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Jim Sloane, an ironworker, who has lost his job through intemperate habits, leaves his wife in a dying condition, and continues his protracted spree. Finding her end near, Mrs. Sloane sends her daughter, Nell, a child of eight years, to search for her father and bring him home that she may bid him a last farewell. After searching through many dives and barrooms in vain, she hears a shot through a dive doorway, and entering, finds that her father has just shot a man to death in a quarrel. The police make an arrest at once, and Nell follows the curious crowd to the police station, where, after a tearful interview with the inspector, she induces him to take her unfortunate father to the bedside of his dying wife, where the final farewells are said. On the trial Sloane receives a life sentence, and, having taken a deep interest in Nell, the inspector assists her in conducting a newspaper route, instructing his men to protect her from arrest by the Children's Society. One day, meeting her ...
