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- Steve, newly arrived in Trieste, saves Tina from being shot in her own night-club. She engages him as a bodyguard cum detective, giving him a list of names and a map she has inherited. Steve discovers that her father was blackmailing a group of traitors and the map locates money hidden in Somaliland with evidence of their guilt. Having contacted all the names, they leave for Africa taking Nadia in place of her father who is killed. Michael tries to persuade her to join him against the others and escapes when she refuses. Later, in the caves he re-appears and in the ensuing fight falls over a cliff edge after the money. Steve throws the incriminating document after him. Melodrama involving a treasure hunt and an old blackmail system during the war, which is cleared up by a bodyguard.
- Dan Webber, a sailor in the U.S. Navy who has been away from home for many years and presumed dead, returns to his farm to find that his family is about to be evicted. Dan's sweetheart arrives with a baby who, unknown to Dan, is actually the child of his younger brother and the sweetheart's sister. Dan is able to save his farm when his horse, Firefly, wins a big race. Finally, it is revealed that Dan's brother, who had been involved with Barlow, an unscrupulous moneylender and bank thief, is secretly married to the mother of his child.
- Tiring of Broadway, James Sanford "Jim" Richardson moves to Arizona, where he finds trouble of another sort when two woman fall in love with him. One, named Chiquita, is a fiery senorita, while the other is a young woman who romanticizes him and believes him to be an heroic bandit. Jim also faces difficulties caused by a group of ranch hands who trick him into wrestling the champion of another ranch. When the sheriff arrives to arrest him for a holdup, Jim is able to escape. The romantic young woman turns to another man for comfort, and Chiquita agrees to meet Jim in Texas.
- After locksmith Joe Sands is acquitted of charges he cooperated in a burglary, master criminal Steve Benson, who poses as a philanthropist, asks him to join his gang. Joe refuses, but because his crippled brother needs an operation, he robs a safe. Joe is caught, but Sadie, a member of Benson's gang, saves him. Because Joe again refuses Benson's offer, Benson turns Joe over to the police. Joe is saved from prosecution by the man whose safe he robbed, the physician who operated on his brother. Finally, Joe, Sadie and the brother start life over in the country.
- Dorothy Vernon, who has had a happy life in a peaceful village with her parents, and her Uncle John, a happy-go-lucky artist, is paralyzed as the result of a fall incurred during a storm. In consequence, grief and unhappiness come to the family. Uncle John, traveling abroad, hears of the miracles of the Blessed Virgin at Lourdes. An old woman recounts the story of Bernadette, a peasant girl of the Pyrenees, who is inspired by a vision of the Immaculate Conception. Under the direction of Abbé Peyromal of Lourdes, the villagers build a chapel at the grotto where Bernadette intercedes with the Virgin for the accomplishment of miraculous cures. The uncle cables Dorothy's parents, and they bring her to Lourdes, where through faith and prayer she is cured.
- Ethel Lee, a young social worker for the Charity Organization Society, brings hope to those living in poverty and suffering from tuberculosis. The unsanitary conditions under which these people live and work are shown. Ethel is determined to help the society raise the necessary funds to construct a tuberculosis hospital. Dr. Blank, a physician who also works with the poor, proposes marriage, but Ethel refuses to consider his offer until the money is raised. Ethel persuades Joy, Blank's sister, to emulate her brother and herself in helping the poor become useful citizens, and Joy obtains from her mother and Mr. Weber, a banker to whom she is secretly engaged, the funds necessary for the hospital. Ethel is then free to accept Blank's proposal.