When Darkness Came剧情介绍

The pretty little stenographer was the belle of the office, and was happy because all of the clerks paid her attention. Even her employer's son deigned to take notice of her, and took her on several delightful short trips in his automobile. There was one man, however, upon whom she never wasted her fascinations. He was the chief clerk, a shy, reserved, hardworking individual, who seldom paid her any attention, yet it would have surprised the girl had she known that he worshiped her in secret and longed for a chance to prove his love. The chance came and he proved his worth. The girl's eyes had been bothering her, but she gaily disregarded the orders of her physician. One day while at work, her sight suddenly failed, and she was removed to her shabby room in a boarding house, practically penniless, and with the prospect of being long incapacitated. The chief clerk was the first of her callers, and he heartened her up immensely. He told her that their employer, whom she had always regarded as a mean, stingy old man, had announced his intention of paying her doctor and nurse, and that her salary would be continued indefinitely. He brought her bouquets and fruit, which he said had been sent by certain of the other clerks, and managed to convince her that although absent, she was still the queen of the office. It was some months before the girl was restored to health, and with joyful anticipation she repaired to the office to thank the ones who had been so good to her. Speedily was she disillusioned. Her employer gruffly told her that her salary had ceased on the day she was stricken, and he even refused to re-engage her now that she was well. The other clerks greeted her coldly, and she saw that their fickle attentions had been diverted to another stenographer as empty headed and pleasure loving as she herself had been. Her doctor told her the real story after she had tearfully begged for it. The only man who had been kind to her was the chief clerk, and it was his money that had saved her from becoming an object of charity. She realized how great his love was, and it humbled her. He had meant to have kept it a secret, but she would not have it that way, and when he at last told her how he loved, she gratefully accepted the heart of gold which kind fortune had placed in her path.