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Captain
Fairweather deposits money with the banker Gideon Bloodgood. After learning that Bloodgood's bank is shaky, Fairweather tries to retrieve the money and dies in an argument with the banker. Bloodgood keeps the money but his clerk, Badger, finds out about it. Years later he blackmails his old
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A burlesque of transpontine melodrama which fails to come off and only succeeds in being tiresomely boring. The actors also fail to enter into the right spirit of burlesque and the production, generally, is of a poor
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