Barrymore would return for a short time to directing films in the early sound era.

[2][3][4] As described in a film magazine,[5] Esther (Barrymore), upon the death of her father, is advised by her kindly neighbors to get married.

She is forced to sell the homestead and marries a domineering old miser named John Martin (Carrington), who lives with his maiden sister Ruth (Allen).

He chokes her after he finds a letter from a former friend, Dr. Henry Grey (Hale), and she decides to leave him.

She shoots him dead, and a posse arrests her for the death of her husband, who was found strangled in the library.