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DRAMATIC.
G. D. 3116. STOLEN BRIDE. Price, $82.08.
Approximate Length, 684 feet.
A young lady is being housed in a comfortable and capacious residence. At the death of her parents she was taken in charge and cared for by a kind old man, who has given her everything her heart desired, and upon her reaching mature age has asked for her hand in marriage. She does not dare to refuse him, and she knows that he will continue to give her everything she might wish for, but still she does not love him as she would like. In fact, another has won her heart. In a conversation she has the day before the wedding ceremony is to take place we see her looking dejected and scarcely making response to his remarks. After he leaves she writes a letter to her lover, and acquaints him with the details of the nuptials, giving line of route, time, etc.
Seated on the lawn of a palatial residence, we see a handsome young man wrapped in earnest thought. A letter is brought to him, which he reads, and promptly gets up and makes preparations for a hurried departure. Directly we see him start off in a motor boat. Effecting a landing in shallow water, he wades through to the beach, and with his assistant hurries down to the city, where they take their position at a little creek which must be forded by the wedding party.
At the home of the bridegroom all is in readiness, the bridal procession wends its way to the waiting carriages, and they are off. At the creek the first two carriages pass unmolested, but the third is stopped in mid-stream and the bride taken from the groom and carried off. The groom is left heaping maledictions upon the heads of the guilty men. Reaching the launch, the bride is placed therein, and a hurried run is made to the opposite side of the lake, and the couple hurries off to the rector's.
The old gentleman, however, is not to be outdone so easily, and hurrying off we see him get into a rowboat, and exerting all his energy, he is soon across the lake and just in time to prevent the ceremony.
While the old man is talking with the rector, the young man determines upon a desperate plan, and hurrying to the lake he upsets the rowboat and bores a big hole in the bottom. Getting into his launch the men steam out and await results. They have not long to wait, as the old man and the bride soon appear, and entering the rowboat start back. Scarcely have they started when the boat is commencing to fill with water. This causes little concern at first, as the old gent uses his silk hat to dip it out, and then rows on a bit, hoping in this manner to soon reach the other shore. In this he is disappointed, as soon the boat fills so rapidly that the bride waves a signal of distress. The launch quickly responds and rescues the lady, managing to get away without the man. They stay close by and taunt the old gentleman, and when the boat is about to sink they save him from a watery grave upon his promise to relinquish his claim upon the bride in favor of the man of her choice.
After his rescue is accomplished the old man takes the hand of the bride and places it in the hand of his gallant rescuer, and gives his blessing to the union.
Bound to meet with universal approval.
SI