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- Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.
- David Powers, lumber king, treats his employees as inconsiderable details of his business, to be replaced without question at his pleasure. He is backed in his patrician contempt for labor by his legal adviser, Perry Travis. Both Powers and Travis love Powers' daughter Laura with a love that amounts fairly to worship. Laura has promised to marry Travis. Karl Hurd, his wife Mina, and their six-year-old daughter Betty form, a pathetic example of struggling poverty. Hurd works as a stevedore for Powers. In a fight with his foreman, Hurd is beaten with a club and laid up for many months. His wife, slaving to support her family, contracts tuberculosis. When Hurd, still weak, again applies for work at the lumber yard, Powers drives him away. Conditions become unbearable in Powers' plant and his workers decide to strike. Laura's pleas for the workmen are of no avail. Mina dies. On a mission of exploration to the workers' homes, Laura finds Hurd sitting beside the lifeless body of his wife. He is inconsolable, and Laura sees she can do naught to assuage his grief. She leaves her purse and departs. The strikers decide to be revenged on Powers, and lie in wait for his automobile. Hurd, crazed with grief at the loss of his wife, and attributing all his troubles to Powers, takes a revolver from the strike leader's pocket and decides to do "the job" himself. He waits a block in advance of the mob of strikers. Laura eludes her father and Travis, and entering Powers' limousine starts for the strikers' meeting, resolved to help them. Hurd empties his revolver into the automobile, and the chauffeur, fear-stricken, rushes home. When Powers and Travis open the car door, they find Laura dead within, and realize that her death is the result of their willful blindness. Hurd learns too late of his terrible mistake, and will go through life ever as the self-accused murderer of his benefactress.
- No one seems to understand or love Fay, the little spoiled granddaughter of William Van Loan, a hard-hearted capitalist, but the old family butler, who tells her fairy stories. In Powhatan, a mining town controlled by Van Loan, Bessie, a sweet motherless child of Jasper Hunt, a mine foreman, lives with their housekeeper, Mrs. Flannigan. The mining company raises the price of food stuffs at the only store; the men resent this, and failing to get increased pay, strike. Van Loan refuses to yield and decides to use scab labor. Scenes of violence follow and, compelled to go to Powhatan, Van Loan takes Fay with him. Fay meets and plays with Bessie and for fun they change dresses. Separated, the unusual likeness deceives the Van Loan governess, who supposes Bessie to be Fay and whisks her away. Mrs. Flannigan finds and takes Fay, sick from exposure, to the Hunt home. Business hurriedly recalls Van Loan and mistaken for a changed Fay, Bessie revolutionizes the Van Loan household by her sweetness. Hunt, the real leader of the striking men, is summoned to meet Van Loan. During the unsuccessful arbitration meeting, Bessie comes in to bid her "grandfather" good night and, seeing her father, rushes to his arms. Hunt, busy with the strike, supposes her to be ill at home. They are all dumbfounded. Bessie tells them how she and Fay changed clothes. Looking up the family trees, the likeness of the "twin" kiddies is explained, and, completely won over, Van Loan yields to the men and Hunt is made mine superintendent. Years of dread follow, and just as a report of the other's death reaches him, his foe appears, immensely wealthy and wreaks the vengeance in a spectacular manner.
- Seductive vamp La Belle ( Lillian Lorraine ) sets out to steal Jack Holmes ( Henry King )away from his loving wife Mary ( Mabel Van Buren ). He foolishly spends every penny on the vamp , leaving his wife almost destitute. La Belle is killed by a jealous suitor and the evidence points to Jack. However, he is given an reprieve by the way of a letter written by La Belle claiming she had intended to commit suicide. Should his wife now forgive him ?.
- Carol, a young and attractive woman, is recognized as a great painter. Her life has been rather commonplace, particularly in light of the fact that she is of a nature that craves excitement and adventure. She tells her fiancé that she is tired of the monotony of society life. She wishes a man for a husband, a man who can hold her by force. Their engagement is broken. Chance throws her in the way of a band of crooks. They hold her up for her pocketbook and she is stopped in her pursuit of them by their leader. Her anger toward him changes to interest as she recognizes in him a handsome specimen of manhood and realizes that he would make a wonderful subject for a painting. She persuades him to pose for her. A young inventor is showing much progress with a new explosive. He discovers his Japanese servant about to steal his plans and discharges him. Meanwhile Carol has discovered a growing infatuation for this man of the slums. It frightens her, but she finds herself passionately drawn to him. He tells her of his life and she asks for a glimpse of it. He takes her to the slums (she disguised as a bowery tough) and the rough life fascinates her. She craves for it more and more and finally becomes a habitué of the lower world, always in company with this man. One day she expresses her desire to see a real holdup. One is planned and the inventor's father is chosen as the victim. The police have been warned and in the fight that follows both the inventor's father and the crook are killed. Carol escapes in the taxi in which she came, changing from her disguise to her regular clothes while in the machine. She then jumps out, boards a car and thereby evades the police, who later find her discarded disguise and hold it as a clue. Carol, for several months after the affair, is ill, and while convalescing, meets the inventor. Months before he had met her at a ball, and since that time, has been ardently in love with her. He now tells her of his love and she responds after a time. In going through his laboratory he explains to her his inventions and shows her a little switch which, if turned, would destroy the house and all in it. Wishing to keep no secret from her, he produces her old disguise and explains that the woman who wore it was the cause of killing his father, he has sworn that she shall suffer for her crime. He is called to a neighbor's phone, his own being out of order. Carol is left alone in the house. The discharged Japanese servant has been watching and now sees his chance. He enters, points a revolver at Carol and starts to pick up the plans. She requests him to drop the papers. He refuses. She puts her hand on the switch and turns the power on. An explosion follows. The Japanese servant meets instant death. Carol dying, points to him. Her lover understands and she dies in his arms.
- Shouts of joy and the clapping of many tiny hands welcomed the arrival of the big birthday cake. For this was Little Mary's birthday. To celebrate all Mary's little friends had been invited and the big event which preceded the supper and the cutting of the cake was a performance of Cinderella and the affair of the glass slipper. Little Mary forgot to leave at the hour of 12, and when she was called away by the fairy she dropped her glass slipper on the stair. Of course, to every one's amazement, when the Prince went looking for the owner of the slipper, the only one whom it fitted was Little Mary. The party and the excitement was all over, and, as an added help to recuperate from the strain of starring. Little Mary the next day went auto riding with the chauffeur. But fate then took a hand in the story of Mary's life. Captured by Gypsies and later escaping in the midst of a battle royal amongst the tribe she finally made her way to the hut of a crabbed old man, but she finally overcame his crabbedness by her cute and winning smile. Unknown to Little Mary, her benefactor was in reality her grandfather, James Andrews, who had taken his money to this backwoods place because of his son, Dr. Andrews, who had married against his wishes. The chauffeur, wild with anxiety, finally located Little Mary in the cellar, where she had gone to help the old man, who had fallen while miserly counting his money. Would they be able to reach the city in time? They faced a hard task, but Little Mary had known harder work when she had starred in Cinderella.
- Harry Mason is called home by wire, but when he arrives, he finds that his wife Ruth has just died in childbirth. Thoroughly shaken, Harry refuses to look at the baby, and after locking the door to the room that Ruth had prepared as the nursery, he departs for Europe, leaving little Martha in the care of her grandfather, Colonel Mason. In an attempt to escape his grief, Harry travels throughout the world, but the spirit of his wife continually distracts him, and he finally decides to return home. Unaware of her father's identity, Martha, now a charming and spirited little girl, befriends Harry and soon convinces him to unlock the nursery door. On the bureau, he finds the letter his wife had left him years earlier, requesting that he care for their child in the event of her death. Realizing his blindness, Harry takes Martha to his heart.
- The Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress and excitement, which forces her to steal, leading to no end of complications and intrigue.
- Slim Jim, a slippery-fingered crook, seeing a chance to make a good haul, takes advantage of the opportunity, robs a house and makes his getaway. At the same time the daughter of the victim decides to elope and joins her fiancé by means of the ladder-route. The eloping couple hire a buggy and hasten away to escape her father. They are seen by Ima Simp, almost a detective, who mistakes them for Slim Jim and his female accomplice. Ima Simp decides to do some sleuthing that will make Sherlock Holmes seem like a back-number and immediately gets on the trail. The chase that follows is a hummer and is funny enough to make the Sphinx laugh. Does Simp catch the fugitives? Sure he does, but at that moment the girl's father appears on the scene and thanks the young man for eloping with his daughter, thus taking her off his own hands. Poor Simp then realizes that as a detective he's a lemon.
- Dr. Guy Hartwell, a young and wealthy Louisiana physician, was a man of strange personality. Five years previous to the opening of the story he married and bestowed sincere love upon his wife. In return she basely played him false and shortly afterward died. From that moment he was a changed man. Embittered against the world, mankind and even distrusting God, the silent and melancholy man lived on. With the doctor lived his widowed sister and her daughter, whom everyone considered as the heir of the physician's wealth. In the same city lived Beulah Benton, who was sent from the orphan asylum out into the world to earn her living as a servant girl, while her little sister Lillian found a home as the foster daughter of a rich lady. At the orphanage Beulah learned to love Eugene, another inmate, but he, too, was adopted by a wealthy family and sent abroad to be educated. He promised upon his return to make Beulah his wife. Beulah yearned to see her sister, but Lillian's foster parents forbade the two to meet. This affected Beulah deeply, but the crushing blow was about to descend. Lillian fell ill, and in spite of every effort of Dr. Hartwell the younger sister died. Beulah, seeing the crepe on the door, forced herself in and for the first time met the doctor. The kindness of his nature was reawakened by the grief-stricken girl, and he took her to his home, attended her through a serious illness, then placed her in school. But Beulah found her new surroundings far from pleasant. While the doctor as yet refused to trust any woman, he treated her with marked respect and consideration, but his sister fearing that the adopted girl would become the heir instead of her own daughter, lost no opportunity to humiliate Beulah. It was more than she could bear, and at last the girl sadly left the doctor's house and returned to the orphanage, but the doctor, however, brought her home again and provided other quarters for his sister and her daughter, both of whom were wholly dependent upon him for support. The years passed and Beulah's lover, Eugene, returned from Europe, a dissipated wretch, his love for the orphan girl forgotten and his hand pledged to the frivolous niece of Dr. Hartwell's false wife. The physician warned the foolish youth to give her up, pleading with him to remain true to his promise to Beulah, but without avail. It was now that Hartwell realized that he himself loved her and declared his affection. Beulah expressed her great gratitude, but still grieving over her false lover told him that she could not return his affections. Hartwell went North and Beulah became a school teacher. An epidemic broke out and people were perishing by the score. Doctor Hartwell returned to the stricken city. The doctor and Beulah met and side by side they fought the ravages of the disease. Clara Saunders a friend of Beulah's fell in love with Hartwell but becomes a victim of the plague, and with her departing breath joined the hands of the two, and bade them be happy. Through comradeship with Beulah, the doctor's faith in God and Man was restored, and his life made still brighter by her voluntary confession of her love for him. Their marriage followed, and Beulah and her husband fearlessly faced the future.
- While he digs for gold day by day, "The Easterner," a young miner, gambles by night. A woman of the camps, named Moll, takes an interest in him and tries to break him of the habit that is his ruin. He laughs at her, but after she saves his life he promises to quit playing. Kate Gardner, a girl of the west loves him, and she is turn is loved by Bill Turner, a miner. Turner proves to her that the Easterner loves Doris Wendell, daughter of a wealthy land owner. She, with Moll, is instrumental in saving the Easterner's life when he is about to be lynched by a mob at the command of the jealous Turner. Peter Gardner, her father, covets the Easterner's claim and bribes Dick Weed, the gambling house proprietor, to help him get the claim. They attempt to make him gamble, but he is true to his promise. Later he discovers that Moll is his mother, whose passion for gambling he has inherited. Oby, a half-wit. Haunts the camp. Moll and her son try to live respectably after Doris has broken the engagement because the Easterner refuses to disown his mother. But the passion for gambling proves too strong. Moll rushes out of the house to the Hall of Chance. Her son is inveigled by Weed and Gardner into betting his claim. As he loses, Oby snatches away the tablecloth, jumbling the cards. Gardner, in a rage, strikes him down. His memory returns and he recognizes Gardner as the man who robbed him many years before, and shoots him. Dying, Gardner admits that Kate is Oby's daughter. Reunited with her father, she marries the Easterner.
- Young Joy ( Baby Marie Osborne ), the sole survivor of a shipwreck that killed her parents, is rescued by fishermen and then placed in an orphanage. Although reputable on the surface, the home really functions as a front for some crooks who want to keep Joy there because she carries with her all of her mother's jewelry. Joy manages to escape, but without the jewels, and then stows away on a train heading out West. After arriving, she meets Hal Lewis ( Henry King ), who has been made an outcast by his upper crust Eastern family. Hal soon adopts the little girl and, becoming stronger and more serious through the responsibilities of parenthood, he returns home with Joy. Then, after receiving his father's forgiveness, Hal breaks up the orphanage gang and retrieves Joy's jewels.
- A child, Mary Sunshine, filled with a desire to play with other youngsters, was forbidden to do so by her mother. But one day Piggy, a young negro child, appeared over the top of the fence and the temptation was too great. From that day on, Mary was given to running off with Piggy. As punishment for her first offense, she was sent to bed without supper, but neither her father nor mother could sleep when they realized that Mary was hungry, so they caught each other bringing food to the youngster. On a nearby estate lived Daniel Graham, rich, alone and grouchy. To him came the awakening when he heard the laugh of a child. Looking over the fence to locate the laugh, he found Mary and Piggy encouraging a chicken fight. From then on, day after day, the child visited him and brought cheer to the big mansion, which had never known the sound of childish laughter. On the off days, when not at the big house, Mary and Piggy ran wild for ways in which to make passersby lose their seriousness and smile. Not aware of the friendship of the child for the rich man, Mary's father, in order to make up for foolish ventures on the stock market, attempted to rob the big house. This same evening, Mary remained at the house after her birthday party given her by Daniel Graham. Being restless in her sleep from so many good things to eat, Mary started downstairs to frighten her friend, but instead she walked in the big room just as her father was in the midst of his attempted wrongdoing.
- James Sterling, wealthy bachelor, is told by his doctor that he must go up into the mountains if he would recover the health lost in his midnight parties. He goes, leaving behind Clarice Driscoll, a society girl whom he loves. In the mountains he meets Lucy Bingham. Away from the city influences, he falls in love with this maid of the wilds, and she, blinded by his polished manner and the prospects of magnificent city life, consents to marry him. She, in her turn, leaves behind David Graham, a young mountaineer who wants her as his wife. Once in the city, Lucy finds that her fine new clothes and many servants cannot change the real Lucy who cannot understand or be understood by her new friends. Even her husband, so charmed with her wild freedom in the mountains, becomes angered at her inability to become conventional and upbraids her for it. But Lucy cannot reconcile herself to this strange, cramped city life with its pretenses and restraints, and longs again for the unrestricted freedom of her home in the mountains. One morning, unable to bear it longer, she starts away for the great hills, where she again breathes freely. Her husband follows her; and once again they find love and a complete understanding.
- The death of their only child completely stuns the Prestons. The grief-stricken couple, hearing a slight sound at the outer door, investigate and find a deserted infant which they decide to adopt. Jim Blake, a vagrant, has seen the child left there by a mulatto woman who he thinks must be the mother. Blake decides to keep his secret. The only clue to the identity of the baby is a locket engraved with the name Naida. Years pass and Naida, who shows no trace of negro blood, grows to girlhood ignorant of her real parentage. One day Blake calls at the Preston home and tells Naida's foster-father that he can prove that her mother is a mulatto woman and will remain silent only it paid to do so. Preston satisfies the blackmailer, but Naida overhears the terrible disclosure. That night, overcome by the dreadful knowledge of her parentage, she silently leaves her home and goes to the city. Her foster-parents and her fiancé are plunged in despair by her disappearance. Naida, who supports herself through her musical ability, engages a mulatto maid. She later meets Blake, who tells her how he saw her deserted years before by this same woman. Through a musical professor, who befriended her, Naida's fiancé learns of her whereabouts and calls on her. She confesses her dreadful secret to him, but is overheard by the colored maid, who then discloses the fact that Naida's real mother was a white woman. She died soon after her child was born, owing to the shock occasioned by her husband's tragic death. Being too poor to support the child herself, the maid, in whose care the child was left, hearing of the Preston's loss, left Naida to be found by them. The maid's story dispels the clouds which enveloped Naida's life and once more the happy family is brought together.
- Judge Livingston, a wealthy jurist, lives happily in a mansion with his young wife, Josephine, and his daughter, Eleanor, child of the judge's first wife. Dick Winthrop, the judge's private secretary, is in love with Eleanor, and she returns his affection. They become betrothed, and the judge approves their engagement. Mrs. Livingston, Eleanor's step-mother, buys goods extravagantly at fashionable shopping places, and has the goods charged to her account. Dick receives a letter from a bank, saying that Mrs. Livingston has overdrawn her account $1,100, and requesting settlement without disturbing Judge Livingston. Dick tries to persuade Mrs. Livingston to attend to the overdrawn account, but she becomes angry and resolves to break Dick's engagement to Eleanor. Mrs. Livingston then tells the judge that Dick is not a proper fiancé for Eleanor. Eleanor finds recreation in doing settlement work, attracting the attention of several men engaged in white slavery acts. These evildoers forge a note purporting to be from a poor woman, asking Eleanor to come to her aid in the tenements. Leaving the note on a desk in her home, Eleanor goes to render the aid asked, and when she arrives at the address given, the white slavers seize her and make her a prisoner. Dick accidentally finds the note and rushes to rescue Eleanor, as he feels that the note was forged. Dick arrives at the house where Eleanor is held captive, and, after a desperate fight with the plotters, the men are taken prisoners. Eleanor and Dick manage to return home. The debts Mrs. Livingston owes become pressing; she tries at night to steal funds from her husband's safe, and Dick finds her near the safe. To escape accusation, Mrs. Livingston charges Dick with the theft, and he, to shield her, shoulders the blame in the presence of the judge and Eleanor. The judge believes his wife, and tells Dick he must leave the house forever. Mrs. Livingston then repents, tells her husband she alone is to blame, begs his forgiveness.
- Rich young playboy Gregory Kirkland reads a newspaper story about a daring robbery, and bets his friends that he can steal a famous diamond tiara, The Sultana, from its designer and then secretly return it without being caught. Robert Sautrelle, who designed the tiara, visits Kirkland's home, and Gregory does indeed steal it. However, he gets cold feet before he returns it and convinces a woman he knows, Virginia Lowndes, to return it. Unfortunately, things don't work out exactly as Gregory had planned.
- Harry Larrabee, a young playwright, lives in the same studio apartment house with Carolyn Vaughn, a painter of miniatures, with whom he falls in love. "The Wolf," a famous criminal, supposed to be dead, returns and communicates with his wife, a friend of Carolyn's. He forces his wife and her brother to aid him in a plot to rob Carolyn of her valuable jewels. Harry, by one of his famous "inspirations," discovers that a crime is being committed, rescues Carolyn and bears her away in a taxicab. He is himself suspected of the crime, but, undisturbed by the web of circumstance by which he is entangled, his wonderful inspirations give him the key to the conspiracy which led up to the crime. In an unusual and powerful finale the guilty parties fight among themselves and justice triumphs in an exciting climax.
- In search of information about her grandfather, gold prospector Jim Vale, Miriam Vale comes to California and teaches school to defray her expenses. She learns that years ago Vale was robbed and killed by road agents and that suspicion fell upon Henry Stanley, although nothing could be proved. Uncovering no other information, Miriam is about to return to Vermont when she is accosted by a strange man who orders her to accompany him to his cabin where a woman lays injured. Miriam finds the dying woman and also a dead man. The woman tells Miriam that she has been beaten by her husband, Ed Stanley, and begs her to look under a stone in the fireplace. Miriam learns that her abductor is Blake Stanley, Ed's cousin. Ed returns and orders Blake to leave. In the fight that follows, Ed is badly wounded, and Blake then tells Miriam the story of the death of Henry Stanley and the disappearance of the papers containing the secret of her grandfather's treasure. Relieved by Blake's story, Miriam produces the treasure map that she found under the fireplace, and together they set out to recover her grandfather's gold.
- Dave Scott, a wealthy mine owner, is killed. His daughter, Marie, goes to her father's old friend Richard Clark, knowing that he will take care of her interests. Clark and his grown son, Ted, become attached to Marie. Innocent in manner, she sees no necessity for concealing her preference for the elder Clark. In time, Ted's attachment culminates in a proposal, which is rejected. Ted accuses his father of standing in his way and the father makes Marie promise that she will accept Ted. A few minutes before the time set for the ceremony, a note from Ted explains that he realizes the love that exists between Marie and his father, and rather than exact the sacrifice, he has left his father's home, leaving them free to marry.
- Betty, an orphan girl of sixteen, is abused at an orphanage, and one evening after an unusually trying episode, she escapes. She rides a freight car to a distant city. There she wanders cold and hungry, and at last falls fainting in a park. Francis Seeman, a Raffles, driving by in his limousine, rescues her. He adopts and educates Betty. At the school she meets Gladys, the daughter of a wealthy man, and the girls become very good chums. At the end of the four years Betty returns to Seeman, and then he discloses his purpose in adopting her. She is horror-stricken, but forced by threats to follow instructions. He and Betty go to another city to begin their operations. Seeman forges a letter of introduction to one of the wealthiest men of the town, and thereby gains social recognition. He and Betty are invited to a fashionable function, Betty posing as Seeman's daughter. There she meets Gladys, her school chum and a niece of the hostess. Seeman forces Betty to steal the latter's diamond necklace. A few days later Gladys calls on Betty, and incidentally shows her a beautiful rope of pearls. Just as she is showing them to Betty, Seeman enters. After Gladys has gone, Seeman commands Betty to get the pearls. Betty refuses, and Seeman, enraged, tries to choke her. Betty, frightened, seizes a hat pin and stabs Seeman with it. He falls to the floor. She then goes to the safe and takes some money, and finds Mrs. Mills' necklace. Deliberately she takes the jewels and strews them across Seeman's body, so the public may know who stole them. Betty retires to the country, posing as a widow, and takes a little cottage, as it happens next to the young clergyman, Roger Neville. She and Roger become very good friends, but the villagers disapprove. One day a little boy comes for Roger to go to the bedside of a dying woman. Betty goes along. The woman they find already dead, leaving a boy of four. Roger suggests one of the villagers adopt the orphan, but all the women answer that they already have too many mouths of their own to feed, and to send the child to the orphanage. The picture of what she had suffered at the orphanage rises before Betty, and she begs to take the boy. The villagers sniff and turn up their noses, declaring Betty did this only to make an impression. In the meantime Seeman is taken to the hospital. He lies between life and death, held for the robberies. Seeman at last is on the road to recovery, and determined not to go to prison alone, he tells the detectives Betty is his accomplice, and gives them a picture of her. They begin their search. One day when the papers are delivered to the villagers, they see a picture of Betty on the front page, telling why she is wanted. The minister receives the paper, and reads the article. Upon his persuasion, Betty tells her story. In the meantime the detectives arrive, and the village people are only too eager to show them where Betty is. At the trial Betty tells her story to the judge and jury, and it wins her case, the judge giving Seeman a long term in the penitentiary. Gladys is at the trial, and shows her loyalty toward Betty.
- A talkative parrot, whose language is more forceful than polite, creates complications galore. Sailor Slim, the owner of Polly, finds a ready purchaser in the person of a rejected suitor, who has a mission for the garrulous bird to perform. Polly is to make trouble between a happy pair of lovers that the disgruntled rival may profit by their disagreement. The new owner of the parrot places it in the room in which the girl is entertaining her lover. Soon the young woman hears language not customary in refined society, and her lover is suspected. Vainly he protests his innocence, but appearances are strongly against him and he is in disgrace. Thereafter Polly experiences a varied career, of which a bath in the ocean is a part. The vicissitudes of the lover are numerous before he regains the good graces of his sweetheart.
- Captain Mark Stone of the freighter, Annabel, gets word from his fiancée that she has decided to marry another man. He puts back to port and arrives just after the wedding ceremony. Forcing his way into the house, he faces the girl and swears vengeance, vowing that he will marry and rear children to hate her children as he hates her. Next day her father uses his influence to have Stone discharged. Stone lies in wait for him on the wharf, and through an accident he is injured in the head. A specialist is doubtful whether he will recover his sight. Mindful of his oath, Stone proposes marriage to May Manning, the slavey at his boarding house, and she accepts. Later, their child is born, a girl. At the news, the blind man stumbles from the house in a rage of disappointment, and, meeting with an old shipmate, goes on a voyage with him. One of the crew bears a grudge against Stone, and seeing him helpless, drops him overboard on a dark night. The shock restores his sight. Reaching the shore, he makes his way to a fisherman's cabin, where a doctor, in attendance upon the fisherman's wife, declares that Stone's normal mind, deranged by a former blow on the head, has also been restored. His one idea now is to get back to his wife and child. But they have disappeared from the old home. May, his wife, seeks work to support her child and becomes a dishwasher in a cheap waterfront restaurant. Stone, seeking her, is recognized on the street by his former sweetheart, who, having left her husband for another man, is now an outcast. To avoid her he enters the restaurant and there comes face to face with May. Explanations ensue, and he discovers that the weapon he chose to work evil against the woman he once hated has turned to love in his hands.
- An enactment of the moral that the way of the sinner is hard and the only hope for the wayward is complete and absolute repentance.