A Clouded Name (1923)

To avoid seeing Marjorie Dare Jim Allen visits Stewart Leighton at the latters country home Five years earlier Jims engagement to Marjorie Dare was broken when her mother was killed and his father disappeared Through certain circumstance Marjorie also becomes Leightons guest and Jim moves out into the woods There he meets Smiles a little girl in the care of strange old Ben Tangleface Leighton wishes to wed Marjorie for her money and is trying forcefully to persuade her to accept him when Jim comes to the rescue But Ben his memory stirred by the sight of Leighton kills him Explanations reveal Smiles to be Dorothys sister and Ben Jims father He was wounded while defending Marjories mother whom Leighton killed