Tamandra, the Gypsy

Walter Clark is engaged to his rich young cousin, Beatrice Irving. While on a visit to a gypsy camp, he meets Tamandra, and it is love at first sight. On a second visit alone to the camp Tamandra and he run off and are married, she marrying for his money. The young man and his gypsy wife are turned out of his uncle's house. After having learned the truth that Walter is dependent upon his uncle, she endures living in poor surroundings with him for a year. She leaves him and joins her tribe. Walter visits the camp and tries to win her back, but is driven off. A child has been born to Tamandra, but she conceals it from him. Later on, in order to keep Walter from annoying her, she has an article published of her death. The uncle reads this and visiting his nephew, begs him to return. Back in his old home and a new love springs up between Walter and Beatrice. There is a lapse of time and on the eve of their marriage, Oscar a gypsy, happens to inquire of the sexton about Walter's marriage. He tells Tamandra, who sends a note of congratulations to Walter, which he receives during the wedding ceremony. On receipt of it he deserts Beatrice and rushes off to a monastery. He is admitted and joins the order. There is another lapse of time. Beatrice, having felt the shock keenly, becomes a slum worker. One day while going her rounds, she accidentally meets Tamandra's child, who takes Beatrice to his mother's "poor one-room quarters." The mother dies and asks Beatrice to take care of the child. The child is taken home to the uncle. Beatrice and the child become great chums. One day while playing with the child, a band of monks are out for a walk; they pass by and Beatrice notices that Walter is among them. She stops him and tells him about Tamandra's death and introduces the child and relates the story of Tamandra and the child's relationship. He realizes that it is his offspring, and forgetting his garb, hugs the child. Beatrice asks him to return. He hesitates and declares his vows to the order and that he has already renounced the ways of the world, and telling Beatrice that she should take the child as hers and raise it. She consents just as the other monks pass, and Walter falls in with them and returns to the monastery.