For a Woman’s Fair Name

When Vivien and her husband, Pierce, come Into their new home, she comes face to face with her husband's secretary, Bolles, and a shadow is cast over her happiness. Bolles is a dope fiend, supported by the charity of his half-brother, McGregor, a man of splendid character, and holds over Vivien and McGregor the fear of scandal because of a trap he had laid for Pierce and Vivien, by which he succeeded in compromising them. McGregor meanwhile meets and falls in love with Alicia, Pierce's young sister, and Bolles, also being in love with her, threatens to reveal everything, in revenge. Through a peculiar combination of circumstances, Bolles, one night half crazed by the drug, shoots Alicia by mistake, and McGregor, to protect Vivien, who was at his home at the time of the shooting, confesses he is guilty. Pierce does not believe his friend is guilty and quietly investigates, confident that McGregor is shielding someone