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Children of the South

By William S. Hart

Juanita, a young Mexican girl in New York City,
is suddenly left alone in the world by the death of her
grandparents, an aged couple. They are political
refugees and die of influenza. Juanita is about fourteen
years of age. She has still a very distant relative in the
states but the Mexican Consul decides that she must
return to her nearest of kin and sends her back to old
Mexico. Now, these relatives in Mexico are of opposite
political belief to the child's own father and mother
who were killed endeavoring to further the cause of
their own faction, which caused the old couple to flee
to New York City and take their young grandchild
Juanita with them.
The Mexican people that Juanita is forced by circum-
stance to return to are brutal by nature and they hate
Juanita as the last of a race whom they consider brought
about all their misfortunes by their opposite political
belief.
The family consists of Fernando Laynez-Juanita's
uncle-and his wife Marta-and Marta's brother-
Roderigo Lopez.
Roderigo is bad beyond redemption-He has been
so denatured by villany that he is part beast and his ·
face, the mirror of man's nature, has been so rudely
moulded by evil thoughts, that it seems unfinished.
It is difficult to believe that any human being could be
in any way attracted to him and yet such is the case,

COPYRIGHTED 1925 BY WILLIAMS. HART
WILL A. KISTLER CO. PRINTERS, LOS ANGELES, CALIF., U. S. A.