The Pointing Finger

A stolen frock and three dollars mark Mary Murphy's desperate flight from institutional drudgery, her escape coinciding catastrophically with superintendent Grosset's brazen theft of ten thousand dollars. Branded a thief, the resourceful waif reinvents herself as plain-faced assistant to misanthropic entomologist William Saxton, only to have her past resurrected when Grosset arrives to blackmail her. As predatory fingers point toward the vulnerable orphan, a clandestine witness observes Grosset's true nature during a moonlit safe-cracking. Justice emerges from the shadows when Saxton reveals himself, culminating in the villain's arrest and Mary's union with the nephew who saw past her manufactured dowdiness to the resilient spirit beneath.