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- A psychological study of the effects of drug addiction on humanity.
- Dunstan Leech, an unscrupulous gambler, victim of drugs, plans to marry his mother's ward, Kate Heathcote, that he may hide the embezzlement of funds entrusted to his care. His mother summons him from London to their country home, where he discovers Kate to be in love with Richard Blunt, who is tutoring his crippled half-brother Cecil. Unable to make Kate listen to his love, Leech plans to kill Cecil to gain possession of the money which will revert to him upon Cecil's death. He injects morphine into a prize bunch of grapes which is being saved for Cecil's birthday. The boy eats the grapes, dying from the effects. Leech's mother, Mrs. Jelf, determines to ruin Blunt in Kate's eyes by making it appear that a robbery has been committed and having the money discovered upon his person. The plot fails, and Blunt, whose suspicion had been aroused in connection with Cecil's death, leaves the house. Determined to stay in the neighborhood to protect Kate, he visits the keeper of the lighthouse, where he is followed and trapped in a closet by Leech. Leech, who is in a half-drugged condition, is pursued by the vision of the murdered Cecil and upsets the lamp in the lighthouse, causing it to catch fire. The rescuers, guided by the burning building, reach Blunt in time to effect his escape. Upon recovering, Blunt urges Kate to immediate marriage, and they depart for the diamond mines of South Africa, accompanied by three ex-acrobats. Leech later follows and with a band of Arabs abducts Kate and her child. They are rescued by Blunt and the three acrobats but later, when upon the point of recapture, the acrobats form a span of life by throwing their bodies across a chasm, over which Kate escapes. Blunt is made prisoner in an Arab camp. Kate, believing him to be dead, returns to England. With the assistance of a Christian Arab girl Blunt manages to escape and makes his way to an English army post. In England Leech's mother, finding herself upon the point of death, summons Kate to her bedside, divine her a key to a silver box, indicating that through its contents she can protect herself against Leech. Leech learns of her possession of the box and determines to steal the evidence it contains. He goes to her room at night and is horror-stricken when he discovers the hypodermic needle left in the grapes years ago, which had been found by his mother. Blunt, arriving at the house, is startled by Leech's cry of horror. He hastens to Kate's room and overpowers Leech, who tries to escape, but is confronted with the phantom of his drug-crazed mind by the spirit of Cecil. Before anyone can prevent him, he takes an over-dose of morphine and dies, thus bringing Kate and Blunt together.
- Frank Norman, a young idealist and radical, gains fame and popularity through his speeches, which are inspired by the writings of a young crippled girl, Ruth, who spends her life in an endeavor to bring justice before the eyes of a corrupt political city. Norman is elected candidate for governor upon the Radical ticket. Carter, a financier known as "The Vulture," wishes to control the actions of the possible Governor, but Norman is above bribery. Several clever ruses are resorted to in an attempt to compromise him and place him in Carter's hands, but without success. Vera, the daughter of Carter's cats-paw, who has met and fallen in love with Norman, is persuaded to use her influence to make Norman accept the bribe. Upon the realization of Norman's contempt for her the girl's better nature is roused and she warns him against his enemies, thus becoming a friend of both Ruth and Norman. Carter, furious at being balked in his designs, plans a frame-up which will place Norman safely in jail and disqualify him in the election. The frame-up is successful; the shooting of a gangster in a saloon being attributed to Norman, who, though realizing that he is in the hands of "The Vulture," is unable to protect himself. The wounded gangster is placed in a hospital under strict supervision of the politicians, who allow no one to see him. Resorting to a strategy Norman's political manager, accompanied by the cats-paw's daughter Vera, manages to reach the gangster, obtaining a statement exonerating Norman. Norman is at once released, while a wholesale arrest is made of his enemies. The death of "The Vulture" occurs dramatically when he is confronted by an ex-bookkeeper, an innocent victim who has been railroaded to jail and returned for revenge. The shock causes heart failure, which is fatal. Norman is elected Governor, but the night of his triumph is saddened by the death of Ruth, who, before dying, indicates her desire to have Vera and Norman marry. A wonderful vision appears to Ruth in which she sees Justice prevail at last for the working man, and Truth and Honesty in politics.
- Isaac Zangwill, a discouraged Jewish book agent enthusiastic over the tales of fortunes made in America, sails with his wife, Sarah and daughter of eight on a trading ship to the new land. A storm wrecks the vessel. The daughter is tied to a mast and cast overboard, in an effort to save her. The mother, half-crazed, leaps after the child into the water and manages to keep afloat. Husband and wife are separated in the water. The husband is picked up by the yacht of a millionaire Jew and is taken to Paris while the wife and daughter are rescued by an American-bound vessel and befriended by a passenger who offers them a home. Both believe the other to have been lost at sea. Attracted by the personality of Zangwill, he is taken into the home of the millionaire to catalogue his library, and interest in his career is created by his faithfulness and intelligence, his employer deciding to give him a start in life. Zangwill, prosperous under Stern's friendship, being installed as Paris manager in his wholesale jewelry shop. Both he and Sarah have given up hope of ever seeing each other. Rebecca, grown to womanhood, takes her mother to New York; in her efforts to find some clue to her father's fate she becomes interested in detective work. She causes the arrest of Jim Dayton and Eva Lumley, crooks and confederates, who later figure prominently in the story. Zangwill's eyes, under the strain of work, begin to fail, he becoming temporarily blind. A sea voyage and complete rest is prescribed as the only possible chance of restoring his sight. Accompanied by his secretary, Zangwill sails for America in the hope of learning something of his wife and daughter. Dayton, who has seen Zangwill in Paris, recognizes the diamond merchant and plans with his accomplice to rob him. In the meanwhile Rebecca has become a detective in the Secret Service, having risen to a position of importance. Shadowing Zangwill's private secretary, Dayton discovers him to be in search of his missing family. He conceives the idea of substituting Eva as the daughter, gaining access to Zangwill's home and robbing him. Rebecca, who is trying to trap a criminal, overhears the plot of the two crooks, while pretending to be in a drunken stupor obtains the address of Zangwill's home and plans to save him, unconscious that he is her father. Dayton decoys the secretary to his office, locks him in and proceeds to Zangwill's. Rebecca arrives first at Zangwill's house and hides behind the piano. Dayton gets Eva on the telephone and she explains the loss of the address, but hastens to the home. Dayton introduces her as Rebecca Zangwill's long-lost daughter. Zangwill finds her features those of a Gentile, but believes Dayton. He describes the wreck, and Rebecca realizes he must be her father. Impatient to get Zangwill's money, Dayton proposes a toast to their reunion. Eva puts a sleeping powder into Zangwill's wine. As he is about to drink it, Rebecca appears from behind the piano, dashes the drugged wine to the floor, skillfully disarms Dayton, summons the police, and delivers Eva and Dayton to them. To Zangwill she recalls a personal incident of the wreck, which establishes her, unquestionably, as his daughter. Husband and wife are reunited. Thornton and Rebecca become mutually interested in each other.