Pay Day plot
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Although Kirke is wealthy, he forces Doris Fenton, the poor girl he hopes to marry, to steal for him. While she is serving time for the crime, he happily marries another woman, Isabel. After Doris's release, she returns to Kirke just as he is choking Isabel, and his accusation sends Doris to prison for life. After five years, she escapes and confronts Kirke, who has married another woman, Ruth. Doris suggests they forget the past, but after kissing him, she reveals she has leprosy and they must spend the rest of their lives together in a leper colony.