On a lonely lighthouse lived a keeper and his wife. They were devoted to each other and when the wife was dying her surest grief was she would be leaving her loved one alone. Just before she died, however, she had a dream and awakening, told her husband with a smile that God would send someone to comfort him. A few days later while the stricken man was praying at her grave his attention was attracted by a bundle which bad been brought in by the sea. He found it to be a little girl, senseless, who had apparently been swept ashore from some wreck. She was wrapped in a life preserver, bearing the name of a yacht. A few days later he learned that the owner of the yacht, a banker involved in difficulties with the law, had been lost with his child and crew while trying to escape on the yacht. There was no one to claim the child and the pious keeper accepted her as the gift from God which he had been promised. Years later, when the child had grown to be a handsome young woman, her aunt, a wealthy society woman, found and claimed her. The girl at first did not want to go, but the keeper persuaded her, believing that her relatives bad the first claim. Then sorrowfully he took up his lonely life again. One afternoon, while thinking of her, he fell into a troubled sleep. He awoke to find her beside him. She showed him a letter which she meant to send to her aunt, telling her that fashionable life had no charms for her and that she had decided to devote herself to the old man who had been a father to her for many years. So "The Gift of God," as he always called her, came back to home, never more to leave him. - IMDb
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