Plot
After learning that his old friend Tom Burns has inherited a fortune, boxer Kid Burns heads to New Rochelle to congratulate him. There, at the estate left to Tom by his Uncle Castleton, Kid meets and is immediately enamored with the housemaid Mary.
After the old friends meet up Tom confides in Kid that he has fallen in love with Flora Dora Dean, an ex-chorus girl visiting with her mother. Upon meeting the women Kid believes that they are fortune-hunters and he tells Tom of his suspicions. Tom, offended by this has Kid thrown out of the house.
Later that night, while a party is being thrown at the mansion Kid discovers Flora's mother and an accomplice trying to rob the safe. After the pair are arrested he finds a paper stating that Mary, the housemaid, is the true heir to the fortune and he presents it to her, although due to her rise in station he no longer feels worthy to marry her. Mary, choosing love over money, rips up the paper so she and Kid can be together. [2]
Reception
Moving Picture World's reviewer Edward Weitzel was very positive, finding the cast to be "excellent" and praising the settings for being "amply elaborate, without showing any signs of a desire to call attention to themselves." [3]
Camera!'s review was also positive, praising Charles Ray's performance "Mr. Ray employs all of his youthful charm in the interpretation of the "Kid," with an unusually refreshing result." [4]
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