Drink is fastening its arms around Frank Downing; he has broken promise after promise made to his wife to reform and she in despair appeals to a friend, who endeavors to persuade her to leave and accept a position as teacher in the village school in a distant part of the state. One night Downing comes home helpless, having spent his week’s wages on drink, and there is no food in the house for Edna and the boy, Tommy. This decides the question and Edna and the little boy leave the degraded man to go forth into the world and earn their living. Upon arriving in the village where her school is located, Edna meets and inquires her way of John Stevens. He is a widower and is devoted to his little daughter, Doris, to whom he is both father and mother. Through this chance meeting a friendship is established between Edna and John, which grows stronger and stronger as time passes, until John discovers that he loves her very dearly, and asks her to be his wife. Edna then admits her love and confides her story to him. He is willing to wait until she can secure a divorce. During vacation Edna and Tommy return to their old home town, and here she secures her freedom. And now queer fate enters the picture. While she is away a man, a wreck and practically a tramp, is arrested in the village and tries to dispose of some carpenter tools, which are recognized as being the property of John Stevens. The man is Downing. He is taken to Stevens’ shop in order that the tools may be identified. Downing makes an appeal to Stevens, the appeal of desperation, and John, who is touched, saves the man from the law’s grasp by stating he is a new workman whom he has just employed. Downing is put to work and Stevens helps him to fight bis curse. Finally, he is reclaimed and becomes a man in fact. Edna returns to the village, full of hope, and Stevens, still ignorant of the relations that once existed between her and the man he has saved, is awaiting her with all a true lover’s impatience. Edna enters the shop, and comes face to face with Frank. And thus does John learn the truth. The situation appalls all, all but John, a man who knew his God, and knowing Him, abided His will. He joins their hands, saying, “Whom God Hath Joined Together, Let No Man Put Asunder.” Downing with the past before him, refuses the sacrifice, and endeavors to leave, but John stops him. “It is God’s will,” he says, and the reunited husband and wife pass out of his life together.