Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient has just died, calls on the doctor, intending to kill him. The grief-crazed man is foiled several times by the return of the tramp, whom the maid at last pushes out of the house. She hears the doctor struggling with his assailant and faints. The tramp hears the doctor's cry for help and enters by a rear window, despite the objections of a policeman, in time to save his benefactor.
Lionel Barrymore
as The Tramp
Lillian Gish
as The Maid
Walter Miller
as The Doctor
Harry Carey
as The Thief
Claire McDowell
as The Thief's Wife - the Charity Patient
Robert Harron
as Witness to Accident
Dorothy Gish
as Witness to Accident
Christy Cabanne
as Witness to Accident
John T. Dillon
as Policeman / Witness to Accident
Alfred Paget
as Policeman
