With the Enemy's Help

With the Enemy's Help

10 mins | Aug. 19, 1912

A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.

With the Enemy's Help

10 mins | Aug. 19, 1912

With the Enemy's Help
A discouraged prospector is about to give up his search when he hears his two little children praying, "Please, God, help papa find gold." Their faith gives him new hope and their prayer is efficacious, for he does find it and so stakes the claim, intending to register it at his earliest opportunity. Meanwhile "Faro Kate" and her gambler husband ride by the claim and jump it, the husband urging Kate to go to the Claim Office and register it. When the prospector returns to his "diggings" he finds the gambler in possession and in a struggle the prospector falls and is hurt. The prospector's wife, arriving at the claim, realizes she must win the race to the Claim Office.
Producers American Mutoscope & Biograph
Original title With the Enemy's Help
Directors Wilfred Lucas
Writers

Cast

Charles West

as The Prospector

Blanche Sweet

as The Prospector's Wife

Mary Pickford

as Faro Kate

Charles Hill Mailes

as Faro Kate's Husband

Edna Foster

as The Prospector's Daughter

Charles Gorman

as The Sheriff

J. Jiquel Lanoe

as The Claim Assessor