Over the Ledge (1914)

A poor widow dies leaving her two young children Bob and Mabel in the care of a poor neighbor who later is forced by circumstances to give them to an asylum Twenty years pass and Jack who has been adopted by a good family has now gone into business for himself and is a rising young broker He has been searching the detective agencies for his sister without success for some years Mabel ran away from the asylum and has been brought up by a poor family is without education and is now employed as a servant and on a certain day is hanging clothes on a roof nearby a large office building in which Bob has his office and a small boy is flying his kite from the same rooftop