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- Sisters Assina and Malmama love Giafar; he loves Malmama. Assina tries to win Giafar from her sister; failing, she resorts to incantations. She lights a fire, casts poisonous herbs and leaves into the camp pot and prepares the potion. It fails utterly and Malmama and Giafar are happy in their love. Assina is furious and resolves to get rid of her sister/rival by having her abducted and sold at the slave market. She negotiates with a slave dealer, promising to deliver into his hands a woman so beautiful that she commands a big price and that Assina will add 50 pieces of gold. By arrangement with Assina, Masrond's men seize Malmama and carry her off. Assina pretends great agony and concern, but she continues to try to fascinate Giafar, but he's inconsolable. Malmama is sold at the market to the Caliph's eunuchs, who rejoice that they have secured so beautiful a slave for their royal master's harem. Giafar sees her dragged away but is powerless. He follows the eunuchs to the palace and bribes the chief eunuch to give him a position as gardener in the palace grounds. Malmama is dragged into the harem where Saad ibn Maad, the Caliph, endeavors to kiss her. She struggles and screams. Giafar hears her cries, leaps into the room, and drags her from the Caliph's arms. Malmama pleads that they may tell their story of the abduction and their love. Saad grants permission and after hearing the narrative, comforts the lovers and orders them to be set free.
- Floria Tosca, a famous Italian opera singer, suspects that her lover, Mario Cavaradossi, is unfaithful and secretly follows him to his villa on the outskirts of Rome. La Tosca is relieved to discover that Mario is harboring not another woman but Cesare Angelotti, a political prisoner. Her relief turns to despair, however, when Baron Scarpia, Rome's tyrannical chief of police, arrives and demands that Mario turn Cesare over to the authorities under penalty of torture. He refuses, but La Tosca, unable to endure Mario's screams, confesses. All three are arrested, and the baron threatens to have Mario shot unless La Tosca gives herself to him. She consents, but when Scarpia approaches her, she stabs him. Finding that Mario has been shot despite the baron's promise, she leaps from a high tower to her death.
- Clover Ames's life consists only of the drudge work that she performs at her Aunt Sarah's boardinghouse. No longer able to withstand her aunt's abuse, Clover runs away and obtains a job as a maid to a wealthy woman. Willed $7,000 by Pierre Dubois, a boarder at her aunt's house, Clover, inspired by a novel that she has read, poses as a duchess at a fashionable winter resort. There she meets and falls in love with Walter Gray, who is also traveling incognito as a ribbon clerk. When Clover's money runs out, her trick is discovered and she vanishes. Obtaining employment in Gray's department store, Clover learns that her ribbon clerk is actually the owner's son, who rushes her to the wedding bureau.
- In one of the rural sections of Spain, they tell a story, handed down from generation to generation, of the brave soldier, Pedro, and the sacrifice he made for his lady fair. He was only a humble soldier, stationed at a fort, and he loved a maiden who lived in a village nearby. The girl liked him, and perhaps might have married him, had the "other man" not appeared. The other was a stranger, who suddenly appeared in the village, and secured lodgings with the girl's mother. He quickly won the maiden's love, and they were planning to get married, when he was arrested. It happened that Pedro was the one who took him into custody, and he then learned for the first time that the girl's heart belonged to the other man. At the fort the stranger was questioned, the belief being that he was a spy, but no documents were found in his possession. The commander of the garrison simply ordered him detained, and did not lock him in a cell. The stranger's case was desperate, however, for he really was what he was suspected of being, a spy. The girl determined to rescue him, and shot an arrow over the ramparts at night. A light cord was attached to the arrow, and to this in turn was tied a heavy rope, by means of which the prisoner could escape. The plan worked successfully until the stranger was just starting on his perilous journey. Then Pedro discovered what was happening, and with a cry of alarm, ran forward with drawn sword. He raised his blade to cut the rope, but glancing down, saw the girl he loved, her arms raised appealingly to him. He realized that his rival's life was in his hands, and started to strike. Then, like a flash, he saw that upon him depended the girl's happiness, and he could not. On the contrary, he held back the other soldiers who would have killed the stranger, was denounced as a traitor, and finally, fighting to the last gasp, fell, supposedly dead, into the sea. Years later, in a religious retreat, an aged monk, loved and venerated by all who knew him, died. Then the story, long a secret, was told to the world. Pedro was not killed, but narrowly escaped. He was found unconscious, washed up on the beach by a monk, who nursed him back to health and strength. Later he joined the order, and became one of its devout members.
- A romantic young girl, visiting St. Augustine, finds that she must make the choice which means happiness or misery for life. She has two suitors, one an everyday young American who has made his way in the world and is proud of it. He has money, will have more, and in every way would seem desirable. But the other man had ancestors! True, he didn't apparently have much else except a fondness for cigarettes, but he could talk for hours of those knightly days and dazed knights. He had a wonderful ring which had been given to his great-great and a few more great grandfathers, who, as governor of St. Augustine had saved the fort and been rewarded with a ring from the fair hand of the Queen of Spain. He offered her the ring and asked her to marry him. She said yes, and took the ring. It was so romantic. And then some power transported her to "those good old days," and she learned the true story of the ring. It ended her infatuation, and she decided to stop being romantic, and wed a good American who could supply her with affection, also new gowns, opera tickets, and a steam heated home with all modern improvements, things they did not have in the time when the ring of the Spanish Grandee was simply a jewel, and not a family heirloom with an absolutely incorrect history tacked on.