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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- In the Canadian woods live Jean Caumont, his wife, Marie, and their baby. One day Jean shoots a rabbit and picking it up, forgets to extract the empty shell and reload his revolver. In the evening of that day, he plays cards in a saloon with a member of the mounted police named Burke and accusing him of cheating, he springs to his feet and overturns the table. One of the bystanders, Louis Fabert, who hates Burke, immediately extinguishes the one light in the place and in the darkness a shot is fired and when another light is brought, Burke is found dead on the floor from a bullet wound. Jean is seized as the murderer by the bystanders. Two other mounted officers are summoned, who take charge of the case. They examine every revolver in the place and find all fully loaded with the exception of Jean's, which contains an empty shell. Before the arrival of the police, however, Louis Fabert had disappeared from the room. Then the trial takes place and Jean is awaiting the verdict. The verdict is "Guilty," and Jean is condemned to be hanged. After he goes out, Louis Fabert, who has attended the trial and has been tortured by remorse, rises and fiercely attacks the jury for having convicted Jean on merely circumstantial evidence, but is overpowered and thrown out of the court room. He then rushes off into the woods in the midst of a terrible blizzard and wanders about He falls exhausted near the door of Jean's cabin, with a cry for help. Marie hears the cry, goes out and drags him into the shelter of her house and revives him. As soon as Fabert realizes who it was that saved him, his remorseful feelings are redoubled and he tells Marie that it was he who shot Burke and not her husband. He then begs her to write at his dictation and he makes a full confession of his crime and signs it. She then puts on her snow shoes and starts out for the jail, She has a terrible journey and arrives at her destination after her husband has ascended the gallows, the awful noose has been tightened about his neck and the trap about to be sprung. The arrival of Marie, with Fabert's confession, of course changes the entire aspect of affairs and Jean is released and he and Marie go happily home to their baby. Fabert was never seen again, he having disappeared in the trackless wastes of snow.
- A rejected suitor rebuffs the woman he loves after the death of her husband.
- An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart on the stage, by the real, sure enough sweetheart who does not understand that love making in a play is only play, and very far removed from the sacred course of true devotion, there is quite a healthy complication. A young leading actor saves a youth's life, by catching him just in time to save him from what might reasonably he a fatal fall over a precipice, and to reward him the young man promises to intercede with the father of the girl who causes the actor chap sundry heart throbs and a little soul-anguish. But all good intentions do not materialize, and the young man falls in his ambassadorial mission. The summer comes on, and to fill in the time the actor decides to apply for a position in a moving picture studio. While he is making the eternal vow to a girl in the scene, he is detected by his sweetheart, and is renounced forever. In still another scene, his friend whose life he had saved discovers him tied to a tree, soon to be burned to death. He borrows a shotgun and starts to shoot everybody to save his friend from what purports to be a horrible death. After the excitement subsides, the actor explains that he is simply posing for the pictures. Things commence to go right again, as things do when they tire of going wrong. It appears that the father's refusal to consent to his daughter's marriage is based on the fact that the girl has an older and ugly sister, who is unable to secure a lover or a husband; so as a reward for having saved his life, the young man offers to marry the sister, so that the actor can marry "the sister's" sister. The wedding bells send forth a double peal, and four that are but two face this crazy old world for better or for worse, 'till death do them part.
- A father is greatly beloved by his two children and it is a bitter blow to them when they learn from their nurse that they are to have a stepmother. They decide to run away, leaving an affectionate note for their father, in which they explain that they don't want a "stepmother," so they have "runned away." They pack their toys together and make their home in a huge piano packing box. The father returning with his pretty young bride finds the note, and immediately starts a search for them. They come upon the packing box and the children reading "The Story of the Cruel Stepmother." The stepmother asks her husband to leave her alone with the children. They ask her if she is running away from a cruel stepmother too, to which she answers "Yes." Of course they take her into their confidence. The wife finds a better story in the same book, entitled "The Story of the Fairy Godmother," and it is while reading this to the little ones, that they fall asleep. The husband now returns with some men, and they carry the children asleep in the packing box, back to the garden of their home. Here he awakens them, after he has sent his wife to the house to be ready to receive her stepchildren. They do not like the idea of having to meet the stepmother, but the father persuades them, and gently takes them to the room. They are astonished to find it is the lady who read them the story of the "Fairy Godmother."
- A romance produced at the Gettysburg Reunion in which every important event of the most memorable celebration of "The Boys in Blue" and "The Sons in Gray" will be interwoven.
- Navy officer Owen Moore is sent to Cuba. This saddens girlfriend Mary Pickford, until her uncle invites her to a party in Havana. After a grand time, when Moore's ship is docking, she confuses him by pretending to be a Cuban girl.
- In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic, on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent, and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Dr. Crawford and his wife with their little daughter, Elsie, are at home amusing themselves with the Scotch collie puppy, Imp, when another doctor is announced and he is shown an article in a newspaper which describes the providential rescue from drowning of the doctor's child by Lassie, the mother of Imp. Lassie comes in and is admires. Two more physician's arrive and announce that they have come to try an experiment with a newly discovered anesthetic. Dr. Crawford has a guinea pig, on which the experiment is to be tried, but it is discovered the animal has died, and the men of medicine are in a quandary. It is finally decided to use Imp, the puppy, for the experiment, against the mild protest of Elsie. The puppy is placed on the operating table in the laboratory, with the mother dog in an adjoining room, apprehensive. She begs piteously for them to release her offspring. The puppy dies under the experiment and Lassie is admitted to the laboratory. The mother wails dolefully. Elsie comes on the scene and her grief over the loss of the puppy is inconsolable. The doctors are saddened, Dr. Crawford and his wife endeavoring to comfort the child. The gardener digs a grave and the sorrowing procession goes out to bury the dog. Lassie sees the grave dug, following the gardener about in a way that is almost human. She goes to the laboratory and then to the garden. She sees the clods placed over the body of her puppy and returns with the saddened physicians and the inconsolable child and then trots sorrowfully to the grave and approaches it mournfully, places her paws on it in an attitude of prayer, alone with her dead, her grief being pitiful to witness.
- Tom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got wise" somehow and when the young couple finally arrive at the railroad station, they find a crowd there ahead of them and they are duly dealt with according to the latest rules laid down for the accelerated departure of bride and groom. A year slips by and we find Tom wrapped up in business pursuits and careless of manner towards Mae. And Mae quietly grieves over his neglect. Then a former sweetheart of Tom's, Belle Stuart, sends them an invitation to a ball, where Belle proceeds to monopolize Tom to the utter disregard of poor Mae. Left all alone she sits and broods over her misfortune, and then she meets the famous poet, Claude Jones, who entertains her most pleasantly with his talk and his ability as a dancer. Tom finally thinks of his wife and goes to where he left her, but she has gone. He at last discovers her in the conservatory in conversation with the poet. It is his turn to feel jealous and he does so and going rudely over to the couple he informs Mae that they must go home at once. Before they go, however, she invites Claude to call upon them. Soon Claude accepts her invitation and calls, finding her alone. In the midst of their tete-a-tete, Tom arrives at home and orders Claude to vacate the premises at once. Tom and Mae have their first quarrel, and it is a good one. Tom then decides to keep close watch upon her and rigs up a bell so that it will ring in his den every time the door opens. Well, it works all right, only he is kept busy rushing into the room merely to meet the maid or the postman or somebody other than Claude. He then gives up and after another interview with his wife, he secretly writes Claude a letter, informing him that as he loves Mae and Mae loves him, that he, Tom, will surrender all further claim upon her. When Claude arrives he is received most cordially by Tom, who proceeds to pour out his blessings upon the pair and leaves the room. Mae is completely mystified, until Claude shows her the letter and proceeds to press his suit. She, taken entirely unawares, begs for time to think it all over and he goes out to purchase her some flowers. Tom, seeing him leave, telephones Belle Stuart and makes an appointment with her. Mae overhears him at the 'phone and breaks down completely, weeping as if her heart would break. Then Tom leaves the house. Claude, shortly after this returns and attempts to present Mae with the flowers, but she has had enough of him already, and, ordering him from the house, throws his bouquet after him. Tom's conscience will not permit him to keep his appointment with Belle and after wandering aimlessly about his club, he returns home to find his little wife curled up in his den, hugging his dressing gown, trying to forget her troubles in slumber, Tom's heart is touched, his old love is reawakened and taking her in his arms, she opens her eyes and twining her arms about him, they forget all their former doubts and troubles in their present happiness.
- Princess Seraphina, taking her small son, Paul, flees from Yulania to the village of Champ Fleury in Normandy, because of the debauchery of her husband, Prince Feodor. The agent of Saxonia, Count Stefan, calls to convince Feodor he should divorce his wife and marry Princess Sofia Anoria with her fifty million francs, for Saxonia needs Yulania as a buffer state in case of war. Prince Feodor consents and agrees to the conspiracy of the agent to gain reason for divorce. Champ Fleury is the rendezvous of Yorke Norroy and Carson Huntley. Huntley has become acquainted with Princess Seraphina. Count Stefan follows the Princess and watches the growing friendship between her and Huntley. He wires Prince Feodor to hasten to the village. Yorke Norroy is on his way to Camp Fleury. He passes the prince, and wonders what can have brought him, incognito, so far from his court. Meanwhile, Stefan and Gregor, his assistant, have kidnapped Prince Paul and enticed Seraphina to Huntley's rooms. Stefan enters and accuses her of having left her husband for Huntley. He holds them prisoners while awaiting the coming of Feodor. Norroy arrives shortly before the prince, and scenting trouble, enters Huntley's house with drawn revolver. As Stefan points a revolver at the head of the princess, Norroy realizes that they are at a deadlock and suggests fighting with rapiers. Stefan is one of the best swordsmen in Europe. Soon Norroy is apparently exhausted. He staggers against the table and overturns the candelabra. Then he grasps the wrist of Stefan with one hand and with his other sweeps the candelabra from the mantle, leaving the room in darkness. Huntley and the princess escape, while Norroy, covering Stefan, forces him to disclose the hiding place of Paul. When Prince Feodor arrives he realizes his folly and pleads forgiveness. The princess pardons him because of their son.
- Paula, the fisher maid meets her father as he returns from a fishing voyage. Ambrose Fenton, the sweetheart of Paula, arrives and is greeted affectionately. Ambrose asks the girl to be his wife; she consents, and tells her father. The honest old fisherman is doubtful of the sincerity of Ambrose and his suspicions are confirmed when he sees his daughter's lover in the company of a woman of his own social set. The daughter is hurriedly summoned and looking through a gate, they see Ambrose kiss the girl. Paula resolves to end her life and staggers to the beach, throws the oars out of a fishing dory and, seating herself fin the boat, is washed out to sea. Her father noting her absence, prosecutes a search, aided by the villagers. They discover the missing boat and the oars on the sand. Ambrose, missing his sweetheart, calls at the home of her father. He finally gathers from them that Paula, thinking him false, has gone to sea to end her life. He explains to the father, who falls unconscious. Ambrose starts to find the girl, and is successful. Stumbling over rocks on an island, with the spray dashing over him, he finds Paula lying at the water's edge. He takes her in his arms and swims for the mainland, arriving at the home of the father, exhausted. Paula is revived. The face of Ambrose is the first one she sees when regaining consciousness. He tells her the supposed rival is his sister and she is overjoyed. The finale is a pretty scene, with Ambrose and Paula on the seashore. The fisher maid has been transformed into a stylish garbed woman. Ambrose draws her to him and with her parasol writes on the sand, "My Wife."
- The officers and stockholders of the Mutual Construction Company were holding a serious session. Huntley Sharpe, the president, announced that a half million dollars must be raised forthwith in order that certain unfinished contracts in hand could be completed; then matters of the company would proceed smoothly. But a minority of the stockholders would not trust the president. They demanded that a receiver for the company be appointed. This demand so affected Mr. Sharpe that be suffered a nervous breakdown, fearing the collapse of the company. His physicians decided that if he would regain his health be must go away instantly. This brought about unexpected results. The stockholders realized that Sharpe's absence from the city would bring about the very thing they desired to avert, viz., the downfall of the company, because public confidence in it would be weakened. In this difficulty a bright inspiration occurred to the company's secretary. He met a man exactly the double of Mr. Sharpe. Swearing all to secrecy and pledging Sharpe's double likewise, the man was induced to take the place of Mr. Sharpe in the office day by day. Meanwhile the real Mr. Sharpe went to Hot Springs, recovered his health after a short course of treatment, and while there, meeting several financial kings, was so enabled to raise the necessary money to complete the contracts and assure the continued prosperity of the Mutual Construction Company.
- A rich little girl helps a poor little girl by making their Christmas enjoyable.
- Plain Jane, the Cinderella of the studio, loves the famous artist in spite of her rags. One afternoon she dresses herself in the clothes of a rich client. The artist is struck with her beauty, nurses her after an accident, and then marries her.
- Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
- Among the curios brought from India by Colonel Marsden is a black pearl. Margaret, his daughter, fancies the jewel and asks for it, but father replies that it is an occult jewel and can only be possessed by one showing supreme faith. Phil, the colonel's nephew, is heavily in debt to Benson, a gambler. Benson renews his importunities for his money and finally forces Phil to introduce him into Colonel Marsden's family as a friend. Benson inveigles Phil into more gambling games. Phil finally agrees to Benson's proposal that they rob his father's safe and put the blame on someone else. In the meantime, Jack North, who is friendly with Margaret, fears he will lose her because of the fascinations of Benson. To humor her he again asked the Colonel for the black pearl for Margaret, but the Colonel refuses. Returning home North writes to Margaret telling her of his failure to get the pearl, but adding that he "will get it yet." Benson and Phil steal the keys from the Colonel and rifle the safe. North is decoyed to the house by a note with Margaret's signature forged. He is assaulted by Benson and Phil and is carried, bound and gagged, into an unused room in the house. The unmailed letter to Margaret is found in North's pocket and this with the keys are placed in front of the safe. The robbery is discovered. The police fail to find North, who, of course, is suspected. In the attic above, his muscles bound. North crawls to the washstand. He bursts the faucet with his feet and with his heel blocks the drain hole. Rapidly the water rises, flooding the floor. A maid, in the room below sees the ceiling dampen and then the rush of water falling in cascades about her. She notifies the police who are in conference with Colonel Marsden at whose side sits Margaret, stoutly defending her absent lover and declaring her implicit faith in his innocence. In the library, Benson and Phil, realizing by the commotion above, that North has been found, stand indecisively. Benson makes a break for the balcony with Phil close behind him. But Benson's revolver stares at Phil sinisterly. Determined that Benson shall take the medicine with him, Phil grapples with him. The police, breaking in upon North, find him nearly submerged in the rising flood. Asked to explain. North says that the Colonel's nephew can best do that. A shot from Benson's revolver aimed at Phil, but diverted by the latter's quickness, attracts them below. The struggle is still on with Benson gradually wearing down his opponent when the police pull him off. Phil confesses. Not long after the Colonel approaches North and Margaret and hands to Margaret the black pearl.
- Grace Byron, wearied of being sought for her fortune, determines to hook a diamond of her choice in her own way. In her musings she sees a dashing cavalier of the "Three Musketeers" period and her innate sense of romance thrills at his ardent wooing. Coming to New York she sees a face which interests her and through an investigation agency learns about him. Stanton Leeds is also bored by the conventions of life. In his fireside reveries he sees himself as a cavalier, rescuing a strange damsel in distress. Several nights after Grace has spotted her man, Leeds sees two men jump from an auto, pull a heavily-veiled girl from another car and dash away with her. He tries to enter the house in which she has been taken. Two masked men run out and overpower him, carrying him within. Bound and gagged, he encounters the mysterious veiled girl, who tells him of a strange conspiracy to compel her to marry, thus forfeiting her inheritance under the terms of a will which forbids her marrying before her twenty-first birthday. The mysterious maiden is interrupted by the entrance of masked men who carry her out. Leeds liberates himself from his bonds. Through a keyhole he sees a number of masked men, among whom he recognizes the bridegroom-to-be. When the latter is left alone Leeds tackles him and dons his mask and gown. Back troop the band. It is time for the wedding. Leeds is in doubt whether to go through the ceremony or announce his identity. A feeling for the mysterious maiden stronger than pity guides him. The ceremony is performed. The dim lights leap into brilliance. Leeds' mask and the mask of the other man is pulled off. They burst into laughter. Leeds is dumbfounded when the girl who unveiled proves to be Grace, hands him back the ring and confesses that it was all framed up. The romance of it all appeals to Leeds. He replaces the ring and says, "But, dear, we will lose all the wedding presents by being married this way."
- Jim Starkey is betrothed to Jane Learoyd, the daughter of old Noah Learoyd. Both men work in the factory of Richard Readley, who makes advances to Jane. To free herself from his attentions, she arranges to meet the employer of her father and sweetheart near her house at night. Her father learns of the appointment, and loads an old-fashioned pistol, in which he uses as a wad a portion of a letter written to his daughter by her sweetheart, Jim. He then starts out for the place of the appointment, and, seeing his daughter in the arms of his employer, believes that she is dishonored and shoots him. At that instant he loses his mind. His daughter Jane knows that he has done murder, but her sweetheart Jim is accused. The wad is found near the body, and the fact that it is in his handwriting is used as evidence against him. At the moment of the murder, however, Jim was in another city saying farewell to his chum Johnny, who is leaving for Europe on an Atlantic liner. When Jim returns to his home he is arrested and accused. Jane comes to his cell and he tells Jane of his meeting with Johnny, the sailor on the steamship Columbia, Columbia, and she, to save his life, calls on a prominent attorney asking him to help her. She pleads with the cranky lawyer, who eventually decides to help her. We see her arrive at the steamship dock, but too late. The old lawyer hires a tug and it races after the huge liner. Eventually they catch up with it and, stopping it, Jane and the lawyer climb aboard. The captain, however, refuses to allow Johnny to return to New York, claiming that he needs him for his crew, which is short-handed. Johnny pleads with him, but in vain, and Jane and the lawyer sorrowfully return to the tug, which pulls away from the vessel. Johnny realizes that his friend's life is in his hands. He makes one more appeal to the captain, is refused, ordered to be put in irons for insolence, and this is about to be done when he runs to the side of the vessel and makes a jump into the sea many feet below. He is picked up by the tug, which races back to New York. They arrive there too late to catch the train, but bargain with an engine driver to take them back to where Jim is being tried. This is done and they arrive in the courtroom just as the jury returns and is about to pronounce the verdict of guilty. Johnny rushes up to the stand, tells his story to the judge, and Jim is released.
- Down in the sunny South recently the youngsters had a pushmobile race. The little machines were assigned numbers and names and the contest was entered on with the greatest possible spiritedness. The race took place amidst delightfully umbrageous surroundings and some fine effects of sunlight playing across the view are secured in the picture, which appeals to the junior members of the audience.
- Bank teller Fred Harnett is addicted to gambling. One night he loses heavily, and upon the insistence of the boss gambler, gives a check dated two days ahead. The next day he learns that certain funds on which he had counted for meeting the check will not be available. Fearing that if his check is dishonored his gambling will be brought to the attention of the bank officials and cause his discharge, he takes bank funds and covers it by altering the books. That night he goes to the gambling house and takes up the check. He is persuaded to play and wins heavily at roulette. He plans to make restitution of what he has stolen, but on arriving at the bank in the morning, finds that a bank examiner has appeared and is to start work at his post. In a panic of fear, he flees and makes good his escape. The story now moves forward some ten years. Fred, under the name of Harrington, has become a prosperous farmer with a wife and a son. He decides to pay the bank and send the money in currency in a mail package. The bank detective, remembering the reward offered, takes the postmark as a clue and starts after him. Fred and his wife have insistently impressed upon their child the necessity of absolute truthfulness. While Fred is away one day, the detective, who is fishing near their home, is rescued from peril by the wife and taken to their home. While drying his clothes, the wife learns the detective's identity and errand. Meanwhile, from an album, the detective has identified Fred. Fred returns and hides. In a dramatic scene the detective learns his hiding place from the boy. Out of sympathy, however, the detective leaves them in peace.
- Gerald Kinney is a roué and travels with a fast set, having plenty of money to indulge his tastes and going the pace that kills. He is somewhat satiated with the life he is leading and his better nature asserts itself at times. He leaves his club, where the wine is flowing and the tables are strewn with poker chips, and motors out into the country. In a pretty wooded dell, by the side of a quaint old well, he meets Myrtle Edgar, a simple country maiden, pretty, pure and demure. It is a revelation to him. The girl is a new type, unlike any woman he has ever seen. She shyly gives him a drink of the cool water. Endeavoring to take liberties with her, he is repulsed, kindly but firmly, and that is a new experience for the debonair clubman. It is a welcome innovation and he sees in her only the pure and holy. Roses grow in profusion in the pretty spot and she plucks one and fastens it on his lapel. The rose acts as a talisman. Whenever he is tempted to do wrong, he regards the flower. His friends rail at him and wish to learn his secret, but he guards it jealously; gradually dropping his old acquaintances and leading a more quiet life. The memory of the sweet country girl is always before him. At a swell society function, he suddenly thinks of her and is distrait. He leaves his handsomely gowned partner and walks out into the night, the memory of Myrtle haunting him. He seeks her out and makes an honest declaration of his love, but she intuitively divines there is a disparity in their station. He tells her of his past life and she puts him on probation. They are married and after a few years of wedded life a child comes to gladden their hearts. One night the wife is conning a book and finds between the leaves a pressed rose. She questions him and he tells her it is the rose she gave him at the old well, the flower that made a man of him and brought him a true and trusting wife, making his life brighter.
- Jane, left an orphan in the Reed family, is unhappy. Under the harsh treatment of her foster parents the child grows delicate and the doctor orders her away. She is sent to the orphan home and there grows up to girlhood. Next she is sent to Rochester's home, where she is governess to his young ward, Adele. Many times during the night she is disturbed by strange noises. Time goes on and she learns to love her young master. He. in turn, loves her and his proposal of marriage is accepted. It is the wedding eve before Jane comes face-to-face with the origin of the strange noises: it is a crazy woman. This woman is the wife of Rochester and has been held captive in the upper part of his home for years. The crazy wife attempts to burn Rochester to death. Jane saves him. Rochester confesses all, declaring that the woman she has seen was forced upon him by his parents. While Jane would forgive, she declares herself unable to stay longer in his household; that all is over between them. The night that Jane leaves, the mad wife again escapes from her room and again sets fire to the house. She rushes to the roof. Rochester attempts to save her. Jane, looking back, has seen the fire. Rushing up, she asks about her lover. The mad wife jumps from the roof and dies. Jane enters the burning house and manages to save Rochester. He is made blind. It is Jane's loving hands that guide him through life.
- There is no doubt that domestic work palled upon Harry French. He hated the job of helping his young wife pack their belongings preparatory to moving from the Harlem flat. But he intended escaping petticoat thralldom for a time. In the apartment building there was a card game threatening and Harry determined to make one. So he feigned madness, alarmed his wife and made his escape. Joining the party, he won largely and was happy in his success. Mrs. French got wind of Harry's whereabouts and surprised him in the act of deception, When he returned laden with the spoil, he was greeted with a broomstick attack, deprived of his winnings, physically sat upon and informed that his better half "wore them."
- The actors arrive in a motor car, and are welcomed to the hotel by the boniface and his assistants. The Americans admire the surroundings, and are agreeably surprised at what they see, and the cordial welcome extended to them. All the well-known "Imp" stars appear in traveling costume, which is their first formal introduction in proper personae, an innovation which will be welcomed by their many admirers. In the next scene they sally forth to engage in the work of producing a picture. The producer heads the force, with the camera men in evidence, a jolly party of folks who depict "Imp" pictures in pantomime. Then comes the story, a beautiful Cuban romance. Pablo, of humble origin, loves Rosita, a beautiful maiden, and is apparently prospering in his love affair, when a stranger appears on the scene, Wallace Crawford, an American tourist, who evidently finds time hanging heavily on his hands. Crawford rides up to the home of Rosita and asks for a drink. He is quick to note the lovely face and graceful curves of the Cuban girl, and resolves to meet her again. He rides away and Rosita, forgetting Pablo, looks with altogether too much concern after the visitor. Pablo call with his guitar and, as is his wont, played to the girl, who, seated beside him, allowed her thoughts to wander from the scene and dwell on the tourist. Lulled to sleep by the soft tones of the instrument Rosita dreams, and her dream is depicted on the screen. In her dreams she meets Crawford, who is an adept in the art of charming unsophisticated women. He attempts to caress her, but is repulsed. Knowing the longing of women for finery, he produces rare jewels and adorns the girl with a rich necklace, which she admires. She is won, and is in his arms. The pair move away, Crawford leading his horse. They are detected in their clandestine love-making by Pablo, who summons her parents. Rosita, in her innocence, thinks Crawford means honorably by her, and she directs his steps to the church and asks the priest to unite them in marriage. Crawford had not reckoned on this phase of his, to him, harmless love affair, and he declines. He is attacked by Pablo, and only the intervention of the Holy Father saves the life of the faithless American. During the struggle Rosita awakens to find it all a dream. She is contrite, and the drama closes with the venerable Father uniting Rosita and Pablo in marriage. The actors are then seen returning to the hostelry, where they reappear clad in their street habiliments, only to leave in a motorcar; their work of producing the picture being finished. The film closes with a rare tropical scene peculiar to Cuba.
- Emerson Boyd is the owner of the Great Boyd Mills, a relentless scheming, grinding corporation, which employs child labor and disregards all laws of health and sanitation. He is also in control of the Boyd Chemical Company, another large corporation with the same greedy and heartless policy which turns out upon the public certain harmful and toxic medicines, among which is Saco-Ozone, a widely advertised cure for tuberculosis and pulmonary diseases. Back of the powerful arm of Emerson Boyd is David Duncan, general manager of the Boyd Mills. Duncan is also a crooked politician. He is in love with Eleanor, Boyd's daughter, who, however, is secretly engaged to Matthew Brand, one of the idle rich. Emerson Boyd reads a newspaper attack upon the Boyd Corporation and, in a great rage, calls Duncan to see what influence he can use as a political boss to muzzle the paper. Eleanor goes away and Brand runs across the newspaper article against her father. Alarmed by the facts set forth in the paper, Brand determines to investigate, and, calling upon Cole, the editor of the "Clarion," hears a story that makes him sick at heart. Then he learns that Boyd's political machine has muzzled the paper. Brand pays a visit to Boyd's factories, and is horrified at the unsanitary conditions. Brand visits the "Clarion" office and buys the paper, but retains Cole to help him. They start at once on an article that drives Boyd wild with rage when the paper comes from the press. Brand goes to call on Eleanor. At the same time Duncan and the detective are closeted with Boyd. While Brand is telling Eleanor of his campaign with the Tuberculosis Society to wipe out the dread disease the detective is telling Boyd that the man who is so bitterly opposing him and printing the vitriolic stories is none other than the quiet Matthew Brand, who has been courting his daughter. Boyd is astounded. Meanwhile, Eleanor has become so enthusiastic that she determines that her father must hear the story and hurries to the library, where Boyd is closeted with his hirelings, and begs him to come and listen to Matthew Brand. When Brand sees Boyd, the latter attacks him unsparingly and, refusing to grant him a hearing, orders him to leave the house and never return. Eleanor is astounded. The National Tuberculosis Society meets with failure, for, when Boyd learns of the proposed sanitarium, he orders the mayor to prevent it, fearing that it might hurt his patent medicine business. Following the dictates of his superior, Mayor Alrich replies that the finances of the town would not warrant such a measure. Meanwhile Boyd becomes interested in the persistent attack upon the horrible system of the great mills and inquires of Duncan as to the truth of the stories. The latter lies glibly. In the meantime, Eleanor has gone to the "Clarion'' office to see her sweetheart. Duncan calls, and Brand pushes Eleanor into an adjoining room, that she may hear what is said. Duncan threatens Brand to induce him to stop the damaging articles, but Brand defies him. Boyd is beginning to admire Brand, but Duncan plans to dynamite the "Clarion." Eleanor, becoming very ill, the old family physician is sent for, and, making a thorough examination, tells Boyd the crushing news that his daughter has symptoms of tuberculosis. Duncan arrives at the rendezvous where he learns that the police have become suspicious of the gangsters and they had retired to await his orders. Duncan is angered to the utmost over the hitch in the well-laid plans, and, calling them all the utmost cowards, takes the bomb himself and bids them follow. In the darkness of the rear of the "Clarion" office, Duncan sets the bomb and lights it, while on the inside, Brand and a helper are working over some copy. The bomb has a defective fuse, and a premature explosion takes place, killing Duncan, while the falling bricks and masonry seriously injure Brand. Boyd's family physician tells the money king that there are no places in Every-town for the proper treatment of tuberculosis, as Boyd and other corporation owners have persistently fought to keep out all sanitariums. Boyd thinks of his own remedy, and sends for a case of Saco-Ozone. He reads from the testimonials of its wonderful cures, but the family physician appears, and hurls it all from the window, telling him that it is harmful and poisonous. He then tells Boyd that Eleanor, to get well, must be sent to an open air sanitarium. When Boyd tells Eleanor of the doctor's suggestion, and offers her anything her heart desires, if she will only try to get well, he is told that her one wish is that he will send for Brand and listen to him. Boyd leads Brand to the library, where he listens to the other's talk on the existing evil conditions and of his efforts to prevent the spreading of tuberculosis. Boyd thereupon plans to reconstruct Every-town. Miracle upon miracle is accomplished by the enthusiastic money king, who sends his daughter to a sanitarium, where she ultimately recovers after receiving good care, fresh air, rest and wholesome food. The story ends one year later with a big banquet to celebrate a new and clean Every-town and, incidentally, the engagement of Eleanor and Brand.
- A woman innocently stealing roses catches the attention of the owner of the garden, who falls in love with her.
- Barnard Powers, with two servants, enters his library after being aroused by a noise, to find his safe rifled. He sees a figure disappear through the window. Powers' revolver shots evidently have no effect. Powers advises the Absolute Protection Company in the morning that his golden statue of Buddha, which he insured with them for $100,000, has been stolen. Duval, the company's investigator, is mystified by seeing a number of Hindoos lurking about Powers' house, and also by the actions of Powers and his wife, who signal to each other when talking to him. Duval discovers that the revolver which Powers had used in shooting at the burglars contained blank cartridges. Powers, while reading in his library, is spirited away by Duval and his men. Duval locks himself in Powers' bedroom. In the night, the leader of the Hindoos enters through the window. A fight takes place and the Hindoo escapes. Mrs. Powers, alarmed by the noise of the struggles, is told by Duval, who imitates Powers' voice, to see if the Buddha is safe. Duval, tracking her through the house, is astonished to see her fishing in the conservatory pool for the Buddha. Powers is returned to his seat in the library by the detectives and gradually recovers consciousness. He is told by his wife that the Buddha is still safe. After going to bed, Mrs. Powers, nervous and restless, cannot sleep. To reassure herself, she goes to her husband's room. The room is a wreck. Powers is gone. In the hands of the Hindoos, Powers tells them that the Buddha has been stolen. At the pistol point they force him to telephone to his wife, and tell her to come to their rooms. Mrs. Powers arrives and also is made a prisoner. Failing to force either prisoner to tell where they have hidden the Buddha. Powers is tortured. Mrs. Powers collapses under the racking strain of seeing a red hot iron about to burn out her husband's eyes, and confesses. Powers leads the Hindoos to his home and into the conservatory. Powers and his wife, grimly watched by the Hindoos, fish for the Buddha buried in the sand of the fountain. It is not there. Then the fountain figure jumps into life. Duval's wet hands slips manacles on the husband and wife's wrists, while from the adjoining rooms rush policemen who give savage battle to the Hindoos and finally beat them into submission. Then it comes to light that the Buddha, hidden by Mrs. Powers to effect the insurance swindle, had in turn been stolen from the Hindoos, who were wanted by the Bombay police for stealing it from the Scientific Institute in that city.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- Miner Hank Denby has a loving little wife, but he is a brute and abuses her. She bears it patiently until one day when forbearance ceases to be a virtue. He goes out to his work after an unusually violent scene, in which his wife is in tears as a consequence. She is all alone on the mountain, but resolves to desert her husband, to go anywhere to rid herself of the obnoxious presence of the husband. She packs a few of her belongings, writes a note to Denby, and is about to go out into the world when Philip Baldwin, a much-older prospector, comes into the cabin in search of food and drink. He is welcomed by the woman as he is kind. He looks about the cabin and notes her preparation for flight in surprise. On being questioned, the girl-wife tells him of the ill treatment she has been subjected to and her decision to leave it all. He mildly tries to dissuade her, to no avail. She is determined to leave and asks to be allowed to travel in his company. The big rough fellow sees no impropriety in that and the woman is guiltless of any wrong-doing. They leave the cabin, arrive at the tent of Baldwin and in attempting to secure water for her, he falls over a cliff. She runs around the eminence and finds him in the meantime, the husband has returned home, read the note, takes the trail and follows the pair with the insane idea that some man has stolen the affections of his wife. He comes upon them just as his wife is trying to extricate Baldwin from his perilous position. He is about to kill him when the wife interferes. Denby takes Baldwin on his back and carries him, unconscious to his cabin, where he nurses him back to health. On being convalescent, Baldwin leaves, but is followed by Denby to a rocky peak. Slapping Baldwin's face, he challenges him to a revolver duel. Baldwin is loath to fight, but is provoked, and back to back they start to walk apart. At the signal they turn and fire. Denby falls dead. His wife comes out and falls prostrate across his body. Baldwin gazes at the woman for a time and then, not understanding, walks away, down the slope, leaving Mrs. Denby alone with her dead husband whom she had not loved in life.
- A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
- Luther Clews, a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, finds himself in financial difficulties. His son Howard, owns Queen Bee, whom father and son expect to retrieve the family fortune, as she is entered in the famous Latonia Derby. Young Howard has lost heavily on a previous race, and without his father's knowledge has given his note for $5,000 to Doc Martin, an unscrupulous poolroom owner doing business in Lexington, Kentucky. Martin, knowing Queen Bee's great value and thinking that if she were scratched, his own, Eagle, would win the Derby, induces young Howard to give him a mortgage on Queen Bee to secure the note. The day Howard is to ship his horse to Latonia, Martin forecloses. At this juncture. Howard's fiancée buys all interest in Queen Bee. Martin secures the assistance of a friend who endeavors to poison the animal in order to prevent her entry in the race. The plot is foiled by Howard, who is secretly watching his pet. The race is run. Queen Bee is victorious, and fortune again smiles on the Clews family.
- Jonathan Jay, while waiting on a customer in his little country store, catches Cy, the village bad boy, stealing apples. He punishes him with a whipping, and Cy plans revenge. The opportunity comes when Jonathan gets a telegram calling him to the city to close up a business deal. While he is buying bis ticket Cy paints the word "Dynamite" on his grip, and as the train pulls in, Jonathan hurriedly picks up the case and rushes for his car without noticing the awful word on it. On his arrival in the city he goes to a jewelry store, where the clerk, seeing the word on the grip, offers him practically everything in the store. Jay takes all he can carry and starts for the bank. The jewelry clerk rushes for a policeman and they give chase to the unsuspecting countryman, who goes into the bank to draw out some money. Here he meets with the same experience, as the cashier also fears an explosion. Jay is now well loaded down with money and jewelry, but is soon tracked by the clerk, cashier and policeman. After many amusing experiences, he is captured and taken to jail where everything is satisfactorily explained and he is released and starts happily for his country home.
- Margaret Irwin is in mourning for her father, John Irwin, who has recently died, leaving her a fortune of half a million dollars. Ralph Irwin, her cousin, is appointed Margaret's sole guardian. She cannot marry without his consent, and in the event of her death the money will revert to Ralph Irwin. At the reading of the will Margaret faints and the family doctor, who is summoned declares that if she is subjected to any sudden shock she may die of heart failure. Margaret's uncle and her guardian, Ralph, look at each other significantly when the doctor makes his pronouncement, for both have been disappointed that they have not received a larger slice of John Irwin's fortune The young lawyer. Hobart Henderson, sees the significant exchange of glances between father and son, and is not able to forget the circumstances which recurs to trouble him at the most unexpected time thereafter. In parting the young lawyer tells Margaret that if at any time she should ever need him to call upon him at the address he gives her. Irwin takes Margaret to his own home to live. His house is known in the neighborhood as "The House of Fear," and in it lives a weird creature known as Nick. Nick is half-witted and is dumb. He looks half beast and half man. Those in the neighborhood are afraid to go near the house, as strange stories are told of the happenings therein. From the first Margaret is fearful of Nick. Irwin and his father notice this and accordingly they start to work on the girl's fear. Nick takes much delight in creeping about the house, frightening Margaret, and darts about upon her at the most unexpected moments. Margaret tells her uncle that she is afraid of the half-witted monster. Her uncle gives her a revolver, telling her that if she has occasion to use it to do so. That night as she sleeps the half-man creeps into her room. His heavy breathing awakens the girl and when she sees the hideous, grinning figure at the foot of her bed she cries out. When the distorted face continues to leer at her Margaret draws the revolver from beneath the pillow and fires at him. Nick drops on the floor, apparently dead. Ralph and his uncle examine Nick's body and tell Margaret that he is dead. She swoons and they carry Nick away. Margaret believes herself a murderess and the thought preys upon her mind. Oppressed with the feeling that all is not well with Margaret, Hobart decides to visit her, Margaret rushes to him with a glad cry. Ralph and his uncle demand a reason for Hobart's visit and the young lawyer explains that he has to have Margaret's signature to a legal document. Hobart then boards a train, but leaves at the other end of the car and returns to watch "The House of Fear." Again Nick creeps into Margaret's room, and the overwrought girl thinks that she sees the ghost of the man she has murdered. Hobart outside the house hears Margaret's terrible scream and with a platoon of police raids the house. Nothing upon which a charge could be based is discovered by the police, but, acting upon Hobart's suggestion, they surround the house and await developments. Hobart. through a window in the house, sees Ralph talking with Nick, who has a knife in his hand. He looks up and sees a light in Margaret's window. Climbing up the veranda pole, Hobart taps on Margaret's window and is admitted to her room. Margaret breaks down and tells him how she has killed Nick. Hobart is amazed and opens Margaret's revolver to discover that all the cartridges are blanks. Margaret is much relieved to learn that Nick is not dead. Hobart then hides Margaret in another room and arranges Margaret's bed to make it appear that she is sleeping beneath the covers. A few moments later Nick creeps in and plunges his knife into what seems to be Margaret's sleeping figure. Hobart then closes with the half-witted monster and a desperate struggle follows. Hobart endeavors to obtain possession of Nick's knife and in the fight both men fall from a balcony within the house. Nick's superhuman strength enables him to pinion Hobart to a table and he is about to plunge his knife into the young lawyer when Margaret comes out on the balcony with her revolver filled with real bullets and shoots the madman. The police outside hear the shot and raid "The House of Fear." Ralph and his uncle are jailed. Nick, the half-man, dies of his injuries. In the end Hobart and Margaret are married and "The House of Fear" becomes but a memory.
- Ben Bolt on his way to school one day comes across little Alice, the little waif. He takes her to his home and the little orphan is taken to the hearts of Ben's kind father and mother. The years pass and the two young people grow fonder and fonder of each other, until at last Ben proposes and is accepted. That same day, he is impressed upon a British man-of-war by the notorious press gang and Alice waits for him to return. She goes in search of him, and while in a boat is struck by its jib boom and knocked senseless. She is picked up by a French man-of-war, but when she recovers consciousness, the Captain finds her memory has gone. He takes her ashore to some friends of his, and leaves her in their care. Meanwhile war has been declared and Ben has become more used to his surroundings. Off the coast of France, the British captain orders Ben and some sailors ashore for water and while returning to the ship they are attacked by a French skirmishing party. Ben is injured and drags himself by chance to the house in which Alice is being befriended. She fails to recognize him, but after a great deal of persuasion, the old people consent to Ben taking his former sweetheart back to England. When they arrive there, Ben shows Alice the places she knew so well in her childhood days, and the sight of the old mill, where they were betrothed, brings back memory to Alice.
- A young author lives in a poor neighborhood, and feels sorry for a girl, who has just been left an orphan by the death of her mother. He takes her to the home of an artist friend of his, an elderly man, who offers her a home. The author and the girl become attached to each other. A day comes when the artist can no longer find a market for his work. The author meets the girl returning with an unsold picture, and gives her the money for it, though it is all that he has. She goes to buy the first good meal that they have had for days. An auto knocks her down, and she sustains a spinal injury. The doctor advises the services of a specialist. The artist and the author do not know where to turn, as they cannot afford the specialist's prices. Discouraged, the author goes out, and enters a saloon. He is joined by a crook, who offers him $1,000 if he will help him pull off a job. The author accepts. The crook plans to rob a rich man's home. He instructs the author to go upstairs. In his inexperience, the author knocks down a statue. The owner of the house catches the author and a fight ensues. The crook fires, and kills the owner. The police hear the noise and force their way in. The crook and the author escape as the officers enter by the front. A detective finds a footprint, and traces the owner of it to a saloon. Here he finds the author and the crook, and attempts to take them prisoners. He offers them a light sentence if they will give the names of the rest of the gang. The crook appears to consent, but then knocks over the lamp. In the confusion the author escapes to his own home. Later he reads in the paper that the killer of the house owner has confessed in jail, and that he himself is not implicated. He receives word that his play has been accepted and that he will be paid a good sum in advance. With joy he goes to the artist's house and tells him and the girl. She is ultimately cured by an operation, and marries the author.
- Guy Sterner, a weakling, takes no risks himself, but selling the secrets of his country to get a little money, proposes to Beth Bohun, debutante daughter of the Senator, a man of high reputation, and is accepted. The Senator finds a Government appointment for his unwelcome son-in-law. Sterner uses his position to obtain information, which he then carries to Carl Ehricke, the international spy. Sterner needs the money to supply the needs of Gloria Steinmetz, a tool of Ehricke's, with whom he has long been in love. The department discovers the leak of information, and the authorities send for Yorke Norroy to unravel the mystery. Norroy consults with Huntley, who informs him that Sterner is paying attention to Gloria, and that he certainly cannot afford to do so on his income. Norroy sends Huntley to Mrs. Sterner, who tells him that her husband has no resources but his salary. Norroy then directs the attention of the department chiefs to Sterner, but they demand more evidence before accusing the Senator's son-in-law. Norroy lays plans to trap him. He invites Sterner to dine with him at his club, but the man says that he has to go to Baltimore. He admires a curious ring which Norroy is wearing. Norroy follows Sterner to Baltimore and sees him enter a certain house. He tells Huntley to go there and rent a room exactly opposite. They watch through the window shades, and see Ehricke, whom Norroy recognizes. The next day the rough notes of a treaty with South America are missing. Norroy goes to Ehricke's. and crawls upstairs, revolver in hand. Ehricke hears him, and, coming out on the landing, attacks him. They fight, and the spy is overpowered. Norroy quickly takes from the man's face the false beard and mustache he is wearing and transfers them to his own. He then lowers the lights, and waits for Sterner. When the man appears, Norroy pretends to have a sore throat, to disguise his voice. Sterner recognizes the ring, which Yorke has forgotten to remove. He pulls a gun and holds it to Norroy's head. Norroy, who has arranged the light so that it will go out at a blow on the table, strikes the table and grabs Sterner while it is dark. They fight, and Sterner fires. He hits the body of Ehricke. Norroy removes the false beard from his face and calls the police. 1 hey arrest Sterner for the murder of Ehricke, but he shoots himself. Later Norroy tells the broken-hearted wife that Sterner died in the prosecution of a dangerous mission for the government.
- Paul Bentley, an English artist studying in Paris, has secretly married his model. His father sends for him to return as his mother is ill. Paul confesses his marriage. His father insists that it be kept a secret from his mother, and that he remain until she is better. Letters come for Paul from his wife, but the father destroys them. She is reduced to poverty. Pierre, an Apache of the slums, has been one of her friends. It is to him that she goes when she is about to become a mother. He takes her in and cares for her. She dies, confiding to him her baby, a girl, with the request that she he brought up as a boy in order to avoid the unhappiness which her mother has experienced from her relations with men. Pierre promises. Sixteen years pass and the baby has grown into an accomplished young sneak-thief. She is called Toto. She visits the art exhibition, where a painting by Harry Sheldon is hung, and is caught by him trying to take his watch out of his pocket. He pities Toto and takes her to his home where he promises "to make a man" of her, think that she is a boy. One day Sheldon reads of the presence in Paris of Paul Bentley, now one of the most famous of painters, to whose teaching he owes all that he has learned of his art. Toto pays a last visit to the Apaches, her friends, and overhears their plans to steal Bentley's painting. They say that once Toto is introduced into his studio the rest will be simple. She pretends to agree. Sheldon takes her with him to call on Bentley, and he shows them the famous picture. It is a portrait from memory of his lost wife and her baby. Sheldon sends Toto home, and she goes to prepare her plans. She dresses up a girl. She has arranged with the Apaches to give them a signal from the window of Bentley's studio at ten. At nine o'clock she goes to the studio and cuts the picture from its frame. Pierre arrives and takes the picture from Toto. He recognizes her mother and, shocked, he falls to the floor. The butler, whom Toto lied upon entering, has freed himself and comes in. Toto runs toward the window with the painting. The butler fires and wounds her, but she makes her escape. Bentley and Sheldon enter and find Pierre. He is dazed and says, "The painting, it was Suzanne and the child whom he never knew." He promises to take Bentley to his child. Toto returns to Sheldon's studio, having removed her girl's dress in the garden, Sheldon comes in and finds her fainting from her wound. Sheldon places her on a couch and cares for her wound. Bentley and Pierre come in and Pierre makes the explanation which results in the disappearance of "Toto of the Byways" forever.
- A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
- Mercy Merrick, released from prison, goes to the Rev. Mr. Gray at the mission for assistance. He sends her to the French consul. The latter aids the girl just released from jail by sending her to France as an army nurse. Horace Holmcroft goes to the continent as a war correspondent. His mother in her loneliness writes to Grace Roseberry, an artist struggling in France, to come and live with her. Grace accepts the invitation. On her way she gets caught in the battle lines and takes refuge in a hospital in which Mercy is acting as a nurse. In a burst of confidence Mercy tells Grace of her prison record. Grace is struck by a shell and apparently killed; in fact, one surgeon says she is dead. Mercy takes from the bag of Grace her passport and the letter from Mrs. Holmcroft inviting her to visit her and sets out for the home of the latter. Young Holmcroft, who has met her at the hospital, keeps her company. Mrs. Holmcroft receives Mercy with open arms. The young woman wins the affection of Horace, he proposes and is accepted. Grace, at first thought to be dead, recovers through an operation and resumes her journey. When she arrives at Mrs. Holmcroft's she is spurned as an impostor. Grace goes to the Rev. Mr. Gray, who calls on Mrs. Holmcroft. He recognizes Mercy. The girl, however, insists that she is the one she pretends to be. The clergyman is not insistent. Grace again appeals to Mr. Gray. Mercy, suffering the tortures imposed by a guilty conscience, also visits Mr. Gray. Later, in a strong scene, when a policeman is taking from the Holmcroft home the victim of Mercy's pretensions, the impostor breaks down and confesses. Mercy returns to the mission, where the clergyman advises with her and consoles her.
- Herman Von Ladenburg, ostensibly the agent of a Saxonian gun factory, had orders to supply the Filipino rebels with the munitions of war. Yorke Norrow, Secret Agent of the Department of State, was delegated to see that nothing of the sort was done. Von Ladenburg was to start for Hong Kong the following day, but for some reason unknown to Norroy, he was going to stop off in Neropa, Turkey. Norroy told his confidant, Carson Huntley, that it was their business to sec he stopped there permanently. Meanwhile, Miss Cecilia Reginald, an American girl, arrived in the Turkish town of Neropa. Hassan Bey, the assistant Minister of War and autocrat of Neropa, determined to get Cecilia. He ordered his Chief Eunuch Mesrour, to kidnap her that night. Von Ladenburg, Norroy and Huntley arrive at the town where Norroy registered their names as Ludwig Fulda, a Saxonian, and his secretary, Hoffman. When Von Landenburg went to see Hassan Bey the guard told him to come that evening, and though there would be a different gatekeeper then, he would leave orders for him to be admitted. Huntley, hidden nearby, heard these words. After Von Ladenburg left, Huntley, waiting for a chance to move on, was noticed by Cecilia. She threw a note to Huntley informing him who she was and that she was held a prisoner Unless she consented to marry Hassan Bey. Norroy determined to keep Von Ladenburg's appointment with Hassan Bey. He managed to get the Saxonian in a drunken stupor and hastened to the palace. There Hassan Bey, thinking Norroy was Von Ladenburg, for he had never met the man, showed him firearms and finally brought forth a poisoned dagger. Huntley had gone to the palace to rescue Cecilia and had been taken captive by Hassan Bey. The guards had taken him to the court where they had begun to torture him. Norroy had found the note left by Huntley saying that he had gone to the palace. While the Turk's back was turned, Norroy snatched up the poisoned dagger and told the man to bring out his prisoners. Though Hassan called his guards, they were appalled at the sight of the dagger and refused to go near Norroy. When the captives were brought into the room, Norroy forced Hassan to phone the American Consul to hasten to the palace. By use of the dagger, they all escaped from the place. The Turk, crazy with anger, ordered Mesrour to follow Norroy and either to kill him or lose his own life. At the hotel, Mesrour, climbing through the window and mistaking Von Landenburg, who sat in a stupor at the table, for Norroy, stabbed him in the back. He was just going to kill Huntley, when Norroy entered the room, causing him to flee. Norroy, about to shoot the Turk, lets him go when Huntley says that Hassan will kill him anyway.