1913 The Escape

Two convicts, Joe Norton and Charles Wendell, make their escape from prison and in their flight take different roads. Norton is wounded and nearly famished when he arrives at the farm of William English. He is nursed back to health and given work on the farm. English's daughter, Dorothy, is engaged to marry one of her father's employees, when she meets Wendell, now a prosperous businessman. Wendell dazzles the girl with promises of great wealth and position until she consents to elope with him. Norton recognizes Wendell, learns the situation and as they are about to elope sends the girl back to her lover and, at the point of his gun, sets Wendell adrift out of the neighborhood.