A Child for Sale

Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.

Cast

Creighton Hale

as Charles Stoddard

Gladys Leslie

as Ruth Gardner

Bobby Connelly

as Walter Stoddard

Julia Swayne Gordon

as Paula Harrison

Anna Lehr

as Catherine Bell

Ruth Sullivan

as Sylvia Stoddard

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