Henry Pecket keeps a land-bound, home-made sloop in the backyard of his boarding house ran by widow Sara March, who is tolerant of the fancied trips around the world taken by her “ancient mariner” boarder. Little Nella Cairn, another boarder, is his constant companion on the sloop’s “trips.” When her brother, Jeff Cairn , enlists in the Navy, Nella is sent to board with a cousi...
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tries to devise a plan to marry her off and make some money in the process.
