In the subject of this sketch, which represents a very thrilling climax of a love story that is not altogether unlike the always-to-be-remembered story of Paola and Francesco in a modern garb, a youth pays court to the daughter of a magistrate and the affair is disapproved of by the father of the girl, who forbids the house to the lover, and as a result the youthful couple meet clandestinely. The magistrate having discovered the young man in companionship with the daughter endeavors to shoot the youth and instead kills his own daughter. When officers are summoned to the deplorable scene the horrified father accuses the young man of the deed and allows him to be imprisoned and tried under the accusation. Despite the appeals of the mother of the young man the magistrate makes no attempt to save the lover of his unfortunate daughter and himself falls into a swoon in his office, and the picture closes with the vision that he sees of his daughter and her lover folded in embrace in Elysium.