Rozeska's father tore her away from her mother's arms, thrust her tambourine into her hand, and sent her out to entertain the auto party, halted on account of tire trouble, beside the road. "See the pretty little girl! What charming movements! A natural dancer!" cried the tourists, among whom was Carter Hargrave, the head of the vaudeville circuit. The child's father was all smiles when he gave him his card, and said that the girl would be a success in vaudeville. In the outskirts of the village near the gypsies' camp, lived Richard Lorraine, who, bereft of his wife and child, lives in a world of memories. He notices the gypsies' camp and wanders over to it. There he sees little Rozeska teaching her doll to dance. The next morning he calls at the camp and pays the father a large sum to allow him to adopt the child, to take the place of his own. The mother is grieved at the parting, but realizes it is for the best. Following the legal adoption, Rozeska is given everything she wishes. The father soon spends the money, and then, remembering the vaudeville manager, calls on him. Hargrave offers him seventy-five dollars a week for the child to dance. The father agrees to bring her, and that day breaks camp without telling the mother of his plans. In the night they arrive in the neighborhood of the Lorraine house. The father sets out for the house, but arouses the mother's suspicions. She questions him, and he tells her of the offer, and that he is going after Rozeska. She struggles to prevent him. He binds and gags her, but she succeeds in releasing herself and follows. The father is about to make away with Rozeska, when the mother arrives and raises the alarm. In an effort to escape, the father falls from the window and is killed. Rozeska clings to her mother, and Lorraine, seeing the affection between the two, offers the gypsy a home with her child.
Moving Picture World, September 29, 1917