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Repaid (1916)
Short | Short, Drama

Repaid (1916)

Short | Short, Drama

Jack Hardin, the black sheep of his family, returns after an absence of five years. He remains a moment motionless and then goes on into the house. He looks into the library, and sees a figure at work before the wall safe. He enters the ...See moreJack Hardin, the black sheep of his family, returns after an absence of five years. He remains a moment motionless and then goes on into the house. He looks into the library, and sees a figure at work before the wall safe. He enters the room, but the figure slips out before Jack can reach him. Jack crosses to the safe and reaches in to see what is missing. As he does so, his father working late in his private study off the library, enters. Jack endeavors to explain, but his father grows more and more excited. The accusation follows and Jack answers with an emphatic denial. Their voices arouse his mother. She sees the situation and begs her husband's mercy, but the old man is unrelenting. Jack, feeling the unjustness of the accusation slips upstairs to his own rooms and throws a few personal belongings in a bag. Meanwhile, his brother, Norman, arrives and learns the cause of the trouble. As Jack leaves Norman realizes that at last the field is open to him. A vision of Harriett Lawrence, whom he has loved as a rival to Jack, comes before him. Forgetting the selfishness of it, he feels a bit of satisfaction that Jack is out of the way. Jack, who is now by the outside gate, decides to see his mother once again. Going to the window he raps softly on the window of the room in which his mother is seated. She sees him and goes to him. Just then his father appears and orders him away. Again his mother intervenes and this time with success. His father relents, and all is forgiven. Sitting alone with Harriet in the garden of her home Norman proposes, but as happened before, Harriet refuses him. She confesses it is the thought of Jack which keeps her from accepting Norman and the best he can hope for is her promise that if she does not hear from Jack within the year she will marry him. When Norman reaches home he is greatly astonished to learn that his brother has been taken back. Jack goes to work in his father's office. Hardin, Sr., and his partner, Jasper Wade, are the sole owners of a prosperous mercantile company. Norman has been with them a number of years and it is Hardin's intention to buy a place in the firm for him. Accordingly he gives Wade his note for a part of his interest, which turns over to Norman. The note indicates that Hardin is short of ready money and wade determines to block business to such an extent that Hardin will be unable to pay off the note out of the returns from the company. Jack's inquiries as to how Harriett is, frightens Norman, for he knows if they meet again Harriett will immediately accept Jack. So the first time Jack speaks of her to him he tells him confidentially that she has promised to marry him. This is to Jack the last blow. At last the fact that Hardin, Sr., is in trouble becomes known to Jack. He finds out that Wade has deliberately caused the business to shrink in order to force his father out of it with the note as a lever. Jack has kept away from Harriet and she has accepted this to mean he no longer cares, consequently she accepts Norman. Their wedding invitations are sent out. Jack overhears the conversation between his father and his mother, in which his father confesses his inability to meet Wade's note. It will, he says, result in his withdrawal from the firm for his note now, based on current earnings, would represent more than his share is worth. Jack waits until his mother is out of the room and then enters to his father. Jack explains what he has learned about the conditions under which Wade has been handling the business. His father waits until he has finished, then ask him what he means. Jack tells him he should repudiate the check. His father sneers at him. Morning comes and Jack is resolved. He goes to the office and works until noon. It is Saturday. As his father and Norman leave Jack seeks Wade in his private office and tells him that he has come to redeem his father's note. Wade is disappointed, but has to accept. Jack tender him his personal check for an amount in excess of the value of the note. Home again in his own room he slowly packs up a few belongings and leaves a note for his mother. Jack boards a train and leaves, without a regret except for his mother. Back home she finds the note and reads it heartbroken. Monday morning comes and Wade visits the bank. There the check is refused. Jack has not even an account there. He returns to the office and confronts Hardin. The note is gone and the check is worthless. Hardin realizes his gravest fears. It is what he thought all along, the black sheep has gone wrong again, but Wade leaves he remembers the burden removed from his shoulders, he can repay as he wishes, his worry is over. He breathes a sigh of relief and then sees a glimmer of light, perhaps, after all, the black sheep was not so black. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less

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Name	Known for
Edward Coxen Jack Hardin (as Ed Coxen) Jack Hardin (as Ed Coxen) See fewer	The Bells (1918)
Harvey Clark Jack's Father Jack's Father See fewer	Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)
Louise Lester Jack's Mother Jack's Mother See fewer	Calamity Anne's Dream (1913)
Lizette Thorne Harriet Lawrence Harriet Lawrence See fewer	A Dream or Two Ago (1916)
George Field Norman Hardin Norman Hardin See fewer	Blood and Sand (1922)
Charles Newton Jasper Wade Jasper Wade See fewer	The Warning (II) (1915)