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- During a reception given by Mr. and Mrs. Carey, the topic of "black sheep" in families comes up, and Mr. Carey makes the remark that if ever he discovered that there was a thief in the family of the woman he married he would divorce her. The next evening Carey is called away, and Mrs. Carey and her little child are left alone. Mrs. Carey puts her child to bed and goes to her sitting room to read. She thinks of her husband said the day before and a vision of past days comes to her....She is a young woman in good circumstances; her father is a prosperous businessman. One day, though, he returns home to inform his daughter and son that his fortune has been swept away. The loss of his fortune and his position cause him much worry, and he dies from the effects. The brother, accustomed to all the good things of life, finds it hard to do anything. He sells his belongings and gets what money he can. Lower and lower he falls, until one day he is caught by the police in the act of leaving a house by a window and is sent to prison as a burglar. The sister, not wishing to live alone, writes to one of her friends, telling her that she is in poor circumstances, and asks if she might visit her. At once the invitation is extended, and we find her at the handsome home of her friend. Here, as time goes, she meets a wealthy man who learns her story, excepting that part relating to her brother, and he proposes marriage. As the reverie breaks a burglar is seen entering the home of Carey. He glides in quietly, searching for some important papers. He knocks over a stool, which awakens the little child. She at once leaves her bed and goes into the drawing room. The burglar, masked, not knowing who is entering, points his revolver toward the door. The child enters, and the burglar tries to persuade her to go back to her room. Mrs. Carey, hearing the noise, comes hastily to the drawing room. Stealthily she had secured her own revolver, and, seeing the situation, gets the "drop" on the masked man and calls to him to throw up his hands. He obeys, but, seeing the woman, pulls off his mask and shows he is her brother. She begs him to leave at once, telling him what her husband had said. While they are talking, the child, seeing the revolver which her mother had laid on the table, picks it up and begins to examine it. She puts the muzzle into her mouth and is fingering with the trigger. The mother and the man see this at the same moment, and the mother starts quickly for the child in an effort to grab the gun. The man, quicker witted, stops her and talks quietly with the child until he gets the gun. At this moment Carey is heard coming in. Mrs. Carey pleads with her brother to leave quickly and she hastens out of the room with the child. Carey enters, sees the lights turned on, turns, and sees the fleeing form of the man. He reaches for his revolver and shoots through the window. The shot attracts a policeman who comes to the scene as Carey reaches the garden and both find the wounded man. He is brought into the house and Mrs. Carey is about to tell who he is, but the brother signals to her and the story is left untold. Mrs. Carey finds herself in straits to explain the situation, but manages it successfully. The gang in its den reading the papers of the next morning and seeing that their confederate had failed in his attempt determine to get the papers themselves. They get into the house, capture Carey, bind him, and get the papers from his open safe. After a while the brother arrives from a short sentence, and is told of their success in getting the papers. He knows now that the papers belong to his brother-in-law, and is anxious to get them. He watches where they are kept and, after drinking and carousing in the den he manages to get the papers, and quietly returns them to Carey's desk one night. The next morning the gang learn that the papers have disappeared and plan revenge. They arrange to kidnap the child and thus cause Carey to give them ransom. The brother hears these plans and joins in them. A few days later the little child is seized by one of the gang. The brother sees the scheme. Just as the child is being thrown into a waiting buggy, he draws his gun, shoots, and wounds the kidnapper. The horse, frightened, leaps away with the child in the vehicle. The young fellow runs behind in an effort to race the horse down. Coming to a motorcycle, he grabs it, and starts a race. Passing the running horse, he dismounts and heads off the runaway. He is slightly hurt, but manages to stop the runaway and starts back with the child. The reconciliation comes when Mrs. Carey tells who the young fellow is, taking the chance which she had always feared. Carey decides to send the young man to one of his plants in South America, extracting first, however, a promise that he will never return to this country and that no hint will ever be given of his past life. The picture ends with the little girl waving goodbye to her young uncle as he leaves on his long voyage.
- Antonio Bordiga, a young sculptor living in the Latin Quarter of New Orleans, is commissioned by William Baker, a rich but degenerate clubman, to carve a statue for him. Antonio is unable to secure a woman sufficiently beautiful in body and soul to pose for the statue and loses interest in his work. He is gazing out of his studio window one sunny afternoon when his attention is attracted to a young man forcibly kissing a girl. He rushes to her aid. She is so beautiful that he begs her to pose for him. She acquiesces. From now on his work is a labor of love. He falls in love with his model and she returns his affection. One day William Baker visits Antonio's studio to learn how the statue is progressing. The model tells Antonio that Baker is the man who embraced her the afternoon he came to her rescue, so Antonio refuses to sell the statue to Baker. Antonio marries his model and a little girl blesses their union. Baker, incensed and jealous, uses his wealth to spirit away the model; he locks her in a garret in his apartment and after many weeks he wins her to himself. Meanwhile, Antonio has given up hope of ever finding his wife, and places their little daughter in a convent. From now on he becomes a wanderer and joins a band of gypsies. His wife writes him a note telling him that she is going to kill herself and explaining what Baker has done. Antonio makes efforts to save his wife from the suicide's grave but fails. Years later Antonio and Baker meet accidentally in the mountains, and in a fierce fight. Baker throws Antonio down a rocky cliff and almost kills him. The gypsies see the fight and rush to Antonio's aid. Antonio's rage against Baker becomes greater than ever, and in a frenzy he conspires with the gypsy chief to kidnap Baker's wife, swearing revenge in kind, wife for wife. The gypsy chief finds Antonio's daughter, now 17, at the same house party as Baker's wife. The chief kidnaps the daughter instead of the wife, and brings her to a hut at the gypsy camp. Antonio poisons wine that he thinks Baker's wife will drink. At the last moment he learns that it is his own daughter that he is about to kill. Frenzied, he breaks into the gypsy hut and saves her in time. He meets Baker outside the hut and begins to strangle him. His daughter begs him to leave vengeance in the hands of God; finally he accedes to her wishes. Antonio's daughter marries a young captain of the military force, who was sent to search gypsy camps and all ends happily.