The Sorrows of the Unfaithful (1910)

In a quaint fishing village Bill and Mary are childhood sweethearts Ten years roll by and the boy now a young man gives the girl a ring and they now renew their vows They are both very happy until fate interferes Bill while strolling on the shore espies a raft with an object on it that looks like a human being far out at sea He swims to the raft and finds an exhausted fisherman lying prone upon it Pushing the raft to the shore he with the aid of others revives the stranger Joe is the strangers name and he and Bill become staunch friends Mary becomes smitten with Joe and cruelly casts Bill aside