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- Ed and Jake, the fathers of Rena and Fred, are life-long friends and desire nothing more than to see their children married to each other. Rena, however, is of a romantic disposition and dreams of elopements and brave deeds, and refuses to marry Fred on the grounds that he has never done anything worthwhile. Her father tells Fred to leave the matter to him, and tells him of a plan which Fred agrees to carry out. Accordingly, Rena finds a note from her father telling her he has gone to the station to meet a wicked old pirate. Admiral Fritz Rocquefort, who is to visit him on business and warning her to have nothing to do with him. Rena's curiosity and sense of the romantic is aroused and she immediately gets busy and changes around the whole aspect of the house, giving it as nautical an appearance as possible. Fred arrives disguised as the Admiral, and Rena immediately falls for him. Her father furthers the situation by refusing to let Rena have anything to do with him, but not before he has given the two a chance to plan an elopement. Dad then phones for his friend Jake, and the two arrange with a policeman for just sufficient interference to give Fred a chance to show up well. At midnight, the elopement takes place. After Fred has valiantly overcome all obstacles, he and Rena climb into the car and drive off, the old fathers perched upon the rear of the machine, tickled to death. They arrive at the minister's and are married, and then Ed and Jake walk in and introduce the Admiral as his real self, Fred. At first Rena is angry but she is satisfied that at least Fred has shown some bravery in fighting off the policeman, and they all return home well satisfied.
- Fred, in love with Rena, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Newrich, meets with the disapproval of Mrs. Newrich, though the father favors his suit. Father's influence does not help much and he is barred from the house by Mrs. Newrich. Mrs. Newrich favors Percy and Reginald, who live in the apartment adjoining Freddy. That evening Freddy, with the aid of Father and Rena, frame up a scheme on Mrs. Newrich, who is interested in clairvoyance. Father and Rena persuade her to call on a famous clairvoyant, and Freddy, disguised as the mystic. During bis supposed trance he tells her that the first stranger to pass her threshold that evening is her daughter's future husband. Percy and Reginald overhear this remark and each plan to beat Freddy to it. The resulting mix leads to many complications, but Freddy eventually wins.
- Unknown to John Anderson, wealthy land owner, Jane Warren and her invalid mother are threatened with eviction from their humble cottage by Anderson's agent. Later, Jane almost forced to beggary in an effort to secure supplies and medicines, meets Harry Anderson, John's younger son, also personally unknown to her, and in pity for her destitute condition, he gives temporary aid. Jane hastens home with the supplies only to find the house in the hands of Anderson's agents and her mother in a dying condition. Walter Anderson, the elder son, dissipated and an habitué of gambling clubs, loses heavily and forges a note in his father's name. Harry learns of the note but shields his brother in the hope that some way of meeting the note before it is due may relieve Walter of the stigma of forgery. Meanwhile, Jane, embittered and hateful of the upper classes generally, has found temporary shelter in the tenements where she has met and becomes associated with a band of anarchists. During a slumming expedition, Walter sees and is enamored of Jane. Fearing arrest, he dons old clothes and takes rooms in the neighborhood. He meets Jane and eventually learns of her connection with the band, for which he professes sympathy. Later just before the maturity of the note, he returns to his father and asks for money with which to meet it. Angered, Anderson, Sr., refuses the advance and tells Walter that he must raise the money himself within twenty-four hours or else be disinherited. Walter returns to his rooms in the slums. A meeting of the anarchist band takes place that night at which chance is to determine which member of the association is to be chosen to put out of the way some wealthy oppressor of the masses. Walter takes the opportunity to stop the wheel of chance by trick opposite Jane's number. According to the law of the band, the loser is permitted to choose the victim and Walter suggests to Jane that the man who had them evicted from their home be made to pay. Later, she leaves for Anderson's home to carry out her mission. Walter accompanies her to Anderson's home ostensibly to aid and keep watch for her while she is within the house. Anderson, Sr., about to retire, is suddenly aware of someone present in the room. He glances up to find himself looking in the muzzle of Jane's revolver. Behind the curtains, eagerly watching is Walter. Jane tells Anderson of what his grinding, money grabbing policies have brought upon her. Looking over Jane's shoulder, he suddenly calls behind her. She turns for a fraction of a moment and he seizes the hand holding the revolver. They struggle. Walter emerges slightly from behind the curtains, half inclined to join in the fight, when suddenly the revolver explodes and he receives the bullet meant for his father. Harry, entering the front door, comes upon the scene. Jane, appalled at what she has done and horror-struck at the broken figure of the old man before her. She recognizes Harry as being the one of all who has aided her. In a few words the situation is explained; Jane tells them of Walter's part in the plot against his father and the old man, realizing the enormity of the hardships the girl has had to bear, forgives her. As a further appreciation of the conditions she has related, Anderson, Sr., endows an institution for the investigation and alleviation of such cases as hers and places Jane at the head of it. Later she and Harry become engaged and take up their new work together.
- Richard Talbot, gentlemen crook, is nearly trapped by a plain clothes man. but for a ruse of Marjorie Cross, who takes pity on him and passes him off to her father as a friend of her brother. Talbot, thinking of his narrow escape, resolves to reform. Henry Randall, president of the Third National Bank, has been rejected by Marjorie. Randall makes her father a loan on a call note and watches for a chance to force Marjorie to marry him. Cross gives Richard a position. Coming home one evening Richard meets Randall and Marjorie. Randall is forcing his attentions on Marjorie, when Richard interferes. Randall, infuriated, demands that Marjorie's father pay the note at once. Cross asks for a few days in which to obtain the money. Randall refuses, and demands the money at once. Richard decides to do one more job and that evening breaks into Randall's bank and secures the note. Cross pays the note and Richard mails the now paid note back to Randall. Marjorie promises to marry Richard at his promise never to steal again. The father consents to their marriage.
- Sheila, daughter of a banker, refuses to marry Sam Harvey, a self-made man, because he is not of her set. At a reception Sheila is summoned home and finds her father dead. Sometime after his death Sheila, now sole heiress of her father's will, goes to a mystic and while gazing in the crystal globe learns that the banker was not her legitimate father, but that she was the daughter of a bandit and had been adopted by the banker. Sam, while looking over a diary left among the banker's papers, has known all along who Sheila was. After a very beautiful fire scene we foresee that all matters are going to run smoothly for the future of Sam and Sheila.
- Henry Ross, a retired banker, is found murdered in his home. Leo Hill, a young man in love with Marjorie, his daughter, is arrested and accused of the crime. The night Ross was killed, Stanley was heard fighting with him and therefore, is under suspicion. After some time William, the butler in Rosa's home, tells his story, which clears Stanley. He tells how ever since Marjorie's mother's death he and his wife had taken the girl into their hearts and that she came to them with all of her happiness and all of her unhappiness. Bob had fallen in love with the girl and after a long courtship they were secretly married and he was the only one told.
- The Boob gets an invitation to show his automobile at the Tournament of Roses Parade and he rushes to his sweetheart with the good news. The Villain watches them kiss and spoon from a distance and jealously enters his heart. He "butts in" on the young lovers and the Boob gives him a swift kick which the Villain returns so vigorously that the Boob is sent flying a considerable distance. He picks up a rock and aims it at the Villain but it hits a Cop in the eye, who, thinking the Villain struck him, wallops him with his club. The day of the Tournament Parade arrives and the Boob calls for his girl in his funny little car. After considerable difficulty, he finally gets the car going. Along they go down the road, zig-zagging at a terrific speed, until suddenly the car runs into a telegraph pole. It explodes and throws the two out in the road. The Boob hurries to get some tools and while he is gone along comes the Villain in his big car and persuades the girl to go to the Parade with him. The Boob returns to fix the machine, finds his girl gone and starts in pursuit. He arrives at the fair and stops everyone he meets with the question, "Have you seen my girl?" with the result that he receives many hard punches and kicks and gets into all kinds of trouble. Meanwhile the Villain and the girl are taking in the sights, and he buys her peanuts and soda. After the parade, the girl is still hungry and wants a sandwich, but the Villain refuses to spend any more money that day. Just then along comes the Boob and the two forget the Villain in their happiness at finding each other again. The Boob buys his girl some sandwiches which she shares with him and the Villain is left standing alone, cursing his fate.
- Judge Rumple and Mrs. Newrich see each other for the first time at the railroad station as they are bidding farewell to their children, who are going to college. The Judge admires Mrs. Newrich and gladly seizes the opportunity which occurs the next day on the golf course to make her acquaintance. She poses as a "bachelor maid," and he, carried away by the spirit of the adventure, tells her he is a bachelor. Meanwhile their children have met in college and fallen in love with each other. The judge and the widow are married, each concealing the fact that they have grown-up children. Much to their horror, they simultaneously receive letters from their children, Frank and Rena, saying that they are coming home to spend their vacation. The couple arrive soon after the letters, and the judge quickly discharges the maid and puts Rena in her place, while his wife dresses up Frank as a butler. Complications naturally ensue when the judge sees his wife kiss Frank and matters are not helped any when she, in turn finds her husband and Rena in an affectionate attitude. The result is a big family row which is only straightened out by the appearance of Frank and Rena who announce to their respective parents their decision to get married. Surprise is followed by joy and the family is happy again.
- Alice, the daughter of Major Horning, who has come to the end of his resources, is loved by Arnold Grey, a Secret Service Agent. When the young man proposes to the girl, however, she mistakes his proposal for one of charity instead of love and so refuses him. Later the major loses the last of his money through gambling and he and Alice are forced to go to a tenement room and live. Grey loses all track of Alice, but later, through a painting that the girl has sold, he discovers and persuades her and her father to come and make their home with him.
- Despite mother's protests, father is obstinate and refuses to allow Rena to marry Fred. Instead, he orders Fred from the place with a threat that he will regret it if he ever returns again. At the office, father attempts a familiarity with his stenographer, and she leaves, angrily. The next day he puts an advertisement in the paper for another one. The paper containing the advertisement falls into Rena's hands, and she calls up Fred at the motion picture studio where he is employed and suggests a plot, whereby they can gain father's consent. Fred disguises himself and applies for the position in father's office. Father "falls hard" for him and engages him on the spot. Later, he invites his new "stenographer" out to dinner at a café in the city. Fred's chum works the old badger game, entering while father is having the time of his life, and accuses him of being a home-breaker and stealing his wife. A few shots and father makes a hasty exit, beating it directly for his home. Rena is there waiting for him and when father arrives with Fred's chum in pursuit, and most of the habitués of the café following, Rena makes him promise his consent to her marriage with Fred before she will intercede with the angry mob and save him.
- Lionel Desmond marries against the wishes of his father and is disinherited. He sets up a law office, but makes little success. His father, feeling lonesome, sends for his young son, Donald, to come home from college. However, he is not much comfort to his father as he is inclined to wildness. Marion, Lionel's wife, plans to bring about a reconciliation. Lionel's father learns of Donald's infatuation for an actress and goes to Lionel to have him break it. Donald refuses to listen to Lionel and also refuses to reveal the woman's name. Lionel watches Donald, follows him and sees him at the theater. There Donald is joined by a woman heavily veiled. He phones to his father to join him and they both follow the couple. To Lionel's amazement the first machine goes to his own apartments. He and his father follow close behind. Lionel becomes suspicious. He is (when he finds that it is his wife with Donald) about to rush in and accuse her of unfaithfulness, when he is restrained by his father. Marion tells Donald of Lionel's grief caused by the parting with his father, and tries further to get him, Donald, to be good. He promises he will lead a better life. The father, realizing her true worth, forgives Lionel for his marriage.
- Billy Rand, a wealthy young easterner in the west, wanders into a gambling hall and becomes entangled in the meshes of one "Bull" Dawson, owner of the place and a notorious bad man. Billy, however, proves a hard victim to handle, and a fight results, during which Pepita, Bull's girl, comes to Billy's aid and smuggles him safely out of the room. Bull and his gang pursue Billy, but a passing freight train proves his salvation. Bull returns to the dive and blames Pepita for betraying him. He casts her off, and orders her to leave him at once. Two years later, Bull has reaped a rich harvest and sells out his place. He leaves for the east with a forged letter of introduction to a prominent financier, in the hopes of interesting him in some mining schemes. The capitalist, Robert Dale, is the father of Dick Dale, Billy's classmate and chum, and of Helen Dale, Billy's sweetheart. Billy recognizes Bull when he calls on Dale, and warns Dick against him. Bull, in turn, plans to get Dick out of the way, not knowing there is anyone else in the city who knows his identity. Meanwhile Pepita, forced to earn her living, has obtained a position in the city and sees Bull shortly after he has called on Dale. She begs Bull to aid her, but he laughs at her and again casts her off. Bull returns to the Dale home that evening after the family has retired in the hopes of "getting" Dick. Billy, who has been calling, leaves the house just as Bull enters and hears the shot that Bull fires. Billy rushes back into the house in time to find Dick lying dead upon the floor, the telephone and bric-a-brac from the table lying beside him upon the floor. As he kneels over him. Dale, Sr., and Helen enter. Billy is placed in a compromising position and accused of the crime. He is placed under arrest. The next morning, Pepita buys an early edition of the paper and reads of the crime and Billy's arrest. The newspaper story clears the mystery of the night before to her. She hastens to the Dale home and convinces Dale and Helen that she can clear Billy and returns with them to the police court, where the case is to be brought to trial. There she tells her story. The picture fades back into the night before. Pepita, seated at her desk at the switchboard, hears a call; the phone has fallen from the library table at the Dale home. She listens but receives no answer for a moment, then she hears a voice accuse Bull Dawson of the crime. Her evidence exonerates Billy. Dale, in appreciation of Pepita's testimony, offers her a home with them.
- Fred and Rena, society crooks, complete a successful foray and steal the cash and valuables from a free lunch stand in one of the city parks. Their theft arouses the entire town, and as a result, the Boob determines to become a detective and hunt down the daring criminals. Accordingly, he purchases a manual which gives instructions in the art of detecting and sets out upon the case. His first clue leads to the arrest of a burro. Meantime Fred and Rena have carried away the safe of the National Bank, The Boob runs across them but they turn the tables on him, making him a captive and tie him to the safe with a stick of dynamite underneath. The safe blows up. Fred and Rena rush to examine its contents, but the blast has only freed the Boob and he makes them prisoners, just as the city detective arrives and takes them in charge.
- Little Sarah, an innocent country girl, is betrothed to Handsome Frank, the hired man, and all indications point to a happy marriage and a peaceful life, when Dirty Dan, the city chap, stops at the farm while riding through the country and asks for a night's lodging, an accommodation the simple country folk readily offer him. Little Sarah attracts Dirty Dan's attentions and he attempts to win her away from Frank, without success. Little Sarah remains true to the love of her youth and repulses him. Dan's anger is aroused and be lures Sarah away from home in the dead of night by leading her favorite cow past her window and coaxing her to moo as though in need of aid. Little Sarah goes in search of her and this affords Dan the opportunity desired. He seizes her as soon as she gets away from the house and attempts to carry her away. Frank, however, is also aroused and together with father, starts to the rescue. Dan has a mile start but he has failed to reckon on Frank's machine, which rapidly overtakes him. At last Dan's horse shies, throwing him and little Sarah in front of the oncoming car. Leaving Sarah to her fate, Dan seeks safety in a tree, but Sarah is saved by Frank, who then starts his revenge. Several rushes against the tree shake Dan's grip and at last he falls to the road, where the machine puts an end to him and his villainous work.
- Ben Harding, mountaineer, moonshiner and head of the Harding faction, leads his men in a final battle against the Sterlings, a family feud having existed between the two clans for many years. Harding's daughter, Dot, sees Bob Sterling, now sole survivor of his clan, fall and drag himself into the bushes. She goes to him, bandages up his wounds and secretly brings him supplies until he finally is on the road to recovery. Jim Stone, a newly-appointed revenue officer, arrives for the purpose of raiding the moonshiners. To gain their confidence, he warns the mountaineers of the impending attack, arranges a fake raid, and thus gains their gratitude and is made one of them. He studies their secret hiding places and methods of work and incidentally falls in love with Harding's daughter, Dot. Bob finds a message in a stump of a tree near his retreat which Stone has placed there for his men. He reads it, and tells Dot about it, but she refuses to believe Stone guilty. Bob offers to take her to the tree and show her the note, but one of Stone's men has preceded them and when the two arrive the note is gone. Dot, thereupon, turns from Bob in scorn. She accepts Stone's attentions and Bob, following the two more or less through jealousy and suspicion, overhears them make an appointment to meet at the crossroads on the way to the village at ten o'clock. After Dot leaves, Bob shadows Stone to the place where his officers await him and overhears Stone give instructions to raid the moonshiner's cabin at nine-thirty. Bob hurries to the moonshiner's home and confronts Harding with what he has heard. At first Harding is tempted to shoot Sterling as a member of the despised clan, but his men prevail on him to wait. Stone calls and Bob is introduced to him as a visitor. At last the first shot of the revenue men is heard outside, and the next moment. Harding has fired another shot, killing Stone immediately. Together Bob and Harding fight off the revenue men, until by a desperate effort, they break through the door, get on their horses and gallop off into the darkness. At the crossroads Dot awaits Stone and only a few words to Dot are necessary to put matters straight. Bob swings her on to his saddle and over the ridge, silhouetted against the night sky, ride Harding, Dot and Bob to a new land.
- Frank and Billy pull a big party while their wives are in the mountains on a vacation. The wives, however, tire of the lonesome resort and decide to return home and surprise their husbands. Meanwhile Frank and Billy have met Rena, a well-known actress, and are giving the dinner of their lives, when their wives walk in. Frank's wife, however, recognizes in Rena a long-lost cousin, which saves the situation for the boys.
- David Garth, a country physician, earns only enough for a bare existence. His daughter, Winifred, takes care of their home. The doctor distrusts modern medical science and refuses to have anything to do with it. He is, naturally, infuriated when he learns that Kent, a young surgeon, has come to the village. The old man is further incensed when he learns that Winifred has taken a liking to Kent and refuses to meet him. Despite her father's prejudice Winifred and Kent become infatuated with each other and hold clandestine meetings. Dr. Garth falls into the snares of Shrubbs, a money lender. Shrubbs has a note of the doctor's and threatens to foreclose on the cottage. Tom, a servant of Garth's, steals the note from Shrubbs' office. Kent, in response to a letter from Winifred, leaves his office while Tom is committing the theft. The next morning the theft is discovered and Shrubbs offers $500 reward for anyone who will identify the thief. One of the townsfolk volunteers the information that Kent left the building late in the evening and the doctor corroborates the statement. Meanwhile Tom offers the note to Winifred and she tells him to return it. He leaves town at the same time Kent is accused of the robbery. Tom rushes back to Winifred and tells her of the arrest. They go to town to vindicate Kent. Tom declares his guilt and demands the $500 as a reward for finding the thief, himself. Shrubbs is compelled to pay and Kent makes him promise not to prosecute Tom. The doctor consents to the marriage of Kent and Winifred.
- Fred and Rena leave on their honeymoon, much to the disgust of the boob, who has been rejected by Rena and maltreated by Fred. The boob is the local constable and decides to keep an eye on Fred. Fred trades an old cow for an automobile. The boob sees him take the car from the garage, and starts out to catch and arrest Fred on a charge of theft. He is finally arrested himself for speeding. He gets a jail sentence and is much chagrined when he learns that Fred was owner of the car.
- The Boob and his sweetheart, Rena, plan to elope, and Rena's father overhears the plans. Freddy, a lunatic, escapes from the asylum. He arrives at the farm and makes father exchange clothes with him. He then follows Rena and the Boob. After many adventures the "Nut" catches up with them and when they discover he is perfectly harmless they go to a minister and are made one. Freddy is led back to captivity, and father thinks he might as well give his consent and blessings.
- Fritz and his wife have one of their daily arguments and Fritz retires to his room. His wife's parting words are to the effect that unless he ceases his dissipations, the old Nick himself will get him. Fritz laughs at the prophecy, but is no sooner in bed than wonders begin. He is transported to the lower regions, where he meets not only the Prince of Darkness, but has the honor to be introduced to all the little Princes, with the result that his visit is marked by several unpleasant adventures. Overcome at last, by the persistence of their attentions, he makes an attempt to escape. Old Nick and his pet imp follow him through the air and back to the city. Finally, however, Fritz manages to evade them. Awakening in his room, he is again tempted to imbibe, but the vision that appears in the bottle works a complete reformation.