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- Conjoined twins have their relationship tested when a woman takes interest in one of them.
- There is a fierce battle raging between the Union and Confederate soldiers outside of Nellie Morton's home, and when the Southern boys show signs of weakening, her Southern heart is stirred by the sight. Captain Blake of the Union forces, is wounded by a bursting shell, but he manages to crawl to the Morton lawn, where he falls exhausted. He is found by Nellie, who at first levels a pistol at his head, commanding him to move on. He painfully rises, and the suppressed look of pain, and the wound in his forehead have such an effect upon Nellie's heart that she brings him into the house, where he is nursed. With the setting sun a cessation of the hostilities between the two armies are brought, and the Confederate soldiers camp near the Morton home. The Confederate officers are seen approaching and Blake is told to hide upstairs. But the officers find the Yankee's coat and Nellie is forced to admit to having Blake in hiding. In the meantime, however, Blake, who has heard the conversation, escapes by an open window. Outside he knocks the sentry senseless and dons his gray uniform. His escape is discovered, and the Confederate officers rush outside and past him, not recognizing him in his Southern uniform. The next day Blake's coat is found by a company of Union officers, and old Morton is accused of having killed a Yankee officer. He is thrown into prison. In the meantime, Blake manages to reach his company, and encounters the Confederates at a bridge, where a fierce conflict takes place, the Union men being victorious in the end. As Blake is returning to the colonel to report the victory, he meets Nellie at the door, who had come to plead for her father's life. She tells him the story and he secures her father's pardon. Blake asks Nellie to marry him and she says, "When Lee surrenders." After the war, at his mother's home, he receives a letter from Nellie, saying, "Lee has surrendered." And we all know what that means.
- A butler dons his rival's police uniform and causes him trouble.
- A drunkard returns home late and has a friend pose as a burglar.
- A doctor's clumsy deputy makes mistakes in a hospital.
- Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, and the signature to his messages is forged and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush. He accomplishes this, and a terrible battle results, in which the Federals are driven back. The work of Martin is so damaging to the North that plans are laid for his capture, and John Bruce, a secret service man, is assigned to the task. He goes to Martin's home town and presents a forged letter of introduction to the Martins, purporting to be signed by Fred Martin. He is welcomed into the home and to further his ends makes love to Anna Martin. While in the Martin home the Northern troops surround the house and Bruce, fearing that his plans to capture Martin will fall if the field is not left clear for him to return, is compelled to make himself known to the Northern officer. Fred Martin is expected on a visit that night, so Bruce shows his credentials as a secret service man and instructs the soldiers to secrete themselves about the house. In bidding good-bye to Anna he drops the passport, and she learns the awful truth. Anna has been expecting her brother, and has given the signal, a candle in the window, that the coast was clear. Gun in hand, Bruce awaits Fred, and the anguished girl sees the spy in the moonlight, crouching behind a bush. Galloping towards home, Fred is surprised on a bridge by two northern sentries. Dismounting, he hands them a pass hoping they will be deceived by the northern uniform he is wearing. In swift succession he delivers crushing blows upon the faces of the sentries, and they tumble off the bridge into the water, and leaping on his horse he gallops away. With swift strokes one of the sentries gets to shore, and leveling his rifle takes a quick shot at Fred as he goes around a bend in the road, little thinking it will hit the mark. Fred's horse is struck, and leaping into the air it turns a complete somersault backwards and falls on Fred, Crushed and hurt, Fred extricates himself from the dying animal, and crawls away. The delay has saved him, for the northern soldiers awaiting him give him up in the early hours of the morning, and when Fred drags himself to the door he is unobserved. Anna and her mother put Fred to bed. In his wounded condition he is helpless, and Anna realizes that he must be captured unless she saves him. Attempting to leave the house, her way is barred by a northern sentry. Donning her brother's clothes she manages to affect her escape, and leaping on a horse gallops swiftly away. Bruce has determined upon a bold stroke, and impersonating Fred he goes to the union colonel and tells him a detachment of southern soldiers is nearby, and attempts to lead the northern soldiers into an ambush. In the meantime Anna is making a wild ride, sparing neither the horse nor herself, and she arrives in time to bare Bruce's plot, and accuse him. On her part, Anna has fallen desperately in love with Bruce, and he has lost his heart to the brave girl, but each buries personal feeling for the sake of their respective countries. Bruce is arrested and quickly tried and convicted of being a spy. He is led out in the field, and a dozen soldiers face him with leveled rifles. Anna sees the impending execution and with an agonized scream darts across the field, but the rifles thunder a volley and the man she loves falls dead. The picture ends with Anna sobbing over the dead secret service man.
- A cleaner looks through the windows of a hotel.
- Nobby runs tango tea for costers and stages a fashion parade.
- A man fools his rich aunt by miming to a concealed violinist.
- In Swansea tourists take a swimmer's clothes.
- A detective tracks a girl through fingerprints on a forged note.
- A postman's movable pillar-box foils militant suffragettes.
- First a panoramic view of Monrovia, then a view of a cable road and following this views of public buildings and old and new mansions and palaces. Next we journey to Ceva and then to Chevasco in the high mountains. An old stone bridge comes to view and some ancient ruins, perhaps thousands of years old, and the gateway of one of the most famous caves in all Europe. In the end we see some beautiful waterfalls and a mountain brook.
- Nobby trains to be a boxer but loses a match.
- A baby's cry startles Farmer Wilson as he trudges through the snow of the forest. He finds a lusty infant girl lying by the side of her mother, dead and chill under the shroud of the fleecy white. Sixteen years later, the baby foundling, Alraune, is a member of Wilson's family. Her fondness for Herbert Wilson is not altogether foster-sisterly, and when his cousin Agnes comes to the house to supplant Alraune as nurse to Mrs. Wilson, who is dying, Alraune is angry and jealous. In the woodland Alraune meets Rigo, member of a gypsy band. Being of the same roving Romany blood, his fervent love-making stirs the wild in her. Trouble is brewing for her, however, as she is seen by Herbert Wilson in company with the gypsy. On Alraune's return to the house she is denounced for her choice of company and is summarily sent to her room. Romantic Rigo comes a-wooing, and when detected on the premises by the Wilsons there is an active chase in which Rigo goes leaping over fences, dives down a well and wrestles with a bull before being caught and imprisoned in a cellar. Alraune, anxious to save her lover and being unable to leave her room by the stairs, descends from her window by means of a twisted sheet. Deserting her home of many years, the voice of the blood too strong to resist its call, Alraune goes sway with Rigo. Alarm is rampant when she is missed and the members of the household, bereaved by the recent death of Mrs. Wilson, go out into the wintry wastes to seek the lost one. In traversing the mountain passes the elder Wilson falls over a cliff and is killed. Mournfully, his son and members of the forest rangers make a bier from branches of trees, and upon this they lay the cold body. Meanwhile. Alraune has braved the rigors of the frigid woodlands and attempts to join the gypsies who, fearful of prosecution, have fled. She launches out upon a river on a frail raft. A storm comes up and she is in dire peril when Rigo, seeing her from a distant shore, swims to the rescue. Dramatically, the funeral cortege and the gypsy caravan meet at the forest cross-roads. Alraune, overcome with grief, seeing lifeless her kind old foster-father, her savior from the snows of yesteryear, attempts to embrace Herbert Wilson, her companion in grief. Angrily he repudiates her, imprecating upon her the maledictions of a sorrow-laden soul. Bitterly, savagely he pushes her away. Inert, shamed, remorseful, she lies upon the snow, hiding her face in the icy crystals. But as passes the slow, measured steps of the carriers of the dead, she hears ringing through the halls of her heart, those murmurs which would not he denied, the voices of the wild. Gypsy she was born, gypsy she must be.
- An army officer comes to the aid of a girl who is the object of unwelcome attention from some locals.
- A dancer dressed as Mephistopheles scares a burglar.