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- Three acts and a prologue. Act 1: A nation falls. Act 2: The heel of the conqueror. Act 3: The uprising two years later.
- When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- The Hon. Archibald Graham is expelled from college and his indignant father sends him to a little English village to study under the Rev. Harry Pemberton. Misunderstood by his father, he has grown up somewhat reckless and dissipated. All this is changed under the tutelage of the minister and he enters into the spirit of his studies with zeal. Effie Pemberton is a young girl of seventeen. She has never been told of the fundamental principles of life and has been brought up in absolute innocence and ignorance of the sex problem. She and Archie become fast friends. Winstanley, a friend of Archie's, comes to the village to visit him. He is a shallow pated youth, with no moral principles. He meets Mary Ann, the daughter of a washwoman in the village. She longs for pretty clothes and all the gaieties she has been denied, and being as innocent of life as Effie, is persuaded by Winstanley to elope to London with him. Archie follows them with the intention of saving her from his friend. In this he fails. He returns to the vicarage early in the morning. Effie, in her innocence, rushes to his room in her kimona, to tell him how glad she is to see him again. He tries to get her out of the room, but she refuses to go. The minister bursts into the room and accuses Archie of evil intentions. Archie, in an honest indignation, tells the minister some wholesome truths about his leaving his daughter in such total ignorance, which opens his eyes. Mary Ann returns home, a wreck of her former self and tells the minister her story. Pemberton and his wife then awake to the fact that girls are more likely to go wrong through innocence than in any other way. Effie is told the great truths of life. Finally Archie and Effie discover that they have been in love and promise to marry.
- An imperious Egyptian princess awakens from a 3000-year trance and wreaks comic havoc in the modern world, but it all turns out to be the dream of a young man, inspired by a mummy left in his care overnight.
- Dorothy Arden is private secretary to Godfrey Lovell, known as the Croesus of Wall Street. His Western partner is Daniel Casselis, who has a daughter named Dorothy. Lovell has a son, Robert, and the two financiers are trying to arrange a match between their children. But Robert falls in love with his father's secretary and marries her, but on returning home to tell dad, he finds that Lovell is ill and has gone on a long sea voyage to recuperate. Bob is sent to Chicago to see Casselis and invite him and his daughter to come on the cruise with Lovell, and Dorothy is greatly distressed at this turn of events. Bob reassures her, however, and still they do not tell his father. Bob meets Miss Casselis on the Limited as she is returning from an Eastern trip and they become friends. Meanwhile, Dorothy has determined to go on the yachting trip, so when the whole party arrive at Frisco Bob finds his wife awaiting them. Many amusing complications occur during the voyage and jealousies are aroused. The yacht anchors off a lonely island in the Pacific and Bob, with the two Dorothys, goes ashore. The yacht is driven out to sea by a terrible storm, leaving the three stranded on the Island of Surprise. Bob is hurt in a terrific landslide and the blow causes him to lose his memory. Dorothy tries in vain to call to mind his marriage to her, and Miss Casselis, thinking Dorothy is merely bluffing, is not to be outdone and claims Bob is her husband. Bob finally settles an uncomfortable situation by telling the women he will simply remain their friend and protector. Meanwhile, the yacht has had to send out a boat for the nearest land, owing to engine trouble, and a man-of-war is met. She is directed to the island, and arrives just in time to drop a shrapnel among a horde of island savages who are attacking the three castaways and just about to annihilate them. Rescued by the navy men, the three castaways are reunited with their party. Bob recovers consciousness and recognizes his wife, and all ends in forgiveness and happiness.
- Edgar Allan Poe, while at college, incurs many debts and is sent home in disgrace. He is ordered from the house by his father. Shortly after, he marries, and tries to make a living by writing, but is a failure financially. His wife dies because he is unable to furnish her with even the bare necessities of life. He is plunged into great grief and despair. All night he sits brooding over his loss. Through his distorted imagination he sees the ominous raven enter his chamber and croak gloomy forebodings. The spirit of his wife also appears and finally he himself dies, and is wafted to heights supernal, where he is united with his "Lenore."
- Who stole "The Millionaire Baby?" Did the plotting Doctor Pool finally accomplish his bold determination? Did Valerie Carew, former Burlesque Queen conquered by Mother-Love seize an advantageous opportunity and steal away her loved one? Did Marion Ocumpaugh have knowledge of Gwendolyn's disappearance? Did Justin Carew, finally recognizing his wife and desiring a reconciliation, see the light and kidnap his own child?
- Enemy agents under the leadership of "Emanon" conspire with pacifists to keep the American defense appropriations down at a time when forces of the enemy are preparing to invade. The invasion comes, and New York, Washington, and other American cities are devastated.
- William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.
- Tillie inherits her aunt's fortune.
- Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her. Helen works her wiles upon the adamant Craigen and finally elicits a proposal from him. The guests in the next room, who have been listening, come out at the critical moment, and congratulate her. Craigen demands an explanation, and he is told that it is all a joke. He refuses to accept the incident in such a light, however, and makes preparations to leave for his home in the mountains. At this juncture. Tracey, who had been called out of town on important business before the commencement of the party, returns. When told of Helen's episode with Craigen he becomes very angry and upbraids her. Tracey then goes in search of Craigen, whom he does not know, and mistaking Keen Fitzpatrick, a reporter, who has been waiting in the next room for an interview with Craigen on Patagonia, for the man he is in search of, he starts to pour a scathing indictment upon him. The guests hear the tirade and inform Tracey of the identity of the man to whom he is speaking. Meanwhile Craigen, having packed his belongings, is leaving in his auto. As he is passing the back entrance, Helen jumps in front of his auto and tells him that, inasmuch as he does not know anything about women he should adopt the Patagonian savage method and carry her off to his home where he could study her. He puts her suggestion into effect and Helen is carried off in the auto to his home in the woods, where he brutally orders her about. She attempts to escape, and Craigen chains her to the floor. While he leaves her for a moment to put his car into the garage, "Boney," an escaped lunatic, makes his way into the cabin. He styles himself Napoleon Bonaparte, and raves about his armies. As he is swinging his sword about the room, Craigen appears, and by diplomacy succeeds in getting "Boney" upstairs to review his armies where he is locked in a room. Craigen returns to Helen. His back is turned to her and she knocks him unconscious with the telephone. Taking the keys from his pocket, she releases herself and escapes into the woods. Craigen recovers his senses and, finding the note Helen left informing him that she feels sorry for her action and has gone for help, fears for her safety, and goes out in search of her. During his absence Fitzpatrick, who was trailing, arrives. On searching through the house for Craigen, he comes upon "Boney," whom he takes to be the man he is searching for. He demands to know where the girl is, but "Boney" only raves about his armies. The two are just on the point of clashing when Craigen returns. He reveals his identity to the reporter, and tells him that Helen has fled into the woods. The asylum keepers trace "Boney" to Craigen's home, and take him away. Tracey, who has also been following, arrives at the cabin and confronts Craigen with a revolver. He demands Helen or his life. Craigen manages to convince Tracey, after an argument, that Helen has fled into the woods. Helen has seen Tracey's car going in the direction of Craigen's home, and fearing trouble, makes her way back. She arrives just after Tracey has left. The other members of the house party arrive to take Helen back, but she refuses to leave Craigen.
- Surgeon Crisp announces to his student doctors and friends that he has solved the problem of limb-grafting, and shows proofs. Among those deeply interested is Mortmain, a friend of Dr. Crisp's. Mortmain is a gentleman of leisure and collector of rare art subjects and is heavily in debt to his friend, Cordon Russell. He is warned of that debt by Russell's lawyer, a friend of Mortmain's. While Russell at first has no desire to call in the loans, when the two men become rivals for the affections of Russel's ward, Bella Forsythe, things change. Knowing the weakness of her brother, Tom, Russell gives the latter a chance to fall into trouble, hoping to turn that fall into his own advantage. Tom falls into the trap and Russell uses this fall against Bella, who has become engaged to Mortmain. Meanwhile, Mortmain is told he is completely ruined by Flynt, Russell's lawyer. He curses Russell and his declaration that he would like to kill the man is overheard by Flaggs, the clerk of Flynt. Mortmain is informed of the murder of Russell, also that the police are after Tom Forsythe. Mortmain faints and in falling injures his hand terribly. Dr. Crisp informs him he must lose his hand and suggests he get another man's hand to graft upon the stump. He consents and Crisp finds a man who will give his hand, it is Tom Forsythe. During the operation Tom dies. Dr. Crisp has recognized Tom and keeps the news from Bella. Mortmain regaining consciousness after the operation, sees an uncanny vision of Flaggs and learns that Tom Forsythe, who gave him his hand died in the operation. He finally awakens from his terrible dream to learn that Tom is alive and well, and that the real murderer was Flaggs' while Mortmain's hand is his own.
- Former college football hero Kirk Anthony, to the disappointment of his father, a railroad magnate, refuses to enter the business world. Kirk prefers to coach the university team and carouse, until he is drugged during a drunken victory party and put aboard a steamer bound for Panama by an embezzler who switches clothes with him. During the trip, Mrs. Edith Cortlandt, who has married her diplomat husband for convenience, falls in love with Kirk. In Panama, Kirk and Allan Allan, a Jamaican friend, are arrested when Kirk's efforts to use American firefighting methods cause a riot. After Mrs. Cortlandt's influence gets Kirk out of jail and into a job, he falls in love with Chiquita Garavel, the daughter of a Spanish grandee. When Mrs. Cortlandt warns Kirk not to marry Chiquita, her husband overhears. He insults Kirk in public, and Kirk vows revenge. After Cortlandt commits suicide, and Kirk, who has secretly married Chiquita, is arrested, Mrs. Cortlandt withholds Cortlandt's suicide note, but Kirk's father arrives and convinces her to help arrange Kirk's release.
- A scientist who is married to an amoral woman lives next door to a happily married couple. At first envying their happiness, the scientist eventually falls in love with his neighbor's wife. When her husband goes on a business trip to Africa, the scientist also goes abroad to avoid temptation but finds himself sailing from Cairo aboard the same ship as his neighbor's wife, who is traveling to join her husband. The ship is wrecked when it collides with another vessel, and the two are marooned together at the edge of the jungle, with the woman suffering from amnesia and mistaking the scientist for her husband. About to kill himself to save the honor of his neighbors' marriage, the scientist is saved by the return of the woman's memory and by the subsequent arrival of her husband. Electing to remain in the jungle, the lonely scientist toasts the couple's happiness from afar.
- Herbert DuBois, a young medical student in Paris, falls in love with and marries Annette, a grisette. They do not get along well, however, and he later secures a separation from her. He returns to America to find his father greatly worried over impending financial ruin. The blow falls and DuBois Senior kills himself, leaving Herbert to care for his mother and sister Lydia. Some time later he falls in love with Florence, the daughter of the family lawyer, and his friend Milton is fascinated by Lydia. M. Picard, a French milliner, pays Herbert a visit and informs him of Annette's death; he and Florence are then married. A year later, Herbert has been promoted to the head of the medical college and he learns that he is soon to become a father. Annette has moved to America. While DuBois is preparing to perform an autopsy on a young woman who died suddenly, he discovers, to his horror, that it is Annette and she is not dead, but in a cataleptic trance, a disease to which her family was subject. Then the supreme temptation comes to him to kill her with a slight movement of his scalpel and thus remove forever the dark past, but his better nature conquers, and after calling the others' attention to the body, he goes out. Restoratives are quickly applied and Annette comes back to life. Then follows an agony of suspense for Herbert. Will she live and spoil his present happiness, or will she die? After what seems eternity, one of the doctors informs him that Annette has died, and rushing up to his wife's room, he is stopped by the nurse who tells him that a son has been born to them.
- To pay back his increasing debts, Father writes a comic opera, Frolic of the Frogs , with the financial backing of Carelton Bayne, who fancies Father's youngest daughter. On the day of the opera's opening, Fredericka, the elder daughter, is to be married, but when Father receives a frantic call from the opera's leading lady, who is about to be replaced by one of Bayne's former lovers, he abandons the wedding and rushes to the theater in the honeymoon car. Arriving too late to stop the exodus of both male and female stars, Father steps in as the leading man after one panicked rehearsal and is vigorously booed by the audience. The show in ruins, Father slugs Bayne and is hauled off to jail but organizes the other prisoners and effects a clever escape. Several adventures, car chases and misunderstandings later, Father and family finally reunite for the wedding.
- Fearing former suitor James Armstrong, Louise Newbold accompanies her husband William on a trip to the Colorado Rockies. While riding a mountain trail, Louise and her horse fall over a high cliff. Her injuries are so severe that she begs her husband to kill her to end her suffering, and, out of love, he does so--and blames Armstrong for being the instrument that drove Louise to take the dangerous trip. Five years later, Armstrong meets Enid Maitland and falls in love with her, and they go on a camping trip with several acquaintances. While out fishing, Enid is caught in a sudden violent storm and is rescued by a mountain man: William Newbold, who has become a recluse. But the snow imprisons them in his camp for the winter. The spring thaw brings Armstrong and others searching for Enid, and Newbold recognizes Armstrong as his old enemy.
- Mouroff's aim is bad; the bomb which he threw at Karatoff, the butcher, explodes harmlessly many feet away. Karatoff's son Paul, puts spurs to his horse, and chases the nihilist. The latter is elusive, but Paul trails him and enters a house after him. Once inside, Valdor, another nihilist, stuns Paul with a blow from his club and carries him to his apartment. Valdor would willingly let him die from loss of blood, but Sophie commands him to heal the wound. This, at first, puzzles Valdor, coming as it does from Sophie Karrinini, leader of the nihilists and one who has ample reasons to hate Karatoff and his kin, but in an undertone, she explains. The sight of Paul Karatoff rouses to her mind vivid recollections of the scene, years before, when Paul's father compelled her to stand helplessly by, while her father was tortured to death, and her mother had died from the effects of the gruesome sight. Now what is the one little life of Paul Karatoff? She can find better ways to strike at the butcher's heart, by allowing him to live. Paul returns to consciousness, and Sophie gives him her most tender care. She listens, apparently horrified, to his tale of the attempt on his father's life. Soon, he is well enough to be moved, and is returned in safety to his father, cherishing in his heart, a love for Sophie. He asks her to be his bride. This being the first step in her plan, she readily consents. Karatoff's son the husband of a nihilist. But then their child is born, and with the boon of motherhood comes the realization that she loves Paul more than the cause. Having heard rumors of his wife's affiliation with the nihilists, Paul confronts her with the evidence and she confesses. He leaves to expose her, but is waylaid and stunned by Valdor, who throws his apparently lifeless form into the ice of the river. Mouroff, on the way to the market, finds the body, and seeing signs of life, takes it home with him. When Paul awakes, his memory is gone and Mouroff brings him up as a nihilist. Valdor returns to Sophie and tells her that the police have killed her husband. Five years later while traveling in England under an assumed name, Sophie meets Sir Richard Stanhope, an English nobleman, and they become interested in each other. Karatoff captures a nihilist messenger from whom he learns of a meeting of the band, and being unknown to the members, he takes the place of the messenger. He meets Richard, to whom he is known, and explains the reason for his assumed name. Mouroff receives the call to the meeting and takes Paul along. At the meeting Mouroff recognizes and denounces Karatoff and the true identities of all are established. While Karatoff is greeting his son, a shot is fired, intended for Karatoff, but it kills Paul. The police rush into the place and arrest all present, including Richard who had just appeared on the scene. Little Jack, Sophie's son, is now a Prince. His pleas for his mother's freedom are finally granted by his grandfather, Karatoff, with whom he returns to Russia to fulfill the duties of his heritage. Sophie now leaves her nihilistic tendencies behind, as she travels, in peace, at last, to England with Richard.
- When Cindy Lane becomes pregnant, Mark Brierson, the father, refuses to marry her. Instead, Brierson romances Azalia Deering, whose father, General Deering, owns the town bank. Brierson misuses bank funds, but the bank is saved by Jack Rose, a wealthy farmer. Cindy's father Zeb vows to kill her lover, but she refuses to reveal the man's identity. Brierson realizes that Azalia and Jack love each other, and so, to eliminate his rival, he tells Zeb that Jack is the child's father. To disgrace Jack further, Brierson convinces Dagmar, a black woman, to claim Jack as her son, but Zeb is told that Brierson is the father of Cindy's child and is also Dagmar's son. In the end, Zeb kills Brierson, who, before he dies, learns from Dagmar that although she is not his mother, he is black. Jack marries Azalia, and Cindy, whose child has died, goes back to the man she loved before Brierson.
- King, a businessman, has reason to believe that an investigating committee has been appointed to inquire into the workings of certain shady deals with which his name has been connected. While he is brooding over the matter, Worden comes in and King tells him of his trouble and is advised to consult a clever lawyer. Worden recommends Scarsdale for the job. King looks hopefully upon this advice for Scarsdale is engaged to his daughter Beatrice. When King finally reveals his true motive, Scarsdale is greatly perturbed. The proposition as it stands reads King's salvation or the loss of Beatrice. Scarsdale turns down the case and bids Beatrice farewell. King's creditors get after him and King commits suicide. Beatrice holds Scarsdale morally responsible for her father's death. She refuses to see him. The small amount of money Mr. King left is soon exhausted, for Dick, Beatrice's brother, speedily gets rid of it by dissipation. Beatrice, facing a financial crisis, appeals to Warden for assistance. When Dick returns in a maudlin condition his sister remonstrates with him for his action, and Worden, who is standing nearby, suggests that Beatrice marry him, and thus obtain a protector for her brother. Deep down in her heart Beatrice still cherishes a regard for her former lover, Scarsdale, and she refuses Worden's offer. When Dick comes out of a drunken stupor, he finds himself penniless. To obtain money for further dissipation, he forges Worden's name to a check. The forgery discovered, Dick is just about to be sent to prison. Beatrice appeals to Worden to withdraw the charge. Worden refuses to intervene. Beatrice makes a final plea. Her distress arouses the brute feeling to Worden's mind, and he tells her he will drop the charge if Beatrice will repay him by becoming his wife. Beatrice sobbingly consents. Scarsdale has gradually climbed the ladder of success. After years of earnest endeavor he is made district attorney. His first campaign is against the Beef Trust. It happens that Worden is head of the Trust. Later, through a trick, Scarsdale and Dick are brought to Worden's home where together with a henchman, he hopes to get certain damaging evidence on the district attorney. A fight follows and the four men upset an electric library lamp, leaving the room in darkness. A revolver shot rings out and silence follows. It is discovered that Worden has been killed by the man he had hired and the latter is captured by the police in his attempt to escape. With Worden out of the way, Scarsdale and Beatrice renew their old love and look with promise on the future.
- David Whiting belongs to a fine old aristocratic family of the south and is an officer in the United States Army. He believes in the Union and he is opposed to slavery. When the Civil War breaks out he frees his personal slaves and joins his regiment to fight for the north. His brother, Walker, is an honorable man, but hot-headed and impetuous, the opposite of his brother. He joins the southern army fighting against his brother. Edith Whiting, the sister, and her parents are extremely bitter over David's defection. The play opens shortly before the Civil War, when David is visiting his home with a friend and brother officer, Jack Spencer, who is engaged to Edith. Edith quarrels with Spencer over their differences in principles and returns his engagement ring. David is in love with Ruth Tyler. During the war the Whiting family, deserted by the slaves, have a hard time to make ends meet, and borrow from a professional money-lender, Thomas Spicer, giving mortgages on their property. Spicer is anxious that his son be recognized by the better class of people. He is ambitious for him to marry Edith Whiting. Edith always spurns him, even though word reaches her that Spencer has been killed. After the war David, now a colonel, returns to his home town with his troops as military commander of the district. He pays off the debts on the plantation and saves his sister from further humiliation at the hands of Spicer. A few days afterward Spicer is found murdered. Walker Whiting is found leaning over the body. A gun belonging to Walker is found by the man's side. It is well known that there was bitter feeling between Walker and Spicer, so he is arrested and accused of the murder. It devolves on David to court-martial and try his own brother. However, Rufus, a slave, confesses he killed Spicer because he once horsewhipped him. Although David had done all of this and much more for his family, had restored order and saved the residence from great humiliation and outrage, both his family and all his old friends are still cold to him. The sting of victory comes when the woman he had long loved, Ruth Tyler, rejects him and throws herself into the arms of his brother. David has won the fight for his principles, but lost the girl.
- While traveling by train from Denver to Washington, DC, wealthy young Grenfall Lorry meets a beautiful young girl. When they are accidentally left behind in a mining town, they race through the mountains and finally catch it. They travel to Washington and have a great time, but they soon part. They meet again later in the small European country of Graustark, where Grenfall and his friend Harry rescue her from kidnappers, and they then discover that she is actually the country's Princess Yetiva. She is engaged to Prinze Lorenz of Asphan in order to pay off Graustark's enormous debt from the war, but Lorenz is murdered and Grenfall is framed for the crime. Complications ensue.
- Twenty-five years before the story opens, Jason Brisco, owner of the Daily Argus, became embittered by the death of his wife, whose life was snubbed out as her child was born. In his anguish he seeks consolation in travel. After all these years Briscoe's son, John, is editor of the Argus and has won a reputation for absolute honesty. He receives a telegram from Paris telling him to prepare to receive his father, who is coming on the next boat. The days drag for John, who is impatient to get a glimpse of the father he has never seen, but when he arrives John is disappointed. The man does not measure up to the strong, honest character with which John invested his father; his face is cunning, his eyes shifty. Just before the arrival of his father John had been honored by a visit from the leaders of a certain political faction who came to buy the support of the Argus, but who went away with sad faces. Hearing of the return of the elder Briscoe, they return once more, determined to buy either the support of the Argus or the paper itself. In Jason Briscoe they find a man to their liking, for, although he will not sell his support, he is eager to bargain for the sale of the paper. Despite John's protests arrangements are made, and the signature of Jason Briscoe to the documents is all that is now required. In fond anticipation of the large purchase price, Briscoe is about to affix his signature to the bill of sale, when the door is thrown open unceremoniously and Diana Pearson, star reporter of the Argus, enters and commands the attention of all those present. Recognizing her and terrified at her appearance at this inopportune moment, Briscoe jumps from his chair and tries to escape, but runs right into the arms of a waiting policeman, who brings him back and forces him to listen to Diana's tale. After the arrival of Jason Briscoe from Paris Diana had seen a woman following his automobile, and thought it worth her while to investigate the cause. On reaching Briscoe's house she heard a loud report, and entering found the woman on the floor, shot. Diana attempted to leave the house to summon aid, but was detained and thrown into a cellar with the other woman by "Briscoe" and his valet. Here, when she regained consciousness, the woman told Diana of how the man who is posing as Briscoe had trapped the real Briscoe in Paris and left him in the care of an Apache on the outskirts of the city. His real name, she said, is Stange, and he is one whom she has ample reason to hate. Diana was horrified by the story, but she realized her helplessness; she was unable to prevent the sale of the paper. Then she thought of a plan, and made Stange her innocent accomplice. Unknowingly he carried word of her plight to the Argus office with him, and one of the reporters started out immediately with a number of policemen to her rescue. After her release Diana rushed straight to the office where she was fortunate in arriving in time to prevent the illegal sale. Seeing that all is known, Stange makes a frantic attempt to escape from his captors, but is shot to death in the struggle. Two weeks later a cable to the Prefect of Police in Paris has secured the release of Briscoe from the Apache's den, and in the office of the Argus he is introduced to his future daughter-in-law, Diana Pearson, reporter.
- Sir Daniel Grey, dying in India, begs his daughter, Joanne, to marry the man of his choice, Mortimer Fitzhugh, and she finally consents, although disliking the man. The marriage ceremony is performed at Sir Daniel's deathbed, and at its conclusion, all present receive a shock when a former mistress of Mortimer's confronts them. Joanne, horrified at the woman's story, refuses to live with her husband and runs away to America. There she receives news of her husband's death while hunting in the wilds of British Columbia, and her relief is great. But two years later she hears that her husband is alive, and the old fear returns. Determined to prove for herself the truth, Joanne leaves for the railroad construction camp high up in the mountains of British Columbia. She is maliciously directed to Bill Quade's place, thus falling into the clutches of the worst men in the camp. He conceives a violent love for Joanne and tries to force his caresses upon her, but is prevented by John Aldrous, a young novelist and explorer and his companion, Donald McDonald, typical old mountaineer. Bill swears he will have the girl, and John places her under the protection of his friends, Paul Blackton and his wife. She and Aldrous fall in love, but her former marriage is a barrier to their happiness. While watching blasting operations Joanne and Aldrous wander into the cavern which is to act as the air chamber for the explosion of several tons of dynamite and are trapped there by a landslide. Expecting death momentarily, they are saved by the fact that the exploding wires were broken by the landslide and they are rescued. Meanwhile, Quade and his gang have been on the trail of Aldrous and Joanne, and after some exciting adventures, one of the crooks turns out to be Joanne's first husband. In a struggle with John he is killed, freeing Joanne forever and when John has recovered from his experience, he and Joanne are reunited in permanent happiness and love.