- John Kendall was brought up in a wealthy family, but when his father loses the family fortune and then dies, John is left penniless. He joins the army and rises to the rank of sergeant. He soon meets and falls in love with Edith Ferris, the daughter of Col. Dickinson. When he talks to her at a party, Lt. Burkett upbraids him for fraternizing with an officer's family. Edith's mother, not wanting her daughter getting involved with a lowly enlisted man, conspires with Lt. Burkett to discredit John.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Trouble came upon John Kendall on his graduation from college. His father, a prosperous banker, had had his fortune utterly swept away and under circumstances which left his good name under a cloud. He died, and John, unable to clear away the stain, but bitterly resenting it, enlisted. He won quick promotion, and soon became a quartermaster sergeant. He had begun his second term of enlistment when he first saw Edith Ferris, the niece of Colonel Dickinson, his commanding officer. Kendall was granted a month's furlough, with permission to wear citizen's clothes, and it happened that almost the first person he encountered away from the fort was David Barclay, the chum of his college days, who took him to his country home. When Kendall met Edith Ferris he did not know she was the colonel's niece. For a fortnight every moment of their waking hours, that actually demanded by their social duties, they spent in each other's society. The denouement came at a dance at the country club just before Kendall was to return to duty, his furlough being at an end. It happened that Lieutenant Burkett, an unpopular man and officer of Kendall's regiment, was also a guest. Burkett came upon the sergeant, just then in conversation with Edith Ferris and her mother, and brusquely and insultingly ordered him from the club. Kendall chose for the first time in his military life to disobey the command of a superior. Lieutenant Burkett, white with suppressed rage, was escorted to the door, while Kendal; remained with Edith. Until that time, only Edith bad shared Kendall's secret. Now that her mother knew that her daughter's suitor was only an enlisted man, however, a sudden change swept over her. Finding she could not persuade Edith to give Kendall up, Mrs. Ferris took sides with Lieutenant Burkett, and they sought to discover facts which might discredit the sergeant. The story of the elder Kendall's failure came to them. This was some week after the happening at the country club, and Edith, who, with her mother, was visiting Colonel Dickinson soon heard of it. That evening Kendall received a brief but urgent note: "Meet me at the pier after taps. Important. Edith." When Kendall met his sweetheart, she told him of the plot to ruin him. Suddenly a sharp commotion at the barracks and a cry for the "Guard" caused both of them to start in alarm. "A prisoner has escaped," exclaimed Kendall. Then he ran with Edith to the storehouse on the shore, of which he alone had the key. There he hid Edith until he had distracted the guards. How the quartermaster sergeant diverted the guards and gave Edith a chance to avoid being seen, and of his refusal to explain the reasons for his presence near the storehouse, which later was found open, all of which gave Lieutenant Burkett his opportunity to discredit him and bring about his reduction to a mere sergeancy, are all matters of record. It is not generally known, however, that it was Edith's confession of her presence there to her uncle, Colonel Dickinson, that saved Kendall from further disgrace. In the days that followed the regiment was called to Nicaragua to aid the government there in putting down an insurrection. Kendall saved the regiment from an ambuscade that threatened to decimate it, while Burkett hid far at the rear. When the regiment returned, Sergeant Kendall found a commission as lieutenant and Edith both waiting for him. Better still, he learned that a train of circumstances had led to the clearing of the stain on his dead father's name and the return of a portion of his fortune.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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