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Four Narratives (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Four Narratives (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

One afternoon Corridon, the detective, is at home. Phil Lessy, an Internal Revenue officer, is shown in, and asking Corridon for his help, proceeds to relate an experience, the first narrative. Hunting moonshiners in the mountains, Phil ...See moreOne afternoon Corridon, the detective, is at home. Phil Lessy, an Internal Revenue officer, is shown in, and asking Corridon for his help, proceeds to relate an experience, the first narrative. Hunting moonshiners in the mountains, Phil learns to love Mary, who is also loved by Diamond, an educated young moonshiner and bad man. On the day that Phil plans to raid them, Diamond receives a mysterious note and plans to leave for the city. Attempting to force Mary to go with him, he is compelled to shoot at her father who starts for him. Her father falls, and Mary joins the party leaving to raid the moonshiners. Diamond escapes and the only clue Phil finds is half of a note that apparently is from a fellow lawbreaker seeking to obtain a hidden fortune. As both Phil and Mary's father are wounded, Mary conceives the notion of leaving herself to hunt for Diamond. She does not return and Phil obtains a leave of absence, comes to the city mentioned in the note, and learns of Corridon from his own sister. Corridon is smiling as Phil concludes and goes to the safe and gets the other half of the note. Morrill, a wealthy clubman, is called in and he relates, at Corridon's request, the second narrative. He explains that his brother, Walter, was wild, got in bad company at college, and was expelled. He explains further that when their father died a large part of the fortune was hidden in cash and never found, and that so, when he began to discover systematic vandalism in his home, he knew that Walter was behind it, and so called Corridon in on the case. Corridon takes up the story, making the third narrative. He tells that he found the other half of the note in the home of Morrill and that they went to an address given there, but found only a young married couple, and were baffled without further clue. But Phil now recognizes Diamond and Mary from the description, and the police are sent to bring them in. Mary is persuaded to tell her story. She found no clues in the city until this very day, when she witnessed Phil taking a woman to his arms, and then, crushed at his apparent perfidy, she meets Diamond and is persuaded to go to his apartment with him while he pleads his love. While there word is sent up that the police are downstairs and Diamond tells Mary that the only way she can avoid arrest and scandal is to marry him. She consents, and so was just the bride of a moment when Morrill and Corridon saw them. Mary is then crushed when Phil explains that the woman was his sister, and was advising him to see Corridon. But in the meantime, a trap has been set for Walter, and the police bring him in. Morrill is angered when he sees that Walter is disguised as a priest, and when Mary learns that it is a disguise she cries out, for it was Walter that has married her to Diamond, and so she is free after all. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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6 cast members

Name	Known for
R. Henry Grey Detective Corridon (as R. H. Gray) Detective Corridon (as R. H. Gray) See fewer	Twin Kiddies (1917)
Velma Whitman Mary Mary See fewer	Some Boy (1917)
William Parsons Phil Lessey (as William E. Parsons) Phil Lessey (as William E. Parsons) See fewer	Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
George Routh Diamond Diamond See fewer	While the Children Slept (1913)
George W. Chase Walter Walter See fewer	Flying Colors (1917)
Norman Napier Morrill Morrill See fewer	Harsh Times (2005)