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- With the help of a private detective, Elaine tries to catch the masked criminal mastermind The Clutching Hand, who has murdered her father.
- Serial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.
- Serial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter.
- Hazel Kirke, daughter of Dunstan Kirke, a miller, is sent off to be educated by Squire Rooney, who has promised to marry her upon her return. All this in repayment for a small sum which Rodney advanced to save the old mill from the auction block. Five years later, near the end of her school years, she meets Arthur Carringford. At home again, she renews her promise to Rodney. Some days later, Arthur on a hunting trip, meets with an accident near the mill, and is confined there for some weeks, during which time a new friendship springs up between the two. Some time later, when Rodney and Dunstan see Hazel and Arthur embracing, Dunstan denounces them and sends them away. Arthur's mother, to save the family fortune, wishes Arthur to marry Maude, her ward, who is loved by Pittacus Greene, and whose fortune was squandered by the elder Carringford before his death. She sends Pittacus and Arthur's valet to dissuade Arthur from marrying Hazel, and they arrive as the two are coming away. At a nearby village, the valet, thinking the ceremony is to be a fake, goes to a saloon for a "minister." He then notifies Mrs. Carringford by letter. A few weeks later that lady arrives during Arthur's absence and tells Hazel that she has been duped. The girl, distracted, runs away and upon Arthur's return the panic-stricken mother tells of the plot and passes away from a heart attack. After a day or two's search for Hazel, Arthur rides toward home, stopping at a small church. The parson proves to be the one who married them and he tells of his good work in the slums of nearby towns disguised as a "tough." The two ride off to the mill hoping to meet Hazel. Unknown to the young people, Dunstan's terrible denunciation of them has left him sightless and it is before Hazel's blinded father that the two are reunited with parental blessing, only after Arthur has rescued Hazel from the icy millpond waters into which she had thrown herself.
- Eugenicist Harry J. Haiselden warns a young couple who are considering marriage that they are ill-matched and will produce defective offspring. He is right; their baby is born defective, dies quickly, and floats up into heaven.
- Myra Maynard, is plagued by a wide variety of metaphysical assaults by the corrupt Black Order, a secret organization which uses magic, curses and any supernatural means possible to achieve its ends.
- A criminologist and a government agent team up to expose a ring of German spies.
- A series of 14 two-reel episodes, each complete in itself, involving the exploits of J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw, con men extraordinaire.
- A young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner.
- Eli Spooger is a devil in his old home town, but when it comes to dealing with the big jovial confidence man from the metropolis, he turns out to be fit for a devil's subject. Spooger is president of a bank in Oak Centre and he owns several shares of the Bessemer Malleable Iron Foundry. Bessemer unwittingly aids them into circulating a story about a million dollar war order he's going to get from "Lord Southpaugh," so Wallingford and Daw told him, and so Violet and Fanny made Spooger believe. Before the Oak Centre Clarion printed the rumor and even after that, the Wallingford party purchased all the shares of about town for less than a hundred. In Spooger's and Bessemer's presence they act as business rivals and Violet and Fanny form a third party, Secret Service Sarahs, as Spooger later called them. When Wallingford offered Spooger two hundred for every share that he could get, and when Daw wanted to borrow money from Spooger on his stock and Wallingford's, Spooger wouldn't do it, he bought every one at a hundred and fifty. $85,000 was what he was cleaned out of on the famous Bessemer stock. At their hotel in New York the Warden girls look longingly at a nice little miniature cottage. Wallingford offers to sell it to Violet for one dollar, providing that she take the contents also. Assenting, she takes from the house a clay image of Daw. Surprised and happy, she buries her face in her hands. Then the expressman brought Daw in with a tag around his neck. Violet and Daw we leave in a state of rapture, while Wallingford, the Daw's star boarder, goes forth to sell the bill-posting rights to the North Pole.
- Beatrice Fairfax receives a pitiful note from Madge Minturn: "I must have a name for my baby. His father, a well-known lawyer, is to be married to-morrow." Beatrice shows the note to Jimmy Barton who wonders if the man could possibly be James Conley, society man and lawyer, who is to wed Margaret Payne. He goes to the Conley law office on the excuse of securing a political interview, and casually mentions Madge Minturn. His suspicions are immediately confirmed, for Conley becomes confused at the name. Beatrice then goes to Madge and hears her story. Conley's father, fearing exposure, advises his son to settle with Madge with money. Conley starts to see Madge and meets her in the woods with the baby. She scorns his offer of money. As he leaves, he sees a tramp lurking in the vicinity, he enters into an agreement with the man to kidnap the woman and baby, and to compel Madge to marry him. Madge places the baby on the grass, and leaves it for a moment to get a drink of water. The tramp secures possession of it and takes it to an abandoned hut. Madge follows. She gains entrance and the tramp overpowers and binds her. The tramp hides the baby in a barn, and then tells Madge that he will kill the infant unless she consents to wed him. Madge struggles to gain her freedom but it is useless. Meantime Beatrice has gone to the home of Margaret and informs her of Conley's duplicity. Margaret consents to aid Madge. Beatrice and Jimmy start for Madge's home. They are told she has been missing several hours. They trace her to the woods, and arrive at the deserted cabin while Madge is vainly trying to escape. A battle between Jimmy and the tramp follows. The tramp is overpowered, Madge is freed, and the baby recovered. The next scene shows the interior of the Payne home the following day, with everything ready for the wedding of Conley and Margaret. The bride enters on the arm of Margaret's father. The ceremony is performed and Conley raises his bride's veil to kiss her. He is amazed to find that the woman he has wed is Madge, Margaret having arranged the details for the substitution. Conley indignantly declares that the ceremony is illegal, as his license calls upon him to marry Margaret. But Beatrice and Jimmy, who are there as guests of Margaret, forestalled such a complication by having Madge procure another license containing her own name. Beatrice has the baby with her. When Conley sees it and realizes how beautiful Madge is in her wedding dress, he agrees to accept her as his wife.
- The newly-rich and simpering Mr. Charles Algernon Swivel is fussful and flirty and a conspirator. He is a member of a clique of criminal financiers who have caused the ruin and death of the father of Violet and Fanny Warden, who, in turn, are being aided by J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw in their endeavor to regain a part of the stolen fortune. Again Wallingford invests five thousand dollars, value received, the "Pine Lake Hotel." Aged, dilapidated, God-forsaken Pine Lake, with its oily swamp and an over-abundance of the infernal pest, mosquitoes. This was the luscious lemon into which Wallingford wanted Algernon to bite. Bite he did, Forty thousand dollars' worth. How the Prancing Pink Pretties, a stranded theatrical troupe, with Miss Tottie Vorhies, later Mrs. Charles Algernon Swivel, as star, gave the "Pine Lake" an air of something it wasn't, and how "Onion" Jones developed smallpox, cholera and leprosy at the one time in order that Pine Lake might be rid of its undesirable guests, is a very laughable bit of comedy.
- Dana T. Morley was a member of the clique of unscrupulous financiers who ruined old man Warden, and J. Rufus and Blackie have promised the Warden girls that they will help in getting the money back. One Edward Bang, inventor of a sun engine, is deep in debt to Morley, and it is through him that the confidence men get at their quarry and lead him to slaughter. Everything is worked in unison and harmony and friend Morley falls hard. He is led to believe that the confidence men contemplate building a large factory to produce these sun engines and that there is no limit to the money that is to be made. Wallingford and his henchmen have a "row" and the Warden girls say they will sell their option on the whole "shooting-match" for several hundred thousand dollars. Morley snaps it up, figuring on selling it to Wallingford, knowing that J. Rufus wants it. They give him the options, all right, but when he goes after the genial Wallingford, that worthy offers exactly thirty cents for the whole thing. "Stung," says Morley.
- Louis Trapp, the next victim, is one of the clique of criminal financiers whose manipulations have caused the death of the charming Violet and Fanny Warden's father. A lucrative mail-order business is used as the "come on" by J. Rufus and Blackie, who, by mailing to themselves hundreds of ten dollar bills, excite the cupidity of Trapp. Onion Jones, a Wallingford confederate, pretending to mistake Trapp as the owner of the company, offers him $60,000 for it, and the crafty Trapp, scenting an enormous profit in the deal, rushes off and buys the business from Wallingford for $50,000, hoping to turn it over to Onion for a $10,000 gain. The postal authorities get on to the mail order business just as soon as Trapp becomes its proprietor, and things look dark for the amateur plunger.
- Violet and Fanny Warden, whose father's ruination and death has been caused by a criminal clique of financiers, are being aided by Wallingford and Daw to recover a part of the stolen funds. J.D. Prine is the next name on the list, and this is the way it is led to the sacrificial stake. Violet and Fanny learn from Qualey, a discharged employee's of Prine's that Prine and his associate bankers have $350,000 in bad loans for which they may be sent to jail. They relay this information to Wallingford and Blackie Daw. Wallingford goes to the crooked bankers and telling them they are wise to their game, offer to take over the bankers' bad loans for a consideration of $100,000. The frightened bankers gladly agree to this and J. Rufus takes over their debts, receives $100,000, and immediately proceeds to double cross the pirates. J. Rufus has speculated $5,000 in a lot next to Prine's general store on Main street, and in an excruciatingly funny scene has thousands of skunks shipped to him, for use, as he says, in the chemical factory he is about to start there. The awful smell drives customers out of Prine's store adjoining, and J. Rufus sells $5,000 option on the farm to J.D. Prine for $10,000.
- J. Rufus Wallingford and Blackie Daw, the gentlemen crooks who are endeavoring to recover a stolen fortune for the Warden girls, get a little of their own medicine in this episode. Jones Squibble, the man they have scheduled for a "shakedown," is a tightfisted old farmer, and taxes the Warden girls ten cents for taking a drink from his well. Blackie gets in a jam with him and he, too, is assessed. Then J. Rufus himself runs afoul of Jones for driving his automobile across his property. This angers our hero and he immediately buys the place for $200. He acts the part of a mine owner in boom times and Zeke, the brother of Jones, plants a mine on his property, expecting Wallingford to "fall." But Jones tips him off, expecting J. Rufus to sell him back his property for the sum paid in exchange for the information. However, this our hero refuses to do, and Squibble has to fork over $35,000 for it. But what cares he? He sells it right away for $50,000, and rather slips one over on Wallingford. Nevertheless, the Wardens get their $35,000, just the amount due them.
- Wallingford's latest adventures, "Buying a Bank With Bunk," isn't pulled off in Jinkinsville because of anything particularly inviting about the town, but because it harbors Benjamin F. Quirker, president of the Jinkinsville Bank, and a member of the clique who have stolen the fortunes of Violet and Fanny Warden. Quirker has a "past" and maintains a present with the ladies. When Wallingford learns this he posts a small girl to call Quirker "papa," for which she shall receive a nickel from Quirker. The coin forthcoming, as Wallingford anticipated, he plans to use the man's past as his weapon. The father is curious to know why Quirker gives his child nickels for calling him papa; his call at the banker's home starts the hyena-like Mrs. Quirker on the warpath. Wallingford also learns that Quirker is carrying on an affair with Marie Supont of Richfield. He sends Quirker an anonymous letter telling that all has been discovered and that he must flee. At the opportune time he goes to the bank, and, as a stall, offers to sell some stock to Quirker; instead, he buys Quirker's share in the bank for $51,000, giving a worthless check on a New York bank. From the bank directors he borrows a like amount, giving his stock as collateral. Telling Mrs. Quirker to meet him at Hotel St. Vitus in New York, he hurries to the metropolis to make the deposit. At the bank Quirker is shown a telegram from Wallingford stopping payment on the check on the ground of fraudulent transaction. Mrs. Quirker is steered to the bank by the Wallingford party, thus cutting short Quirker's argument with the teller. He hurriedly departs in a taxi, minus $51,000.
- The genial confidence men assume the roles of "business doctors, sick and dying enterprises cured while you wait." The eggbeater concern of one Pushman is the patient, but the reason for their interest is a selfish one. Pushman is heavily indebted to G.W. Slookum, who threatens to close the place, and Slookum was a member of the criminal clique, who ruined the father of the Warden girls. The enterprise suddenly becomes Pushman, Inc., Kitchen Utensils, and old Slookum, who becomes intensely interested, receives his money. Lots of loud talk of big money and the open books of the concern, left where Slookum gets a chance to see them, causes him to free himself from the tidy sum of $45,000, just the amount he extracted from old man Warden. Meanwhile, Toad Jessup has a little trouble with Slookum over some apples which the latter thought he has stolen, but when he proves his innocence before the town constable, Slookum's cup of woe is filled. The last he sees of Wallingford and Co. and his roll is when they take the first train out of town.
- In the latest release J. Rufus and Blackie Daw use still another method to lay their talons on the bank account of P.S. Hutch, a shyster lawyer who has embezzled $120,000 from a man answering to the name of Lundy and whose home town is Berne, Switzerland. Lundy is the owner of American properties and has appointed Hutch his attorney. To live up to his reputation as a shyster, he confiscates them. Hutch did another crooked deed; he helped swindle the father of Violet and Fanny Warden and now has Wallingford and Daw on his trail. They make the acquaintance of Hutch, and for a whole week they pump him in vain. Unable to glean anything in the wake of his dirty shoes, they decide on Daw as a souse and a call on Hutch at his office at the time that he usually goes to the bank. Wallingford accompanies him while Daw does a Rip Van Winkle on the couch until they get clear of the room, then he gets the information he wants and gets back to the couch not a minute too soon. They rent a "Spirit Parlor" for a day and cleverly get Hutch to call rather hastily, and leave quicker. Wallingford and Daw call at Hutch's office a little later, planning a trip to South America, but Hutch refuses to go along until he again sees the Lundy spirit out for an airing; then and not till then does he do a double-quick for the bank and the remainder of the embezzled money. They have a little difficulty in getting the coin when he fetches it from the bank, but let it suffice that they get it.
- Whitestocking, a famous racehorse, has mysteriously disappeared. Jimmy Barton ascertains of Bitney, the owner, that a thoroughly reliable stable boy slept in the stall with the door locked and the key in his pocket. He was found doped and the horse gone. The only opening to the stall except the door was an opening over the manger too small to admit a man. About the time Jimmy is receiving this information, Beatrice Fairfax gets a letter from Cutie, the fat lady in a country fair sideshow, saying that her sweetheart, the dwarf, absented himself from the show for three days and would give her no explanation. She asks advice. Beatrice shows the letter to Jimmy, who explains about the stolen race horse. They go to the country fair and enter the freak tent. Beatrice talks with the fat lady, who points out the dwarf. Jimmy goes over to the dwarf's station and talks to him. He sees Wilder, a bookmaker, come in and slip a note to the dwarf. The note reads: "Sam arrested for shell game. We divvy after race." The dwarf laughs in delight and tucks the note in his belt. Jimmy, under pretense of whispering a joke to the dwarf, picks him up and filches the note. The scene changes to the main avenue of the fairgrounds, where Jimmy, disguised as a fakir, starts a shell game. He is arrested and locked in the jail in a cell next to Sam. As he is being thrust into the cell, Jimmy steals the keys from the jailer. Sam is induced to talk and tells Jimmy how the dwarf was put through the opening in Whitestocking's stall and doped the stable boy. Jimmy lets himself out of jail, and hurries off to stop the "Free-for-All" race. In the meantime, Beatrice urged on by Cutie, asks the dwarf where he was during his absence of three days. The dwarf is frightened and runs to warn Wilder, the bookmaker. He finds him in another box stall, superintending the blacking of Whitestocking's legs, the name of the ringer being Black Joe, as indicated by a sign on the door. Wilder sends the dwarf back with directions and he, returning to Beatrice, says: "If you'll come with me, I'll tell you." Beatrice follows the dwarf to the stable, where Wilder and his stable boy seize her and bind her in the stall, while the ringer is led out to the race. Jimmy ascertains from Cutie where Beatrice went and follows. He is recognized by the constable who arrested him and is followed by the crowd. At the stable he breaks down the door, overpowering the stable boy, who is on guard, and rescues Beatrice. He explains to the constable and hurries off to stop the race. Too late, they are off, Black Joe, the ringer, in the lead. Wilder and his confederates, who have wagered immense sums on the ringer at staggering odds, are arrested and when the race is over, Jimmy rushes to the judges' stand and protests the race. He proves his charge by washing the stain from Whitestocking's ankles and is applauded by the crowd. Beatrice attempts to console the fat lady while the detectives carry away the struggling dwarf.
- The confidence men assume the roles of detectives and try their hand at relieving the town of Spanglerville, which was mixed up in the death and ruination of the father of the Warden girls, from some of the contents of the exchequer. This little town harbors one Henry Closby, a man of mystery, who has patented a clay image called the "Lost Dog," the royalties on which net him a handsome sum every year. On arriving at the only hostelry in town, they register as "Mr. Scotland Yard" and "Mr. S. Holmes." They tell the innkeeper that they are on the trail of a mysterious man, and learn of Closby. The latter aids them in their efforts to hoodwink the town. With the judicious use of the "sneakograph" and "sleuthophone," they give the rubes an exhibition of the latest devices for the detection of crime. So interested are the townspeople in the exhibition that they buy another "invention" of this Closby for the sum of $60,000, just enough to cover the sum stolen from old man Warden.
- Jane Hamlin's father, a wealthy inventor, has just died and the young woman is going over his private papers. She finds a note addressed to her, which reads: "Open the safe and drop its contents into the ocean. Do not touch the third button. The machine is loaded with poison gas." She opens the safe and draws forth an infernal machine. As she does so, her fiancé, Clayton Boyd, enters. He has a handsome face, but it displays weakness of character. They sit conversing in the dark room far into the night. The scene changes and shows the interior of a room occupied by a gang of anarchists. They had tried to secure Hamlin's invention before his death and now plot to steal it. One of their number, Sverdrup, is delighted to commit crime. As Jane and her fiancé are talking in the dark room, they see Sverdrup at the window. As he jimmies it and enters, they hide behind a couch. Covering the anarchist with a revolver, Boyd compels him to throw up his hands. Jane switches on the lights and leaves the room to phone the police. When she is gone, the anarchist offers Boyd $1,000 to free him and help him get the "only perfect infernal machine." He accepts, allows the anarchist to escape and then throws himself on the floor. When Jane and the police arrive he feigns unconsciousness and as he recovers, claims the burglar beat him over the head. The police doubt his story and leave in disgust. Jane is greatly troubled and writes to Beatrice Fairfax for advice. Meantime, Boyd and the anarchist lay the plot to secure the infernal machine. Boyd makes up as the ghost of Jane's father. That night he gains entrance to the Hamlin house, and as the ghost, tells Jane to give his secret to the man she loves. Jane falls in a faint. Beatrice and Jimmy visit her the following day. After Jane has told her story, Beatrice agrees to spend the night with her. Jimmy has been shadowing Boyd and late that night follows him and the anarchist to the Hamlin house. He sees them go to the roof through an adjoining vacant house, sees Boyd disguise himself as Hamlin, wind a sheet about himself, and descend through the trap door to the Hamlin house. Sverdrup has been left on guard and Jimmy overpowers him. Then, winding a sheet about himself, Jimmy descends, too. Boyd appears before Jane and frightens her almost to death. As he is talking to her, he hears a noise behind him. He turns to confront another ghost, and almost collapses himself from fright. Jimmy drops his sheet and covers Boyd with a revolver. But Sverdrup has recovered and enters behind Jimmy. He is about to deal him a blow over the head when Beatrice, emerging from the room adjoining that of Jane, fires from the doorway and drops the anarchist. Jimmy then tears the sheet from Boyd and strips from his lips his false moustache, revealing him in his true character. Two policemen summoned by Jimmy take away the plotters and Jane takes Jimmy and Beatrice to the library to show them the infernal machine. As they are examining it, other members of the gang surprise them, compel them to surrender the infernal machine, and escape. As Beatrice scolds Jimmy for his carelessness he explains: "Don't worry. I pressed the third button."
- Episode 1: "The Lost Torpedo" Craig Kennedy's marvelous invention, a super-force torpedo to revolutionize warfare, has been stolen. Kennedy himself has disappeared, although Elaine has a note from him begging her not to grieve whatever happens, for he is safe. And then, one night, on a barren strip of land jutting out into the Atlantic, a fisherman, concealed behind a rock, sees the periscope of a submarine rise; sees a man's head and shoulders rise seemingly out of the sea, and sees a pair of athletic arms strike out bravely for the shore. That night, at a hotel in New York, a distinguished-looking foreigner, much resembling the man who seemed to rise up out of the sea, is shadowed by a fussy old gentleman resembling the fisherman of the coast scenes. The foreigner goes out and the fussy old gentleman goes to his room, where, after a short, sharp struggle with a valet, he searches through all drawers and papers. One paper he pockets with glee, and then departs. Elaine and Jameson are visited by the distinguished-looking foreigner who tells them he is a secret service agent from Washington, and begs to get information with regard to Kennedy and the lost torpedo. Elaine's dog, digging with its forepaws in a pot of palms, unearths the lost torpedo and carries it to the attic, where he drops it behind a trunk. The torpedo's propeller, however, has been left in the palm-pot. where Marcius Del Mar, the foreigner, finds it. Elaine is suspected by him of having concealed the torpedo. The fussy old gentleman, in Del Mar's tracks since he left his rooms, is an interested spectator. He is unaware that Del Mar has spies guarding the house, and is set upon by them. Rushing madly into the conservatory, he faces Del Mar. Both draw their guns, but the fussy old gentleman fires first. His gun is loaded with bullets containing an overpowering gas. Both Del Mar and Elaine fall suffocated to the floor. How the fussy old gentleman escapes is a fitting climax to this episode.
- Jimmy Barton, the reporter and amateur sleuth, is given an assignment to hunt down a gang of counterfeiters who have been passing spurious bills. He tells Beatrice Fairfax about it. She has just received a letter from John Miles, who writes her that his fiancée, who was to have met him at church, has mysteriously disappeared, and that Madame Gaillard, her employer, denies all knowledge of her whereabouts. After consulting with Moran, the United States Secret Service agent, about the counterfeiters, Jimmy and Beatrice start out to try to locate Jean Moore, the missing girl. The scene reverts to the interior of Madame Gaillard's home. Jean is at work in the library and starts toward the door of a rear room. Madame appears and warns her never to attempt to enter that room again. Later in the day. Jean's curiosity overcomes her and she enters the room and finds various articles for making counterfeit money. While she is there, Madame surprises her, a desperate struggle follows, which results in Madame overpowering Jean, and locking her up in a deserted chamber. Then she circulates the story that Jean has left her employ. Madame goes out and is seen travelling from store to store, making trifling purchases, and always paving for them in bills. In a drug store, when she stops, Jimmy Barton also happens to be making a purchase. He offers a large bill in payment and the clerk gives him, among his change, the bill he has just received from Madame. Jimmy thinks it looks strange, and follows the old woman, and is satisfied she is passing the spurious money. As she nears her home, Madame realize she is being followed. She enters a small restaurant adjoining her home, from which there is a secret passage to the cellar of her house. Jimmy follows her into the restaurant, but the man in charge declares the woman never entered there. Meantime Beatrice has gone to the home of Miles. She learns the location of the house where Jean was employed and together they go there. As they alight in front of the house, they encounter Jimmy, who has lost all trace of the woman he has followed. The three enter the restaurant. It is deserted. Jimmy goes into the back room, just in time to see a trap door slowly being raised. Concealing himself, he waits until the restaurant keeper, who is really one of the counterfeiters, emerges. With the assistance of Miles, he binds and gags the man. Then, he, Miles and Beatrice pass through the trap door. In the dark passage where they find themselves, they hear a woman's muffled screams. The scene changes and shows Jean attempting to escape. Madame Gaillard loses her wig and is revealed as a man, the leader of the counterfeiters. Prior to this, Jimmy, satisfied that he was on the right trail, has Beatrice telephone Moran and the latter, with a force of his operatives, starts for the place. Jimmy and Miles overpower the supposed Madame Gaillard and rescue Jean. She tells them the story of the counterfeiters and they start for the cellar. After they have gone, Gaillard succeeds in freeing himself and starts by another passageway to warn the other members of the gang. They arrive in the cellar about the same time. A battle follows. The counterfeiters are winning when Moran and his men arrive. Gaillard is shot dead in the fight, and the others overpowered. John and Jean are happily reunited, while Jimmy and Beatrice hurry away to tell the world, through their newspaper, of the capture of the counterfeit gang.
- An Indian rajah determines to give the prince, his son, the advantages of an American university education, and brings him to the United States. Arriving at the university town they stop at the hotel there and are immediately besieged by the reporters who scent a good story, especially as it is reported that the rajah brings with him one of the famous jewels of the world, a magnificent diamond. Among the reporters is a young man on his first assignment who at once makes friends with the prince. In the meantime Nell Reardon, the "badger queen," is approached by Moreland, a "gentleman" crook, and threatened with exposure if she does not aid him to obtain possession of the rajah's jewel. She promises her aid and as a first step registers at the same hotel as the rajah, under the alias of the "Countess Mirska." Billy is assigned to interview her. The prince is struck with the woman's charms and persuades Billy to introduce him. At the instigation of Moreland. the woman persuades the prince to show her the diamond. Fearing his father's displeasure the young man secretly takes the jewel from the strong box. Seeing their opportunity, Moreland and Harley, his "pal," invite the prince to have some refreshments at the hotel café and the prince asks to have Billy included in the party. The jewel is passed around and admired. By accident, and while no one is looking, it falls from the case and lodges in the cuff of the reporter's trousers. Later, while in his own room, he discovers it and immediately runs back to the hotel to return it to the prince. Unable to find him, he decides to stay at the hotel for the night, takes a room and throws himself upon the bed, fully clothed. The anxiety of his responsibility preys upon his mind so that his slumbers are disturbed and his rest is a nightmare. In the meantime the prince discovers the loss, tells the crooks of it and they search the café together. The crooks secretly believe each other guilty, but when they tax one another with the crime they mutually prove their innocence. Without saying anything to each other they visit the reporter's home and search his room. Finding one another in the room their mutual distrust deepens. Billy's distraught mind causes him to talk in his sleep and while doing so he drops the jewel over the hotel balcony. It falls at the feet of the prince, but he does not enjoy its possession long. Harley, who has been spying upon him, knocks him out and escapes with the diamond. The further vicissitudes of the diamond are intensely interesting and lead up to the superb climax where the prince recovers it and sees the baffled crook, Moreland, go over the bridge into the ravine below in the trolley car in which he has tried to escape.