Kindhearted Charles Wendel, who has built his pushcart grocery business into a prosperous enterprise, adopts little eight-year-old Mary Brian after her mother dies in poverty. The little girl becomes the angel of the house, beloved by all. Wendel's dream is that his son Ralph will carry on the business, but when Ralph graduates from college, he decides that he is too good for the grocery business. Instead, he goes to work in a bank where he falls prey to swindlers who convince him to forge his father's name on a $100,000 check. When the forgery is discovered, the old man covers the check at the cost of his own financial ruin. Ralph, chagrined, leaves home to make good and soon after returns, prosperous, to wed Mary and restore the fortune and happiness of the Wendel family.
Lew Fields
as Charles Wendel
Madge Evans
as Mary Brian, age 8
Lillian Cook
as Mary Brian, age 18
Nick Long Jr.
as Ralph Wendel, age 10
William Sherwood
as Ralph Wendel, age 20
Vivia Ogden
as Old Maid
Stanhope Wheatcroft
as William
Justine Cutting
as Lena Wendel
George Cowl
as Oscar Leaming
Pinna Nesbit
as Stella
