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A Virgin's Sacrifice Synopsis
Tom Merwin meets Althea Sherrill trekking in the Northwoods, and she accepts his hospitality for the night; a warm friendship develops, and Tom, sensing that she is troubled, promises to protect her and pose as her husband accompanying her home. There Althea reveals that her child's father, Sam Bellows, has followed from Montreal and threatens to turn over an affidavit of the child's birth to her father unless she pays his price: marriage. She is abducted by Bellows, but Tom learns of her predicament and trails them with a score of woodsmen and dogs. Althea's faithful dogs attack and kill Bellows, and the papers proving that Althea's mother is the mother of the illegitimate child are destroyed by Merwin, who is thereafter united with Althea.
Into the Light Synopsis
A simple country girl, brutally mistreated by her stepfather, awakens first the sympathy, then the love, of The Boy. The Spider, who lusts after The Girl, makes a bargain with the stepfather and takes her to the city where, kept prisoner, she is soon broken in health and spirit. Cast out and near death, she is taken in by The Boy. Following the demise of The Spider, The Boy takes her to church, where he prays, and after many hours she is restored to health.
"A Virgin's Sacrifice" holds a slight edge in general audience appreciation, but "Into the Light" offers its own unique cult appeal.
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