- Scandalous European temptress Lila Despard, travels to America to escape her lover, criminal Jack Firthenbras. On the ship, she meets Andrew Livingston, a United States Navy planner, and Senator and Mrs. Gales. Her new friends host a party for Lila in Washington, D.C., where a spy named Dromiroff threatens to expose her past unless she steals Andrew's secret naval plans. In order to secure the papers, Lila makes love to Andrew, but the plan backfires when she falls in love with him. Eventually, Lila agrees to marry Andrew, but during their honeymoon, Dromiroff abducts her from the bridal suite. At headquarters, Lila is shot while destroying the documents, and before dying, she telephones Andrew to confess her misdeeds. The conspirators are killed when their car plunges from a cliff.—Pamela Short
- Lila Despard is a fascinating adventuress, who enslaves with her charms every man she meets. Jack, her partner, living on her money, is forced to leave France to escape punishment for a crime and drags with him the unhappy Lila. On the boat she fascinates Senator Gales, an old aristocrat, and is jealously hated by his little wife. Livingston, of the United States Diplomatic Service, is also very much attracted by her and has need of all of his willpower to remain true to the girl to whom he is engaged. Lila becomes disgusted with Jack's continual begging and one evening, after a scene, she leaves him. Spies in the employ of a foreign government are anxious to obtain national secrets from Livingston and shadow and attack him, but to no avail. Dromiroff, at the head of them, recognizes in Lila a notorious Monte Carlo woman of years ago; he also recognizes in her a tool by which to obtain Livingston's secrets. To avoid an exposure of her past life, Lila promises to use her charms to extract from Livingston government plans. By clever scheming she leads Miss Vyse, Livingston's intended, to break their engagement, and the "injured" man, naturally, turns for comfort to Lila. Quickly his feeling for her develops and he asks her to be his wife. Realizing that she truly loves him, and regardless of her promise to Dromiroff, she accepts his proposal. Jack, completely down and out, reads of Lila's approaching marriage. Furious, he rushes her away from a mask ball and demands that she go with him. She finally manages to get rid of him by promising to get money from one of her lovers and go with him the next day. After tricking Dromiroff with fake papers, presumably government secrets, Lila leaves with Livingston. After a few ideally happy days of married life, Jack appears and exposes Lila's past life. Livingston refuses to believe it, but Lila realizes that all is over and, remorseful and despairing, drinks poison, leaving a note for Livingston telling of her love for him.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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