A Sea Mystery

暂无简介A shot is fired in the darkness of the cabin on an ocean liner; a man falls prostrate across the table while a frightened woman throws a revolver from her and rushing out on deck she flings herself over the rail into the waves. The man was not badly hurt. The woman was washed ashore next morning on the beach of a fishing village. The man traces the girl to be revenged upon her. Meantime in the hut of some fishing folk, Mary, the girl, is happy. Two fishermen love her, one, big and stalwart, the other, weak of mind and weak of body. The big fellow, John, proposes to Mary and she accepts him. Ralph, the other boy, sees the progress of this love affair and smiles upon it, although it breaks his heart. The man of the boat arrives at the fishing village and one day as Mary is dancing over the sands to meet John she comes face to face with this visitor from her past. He asks her to go away with him back to the old life. Mary protests and tells him she has a chance for happiness and begs him to go away and leave her free. He laughs at her; he taunts and goads her into a rage. Ralph comes to the girl who sits sadly on the sand and asks her the trouble. \"That man makes you unhappy?\" asks the boy. She nods. \"Then 1 will take him where he can never make you unhappy again.\" That night Mary determines to confess all to John. Ralph steals out and finding the stranger, suggests that he row him to the mainland. The stranger jumps into the little craft that sets out on its last voyage. Mary confesses to John, telling him of the past of the days when she was the accomplice of the man on the boat, and how, finally unable to stand the life, she pleaded for a chance to go away and be free and when the beast laughed in her face, she shot him. John soothes her and when he learns that the man has come to disgrace her he vows to kill him. But the dawn breaks on two bodies washed in by the tide, Ralph and the stranger side by side.