Heritage (1915)

Kate whose father a university graduate died when she was very young is adopted by her tenement neighbor Mrs McMahon after her mother a woman of refinement dies At ten the illnourished girl who has grown up watching her drunken foster father fight with her overworked foster mother goes to work in a factory after Mr McMahon loses his job During the next eight years Kates stepbrother Big Bill McMahon becomes her friend sweetheart and protector