You Never Know Your Luck (1919)

Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada his past is a mystery to everyone He is actually an English aristocrat who lost all his money gambling and left the country in search of work Kerry and his friend Horan own an option on property which crooked lawyer Burlingame is trying to secure Burlingames cohort Logan murders Hogan and is caught and arrested In the trial Burlingame forces Kerry to admit his past and succeeds in preventing Kerry from receiving bank assistance When Kerry is shot Kitty opens a letter from Kerrys wife that he had been carrying for five years and cables her Kerrys wife arrives and informs him that his last bet in England had turned out to be a 20000 winner Kerry is able to use the money just in time to foil Burlingame and secure the property thus winning prosperity and the affections of his wife