Moving Picture News (1911) . r hesitated,the millionaire, furious, threatened to ruinhis one time benefactor unless the marriagewas arranged without delay. The girl, tosave her father, consented to the lovelessmatch, and again the millionaire was con-vinced that nothing could withstand hiswill. Later, at his country estate, the mil-lionaire gave a house party. With othersof his guests he went hunting, becameseparated, and finally lost. When com-pletely exhausted he saw a light shining inthe woods; he dragged himself to it andfound refuge in the humble home of a poorhunter. The hunter had a bea
Moving Picture News (1911) . r hesitated,the millionaire, furious, threatened to ruinhis one time benefactor unless the marriagewas arranged without delay. The girl, tosave her father, consented to the lovelessmatch, and again the millionaire was con-vinced that nothing could withstand hiswill. Later, at his country estate, the mil-lionaire gave a house party. With othersof his guests he went hunting, becameseparated, and finally lost. When com-pletely exhausted he saw a light shining inthe woods; he dragged himself to it andfound refuge in the humble home of a poorhunter. The hunter had a beautiful wife, towhom the millionaire let his fancy lightlyrun. He told her of his wealth, promisedto provide for her and was much aston-ished when she rejected his he grabbed and kissed her, andwhen the hunter returned he found hiswife struggling in the arms of the manwhose life he had saved. The hunter, aiming a gun at the mil-lionaires heart, ordered him to leave thehouse. Then, with his gun still he followed him through the woods, themillionaire pleading cravenly for his traversed the forest, and at the edgethe hunter pointed out the home of themillionaire in the distance. Whereuponthe man who tried to wrong him pluckedup heart, thanked his guide and offered himmoney. The hunter looked at him somberly andin silence, then knocked him down andthe last words the millionaire heard as hestaggered through the woods were thefarewell ones of the hunter—You cur. It was the first rebuff he had experi-enced since wealth came to him. He real-ized that there was one thing and one manhe could not buy. And the grim face ofthe hunter and his words haunted him. The girl came to him at last and askedfor her freedom. He tried to tell her thatshe must keep her promise or her fatherwould be ruined, but the face of the oneman who had beaten him appeared to him,,and he found that he was powerless. He gave her the freedom she asked andtried to forget his humil
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