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- The story opens at General Feversham's residence at the annual dinner that he gives to the ones who are left of the Crimea officers. At this dinner, Harry Feversham, the General's only son, a boy of fourteen, is a guest. After the dinner is finished they tell stories of what happened in the Crimea, and Harry listens intently. The story is carried ahead about ten years when Harry is a captain in the army, showing him with his friend, Captain Durrance. They are both in love with the same girl, Ethne Eustace, and Harry and the girl after a time become engaged. Harry gives a dinner to his brother officers, Captain French, Lt. Willoughby and Captain Castleton, to announce his engagement. During the dinner Harry receives a telegram saying the regiment is ordered on regular service. Harry does not show his fellow officers the telegram as he should have done. They see him throw it into the fire. After they have gone, Harry determines to give up his commission, fearing that when put to the test he will be a coward. To preclude such a possibility he sends in his resignation. His fellow officers have, in the meantime, found out that they are ordered on active service, and next day they see that Harry Feversham has resigned his commission. They decide to send him three white feathers. While a ball is going on at Ethne's home a small package comes addressed to Captain Harry Feversham. He opens it in front of the girl and she asks him what he has done and he tells her. When she brands him as a coward, and striking a white feather from her fan, gives it to him. After this Harry Feversham's father will have nothing to do with him, and he consults his mother's old friend, Lieutenant Sutch, and announces to him that he is going to try and retrieve himself. He sails for Egypt in the hope of being able to do something and make the senders take back their feathers. After a long wandering at last he gets his chance and after many trials and tortures by the Arabs and a thrilling rescue he makes his fellow officers take back their feathers. In the meantime Durrance has been with his regiment in the Sudan and has been struck blind by the glare of the sun. Ethne, taking pity on him, has become engaged to him. Harry returns home to find that Ethne is engaged to another man. One day Durrance overhears them talking and decides for the sake of both of them to give up the girl, thus making Ethne and Harry both happy, and go back to the desert he loved so well.
- Four-year-old Dorothy, the daughter of rich lawyer Winfred North, is inconsolable over her mother's recent death. Her father, too absorbed with business to pay attention to his daughter and her problems, marries Helen Stillwell, a widow with her own two children. Helen ignores Dorothy while taking care of her own children, treating Dorothy as if she's always "in the way". Finally Dorothy can take no more and runs away. She is found by the Goodwins, a married missionary couple, but when they bring her home, Helen Stillwell denies knowing Dorothy at all, seeing a chance for her own children to inherit Winfred's wealth and cut Dorothy out of the picture altogether. The Goodwins take Dorothy to Africa with them to bring Christianity to the natives, but matters don't work out quite as well as they expected.
- Arthur Stillman, the senior member of the firm of Stillman and Thornton, cotton goods manufacturers of Rockton, Mass., has closed his mills under the pretense that he cannot obtain cotton to operate, but really because he has conceived the plan of secretly buying cotton and storing it for the rise in price that he knows will come. The town of Rockton is entirely dependent upon the mills for its existence and the closing of the mills causes great suffering and even starvation. Dell Hamilton, daughter of an old mill dyer and a favorite with her people by reason of her sweet character and true sympathy with them, is probably the one in Rockton who suffers most. Her lover, Sam Lloyd, in despair at his inability to provide for his mother and sick sister, receives a note from a friend suggesting that if he can get to Springdale, a town nine miles distant, that he may get a job as fireman in a certain mill. On his way home, he accidentally comes upon a large warehouse which he learns is filled with cotton bales, and upon careful inquiry he finds that the cotton is being stored there by Stillman and Thornton. In a flash the true state of affairs is recognized by him and spurred on by bitter anger he makes his way back to Rockton, where he meets some of his mates and makes known his discovery. The news spreads throughout the town and groups of mill hands gather here and there voicing their indignation. Bill Slinger, a great strapping big-hearted fellow and a favorite among them is selected as a leader to get them either justice or revenge. Dell, in horror, goes to Stillman's house to warn him of his danger. She pleads with Stillman to open the mills and give work to the people and tries to soften his heart with her stories of the condition of the people. Stillman, whose passion for the girl has been growing stronger day by day, finally tells her that he will open the mills upon one condition, that is that she marry him. Stillman hastily arranges an illegal marriage with Dell. The girl believes she is to become his lawful wife, but Stillman has no such intention. The ceremony is performed and they repair to Stillman's home in the country. Dell writes her father of her marriage to Stillman, but he intercepts the letter and substitutes one supposed to come from a certain friend saying that Dell will not be home that night because she is going to watch by the body of the dead boy, Bennie. In the meantime Stillman's love for the girl is growing genuine and she becomes the one thing in the world that he desires and his one fear is that she may learn the secret of the illegal life. Dell returns to the mill and is indignantly repulsed by her former friends. Her father in a bitter scene renounces her and in utter dejection she finds her way to the boiler room of the mill seeking Sam, from whom she at least expects sympathy. She meets with the same treatment at Sam's hands and in fact is informed by this that he has entirely forgotten her and is to be married to another. Dell has heard the conversation between Stillman and Sam and a revelation comes to her. She realizes the true condition. She knows that Stillman is the real love and slowly and sadly she walks to him as she asks him to take her back.
- Waldo, son of Baron von Kraft, comes home from college and finds a reception in progress. All of the rooms are occupied, as Waldo braves old legends by offering to sleep in a room which is said to be haunted. His sister and her girl friends decide to play a prank on him. They borrow a skeleton from one of the medical students nearby and place it in the room. Waldo leaves his sweetheart to go upstairs. He comes face to face with the skeleton and the shock causes him to lose his mind. The girls in fright tell the Baron of their prank and its result. As the Baron goes up, the boy's door opens and he comes down, with staring eyes and his hair white as snow. The boy does not recognize his father and the agony in his face crushes the father and the thoughtless girl. The girl tries to atone for her sin by retirement to a convent. War is declared between Germany and France, and the father leaves to join his regiment. Into the tent of the Baron is brought a French spy. The Baron changes clothes and impersonates him to steal important information. The convent of St. Agnes is taken by the French as a fortification. The Baron is caught as a spy in the convent. His daughter recognizes him and tries to give him a message, but is discovered. They force her to swear on the crucifix that he is a German and his execution is ordered. The Germans finds out about the Baron and attempt to rescue him, but arrive too late. The spirits of the heroes slain in the conflict are seen rising from their earthly bodies with arms outstretched on the way to that land where "war" is unknown.
- Gladimer Kubelow, a young soldier, in whom an adoring mother places all of her love and affection is loved by Maria, a peasant girl. Gladimer divides his heart and soul between the two women who love him. In the very midst of the marriage festivities, the laughter and jests are checked by the entrance of an officer who announces that war is declared. Gladimer realizes the seriousness of what the future may bring, as does his mother, but Maria in the optimism of youth, only thinks of war as a vision of flying flags and the thrill of fife and drum. A retreating soldier staggers into Gladimer's modest home and announces that a battle is on only a few miles distant. The mother's careworn face is clouded with apprehension for the safety of her boy, but Maria thinks it would be glorious to see a battle, and with several of her girl friends she merrily starts toward the scene of action. However, when they come upon one who has laid down his life for his country, they are crushed by the horror of war's reality. Soon after, one of their own villagers comes to the door and they anxiously crowd around him for news of their boy. Graphically he tells them that the last he saw of their boy was when, wounded, he tried to crawl from the charge of General Blucher's cavalry and how ruthlessly they rode him down. That night the mother and Maria start out in search of the loved one. When they bring him home dead. Maria's mind snaps under the strain. The mother hurries out to find a doctor. She meets one who stops long enough to give her a drug and explain that three drops will bring her sleep, hut more would bring death. While preparing the medicine, soldiers arrive and take possession of her home. They demand food and drink, and while she is serving them another officer enters and announces: "General Blucher, the horses will be ready in the morning." General Blucher has the mother show him to a room and demands that she bring him a bottle of wine. As she places the wine on a tray a look of vengeance steals over her face, and she quickly pours the contents of the vial into the bottle of wine. General Blucher unsuspectingly drinks this down and slowly a paralysis comes over him that spreads so rapidly that his calls for help are ineffective. He crawls from the room to where he finds the crazed bride caressing and talking to her dead soldier. Then the mother enters and tells him of her son and his death, and with a final look of agony. General Blucher falls back dead. These events have been too much even for the old mother and taking a burning fagot from the fireplace she throws it on to a bed of straw and as the flames rapidly crawl around these poor unfortunates the curtains slowly close, and leave us with a vivid impression of the horrors of war and thankful for the peace that surrounds us.