The End of the Tour (1917)

A lonely wife runs off with a traveling actor taking her boy with her but leaving her daughter behind The boy Byron Bennett grows up and is stranded back in Mayville with a theater troupe To make enough money to get out of town they teach the local fire department how to put on a play While the village cutie Grace Jessup is being shown how to act one of the troupe tries to seduce her Byron knowing what the lecher is up to even if Grace doesnt follows the pair and chokes the man senseless