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- Our picture opens with a beautiful mountain scene and Cora, the belle of a mountain tribe, decking herself with garlands of roses. In the evening Lord Martagne, in disguise, appears at the cave of the mountain tribe and is fascinated by Cora's weird dance. They become lovers, but Lord Martagne soon wearies of the mountain girl and discards her. She calls at his home but is repulsed. She enters secretly at a masked ball in fancy costume to kill her unfaithful lover, but is foiled by his having left the city on urgent business. Lord Martagne goes on important business of a diplomatic character, and becomes a guest at the home of Irma, an attractive young woman who is engaged to be married. Irma is fascinated by Lord Martagne. Cora, the mountain girl, starts out in search of her unfaithful lover. She discovers him seated in a box at the theater with Irma. She leaves the theater when he does and follows him to his home. On account of financial difficulties Lord Martagne writes a letter to Irma, whose father has recently died, leaving her a fortune. He leaves the letter on his desk and Cora, who enters the house, finds it. The note asks Irma to meet him on St. Martin's Bridge the next night and loan him $5,000. Cora meets Lord Martagne on the bridge and forces him to fight a pistol duel with her. She kills him and he falls from the bridge into the river below. Irma comes to keep the appointment and looking over the rail of the bridge sees the body of her lover below. Then she finds the pistol lying on the bridge and her mind gives way. She is crazed and in her delirium she imagines that she committed the murder. At her home. Albert Norton, her fiancé, listens to her story, which is overheard by a maid. He advises her to leave and escape punishment. The maid informs the police and Irma and Norton are arrested. Then Irma recovers her mind and tries to prove her innocence, but fails. She and Norton are condemned to death. In the meantime, Cora has become a famous dancer. She learns of the conviction of Norton and Irma. It worries her greatly and on account of her high strung nerves, she falls into the fire while executing a wild fire dance and is terribly burned. When lying in bed she reads that the execution is about to take place and she confesses and insists on being taken to the scene of the execution in an automobile. She arrives just in time to prevent the double execution, and after telling her story, dies of excitement and exhaustion.
- A thrilling love story ending in elopement and final forgiveness by the parents. Scenes of beauty, handsome costumes, and palatial furnishings.
- The unsuccessful effort of a factory foreman to win the love of his employer's daughter. Spurned by the girl and her parents, he becomes enraged and plans revenge. Upon the occasion of her marriage to a rival, he sends her a bomb disguised as a wedding gift.
- Judith, daughter of a criminal, has been placed by her grandmother, a nurse, in the cradle of Edna, the little Duchess of Burville. The real heiress is brought up as a singing girl at a rough inn, kept by the old evil-faced nurse, Roxana. In the twenty-five years that pass, the false Duchess manifests the strength of heredity, her father's evil tendencies coming to the front. Judith falls in love with Lord Norman, a poet, and in his honor gives a ball at the magnificent Burville Castle. The poet, however, does not reciprocate her affections. Later he bears Edna, the singing girl, on the street. He is startled at the resemblance between Edna and the Duchess of Burville. Enchanted by her singing, he trails Edna to her home and then starts wooing, which is even carried to the point where the poet dons the clothes of a workman in order to be near his sweet singing girl. Roxana is pressed for money by a confederate, and Roxana in desperation goes to the false Duchess and explains to her the secret of her birth, and demands money as a price of silence. Judith tells her to come later. In the evening the confederate grows more furious in his demands, and not trusting Roxana out of his sight, he insists upon Edna being sent to the castle for the hush money. Edna received by the false Duchess, who decoys her which she falls into the absence, the grandmother into an altercation. There is a fight and the lamp is upset, and the house is set on fire. Lord Norman, seeking Edna, comes in and finds the café smothered in smoke. Going upstairs into the flames he encounters a form upon the floor, and thinking it to be Edna, he struggle down the stairs with it. It is Roxana, who, dying, confesses that Edna is the real Duchess, and that she had been sent to the castle. Hurrying away to the castle, Lord Norman demands to see Edna. Judith's actions convinces him that she has been put out of the way. He accuses her of the crime. Under his fiery denunciations, Judith shows him where Edna had been dropped into the sewers underneath the house, and down into their murky depths goes the lover. He finds Edna stunned, but otherwise unhurt by the fall. They make their way to freedom. Meanwhile, in the castle, Judith, overcome by remorse, has ended her wicked life. Edna is restored to her rightful position, there to enjoy the love of he who had loved her as a humble street singer.
- The priest's niece is deserted by her faithless sweetheart, and becomes insane. The lover devotes his attentions to another girl, and is killed by a jealous rival, The insane girl is arrested and charged with the crime. The guilty man is stricken with remorse and goes to confession. The priest is horrified, but cannot violate the sanctity of the confessional, to save his niece. A sensational scene in court follows, and the girl is found guilty. The real culprit writes a confession of the crime and destroys himself, and the girl is released.