Two brothers love the same girl, she marries the elder, the younger takes to dissipation. Financially wrecked by gambling, he comes to his sister-in-law, and she helps him. In gratitude, he kisses her. Her husband returns in time to see this, and rushes away without waiting for an explanation. The husband writes a message to his wife stating that he knows her love for his brother and that he has committed suicide. This note, together with his hat, overcoat and pocketbook, he leaves upon the rocks, where it Is found by some fishermen, who take it to the wife, The shock of her husband’s supposed death unseats his wife’s reason. The demented woman seeing visions of her husband seated In his accustomed chair. As she tries to embrace him her arms pass through his phantom, she sinks back desperate. The husband reads of his wife’s sad condition and hurries home. The family physician determines to try a desperate remedy. The husband is placed in the chair the vision has so long occupied. Once more the woman tries to embrace the vision and finds it flesh and blood. With a joyous cry of “He lives, he lives” she sinks limp into the arms of her husband.