Langhorn Burton

Adventures of a squire's disowned son who proves to be his bastard heir.

A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.

When English nobleman Marcus Heriot marries the young Canadian Wanda his family, especially his mother, reject her because of her outsider status. Lady Heriot engineers a scandal that ruins their marriage and after has Wanda’s child declared illegitimate. Years pass during which Wanda and her son Robin rebuild their lives through toil. Now grown Robin enters the military, and Marcus reenters their lives wanting to give the young man his name.

A jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British production survives.

'Mother thwarts daughter's elopement with story of how wife shot her errant husband.' (British Film Catalogue)