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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Tom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got wise" somehow and when the young couple finally arrive at the railroad station, they find a crowd there ahead of them and they are duly dealt with according to the latest rules laid down for the accelerated departure of bride and groom. A year slips by and we find Tom wrapped up in business pursuits and careless of manner towards Mae. And Mae quietly grieves over his neglect. Then a former sweetheart of Tom's, Belle Stuart, sends them an invitation to a ball, where Belle proceeds to monopolize Tom to the utter disregard of poor Mae. Left all alone she sits and broods over her misfortune, and then she meets the famous poet, Claude Jones, who entertains her most pleasantly with his talk and his ability as a dancer. Tom finally thinks of his wife and goes to where he left her, but she has gone. He at last discovers her in the conservatory in conversation with the poet. It is his turn to feel jealous and he does so and going rudely over to the couple he informs Mae that they must go home at once. Before they go, however, she invites Claude to call upon them. Soon Claude accepts her invitation and calls, finding her alone. In the midst of their tete-a-tete, Tom arrives at home and orders Claude to vacate the premises at once. Tom and Mae have their first quarrel, and it is a good one. Tom then decides to keep close watch upon her and rigs up a bell so that it will ring in his den every time the door opens. Well, it works all right, only he is kept busy rushing into the room merely to meet the maid or the postman or somebody other than Claude. He then gives up and after another interview with his wife, he secretly writes Claude a letter, informing him that as he loves Mae and Mae loves him, that he, Tom, will surrender all further claim upon her. When Claude arrives he is received most cordially by Tom, who proceeds to pour out his blessings upon the pair and leaves the room. Mae is completely mystified, until Claude shows her the letter and proceeds to press his suit. She, taken entirely unawares, begs for time to think it all over and he goes out to purchase her some flowers. Tom, seeing him leave, telephones Belle Stuart and makes an appointment with her. Mae overhears him at the 'phone and breaks down completely, weeping as if her heart would break. Then Tom leaves the house. Claude, shortly after this returns and attempts to present Mae with the flowers, but she has had enough of him already, and, ordering him from the house, throws his bouquet after him. Tom's conscience will not permit him to keep his appointment with Belle and after wandering aimlessly about his club, he returns home to find his little wife curled up in his den, hugging his dressing gown, trying to forget her troubles in slumber, Tom's heart is touched, his old love is reawakened and taking her in his arms, she opens her eyes and twining her arms about him, they forget all their former doubts and troubles in their present happiness.
- Ralph Vincent is an all-round sport, in spite of the fact that he has a charming wife and lovely baby at home. His wife, Effie, trusts him implicitly, although she has heard some rather ugly rumors concerning him. Ralphs receives a tip on a horse by wire from the city and wants to play it, but has not the money. He tries to borrow it from a fellow employee in the office, but not succeeding, he, at last, obtains it from Hiram Hayes, the old man who runs the grocery store over which the Vincents have rooms. He tells Hiram he needs it for his family. He wires the money on and shortly after, receiving word that his horse has won, he hastily packs a bag and goes to the city. Here, inflated with his winnings, he joins a gay crowd and has the time of his life. He plays poker with the boys and joins a merry crowd of fast men and women at supper. In the meantime, he has mailed the amount of his loan to Hiram and his wife, Effie, is down in Hiram's store when it arrives. There is, however, no letter for her. Putting two and two together, she fears the worst and Hiram kindly offering to look after the baby, she departs for the city, in search of Ralph. Knowing the address of his hotel from the letter-head enclosing Hiram's money, she goes straight there and reaches the café at the height of the festivities, arriving at the very moment that Ralph is distinguishing himself by drinking a toast out of one of the woman's slippers. Effie takes one look and then burying her face in her hands, she rushes from the room and hastens home, heartbroken. Ralph is instantly checked in his mad career by the sight of his little wife and despite the pleadings of his companions, he leaves the café, accompanied by a good-hearted friend named Fred Strong. Some hours later, Ralph comes to his senses in a Turkish bath, surrounded by his friends of the evening. Realizing the baseness of his recent actions. Realizing the baseness of his recent actions, he wants to call up his wife on the telephone to ask her pardon, but he lacks the courage. There he sits a humiliated man, blankly staring at the picture of his baby in a locket. He has spent all of his winnings during his debauch, and has lost the love and respect of his wife and possibly his position. Overcome by remorse he lays down the locket and leaves the room, wandering aimlessly through the bath. Then Fred Strong, who has found the telephone number, calls up Hiram at the grocery store, who responds dressed in his night clothes. Effie and baby are soon brought down to the phone and negotiations for the return of Ralphs are begun. Fred and the balance of Ralph's friends at one end of the wire in their bath costumes and Effie, Hiram and the baby at the other, all in dishabille. Then Ralph is brought to the phone, he talks to Effie and she and the baby talk to him. Effie tells him to come home. While Ralph is dressing, Fred starts a collection for the baby, which proves a generous one and enclosing the bills with the locket in an envelope, directed to the child, they hand it to Ralph and wish him "Godspeed." Ralph arrives and regaining his wife's love and his position, he swears off from a sporting life and the next time he receives a tip by wire, he tears up the telegrams and throws it in the waste basket.
- A husband discovers his wife about to elope with a friend, and then forces her to go with him, making her write a note to her child saying that she is going on a long journey. Later the lover reads of a railroad accident, in which many people were killed and telegraphs the husband that his wife was one of the victims. The child mourns for its mother and asks the father to take her where her mother is supposed to be buried. He takes her there and puts up a tombstone. Later the husband falls in love with a widow, which is very objectionable to the child. On one of the child's journeys to her mother's grave, she meets her mother, who has returned, takes her father away from the widow, brings him home and there is a reconciliation.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Terence Tightwad does not approve of the attentions paid to his daughter Marion by Harry Lightfoot; neither does family dog Murphy. Murphy and old Tightwad show their displeasure at Harry's insistence on visiting the Tightwad home by combining in a "free-for-all" fight with him, from which Harry emerges "third best." When old Tightwad spirits Marion away to a nearby resort hotel, Harry picks up the love trail, follows, and finds employment at the hotel as a bellboy. Overcoming all the hazards of the militant father's objections, Harry finally escapes in a spectacular manner with Marion, leaving father and the dog to fight it out.
- Jack Howard, a typical American boy, is addicted to reading literature of the yellow-backed variety, despite the admonitions of his father. One day he dozes off to sleep, after devouring a thrilling story of the sea. The story of his dream is told in detail. While walking on the dock he is seized upon by some sailors and shanghaied in the most approved manner, being taken aboard a ship bound on a long cruise. He is secreted and overhears a plot of the sailors to mutiny, seize the ship and sail to a desert island in search of a treasure. One of the sailors produces a chart of the island and the tars leave the forecastle. Jack comes on, takes possession of the paper and is joined by the winsome daughter of the captain. It is a case of love at first sight. He shows her the chart and she takes him to her father, where he discloses the plot of the mutineers. The desperate men attack the captain and the loyal members of the crew and there is a fierce fight. Jack saves the captain's daughter, who escapes with him in the garb of a boy. They take possession of a small boat and put to sea, where they are captured by pirates. The sex of the girl is discovered, but Jack secures immunity for himself and fair companion by showing the pirates the chart of the treasure island. The pirates go to the island, taking Jack and the girl with them, unearth the treasure and are jubilant, but their joy is short-lived, as they are in turn set upon by another gang of pirates and the struggle is a bloody one. Jack and the girl are subsequently rescued from the pirates by the father of the girl and his gallant crew and taken aboard his ship together with the treasure, which is Jack's by right of having the chart. Jack asks the captain for the hand of the daughter and the mariner is only too pleased at the prospect of the union. They are wed and Jack awakens to find it all a dream and he is in despair. His reflections are rudely broken into by his father, who hauls him out of the garret and sets him at the irksome task of sawing wood.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of an attempt on the part of Duncan to force his unwelcome attentions on Polly. He is soundly thrashed by Tom and vows vengeance. The wedding of Tom and Polly occurs and Bert, evidently penitent, congratulates them, assuming a friendship that is feigned. With the marriage of the couple, Bert takes to strong drink and becomes reckless. Polly and her father are about to go on a fishing trip. Rom asks to accompany the girl and the old man assents. They sail away, happy and contented. A furious storm arises and the ocean is lashed into a fury. Night approaches and the fishing smack does not return. The old lighthouse keeper is apprehensive. He starts to the lighthouse to light the beacon. Bert has been drinking heavily and he conceives a devilish scheme to wreak vengeance on his successful rival. He will go to the tower and tamper with the light, hoping Tom and his bride, unable to get their bearings in the storm, will go ashore on the treacherous rocks. He ascends the steps of the base of the light and is confronted with the keeper. He must prevent the old man form ascending the tower and, after resorting to the bottle, he struggles with the aged keeper. There is a violent fight and old Nat, endowed with a strength that is almost superhuman, when he thinks of the peril of his daughter, overpowers the desperate young man and staggers up the stairs and lights the lamp. The fishing boat is shown in the terrible storm. The lights of the tower flash out across the waters, showing the haven of safety. Bert, enraged beyond reason, at his failure, staggers out of the lighthouse and, endeavoring to reach the mainland, falls off the walk and is drowned. His descent down the lighthouse steps is spectacular, falling and rolling down the steps in his mad fury. The storm continues and the ocean is shown with the waves running mountain high. The villagers congregate on the beach, praying for the safe return of the fishing smack. Finally, the waves having subsided, the boat is shown, making a landing with Polly and Tom safe, to the joy of their friends, the old father being conscious that his struggle with the younger man was not in vain.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- Maude is a hero-worshiper. She loves Artie all right, but he is not just her ideal. She has her dream shattered when Artie evinces cowardice over a trivial matter and Maude is indignant. She tells him to get out and do things. Artie plans a coup by bribing a prize fighter to allow him to beat him up. He makes the affair entirely too realistic and the "pug" turns in and wallops him good and plenty. Artie is once more in disgrace but not out of the running. He has another brilliant idea, and to plan is to execute. He visits the home of Maude disguised as a burglar and robs her of her jewels. Quickly changing his attire, he appears in his proper person and the girl tells him of her loss, being terrified. By dint of quick changes, thanks to a costumer, Artie chases the supposed burglar about the place and finally ends it by presenting to Maude her jewels and the outer garments of the burglar as proof of his bravery and prowess just as her parents return from the opera and share in his glory. Artie has made it good and strong by shooting a hole through his hat and Maude is satisfied that he is a real man. She throws herself into his arms, radiantly happy that she has discovered her ideal, a hero who has covered himself with glory.
- A happy young couple are Guy Judson and his wife Dora, until she receives a letter from her parents advising her that her father is going to call for her to take her on a little excursion. When her father arrives, she joyfully greets him and quickly getting ready, goes away with him, but leaves behind her, in the spirit of fun, a little note for Guy. And therein begins the trouble. The note simply announces the fact that she has "gone away with a handsome man." Guy finds the note and immediately goes out of his head. He rushes to the nearest detective agency for assistance in recovering his spouse. Now, it happens that Abel Sharpe, as alleged detective, who has been refused employment by the manager of the agency, has sneaked into the office and made himself the possessor of a badge and is seated in the manager's chair when Guy arrives. To him Guy pours out his woes and is assured of his help at once. Taking from a box a lot of wigs, beards, etc., Abel accompanies Guy to his home and begins operations. Going forth he constantly changes his disguises and drags into Guy's house every young woman he meets, only to be told that he has the wrong woman. He seizes one girl at the railroad station about to get into a train, catches another one on the street and finally arrests Guy's colored cook as she leaves the front gate for an airing. Guy at last becomes so enraged that he kicks Abel about the room and leaves in disgust. Then all of Abel's victims, accompanied by a policeman, arrive on the scene and what is left of him is taken to a police station. After all the excitement is over, Dora arrives with her father and is kissing him farewell, when Guy enters and is about to attack the papa-in-law, when he discovers in time who the "handsomer man" really is and laughing heartily at his ludicrous mistake, he explains matters and describes his horrible sensations of the afternoon.
- In response to Lincoln's call for troops at the outset of the Civil War, Bill and Jim Clark leave for the front with the consent and blessing of their mother. The brothers take an affectionate farewell of their mother and sister, Louise and Anna. Their regiment is reviewed by President Lincoln and the soldiers march away with buoyant spirits and with loyal hearts. The story reverts to the front, after a battle scene, within the Union lines, the brother in the country of the enemy. They are doing picket duty, stationed on an outpost. They meet at the end of their rounds and Andrew Down, a rebel sharpshooter, comes upon them stealthily. He takes careful aim and shoots. Jim falls, apparently dead. Bill looks upon the body of his brother and is obsessed with rage and grief. Forgetting everything else in the knowledge that his brother has fallen, he dashes after the rebel. Dowd drops his gun and takes to his heels. Endowed with super-human strength Bill gains on Dowd, bent on revenge, and the race is a highly excited one. With strength almost spent Bill reaches Dowd, but catches hi foot under a root and falls. Dowd quickly turns and makes him his prisoner, securing his gun and covering him with the weapon. At this moment a detail of Union soldiers are seen coming towards them, and Dowd gives Bill to understand that if he will protect him, he will not shoot. Bill promises, and Dowd returns his gun. Bill threatens to shoot anyone who lays a hand on Dowd, claiming him as his prisoner. Dowd, a prisoner, repentant for shooting Jim, asks permission to nurse the brother, which is granted, and he gives him every attention. An order is brought for Jim to be sent home as he is convalescing, and at the same time Dowd is exchanged among other prisoners. Dowd expresses a desire to accompany Jim home safely and he is given the privilege. Jim and Dowd take an affectionate leave of Bill and starts north. Arriving at the Clark home the handsome young rebel makes a favorable impression notwithstanding the fact that he is an enemy and is responsible for the condition of Jim. Two weeks later Louise Clark and Andrew Dowd, the rebel, are discovered in the garden of the Clark grounds confessing their love for each other, the old, old story. Dowd takes leave of the Clark family and goes to join his regiment. He promises to return at the close of the war and claim Louise, and the scene of parting at the well is very affectionate. The story reverts to the time of peace after the war, the Fourth of July. The family is reunited. Jim, Bill and Down having returned alive. Dowd and his wife, Louise, and their children visit the Clark home. The children are given some fireworks and they start to fire them off. Jim goes to the flagpole in the yard and commences to hoist the Union flag. As the stars and stripes flutter in the breeze, Dowd turns to his relatives and, with his arm around his wife, exclaims, "This is our flag now." They cheer the flag, shake hands with the former rebel and the story closes with a display of fireworks to celebrate the occasion.
- Two sweethearts have a misunderstanding over pressed roses and pressed pants.
- Jimmie Keene is an ardent devotee of the manly art of self-defense and never misses a boxing match when he can help it. Jimmie's father, however, being a deacon in the church naturally frowns upon such affairs, regarding them as brutal and demoralizing. Jimmie buys a ticket for an exhibition of this nature, but in rushing out of the house to attend it, he drops his ticket and leaves without it. The ticket is picked up by the maid, who hands it to Deacon Keene, who regards it with horror. Jimmie returns in search of the lost pasteboard and finds that his father has it. The deacon starts to reprove Jimmie, but the latter turns defeat into victory, by persuading his father to accompany him and judge with his own eyes whether or not boxing exhibitions are a pernicious form of amusement. At the height of the "star bout," when everyone is yelling at the top of his lungs, even including Deacon Keene, who is thoroughly enjoying himself, the place is raided by the police. Jimmie and his father make a tolerable "getaway" down the fire escape, but are closely pursued by a persistent officer, who would certainly have "landed" the deacon had not Jimmie displayed some of his science and "handed" him and uppercut, which sent the policeman "to the mat," where he "took the count." Father and son arrive at their own garden wall and are just clearing it, when the officer overtakes them and making a grab at Jimmie, tears off a piece of his coat. When the policeman tries to follow them, he is stopped by the large and healthy family watchdog, and remains to argue the matter with him. When the fugitive arrives in the house, Elsie, Jimmie's sister, who is "wise" to the whole thing, assists Jimmie in disguising himself in the maid's clothes. The policeman, having pacified "Hector," enters and demands the surrender of the individual who has resisted arrest by knocking him down. Deacon Keene, who is found busily reading a deeply religious book and nursing a black eye, is surprised at the intrusion and denies knowledge of anything. The officer searches the house and finds the torn coat, which matches the piece of goods he still holds and insists upon an explanation. Then Jimmie appears as the maid, and by his coquettish arts wins the attention of the representative of the law to such an extent that he completely forgets his mission and being escorted to the kitchen, divides his time between drinking a bottle of beer and making love to the attractive domestic. He finally leaves, escorted to the back gate by Jimmie. When Jimmie returns to the library, he falls into his father's arms, who embraces him warmly. Jimmie's mother then appears, and is horrified at seeing her staid old husband in such a familiar attitude with a strange maid-servant. But the deacon laughs and says, as his son removes his false hair and cap, "Why, it's only Jimmie, having a little fun."
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
- A framed inventor flees to England and catches a spy at Epsom.
- Fanchon is a fascinating little girl, the grandchild of Mother Fadet, who is suspected of witchery by the people among whom she lives. At the opening of the story Mother Fadet is being attacked by a crowd led by Father Barbaud, the father of Landry and Didier, his twin sons; the former, a handsome and bright lad, the latter a little weak and foolish. The old woman is about to be beaten when Fanchon arrives, and she also is beset by the men and both are in danger, until Landry appears on the scene and upbraids the mob. He is attracted by the beauty of the little madcap, who thanks him as he leaves her. The foolish Didier is in love with Madelon, the belle of the village, who scorns him, and who is in love with the handsome brother. Didier is heartbroken and tells them he is going to commit suicide. He rushes away but is prevented from carrying out his intention by Fanchon, who follows him until he, tired, falls asleep in a clump of bushes. Landry seeks everywhere for his brother, even asking aid of the witch. She refuses to assist him, but meeting Fanchon, he asks for her help. This she promises if he will agree to dance whatever dance she may select at the fete to be held the next day. He, anxious to find his brother, consents, and she leads him to the spot where Didier sleeps. The next day while the festivities are in progress, Fanchon, dressed in the old-fashioned clothes of her grandmother, appears and demands her dance with Landry. This he is dancing with Madelon, but being a man of his word, he asks her to excuse him and then takes Fanchon as his partner. Madelon, angered at the manner in which Landry has treated her, tells the others that Fanchon has bewitched him by the aid of a witch's claw she always wears round her neck in a bag. She incites the mob, and they attack Fanchon, demanding to see the contents of the bag. This she hands to Landry, who reads on the paper "The Prayer of the Pure Maiden to the Holy Mother of Grace." Abashed, the mob leave the unhappy girl, who rushes home and tears off the clothes which she feels are the cause of her misery. To get away from Landry, whom she now loves, she accepts an offer to go to the city, although he begs her to remain and marry him. Later the grandmother dies and appoints Landry's father as her guardian. She returns to her home and going to Father Barbaud asks him if he will accept the charge. At first he refuses, but realizing that the happiness of his son depends upon his marriage to the now demure Fanchon, he consents, and the formerly despised madcap has the pleasure of being begged by the old gentleman to marry his son. Needless to say she does.
- Jack Haskins and Jim Darrow are rivals for the hand of Bess Kemp. Haskins is the favored suitor, whereat Darrow is furious. Fort Sumter is fired upon and there is a call for volunteers. A company is formed and Jack Haskins is made captain. Dave, the brother of Bess, has enlisted as a drummer boy. Jim Darrow applies and is duly made a member of the company. The scene reverts to the front with Jack and a small body of men fighting desperately to hold an outpost against the onslaught of the enemy. Jim Darrow is dispatched with an order for reinforcements. At a lonely spot on the road, he reads the note and conceives a plot to humiliate Jack. He forges a dispatch ordering Jack to retreat. Jack does so, with little Dave by his side. A shell explodes near them and the arm of Jack is torn off and Dave receives a mortal wound. Jack is in the act of placing the order in his pocket when he is struck by the missile, but it drops to the ground. The boy staggers towards him and, in a dazed condition, places the dispatch in his pocket, being unable to reach Jack, and falls dead. Jack, recovered from his wound, with an empty sleeve, is summoned before his superior officers, courtmartialed and sent home, branded as a coward on the evidence of Jim. The scene reverts to the north. An officer brings the coat and cap worn by Dave to Bess and gives her a letter from Jack, who writes that he has been proven a coward and releases her from their engagement. Twenty years have now passed. It is Memorial Day and the Union survivors of the war are having their annual parade. In her home Bess, now a saddened unmarried woman, sees the old soldiers march past. She gets the clothing of her dead brother to wave out of the window and the forged dispatch drops out of the pocket where it has lain so long. She reads with dilated eyes and then rushes to the street. Jack is surprised to find his old comrades at his window yelling for him to come out. He is told the forged dispatch has been found which proves his innocence. He rushes from his house to clasp Bess in his arms and to be placed at the head of the soldiers, in command. Three rousing cheers are given for Captain Jack Haskins and the old veterans march away. The closing scene is at the cemetery with Jack and Bess decorating the grave of Dave, with the grizzled veterans in the background.
- Mrs. Harry Hawkins has the ill fortune to drop her chain purse on the street and the still greater misfortune to have it picked up by Cyril Percy, who returns it to her in a most gushing manner. After she has thanked him and turned to walk away, he gazes at her receding form, enraptured by her appearance and straight-way follows her. When she reaches her home, he again accosts her, but she escapes him by running into the house and slamming the door in his face. Cyril, however, belongs to the persistent and irrepressible order of mashers, and so running around the house and climbing up onto a snowbank, he peers into a window, and seeing her inside telling her trouble to Molly, the maid, he raises the window and entering the room, rushes to her side and declares his undying affection for her. She beats a hasty retreat, ordering Molly to show him the door. He is not at all discouraged by his reception, but handing Molly a liberal tip, begs her to secrete him somewhere until he has the opportunity of meeting his inamorata again. Molly puts him in a large closet and then, looking out of the window, sees her sweetheart, Mike Dugan, a second-rate heavyweight prize fighter. She invites him in and explains the situation to him and asks him to throw the unwelcome visitor out of the house. Before, however, she can tell him where Cyril is concealed, she is called from the room. Then Harry Hawkins, the husband, who has been away on a trip, arrives home and as he answers to the description of Cyril, Mike "gets busy" and with a mighty lift, shoots Hawkins through the window onto the snowbank. Mrs. Hawkins and Molly then enter and Mike tells them that he has done what he was requested to do. Mrs. Hawking is delighted and thanking him heartily, she rewards him by giving him a bill of a large denomination. The three of them leave the room. Poor Hawkins has by this time gathered himself together and returned to the house, where he meets Cyril, who has come from the closet. Cyril is busy explaining that he has called on business, when Mike re-enters the room, and while Cyril again returns to his closet, seizes Hawkins and once more fires him from the window. Hawkins is again entering the front door when he meets the expressman with his trunk and quickly unpacking it, he gets into it and orders the man to deliver him inside. His orders are obeyed and he once more finds himself back in the room. As he starts to raise the lid, he hears someone coming and lets it fall back into place. Mrs. Hawkins, Molly and Mike are entering the room just as the lid falls and thinking the ubiquitous Cyril is concealed in the trunk, Mike picks it up and hurls it from the window and Hawkins again lands on the snowbank. Then Mike recalls the expressman and orders him to take the trunk away. Hawkins falls through the bottom of the trunk and again braves the front door. No sooner does Mike see him than he seizes him and is proceeding to shake the life out of him, when Mrs. Hawkins rushes to the rescue and explains matters. Then Cyril, the unsuppressible, peers curiously and cautiously from his hiding place and, well, he also goes flying through the window, propelled by the united efforts of Mike and Hawkins, and peace at last spreads her wings over the home of the Hawkinses.
- Dorothy is beloved by Dick and Paul, who are both persistent in their attentions. Dorothy is apparently unable to decide between them and is quite perplexed. She has been impartial in her favors, but the young men press her for an answer. She is walking alone when she passes the residence of a fortune teller and is possessed of a happy thought. She will consult the seeress as a way out of her dilemma. She goes in and crosses the palm of the delver into the past and future and is enlightened. Dick sees her enter the house and, surmising her mission, gains admission to an adjoining room by bribing the woman in waiting. He hears the instructions of the fortune teller, who informs the girl that if she will rise at midnight, descend the stairs in her sleeping robe, walk a certain number of steps, turn the required number of times, and hold a candle to the mirror, she will see the face of the man she is destined to marry. Dick is made acquainted with this by listening at the keyhole and is elated. At midnight he gains entrance to the home of Dorothy by adopting heroic measures, climbing the porch like an ordinary burglar. Paul discovers his actions and, under the impression that Dick is about to circumvent him in some way, summons a policeman and they enter the house. In the meantime, Dick clad in his stocking feet, has taken a position near the mirror to await the coming of Dorothy, who soon puts in an appearance. She follows the instruction of the seeress to the letter, with Dick, jubilant, imitating her movements. She gazes in the mirror, and the fortune teller builded better than she knew, for the face of Dick is photographed on the mirror. Dorothy turns and is too quick for Dick, and his little ruse is discovered. The humor of the situation dawns on the girl and, of course, Dick is forgiven for his deception, just as Paul and the policeman break into the scene. By bribing the officer, Dick turns the attentions of that worthy on Paul and the copper marches off with the lover who lost, and there is a pretty scene in which Dorothy and Dick are the principals. Dorothy pleased at her choice and Dick radiantly happy at the result of his little strategy.
- King Drake has the automobile craze, and announces to his fellow-boarders that he is about to buy a car. He tells his sweetheart Jane Gallup that he will invite her to drive with him down Fifth Avenue and, left alone in the parlor, they take an imaginary joy-ride, King using a stool as a steering wheel. Ned Roarer, the floorwalker, is trying to sleep in his room above the parlor and bangs his shot on the floor. In spite of this protest and a further protest on the part of the landlady, King and Jane kept right on with their noisy "automobiling." After bidding Jane goodnight, King goes to his room and writes a letter to an automobile manufacturer, ordering a new car on time payments and enclosing $1.00. The new auto arrives a few days later. King looks it over, and tries to regulate and start it according to the instructions in the book of rules provided by the manufacturer. The car starts unexpectedly and King and Jane run after it. During the preliminary try-out, the car stops dead and King gets underneath to see what the trouble is. After righting matters, he rides off with Jane to meet with all sorts of trouble before he gets the hang of manipulating the steering apparatus. Getting too confident of his newly acquired skill as a chauffeur, he is warned by Jane that he will be arrested for speeding. But his speeding doesn't last long, as he loses control and the car, owing to his faulty steering, begins to skid backwards. After managing to stop the car, King and Jane consult the book of rules to ascertain the cause of the reverse action. King inspects the feed tank, but something goes wrong in the works, resulting in a terrific explosion. After a while, King picks himself up, looking like a tramp and aching from head to foot. He looks around for Jane and picks her up on the adjacent rocks in a most woebegone condition. Giving Jane a sympathetic kiss, he looks up and spies the remains of the auto smoldering in the branches of a tree.
- The sailor-men patronize the saloon kept by Portuguese Joe and his pretty wife and they put it over the simple dago in a peculiarly sailor-like fashion. They get their drinks and are not willing to pay. One day one of them carried the scheme so far as to get a drink on the nod and then to swallow the contents of the glass, into which he had poured a white powder that he carried with him. Feigning death, he was dragged out of the hotel by Joe, who was alarmed lest the police should appear and a dead drunk be found on the premises. So Joe put the man on the street. Several of the sailor-men habitues seeing the powder, tasted it and finding it only sugar, pointed out how Joe had been stung. Joe's little wife, like himself, conceived a suspicion of sailor-men in future and Joe thereafter was more careful of his naval guests.
- James Ford, the western representative of a big concern, receives word that M. Hatton, a clerk, is coming and that he shall be given a desk. Ford, who has been carrying on some, crooked work, treats the new clerk with scant courtesy. Working in the office is Ruth Chalmers, and Ford makes love to her. One day she notices Ford pouring some liquid over the papers in the wastebasket. He then sends them all from the room. Ruth, returning, notices smoke coming from the keyhole and sends in an alarm. When the men rush into the place it is found that some of the books have been destroyed. Ruth tells Hatton about the liquid. That night Ford asks Ruth to work; she dares not refuse. Hatton comes back to the office to find Ruth fighting for her honor. Ford is angry, and discharges Ruth, telling Hatton that the head office will take care of him. Taking some marked bills from the safe, he places them in Hatton's desk and then brings the officers to arrest him. Hatton then causes the arrest of Ford, for Hatton is the head of the concern and has found the evidence of fraud that they sought.
- Mrs. Phillips sent her confidential business man a parcel of bonds to deposit in a safe place. Mr. Forbes, the gentleman in question, was about to put them in a safe when an interruption took him from the room and the precious papers found their way into the wastebasket and subsequently into the trash barrel outside. A detective is called in and his investigation turns up some cigar ash and he concludes that the man who smokes this kind of cigar must be the recipient or custodian of the lost bonds. The detective following up this clue examines the cigars smoked by a great many persons, much to their discomfiture and his own inconvenience. Finally, he comes across a policeman smoking the identical brand of cigar and this fact leads to the discovery that the lost documents are concealed in the policeman's hat, the same being placed there by his sweetheart, the cook, who thinks the hat too large to be becoming and thus pads it out sufficiently for a good fit. The cigar ash proved the right clue which led to the recovery of the documents and their return to the proper owner.
- Norman Duncan, a civil engineer in the employ of the United States government, loves Elinor Williams and they are happy in their plighted troth. Duncan is ordered to the Philippines to take charge of some important work and takes an affectionate leave of his sweetheart to whom he promises to be faithful. We see him arrive at his destination, and take in the tropical surroundings. The young engineer is red blooded and human. He finds time hanging heavily on his hands and seeks diversion. He finds it in Lola, a beautiful Filipino girl, with Juno-like form and handsome face. She gives him a passing glance and Duncan is interested. He seeks the girl, and she is not averse to the attentions of the handsome young man from the states. Petro, her lover, takes in the situation, which bodes no good for the interloper. Lola and Duncan meet and the love affair is progressing beyond his fondest expectations. Returning from his foray into the swamps one day, Duncan is stricken with the deadly fever. He is overcome and his companions desert him, fearing the contagion. Lola finds him and, braving the ravages of the disease, assists him away. This episode is witnessed by the jealous native lover, who curses them, hoping his fickle sweetheart and her lover will both succumb to the dread fever. We see Lola nursing Duncan back to life and health, faithful in her duties as a nurse, and glorious in her satisfaction of saving the life of the man whom she loves with all the passion of the Latin women. Slowly Duncan regains his strength and we see him emerge from the hut supported by the faithful Lola. He is seated out of doors, when Petro appears and is surprised to see him alive. Stung to desperation in his jealousy, Petro steals up and is about to plunge a knife into Duncan's back, when the girl throws herself upon him, wrests the knife from his grasp and sends it spinning into the foliage. Petro and Duncan grapple, when a priest providently makes his appearance and Petro desists with an abject apology. In a few words, the situation is explained to the man of God, who with a keen discernment of right, inquires of the young engineer as to his intentions towards the native girl. He sternly insists that honorable union can be the only result of their relations. Duncan ponders and then his better nature asserts itself, and he assents to the marriage. The ceremony is performed. Later, Duncan, in the garb of a Filipino, is seated in his yard. His boy, the result of the marriage, comes to him. An American appears and questions Petro, who is standing near. The stranger inquires for Duncan and Petro, alert, his jealousy having not abated by the marriage of Duncan and Lola, points to Duncan. There is a recognition. Duncan is pleased to welcome his friend. He is informed that Elinor the sweetheart whom he left in the state, is outside the gate. Duncan is overjoyed. Elinor runs to him and there is a happy reunion. He is holding her in his arms when Lola approaches, terrified at the sight. She understands and humble makes her way to Duncan's side. He sees her and is racked with conflicting emotions. His wife and sweetheart, which? Sorrowfully he breaks the intelligence to Elinor, who stands aghast. She understands. The woman he has sworn to love and cherish holds out her arms to him. The girl, to whom he plighted his troth, assumes the same attitude, less demonstrative. Elinor sorrowfully walks away, and Duncan seats himself in anguish and then takes Lola in his arms and she is supremely happy and Duncan is content, a manly man.
- The scene opens at the termination of a dance where the Duke of Chatmoss is supported by his nephew and his daughter to the throne, the daughter occupying the place of honor by his side. One of the court maids approaches and the Duke's nephew, Edward, falls in love with her instantly, and his love is reciprocated. The aged Duke notes the beautiful maiden and is also smitten by her charms. In his infatuation he sends his hunch-backed serf to her apartment commanding her immediate appearance before him. The cunning hunchback discovers that his master has been forestalled by the nephew, who is the accepted lover of Irma, the maid. His master, the Duke, is apprised of this fact, and when the girl appears before the Duke the old gallant immediately overwhelms her with his attentions, but she, in her righteous indignation, repulses him. The Duke is wrathy, and in his rage vows to win the frightened girl. She runs immediately to Edward and tells him of the occurrence. Edward is indignant and strides into the presence of his uncle, the Duke, demanding an explanation. There is a war of words, the nephew and the Duke growing excited, the hunchback fearing harm to himself stands aside with a drawn sword. The Duke coolly tells Edward he must renounce all hope of winning the maid. Angered to desperation, Edward draws his sword to attack the Duke, but is prevented by the hunchback. The Duke summons the guard and commends them to disarm his nephew and take him to the dungeon and torture him. To add to the cruelty of his purpose, the Duke has Irma seized, and taken to the cell where Edward is confined, and there a mock trial is held, and the nephew ordered to the torture chamber. During the time of the torture the hunchback is pacing quickly to and fro between the dungeon, reception room and the girl's chamber. The Duke in forms Irma that the price of the lover's life is herself. She refuses, and the trap-door is opened, showing the agonized girl her lover on the rack, being seared and tortured. She consents to sacrifice herself and the torture ceases. The Duke is satisfied at the result of his diabolical method of winning the girl. The hunchback is commanded to bring the girl to the bed-chamber of the Duke. Irma left alone in a fit of desperation, sears her face with a red-hot poker, horribly disfiguring her beautiful face. She accompanies the hunchback into the presence of the amorous old Duke, wearing a veil. The Duke lifting the veil is horrified at the face of the woman, who was once so beautiful. He renounces all pursuit of her and consents his nephew to appear in the audience chamber, where Irma is still veiled. The Duke announced to Edward that he must marry her, being possessed of the idea that the girl will be cast aside by Edward when he gazes on her once-beautiful face. Edward is all too willing, and raising the veil is shocked at the result of her sacrifice, but draws her towards him in a fond, loving embrace and leads her away; loving her in spite of her blemished face.
- O'Flaherty, the liveryman, Zeke Buggins, the cobbler, Swartzmeyer, the butcher, Luigi Napoli, the barber, and Cohen, the tailor, decide to have a fire department in a small community and meet at Cohen's tailor shop and draw straws to elect a chief. A small child's broom suffices for all, but Cohen steals a wisp of straw from a large kitchen broom, and so wins the coveted position. Rules and regulations are drawn up on a union scale. They cannot work as firemen after 6 o'clock, nor can they attend a fire without uniforms. A fire occurs, and they forget to put a hose in the wagon, and when arriving at the fire they find they have forgotten the ladders, and while a woman is screaming for aid from the top floor they stand in front of the burning building discussing who has the right to save her. The German suggests a game of seven-up, and they adjourn to a neighboring saloon, and Mr. Cohen wins. They hasten back as heroes to save the woman, who in the meantime has left the burning building. As Cohen mounts the ladder with the hose the bell strikes 5 o'clock, and as union men they knock off and go home. No other fires occur, but Mr. Cohen, wishing to win distinction for his office, makes a bonfire of a few leaves, and while his son sounds the fire alarm he extinguishes the little blaze. When the admiring villagers rush up they hail Chief Cohen as the very prince and paragon of fire fighters.
- A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
- Morgan and Blevin fight when Morgan refuses to open the safe, and in the fight Morgan is killed. Placing the gun in Morgan's hand, Blevin removes the typewriter ribbon from the machine, fastens the key to the end of it, and throws it over the transom, leaving the other end fastened under a paper weight. He then goes out, locks the door, and slipping the key on the ribbon sends it back in the room, then pulls the ribbon out. The chief of police puts Halsey on the case, as he does not believe it is suicide. Taking a new typewriter ribbon, Halsey goes to a Chinese joint where crooks and murderers usually hang out. Here he finds Blevin, who has just informed the political boss, whose tool he is, that he has killed Morgan. Halsey flirts with the waitress, and orders a bowl of soup. Placing in it a typewriter ribbon, he sends it to Blevin. The crook is startled, and looks in his own pocket where he has the other typewriter ribbon concealed. Blevin tells the other crooks to get Halsey while he makes his escape; but Halsey returns with some policemen and a fight ensues, the result of which is that Blevin, the boss, and the girl are captured.
- Gerald Mortimer, a tourist in the Far East, steals a ruby from a temple. He sails on a liner bound for New York. Mortimer is troubled with his heart and in addition is frightened by the fact he is being followed by two Orientals. An evening later he dies in his deck chair after giving the ruby to Watson, a friend. Watson arrives in New York. He visits his sweetheart, Margaret, and shows her the stone, telling of his adventure. As he talks his gaze wanders to the window; he observes two eyes fastened upon him. Snatching the ruby from Margaret, Watson leaves. On his way home he narrowly escapes death by some falling bricks. Arriving home, he finds his butler transfixed with terror. Unable to get a rational explanation, he retires to his room and turns down the lights. The door opens; he sees two eyes looking at him from the foot of the bed. He fires, but the eyes remain. Watson turns on the lights; no one is present. The next morning. Watson tells two friends who call, about the ruby. One of them, Prince, determines to get the ruby for himself. An evening later Watson, his sweetheart and Prince go to the café. Margaret wears the ruby. During the evening the lights are suddenly turned off; there is a wild scramble. When the lights are turned on, Margaret has disappeared along with the ruby. Watson rushes to his home. Meantime the Orientals get Margaret to their room, but to their astonishment the ruby is not on her breast. Where it lay is a red mark. They then force her to telephone to Watson, asking him to come to her assistance. Watson is trapped. Both prisoners assert they know nothing of the ruby. The Orientals then use their occult power, a vision is presented and in it they see one of the friends, Prince, snatching the ruby as the lights turn off in the café. The Oriental priests visit Prince in his home and after a terrific fight manage to take the stone from him. They then return to their rooms. Watson, in the meantime, manages to phone the police. However, the priests manage to escape with the ruby. Watson and Margaret are set free. The last scene shows a vision of the temple and the ruby being restored.
- Mrs. Stanhope, a widow in embarrassing circumstances, urges her daughter Helen to marry wealthy broker Anthony Stuart, but she refuses. The next day Helen meets millionaire Bruce Marsden at the golf links, and there is a mutual attraction. In a month their engagement is announced, and before they are married, Marsden transfers his Mesupa copper stock to Helen. The broker who has Marsden's stock is losing his own Transcontinental holdings and in order to raise money, gives his client's shares as security. But the market goes down and the broker loses everything, including Marsden's stock. Notwithstanding this, Helen marries the ruined millionaire. Helen's mercenary mother is greatly perturbed at the turn of events, and persuades Stuart to try and win Helen from her husband. Stuart's plans formulated, he gives Marsden a position in his office, and begins to lavish his attentions on Helen, who refuses to have anything to do with him. Failing in this he sends Marsden out of town on business while he invites Helen and her mother to a fashionable affair. At her mother's instigation, Helen purchases an expensive gown on credit and attends the society function, where she is later trailed by her husband, who returned from his trip sooner than he expected. Becoming suspicious of his wife, Marsden secretly watches her, and when she and Stuart leave in the latter's car he does not let them get out of his sight. The car breaks down and Stuart takes Helen to a roadhouse cafe. Marsden then appears, denounces his wife, and leaves the employ of Stuart, getting work elsewhere. Mesupa stock, meanwhile, due to the finding of ore, has gone up. Stuart starts to buy so heavily it is reported that he is trying to corner the copper market. When the stock reaches 104. Marsden, through his lawyer, Roger Murdock, in whose office Helen has found employment, swamps the market with his stock which brings the selling price down to 71¾. Stuart is finally ruined, and after an explanation from Helen, husband and wife are reconciled.
- The son of a poor inn keeper decides to leave his home to seek his fortunes in a foreign clime. Bidding his mother good-bye, she puts a locket around his neck as a remembrance. Tears roll by and the folks have not heard from their son. In the meantime, the son has struck it rich, but he has neglected his parents, and in a quiet moment, he remembers the locket his mother gave him. He desires to return home, but to surprise his parents, he writes them he is coming home poor instead of rich. Tears have changed his appearance and on his return his parents do not recognize him. He rents a room from them without telling who he is. In paying for his room, he shows a large sum of money, which tempts the mother to steal, so she can have money to welcome her poor son's return. She enters his room and kills him. She then discovers it was her own son by the locket hanging around his neck. The sheriff arrives and takes her away. While pleading with the sheriff, she awakes and finds it all a dream. The son comes down and tells her who he is.
- The indolent, thriftless black sheep of the family, the good-for-nothing son of a rich banker, this is the young man we see bothering his busy brother, who is disgusted with the doings of the drunken ne'er-do-well, and leaves him alone in the room. Notwithstanding the entreaties of his two pretty sisters, he fills himself with liquor from a flask and stumbles out to meet his cronies. They all imbibe freely at a fashionable café, and the young man starts home at dawn. He fumbles at the lock, and when he finally gets into the library he surprises two burglars at work. There is a quick scuffle, after which the cracksmen escape, leaving the stupefied young man alone. The commotion has awakened the family, and the black sheep stands before them with all the circumstances pointing to him as a thief in the family. This is the last straw to the suffering father and brother, and they bid him leave the house forever. He bows to the inevitable, kisses his sisters good-bye, and goes forth with heavy step. Fate has ordained that men be not the masters of their destinies, and the fortunes of the father, in the course of years, turn unfavorably. The stock market has taken his all: his home is sold over his head, and in a last effort to recoup he appeals to his good son. Whether it is "the iniquities of the father" we cannot say, but the son he had so lovingly reared turns against him at the crucial moment, and he returns to his now squalid home and his hard-working daughters. Meanwhile the fortunes of the black sheep have taken him to the golden west and in years of labor he has struck it rich. We now see him selling his claim, and he comes home. To his great surprise his father's house holds a new tenant, and he hears of the ill-fortune that befell him. Very unhappy, he begins to walk toward another section of the city, when a little girl selling newspapers accosts him. No, he doesn't want a paper, but he pities her, and reaching down for some change, takes one look at the face, it's his own little sister! It is better that we should not try to tell in words of how he met his other sister, too: prepared a new home for father, without his knowledge, and conspiring with his sisters had the little family evicted, only to bring them to the new home, where the father, bewildered, learns for the first time of the happy return and regeneration of his son.
- Death reviews the life of a mean, miserly old woman.
- A wife innocently inspires suspicion by generously giving away some money given to her for a hat.
- Philip Kent while at the law office of his friend. Henry Ives, receives news that his wife has given birth to a girl. Suddenly Kent is stricken blind. Specialists are consulted, but they are unable to restore his sight. Taking advantage of her husband's blindness, Mrs. Kent, a frivolous, pleasure loving woman, engages in an open flirtation with Ives. Some years later Ives is in the library when a letter arrives from a noted eye specialist stating that, after a thorough examination, he is convinced Philip will regain his sight. Ives suppresses his letter and makes Philip believe the specialist has reported that he is hopelessly blind. Subsequently Philip's former college chum pays him a visit and induces him to have his eyes treated by a prominent specialist in another city, leaving Mrs. Kent under the impression that he is simply taking Philip on a trip for his health. After Philip has departed, Ives obtains Mrs. Kent's consent to elope with him. The operation proves a success and Philip is no longer blind. Instead of telegraphing the good news to his wife he decides to surprise her. Accordingly he returns home and simulating blindness he "feels" his way with a cane up to the door and is admitted by the maid. Mrs. Kent, accompanied by Ives, comes home with bundles which she has purchased preparatory to her elopement. As she comes into the room Philip is about to jump up to greet her when he sees her kissed by Ives. Philip, still feigning blindness, calls his wife by name and asks her if she is alone. Ives motions to Mrs. Kent to keep silent about his presence, and she replies to Philip, "Why certainly; when did you get home?" Philip feels for his wife's face and his fingers stiffen, as he is tempted to choke her for her deceit, but he controls himself and pats her with seeming affection. A few hours later a boy arrives with a message from Ives requesting Mrs. Kent to be at his apartment at 8 o'clock that evening. Philip rises from his chair, "feels" his way with his cane to where his wife is sitting and reads the message over her shoulder. After packing her grips Mrs. Kent stops at the library to tell Philip that she is going over to a neighbor's house. As soon as she is gone Philip rushes out of the house and is next seen coming through the window portieres of Ives' apartment. He seats himself and waits for Ives, who presently unlocks the door and comes in, expecting to greet Mrs. Kent, when Philip looms up before him. Believing Philip still blind, Ives starts to leave, when Philip points to the adjoining room and says: "She's in there dead." Philip then takes out his watch and calmly announces: "It is now five minutes of 8; at 8 o'clock you will also be dead." Then, without taking his eyes from Ives, he draws a pistol from his pocket and sits down to wait. Ives pleads with Philip. Philip remains silent. Ives clutches at his heart and finally falls dead. Philip then goes to the portieres and leaves the apartment the same way he entered it. Shortly afterwards Mrs. Kent cornea in to keep her appointment with Ives, and seeing her lover lying dead across the table, she staggers into the street. When Philip walks up and laces her on her arrival home she stammers: "You can see." Philip stares at her and fairly hisses: "Yes, I have seen everything that has gone on today." She pleads for mercy, but he is through with her, and as his fingers close on her throat he shouts: "You are too vile to live." "Beauty," their daughter, is awakened by his voice and calls, "Daddy." Philip hears her story in the library. He loosens his hold on his wife's throat and exclaims, pointing to the door: "Go, and never let me see your face again." Then follows a symbolic scene in which the unfaithful wife is seen on the downward path departing over a hill, and as the picture fades out, we see Philip seated in his library, lost in memories of the past.
- When an infirm husband learns of the dire circumstances his wife must endure, he makes every effort to bring himself back to health.
- George Harris determines to escape from his cruel master. One day while he is working with other slaves hauling logs out of a swamp he sneaks away, making his way to the house of George Shelby. Sr., who owns his wife, Eliza, and their child. He bids Eliza good-bye, and leaving, meets his owner, who strikes him with a whip and has him branded. Shelby is in his library when he receives a letter telling him certain notes are due and offering to accept slaves in liquidation. Uncle Tom is working in his yard as Shelby and the lawyer enter. Shelby is compelled to sell Tom and Eliza's child. Eliza, who has overheard the conversation, determines to take her child and escape. She begs Uncle Tom to go with her, but he refuses, telling her he always will be faithful. Next day Eliza's escape is known, and Haley, who has bought her, gets a posse of men and starts to hunt for her. Harris offers a reward for George. George Harris, disguised as a Spaniard, escapes to Ohio, and is recognized by Phineas Fletcher in a bar. He promises to keep his secret. Meanwhile, Eliza is being hunted by men and dogs. George has told Phineas of his wife and child, and he promises to go to her rescue. Reaching a tavern near the river, he sees Eliza running, and hides her in a room while her pursuers are drinking. She gets away with the help of Phineas and joins her husband. Meanwhile Uncle Tom is sold and placed on board a steamer, where he meets Eva. Eva falls overboard and Tom jumps in and saves her. He is thanked by St. Clair, who buys him from Haley. At the St. Clair home Aunt Ophelia arrives and Topsy plays all kinds of tricks on her. St. Clair gives Topsy to Aunt Ophelia, and Tom to Eva. Later Eva falls sick and is dying. She gives a curl of her hair, and he kneels by her bedside. She dies and Tom comforts himself with his Bible. In a saloon Legree argues with another man and is going to shoot him. St. Clair tries to prevent this and is shot himself. Carried to his home, he dies. After his death all the slaves are sold. Including Tom, who is brought along with Emmeline and others by Legree. Legree finds Tom reading his Bible and sneers. Meanwhile, a warrant is issued for the arrest of Legree for the murder of St. Clair. At Legree's plantation Legree pesters Emmeline with his attentions. She rejects him and he has her tied to a post and whipped, to the horror of Uncle Tom, who is told to do the whipping. Tom refuses and is tied up and beaten by Legree himself to such an extent that he is taken away dying. Legree is arrested for the murder of St. Clair, and as Tom dies he sees a vision of Eva holding out her hands.
- Luigi is employed by Cramp, the millionaire contractor. He is a widower and lives alone with his daughter, Rosie. There is a strike and Luigi tries to return to work, but is hustled away by the labor pickets. The strike continues, and Luigi is reduced to abject poverty. Cramp is arrested for stealing a large sum of money, but is treated as a gentleman. Grace, the daughter of the judge, devotes her time to charity in the poor quarters. Luigi and Rosie are freezing and Luigi goes to the railroad yards to pick coal. He is arrested and dragged to jail, leaving Rosie at home waiting for his return, suffering from the cold. He tries to expostulate with the officer but to no avail. Cramp is released on an alibi, while Luigi is sentenced to two years at hard labor. He breaks down, and, wild with rage, he curses the judge and threatens to get even. His sentence is served; he hastens to his late home in search of Rosie, of whom he has heard nothing. He finds the house he lived in occupied by strangers who can tell him nothing of his daughter. He wanders forth on the street asking everyone he meets to tell him of Rosie. He passes the house of the judge and sees the man who sentenced him come out with his daughter. Luigi is possessed of but one idea, to kill the child of the man. That night he gains access to the house. In the bed is the form of a girl. Luigi approaches the bed with drawn knife, stoops over and is about to plunge the knife into the bosom of the sleeper when she awakes, rises and looks at him. It is his daughter, Rosie, who has been cared for by Grace. Luigi drops the knife and takes his beloved Rosie in his arms.
- Ned has just married Arline and they love each other and are very happy. At breakfast he receives a letter in the mail from his old chum Jack, in which the latter says he will arrive in town that day and will visit Ned's office. Arline says she will be glad to meet him. Ned arrives at his office and meets Jack, who has just arrived in town. He leaves his grips at Ned's office and strolls around the town to see the sights. On the streets he flirts with Ned's wife, not knowing who she is, and she has him arrested, not knowing that he is the friend her husband expects. Jack is thrown in a station-house cell and telephones for Ned to bail him out. This is done and they go to Ned's house for dinner. Ned is called back to the office and excuses himself and goes, leaving Jack in the library. Arline returns, and seeing Jack she thinks he has followed her there and gets a policeman, and unfortunate Jack is again dragged to a cell in the same station house. He again telephones for his friend Ned to bail him out; he does and gives him the key to his office, telling him that he should go there and wait until Ned finishes a business deal. Jack goes to the office and waits. Meanwhile, Arline has decided to go to the office and tell her husband all the trouble she had with the awful flirt. She arrives there and seeing Jack she almost faints and the janitor rushes in and wrestles with Jack and they fight until a policeman arrives and drags Jack off to the same police station, where he is thrown into a cell. The desk officer tells him he must have a habit. The husband returns to his office and is again telephoned for and bails Jack out. Outside the station house the husband is roaring with laughter as he asks Jack to come home for supper and to meet his wife. Jack boils over and slamming the husband to the ground he leaves. On the next street a pretty girl tries to flirt with him but he almost collapses, and with a wild shriek runs from her and boards a passing trolley, and is seen no more.
- Mr. and Mrs. Parker leave their apartment to the care of their servants, Riley and his wife, while Mrs. Parker pays an extended visit to her mother, and Mr. Parker makes a business trip. Riley assists at the going away and the furniture is covered with care, he being admonished to take excellent care of the apartments, which he proceeds to do. Riley finds the need of some ready money, and he resolves to turn a penny his way by letting the apartments in the absence of his master and mistress. He tacks up a neat sign and awaits developments. Mr. and Mrs. Strong, strangers in the city, happen to pass, see the sign and make application to Riley for the use of the apartments. Riley is open to a deal and he is paid a month's rent in advance. Mrs. Riley is overjoyed at the arrangement. In the meantime Mrs. Parker's stay is cut short by receiving a telegram from her husband, calling her home. Her arrival is most inopportune. Mr. Strong is seated in Parker's favorite chair and she is overjoyed to see her supported husband. Approaching Mr. Strong, she places her hands over his eyes, and he, thinking it is Mrs. Strong, clasps her to his bosom. To make matters complicated, Mr. Parker and Mrs. Strong happen in at this instant. The man glare at each other, and the woman immediately engage in a hair pulling match. Happily the situation is soon straightened out. The Strongs explain their presence, but the Parkers soon convince them that they have a prior claim on the premises by reason of ownership. Riley is summoned and finds himself in a predicament out of which he emerges somewhat downcast, for he is compelled to return to Strong his rent money and is fired by Mr. Parker.
- Stuart Travers, the son of an American steel magnate, falls in love with Maida, the ward of Count Orloff. The count is the head of a league plotting the destruction of American munition plants. They hold their meetings in a secret circular room which can be entered only by way of a secret panel. At a meeting of the league there is produced a new type of infernal machine with which they hope to destroy the Travers steel plant. A certain Von Tahn, one of the league, is also in love with Maida. He proposes and is furious when she refuses him. Maida then follows Von Tahn to the secret room and while looking for the spring to open the panel she overhears them plotting the ruin of the Travers steel works. When the plotters leave Maida hides in a closet to escape discovery. Just as Von Tahn, the last to leave, is passing the closet Maida drops something and is discovered. Von Than binds her in the circular room and sets the machine for five minutes past nine. He then leaves and overtakes his confederates. When he tells them what he has done they upbraid him and all return. Meanwhile, Maida has managed to knock the receiver off the telephone and phones Stuart to come at once. He rushes to the scene with a policeman and just succeeds in getting Maida out in time. He himself is a trifle too late and is knocked unconscious by the explosion. However, Maida finds him still alive, and as the conspirators are arrested there is no obstacle to their happiness.
- Standing and Hammatt, two young surgeons who have quarreled because Hammatt is a drug fiend, and neglects his business, agree to dissolve partnership. Later they both meet Betty at the home of Willard, who is giving a party. Hammatt, to disgrace Standing, puts dope into his glass. The drug makes him appear intoxicated, and Betty shrinks from him. Willard places Standing on a couch, behind a screen. Hammatt suggests that they play cards. Willard is called to the telephone, and Hammatt takes advantage of his absence to examine his cards. Willard notices that the order of his cards has been changed, and accuses Hammatt of cheating. This leads to a fight, in which Hammatt stabs Willard with a paperknife. Hammatt is about to leave, when the screen falls and he sees Standing on the sofa. He arranges the room to throw suspicion on Standing, and disappears. Standing is arrested. When Betty reads the news of the murder she faints. The jury brings a verdict of guilty against Standing. Later we see Betty visiting him in prison. She begs the warden to allow Standing to visit his dying mother; the warden has to refuse. Standing escapes and is pursued. He reaches the residence of the judge who convicted him. There is a thunderstorm. The judge's daughter is eating plums, and a pit sticks in her throat. She is at the point of suffocation. Standing appears and pleads with the judge to save him as he is innocent of intentional murder. The judge promises to help him if he, as a surgeon, will operate and save his daughter. The judge orders out the guards when they arrive. Standing performs the operation successfully. The judge then sends Standing to his mother's bedside in his auto. Hammatt has been going downhill under the influence of drugs. In a fit of insanity he confesses. Standing and Betty are reunited and his mother recovers.
- Shamus O'Brien was a patriot and in fighting for his country places himself in the position of a rebel with a price on his head. He is hiding in the hills, but anxious to attend a dance, at which his friends and sweetheart will be present, sends word that he will be there. Arrangements are made for the dance, and Shamus surprises the guests by appearing in a surprising manner. Michael O'Farrell, who has not met with success in his suit for the hand of Aileen Brennan, the sweetheart of Shamus, learns of his whereabouts and notifies the Redcoats. They reach the barn, where the dance is taking place, too late to capture the patriot, who escapes to the loft, only to return as the girl of his heart is being insulted by Captain McDonald. O'Brien floors the officer and makes a thrilling escape, only to be again given up by O'Farrell, when he is visiting his mother. He is then taken to prison and stands trial. He is convicted and the day of the execution set. As this draws near, his mother makes a plea to the parish priest for help which is readily given and through a ruse Shamas is saved, and the picture closes as the mother, son and sweetheart sail for America.
- After an accident, a young girl desperately needs a blood transfusion to save her life. A young blacksmith agrees to be the donor and wins her heart as well.