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‘CTHE GREATER PROFIT
A TALE OF THE
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R-C PICTURES CORPORATION (ROBERTSON-COLE)
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\URY BRADY was a shrewd and resourceful girl, MI living in New York’s lower East Side with her lova
ble old uncle, ““Nune” Brady, who made his living by the gentle art of cracking safes. Sometimes she played at shoplifting.
Maury goes “shopping” and is arrested by the store detect? ive. Mrs. Creighton Hardage, wife of a millionaire, becomes interested and saves her from the police. Maury makes her home with Mrs. Hardage.
Capt. Ward Ransom, home from overseas, visits the Hardages. Rhoda Hardage is deeply interested in him. She is piqued by the attention Ransom shows Maury. Crawkins learns from Gimp of Maury’s new home, and manages to get into the house. Maury takes up her work on the “fair price committee.” Under new influences Maury decides to ro straight and lead an honest life. While Mrs. Hardage was working to uncovy
profiteering, she did not know her husland had got control of food supplies and as the greatest profiteering crook in the coun
try. Hardage tried to force his attentions on Maury. Maury repulsed him with her finger-nails. She realized she was at a crisis—that she loved Capt. Ransom, but must tell him of her dishonest career. She told the. story and Ransom forgave the past, saying he loved her. Crawkins, mad with jealousy, went to Ransom’s home and told him Maury was a thief, and was laughed at. Ransom sent word to her he would not see her again. Maury decided to return to her old life—to rob the Hardages. She was surprised while rummaging the safe. She got the wallet, however, which contained Hardage’s papers, connecting him with the profiteering ring. Ransom had been invited to become Hardage’s partner. Maury loved him and determined to save him from an unholy business alliance. She went to Ransom’s home and told him the contents of the papers.
With these in her possession, Maury forced Hardage to reduce food prices through his own organization. Maury and Capt. Ransom were married and Ransom established “Nunc” in a cottage near the sea.