The Straight Way plot
Abandoned by her husband, John Madison, because he wrongly accuses her of an affair, Mary Madison goes to her aunt's house to have her baby, only to lose her memory in a train accident. John learns that she has died, so he takes their baby daughter in his arms. Years later, John has remarried, and Mary has regained her memory, but she doesn't know that her daughter is still alive. When she discovers how much John values his daughter, she decides to take revenge on him by shaming her, so she devises a plan to have her daughter seduced by an ex-convict who served time on a trumped-up charge.