The Link That Held

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There is a foolish little wife who is dissatisfied with her humble estate, and in spite of the fact that she in a way loves her plodding husband and pretty little baby, is far from happy. The husband is one of those passive, but fundamentally true-natured men, whose economic position is such that he feels he must run no risks which might prevent his providing well for his little family. His employer, a man about town, meets the young wife and becomes attracted by her beauty. He takes her for a ride in his automobile and brings her to the office, where her husband is at work. On another day when she comes with the baby he takes her into the inner office to show her paintings and statuary and to advance his flirtation a little further. The little girl, who becomes "The Link That Held," seeing her father's suffering without understanding it, goes into the inner office to summon the little mother. The entrance of the child in the midst of their flirtation suddenly brings sanity to the two people. The young wife leaves the room in tears, and the baby, remaining, slips her hand into that of the possible destroyer of their home. The touch of the childish hand is too much for the man and makes him realize what harm he might have done. Of course when the husband returns to his home, which he believes is home no longer in the true sense of the word, he finds his little wife carrying out new resolutions and quite willing to be held by "The Little Link" and be her love for her husband.