Illustrating the old story of a man yielding to temptation, and meeting with a fatal fall.
Fatality (1907) Online
A family of three, consisting of father, mother and child, is seen at a noon-day meal. Ere they have finished, a friend of the husband's comes in and joins them at the meal. The visitor persuades the husband to join him in a gambling game. The wife tries very hard to persuade the husband not to give way to the solicitations of the false friend. Finding her efforts in vain, she goes out, leaving the couple to themselves. The husband informs his friend of his inability to obtain money and is persuaded to rob the wife. They leave together for the gambling house. The wife returns and, finding her husband gone, together with her savings, follows him and arrives while he is gambling her hard-earned savings away. She urges him to come home, but he repulses her. A quarrel arises over the cards, during which the husband gets the worst of it and is carried home, accompanied by his tempter. The false friend makes advances to the wife, who repulses him, and he goes off vowing vengeance. A ...