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- Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, however, turns out to be a drunken renegade. Violating the peace compact between his father and the colonel of the local garrison, he leads an attack upon the army paymaster. The old chief surprises him in action, and swiftly deciding that his son's crime is punishable only with death, he shoots and kills Tiah. The American soldiers all are killed by the Indians, who then escape. Gray Otter makes the colonel believe that Tiah died defending the paymaster, and has the happiness of seeing the last of his line buried with high military honors.
- Joe Bailey and his sister Marion work for the same firm. Joe has a chum, Jim Channing, who gets Joe in debt and persuades him to embezzle some funds of the firm in order to meet a pressing debt. Joe is caught and arrested and sent to prison. Marion is discharged by the firm. She gets a position with another firm and marries Latimer, the general manager. Latimer is of a jealous disposition. Channing has lost his job and is hard up and in need of money. One day he meets Marion on the street and suspecting that her husband has not been told of Joe, he resolves to blackmail her. She gives him money to keep the secret. Later, wanted by the police, Channing writes a letter to Marion and tells her to meet him at a notorious road house to pay him some more money so that he can get out of town. Latimer's suspicions are aroused as he catches Marion reading the letter. Under the plea of business at the office, he leaves his home and summons a taxi. He sees Marion leave in a taxi and follows. Meantime Joe Bailey has made a get-away and makes his way back toward the city to get help from his sister. The guards pursue him in the vicinity of the roadhouse where Channing is waiting to meet Marion. She goes to the roadhouse and meets Channing in a private room. Latimer follows and demands admittance. Believing Latimer is an officer, Channing opens fire on him and escapes through the window.
- The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last revolution in the late 1860s. The Emperor is growing old and infirm. He has two sons: Yorotomo, the elder, will succeed to the throne; his younger brother Togowawa would succeed to the throne in the event of his brother's death. The Emperor, for reasons of state, betroths Yorotomo to Sada San, daughter of the Prime Minister. The Chief Shogun, supposedly loyal to the emperor, covets the throne. He realizes that the Japanese people would never permit him to ascend the throne himself, and he casts about for a dummy to occupy it. The Shogun calls upon the younger prince and unfolds his plan to kill Yorotomo. Togowawa enters into the conspiracy and promises to aid the Shogun. The conspirators are overheard by a spy of the Emperor, who reports the plot. Yorotomo is sent away in disguise. During his sojourn he falls in love with Mimi San, daughter of the gardener of the summer cottage of the Mikado, who does not know that Yorotomo is a prince. The Mikado dies and Yorotomo is called to take the throne, and he is compelled to leave O Mimi San and marry Sada San.
- Donna Gonzales has a daughter, Rosa, and a son, Maxim. Maxim is fighting in the Rebel cause, his mother being the widow of a Rebel general. He is pursued while taking important dispatches to the Rebel general, takes refuge in his home, hides himself in a chimney and eludes the Federals. Maxim is badly wounded, and his sister, Rosa, volunteers to carry the dispatches. She departs dressed in her brother's clothes and is captured. Her horse, which has been slightly wounded in the leg gallops back home. The dispatches are found on her and she is condemned to be shot. Lieut. Salza, son of the Federal general, recognizes in Rosa his former sweetheart, takes the place of the girl and she escapes. He is about to be shot, when Donna Gonzales, who has ridden rapidly to the Federal camp and who has obtained the general's mercy, arrives on the scene and prevents the execution. Salza leaves the camp disguised as a girl and later they meet and exchange a pledge of love.
- Jose, son of wealthy plantation owner, Don Luis, gambles. Pedro, who keeps the gambling hall, and Paquita, a pretty dancing girl, plan to ensnare him. Jose owes them money. They demand payment, but Don Luis will not give the money. Jose is betrothed to Mercedes, the daughter of Don Rafael. A new mission is being built at Austi. Jose promises to pay his debts on a certain night and when he does not meet Pedro, the latter goes to his home and sees Don Luis secreting his money in a desk. Later he is in the act of taking the money when Jose, hearing a noise, comes and makes Pedro give up the money and also him the I.O.U.s. Pedro then makes his getaway. Don Luis comes upon the scene and mistaking his son for a burglar shoots him, when he discovers the I.O.U.s in Jose's hand he thinks that Jose was attempting to rob him. Pedro flees with Paquita and becomes the head of a bandit outfit who are informed of a caravan with rich furnishings for the new mission. They capture this, but one priest escapes and informs the Padre in charge of the mission. He calls the people together and with Don Luis at their head, they capture the bandits, and Pedro is wounded. Dying, he asks for Don Luis and Mercedes, who upon the death of the lover, has become a sister. To them he confesses his part in the killing of Jose and thus the name of Jose is cleared from the stain.
- Nora Egan, a pretty attractive Irish lassie, is very much in love with Rory O'Connor, who has aspirations for the priesthood. This situation worries Father Daly, the parish priest. Jim Macy, the bailiff, loves Nora, but she spurns him. Angered, he vows that unless the taxes are paid that Nora and her widowed mother shall be the first to be evicted from their home. Father Daly attempts to quiet the mob that has gathered around the notice of eviction of non-taxpayers. The bailiff, with some English troops, starts evicting the Irish from their homes and a great fight takes place. Nora's mother is arrested and Nora, pursued and insulted by Jim, meets Rory, who gives him a good beating. Father Daly arrives upon the scene of the fight and succeeds in stopping it until he can arbitrate matters. That evening, tired with his strenuous day. Father Daly falls asleep. He dreams that the English are attempting to evict the Irish from their homes. Rory is pursued and escapes into a cave where he finds the Harp of Tara, which, according to the legend, when found by a good man, shall prove the saving and freeing of Ireland. Rory takes the harp to the rectory just as the English are making a stand outside the church, where Father Daly has marshaled the Irish. Jim, unknown to Rory, has entered the rectory and while Nora is making love to Rory, seizes the harp and threatens to smash it unless Nora promises to become his wife. Father Daly begs her for the sake of Ireland to marry Rory, but Rory takes Nora in his arms. Angered, Jim smashes the harp. Father Daly awakens to find a messenger from the Mayor promising an extension of time.
- Anne Larson, tired of the brutality of her husband, Pete Larson, decides to leave him. She goes back to her father. Her father dies and she starts south again. She runs short of provisions while on her way, and is in a very weakened condition when Jim Dawson, a young hunter, rescues her. He takes her to his home, and his mother cares for her until she recovers. Jim falls in love with Anne and proposes marriage. She accepts his offer, believing her husband dead. A stranger comes up to their home and asks for something to eat. Jim takes him in. Anne recognizes him as her husband. Larson promises to keep silent if she supplies him with all the money he needs. This she promises to do. One day while intoxicated Pete Larson has a row that ends in a tragedy. He escapes from the posse and seeks shelter in Jim Dawson's home. The posse comes there to hunt for him. He again escapes them, but later is caught and killed.
- Judge Landsey sees in Walter Parker, brought before him for burglary, the makings of a man, and grants him his freedom to begin life over again. Parker gives the judge his word to live on the square. A few weeks later, the judge, entering his home late one evening, hears his wife, Viola, earnestly pleading with Paul Armstrong, a young clubman, in the drawing room. He recalls how of late he had been forced, by absorption in his work, to neglect her. Doubtless, this is the outcome. The blow stuns him. Meanwhile. Parker, who has not kept to his promise, climbs up the fire-escape, not knowing that the house he had selected to rob is the home of the judge who pardoned him. On discovering the judge within, he beats a hasty retreat. Parker is in the act of getting away, when he is grabbed by a policeman. A struggle ensues. Parker shoots the officer and runs. By this time Viola has persuaded her visitor to leave the house by the fire escape. He is seen and arrested for the murder of the policeman. At the trial, the jury declare Armstrong guilty. Judge Landsey is called upon to pronounce the sentence. He knows the man is innocent, but to establish this means involving his wife's reputation. The judge is under a tremendous strain. Viola discovers the dilemma, and begs her husband to substantiate the truth. She really is innocent, and so she has no fear of being misunderstood, she says. Her husband, and his honor, are dearer to her than life. At the last moment Parker comes forward and confesses.
- Pasquale, the saloon keeper, furious because Emma Frazer, the sheriff's daughter, resents his advances, fakes up two a fight between the worst men in Snake River City and calls out Jake Frazer to arrest them. All the men in the saloon pitch into Jake and he is getting badly beaten up when a stranger enters, routs the crowd, knocks out the two bad men and rescues Jake. Pasquale, resenting the stranger's interference, draws his gun to shoot him. The Man From Nowhere catches him, however, and the saloon keeper is obliged to pretend that he has taken the gun from one of the others, thus saving the stranger's life. The newcomer thanks Pasquale and tells him that he will go through hell for him. The saloon keeper, seeing in this man a dangerous rival for the love of Emma, pretends to send him after some horse thieves. The Man From Nowhere, however, has begun to distrust the Mexican and insists upon his accompanying him into the desert. While his companion sleeps, Pasquale hides the water bags in the sand, and lets the horses loose. The stranger, realizing that both of them cannot get back alive, gives up his chance because of the debt he believes he owes Pasquale. But the Mexican fails to find his cache, and in drinking from a poisoned spring, gets his death. The stranger discovers the half-buried water bags and arrives at Snake River City. There he learns from the sheriff the real character of Pasquale and the story of his end. He wins Emma for his wife.
- In the colony of Salem, Faith dumps her current boyfriend Jim Farley for newcomer Richard Crewe. Seeking revenge, Jim accuses innocent Faith of witchcraft, which lands her in jail with a death sentence of burning at the stake. She is saved in the nick of time when the new Governor arrives, who fortunately does not believe in capital punishment for witchcraft, pardons her. Faith and Jim are banished and set off into the wilds of the new world to make their own life together.
- Red Elk, a young Indian brave, marries Little Fawn of the Sioux and takes her home with him to his village on the California coast. Big Bear, fired with jealousy, tells Red Elk that he will not keep his bride many moons, and one night while they are sleeping. Big Bear enters the tepee and carries Little Fawn away. Red Elk pursues them all night, overtaking them at last by the sea. A glimpse of the Indian girl's face tells him that she is dead. The young brave returns to his people, half-crazed. An aged woman of the tribe relates to him an old, old legend of the village under the ocean where Little Fawn awaits his coming. At midnight Red Elk throws himself into the sea.
- Shotoku, the son of the Marquis Osaka, attends a theater and falls in love with O San, one of the actresses. He makes love to her, disguising himself as a tradesman. The marriage is arranged, unknown to Osaka, who betroths Shotoku to Yama, the daughter of Baron Kamuri. Shotoku protests, but his father forces him into the marriage. Shotoku sends O San to her people, telling her that he must go to America. However, she sees the announcement of the wedding, for Shotoku had told her after their marriage his real identity. She disguises herself as one of the entertainers at the wedding festivities and during a dance stabs Shotoku. She escapes, but is pursued and brought back to the dying Shotoku. He asks that they be left alone. He asks her forgiveness and dies in her arms. She then commits suicide, and they find her beside his body.
- Baron Yoshoto, an old Samurai of Japan, is loath to have his son Koto go to the States to finish his education, but is finally persuaded. Koto bids his sweetheart goodbye and vows to his father that he will not be influenced by American customs, but will return a Samurai. A year later at a college club, Koto meets Jim Wendell, a crook and schemer. Wendell introduces Koto to a chorus girl, Annette Walsh, who ensnares him into a marriage. When Baron Yoshoto hears of Koto's marriage he disinherits him, and Annette, who only married Koto for his money, deserts him and goes with Jim Wendell. Koto trails them and strangles Annette. He then goes to the police and gives himself up, writing a note of farewell to his father and sweetheart in old Japan.
- Jim Hull, his wife and their son, Jack, are settlers on the far frontier. While the troops are called away to find the trail of the hostilities, the settlers are attacked by the Indians. Jim Hull is in the field plowing. The Indians tie Mrs. Hull to a tree. Jack gets away and hides under the water in a river, using a reed in his mouth for air. There is a fierce battle and just as they are about to overpower the settlers, the troops arrive, and Jim Hull is overjoyed to have his wife and Jack restored to him.
- Satan McAllister, a wealthy ranchman, generally feared and hated for his cruelty and bullying ways, objects to Bob Ellis taking up a claim adjoining his ranch. He visits Ellis and tells him to get out or take the consequences, death. Ellis refuses to leave and when McAllister again visits his home and finds him there, he is wild with rage. While he is threatening Ellis and his wife, Dolly, their little daughter overhears him. She takes an instant dislike to him and when he kicks her pet puppy, Rags, she hits him in the eye with a stone. She is so absolutely unafraid of him and so bitter against him that McAllister's admiration is aroused. For her sake he does not insist that Ellis leave, but the two men remain bitter enemies. A dry spell falls over the section and Ellis' cattle, crazed by thirst, wander afar. The efforts of both Ellis and his wife are required to trace them and Dolly is left alone in the cabin. Her dog, Rags, runs away and in following him she is lost. Ellis, in his sorrow appeals to McAllister to help find her, and because of his love for the little girl, McAllister consents. He strays away from the rest of the searching party and with the dawn finds Dolly and her dog, exhausted and fast asleep. The meeting results in her forgiving him. On his way back with the little girl, McAllister is ambushed by a small band of drunken Indians, He realizes he cannot make the settlement and sacrifices his chances that the girl may live. Binding her and the dog to a horse he sends them down the ravine while he holds the Indians at bay. His ammunition exhausted he hides in a cave but is found and mortally wounded. Dolly reaches the settlement in safety and when the rescuing party arrive at the cave they find McAllister dead with the body of the Indian who shot him lying close by. On the wall, traced in rough characters on the stone, is his last will in which he leaves everything he owns to Dolly Ellis, his friend.
- After deserting his wife, Marie, Francois Lefevre goes to the gold mining region in western Canada. He meets there Sergeant Patton, one of his wife's early sweethearts. Fickle as well as faithless, Francois flirts with Adele Gregg, wife of one of the miners, Gregg resents Lefevre's actions and quarrels with him. Francois kills the miner, but manages to escape. Exchanging clothes with a miner who has been killed in an explosion, Lefevre manages to make his pursuers believe that he has been killed. Sergeant Patton returns to Marie with news of Lefevre's death and again proposes marriage. Marie accepts him. The following winter Francois returns to Ontario, his old home, to make a visit to his wife. Not knowing of Marie's marriage to Sergeant Patton, he peers into the window and sees his wife and her old sweetheart. Believing her faithless, Francois determines to kill Marie. He creeps into the living room of the house while she is in her bedroom. While he awaits her return he notices that she has been sewing on some tiny garments, baby clothes. He picks up the little lace dresses and then lets them fall with a sigh. Realizing that she is about to become a mother and fearing to disgrace her, he leaves the house sincere in his determination to lead a better life.
- Everybody wondered why Tom Loomis wasn't like his father. Adam Loomis had been a member of the Cedarville Fire Department for years, but when Tom had the honor of being elected to that distinguished body, he refused to accept. It was suspected that Tom's mother hadn't exactly urged him to join. Now, Anne Hull had more spirit. At the humiliating news of her fiancé's cowardice, she had thrown him over for Bud Lodge. One dreadfully dark, windy night, the Hull's house got afire. Mrs. Hull escaped, but Anne was entrapped in her room. Before the fire department could get into their new uniforms, Tom Loomis had rushed in through the smoke and flame, and saved the girl. Everybody wondered then how Tom ever came through alive. He was frightfully burned, and the fire department went in a body to the hospital and presented him with a cup. Bud Lodge was forced to retire from Anne's favor, and fire bells were succeeded by wedding bells before the year was up.
- Squire Verner, owner of the fastest horses in Kincraig County, is much opposed to his daughter. Dolly, receiving attentions from Dan Riley, son of the Widow Riley, on whose house he has a mortgage. The squire has two horses. He entered the best in the Donnybrook Steeplechase, and feels that he will win the five hundred pounds offered as a prize. The squire, angered by the continued attentions of Dan to Dolly, threatens to foreclose the mortgage and force Dan to go to America. Dolly and Dan, who are compelled to meet clandestinely, conceive a plan to beat father. Dolly, who is the only one who can do anything with Satan, the squire's best bet, takes the horse out and teaches him to walk lame. The squire is compelled to leave the horse behind, fearing he would not be able to go in the race. The day of the big steeplechase arrives and a "dark horse" is entered by Danny Riley, with a clever little jockey. Danny easily wins the prize. The old squire sends a note to Dan, offering him two thousand pounds for his horse if he can get the jockey to ride him. Dan calls on the squire, gives him a bill of sale for the horse, and tells him the jockey will call on him later. The surprise of the squire can be imagined when Dolly calls on him and tells him that she was the jockey. Another surprise comes to him when his stable boy calls him to come to the stable and see what peculiar spots the new horse has. Dolly neglected to use fast dye and Satan loses his title as Masquerader. Realizing that he has been outdone by Danny and Dolly, the squire tells Danny that he's a great painter, but if he ever gives his filly cause for regret, he'll paint his eye a fast color.
- Mayer, an old New England fisherman, is passionately fond of his violin, a very valuable instrument. He plays it to the neglect of his daughter, Annie, who uncomplainingly does the drudgery of the house. Rand, a young man boarding at a summer hotel nearby, is wandering on the beach. Attracted to the Mayer cottage by the strains of the violin, he stops and in this way meets Annie. A love affair springs up between them and they are married to the bitter displeasure of the father. Later hard luck overtakes the Rands and Annie sends her baby back for the care of the grandfather. He receives the child and she takes the place of his beloved violin in his affections. Annie, herself reconciled to her father, is returning home. The father sets out to meet her leaving the child alone. A fire ensues from the explosion of the oil lamp and the house is burned. Previously the child had taken the violin from the chest and to surprise her grandfather, hides. Mayer and his daughter are horrified to observe the burning house. Mayer makes an attempt to rescue the child, but the smoke overpowers him and he is forced to retreat. Later when they have given up hope of saving her, she returns on the beach and a reunion follows between all the parties.
- A very important treaty bearing on international affairs which would, if it were known, involve the United States in a war with Japan, was signed and given to Richard Hastings to keep overnight and deliver to the State Department in the morning. Baron Matsumoto, the Japanese Ambassador, through secret channels, learns of this treaty and dispatches his envoy, Kamuri, to secure it. Kamuri's plans are helped by the fact that Hastings is summoned away for the night. Kamuri, with several accomplices, racks the safe in which the treaty is kept but they are foiled by the fact that Mrs. Hastings, suspecting something, had removed it previously to a far safer hiding place. Hastings returns unexpectedly, and finds Mrs. Hastings as she had been trussed up by the Japs but the treaty was saved.
- Rod Rawley, a saloonkeeper, who has been driven out of the village, sets up a roadhouse outside the town where he lives with his daughter Leone. David Boylan, the new minister of the village, accidentally meets Leone, and, much attracted by her personality, seeks to win her away from the life she is leading. He invites her to a church social. She gladly accepts. At the social, however, she is cruelly snubbed, particularly by Edith Ainsworth, the daughter of the village banker, with whom Boylan half believes himself in love. The incident, however, opens his eyes and he breaks with her. Leone returns home, brokenhearted, and is about to throw herself away when her better judgment asserts itself. A little later Edith is enticed to the roadhouse by a suave city man, and here Leone discovers her in a helpless condition. Her feeling of pity overcomes her desire for revenge and she locks Edith in her room. Her father breaks down the door, but Boylan arrives in time to save the two girls. Leone, believing Boylan to be in love with Edith, leaves them together, but Boylan soon overtakes her and gains her consent to be his wife.
- Star of the North, daughter of Iron Heart, a Sioux War Chief, is in love with Owahtonah. Black Kettle, a Cheyenne chief, hearing of her beauty, comes to her father's village to pay court to her. Iron Heart accepts the presents of Black Kettle, and betrothes his daughter to the visiting chief. Star of the North and Black Kettle leave for the Cheyenne chief's village. The first night they camp their horses are frightened by a bear. While Black Kettle is away looking after the horses, Star of the North escapes and takes refuge in a deserted cabin. Black Kettle, unable to trail Star of the North in the darkness, gives up the pursuit until dawn. The Indian girl, tired out, goes to sleep in the cabin, but is rudely awakened by Jim Holt, renegade trapper, who returns to his cabin after a night's debauch at the saloon. After a struggle with him, she escapes, takes his horses and goes to her lover, Owahtonah. Fearing punishment by her father for her broken engagement, Star of the North and her lover leave the village and seek refuge with another tribe.
- Kato, a high-class Japanese man, desires to marry Kissmoia, a low-caste Japanese girl of the Etss. Kato's father, a stern old aristocrat, refuses to consent to the marriage. The girl Kissmoia. realizing that she may cause her lover his father's displeasure, takes her pack and leaves. Kato sees her, rushes after her, and begs her to stay until he interviews his father and tells him of his love for her and that his fondest hope is that they marry. She remains while Kato interviews his father. The old man sternly refuses to consider the alliance, and Kato leaves his father's house and marries the girl of his choice. A short time later he is living in a Japanese fishing village and while devotedly loving his wife, he also has many sorrowful moments when thinking of his aged father whom he also loves tenderly; Kissomoia sees her husband's sorrow. Kato receives a communication from his father telling him that the old man's days are numbered and requesting that he return and live with him during the declining days of his life. The letter also specifies that under no circumstances will the proud old father receive his wife into the house. Kato unwittingly drops the letter and Kissmoia discovers it and resolves to forever remove herself from the pathway of her husband whom she believes she is dragging down. She leaves, goes to the ocean, and commits suicide by leaping into it. After a bitter night alone, Kato's love for his wife overcomes that for his father and he rushes into her room the love of Kato for his wife overcomes that for his father and he rushes into her room; she's gone but he finds the note she left and becomes frantic. A searching party is organized and Kato discovers her body floating in the surf at nightfall. While the surf washes around him, and with the body of his dead wife clasped in his arms, he stares vacantly out to sea. and the picture dissolves with them in that position.