Tess of the Storm Country

When Captain Howland decides that his daughter Tess is getting too old to continue to go to sea with him, they move into a small cottage on the coast of Maine, but not for long: local millionaire,Frederick Garfield lays a false claim to the property and has them evicted. Later, when Tess saves a young man about her age from drowning, she is dismayed to learn that he is Garfield's son. But when her father is jailed on a false-accusation charge of murder, the younger Garfield comes to their aid and proves that he is not just a younger edition of his curmudgeon father.