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- A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
- Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
- During Clifford's first day's work as a mining engineer, at the mother lode mine on which he is to make a report, he comes upon a miner injured by a blast. Clifford discovers this fellow to be the father of Marie, his boyhood sweetheart. He meets her and, although they have long since ceased to love each other, they continue to be fast friends. Failing to understand Val, the foreman at the mine and fiancé of Marie, becomes jealous and the jealous passion finally fanned into flame, there is a quarrel. In defending himself, Clifford is forced to shoot Val. The foreman's friends accuse Clifford of trying to murder Val and to save himself from the hasty verdict flees to the mountains. It is here that he meets Phyllis, a nurse, hurrying to the bedside of the wounded man. Phyllis has been lost. Clifford risks all to take her on to camp, and later he tells her that he is the man who did the shooting. Before making his escape again he instructs her to signal to him by the flash of a mirror, if within three days the boy is alive. Following there is long days of watching and waiting and work and suspense. The signal is given and Clifford returns. Val, partly recovered, explains away the compromising circumstances and we leave them with two romances in progress, one well along and the other just started.
- At Burke's death, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, baby Rory, who goes into the keeping of his uncle, Sir Everett, who has a son Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped. Twenty years later show Sir Everett's son grown up to be a cad of dissolute habits, but wealthy as a result of the stolen inheritance. Rory has grown to manhood in the home of a poor widow and her daughter Eileen and is in love with peasant girl Kathleen. Sir Everett's son wrongs Rory's foster sister. She dies and Rory swears vengeance upon the wrongdoer. However, vengeance is taken out of his hands. The kidnapper gets into an altercation with the son and kills him. Rory finds the body, is accused of the murder and is convicted and condemned to die. The conscience-stricken kidnapper confesses to a priest--a good friend of Rory's. The priest cannot dishonor the sanctity of the confessional by making the confession public, so he goes to Rory's cell and changes clothes with the young man. Rory escapes, but is speedily recaptured. The time for his execution arrives. The death-bell tolls out mournfully. It arouses the conscience-stricken kidnapper to action. He rushes to the gallows and arrives an instant before Rory is to be hanged. He confesses that the crime was his. Rory is liberated. The tolling of the death-bell also arouses the conscience of Sir Everett. He confesses the kidnapping and restores Rory to his inheritance.
- Bainbridge, the agent of the S.V. Railroad, comes to the Clifford Ranch to negotiate for the right of way. Clifford agrees to go east to see the railroad officials. Arriving at the managing director's office, they meet Mr. Abraham, and although Clifford refuses the offer made, he accepts an invitation to a ball from Phyllis, Graham's niece. He becomes very much interested in the girl, and they are finally married and go to the ranch to live. Time rolls on and a little son is born. Three years pass, and that part of the country is devastated by a ruinous drought. Unaccustomed to poverty, which overtaken them. Phyllis becomes disgusted with her surroundings, and yielding to the importunities of her mother, who sends her a check, the young wife returns to the east. Clifford, however, will not let her take their three-year-old boy. Phyllis doe« not stay long at home, for the railroad agent makes advances which fill her with disgust, and she sees a vision of her baby crying for her. She breaks away and hurries home once more, this time to her western home. She makes her peace with the willing Clifford as a telegram arrives, renewing the railroad company's offer. Likewise, there is a sudden bursting of the heavens, and the drought is broken by copious and prosperity-bringing rains.
- Helen Walters has expensive tastes which the narrow means of her father cannot satisfy. To obtain money she forges his name to a check. The imposition is discovered. In her extremity, the girl confesses her crime to her brother. Moved, he takes the blame for the forgery upon himself. The father, a man of old-fashioned Ideas, allows his son to be sent to prison. A few years later the girl is married to the district attorney. Her brother escapes and seeks out his sister. It is night and as he enters the house the attorney beholds a stranger embracing his wife. He breaks into the room, but the escaped felon has had time to hide. The wife denies the accusation of her husband. In a fit of jealous rage he chokes her to death. The brother returns to the room and tells the district attorney that the dead woman is his sister. Then a strange thing happens. The attorney becomes pursued with the horror of his crime; he cannot control the muscles of his fingers; they repeat and repeat the action of strangling his innocent wife, until he dies, a victim of his imagination.
- Counters Betty Ardmore inherits from an uncle a large mining property in the United States. At the advice of her counselor she comes to America to personally superintend the conduct of her property. Her brother, a dissolute fellow, is left out of the inheritance, but at his solicitation and promise to reform, she takes him with her. At the mine they meet Wallace, a thoroughly independent American, who dislikes peerage on general principles. He has had entire charge of the mine subsequent to the death of the uncle. The brother and Wallace instinctively dislike each other. The Countess likes Wallace, but resents his independence. Later, Wallace comes upon the brother at the café, and a fight ensues. The brother is beaten and Wallace promises not to tell his sister. Shortly following this incident, Wallace is alone in the office. With revenge foremost in his mind, the brother places a charge of dynamite under the house, lights the fuse, and retires to a safe distance to watch. When it is about time for the dynamite to explode, the Countess enters the office. Wallace and the Countess leave the office by the rear door. The brother is caught in his own trap and killed. The Countess looks to Wallace for comfort, and finds it.
- A gypsy girl is brought to the sheriff by a ranchman with the demand that her people be forced to move off his land. The hot-blooded woman no sooner sees the sheriff when she falls in love with him. She displays her womanly charms and the animal instinct in him is aroused. Ella, the sheriff's sweetheart, is a simple sort of a country girl, yet the gypsy woman hates her and in turn, when the gypsy's name is connected with that of the sheriff by the town people, Ella also hates. She tells the sheriff that she will have nothing to do with him until the gypsy leaves town. Understanding, or believing he does, the sheriff goes to the gypsy girl, tells her that they are of a different race, that their places in life are widely separated and she consents to leave with her folks. After their departure the sheriff is notified that a notorious outlaw is in his territory. He rides into the mountains. The outlaw successfully seeks refuge with the gypsies, though the girl washes her hands of the affair. Later, the girl, though pursued and mortally wounded by the bad man, returns to where the sheriff had been left a captive by the gypsies, and releases him. She receives the knife meant for the sheriff and with the last spark of life, turns and stabs the outlaw to death. The sheriff carries the body of the girl to town. He is seen approaching with the body across his saddle by the sheriff's sweetheart. After disposing of it, he knocks at the door. It is opened, his sweetheart sees him and closes it in his face. The sheriff throws the locket containing her picture to the ground and tramples on it, disgusted with it all. It was the bad "good" woman who ruined the life the good "bad" woman had saved.
- Eddie leaves on the train for his uncle's place to meet the girl who has been picked out for him to marry, much to his displeasure. Victoria sets out for her aunt's for the same purpose and takes the same train. Neither knows the other and has no idea in what the other looks like. The fat man and his wife and three children board the train. Finding that they have left the baby's nursing bottle behind, the wife gets off to buy another and misses the train. At the next stop the fat man gets off to telegraph to his wife, leaving the children in charge of Eddie, who is his friend. Eddie meets Victoria, and after a short courtship they are married by a minister on board, not knowing they are fulfilling the wishes of their respective aunt and uncle. The porter comes to Eddie's assistance in caring for the children, not without having trouble with everyone aboard. Victoria arrives at her aunt's before Eddie, and they are pleasantly surprised to find they have already been married, which brings the story to a happy conclusion.
- Producer Leonard Dare finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick; the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and, while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest living actor. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home: His wife is dead.
- Pearl, the girl detective, is at home chafing with inactivity and the want of something to do. She decides to go out for a walk in the hope that something in the way of an adventure may come her way. Fred Hanley, a young man, has become a confirmed drunkard. A friend of his brings a doctor to visit Hanley. Hanley becomes excited during their visit and frightens them nearly unto death by shooting at them with a revolver. They leave in haste, but decide to lock Hanley in his room. This they do, leaving a servant to watch the door. Hanley, crazed for want of drink, writes a note that he is wrongfully imprisoned, and offers $5,000 reward for anyone who liberates him. This he throws out the window, just as Pearl is passing the house. She picks it up, reads it and realizes that her quest for an adventure has borne fruit. She immediately goes home and disguises as a boy. Coming back, she applies for a job and the woman downstairs employs her and puts the supposed boy to work. Pearl has a hard time of it, peeling potatoes and scrubbing floors, but with never a chance to liberate the unfortunate, supposed prisoner. Later, however, she is caught upstairs listening at the door by the servant, and is kicked downstairs. The woman pulls her ears for leaving the kitchen, and all in all, Pearl is treated exactly how a real detective should not be. However, at last, Pearl succeeds in gaining access to the room and is fondly dreaming of the five thousand dollar reward and her noble work and bravery, when Hanley's friends enter and explain. Pearl appreciates that she has been stung and beats a hasty retreat, resolving to detect in a more profitable way in the hereafter.
- Carlton, disapproving of his dissipated son and the latter's scheming wife, on his death-bed makes his will in favor of his devoted niece, Marcia. Hearing of this the previous couple plan to balk the father; their scheming is overheard by the cracksman, who has stealthily entered the house. The son and his wife retire and the cracksman creeps upstairs and enters Marcia's room. Affected by her beauty and innocence as she lays sleeping, he determines to assist her; following the son into the sick man's room he snatches the stolen will from his hand. Impatient at the delay the wife goes to the room and finds her husband stunned. She screams. The father awakens, gropes about and falls dead. In his own apartment the cracksman looks over the document and later he reads in the papers where the question of millions is at stake. Making a dummy he takes them both to the house where the original came from in time to prevent Marcia being bundled out. Holding the dummy up the cracksman extorts money from the son for it and then bums it. But ere the son can take possession the real will is brought forth; he holds the scheming couple at bay while Marcia makes her escape.
- Worthing, a rich young bachelor, lost in the woods at night while hunting, makes his way to an old inn. Foolishly he flashes a rill of bills; the innkeeper and his partner, Slavin, plan to rob him. Dora, the innkeeper's daughter, overhears the plot and having been impressed by the stranger, assists him to escape. Later, discovering this the men turn her out. Some hours later she comes upon Worthing and he in pity installs her in a house as maid, which he rents. Under his guidance Dora changes to a cultivated woman. Love takes the place of pity in the man's heart and when their love is about to culminate in marriage. Worthing is called away to attend his sick father. When he returns he learns that his sweetheart has been kidnapped by her father. After a fruitless attempt to find her he departs for an extended tour to heal a broken heart. Later, the father and friend are sent to prison, Dora with her baby, determines to go back to the village to seek her sweetheart. She is found in a sad plight by the roadside by Mrs. Leslie, who finding that she is so gifted obtains for her a position as companion to John Sloane, the uncle of Frank Sloane, Worthington's dearest friend. John falls in love with the girl and after a time she marries him for the sake of his child, believing that she will never see her former sweetheart again, Frank returns with his friend John from the trip and they answer the invitation of John to visit at his country place. The meeting between Dora and Worthing is pitiful, Dora's father has escaped and after Worthing has departed he makes his way to John's house and tells him of his daughter's past. He demands money to keep silent. The shock of his wife's history weighs heavily on Sloane and he dies in a short time. After several exciting incidents, in which Dora's father is killed, the young couple are brought together and the old love newly awakened fills their longing hearts.
- A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
- An old arrowmaker's daughter, while at the stream, meets a brave from another tribe. They become enamored of each other in the sudden positive way of the savage, and agree to meet at sunset. The chief of the tribe to which the girl belongs, covets and demands her of her father. The father consents, but the girl rebels. At sunset, she meets her lover and tells him what her fate is to be. He tells her that when the moon shines, he will come for her and take her away. Their clandestine conversation is overheard by an unfriendly Indian and carried to the covetous chief. The lover is taken prisoner and taunted by the chief. Finally the chief raises a weapon to strike the prisoner dead. The girl jumps between and receives the blow, which wounds her mortally. The lover breaks his bonds and demands trial by conquest. This is granted. He fights with and kills the chief, and is himself elected chief of the tribe. But his heart is with the girl. He takes his own life, and the spirits of the two are seen to reunite in the Happy Hunting Ground.
- At a big automobile race one of the winning drivers, Tony Jeanette, is given an invitation to a masked ball to take place that evening at the home of the wealthy Mrs. Montague. In haste, he drops the invitation, which is found by F.J. Francis, a society crook, and also read by Meg, another gentile crook. Knowing of the wonderful necklace of Mrs. Montague, they both decide to attend the ball in an effort to steal same, unknown to each other. At the ball Meg is seen masked, watching every chance to get the necklace, but Francis is more clever and gets away with it. The diamond is missed. Two society detectives at the ball follow Francis' cab, which he jumps out of while going at high speed, leaving his cane inside the cab. Meg follows Francis unknown to anyone, and succeeds in getting into his apartments. Francis discovers her and shows her the diamonds, which she tries to get. After she has gone, he misses his watch, which she has cleverly taken to yet even. In the meantime the detectives have gotten up with Francis' cab and discover it is empty, but find his cane with his monogram (F.J.H.) on. They find the jeweler who made the cane, and find from him the club to which Francis belongs. Going there they discover Francis, but are not sure of him, as they only saw him at the ball and he was masked. They ask for a light and cigarette, and see the same monogram on his ring and cigarette case, and arrest him as the thief. Meg hears of his arrest and attends his trial, when he is pronounced guilty. Going to his cell, she offers to help him if she can. He tells her where he has bidden them, and she goes to his apartment, gets the jewels from their hiding place in the wastebasket, and stealing into Mrs. Montague's boudoir, places the jewels where she finds them later, and phones the police of their discovery. Francis is released. He and Meg marry and give up all of their ill-gotten gain to the society of the orphans. The last scene shows them looking at the bank balance of $10.00, but happy in their love and promise of a better life.
- An anarchist has a sweetheart who is sought after by another man. The latter meets the girl in a park, where, under the watching eyes of the anarchist, he makes violent love to her. Though she repulses him, the anarchist suspects her loyalty to him and casts her aside. The other man, in revenge, notifies the police of the whereabouts of the girl's lover and his companions. On the road home, after this happening, the unhappy lover, King, meets a little girl, buys her a toy horn and takes her to her doorway; she lives in an apartment directly above, where he has his studio. The police come and are about to break in the door. The anarchist, the girl and his companions decide to die rather than give up. Their leader is about to cast the bomb that would send them into eternity when he hears the horn blown by the little girl. He realizes that another life must be sacrificed if he throws the bomb. All surrender, and the anarchist takes the hand of the girl, assured of her loyalty.
- Reuben and Annie are sweethearts. Annie's Pa does not look upon Reuben with favor. Reuben and Annie are walking along the road. Si, who is also stuck on Annie, runs home and tells Annie's Pa, He comes out looking for them, determined upon giving Reuben a beating. Meanwhile Claude, the traveling salesman, passes them and flirts with Annie. She becomes stuck on him and dismisses Reuben. Pa sees them and mistaking Claude for Reuben, beats him up, before he discovers his mistake. Claude is invited into the house. Si and Reuben call, but Annie's attentions are all for Claude. Pa re-enters and gets rid of the two rubes. Pa insists upon Claude marrying Annie. Claude refuses. Pa holds him up at the point of a gun. He gets Si to hold the gun while he gets a minister. Claude overcomes Si and escapes. Pa returns with the minister, and is astounded that Annie's beautiful prospects of marriage to a city chap are gone. Annie resolves that she loves Reuben anyway.
- Pearl and Harry ask her father's consent to marry. He refuses. They decide to elope. He learns of it and 'phones the minister and the Justice of the Peace not to marry them. When the young couple call, they are refused. They get an automobile and Pearl kidnaps the Justice of the Peace. Their chauffeur gets drunk while waiting. He goes at a fearful rate of speed, over mountains, through lanes and streets. The Justice, worn out and scared to death, finally gives in and agrees to marry them if they will stop. The chauffeur is induced to desist and the pair are married.
- Pearl receives a letter from her cousin, Dora, to the effect that she and her husband are going to Europe, and are going to send Pearl their machine. Pearl and husband decide to learn how to drive a car. They buy complete auto togs and hire a machine. The machine takes all kinds of funny turns. Ulysses is compelled to get out and get under the car. The car starts at a terrific rate. They are fined $50. At last they decide to wait until they get Fred's machine before they do any more riding. The gift arrives and they nearly collapse when they learn that it is a sewing machine instead of an automobile.
- Randall is a rich mine owner whose business affairs cause him to neglect his somewhat frivolous wife. There is a mutual friend whom Randall carelessly allows to entertain his wife. As a result, the friend pays more than natural attentions to the woman. The three visit one of Randall's mines. The wife and friend go down the mining shaft in a bucket. While they are yet underground, a quantity of dynamite explodes. The mine is filled with poisonous fumes. Randall has himself lowered into the smoking shaft. He finds his wife and friend almost overcome. There is room in the bucket for two persons only. Randall places the two in the bucket and they are hoisted to the surface. The bucket is again lowered and Randall is brought up. The long period in the poisoned atmosphere has rendered him stone blind. The young wife soon tires of her blind husband. One day Randall overhears their plans for elopement. He goes to the friend and the faithless wife and explains that he has overheard. He then gives the man a revolver and tells him, "Turn out the lights and our chances will be equal." The woman turns off the lights. Both men fire and miss. The friend sneaks to the switch and turns on the lights, intending to change the duel into a murder. But the woman by this time has discovered which of the two is the man. She wrenches the revolver from the friend's hand and tells him to go and never return.
- Cleo drops her bonnet while sitting on the wall. Young Wally picks it up; their eyes meet and the old, old tale follows. Cleo's father writes to Wally's father, reminding him of an agreement between them, whereby their daughter and son, respectively, were destined for each other as soon as Wally reached the age of twenty-one. Cleo is shown the precious missive by her father and flatly refuses to marry a man she has never seen. Wally is also informed of the agreement and is quite as emphatic. Cleo tries to run away and is locked in her room. Wally keeps clear of his father and works his automobile double time. The fathers meet and talk the matter over, and determine to be obeyed. Cleo in the meantime escapes. She sees Wally in his auto, hails him and in a cozy tea garden tells him her troubles. Cleo's father discovers her absence, and with Wally's father goes after the young couple, having learned where they are from the returning chauffeur. Seated at another table is the minister. When the irate fathers arrive the pair retreats. The unfortunate clergyman is taken along in the chase, which ensues. The youngsters are caught and are brought face to face with their doom, and to their mutual surprise the parents have no further objections to make.
- Nellie is a maid employed in the home of Captain Ronaldson. She is loved by John, the butler. She returns his love, but does not show it forcibly. She receives a letter from her sister, informing her that she is in need of money, as the doctor has ordered her to go to a different climate. Nellie yields to temptation and at an opportune moment steals. The theft is discovered almost immediately. Captain Ronaldson sends for a detective and he questions the help. The detective searches everyone who was in the house at the time. In a moment of desperation Nellie slips the money into John's pocket. He feels it. She looks at him beseechingly, and he is placed in the strange predicament of either sacrificing the girl he loves or going to jail himself. He selects the latter course. When the detective finds the money, he confesses to the theft, and is arrested. John is tried, convicted, and sentenced to two years in jail. Nellie resolves to save him. She takes the balance of the money, writes a letter with it, saying that it was she and not John who stole the money and enclosing the other half of what was stolen. This she places on Captain Ronaldson's desk. The captain's dog comes in to the room and takes the envelope in his mouth, a trick the captain had taught him. He secretes it in the outhouse. A year passes. Nellie secures another position. Later, the captain is walking with the dog, when the dog leads him to the outhouse. He reads it astonished, and secures John's release. Later, John meets Nellie by accident. His love still the same, he insists upon her forgetting his deed in going to jail for her and insists upon marrying her.
- In a small town in the Rockies, Mac, Jacques and Jacques' sister, Marie, have grown up in an atmosphere semi-criminal. Mac, who is Jacques' best friend, is a serious and well-read man, superior to his surroundings. Mac loves Marie and she returns his affection. Desiring to make something of his life Mac goes to the city. He soon wearies of the city life, however, returns to the mountain wilds and joins the mounted police. Forrest, a comrade, is detailed to investigate the smuggling activities. He goes to the country where Mac lives and makes advances to Marie. In the complications which follow, Forrest is killed by Jacques. When the news of Forrest's death is brought to headquarters Mac is sent to bring the murderer in. He starts out eagerly to avenge his friend's death, never suspecting that it was Jacques who did the killing. He goes into the country wearing the despised "red-coat." His former friends scoff at him. Marie scorns him. Jacques' betrayer, a "Canuck" whom Jacques had once knocked down, comes to Mac and tells him where he will find the murderer. Mac follows directions and finds Jacques. Then comes an intense mental battle. Mac wavers at the thought of taking Jacques prisoner. Jacques' deed was done partly for his sake. Marie stands near. With a mighty effort he decides and in the face of the girl's scorn he leads his prisoner away. The townspeople try to rescue Jacques. Jacques' only thought is for his friend's safety and he fights by his side. When his friend falters in his duty Jacques compels him to remember his word. The two men understand each other; Jacques will not let Mac go back without his prisoner. Mac cannot take his friend to the scaffold. They clash, struggle and go down to death together into a pool beneath the treacherous "Devil's Slide."
- For fifty years the Dawsons and the Putnams have been engaged in a deadly family feud. Old Hen Dawson is now the patriarch of the Dawsons, and Jed Putnam is the leader of the Putnams. Dawson has an only daughter, June. There lives with him one, Wood Dawson, a nephew. In the rival family there is an only son, Joel. Joel and June were secret lovers. One day a gospel man comes into the territory and convinces the heads of the two families that their feud is ungodly. All their various henchmen are disarmed and peace and harmony is established. That is, until Wood learns that Joel Dawson is his successful rival for the hand of June. Then Wood becomes stiff-necked. He circulates the report that Joel and June have been carrying on improperly. He has words with Joel and in the general fight which follows Joel shoots and kills Wood. Both families reopen hostilities. Hen Dawson forgets his oath and sets out to kill Joel. However, when he finds Joel he finds June with him ready to elope. Tragedy is about to take place, when the gospel man forever puts an end to the long standing war of extermination. He marries Joel and June.
- Chester is in love with Pearl. Pearl's mother objects to him because he is not wealthy. Pearl walks along the street and finds a letter introducing the bearer as John Henry, a miner, just returned from the west, a miner looking for a job. She hires him to pose as Chester's rich uncle. Chester outfits him and they call. John makes love to the old lady and insists upon all going for an auto ride and to a swell restaurant. There he spends all of Chester's money. This keeps up for a week and the old lady thinks there is no one like John. Just as Chester is almost broke and about to give up, John receives a letter that a mining claim he owned was sold and brought a large profit. He turns some of the money over to Chester and all ends well.
- Bob calls on Pearl, his sweetheart, one evening while intoxicated. Pearl orders him from the house and breaks their engagement. Months pass. Bob sinks lower; he becomes a habitué of low dives and saloons. Roger Newton, the successful novelist, is now engaged in writing a novel entitled "The Tramp." He is also paying attentions to Pearl and they are practically engaged. Newton decides to go into the slums to get atmosphere. He finds his way into a saloon where Bob is playing the piano for drinks. Later, Bob saves Newton from assault. Newton, in gratitude, takes Bob home and sets him up as his secretary. Bob meets Pearl and attempts to bring about a reconciliation. Pearl refuses. This is observed by Newton who, failing to understand, grows jealous. Later Newton falls sick and is unable to finish his novel. Bob, returning home, learns of the trouble and takes it upon himself to finish it. A check comes from the publishers for $1,200 with a note saying that the last installment was the best ever. Newton investigates and finds that Bob did the work. Bob refuses the money his friend offers and congratulates both Newton and Pearl on their coming marriage.
- Frank Graham, rich mine owner, is fatally injured by an explosion. On his death bed he confides to his friend, Jim Blake, all his plans concerning his daughter, Angela's, future. He makes him promise to watch over her. His fortune he places in the hands of his brother, a New York banker, to be held in trust for his daughter until her wedding day; the fact of her being an heiress to be kept secret in order to insure her safety from fortune-hunters. Angela comes east to live with her brother's family. She is treated as a servant, her cousin, Honora, doing all she can to make her life wretched. Graham permits this, not knowing that Blake shares the secret. He has decided to keep the money for himself. Honora has been betrothed to Jack Falkner, son of her father's friend, an arrangement of the parents. They have not met for years. Jack, desiring to study the real character of the girl, secures the position of chauffeur. His eyes are opened to Honora's despicable character. He falls deeply in love with Angela. He asks her to marry him. Graham, anxious to rid himself of the girl, gladly consents. Angela telegraphs to her father's friend, Jim Blake, of her approaching marriage. He comes east. Jack's identity is disclosed at the service to the chagrin of the Graham family. Jim Blake has a private interview with the banker, and forces him to make restitution.
- The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple. The mother recognizes the father, and the young couple are told the horrifying news. Distracted, the girl runs away. After upbraiding his parent, the boy seeks out his father. Together they solve the tragic question which confronts them. Hand in hand they walk into the illimitable ocean until they are covered by the water.
- Two men meet in the desert. One is in search of gold and the other seeks solace and heartsease for an unrequited love. Although they are unknown to each other, each loves the same girl, Ray, the prospector, is the chosen suitor and around his neck he carries the girl's picture. They live together in the wilds and become friends, until one night Tom sees the picture in the locket around Ray's neck. Tom's jealousy prompts him to kill Ray, but gentle thoughts of Ethel restrain his hand. On their way through the desert they suffer from thirst. Ray staggers and falls. Tom takes the locket and chain from him and leaves him. He staggers along. He takes a drink of water, which he has saved for himself, but his conscience smites him and he goes back, gives Ray the life-giving from his canteen, and himself dies. Ray fashions a grave in the burning sands and buries his friend. He is discovered and rescued by outrider. He is reunited to the woman he loved, but even more sublime than their love, is the shadow of the dead man hovering over them, the man who hated deeply, loved intensely and was a gentleman.
- Joe Mayfield and Sue Jarvis are the children of two families in the Blue Ridge Mountains, which have been at variance for years. Brady, Dorothy's brother, has had an affair with a simple mountain maid. She, unable to care for the child, lays it with a note, at what she thinks is Brady's door. In reality, she has taken it to Mayfield's cabin. He finds it, but out of love for Sue, and to spare her the reflected disgrace, he cares for it himself, keeping silent as to its parentage. The love between himself and Sue ripens. Sue is ready to forget the feud and marry him. In order to prevent this, Brady, not knowing whence the child came, accuses Mayfield of being its parent. The accused is silent and Sue turns away. Mayfield, in the meantime, is unable to stand the fruits of injustice and the taunts of Brady. He tells Brady the true parentage of the child. Brady is softened. He tells Mayfield he is going to find its mother and "Make it right." He seeks out his sister and explains to her the injustice he has done the man she loves. Sue turns to Mayfield and in the happy moment which follows, fends and family differences are forgotten.
- In an out-of-the-way spot in the mountains refugees from the United States and Canada, who are wanted for various crimes, have gathered. A man wanted for embezzlement arrives with his daughter Pauline. The embezzler is a natural leader and, to James' chagrin, becomes the leading spirit in the colony. Two members of the Northwest Mounted Police, Lon and Mac, are on the embezzler's trail. The embezzler, without James' knowledge, stations his men and instructs them to fire on the police. Mac is wounded. The embezzler's daughter takes him to her cabin. On one occasion the girl leaves the cabin and confers with her father. Lon follows and learns that her father is the man they are seeking. Believing that he has the girl at his mercy, Lon makes advances. Mac interferes because he, also, has fallen in love with Pauline. Lon then tells him of the girl's father. Mac goes to James and demands the surrender of the embezzler. James complies, and Mac arrests Pauline's father. The girl then appeals to Lon, promising him everything if he will save her parent. Lon lifts his revolver to shoot Mac. However, other refugees mistake Lon's intention. Lon is shot, and as they shoot at Mac the embezzler is killed. They are about to finish their work when another one of the mounted police comes up and covers them, while Mac disarms them. The girl looks from her dead father to Mac, whom she has already learned to love.
- A story of the inside life of nomads who live in the shadow of civilization, worshiping their own goods and clinging to their ancient rites. In dying, the old king of the tribe appoints Jose to succeed him and gives him his daughter for a wife. One of the gypsies, more than the others, envies Jose his position. After the old king has been laid in his final resting place, the jealous one begins to intrigue to the end of deposing Jose and stealing his young wife. A number of the gypsies join hands with the jealous one to kill the king. While his young queen is in the woods, Jose is called by a decoy message. He walks into an ambush, is taken prisoner and tied to a tree. A fire is built around him and he is left to die. However, the king has one faithful henchman. When the jealous intriguer approaches to claim the young bride, this subject knocks him unconscious with a sling-shot. The king is rescued by the faithful servant and the queen and the jealous one is expelled from the tribe.
- A man hides his life of crime from his daughter; discovery brings reformation.
- Robbins, a criminal who lives by forging checks, has as a wife. Pearl, a good woman, who, while lamenting his unworthy and nefarious occupation, tries to be a good wife to him. He is arrested and sentenced to fifteen years in the penitentiary at hard labor. She is compelled to seek work and takes a position with a wealthy doctor as governess to his orphaned child. Robbins, in jail, formulates a plan to escape, and writes a letter to his wife at their old address, asking her to meet him at a certain place. This he gives to a fellow-convict to mail for him. They try their plan and get away from the prison. The keepers chase them, and fire on them, wounding Robbins and killing his comrade, on whom is found the letter. The following morning the newspapers publishes a story to the effect that Bobbins was killed, and quoting the letter as authority and a means of identification. Pearl believes that her husband is dead. An attachment springs up between the doctor and Pearl, and when he proposes marriage to her and asks her to become a mother to his child, she accepts and they are married. Later Robbins, who escaped and recovered from his wound, chances to see Pearl and the child. He follows her, and finding out where she lives, calls there the next day. He extorts money from her under threats. The next day he again calls and asks Pearl for more money. Pearl refuses and Bobbins proceeds to choke her. The child sees him and runs and tells her father that a burglar is killing her mother. The doctor gets his revolver and enters the room and stops Robbins from killing Pearl. The two men struggle and by accident the gun is discharged, inflicting a wound on Robbins that proves fatal. The doctor still believes that Robbins is a burglar, until Pearl shows him the clipping from the newspaper, and telling the doctor that she believed him dead from the newspaper report. The doctor takes her in his arms and offers prayers of thanks for his timely entrance and the fortunate death of the unworthy forger.
- Believing his sweetheart untrue, a man marries an adventuress, only to discover that her first husband is still alive.
- Abraham Lieberman is a coal and ice dealer on the lower East Side, his little business being conducted in a miserable basement, his living rooms being adjacent thereto. But Abraham is happy withal, for his daughter, Rebecca, has come to him from Russia. A month later Rebecca is working in a sweat shop to help keep their little home. There she meets David Cohen, foreman of the place, who falls in love with her. But she tells him he has no chance to win her heart, as it is held in keeping across the seas. A month later her sweetheart arrives from Russia, and David leaves New York. Meanwhile, Jake has become Americanized and desires to take up the study of medicine, but has not sufficient means to enter college. Rebecca comes to his aid, and her little savings enable him to take up his course. In due time he graduates and he hangs up his "shingle," but his patients are poor and so his living is precarious. At this juncture, along comes a Schatchen, a Jewish matchmaker, and offers to get him a rich wife. The girl in question is very homely, but her rich surroundings dazzle Jake and he succumbs. Thus is Rebecca thrown over for Mammon. A few months later the "happy" bridal pair and their friends start for the synagogue. On the way their machine runs down a poor girl who has just come from a drug store with medicine for her sick father. The girl is Rebecca. She is taken to the hospital, where, in deep repentance, her recalcitrant lover begs her forgiveness. In the synagogue, meanwhile, the homely bride awaits the coming of Jake, but her father rushes in and tells of his base desertion. Back at the hospital, Rebecca, regaining consciousness, repudiates Jake and tells him to go to his waiting bride. Paying the penalty of his transgression, he dejectedly goes forth, but deeper humiliation is to follow. Arriving at the synagogue, he is met by an infuriated woman, who spurns him and casts him off, leaving him to the mercy of her friends, who beat and maltreat him, as he well deserves. Months later, David, the foreman, returns, and learning of Rebecca's dilemma, seeks her out and again pleads for her love. Rebecca accepts him and happiness at last comes to the Jewish girl.
- An injured telegraph lineman, the father of a large family, finds it difficult to make ends meet. A gentleman thief attempts to aid the family by desperate means.
- Joy reigns in a colony of struggling artists because Old Felix, a composer, has at last sold one of his symphonies. The night of its initial hearing at the grand opera house the members of the colony turn out en masse. Too poor for orchestra seats, they gather in the gallery around the old composer. The old composer is happy almost to tears, and when the last note has died away there is a cry for the composer. Felix attempts to utter a few words of thanks, but is smothered with flowers. At his studio his friends have prepared for his welcome, and it is upon his arrival there that be feels the happiness which comes of success. However, at the other end of the hall another different drama is being enacted. A girl sits beside her stricken mother, and as the merriment in the studio reaches its height, the soul of the mother departs from the body. After all his friends have left the disconsolate girl seeks the help of Felix. The old musician is touched and all of his flowers, tributes to his success, he carries into the room of death and lends the girl as much financial assistance as she needs. The following day Felix adopts the girl as his ward. Lon, a sculptor, is impressed by her simplicity and beauty, and falls in love with her. Forrest, an artist, a malapert young man, patronizes the girl, and is repulsed in his advances. Felix puts up the money for Lon to go to Europe and study, and Lon, as a means of insuring the girl to himself when he returns, marries her secretly, but with Felix's consent. Forrest overhears when Lon and the girl are discussing their future happiness, and being ignorant of their marriage, he takes a jealous pleasure in the thought that all is not proper. He circulates gossip to the girl's discredit, and finally on the eve of Lon's departure, he convinces Felix's friends that he is right. The old musician is at work on a second symphony, and is utterly oblivious to what is going on; he scarcely notices that he is deserted by his friends. The friends hold a council, and decide to tell Felix the kind of woman he is harboring. Old Felix, after fully grasping what they mean, drives them from his studio. However, he is rendered more feeble by the reaction of his violent emotions and the contemplation of the foul suspicions which have separated him from his old friends. Thus he labors with feverish haste to complete his last symphony. But work and worry and forgotten favors are too much for the old man. His mind begins to wander. He staggers to his bedroom and dies. The girl finds him there, and carries the message of his death to his old friends. They congregate around his bedside, and that his soul may hear and forgive them, they play his last symphony. Lon, the sculptor, has returned from Europe, famous, and while the party of friends are yet beside the death-bed, he enters and greets the girl as his wife. The friends understand the injustice of their treatment of Old Felix, and again gather around his bed.
- MacQuarrie is a modern Fagin, a man of almost irredeemable character. The mother is dead and he raises the children himself in his own way. He terrorizes them and makes them beg, while he carries on his business of petty thievery. When the children come in, he takes their money and pushes them out again. The weary children bear the sound of an organ as they pass a church, and being tired they enter. The organist sees their grief and gets their sad story from them. She insists upon accompanying them to their home, and is insulted by the father. She tells the police what she knows. That night the father makes the children go out to beg again, and he starts forth with his tools to ply his nefarious trade. The children seek the church and the kind lady. She gathers them to her and all sing as she plays. The father is interrupted by the police, and in a running fight he is shot. He throws his hat away and misleads his followers. Passing the church, and being desperately wounded, he seeks its shelter. He sinks to the floor and sees his children with the organist. She plays a song that his mother used to sing, and in half delirium, his mind wanders back to earlier days. He sees his young mother at a similar organ and remembers the thrill it used to cause him. He sees himself coming home drunk and her anguish. His time has come, and he staggers to the little group, gasps out a plea for forgiveness, and dies. The organist clasps the children to her, determined that their lives will start anew in beautiful surrounding.
- The girl has three suitors: a young Mexican, who symbolizes love, a cripple, who symbolizes devotion, and a wealthy haciendiero, who symbolizes wealth. Despite the protests of Love and the pain of Devotion, the girl is given in marriage to Wealth by her father. A year lapses and the girl has suffered by her father's choosing. Wealth is faithless to her and heaps upon her head humiliation and indignity and finally brutality. Love returns to her and after listening to her story swears that he will kill Wealth, but Devotion restrains him with the advice that if he kills Wealth he can never have the girl. To insure the girl's happiness Devotion kills Wealth himself and then takes his own life. He had loved her most. The story ends with the girl and Love, hand in hand, beside Devotion's grave paying homage to unselfish Love.
- Edwin August presents a psychological study in eight episodes dealing with the gradual development of inherent thieving proclivities in a child until the age of manhood. The parents see the tendency, but are unable to cope with it and finally, believing the son to be a deliberate criminal, the father expels him from the house. The son's decline is rapid and results in a term in jail, from which he emerges a typical jail bird, the consort of pickpockets and yeggmen. At times there are flashes of his better instinct striving to overcome his weakness, but these become fewer and fewer as he passes down the social scale. At the time when things seem darkest he is in his hovel looking out into a heavy electrical storm. A flash of lightning strikes and at the same moment his soul is reincarnated. When he rises he marvels at his condition, but is unable to explain it. Wandering out upon the street, he enters an art gallery. He comes upon a girl copying a painting that vaguely recalls something familiar. The girl is his former sweetheart, but he does not recognize her. He watches her work and finally, impelled by something within him, he takes the brush from her and with a few well directed strokes turns the work into a masterpiece. She asks an explanation and he tells her that he himself painted the original. She explains the original was painted over two hundred years before, but he insists. Struck by his sincerity, she attempts to solve the mystery and later finds the explanation in a treatise on reincarnation. The thief has been conquered by the soul of the artist. They are married and later a reconciliation with his parents is affected.
- Dr. Frank Rosslyn, known to the world as a prominent physician, is in reality the head of a quack medical concern which dispenses patent medicines and advertises extensively. Rosslyn's son, Wallace, an attorney, is in love with Mary Rohan, a stenographer, who supports her aged parents. Mary's father becomes ill and consults with employees of the quack concern. His illness increases and Dr. Rosslyn is called in. Not aware that the man had been treated by his own concern, Dr. Rosslyn freely admits that he is dying on account of cumulative poisoning from patent medicines. After the old man's death, Mary and Wallace assist the medical authorities in running down the guilty practitioners. The investigation brings to light Dr. Rosslyn's double interests. The son hastens to defend his father while Mary appears against him for the prosecution. Dr. Rosslyn is convicted. Before he enters prison he tells Wallace that the girl did right and that he has already forgiven her. Wallace seeks Mary out and reconciliation follows.
- Red Margaret, a moonshiner, struggles between love for a government agent and loyalty to her people.
- Ramona is fond of pets. Her hubby, Eddie, has a horror of all animals and particularly her pets. The parrots bite him and the monkeys show their teeth. Ramona receives a wire from Eddie's uncle telling him that the circus has gone broke and that he is sending his pet elephant to Eddie to take care of. Ramona sends for Eddie and despite his protests insists that he go and get the beast. He attempts to get some stablemen to arrange to take the elephant. They refuse until he finally agrees to pay a high price for a stall. Arriving at the station Eddie is handed the huge animal with a bill for excess charges amounting to $300. Eddie has one trouble after another. The stable owner refuses to allow the beast on the place. It keeps with Eddie and his wife busy breaking down the fence to get the pet inside and then feeding and giving it water. In the meantime the neighbors protest and the authorities order it removed at once. The last scene of the beast shows him dragging a furniture van with Ramona sitting on top and Eddie leading.
- Nellie loves Ned. Her father won't have Ned around the house and insists upon choosing Nellie's callers. He finds Ned at the house one day and telephones to Freddie, a rather effeminate youth, asking him to call immediately. Freddie does and Pa makes Nellie talk to him while he engages Ned in conversation. Ned gets disgusted and leaves. Freddie in his awkwardness, steps on Nellie's dress and tears it. That finishes him and he leaves. Father determines to get a real man for his daughter the next time and sends for Captain Fitzbugle of the town militia. The Captain calls and Nellie sees him. He boasts of his feats of courage to father, and pa thinks he is the bravest in the world. Nellie decides to have some fun with her father and the brave man in uniform and dresses in her father's clothes, wearing a mask. She gets an old horse pistol and enters the room where the Captain is still waving his sword. She points the gun at them and they collapse. She makes the Captain stand on his head and he runs from the house with Nellie close at his heels, waving the gun. The Captain runs into a policeman who chases Nellie through the streets and back into the house. She runs into the parlor and the policeman is about to arrest her when father explains that the desperado, unmasked is his daughter, and the policeman, after taking the gun away from her leaves. Father seeing that he is unable to curb his daughter's waywardness, writes Ned to call, hoping thusly to cure her had habits. Ned accepts the invitation and Nellie and he are reunited.
- Aline Morey, daughter of a wealthy merchant, is loved by Wallace Rand, a poor artist. The father objects to Rand, preferring Ralph Stewart, the scion of another wealthy family. With the hope of getting rid of Wallace, Morey visits his studio and professing to admire his work, offers to send him to Europe to study. Wallace accepts, and as he leaves Aline promises to remain true. The letters that Wallace writes home every week are intercepted by the father and destroyed. Aline, believing that he has forgotten, accepts and marries Stewart. When Wallace returns, he is shocked to find that his sweetheart has married his rival. He visits her in her home and is discovered by the husband in the act of kissing the girl. That evening Stewart starts out for Wallace's house. Aline, fearing trouble, precedes him and hides in the closet. Wallace has gone out to post a letter to her. Hardly has Stewart reached the apartment when Wallace is brought in dead, having been run down by an auto. The letter which reaches Aline is read by the husband and it clears her of suspicion.