The Spreading Dawn

Georgina asks permission from her old aunt, Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl, to marry Capt. Nugent before his departure for France. Patricia refuses and, in reply to Georgina's questioning, gives her a diary from her own girlhood to read. The diary unfolds the story of Patricia's marriage to soldier Anthony Vanderpyl. Returning on furlough after the outbreak of the Civil War, Anthony suddenly leaves Patricia to visit Mrs. Le Roy, an old flame, and is killed by her jealous husband. Positive that Anthony had been unfaithful to her, Patricia refuses to open the letter that her husband sent her on the day of his death. Georgina now opens it and discovers that Anthony had gone to Mrs. Le Roy to end the affair that his brother Bentley was having with her. With this revelation, Patricia sanctions her niece's marriage, then dies, joining Anthony in "the spreading dawn".

Cast

Jane Cowl Patricia Mercer Vanderpyl

Orme Caldara Anthony Vanderpyl

Harry Spingler Bentley Vanderpyl Florence Billings Mrs. Cornelia Le Roy Henry Stephenson Mr. LeRoy Alice Chapin Mrs. Mercer

Helena Blair Young Lizzie

Cecil Owen Colonel Lee Mabel Ballin Georgina Vanderpyl Edmund Lowe Captain Lewis Nugent Edith McAlpin Old Lizzie

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