The Avenging Conscience

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D. W. Griffith presents

        THE
AVENGING CONSCIENCE

         or

"THOU SHALT NOT KILL"

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   AN INDULGENT GUARDIAN
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All the Uncle's time and money
devoted to his beloved nephew

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       INTO MANHOOD
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Working with one idea centered
     on a great career

The Nephew - - Henry Walthall

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       THREATENED HOPES
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 For the first time in his life the
young man's thoughts are swerving 
from the path marked out for him.

 The Sweetheart - Blanche Sweet

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"It was many and many a year
   ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived, whom you
   may know
By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with
   no other thought
Than to love, and be loved by
   me."

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"You shall not go out!
       You have work here to do!"

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"And all my days are trances
 And all my nightly dreams
 Are where thy dark eye glances
 And where thy footstep gleams."

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"Look! I have sacrificed everything
for you and you owe me in return
    a few years of gratitude"

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"You are after my boy like
               a common woman"

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AT THE PARTY

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    A GENTLEMAN WHOM
   WE SHALL MEET AGAIN

The Stranger - - Ralph Lewis

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 ON ACCOUNT OF THE 
UNCLE THEY AGREE TO
    PART FOREVER

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        THE CONTRAST
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Where lovers go two by two and
the grocer's boy courts the maid

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"Thou wast that all to me, love,
For which my soul did pine,
A green isle in the sea, love,
A fountain and a shrine."

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"If I don't catch that grocer
          boy in this rig, good night!"

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 AMIDST MUSIC AND
DANCING, WHICH HOLD
NO CHARMS FOR THEM

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THEIR LAST GOOD-BYE

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WITH HEART EMBITTERED,
  THE OLD MAN SEES
  YOUTH THE MASTER
    OF HAPPINESS

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THE DESPAIR OF YOUTH
 ROBBED OF ITS LOVE

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HIS PRAYER TO GOD
TO GUIDE HIM RIGHT

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     AN IMPRESSION THAT
    PLAYS ITS PART LATER

The Italian - - George Seigmann

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"But our love it was stronger by 
   far than the love 
 Of those who were older than we,
 Of many far wiser than we."

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       THE BIRTH OF THE
         EVIL THOUGHT
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Nature one long system of murder--
 the spider, the fly and the ants

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"For the moon never beams 
   without bringing me dreams 
 Of the beautiful Annabel Lee, 
 And the stars never rise but I 
  feel the bright eyes 
 Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."

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REALIZATION THAT HIS
UNCLE, ON WHOM HE IS
 DEPENDENT, STANDS
 BETWEEN HIM AND
    HAPPINESS

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THE PLAN OF A
FEVERED BRAIN

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 PRETENDED WONDER AT
HIS UNCLE'S DESTINATION

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     HE WATCHES,
HOPEFUL OF THE UNCLE'S
  RETURN UNPERCEIVED

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THE SPIDER AND THE FLY

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"Let me have money
              and I will go away"

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         BUYING THE 
      ITALIAN'S SILENCE
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He promises to pay him well when
 he comes into his inheritance

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CONCEALING THE BODY
IN THE WALL OF THE
  OLD FIREPLACE

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EACH BRICK SO CUNNINGLY 
   REPLACED THAT NO
    HUMAN EYE CAN
   DETECT THE FRAUD

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ARTFUL INQUIRY AMONG
   THE VILLAGERS

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THE UNCLE'S FRIEND
    SUSPICIOUS

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"He has not been seen since we saw
 him go over the brow of the hill"

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       PAYING THE ITALIAN
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After the young man's unblemished
reputation has established him with-
out question in the possession of his
inheritance.

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         THE ONE
     DISCORDANT NOTE
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The Uncle's doubting friend
  introduces the stranger

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"You have a quaint old place
here--and the roses--I am a
  great admirer of roses"

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"What a peculiarly shaped fireplace"

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     CONGRATULATIONS
    ON HIS INHERITANCE
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She whom he has called Annabel
visits him with her companion

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SHE FEARS SOMETHING
  MORE THAN MERE
MENTAL DERANGEMENT

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  HOPING SLEEP MAY
CURE THE TIRED BRAIN

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   TO A SANITARIUM
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Hoping for relief from the 
     hallucinations
of his nervous break down

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  THE RETURN
SEEMINGLY CURED

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         PREMONITION
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Suspicious that the stranger is a
detective he hires the Italian to
watch on guard night and day  

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ELABORATE PRECAUTIONS
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The barricaded house

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"This leads to an underground 
   passage which gives me
      means of escape"

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"This whistle is the 
         signal of danger"

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SHE IS CONVINCED THAT
 HIS HALLUCINATIONS 
ARE NOT THOSE OF GUILT

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THE AVENGING
 CONSCIENCE

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BITTER REMORSE

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"I saw all things in the heaven and
    in the earth, I saw many
        things in hell."

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         PURSUING FATE
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Thinking to force a confession, the
detective places his men in waiting

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"I have an hour that I can spend
   with you if you don't mind
   answering a few questions."

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"It has been lately reported that
  a scream was heard here the
 night your Uncle disappeared."

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THE ITALIAN ON GUARD

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LIKE THE BEATING OF THE 
   DEAD MAN'S HEART

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CONSCIENCE OVERBURDENS
  THE TELLTALE HEART

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"They are neither man nor woman;
They are neither brute nor human;
       They are ghouls!"

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    THE ITALIAN
FEARS TO GO FURTHER

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     ANNABEL INFORMED
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She learns of the confession
and of the desperate stand
   at bay in the valley

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"Oh, such a dream!"

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       HER MIND CLEARED
        OF RESENTMENT
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She cannot wait till morning to tell
    him that, Uncle or no Uncle,
    she cannot live without him

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A MORE WELCOME VISITOR

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         THE AFTERMATH
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He quotes from his successful book

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"In your voice I hear Pan
playing in the woods and
all the world gives heed."

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"And neither the angels in
  heaven above, 
 Nor the demons down under
  the sea, 
 Can ever dissever my soul from
  the soul 
 Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."

Finis