amy begins to secure large sums of money from him to divide with her companions. The butler, in the meantime having sobered up, has reasons to suspect the scheme. In a highly spectacular scene, he rescues Florence and takes her, weak from her terrible experience, back home. Amy is confronted. She escapes. Immediately after she, with her friends, are apprehended and the butler is reinstated, while Florence has learned her lesson.