One Touch of Nature

暂无简介Rose Creyton, a young country girl, is loved by her old childhood friend, Tom Lawton. While not exactly reciprocating Tom's affection, she is fond of him and, but for the arrival into their quiet village of Richard Hartley, the course of true love would probably have worked out its own salvation. Rose is attracted by the citified manner and \"store\" clothes of Hartley, to whom her fresh and innocent beauty is a revelation, and they become engaged. Mrs. Creyton is not pleased with her daughter's acceptance of Hartley's attentions and does all within her power to prevent Rose from receiving them. Tom finally musters up courage to propose to Rose, who tells him of her engagement to Hartley and expresses her regret at having to wound her old friend. Tom takes the blow manfully and decides leaving the old village for some far western country, in search of forgetfulness. He wishes Rose happiness, takes a photograph of her which she gives him, goes west and starts mining. Rose's married life proves a complete failure. Her husband turns out a drunkard and gambler, and she and the little boy who has come to them have a hard time of it. Finally, in an outburst of drunken rage, Hartley strikes his wife and, thinking he has killed her, flees, taking with him the child so that he may not be on hand to testify against him. He goes west, and as luck would have it, locates at a mining town close to which is Tom's mine and cabin. Hartley is killed in a drunken brawl and the child, fleeing for his life, runs away, finally falling exhausted at the door of Tom's cabin, just at the moment when Tom, desperate over continued hard luck, decides to end it all. The arrival of the boy saves him. Finding that the child has neither father nor mother, Tom decides to adopt him. His luck suddenly changes and fortune smiles upon the strangely assorted pair. For two years they remain together, growing fonder of each other all the time. In the meantime, Rose has been searching everywhere for her lost boy. She finally gets a clue which leads her to the mining town where her husband met death and learns the whereabouts of her boy. Eagerly starting for the place, she finds not only the boy but her old lover. The boy has learned to love Tom too dearly to be willing to leave him.