Show F I I lj u 24 r p SYNOPSIS Howard Jeffries bankers banker's son under the evil Influence of ot Robert Underwood rellow student fellow student at Yale Tale leads a life of ot dissipation dis marries the daughter of ot a gambier gambler gam gam- bler bier who died In tn prison and Is disowned by his father tather He Is out of ot work and In desperate despera straits Underwood who had once been engaged to Howards Howard's stepmother stepmother step step- mother Alicia Is apparently In prosperous prosper prosper- ous circumstances Taking advantage of ot his Intimacy with Alicia he becomes a sort of ot social highwayman ht Discovering his true character Alicia denies him the house He sends her a note threatening suicide Art dealers for whom he acted acte as commissioner demand an accounting He Ho cannot make good Howard calls at athis his apartments In an Intoxicated condition condition condi condl- tion to request a loan of 2000 to enable him to take up a business proposition Howard drinks himself Into a maudlin condition and goes to sleep on a divan A caller Is announced and Underwood draws a screen around the drunken sleeper Alicia enters She demands a promise from Underwood that he will not take his life He refuses unless she wilt will renew her patronage This she refuses and takes her leave Underwood kills himself The report o of the pistol awakens awakens awakens awa- awa awa awa- kens Howard H HP IT finds Underwood de dead Howard Is turned over to the police pollee Capt Clinton notorious for his brutal tr treatment of prisoners puts Howard through h the third degree and finally gets an alleged confession from the harassed man Annie Howards Howard's wife declares her belief In tn her husbands husband's Innocence and calls on Jeffries Sr He Ho refuses to help unless Sinless she will consent to a n divorce To save Howard she consents but when she finds that the elder Jeffries does not Intend intend In- In tend nd to stand tand by his son e except financIally finan- finan daily lally she scorns his help Annie appeals to o Judge Brewster attorney for Jeffries Sr rt to take Howards Howard's case He lie declines It t Is reported that Annie Is going on the stage tage The banker and his wife call on JUll Judge e Brewster to find some way to preVent prevent pre- pre vent It Annie again R pleads with Brewster Brewster Brewter Brew- Brew ster ter ster to defend Howard He Ic consents Alicia Is greatly alarmed when she learns earns from Annie that Brewster Br has ta- ta taken taken ken cen the case She confesses to Annie that lat she called on Underwood th the thu night ot of f his death and that she has hns his letter tetter In n which he threatened suicide but begs for Dr time before giving out th the tion on Annie promises Brewster to produce the lie missing woman at a meeting at his home lome Brewster accuses Clinton of forcing a confession from Howard I Anlo Annie An An- nie lo appears without the witness and reuses refuses refuses re re- re- re fuses uses to give tho the name Alicia arrives |