A Modern Mephisto

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Rodgers, a dissolute artist, leaving for Villard Castle, where he is to restore old paintings, tells his friends that he intends marrying Lord Villard's daughter and incidentally her money. Obstacles intervene, but crafty Rodgers succeeds in winning the girl's love. They are married secretly. Alice, the daughter's nurse, learns of the marriage and agrees to keep it a secret so long as Rodgers is faithful. Months pass, and Rodgers tells his wife he will commit suicide if she does not give him $1,000 with which to pay his debts. Lord Villard sees Alice giving her dead mother's jewels to Rodgers. She confesses her relationship and is disowned. Alice goes to Rodgers' home. Finding him with two profligate women, she leaves him in anger. Lord Villard dies, but Alice finds that she must make her own living, as she has been disinherited. Rodgers, financially embarrassed, becomes a counterfeiter.