- Adoree, a young Belgian girl, half-mad by the war horrors that she has experienced,is found by the Hudsons, a wealthy American couple who take the amnesia-stricken girl back to the United States with them. Soon after, Roger Hudson is called away to business in South America, and when his wife Claire discovers that Adoree is pregnant, she convinces the girl to allow the Hudsons to claim the child as theirs. The child is born and Dr. Thorn cables Hudson to come home because his wife has given birth. Meanwhile, Adoree, longing for her baby, steals the infant and disappears. Finding the girl's coat near a lake, Hudson assumes that she has drowned and dynamites the lake in order to locate her body. The explosions restore Adoree's memory, and she recalls her marriage to the Vicomte Jean de Michelet, who happens to be in town raising money for Belgian relief. The vicomte is brought to his wife and the family is happily reunited.—Pamela Short
- Out of the war-ruined village of Saint Michelet comes Adoree, her memory gone, because of her sufferings. Among the ruins she finds a battered doll and this she hugs to her breast. Mr. and Mrs. Roger Hudson, on an automobile tour of Belgium, adopt her and bring her to their American home. At a garden party Adoree is taken ill. Dr. Thorn, a woman doctor, is called and makes the discovery that Adoree is about to become a mother. The next day a letter calls Mr. Hudson to Brazil. Mrs. Hudson tells him that when he comes home his greatest desire will be realized. Dr. Thorn proposes that Adoree entrust her child to Mrs. Hudson, relinquishing all her rights to the infant so that the child may have the protection of an honorable name. Adoree consents. The child is born and Dr. Thorn sends a cablegram to Mr. Hudson calling him home. He returns to find his wife in bed clasping the infant and he greets the baby as "Our son." At the mountain lodge of the Hudsons to which Adoree has been taken, she longs for her baby. She throws the doll, which comforted her so many times, to the floor in disgust. Finally she goes to the Hudson home, kidnaps her baby and flies with it to an island in the lake. Finding the baby gone Mrs. Hudson also finds a note: "I can't give up my baby. If you follow and take him from me, I will tell the truth, that he is mine. Adoree." The gardener brings in a coat, discarded by Adoree which he has found in the lake. Mr. Hudson immediately takes it for granted that Adoree and the baby have been drowned and he orders the lake dynamited to bring the bodies to the surface. Adoree comes from her hiding place. A dynamite explosion throws her to the ground. Mr. Hudson comes to her in a boat and finds the baby safe. Adoree is placed under the care of Dr. Thorn. Mr. Hudson determines that Adoree is not to be trusted and must be sent to an asylum. The shock restores Adoree's memory. She recalls her marriage to Vicomte Jean de Michelet, of his call to the front on the morning after their marriage and of the attack on her home which ended with the Hudsons finding her. She finishes her recital by demanding her baby. Dr. Thorn is now convinced that the baby must be given back to Adoree. Dr. Thorn goes to Mrs. Hudson. She determines to tell the truth to her husband. "I lied because I wanted to make you happy," she concludes. "Perhaps her story is just another scheme of her poor crazed brain," suggests Mr. Hudson. "If her statements are true," continued Mr. Hudson, "they are easily verified. The Vicomte de Michelet is here, collecting funds for the Belgian relief. I talked with him at the country club less than an hour ago." The Vicomte is brought to the house. Mr. Hudson asks him if he has ever been married. The Vicomte says yes and tells the same story that Adoree told. He is taken to Adoree and they are happily reunited while Mr. Hudson forgives his wife.
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