Le vieux Jabez Blunt, un capitaine marin d'antan, vit dans une péniche avec son ancien compagnon Bill Squeers. Tous deux se querellent sans arrêt. Blunt a une fille, Alice, dont il n'a plus de nouvelles. Celle-ci est mariée à un pasteur, dont elle a un enfant. Le couple, revenant de Chine, retrouve Blunt, mais le révérend comprend mal l'existence de son beau-père. Son fils, par contre, se prend tout de suite d'amitié avec son grand-père…
, 29minutes Directed byThomas H. Ince, Jay Hunt OriginUSA GenresDrama ThemesVieillesse ActorsWilliam Desmond Taylor, Mildred Harris, J. Barney Sherry, Frank Borzage Rating60% Mildred lives with her grandfather, Civil War veteran Jabez Burr,who she loves deeply. One day she receives a letter from her father saying that he has remarried. Mildred's stepmother finds out that Jabez is a heavy drinker and starts to get worry about he's closeness with Mildred and soon takes a dislike to him. To avoid more frictions Jabez decided to leave. He tells he's granddaughter that is happy and working in a farm, but the truth is that he is staying at the County's Poor House.