Summary
Avarice masquerades as courtship when fortune-hunter Richard Earle shackles himself to the luminous heiress Elaine Bronson, then banishes her to the shadows of a clandestine union so his clandestine liaison with the velvet-voiced Lucille Bennett may bloom unchecked. Enter Jimmy Newton—sunlit, sincere—who spirits the battered bride from the wreckage of a motorcar calamity into the sanctuary of his hearth. When Richard’s fists rain down upon Elaine in a frenzy of possessive rage, Lucille—her illusions shattered like crystal on cobblestones—bursts in and fires the bullet that severs the gilded chain. With Richard’s body cooling on the parquet, Elaine steps into daylight, her hand now claimed by the man who loved her when she was merely a rumor.
Synopsis
When Richard Earle marries Elaine Bronson for her money, he orders her to keep the marriage a secret so that he may continue his affair with a married woman, Lucille Bennett. Jimmy Newton falls in love with Elaine and takes her to his home after she is injured in a car accident. When Richard discovers the two together, he beats Elaine, until Lucille, having discovered Richard's duplicity and cruelty, enters the house and shoots him. Free of Richard, Elaine becomes engaged to Jimmy.
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