The Grain of Dust
Stenographer Dorothy Hallowell works for a Wall Street law firm, and isn't aware that Frederick Norman, a junior partner in the firm, is madly in love with her, even though he is engaged to be married…
The Grain of Dust
Stenographer Dorothy Hallowell works for a Wall Street law firm, and isn't aware that Frederick Norman, a junior partner in the firm, is madly in love with her, even though he is engaged to be married. To get closer to her, he finances her father's laboratory, but when Dorothy realizes what he's up to, she turns him down. His fiancee finds out and breaks their engagement. Dorothy moves back to her small town, but soon runs into trouble when stories of her "unseemly behavior" in New York result in her having to leave town and return to New York, where she manages to get into even more trouble. Complications ensue. —frankfob2@yahoo.com Dorothy Hallowell, daughter of a visionary chemist, obtains employment in the offices of a firm of Wall Street lawyers. The junior partner is a self-centered man whose dominant traits have made him a power in the Street. But he feels the charm of Dorothy's innocence, and lays careful siege to her favors. A jealous clerk betrays him to the family of his fiancée, and they come to remonstrate just in time to save Dorothy from Norman's advances. But he follows her home, and even the presence of her dead father is no bar to his demands, but she repulses him, and drink claims the man who put ambition before honest love.
The Grain of Dust
Drama,Romance
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Stenographer Dorothy Hallowell works for a Wall Street law firm, and isn't aware that Frederick Norman, a junior partner in the firm, is madly in love with her, even though he is engaged to be married. To get closer to her, he finances her father's laboratory, but when Dorothy realizes what he's up to, she turns him down. His fiancee finds out and breaks their engagement.
Dorothy moves back to her small town, but soon runs into trouble when stories of her "unseemly behavior" in New York result in her having to leave town and return to New York, where she manages to get into even more trouble. Complications ensue. —frankfob2@yahoo.com Dorothy Hallowell, daughter of a visionary chemist, obtains employment in the offices of a firm of Wall Street lawyers.
The junior partner is a self-centered man whose dominant traits have made him a power in the Street. But he feels the charm of Dorothy's innocence, and lays careful siege to her favors. A jealous clerk betrays him to the family of his fiancée, and they come to remonstrate just in time to save Dorothy from Norman's advances.
But he follows her home, and even the presence of her dead father is no bar to his demands, but she repulses him, and drink claims the man who put ambition before honest love..