Plot
Priscilla is newly hired at a farm and is told to wash clothes using a washboard. When a peddler arrives, she takes him to the farmer's wife. After making a sale, he gives Priscilla a ring and a kiss before departing.
He then loses his money, and more, at craps. To pay his gambling debt, he returns to the maid, looking for money. She has none, but she has seen the farmer hide his money in a sock which he puts under his pillow. The peddler persuades her to steal it by promising to take her away and marry her. After she has given him the money, he tells her to meet him later, but he instead takes the next train. The girl takes off a necklace with a cross on it. After waiting at the rendezvous, Priscilla finally realizes she has been tricked. From two passersby, she learns where the train station is. She runs there, but misses the train carrying the peddler away. He gets into a fight with another passenger and is thrown off the train. She finds him, but he tries to strike her before dying from his injuries. Priscilla takes the stolen money and returns it to its hiding place without disturbing her sleeping employer. Later, she puts the necklace back on.
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