The Hidden Truth (1919)

Helen Merrill sings and dances in the rough Western mining town of Nugget City where she befriends Myrtle Cadby whose husband Jake cruelly abuses her After a particularly vicious beating Myrtle seriously injured shoots Jake As she lies dying she gives Helen a letter of introduction to a man she was to have married in the East urging her to leave Nugget City Before she leaves Helen overhears Bill Sheridan and Snipe Roach scheming to sell Charles Taylor a wealthy New Yorker a salted mine with the assistance of George Reed Taylors mining agent Helen goes East and learns that Taylor is the man whom Myrtle was to have married but because she immediately falls in love with him she conceals her own identity and masquerades as Myrtle