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- An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols.
- Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.
- The story of an orphan boy who, due to the cruelty of others, is drawn into a life of sin on the streets prior to the redemption of a caring foster family.
- Mary Malloy works as a scullery maid in a hotel. She meets reporter Bob Norton, who soon falls in love with her. When Mary learns that one of her friends is to be evicted, she pawns an old silver goblet with her family crest in order to get money to forestall the eviction. The pawnbrokers, realizing how valuable the goblet is, hatch a scheme to use Mary as a patsy while they substitute fake pearls for the real thing. Bob, however, becomes suspicious.
- Hilda O'Shaunnessey lives in a New York City tenement with her younger, invalid brother, Mickey, and relatives Mr. and Mrs. Brady. Because of Mickey's frail health, the boy spends most of his time on the roof, and Hilda works as a clerk in a department store toy department to raise enough money to send him to a sanitarium. Mickey befriends a little girl, Susan Gray, who lives with her single, artist father, Emery Gray, in a bungalow on the adjoining roof; when Emery meets Hilda, he is impressed by her devotion to her brother. As Christmas season approaches, Hilda takes an extra job in the toy department dressing up as animated dolls. Soon she catches the attention of the store's leering proprietor, Gregory Stearns, who makes several advances toward the young beauty, and asks what gift she would like for Christmas. Knowing what the older, wealthy man has in store for her, and seeing a way out of her troubles, Hilda asks for an expensive fur coat. When Stearns delivers the gift, Hilda pawns it to pay for Mickey's treatment at the sanitarium, then hurries to the roof to commit suicide before yielding to her employer's desires. However, Emery Gray prevents her from jumping, and exposes Stearns as the man who stole his wife. Emery asks for Hilda's hand in marriage, and Mickey is cured in the hospital.
- She was a very modern young woman, was Miss Hobbs. Her ideas were about 50 years ahead of time. For one thing she hated men, thought them all brutes. But love has a way of smashing such an idea. Then she went in for barefoot dancing, futurist art, and other advanced notions. Well, the upshot of it was, the young man took upon himself to tame her, to make her a regular girl. How he succeeded is told in five reels of enlivened action.
- Lady Marjorie Donegal becomes a nurse in hospital, much to the dismay of her aristocratic family. She falls in love with one of her patients, a commoner labor leader.
- A French orphan girl is adopted into the home of wealthy Americans. There she becomes romantically involved with a farm worker and at the same time entangled in the deteriorating marriage of the American couple who rescued her.
- Young factory worker Kathleen O'Donnell, falls in love with Harry Stanton, an ambulance driver who convinces her that he is a struggling medical student. She leaves home when her father, who knows something of Stanton's character, forbids her to invite him to the house. She takes up residence in a boarding-house and gives Harry her spare wages to buy schoolbooks. Donald Holliday, the factory owner, realizing her folly and being in love with her himself, tries to warn her about Harry, but she resents his interference and goes to work in a restaurant where she is completely disillusioned when Harry brings another girl to dinner. As a result she falls ill, and during her convalescence she finds a worthy affection in Holliday.
- Edna Morris, daughter of the American Ambassador to a South American republic, weds Potter, an embassy attaché; on the same day, Potter is threatened with arrest for embezzlement, and to escape he leaps into the bay. Believing him to be drowned, Edna's father retires to the United States. Edna soon falls in love with Jack Dart, and their engagement is announced; then Potter reappears and reveals himself to Morris, demanding payment for his silence; and Morris, fearful of scandal, forbids Edna to marry Jack. Edna nevertheless elopes with Jack, and on returning from her midnight wedding she finds Potter dead in her father's library. She is horrified at the thought that she may have married Jack before Potter's death, but it is later proved that he died 10 minutes before the marriage took place.
- After graduating from finishing school, Helen Wainwright moves in with her aunt, Mrs. Wainwright, who wants her to marry millionaire Lee Morton. Meanwhile, Helen renews acquaintance with her childhood sweetheart, Donald Scott. Lee parts with his mistress, Lillian Lord, and becomes engaged to Helen. The day Helen is to marry, Donald returns from a business trip and takes her on a boating excursion; they are stranded on an island and compelled to remain there overnight. The enraged Lee breaks the engagement and returns to Lillian, leaving the lovers free to wed.
- Rowena Jones attracts the attention of wealthy playboy William Vaughn, when trying on an expensive fur coat belonging to one of the guests at the hotel where she works as a hat check. Determined to marry a millionaire in order to alleviate her family's financial woes, Rowena accepts Vaughn's dinner invitation. That afternoon, while modeling at a fashion show, Rowena is attracted to a young man, but because he appears to be a poor chauffeur, she continues her pursuit of Vaughn. However, when Vaughn's wife appears at dinner, Rowena consents to go to a masked ball with her chauffeur. Arriving at the ball, she is pleasantly surprised to discover that her sweetheart is not a chauffeur but a millionaire, that meets her standard for a husband.
- Mathilde Stangerson delays marrying Robert Darzac, as she wants to continue to aide her father, a scientist, in his experiments. Later, on the evening of her engagement announcement, Mathilde leaves her father in his laboratory at midnight, and goes to her adjoining yellow room. The professor, hearing gunshots and screaming, breaks Mathilde's locked door to find her bloodied, and the room in disarray, with papers of their studies stolen. How the assailant escaped the room, with a locked door and windows secured with iron shutters, is a mystery which baffles the renowned police detective Frederic Larsan, and cub reporter Rouletabille, assigned to the case. While Larsan investigates at the house, the professor's gamekeeper is murdered. Although clues lead to Robert, who, when arrested, refuses to explain his actions, Rouletabille returns from America to interrupt the trial with the solution to the mystery and prove that Larsan is the killer.
- Joan Doubleday is a shy spinster, who has been engaged to Monty Wade for 12 years, is secretly adored by Peter Flagg. Her young niece, Jerry, arrives and sets out to capture Monty. On the wedding day, Jerry announces that the grooms have exchanged places and that Peter will marry Joan. A quarrel prevents preparations for the wedding, but Jerry finally convinces Joan that she was meant for Peter.
- Katherine Dereham, a young English woman, visiting the country of Argovinia, falls in love with Prince Anton, who offers to make her his mistress. Wounded by his insolence, Katherine returns to England upon the death of her father. When World War I breaks out, she begins to see her father's doctor, Garth Vincent. After the war, Katherine has a nervous breakdown, and Vincent nurses her back to health. Upon her recovery, Katherine visits a seaside resort where she again meets Anton. He renews his pursuit of Katherine, thus forcing Vincent to acknowledge his love for her. Vincent offers her a proposal of marriage and Katherine says yes.
- Sylvia Figueroa, the orphaned daughter of an impoverished aristocratic family, loves Watt Dinwiddle, a struggling young attorney who has ventured to San Francisco to make his fortune. When, after his departure, Sylvia fails to hear from her lover, she follows him to the city. After spending weeks vainly searching for a job, Sylvia is forced to accept a position in the chorus line of "Vanities." Her performance is a huge success and soon she is featured as "Mabel Flowers, the Kissing Girl." Becoming disgusted with the milieu, however, Sylvia soon quits. Meanwhile, Watt has been cultivating the wealthy Jack Horner, whose wife Nancy desires a divorce because of her husband's lack of social standing. Sylvia agrees to act as corespondent in the suit in return for the promise that Jack will turn over his legal affairs to Watt. However, love triumphs as Nancy realizes that love is more important than social position, and Watt forgives Sylvia for her scandalous conduct.
- Carlotta, raised in a Turkish harem and threatened with marriage to a man she does not love, escapes to London with an English adventurer. When he is killed, she is left destitute and attaches herself to Sir Marcus Ordeyne and begs his protection. He takes her home out of pity, and her charm and innocence cause him to fall in love with her. When he plans to marry her, Judith Mainwaring, who looks upon Carlotta as a rival, tells her he merely pities her and is marrying her to avoid a scandal. Carlotta runs away with Pasquale, a friend of Sir Marcus, though she loves her guardian. Later, Mrs. Mainwaring meets Carlotta in Paris and tells the girl the truth--that Sir Marcus is searching for her. Realizing his love for her, Carlotta is reunited with her benefactor.
- Two con men, Pop Clark and Harry Leland, take rooms in a small town boardinghouse, where Leland makes love to Doris Moore, a young woman restless to leave her village. Leland convinces Doris to follow the con men to New York City, where she stays in a boardinghouse run by Kate Fallon, a woman with a disreputable past who poses as Leland's aunt. Clark and Leland plan to use Doris to lure young engineer William Lake into a compromising situation, but Kate, who has befriended Doris, tells Lake of the con men's plan, and Lake removes Doris from the clutches of Clark and Leland. Meanwhile, Laylock, a reformed crook and a friend of Kate's, is freed from jail, where he was placed through the contrivance of Clark and Leland, and kills Leland in a pistol duel. Lake persuades his friend, Inspector Bruce, that Leland has committed suicide, and Laylock goes free. Finally, Doris and Lake become engaged.
- Lizbeth Palmer is known as "The March Hare" among her friends, and the daughter of a Los Angeles millionaire, comes to New York with a chaperon to visit her aunt. After betting the chaperon that she can live on 75c for an entire week, she assumes the part of a flower girl in a restaurant and there makes a hit with young millionaire Tod Rollins, who invites her to his home. While visiting her aunt, Mrs. Curtis Palmer, Lizbeth discovers that the butler's accomplice has taken her name in an attempt to swindle her aunt. Under an assumed name, Lizbeth exposes them as they are about to steal the aunt's jewels, wins her original bet, and captures Tod for a husband.
- A young woman spurns her too-conventional fiancé and flees to an artists' colony.
- William Grogan (James Kirkwood), lives in New York city and meets the outside world only through the little basement window of his plumbing shop. One day he sees and falls in love with a pretty pair of feet, belonging to Ruth Warren (Anna Q. Nilsson), a schoolteacher who is lusted after by Norton Colburton, a dissolute playboy. Ruth is about to marry Colburton, but at the last minute runs away and decides to take a Cook's tour. On the boat, she meets Grogan, who has inherited a fortune, and recognizing the feet, he falls in love with their owner. Meanwhile, Colburton sends a henchman to locate Ruth. In various foreign cities, Grogan is attacked and Ruth is accosted by Colburton, who has followed her. Finally, Ruth is imprisoned in a house of prostitution, Grogan comes to her rescue, and the two are married.
- The eldest daughter of a poor preacher, Penelope Penn leaves her country home to seek her fortune in the big city. Taking a room in a boarding-house at 39 East, Penelope futilely searches for work as an actress until she secretly accepts a minor part in the chorus. Napoleon Gibbs, Jr., Penelope's fellow boarder, defends her good name against the criticism of other boarders who are scandalized by the girl's late hours. Penelope, having understudied the leading lady of the show, finally gets an opportunity to fill her role and scores a complete triumph. Napoleon, eager to congratulate her, waits backstage where he sees the stage manager escorting his new star home. When she arrives back at the boarding-house, Penelope explains to the crestfallen Napoleon that she has no interest in her stage manager. Napoleon then seizes upon the opportunity to propose, and is accepted.
- U. S. Senator Baldwin of Arizona succumbs to the charms of a widow who refuses to marry him as long as his daughter is single. His daughter, Judith, would prefer a trial marriage properly chaperoned at the Baldwins' country lodge. She finds Congressman Hamil a bore, but the liveryman notifies the Washington press that they have eloped. Courtney, her other suitor, arrives early at the lodge, and the news brings Ted Musgrove, Baldwin's ranch manager who has always loved Judith. Meanwhile, Baldwin, who has secretly married the widow, arrives at the lodge; and after the turmoil Judith decides that Ted is her man.
- Newly married Dorothy Ralston exchanges her husband's Aztec idol, which she doesn't believe is worth anything, to a peddler for a silk shawl. Later she finds out that the Aztec idol is extremely valuable, but by this time the idol has been bought by an artist named Cambridge, her neighbor, who knows how valuable it is. Dorothy determines to get back the idol from her greedy neighbor before her husband discovers it's missing. Complications ensue.
- Meg Mackenzie, an orphan, lives with her two stingy bachelor uncles, Donald and Duncan Craig, in a narrow-minded rural community. They plan to marry her to Joe Dobbs, the blacksmith's son, but an author from the city, Stephen Ware, seeking a quiet place to work, arrives in the village and wins Meg's silent worship. The natives regard him with suspicion and accuse him of committing a robbery, and while the uncles are away, Meg saves him from an angry mob. Finding Meg with the injured man, the uncles consider her compromised and insist that he marry her; to save her from disgrace, he consents, telling her he will provide for her until he can have the marriage annulled. In the city, the unwanted bride determines to make herself desirable in the eyes of her husband, and he falls genuinely in love with her.
- Sculptor Roger Heath realizes his new maid is possessed by the soul of his departed wife.
- Having long ago left his country sweetheart, May Barber, Willoughby Finch is about to marry Molly Farringdon when a simple phone message from May leads him to the mistaken belief that she plans to disrupt the wedding. May, now an actress known by her stage name of Rilla Rooke, meets and falls in love with Finch's best man, Hale Underwood, on the train taking her home from a successful tour. Learning from a friend that Finch is in distress over a vamp's threat to ruin his wedding, May offers to pose as Finch's lover to drive the vamp away. Her appearance at Finch's wedding rehearsal, however, only confirms Finch's worst suspicions, since May and the vamp that he fears are the same. May's charade also alienates Underwood, but she clarifies the situation that evening at a jazz party at Underwood's apartment, and both pairs of lovers are reunited.
- Agatha Kent inherits a southern mansion from her maiden aunt, Agatha. When she advertises for boarders, Burton Forbes, who is blind and alone in the world, recalls his visits to Aunt Agatha as a boy and rents a room. Assuming the roles of her aunt and an Irish maid, young Agatha looks after her guest, who is distressed over a broken engagement. His gratitude for her kindness ripens into love, which she reciprocates, unaware that his sight has returned. A lucky turn on the stock market results in the restoration of Burton's fortune, and when his former fiancée asks to resume their engagement, he rejects her for Agatha.
- 20-year-old Betty Lee becomes famous for her movie stunts with airplanes and high-powered roadsters. While horseback riding, she allows Ensign Tom Manley to believe that he has saved her from a runaway; then at the studio he meets her suitor, Carl D'Arcy. Betty evades Carl's marriage proposal and accepts Tom's luncheon invitation. Through a trick, she delays him in meeting his ship, and at the last minute, Betty, along with Tom and her press agent, Soapy Taylor, burn up the road to San Diego. Through Carl's plotting, the police arrest Betty for speeding and sentence her to 10 days in jail, although she manages to deliver Tom on time. Carl, trailed by revenue officers, shifts blame to Hilda, a chambermaid whom he has deceived, and she meets Betty in jail. Soapy plans a jail wedding for Carl and Betty as a publicity stunt, but Tom exposes Carl and wins Betty's hand.
- Itinerant magician Balzamo arrives in the town where Dr. Emerson and his pretty young wife live. Smitten with Mrs. Emerson, Balzamo places her under a hypnotic spell and takes her away with him. Many years later, as she lies near death, she warns her daughter Dorothy to flee from the evil Balzamo. Dorothy runs away to a small town and stays with Mrs. Arnold and her son John, but when she and John become engaged, Dorothy suddenly begins acting strangely, changing her personality and even her name. She is taken to the sanatorium of a specialist in nerve disorders--who turns out to be none other than Dr. Emerson, the man whose wife was Dorothy's mother. Complications ensue.
- Civil engineer Robert Clay (Norman Kerry) is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza (Wallace Beery), the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract. Mendoza begins a revolution against Alvarez, but Clay and his men set out to stop the plan. Meanwhile, Mr. Langham arrives with his two enchanting daughters, Alice (Anna Q. Nilsson) and Hope (Pauline Starke), on board a yacht owned by Reginald King, Alice's suitor. Clay's long-lived attraction for Alice has been met with coldness, but Hope wins his heart by shooting down some of Mendoza's men when they try to kill him. After a savage battle, and the arrival of a U.S. battleship with sailors, Mendoza is finally beaten.
- Mrs. Martin lives in New York's East Side with her son, Dan, who sells papers, and her daughter, Jenny, who works in a local doughnut shop. During the summer, Mrs. Martin becomes ill, and a trip away from the city is recommended; unable to finance such an undertaking, Jenny converts the backyard into a blooming garden, and in the outdoor activity thus provided her mother recovers. During the winter, Dan suffers from the cold, and when Pete drops a $5 bill in the shop, Jenny uses it to buy him a coat; Pete later threatens her with arrest, and she promises to return the money, which Dan obtains by robbing another store. Brother Dan is caught and sent to a reformatory; when Mrs. Martin goes blind, Jenny tells her that Dan has obtained a job in South America. Meanwhile, Jenny opens a rival doughnut shop, which is a success; and after her brother's return, she accepts the proposal of Tomasso, her suitor.
- Colonel Fairfax, who lives on a Virginia plantation with his adopted daughter, Prudence, has remained faithful to the memory of his former fiancée, Constance Llewellyn, with whom he had a misunderstanding twenty years earlier. When Constance, now a widow, returns to the adjoining estate, the colonel plans to sell his home to avoid an embarrassing situation, but Prudence intends to reconcile the couple. Tom, the colonel's nephew, arrives at the plantation following his graduation from an agricultural college, and initiates a romance with Prudence. Meanwhile, neighbor Dwight Neville joins a gang of counterfeiters in an attempt to acquire the colonel's estate. Prudence discovers the plot and is abducted by Dwight, whom she has arrested following her escape. The colonel and the widow are reunited, and Tom wins Prudence.
- On her journey to the United States, Marya Nisko falls in love with another immigrant, Sascha Rabinoff. Arriving and discovering her sister's poverty, she fails as a lady's maid and then arranges an introduction to a theatrical manager, though Sascha is opposed to her becoming a professional dancer. She obtains an engagement through Stephen Ross, who arranges for her training. Meanwhile, unable to pursue his education and reduced to the breadline, Sascha attracts the attention of a wealthy philanthropist, Josef Marinoff, who takes an interest in his idea for a home for immigrants, and through Marinoff's aid he and Marya are reunited.
- Orphaned Ruth Sheldon reads an article on "Love Charms" on her way to live in the home of her Aunt Julia and Cousin Hattie Nast. Upon her arrival, Ruth is put to work as housekeeper, cook, and seamstress. When Thomas Morgan, a young banker, is invited to dinner, he focuses his attention on Ruth, prompting the envious Hattie to claim him as her own. To oblige her cousin, Ruth attempts to discourage Thomas by behaving like a frivolous society "vampire," rather than the old-fashioned girl he believes her to be. However, Thomas's brother, Harry, reveals her true intentions. Before long, Harry comes into money and Hattie chooses him over his brother, leaving Ruth free to marry Thomas.
- Orphaned waif Judy, lives with Grandpap Ketchel, a cruel and often brutal man. The sole protector of little Denny, Ketchel's grandson, Judy is forced to accept the attentions of Jim Shuckles, whom she abhors and who has compromised her sister Olive. When Shuckles beats Denny, Judy hides him with the Lady of the Roses, a kind neighbor, and Shuckles, fearing that he has killed the boy, allows Judy to go unmolested. After Shuckles is elected by the Citizens, a vigilante group, to kill Governor Kingsland, Judy discovers the plot and, with the help of Teddy, the governor's son, saves his life. Seeking refuge, Judy takes the governor to her kind neighbor's house, where he confesses that the Lady of the Roses is actually Ketchel's daughter, Judy's mother, and the wife of a friend whose fortune he had stolen years before. Her family is united, Judy and Teddy marry.
- Phyllis Latimer goes to Fiji to rejoin her husband of three years and finds him in a state of drunken degeneracy, incapable of reform. Fleeing his advances, she escapes to a nearby island; and there she impersonates Pauline Leonard, ward of John Webster. When Latimer incites a native uprising against Webster, who hires Hindu laborers, he finds Phyllis on the island, drags her home with him, and in a frenzy gives her to the natives for a human sacrifice. Webster and the government police arrive in time to save Phyllis, and Latimer is killed in the riot. Phyllis and Webster reveal their mutual love.
- When Louis Martinot, an aristocratic young French lawyer, is called away on business, he asks his friend Paul Blythe to investigate the background of Susanne Bergomat. If her family seems suitable, Paul is to tender a proposal on Louis' behalf. Blythe, after seeing Susanne, finds himself so in love that he proposes to her himself and lies to Martinot that her mother is a cabaret singer and her father a drunkard - a trait that Susanne has inherited. Thus informed, Martinot loses interest, and Blythe marries Susanne, taking her to live in another city. A year later he finds himself in a predicament when Martinot comes to visit. Attempting to hide his wife from his friend, Blythe arranges for Dr. Poulard, an elderly business partner, to take Susanne to visit her parents. After a series of comic misadventures, Martinot meets Susanne in Nice, and upon discovering the contents of Blythe's report, she determines to teach her husband a lesson. Returning home, she feigns a flirtatious drunken spree, which reduces her husband to tears. Finally, Susanne decides that her beloved villain has been punished enough and informs him that her behavior was all a hoax.
- Tillie, daughter of a stern Pennsylvania Dutch farmer, Jake Getz, is treated as a farm chattel by her father, the trustee of the will of Sarah Oberholtzer, who leaves an inheritance to Tillie on the condition that she become a Mennonite before her 18th birthday. Doc Weaver takes an oath never to tell Tillie of this bequest, but the lawyer who draws up the will accepts a promissory note from young Absalom, whom he informs of the contents of the will. Absalom asks Jake for the hand of Tillie, promising him a stake in her inheritance. Frightened at the prospect of marrying Absalom, Tillie attempts suicide but is saved by Doc and Jack Fairchild, a stranger who learns about the will. Tillie then becomes a Mennonite, and to escape her father's tyranny she runs away. Tillie and Jack are married, and although she is turned from the church, Jack, who is Sarah Oberholtzer's nephew, assures her of her rights.
- The only daughter of wealthy Wall Street banker, Evelyn Murray, while with her aristocratic fiancé, Bert Van Vliet, runs down and injures newsboy Terry McGuire. To avoid an embarrassing outcome, Bert persuades her to flee the scene of the accident. Evelyn is conscience-stricken and informs her father; he is then forced to pay "hush money" to a garage attendant who has witnessed the accident. That evening Murray gives a dinner to honor John Deems, Bishop of New York, to whom he plans to contribute money for a youth foundation. Influenced by the bishop, Evelyn goes to the hospital, becomes acquainted with the injured boy, and arranges for his care. Opposed by her father and fiancé, Evelyn disappears and is reconciled to them only when they agree to adopt a less arrogant attitude toward their money and power.
- Kathryn Haynes, daughter of Jimmie Haynes, ex-sheepherder turned oil millionaire, is snobbish as a result of her parents' social ambitions. Home from college, she meets Bill Putnam, a football hero. At a college dance, Kathryn strikes his name from her dance card when she finds out that he is working his way through college by waiting on tables. His wealthy friends teach her a lesson by telling her they are waiters too. Kathryn leaves the party in a rage and spends the next days observing the behavior of others, concluding that work and service are commendable virtues; and to atone for her previous scorn for such things, she works as a waitress in a restaurant where Bill's friends spy her. When Bill is told of the new Kathryn, he rushes to her and proposes. After the wedding, Mr. Haynes puts Bill in charge of his oil interests.
- Folly Vallance weds millionaire Anthony Bond solely out of love for his money. When he realizes this, he insists upon a marriage in name only. Out of exasperation, Folly plunges into the social whirl, where Bond's close friend Keene Mordaunt befriends her. When Count Svensen attempts to blackmail Folly into running away with him, Keene pursues them to a country house where they meet Anthony, who accuses his friend of treachery. Folly finally recognizes her love for her husband and explains the cause of her actions; Bond forgives her and the two are reconciled.
- Removed from an orphanage, Nance Olden is taken to live at Mother Hogan's boarding-house for crooks. There she becomes Tom Morgan's partner, helping him steal a jewel from Edward Ramsey at Union Station. She makes her getaway by slipping into a nearby carriage; when the owner, Bishop Van Wagenen, enters, she pretends to have lost her mind and is taken to Mrs. Ramsey's, where she keeps up her deception. Tom trails her there, where he is arrested. William Lattimer, Nellie Ramsey's fiancé, is not fooled by Nancy's deceit and persuades her to reform and utilize the talent for sketching which she has displayed. Nellie, however, jealous of William's interest in Nance, plants evidence making it look as though Nance stole a purse, but Tom, just escaped from jail, sees and reports Nellie's trick. Finally, Tom is sent back to jail, and William and Nance are reunited.
- Rosalie Beckwith, a New York City newspaper romance advisor, is told by her editor that he is thinking about discontinuing her column because there is no such thing as true romance. Rosalie bets her job against a month's wages that she can find a real romance story within forty miles of the office, and selects, at random, the small town of Essex, Connecticut. However, when she arrives in Essex, Rosalie is mistaken for Madame Murat Bey, a distant relative of wealthy wounded war hero Robert "Bob" Stratton and the co-heir of his estate. Accepting the situation, Rosalie discovers that Dr. Thomas Fitch, Bob's family physician, is conspiring with his sister, Grace Fitch, to poison the patient before he discovers Fitch has embezzled funds belonging to the estate. When the Fitches realize Rosalie has uncovered their perfidy, they throw her into a well. Then Grace, disguising herself as the "real" Madame Bey, arrives to announce that Rosalie was an imposter. Rosalie escapes in time to prevent Bob from eating poisoned food, Dr. Fitch is killed by toxic fumes in his laboratory, and Grace is arrested. Rosalie gives up her newspaper job to live with Bob.
- Christina Elliott is concerned over her cousin Gerald Elliott, who has fallen desperately in love with Lotta St. Regis, a snake dancer of questionable reputation. Their wealthy family, the Vardens, threaten to disinherit Gerald if he keeps up with Lotta, so Christina goes to call on Lotta at her island cottage to see for herself what is going on. Meanwhile, Adrian Maitland arrives in order to persuade Lotta to leave his younger brother Ted alone. When Lotta is not at home, Adrian mistakes Christina for Lotta, and she goes along with it for fun. He gets Christina on his yacht, intending to compromise her, but falls in love with her instead. After telling him who she really is, Christina and Adrian decide to marry. Meanwhile, Lotta has seen the pair on board, and she intends to win Gerald and his money, or ruin Christina's reputation with this evidence. The plan backfires, however, when the marriage is revealed, and Gerald refuses to have anything more to do with Lotta.
- Ann Annington, book reviewer for a metropolitan newspaper, is assigned to interview author Harold Hargrave. Knowing that Hargrave has resisted previous attempts, Ann obtains a position in his apartment as a maid and resolves to break up his engagement to Evangeline, a girl chosen for him by his mother. She plants ladies' garments about his room and hairpins in the bed, and Evangeline is indignant. Discovering he has been tricked, Hargrave dismisses Ann. That evening they realize their mutual love, with the result that she does not report the details of his private life to the press.
- Heiress Teddy Simpson avoids boredom by calling random men to flirt despite having a fiance, Rob Winslow. Trouble arises when she meets a few of them and they expect to marry her. She must cleverly keep her beau without upsetting the others.
- Although she finds the stiff Bostonian manners of her fiancé, Robert Ames, unsuited to her temperament, artist-illustrator Sheila Athlone refuses to illustrate an author's story because of its "absurd" premise that a girl would kiss a man she met only 4 hours earlier. Author Brian Moore, setting out to prove his point, poses as a butcher boy and induces her to ride out to a country orchard. His advances are refused until he saves a child from an explosion, and 2 minutes before the time limit, in admiration of his bravery, she allows him to kiss her.
- When a young woman's great romance is interrupted by the influence of her lover's parents, she turns to her art as a violinist to console herself. As she is about to achieve her highest triumph, she is suddenly confronted by the return of the man she loves and she must make a choice.
- Rich but frivolous, Cynthia and John Karslake obscure their love for each other by their constant quarreling. Cynthia grows jealous of her husband when, one day at the races, she notices Vida Phillimore, a recent divorcée, flirting with him. Using this incident to inflame all her other petty grievances, Cynthia ends up in divorce court presided over by Vida's ex-husband, Judge Phillip Phillimore. The judge allows Cynthia with a quiet divorce, and decides that she would make a charming second wife for him. As gossip connects Vida's name with John's, Cynthia is provoked into accepting the judge's marriage proposal. The foursome constantly meet at social affairs, but as the day approaches for Cynthia's wedding, she begins to realize that she still loves John. After continually postponing the wedding, Cynthia returns to her ex-husband, and the couple finally realize the meaning of love.