At the Stroke of the Angelus is a silent short film starring Charles Clary and Francelia Billington.

Billington portrays an American girl kidnapped in early childhood and brought up as a Mexican thief and street dancer.

[1] On a 1850s migration trail, John Ford (Clary) must leave a stranded wagon train in search of help.

Left behind are his ailing sister, Amy, and her young daughter, and they die shortly after John's departure.

At age eighteen, she works for Pedro in Mexico as a thief and street dancer.