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- Emma Vallona, an oriental dancer, is suffocated by the debts of her wasteful life; in order to appease her creditors, she does not hesitate to have a promissory note endorsed by the minister d'Angy, who is thus swept up in the scandal and sees his political career destroyed. In the meantime, Emma has moved to Spain under the false name of Madame d'Ambois: she continues to frequent the high society, where her attractiveness puts her at the center of the attention.
- Our picture opens with a beautiful mountain scene and Cora, the belle of a mountain tribe, decking herself with garlands of roses. In the evening Lord Martagne, in disguise, appears at the cave of the mountain tribe and is fascinated by Cora's weird dance. They become lovers, but Lord Martagne soon wearies of the mountain girl and discards her. She calls at his home but is repulsed. She enters secretly at a masked ball in fancy costume to kill her unfaithful lover, but is foiled by his having left the city on urgent business. Lord Martagne goes on important business of a diplomatic character, and becomes a guest at the home of Irma, an attractive young woman who is engaged to be married. Irma is fascinated by Lord Martagne. Cora, the mountain girl, starts out in search of her unfaithful lover. She discovers him seated in a box at the theater with Irma. She leaves the theater when he does and follows him to his home. On account of financial difficulties Lord Martagne writes a letter to Irma, whose father has recently died, leaving her a fortune. He leaves the letter on his desk and Cora, who enters the house, finds it. The note asks Irma to meet him on St. Martin's Bridge the next night and loan him $5,000. Cora meets Lord Martagne on the bridge and forces him to fight a pistol duel with her. She kills him and he falls from the bridge into the river below. Irma comes to keep the appointment and looking over the rail of the bridge sees the body of her lover below. Then she finds the pistol lying on the bridge and her mind gives way. She is crazed and in her delirium she imagines that she committed the murder. At her home. Albert Norton, her fiancé, listens to her story, which is overheard by a maid. He advises her to leave and escape punishment. The maid informs the police and Irma and Norton are arrested. Then Irma recovers her mind and tries to prove her innocence, but fails. She and Norton are condemned to death. In the meantime, Cora has become a famous dancer. She learns of the conviction of Norton and Irma. It worries her greatly and on account of her high strung nerves, she falls into the fire while executing a wild fire dance and is terribly burned. When lying in bed she reads that the execution is about to take place and she confesses and insists on being taken to the scene of the execution in an automobile. She arrives just in time to prevent the double execution, and after telling her story, dies of excitement and exhaustion.
- Judith, daughter of a criminal, has been placed by her grandmother, a nurse, in the cradle of Edna, the little Duchess of Burville. The real heiress is brought up as a singing girl at a rough inn, kept by the old evil-faced nurse, Roxana. In the twenty-five years that pass, the false Duchess manifests the strength of heredity, her father's evil tendencies coming to the front. Judith falls in love with Lord Norman, a poet, and in his honor gives a ball at the magnificent Burville Castle. The poet, however, does not reciprocate her affections. Later he bears Edna, the singing girl, on the street. He is startled at the resemblance between Edna and the Duchess of Burville. Enchanted by her singing, he trails Edna to her home and then starts wooing, which is even carried to the point where the poet dons the clothes of a workman in order to be near his sweet singing girl. Roxana is pressed for money by a confederate, and Roxana in desperation goes to the false Duchess and explains to her the secret of her birth, and demands money as a price of silence. Judith tells her to come later. In the evening the confederate grows more furious in his demands, and not trusting Roxana out of his sight, he insists upon Edna being sent to the castle for the hush money. Edna received by the false Duchess, who decoys her which she falls into the absence, the grandmother into an altercation. There is a fight and the lamp is upset, and the house is set on fire. Lord Norman, seeking Edna, comes in and finds the café smothered in smoke. Going upstairs into the flames he encounters a form upon the floor, and thinking it to be Edna, he struggle down the stairs with it. It is Roxana, who, dying, confesses that Edna is the real Duchess, and that she had been sent to the castle. Hurrying away to the castle, Lord Norman demands to see Edna. Judith's actions convinces him that she has been put out of the way. He accuses her of the crime. Under his fiery denunciations, Judith shows him where Edna had been dropped into the sewers underneath the house, and down into their murky depths goes the lover. He finds Edna stunned, but otherwise unhurt by the fall. They make their way to freedom. Meanwhile, in the castle, Judith, overcome by remorse, has ended her wicked life. Edna is restored to her rightful position, there to enjoy the love of he who had loved her as a humble street singer.
- Albert Normand, the son of a wealthy banker, has married against his father's wishes, and disinherited, he supports his wife and child by performing the duties of attendant at the Egyptian Museum. Margaret Noble, an adventuress and leader of a clever band of swindlers, plans to obtain possession of some valuable jewels on exhibition at the Egyptian Museum. She visits the museum with the intention of stealing the jewels, and while there she drops an odd scarab brooch which is returned to her by the attendant. Her accomplice feigns a sudden illness, and in the excitement which follows, she succeeds in hiding in a mummy case. During the night she comes out of her hiding place, steals the jewels, and with the aid of her accomplices succeeds in getting away, but not before they have killed the night watchman of the museum, who tried to stop them. The authorities offer a large reward for the capture of the criminals, and searching for evidence, Albert finds a scarab brooch, which he recognizes as the one he returned to the woman the day before. He decides to try and trace the thieves. By chance, one day he meets a woman whom he recognizes as the one who dropped the brooch. He follows her to a gambling house, where she loses heavily, and anxious to make her acquaintance he loans her some money. This changes her luck and she invites Albert to her home, but she recognizes him as the attendant of the Museum, and afraid that he might order their arrest she succeeds in trapping him. Meanwhile Albert's coat has been found on the bank of a river, and his wife has asked his father for help. He advises her that he will give her child a home, but will not allow her to enter his house. The child goes to live with her grandfather, but every night she meets her mother at the gates. Margaret has lost all her money at the gaming tables, and hard up for cash, she calls on Roy Arden, the banker's secretary, who is madly in love with her, to help her in securing the money from the banker's safe. The banker, meanwhile, has changed the combination to his safe, and when the thieves find they cannot open it, they threaten him with murder. Little Mary is just returning from her nocturnal meeting with her mother when she hears the tumult in the banker's room, and learning the cause, she telephones for the police. They come just in time, as the old man would not have been able to hold out much longer. Little Mary can now have anything she desires as reward for her faithful services. She pleads for her mother, and the banker decides to visit his daughter-in-law. On arriving at the house they find husband and wife in each other's arms, as Albert has succeeded in escaping, and the family is happily reunited.
- A wealthy man not desiring children, concludes to dispose of his son. Cruelly taken away from its mother, the child is well clothed, and with a wallet well filled is abandoned near the public road. It is found by an old man, who takes it to his home, and finding the wallet, he takes this and then again disposes of the child to an old woman, who rears it. Later on the lad, grown to manhood, resents the mistreatment he received, and for this is cast into a dungeon. Effecting an exit, he reports his experience to his friends, and the castle is to be stormed, but the old miser forestalls this action by impersonating a ghost, and thus attired, assumes his position on the balcony and routs the attacking party. The young lad is not to be deterred so easily, and making his way into the castle he assumes his position in a steel armor used as an ornament. From here he observes the old man counting his hoard of ill-gotten gains, and by causing the armor to more incurs such fright that the old man confesses his guilt to the gathering populace and relinquishes his claim to the fortune amassed.
- A group of adults have gathered around a sick child in a bed.
- In Bombay, Count Adolphe elopes with Vasca, although engaged to a lady in Rome. In that city two years later the Roman lady's father hears of Adolphe's wife and child. He sets the Black League to work. As a result, the young wife is met by death. The baby daughter is abandoned. The deed is committed by Michael, a confidential servant of the Roman lady. Adolphe eventually marries the Roman lady and Michael becomes their butler. Twenty years later Adolphe, now the Duke of Torini, for the first time receives news of his daughter. He sends his secretary to Bombay to fetch her. The young couple falls in love. The mind of Michael is unhinged by the sight of the young lady, and in his temporary insanity he tells the Duke where the proofs of his crime are to be found. The Duke finds the papers, sends them to his secretary, Genovo, makes his will in favor of his daughter, Zania, and dies of heart disease. Michael, having no knowledge of what he said or did in his delirium, thinks the proofs have been taken by Zania. The father of the duchess is compromised by the missing papers, so Michael confides in her. They seek the help of the Black League. Zania cannot give up the papers she has not got. She is kidnapped and taken to the Tower of Terror. Then next morning Genovo, her lover, sets out to rescue her. He discovers where she is and has a terrific fight with her jailer. In the struggle a lantern is upset, and the place set on fire, and the jailer meets his death. Genovo reaches his sweetheart, but escape is cut off by the fire. They get free by climbing down a tower over 200 feet high, the most sensational feat ever shown in a film. The Duchess and Michael arrive at the Tower of Terror just as the fire reaches some powder barrels, and the guilty couple are blown to bits.
- After a severe storm in the Alps a party of guides discovers a deserted infant lying in the snow. They carry the child to a peasant woman who agrees to bring it up with her own little son. The only clue to the baby's identity is a gold locket engraved with a regal monogram, and it is not until twenty years later that the truth is discovered. Then Ivan, Grand Duke of Slavonia, learns that the girl is his own niece who was reported lost in a snowstorm, and he sends Count Thurnia to bring her back to Slavonia. The girl, Clarissa, has married Boris, the son of her rescuer, and learning that the Duke wishes her to abandon her humble husband, she refuses to go with Count Thurnia. Whilst Thurnia is in the cottage Clarissa's husband returns home, and the woman, not wishing him to know of her high birth, hides the Count in an attic. Boris enters with a stranger who he has saved from the snow, and the unknown reveals himself as Captain Gergius, a Slavonian officer who is carrying dispatches through Slavonia being at war with Greria. Boris promises to help the Captain and lends him a suit of clothes. Then they leave the cottage door together. Count Thurnia who has overheard their plans decides on a treacherous plan to remove Boris from his path. He hastens to the camp of the Grerian Army near and betrays Boris to the soldiers of Greria. There is an exciting chase through the snow, and Captain Sergius, exhausted, gives the dispatches to Boris to deliver. Boris escapes, but Sergius is captured and executed, although because of his dress and the fact that he carries no papers, the soldiers believe him to be a peasant. Thurnia returns to Clarissa and tells her that her husband has been killed, and the woman, for the sake of her child, agrees to accept the Grand Duke's offer. She becomes a member of her uncle's household, but although surrounded by every luxury, is always unhappy. Thurnia, who is badly in need of money, presses her to marry him, and when she persists in her refusal, engages a desperado to kidnap Clarissa's child. He then tells Clarissa that unless she allows him to announce their engagement she will never see her child again. Meanwhile, Boris, after many adventures, returns to his mountain home to find it deserted. He tries in vain to trace his wife, and, brokenhearted, obtains employment as a boatman on a river in Slavonia. By a turn of fate Boris is able to save his own child from the hands of Thurnia's hireling, and there follows a happy reunion between husband and wife. Count Thurnia takes his own life, and the clouds that had settled over Boris and Clarissa are dispelled forever in the sunshine of happiness.