- Isabel Bland is a fun lover and does not want children, but her wealthy, reclusive husband Robert desires some. They drift apart, and after Isabel learns of Robert's involvement with another woman, she divorces him and goes to their Florida island summer home, while Robert retires to the Everglades, leaving his business with his roguish brother John. When Robert learns that Isabel's old sweetheart, William Proctor, is coming to visit their island home, his love for Isabel returns. He goes there and during a storm, sees Isabel passionately embracing Proctor. A flash of lightning illuminating Robert's face on the window pane strengthens Isabel's resolve to resist Proctor. She reconciles with Robert and after a year, dies giving birth to their daughter Bella. Twenty years later, when Bella rejects her cousin Ralph's proposal, Ralph's father John proclaims that because Bella's parents never remarried, she is illegitimate and not Robert's lawful heir. Judge Randolph, the father of her sweetheart, Sidney Austin, learns that because the court fees were never paid, the divorce decree is invalid. With her legitimacy proven, Bella marries Austin.—Pamela short
- The Blands are of high social standing in their town. Robert Bland, the husband, is a successful businessman who cares nothing for the pleasures of society. His wife Isabel, does. Robert Bland desires children. His wife does not. They are a childless couple. This fact causes them to drift apart though living under the same roof. Bland, forced to crush his conscience by his wife's coldness, seeks the companionship of another woman. An anonymous letter to Isabel tells her of her husband's liaison with the woman. Isabel demands to know from her husband if it is the truth. Robert replies yes. A divorce is granted to the wife. By chance the court fees remain unpaid. Robert, embittered with the world, retires to the Everglades (the Blands are living in Florida) and Isabel goes to their country home on an island far from the mainland. Robert Bland receives a note from a former sweetheart of his wife's, by the name of Proctor, who is ignorant of the divorce, saying that he would visit them at their island home. The old love for his wife prompts Robert to take the letter himself to the island. In the meantime Proctor has arrived on the island. He finds Isabel alone as she had sent her two servants to the mainland for household supplies. A sudden storm-arises. The servants do not dare to venture back to the island. Isabel and Proctor make the best of the situation. They prepare supper and enjoy talking over old sweetheart days. Finally Isabel tells Proctor of her divorce. He is surprised and delighted. The night shadows creep on. The storm is at its height. Proctor makes passionate love to Isabel. For the first time in her life she feels the thrill of desire. Isabel fights off the desire, but is about to submit when a flash of lightning reveals her husband's face at the window. Isabel thinks it is a figment of her mind; nevertheless it gives her strength to resist. Isabel returns to her husband in the Everglades. Both decide to live there. Robert's business is placed in the hands of his brother, William. Isabel, a year later, dies in giving birth to a baby girl. Twenty years have elapsed. Bland and his daughter, Bella, are still living in the Everglades. Bland is suddenly stricken. Bella, in seeking help, meets her cousin, Ralph, and his friend, Austin, who are hunting in the Everglades. They go with Bella to her father's hut. The old man, discovering Ralph to be his nephew, orders him to tell his father to turn over his (Bland's) property to Bella, as she is his heir and only child. The old man dies in Bella's arms. The rest of the story relates the fight of William Bland to keep the property of his brother in his own hands. Bella has a champion in Austin. With the help of Austin's father, a retired judge, the same one who had sat on the Blands' divorce case, the property is saved for Bella. Austin finally wins the hand of Bella as the story ends.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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