The young physician ranked high in the medical profession. He was wealthy and undoubtedly would have been a very happy man if it had not been for his jealous wife, who constantly interfered in his professional affairs. Finally she made a scene in the presence of a patient, and the doctor, losing his temper, angrily declared that he wished he was rid of her forever. The doctor’s cousin, who secretly hated him, called, soon after the wife had again quarreled violently with her husband and was in the room when the woman swallowed poison and died. When the doctor, summoned by the cousin, hurried into the room, he was told by his kinsman that with her last breath his wife had accused him of poisoning her. A patient, who, in fact, was the one who had heard the doctor threaten his wife, had followed the men into the room. Remembering his words she turned on him and accused him of the crime, then rushed from the house to summon a policeman. The cousin persuaded the physician that it was hopeless to prove his innocence, so the doctor signed away his fortune to his unscrupulous relative and fled. The fugitive obtained work on a farm and was very happy there, until a detective, who chanced to be in the neighborhood, was invited to spend the night at the farm house. The officer showed the farmer a circular offering a reward for the capture of the doctor, and also exhibited it to the farm hand, not knowing that he was the man of whom he was in search. That evening the farmer’s little daughter was taken ill, and the frantic father drove off for the nearest doctor, many miles away. The fugitive went into the little bed room and saw that the only thing to save the child’s life was an immediate operation. He did not hesitate, and the child’s life was saved. But the detective, his suspicions awakened by the rare surgical skill displayed, recognized his quarry and made him a prisoner. The doctor was brought back to the city and there he was informed that his cousin bad confessed and his innocence was established. So he returned to the country, and the clutch of the little arms and a kiss from the baby lips were ample payment for the sacrifice he had so gladly made.