Husband and Wife (1916)

When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments He is joined in these plans by one of the banks directors but when Doris unknowingly snubs the directors wife he pulls out his aid Dick finds himself in serious trouble and then Doris leaves him after an argument She is about to leave for the Orient with her daughter Bessie a friend Mrs Prescott and an admirer Patrick Alliston but they are stopped at the station because Dick is believed to be with them He isnt and his difficulties drive him to an aborted suicide attempt Doris finally wakes up to what is going on and reconciles with Dick The bank examiner looks over the books and helps Dick get back on his feet much to the directors chagrin