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"City Lights" 233
sive state, one of the crooks slugs him while the other heads for Charlie. There is an elusive chase which ends with Charlie in the hands of a cop, accused of robbery by the butler and confronted by the reviving millionaire. Unfortunately the millionaire revives cold sober, and instead of recognizing Charlie, asks his butler, "Who is this man?"
In despair Charlie snatches the money, turns out the lights, and gets away. He brings the money to the blind girl and persuades her to go for the operation. He must go away for a while, he tells her, but promises to see her again, but he dreads what will happen when she regains her sight and sees him for what he is.
Nabbed on a street corner by detectives, he is hustled off to jail. At its gates he disposes of his cigarette by batting it into the air with a philosophical back kick.
Months pass. Autumn comes around. The girl, now cured, runs a swanky florist shop. Whenever a handsome, wealthy man comes into the shop her heart leaps with the hope that he is her benefactor. But every hope is dashed.
Meanwhile, the little tramp, released from prison, wanders the streets, a ragged derelict. He fails to find the girl at her old station. A flower he picks up from the gutter reminds him of her. Jeering newsboys torment him with a pea-shooter.
Despite his tatters he remains the impeccable gentleman. When one of the boys pulls a rag end out of his trouser pocket Charlie reproves him, blows his nose on the rag, folds it neatly, and tucks it into his vest pocket.
The commotion between the tramp and the newsboys amuses the girl, watching from behind her shop window. The tramp turns and sees her and stands transfixed. The girl, noticing his expression but not knowing who he is, giggles to her assistant, "I've made a conquest." She holds a fresh flower and a coin out to the little tramp.