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- A black and white silent film based on Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel documenting the life and times of Uncle Tom.
- A crooked lawyer schemes to dispossess the heir to a baronetcy.
- In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
- Combining fact and fabrication, Edward S. Curtis' dramatization of the life of the Kwakiutl peoples of British Columbia revolves around a chief's son, who must contend with an evil sorcerer in order to win the hand of a beautiful maiden.
- A restless young girl yearns to leave her rural environment and "get away from it all." One day she stumbles upon a film crew shooting a Western near her home. She makes friends with the film's leading man, who encourages her to try her luck as an actress, so she leaves her small town and goes to the big city to break into the picture business. However, things don't turn out quite the way she planned.
- Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the other children with her stories of goblins and elves until her uncle comes to claim her. He and her aunt force Annie into a life of drudgery, treating her so cruelly that Big Dave, a neighboring farmer, takes her from them and places her in the charge of the kindly Squire Goode and his wife. Big Dave, who intends to marry Annie, is called away to fight in World War I. When Annie hears the news that he has been killed, she pretends to be gravely ill but wakes up to learn that it has all been a dream.
- Marguerite Gautier, known as "Camille" on account of her fondness for camellias, is queen of the underworld. She has a wealthy lover in Count de Varville, whom, though he supplies her with plenty of money, she does not love in return. Her affections are set upon Armand, a young lawyer from the country. She suffers from her excesses, and the doctor warns her that she must change her mode of living, but she laughs at his advice. Armand's love for her renews her interest in life, and she goes with him and lives quietly in the country. But their happiness is short. Camille has had to sell her jewelry and horses in order to pay her debts, and, learning of this, Armand becomes suspicious. Armand's father, hearing of his son's attachment for Camille, demands that the woman should abandon Armand. For the sake of Armand's young sister, Cecile, Camille agrees to sacrifice herself and returns to her former life with Count de Varville. But Armand's love for Camille will not be suppressed. They meet again. He begs Camille to go away with him. She refuses. Armand accuses her of loving de Varville. The two men meet and quarrel. There is a duel, and Armand wounds de Varville. Armand learns that Camille always loved him and that her aim was to please the father by preserving Armand's family's good name. In the end Camille dies with a smile on her lips and expressing her love for Armand.
- After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.
- After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.
- A hypnotic Svengali controls the singing voice of a young starlet, but he cannot control her heart.
- An actress cures an aged flirt by posing as his wife.
- A wealthy society matron is enchanted by a world-renowned opera singer. Her jealous boyfriend, seeing his meal ticket slipping away, hypnotizes the singer and renders him mute. His ploy works, and the singer, now unemployable, soon runs out of money and is reduced to utter poverty. However, a figure from his past is in a position to help him regain his former fame and fortune
- An opium-addicted choirmaster develops an obsession for a beautiful young girl and will not stop short of murder in order to have her.
- William H. Langdon has been elected senator from Mississippi, and reaches the national capital with the experience in big politics that might be expected of a man who has lived his life on a plantation forty miles from a railroad. With him are his two fair daughters, Carolina and Hope. He has scarcely reached his hotel when he hires "Bud" Haines, a newspaper man, as his secretary. Charles Norton, representative from Mississippi, James Stevens, senior Senator, and Horatio Peabody, senator from Pennsylvania, are interested in a scheme to have a naval station located at Altacola, Miss., and they need the assistance of the new senator. They have purchased all the land in the neighborhood and plan to dispose of it to the government at their own price after the bill is put through. In order to insure his support Norton induces Langdon's son to invest $30,000 in Altacola and also puts in the fortune left the Senator's daughter by her mother. He is the girl's accepted suitor, by the way. Haines, in the meantime, has been a thorn in the side of the crooks, but by reporting to each that the other has played false and invested money in the land project, they bring about an estrangement between him and Langdon, which is set right by Hope Langdon telling Haines, with whom she is in love, of the plot. Langdon and Haines find they have been duped and the man from Mississippi decides to balk the thieves, even if it ruins his family. The story comes to a right ending by Langdon stepping into the Senate to make his maiden speech, denouncing the intended fraud, and declaring that he and the conspirators bought up the land to save the national treasury from being looted after having discovered a conspiracy in another quarter to commit the holdup. Before this important event he has compelled the two rascally senators to come to his way of thinking through fear of exposure. Congressman Norton is sent on his way in disgrace. Haines, again secretary, is engaged to wed Hope.
- Peggy Admaston and her husband are socialites whose happy marriage quickly deteriorates as Admaston neglects his young wife for business matters, and is unaware of her loneliness and vulnerability. When Peggy is wooed by Admaston's friend Collingwood, who acts on his feelings without regard to consequences, she grows fond of him, but remains faithful to Admaston. After socialite Lady Attwill causes Admaston to doubt his wife's fidelity, his suspicions are furthered when a fire erupts one evening at the theater, and Admaston returns home unexpectedly to find that Peggy, who refused to accompany him because she said that she did not feel well, entertained a male visitor that evening. Admaston arranges to trap Peggy and Collingwood together at a country roadhouse, and begins divorce proceedings based on the resulting strong circumstantial evidence. Later, Lady Attwill convinces Admaston that Peggy's friendship with Collingwood was innocent and the couple is reunited.
- A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
- Doris Moore is the daughter of a minister living at a small country town a few hours' distance from New York. She helps her father in his work among his congregation, teaches in the Sunday school and plays the wheezy old organ in the church. The household is thrown into a mild state of excitement on receipt of a letter purporting to come from an organ supply company in New York, but which in reality is from a band of crooks who use this as one of the fraudulent schemes whereby they obtain money from the unwary. The letter offers to supply a beautiful pipe organ on receipt of an installment of one third of the cost, the balance to be paid on time. The matter is laid before the deacons and they decide to consider the offer. The minister writes to the organ company and the chief of the crooks, Harry Leland, a handsome, dashing man of the world, arrives and explains in glowing terms the advantages of the organ. While waiting for the deacons to collect the first installment of two hundred dollars, Leland pays considerable attention to Doris, who is much fascinated by him, representing as he does a totally different type of man to what she has been used to. In the meantime, the crooks in New York have received information from out west that Will Lake, a young eastern college man who in two years has made a fortune of fifty thousand dollars, is returning east, and will stay in New York for a week. They decide to try to blackmail Lake on his arrival and at once communicate with Leland, who replies that he will return immediately as soon as he gets the organ money. Leland has become attracted by the freshness and beauty of Doris and decides to lure her to New York and then make use of her in the crooks' nefarious schemes. He protests violent love for her and proposes marriage, and Doris consents. Immediately after receiving the two hundred dollars from the deacons, he approaches Doris as she leaves Sunday school and with well-simulated despair tells her he has received very bad news and that he is threatened with ruin and begs her to go to New York with him as she alone can save him. After much persuasion, Doris' scruples are overcome and she returns with Leland who takes her to the boarding house run by 'Frisco Kate, a house which is used by the crooks as a meeting place. It is decided to have Doris act as a decoy and to get Lake to visit a flat which has been prepared beforehand. She is therefore told that Lake has defrauded her lover Leland of a considerable sum of money and that if he could be seen, things might be arranged satisfactorily. She is told to speak to Lake, who will be pointed out to her in the hotel, and tell him that her mother who has friends in Goldfield wishes to ask his advice about mining stock. The plan succeeds and Lake unsuspectingly goes to the flat and while alone with Doris, Leland with two other crooks rush in and accuse him of being in a compromising position with Doris whom he calls his wife, much to her amazement, and says that Lake must pay in money to avoid scandal. Lake intuitively feels that Doris is innocent and refuses. A furious fight ensues in which Lake is knocked unconscious, robbed of all his money and locked in the room, the crooks making good their escape with Doris, whom they take to their hiding place. Their plans are defeated, however, by one of their own band, Laylock and 'Frisco Kate, who, hardened crooks though they have been, refused to be parties to the dragging down of an innocent girl. They release Lake and go along with him to the police and lead a raid on the crooks' hiding place who are all captured and receive their just deserts. Doris meets her father at the police station, he having come to New York to trace her. Lake, who is much interested in them, invites them to his hotel to meet his mother and sister. There is a pretty ending to the story when Will Lake, who to celebrate his good fortune and has made the church a present of a beautiful organ, pays a visit to Doris and her father, and a love romance, the seeds of which were set when she innocently acted as a decoy, is happily consummated.
- The story deals with the coming of Henry Minuet, the son of the governor of New Amsterdam, to Danvers, now Salem, Mass., for the sake of buying grain for the helpless colony that he represents. Accidentally he sees Priscilla Elliott, the daughter of Danvers' physician, and while they do not speak the same language, they love each other from the start. Though Miss Elliott is sought for by Salvation Hibbens, she does not care for him because he is helpless away from his mother's apron strings. Then, too, she cares too much for Henry Minuet, and when her father dies, Salvation's mother tried to force her to marry Salvation through threats, but fails. The mother then makes trouble for Priscilla by having her declared a witch and while she is shunned by Danvers' society, she cares little, because Henry is with her. Finally the both of them are put in prison. A messenger comes from his father to learn what has been his fate. As soon as the governor of Danvers learns the name of the prisoner, he orders him set at liberty, but he has escaped in the meantime. Because of the escape, the mayor informs the Dutch messenger that he will not have anything to do with the colony of New Amsterdam under any circumstances. The soldiers capture Henry, while Priscilla is away. But Henry manages to inform her that it is best that she go and live at his father's house in New Amsterdam. Priscilla obeys, and leaves Henry, who, in the mean time, is released from prison and sent home. On his way to New Amsterdam, he meets Priscilla, who does not feel at home in his father's house, because his parents plan that Henry should marry Gretchen. Seeing that neither in Danvers nor in New Amsterdam could both of them find the peace and happiness that their love entitles them to, so they decide that by themselves, away from their friends they will find the happiness that only true love can give.
- Orphaned Mimi (Alice Brady) is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a maid. She meets Rudolphe (Paul Capellani), heir of a upper-class family, who rescues her from the unwanted advances of a drunken hotel guest. They fall madly in love, but Rudolphe's uncle, M. Durandin, wants Rudolphe to marry a family friend, Madame De Rouvre, and writes Mimi a letter, telling her that she is ruining Rudolphe's life. Musette and Marcel, friends of Mimi, also try to break up the romance by introducing Mimi to other men, and Rudolphe becomes jealous and leaves her. Shattered, Mimi declines in health and eventually throws herself into the river but is rescued and taken to the hospital. Realizing it is only a matter of time before she dies, she drags herself back to the room where she and Rudolphe were happiest. Rudolphe is there and she dies knowing that he loves her.
- Margot, the motherless daughter of a New England fisherman, reads society magazines and dreams of a better life. She falls in love with a photograph of Jack Rutledge, a wealthy heir residing on the other side of the cove. For rescuing her from a burning launch, Jack's mother takes in Margot, a situation that provokes the jealousy of Jack's sister Adele. Enamored of the guileless Margot, Jack proposes marriage, but Mrs. Rutledge intervenes, forcing her son to court a woman of equal social standing. Dejected, Margot begs to go home, but her father insists that because her mother was of high birth, she is worthy of Jack's attentions. Margot learns of Adele's affair with a married man, Alexander Gibson, and warns her against continuing the romance. Believing Margot to be interested in Gibson herself, Adele flies into a jealous rage, and the lover is accidentally shot in the struggle. Margot is accused of the murder and nobly accepts the guilty verdict, but Adele finally vindicates her and she is able to marry Jack.
- Perpetua is a rich little orphan with a guardian very much older than herself. This man is an absent-minded dreamer, unaware of his responsibility to Perpetua. The girl wants to live in her guardian's house, but instead is sent to her father's half-sister, Miss Majerdie, an angular spinster of 60 with a predilection for monkeys, parrots, cats, and dogs. Perpetua is not happy in this antique environment, so she runs away and forces herself upon her guardian, Thaddeus. He endures her for a time and finally ships her back to his sister's. The pretty girl is pursued by several suitors whose ardor cools when she is said to be not worth a cent. And here the moody guardian steps in. He has loved the girl but her wealth has prevented him from declaring his affection for her. But now that she is poor, he doesn't hesitate to offer himself.
- Novice businessman Curtis Jadwin ( Wilton Lackaye ) is introduced to the world of grain speculation by veteran broker Charles Cressler ( Alec B. Francis ). At a performance of Faust , Curtis meets and falls in love with Laura Dearborn ( Gail Kane ), the sweetheart of artist Sheldon Corthell ( Milton Sills ). Curtis pursues Laura and finally convinces her to marry him, but soon after their wedding, he neglects her for his business. In her loneliness, Laura renews her relationship with Sheldon and the lovers plan to elope. When Curtis is ruined on the market, however, Laura rejects her lover and comforts her husband.
- A wealthy heiress marries "a spendthrift and a man of loose morals." After the honeymoon a creditor begins demanding payment, the husband insists that his wife pays the bills because the law states that a woman's possessions are controlled by her husband. She attempts to leave her husband with the children and is tried in the courts for abduction.
- Bill, squatter, while playing it the side of the hill, accidentally discovers silver. Just at this time, Tex, foreman of the Diamond Ranch, comes along and realizes the valuable find that the boy has made, and hastens to file a claim for the land. Bill rushes home to show the bright, shining article to his father, who also realizes the value of the discovery and sends a sample to the assay office in Washington. Meanwhile, two months elapse and Bill's mother dies. As they are burying her on the hillside, Tex shoots the old man from ambush and steals the silver claim from the boy. Several years elapse, and the boy, embittered by the hardships of his life, has become an outlaw, and we see him first leading several horses that he has stolen from the Indians. He takes particular delight in spreading terror and eluding capture just for the sheer pleasure it gives him. Hard pressed by the Indians and pursued by the sheriff, he points the arrow of the advancing band of Indians after the sheriff, then, with dare-devil effrontery, he helps the sheriff drive them off and makes him an ally. In a spirit of bravado, he holds up a stagecoach merely to ask for a chew of tobacco and, later, while pursued by his arch enemy, Tex. and a posse, he succeeds in lassoing Tex and makes him his prisoner, after he has taken his station at the foot of the hills on the lookout for the outlaw. After a series of exciting adventures he again shows his good nature by going to the defense of the stagecoach when it is attacked by the Indians. Mary, the sheriff's daughter, is the only passenger in the coach, and when he receives a slight wound, she dresses it. This is the first touch of a woman's hand that he has known since the death of his mother, and it has a most wonderful effect on the outlaw. This is really the beginning of the end of his wild career. He finally accepts a job and starts wooing Mary, ultimately marrying her. During the wedding celebration, Tex, returning for his revenge, encounters Bill and, in a rough and tumble fight, accidentally shoots himself. The story is cleverly worked out during which time the spectator is treated to a series of dare-deviltry, sensational riding and hair-breadth escapes, with the interest cleverly sustained from beginning to end.
- Kraus' little jewelry shop on the east side of New York is typical of that locality thirty years ago, and while his competitors advance with the times, he stands still in the simplicity of his kindly old soul, and devotes more time to his domestic affairs than to his business. In the rear of his small shop are the few immaculate rooms presided over by Katie, his motherly old housekeeper for many years, who also fills the vacancy of mother for Marie, the daughter of Kraus. Kraus' most intimate friend and neighbor is Spiegel, a kindred soul, and the father of Fred. Both parents have planned for years the ultimate union of their children. Marie, however, has other ideas on the subject, and has given her heart to Frank MacPherson, a worthless young "sport" and the son of her father's keenest competitor. From time to time a pinochle game at the home of one or the other is arranged by the two old Germans, as a pretext to throw Marie and Fred in each other's company. Fred's attentions to Marie on these occasions mislead the old folks, who do not see that Fred's sincerity is not returned. Marie's eighteenth birthday arrives, and in honor of the event, Kraus closes up shop, and with Marie, Katie and the Spiegels, journeys to the Jersey shore for a picnic in the woods. Frank follows them, and in the midst of their gaiety calls Marie to him. She slips away unseen, and tells him of the predicament that her blind love for him has placed her in. Unsympathetic, he speaks of her delicate condition as his "rotten luck." His craven mind plans further deception, and she becomes the victim of a mock marriage. Before leaving with Frank she sends a boy back to the picnic with a note to her father, telling of her intention. Old Kraus' grief upon its receipt is pitiful, and the holiday's joy is turned to sorrow. No word comes from Marie and Kraus broods over his loss until poverty and want confront him. He is at last compelled to accept a position in the store of his former salesman and a home with the Spiegels. Meanwhile, Marie and Frank have traveled down a parallel scale until he leaves her with her baby and goes away. Without support she is eventually dispossessed from her squalid room, and going she knows not where, encounters Fred, her father's choice. He persuades her to come home with him, where his sister Alice makes her comfortable. The Spiegels now plan a reconciliation, and by shrewd means bring father and daughter back to each other's arms. MacPherson has turned against his son Frank, and is the means of bringing him to an accounting. With his grandchild in his arms, Kraus' anger melts, and the glances he detects between Fred and Marie make him believe that his fondest hopes may yet be realized.
- Edith and John Maitland will allow David Sterling to marry their daughter Helen as soon as he earns five thousand dollars, so David tries to sell one of his inventions to Simon Baird for that amount. Simon, unable to make up his mind, is found murdered the next day, and David is arrested with five thousand dollars of Simon's money in his possession. At the trial, Edith confesses to the murder, saying that Simon had wronged her years before, and that she took his money and gave it to David so that he could marry Helen. David refutes this testimony, though, and claims to be the murderer himself. In the end, the audience must decide for itself the identity of the killer.
- A prologue introduces author Charles K. Harris at his window, viewing a crowd that has gathered around an ambulance. Harris says to his clerk, "Only an abandoned child," and then dictates the following story. Richard Hartley, a millionaire's son, marries Vera Walton, a musical comedy dancing girl, while he is intoxicated at a party. Richard regrets this rash act when he becomes sober, and because he is under twenty-one, his father is able to have the marriage annulled. Richard goes abroad, during which time Vera gives birth to their son, whom she then deserts. When Richard returns, he weds his former fiancée, a respectable girl from his own set. Childless, the couple adopts Victor, Vera's child, unaware of his parentage. Twenty years later, Victor, a physician at a New York hospital, is engaged to Muriel Worth. Meanwhile, Vera, who has trained to be a nurse to be near Victor, is recognized by Richard's father, at the hospital after an accident. When a rival for Muriel's affection tells the Board of Governors of an exclusive club that Victor is trying to join that his father's a crook, Vera discloses her secret to them but keeps silent to Victor. Richard, whose wife died years earlier, learns about Vera's devotion, and marries her.
- A crook bungles his biggest job, and when the police are put on his trail, he becomes hopelessly lost and commits suicide.
- Young Bill Reid is given a position at the bank of William Stuyvesant, whose daughter Ruth he loves. The banker's son Ralph Stuyvesant is in love with vamp Grace Andrews and supporting her in luxury. To meet Grace's extravagant demands, Ralph forges his father's name to a check, but suspicion for the crime is thrown on Reid by Tom Burnett, who wants to marry Ruth for her money. At a ball thrown by Stuyvesant, the banker is murdered by Burnett when the former accuses him of theft. Burnett and Ralph again contrive to throw the blame on Reid, who is convicted of the murder on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to death. Through Ruth's tireless efforts and the assistance of the chief of detectives, Reid escapes and the real criminals are brought to justice.
- Bess Hulette is disappointed and feels ignored when her husband Aleck accepts a partnership in an ad agency owned by Stephen Graves. She tells her neighbor, Mrs. Leonard, about her predicament. One day a young woman, Dorothy Delamore, is injured in a car accident just outside the Hulettes' home. Bess meets Dorothy's brother, Jack, who is attracted to her. Noticing his attraction, Mrs. Leonard--who is cheating on her own husband--urges Bess to take up with Jack. Still feeling ignored by her husband, Bess accepts an invitation to a party at Jack's house, but finds out that things aren't exactly what they seem.
- During the latter part of the reign of Louis XVIII, in France, Ambrose, an aristocrat, loves Jeanne Mailloche, a peasant girl, but is compelled to marry his cousin, Alice de Fontelles, to preserve their respective estates. Jeanne dies soon after, leaving a son, who is kidnapped and raised by a band of ruffians. Alice's son, receiving every advantage, is raised as an aristocrat. Twenty years later, at the time Napoleon was in exile, the young aristocrat, Victor by name, becomes a captain in the King's army. His half-brother, Rabat, son of Jeanne, has degenerated into a criminal, with a price on his head. Strangely enough, they look exactly alike, though neither knows of the whereabouts of the other. In fact, Rabat is ignorant of Victor's existence. The young Captain is told of Rabat's existence by his father when the latter is on his death bed. Victor is engaged to Lucille, the niece of Munier, who is Victor's father's secretary. Munier becomes associated with the conspirators, who are seeking to place Napoleon on the throne of France. In Munier's endeavor to steal the funds of the conspirators, he becomes associated with Rabat, the criminal. Victor is called to the army, and arranges with Lucile for their final adieu at the diligence office. Being unaware of the existence of Rabat. Lucile believes her lover guilty of the murder which she sees Rabat commit at the meeting place appointed by Victor. Rabat's face in the moonlight almost causes Lucile to abandon all faith in Victor. Victor is arrested for the murder, but before his execution, Lucile learns the truth concerning Rabat and forces her uncle, who has acknowledged his connection with the murder committed by Rabat, to intercede. This stays Victor's execution as a murderer, but as Napoleon has returned to power. Victor is arrested as a political prisoner, and ordered to be shot. Victor's release as the murderer has caused the arrest of Rabat for that offense. He is to be beheaded. Both Rabat and Victor's executions are scheduled for the same day. Lucile, knowing of her uncle's part in the actual murder, forces him to intercede with Napoleon, thus saving the life of Victor. Later, Victor meets Rabat, his half-brother, for the first time, and inspires him with the necessary confidence to face his death. Munier escapes from the country and with Napoleon's pardon for his political offenses, Victor and Lucile are happily married.
- Every night, Madge Dow of the Middleport Orphanage, imagines herself in the lighted room in the house across the way, being tucked into bed by a beautiful mother. After Madge and her friend Spotty escape to visit settlement worker Letty Thompson, and Letty encourages them to investigate the house, they find a grumpy, gout-ridden old Major there, still irritated over his daughter's marriage years ago without his consent. After the Major explodes when Spotty raids the jam jars, Madge takes the Major for a wheel-chair ride, but loses control on a hill and runs away, leaving the Major soaked in a storm. Fortunately, Dick Washburn, a physician engaged to Letty, rescues the Major and cures his gout. Because Dick does not know his parentage, Letty's mother will not allow their marriage. When Madge endears herself to the Major, however, he reveals that Dick is his grandson. When Dick and Letty marry, Madge lives with them in the Major's home.
- Jane sets out to suppress drink, gambling and dance hall viciousness by way of urging her candidacy as mayor. Like all zealots and would-be social reformers, she finds commercialized vice a hard proposition to defeat. Her enemies try to blacken her character, ruin her bank and take her life, but virtue triumphs and vice is vanquished. At the end of the photoplay Jane is elected mayor and united to the man of her choice.
- Peggy Stanton, who lives in a cottage with her invalid father, intrigues her wealthy friend Tom Hamilton with legends about Captain Kidd. With Mammy Lou, an oracle, they hunt for buried treasure on a nearby island, but Mammy, frightened by a supposed ghost, leaves them stranded there for a night. After Peggy's father insists that they marry, Tom's father tries to get the marriage annulled, but he dies. When Tom's uncle claims the estate by insisting that Tom was illegitimate, Tom renounces his name and leaves. Peggy's father dies, and years later, when her foster-father arranges a fashionable marriage for her, she reveals her marriage. He hires a lawyer to find her husband and secures an annulment, not knowing that Tom is the lawyer. After Tom visits Peggy, who falls in love with him again, they return to the island and find the papers stolen by Tom's uncle that prove Tom is the legitimate heir. They then happily resume their marriage.
- The story of the rise and fall of Rasputin, the so-called "mad monk" who dominated the court of the Russian czar in the period prior to the Russian revolution.
- Edward Thursfield, chief engineer of the bridge building firm of Henry Killick and Company, is building the largest concrete bridge in the world. Employed in the New York office is a young man named Arnold Faringay. Arnold sees an opportunity of using money from the payroll for a big deal. He takes the money, but the market goes against him. He seeks to borrow the $20,000 from Walter Gresham, his sister Dorothy's fiancé. Dorothy learns from Arnold that Thursfield is the big power in the firm and decides to follow him to Atlantic City where he has gone to look over the site for a new pier. She meets Thursfield at Atlantic City, and playing upon his sympathy leads him to propose to her. The confidential clerk of Henry Killick, has become suspicious of Arnolds accounts, and when Thursfield arrives he finds the errors, and Arnold is forced to confess before Thursfield. Thursfield is stunned at the thought of his fiancée's brother being a thief and to save her the disgrace he pays over the $20,000. Arnold thanks him and is sent home by Thursfield. He meets Walter Gresham and tells him that his shortage has been made good by a friend. Gresham returns to his house and receives a note from Dorothy breaking their engagement because of his selfishness. He bursts into the parlor as Thursfield holds Dorothy in his arms and demands to know from Dorothy who Thursfield is. Dorothy introduces him as her fiancé, whereupon Walter, realizing who the friend was who paid the money, denounces her before Thursfield. Thursfield demands the truth, and she admits that she did have that purpose, but that she really loves him now. Thursfield refuses to believe and leaves her. Next morning, Arnold sees that copper has made a tremendous jump. He finds that his money has made enough to pay back his stealings. Thursfield, his love for the girl overpowering his resentment, forgives her and calls her back to him.
- When he is ruined by speculating in the stock market by bogus tips given to him by Charles Wainwright, George Garrison commits suicide, but before his death he begs his son Henry to avenge him. Henry goes West and makes a fortune prospecting, then returns to New York and assumes the name of Henry Thompson. He becomes Wainwright's protege and falls in love with his daughter Dallas, then is elected mayor of New York, backed by Wainwright's friend, political boss Richard Horrigan. In return for Wainwright's support, he is supposed to sign a franchise binding the city to the financier's railway. Henry refuses, so Wainwright and his flunkies attempt to discredit him by dredging up an old murder charge, but the charge is proved false when the supposed victim, Henry's partner Joe Standing shows up. Finally, Henry confronts Wainwright, accuses him of causing his father's death and of attempting to defraud the city. Despite his denunciation of her father, Dallas proclaims her love for Henry. In an epilogue, the hands of the victims of political boss Horrigan clutch at him from the grave.
- Refusing to marry her stepmother's choice, Gail Prim leaves her life of luxury after cutting her hair, dressing in her butler's clothes, and stealing money and jewels from her father's safe. Spending the night in a barn, she introduces herself to the thieves already there as the Oskaloosa Kid, a wanted criminal, and barely escapes their struggle to get her loot. Meanwhile, the real Oskaloosa Kid kills Reginald Paynter and throws Nettie Penning, whom Reginald was trying to seduce, onto the highway. Gail and Arthur Stockbridge, a friendly tramp who helped her, find Nettie and take her to a deserted house, where they meet Gioja, a gypsy, and her performing bear. After Nettie is seized by crooks and returned to her father for a reward, Gail and Arthur are arrested as suspected killers of the missing Gail. Gail's father stops a mob about to lynch them by confirming her identity, after which Arthur, really an author looking for atmosphere, wins Gail's affection.
- A documentary of the joint effort of four Allied nations in overcoming the armies of Germany in the First World War, from the initial outbreak of war to the celebration of the Armistice, which occurred only six days before this film's release.
- Albert Jordan, publishing house manager, lavishes his salary on his adored wife, Rita, and little daughter Edna. She is a churchgoing woman, while his home and his family is his religion. While returning home one day, Jordan sees his little daughter in the path of an auto. He runs to snatch her from instant death. He saves her but is seriously injured himself. As a result, he becomes a half paralytic. His wife becomes the bread-winner of the family. She frets against this and is tempted by a former lover, Jim Shaw, a race-track follower, and leaves with him. Jordan becomes an embittered blasphemer. He is compelled to sell newspapers and pencils at an elevated station. Here a splendid woman with a deathless faith finds the hopeless Jordan and teaches him her creed of life. Jordan begins to pray. At last, in response to his prayers and more hopeful state, Jordan is healed and learns that God's way is not always the ways of men. The years pass. Jordan with health, new strength, new friends, becomes successful in business. His daughter, Edna, now a beautiful young woman, marries Frank Rollins, of aristocratic family, and assistant district attorney. Jordan makes his home with the young couple. On the other hand, Rita, who first lived in luxury, has gradually gone down the ladder of life and now reaps the harvest of her sin and selfishness. Shaw is drinking heavily and beats her. They return from Paris and start a flashy tango hall. A few months later, after his daughter's marriage, Jordan is asked by Rollins to accompany him on a vice crusade. While in a dance place, there is a quarrel between a man and a woman. Jordan goes to intervene and comes face to face with his wife. After a night of anguish Jordan goes to Rita, telling her of himself and of Edna. He teaches her to see the "light," as he calls it, as he has seen it. Rita is touched by Jordan's willingness to forgive and forget and the latent good in Rita's nature rises to meet the good in Jordan. How Rita repays his wish to reclaim her is unfolded in the climax.
- Cowboy Mark West lives with his sister Mary, who suffers from a serious spinal disorder. While on vacation at the West's ranch, Violet Ridgeway, an Eastern socialite, toys with Mark's affections and then promptly forgets him. After Violet leaves, Mark works hard and earns the money to pay for an operation for his sister, which Doctor Welsh and Doctor Boyd agree to perform even though they know that it will probably result in her death. As expected, Mary dies, and Mark receives a letter detailing the doctor's risk-taking. A vengeful Mark kills Dr. Boyd, but Welsh, who is engaged to Violet, flees to safety. Mark goes to prison, but later Violet marries him in order to satisfy a stipulation in her late aunt's will. On his way back to jail, Mark escapes, and when Welsh and Violet reunite, they travel past Mark's hideout, and he captures them. Peblo, an evil Indian who is infatuated with Violet, kidnaps her, but Mark kills him. During the fight, Welsh behaves like a coward, and an enlightened Violet escapes to freedom across the Canadian border with Mark.
- While slumming in Normandy, Andre Lesar, a Parisian dilettante, develops an interest in Marcine Dufrene and so convinces her husband Pierre that if he moves to Paris, he can become a great artist. Then, while Pierre preoccupies himself with still life, Andre goes after Marcine, although he takes time out from his pursuit to arrange a showing of Pierre's work. Parisian high society laughs uproariously at the amateurish paintings, and Pierre, suddenly aware that he has been made the butt of a joke, vows revenge. When he catches Marcine and Andre together, Pierre disbelieves his wife when she truthfully claims to have resisted Andre's advances, and he attacks his ex-benefactor. Leaving him for dead, Pierre then tries to drown himself. The police stop him, however, after which a recovered, repentant Andre apologizes, and Pierre and Marcine are reconciled.
- Charles Nelson is a self-made man and has amassed a fortune. His family consists of his wife, son Kenneth, and daughter Alice. His wife has become absorbed in society, requiring all the money her husband can made to support the large establishment and entertain. The wife, son, and daughter are out night after night, leaving Mr. Nelson much alone; while he pays the bills, he has little of the society of his family. He turns to vaudeville performer Kitty Claire for consolation and companionship. His son Kenneth gets into an argument with a friend at his club and hears that his father is keeping a woman in an establishment uptown. Kenneth returns home under the influence of liquor and insults his mother's companion, Mary Burke. Mr. Nelson enters, sees the situation and asks him what it all means. Kenneth turns on him and tells him that everyone knows he is keeping a woman in an apartment uptown. This conversation is overheard by Mrs. Nelson, who asks Mr. Nelson if it is true. He replies, "Yes." They agree to part. Kenneth clings to his mother. His sister Alice sympathizes with her father. She realizes that it is their own fault; they have given him nothing in return for all his labor in their behalf. Mr. Nelson is now living at the Alpine apartments, to which comes Kitty Claire. He tells her that the end has come. Meanwhile Kenneth, has come to see his father. Kitty, going out, hears him ask if his father is in, and seeks an acquaintance with Kenneth, who becomes infatuated with her, moves to the same hotel, and begins to live a Bohemian life with Kitty Claire and Dick LeRoy, another vaudeville performer. He finally asks Kitty to become his wife. She replies, "It is impossible, there is another man." The boy, crushed and brokenhearted, demands the man's name. Mr. Nelson enters at the point when Kenneth demands the name of the man. Kitty points to Mr. Nelson. Humiliated and ashamed Kenneth decides to end his life. He is about to write a letter when his mother arrives; she sees the pistol and tries to keep him from carrying out his plan. They are interrupted by a knock at the door; Kenneth is called down to the office by the clerk; while he is gone Mrs. Nelson seizes the opportunity to telephone Mr. Nelson, who arrives with Alice. Kenneth and his father are reconciled, also Mrs. Nelson, and her husband and the family are reunited.
- A young Russian girl is forced into a life of prostitution in Czarist Russia, and she and a British journalist find their lives endangered when she reveals to him information regarding the social crimes rampant in her country.
- The keen rivalry between Du Barry and La Pompadour for the favor of King Louis XV of France comes to a climax when La Pompadour intercepts a letter from Du Barry to Sir John Godric, an Englishman. Du Barry rescues the letter and destroys it before La Pompadour can carry out her plan of ruining her rival by showing the letter to the King. Hoping to secure other similar Du Barry letters from Sir John Godric, La Pompadour enlists the services of her friend and ally, Doltaire, high in the King's council, and commands him to get the Du Barry letters at any cost. Meanwhile Sir John leaves England to visit his bosom friend, Robert Moray, in Virginia Colony, America. A warning received from Du Barry before his departure causes him to hide her letters in a secret compartment in the fireplace of his home. In America, while hunting, Sir John is fatally wounded by the accidental discharge of his gun, but before dying he reveals the secret hiding-place of the letters to Robert Moray and exacts an oath from Robert to guard the letters, with his life if need be, until he can destroy them. As Doltaire, fulfilling La Pompadour's commands, visits Sir John's ancestral home in England, Moray's messenger arrives, bearing the tidings of Sir John's accidental death to the servants on the Godric estate. Upon learning that Robert Moray is now in charge of all of Sir John's papers and effects, Doltaire starts for America. The call of war between Canada and Virginia Colony takes Moray from home and when Doltaire arrives there he finds that Robert has joined Major Washington 's command. Doltaire thereupon goes to Fort du Quesne, the nearest French stronghold. Meantime, Captain Moray, while reconnoitering, has been captured by French soldiers and is brought a prisoner to the Fort, where he renews acquaintance with M. Duvarney, a soldier and gentleman of Quebec, homeward bound. Doltaire learns of Capt. Moray's presence in the Fort and offers to free Robert in exchange for information that will enable him to secure the Du Barry letters. As Captain Moray steadfastly refuses to barter Sir John's secret for his liberty, Doltaire transfers Robert to Quebec, where authority from "Ihe Seats of the Mighty" is supreme, and takes him before Bigot, the Intendant, who, at Doltaire's behest, gives Robert the freedom of the city. At Bigot's palace, Robert meets Juste Duvarney, son of M. Duvarney, who has recently become a member of Bigot's Court. The friendship between the young men grows. Robert is presented to Alixe Duvarney while visiting Juste at the Duvarney Chateau, and recognizes in Juste's father his old-time friend. Ere long, the young Virginian and the fair maid of Quebec find their hearts enmeshed in Cupid's net. Doltaire, himself enamored of Alixe, discovers Capt. Moray's love for the girl is returned. Jealous of Robert's successful wooing, Doltaire plans his ruin. Through Labrouk, his tool and henchman, whom he has installed in Moray's quarters as guard, Doltaire secretes plans of the Quebec fortifications in Robert's quarters, where he later brings Bigot to discover them. Robert is denounced as a spy and is arrested while calling on Alixe. Doltaire meets Bigot on the palace steps as he convoys Moray to prison and directs the Intendant to invite Robert to dine that evening at his palace. Winning the sympathy of Gabord, the prison guard, Captain Moray induces him to send a letter to Alixe. In order to further discredit Moray, Doltaire poisons Juste's mind against Moray and precipitates a duel between Robert and Alixe's brother, Juste, by inciting him, while under the influence of wine, to insult Robert at the dinner. Moray is loath to quarrel with Alixe's brother and Juste taunts him with being a coward as well as a spy. In the duel which follows Robert wounds Juste, who is carried to Duvarney Chateau by Doltaire. The crowning test of Alixe's love comes when Doltaire informs her that her sweetheart, the spy, fought with her brother. Alixe remains loyal, nevertheless, and contrives to send Robert assurance that Juste will live. Alixe has a staunch friend in Voban, the barber, and in Mathilde, his pretty peasant-girl sweetheart, whose voyage to America Alixe arranged, but who, unfortunately, on her arrival, Bigot lured to his palace and seduced. Bigot's inhuman treatment of her there temporarily unbalances her mind and he permits her to leave the palace. Mathilde is entrusted with Alixe's message to Robert and delivers it to Voban, who takes it to Robert's dungeon. The day of Captain Moray 's trial arrives. Vaudreuil, the Civil Governor of New France, presides. Doltaire's testimony and Labrouk 's evidence convict Robert, who is found guilty and sentenced to die at dawn the following day. That evening, Alixe, disguised in her brother's court uniform, visits Robert's dungeon. Robert embraces and comforts her at their final parting and the friendly guard, Gabord, hurries her away before her identity can be discovered. Returning home, Alixe finds a note from Doltaire, who has called during her absence, praying her to attend the Governor's dinner, as he has matters concerning Robert to discuss with her. Accompanied by her father, Alixe goes to the dinner at the Governor's palace and there meets Doltaire who, at the first opportunity, declares his love for her and offers to save Robert's life if she will surrender herself to him. Alixe indignantly spurns Doltaire's advances and, pleading illness, beseeches her father to leave with her immediately. Doltaire cynically watches Alixe depart. Arriving home, Alixe, overwhelmed by despair, falls fainting to the floor. She is terrified by a vision of Robert's approaching ignominious death and, after a night of anguish, realizes that she cannot let him die. As the first blush of the morning lights the East, she snatches up her cloak, and fearful that she may be too late, hurries to Doltaire promising acceptance of his degrading terms in exchange for Robert's life and pardon, and implores him to save Robert. Doltaire, triumphant over the success of his plot, stays Captain Moray's execution and Robert is sent back to the dungeon, where Doltaire visits him and taunts him with his loss of Alixe. Finding he is still obdurate with regard to disclosing Sir John's secret, Doltaire decides to torture Captain Moray and has him heavily chained and maltreated. Unable to get news of Robert for some weeks, Alixe appeals to Vaudreuil, the Civil Governor. Vaudreuil visits the dungeon, and, angered by the indignities to which Robert has been subjected, has him removed to better quarters. Labrouk, who has been censured by Vaudreuil for his participation in Robert's abuse, informs Doltaire, also telling him that Alixe is responsible for the Governor's intervention. Doltaire appoints Labrouk Captain Moray's prison guard and, angered at Alixe, accuses her of duplicity. Alixe now plans to aid Robert to escape but, desiring to avert suspicion, offers to accompany Doltaire to the prison and return Captain Moray's love tokens, among which she has concealed a knife and a note assuring Robert of her constancy. They go to the prison and Alixe flings Robert 's letters at his feet. Doltaire jeers at Moray and in triumph escorts Alixe from the dungeon. Maddened by Doltaire's insults and Alixe's seeming infidelity Robert proceeds to destroy the packet of letters and discovers the knife and Alixe's note. Overjoyed, Robert takes the knife and prepares a way of escape. M. Duvarney and his son, Juste, depart to join the French forces defending Quebec. Doltaire later returns to the dungeon to gloat over his "vanquished" rival. Captain Moray simulates despair and hands Doltaire a cleverly worded note which informs Alixe that he will decamp that night but which leads Doltaire to believe Moray will end his life. In he same night Bigot, planning an all-night carousal, sends a command for Madame Jamond, the court dancer, to appear at the palace and aid his revelry. The messenger returns to the palace and reports to. Bigot the dancer's absence. Infuriated at the dancer's non-appearance, Bigot, who has been drinking freely, incites his wine-maddened guests to vent their spleen on "that spy Robert Moray," as a substitute pleasure. Some of the more sober oppose this whim and Bigot tipsily argues the point. Mathilde, who, unperceived, has gained entry to the palace, comes upon the scene of revelry and overhears the brawl. Her mind slowly comprehends its import and forgetting her intention to kill Bigot, her seducer, she sheathes the knife she has drawn and rushes to the Duvarney Chateau to warn Alixe of her lover's new danger. Fearing Robert's plan to escape will miscarry, Alixe hopes to appease Bigot's wrath by impersonating Jamond, the absent dancer, so that Robert may have time to gain his freedom. Her arrival is opportune, for Bigot, thinking she is Jamond, bids her dance. Meanwhile Robert has loosened the bars of his window and wrenched them apart. He is surprised by Labrouk as he is about to climb through, and a terrific fight between the two ensues. Robert's victory and escape is just in time, for Alixe, exhausted by her dancing, is about to be made the sport of Bigot's courtiers. Becoming frightened, Alixe screams, and Doltaire, recognizing her, rescues her from the drunken crowd. The revelers cry "If not the woman, then the spy" and led by Bigot, they rush forth to wreak their vengeance on Captain Moray only to find that their prisoner has fled. The news of Captain Moray 's escape infuriates Doltaire and, realizing that he has been duped by Alixe, he is about to strangle her when Bigot, recognizing her, intervenes. Turning from Alixe, Doltaire denounces Bigot, produces his authority from "The Seats of the Mighty, " and deposes him from office. Doltaire orders Labrouk, Captain Moray's guard, to bring back his prisoner or lose his life. Alixe flees from the palace and takes refuge in a convent to escape Doltaire's persecution. Captain Moray reaches the camp of General Wolfe and makes known to him a secret pass by which the English army can safely approach the otherwise impregnable Quebec. Robert conducts a party of officers to the pass leading to the Plains of Abraham. They report their find to General Wolfe while Captain Moray returns to Quebec to rescue Alixe. Labrouk, seeking Moray, meets him at the top of the pass and is killed by Robert in a hand-to-hand encounter. The English army, at dawn, has scaled the heights, and the battle for supremacy between England and France begins. Doltaire learns that Alixe has fled to the convent. Captain Moray, disguised in Labrouk's uniform, re-enters the city and searches for Alixe. Hearing of the battle and knowing that Alixe's father is one of Montcalm's staff, Doltaire conceives a plan to lure Alixe from the convent. Forcing a wounded soldier to accompany him, he sees Alixe and tells her M. Duvarney, her father, is seriously wounded. Robert, who is near the convent, sees Alixe depart with Doltaire and follows them to the palace. Once Alixe is in his room, Doltaire lays aside all pretense and seeks to embrace her. Robert, overcoming the guard stationed before the doors by Doltaire, breaks into the room and attacks Doltaire. In the fight, Captain Moray kills Doltaire and carries Alixe, fainting, from the room. The deposed Intendant Bigot, alarmed by the noise of battle on the Plains, loots the palace strong-box, intending flight. Voban the barber, whose sweetheart, Mathilde, Bigot had seduced, breaks into Bigot's quarters to avenge her wrong. Perceiving Bigot's preparations he goes into the powder magazine beneath the palace and plants a lighted fuse. Robert revives Alixe and conducts her to a place of safety just before the fuse ignites the powder. The terrific explosion which follows lays the palace in ruins. Mathilde sees her former sweetheart among the ruins. Her kiss of reconciliation brings peace to a tortured soul. Robert and Alixe, united at last, set out for the old Virginia home, its beckoning portals holding promise of their future happiness.
- McTeague begins life in the mines. He later becomes an unlicensed practicing dentist. He is a man of violent physical passions, but until he meets little Trina, who visits his dental office, his love instincts have never been aroused. McTeague induces Trina to marry him through the sheer force of his domineering personality. The couple are not happy. Trina develops miserly instincts and when she wins a $5,000 lottery prize, she hoards the money and grows more and more avaricious. McTeague quarrels with Marcus, his former rival for Trina's affections, and the ill feeling between the two men leads to a fierce combat in which McTeague proves the victor. In revenge Marcus has McTeague prevented from practicing dentistry because he has no diploma. McTeague leans on Trina for support but she turns him away. Trina has a severe illness and while recuperating develops a mania for fondling her hoarded gold pieces. McTeague returns to find Trina showering handfuls of gold upon her bed. After a terrific scene he strangles her and steals the money. Marcus, determined to avenge Trina's death, trails the fugitive McTeague into the heart of Death Valley, where the two men come at last face to face in a final battle to the death under the blistering desert sun.
- Temptation to cheat comes in the way of a young couple in reward for which the wife can escape from the bitterness of life on $25 per week in a New York suburb, i.e., Staten Island. There are no "classy," well-dressed people in New York south of Thirty-Fourth Street. Jane Reynolds, the aspirant after Fifth Avenue fine feathers thought this way, when the tempter came along and persuaded her to induce her husband to pass on an inferior quality of cement for a great dam then in course of construction. "Bob" Reynolds fell for the bribe and Jane got her fine feathers. The gambling mania got "Bob" and he was financially ruined in double quick time. The bursting of the dam, due to the bad cement, completed the tragedy of "Fine Feathers." The chief culprit, the tempter, committed suicide, and the young couple resolved to commence life all over again and go straight.
- Carl Winters is a teacher of music, at the New York College of Music. Among his pupils is Alice Winthrop, daughter of Stephen Winthrop, a banker. Carl and Alice are lovers. His employer, Director Bergh, witnesses a love scene between the two in the college. He dismisses Carl and informs the father of Alice of her love affair. The banker warns Alice that she must not see Winters again. The girl assures her father of Carl's honorable intentions and pleads to have him grant Winters an interview. The banker refuses. The girl tells Carl what has happened and that her father will leave the city with her for a long period. Carl asks her to become his wife. She consents and they are married. When Alice tells her father of her marriage, he orders her from his home. Carl and Alice spend their honeymoon in Carl's boarding house. Carl accepts an offer to become musical director in Rio De Janeiro. Alice promises to join him there as soon as he is established. Several months pass. The banker learns that his daughter is to become a mother. Mr. Winthrop goes to her and persuades her to return to his home. Alice, in her correspondence with her husband, has not told him of her secret so as to cause him no worry in his new position. Winthrop in his hatred for Carl intercepts and destroys the letters and cables which the husband and wife send to each other. Carl has met with success in his new position but is distressed at receiving no news from his wife. A daughter is born to Alice, who dies from septic poisoning. Carl, alarmed by his wife's silence, resolves to return and to bring his wife back with him. Before his departure he receives a cable from her father announcing the death of his daughter, Carl's wife. After a long illness, Carl leaves the hospital, friendless and disheartened. He earns a livelihood singing in amusement places, accompanied by a harp player, a faithful fellow, devoted to Carl, his teacher. Years have gone by and Carl's daughter, of whose existence he has been kept ignorant, is now a girl of seventeen years. Her father in South America has become gray and old and is making a living as a street singer. His wish is to visit the grave of his wife and he returns with his harpist to New York. One day his daughter while out riding is attracted by the sounds of music. She speaks to the singer and invites him to come to her home the next day, which is her birthday, to play and sing for her. Carl consents. Carl and the harpist go to the Winthrop home and he sings for the young girl, whose identity is unknown to him, the song he had often sung tor his wife for whom he composed it. The girl goes to dress for dinner, asking Carl to continue the song. He sees a photograph. It is the portrait of his wife. The banker enters and accuses Carl and the harpist of being impostors and thieves. Carl learns from Winthrop that the young girl is the child of Winthrop's daughter, Carl's own child. Winthrop orders Carl from the house when Carl tells him that he is the father of the girl. The banker offers Carl money to conceal his identity. Carl refuses the money, but resolves to go out of his daughter's life to preserve her happiness. After a final meeting with his daughter, he is about to leave the house when the banker, filled with remorse, tells his grandchild, "Alice, this man is your father. You must honor thy father and thy mother, so sayeth the Fifth Commandment." The story ends with father and daughter embracing, the banker asking Carl's forgiveness.
- The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in it. Six years later Little Dutch is sharing in the labors of her guardian, assisting him in the garden and trudging by his side to the city market. When she is 14, death takes her guardian. He leaves her a few coins, besides the house and garden, and she lives there alone. Famous painter Lionel, seeking a model for his "Marguerite," sees Little Dutch and persuades her to pose for him. Woodman Jean becomes jealous of the attentions of Lionel. On the day the good Padre sets aside for the villagers to make a pilgrimage to the Shrine, Lionel invites Little Dutch to share a day's outing with him. After a drive they visit a hotel. From a secluded arbor where they are eating she sees the villagers enjoying themselves. At eventide they return to her home, where he bids her goodnight. Her absolute innocence has conquered him. Lionel resolves to leave her in peace. He tells her he must go away. Poor Little Dutch becomes more and more quiet. One day Lise, who always delighted in torturing Little Dutch, tells her, "Your painter is poor, and ill in the great city." Little Dutch resolves to go to his assistance. She finds that with no money she cannot ride, so she resolves to walk the 200 miles. When Jean learns that Little Dutch has left for the great city, he hastens there, locates the painter's abode, and awaits the coming of Little Dutch. Finally she arrives, with holes worn through her wooden shoes, clothing bedraggled and worn, a really forlorn object. She rings the bell, the door noiselessly opens and she enters, astonished and awestruck, a large gallery filled with paintings and statues. She hears voices, follows the sound and finally locates the noise behind the curtains. She parts them and is dazzled when she sees Lionel lying on a couch, surrounded by a riotous crowd of men and very décolleté women. With a piercing scream Little Dutch turns and flees. Lionel tries to follow. Faithful Jean, although he has remained on watch outside, is not in time to prevent her from jumping into the river but he rescues her and takes her home. On her little bed she lies, surrounded by her neighbors whose sympathy is extended, alas. too late. One day she rouses herself and, placing two rosebuds in her wooden shoes, says "Send them to him," she says. One night she passes out through the open door, proceeds to the edge of the lake, and slips in among the lilies from whence she came.
- Hugh Eltinge, a struggling artist, and Mark Dunbar, a genius of the pen, whom the world has as yet failed to reward, live together in MacDougal Alley. Across the hall is Doris Golden, a reporter on the Evening Star, who enthuses over the work of both. Mark's novel is sold and Hugh and Doris see a new Mark. Mark begs Hugh to allow him to stake him until his pictures sell, but pleasure in his new clothes and new popularity dwindle as he sees his old friends will not profit by them. A happy idea strikes him and he buys all of Hugh's paintings on exhibition at a local dealer, requesting that his name be not mentioned. Mark rejoices with Hugh when he comes home to tell the news. Then the two decide Doris must also share with them, and together they go to a lawyer, and arrange to persuade him to send a letter to Doris saying her uncle in San Francisco has died leaving her a thousand dollars. In another section of the City Mrs. Trailes and her daughter, Ruby, scheme to ensnare a wealthy husband for the girl. Mark's reputation has impressed them. He is invited to attend a meeting of their Literary Club and the girl is given instructions to attract him. Mark meets the young society girl. Hugh and Doris, she is reporting the meeting, are also there and to them evidences of Mark's awakening infatuation are pitifully clear. Mark sees Ruby often. At a ladies' swimming club he is the guest of her mother. At a sign from her mother Ruby pretends to be drowning and Mark jumps in to her rescue. The friendship thus engendered ripens into love and it is not long before they are married. But early in his wedded life Mark begins to feel the pangs of disillusion. Ruby is pettish and extravagant and when he remonstrates with her, she breaks into tirades of scolding that drive him to silence. Doris discovers her uncle is alive, and, perplexed, goes to the lawyer, who tells her all. She writes to Mark, enclosing a check for the whole amount she has left and promising to send the balance as soon as she can. His wife intercepts the letter and accuses him of infidelity. Her true vulgarity asserts itself and he goes to the little studio. Ruby follows and finds him with Doris and another scene is enacted. Mark begs Hugh to look after Doris, then leaves. Hugh leaves a letter for Doris and a note in which he asks her not to read the letter before she has found happiness. Hugh tells a newspaper reporter with whom he is acquainted that he has inherited a fortune from his grandfather, and the account is printed in the evening paper. Ruby and her mother remember he is a friend of Mark's and ask him to call. Soon a closer intimacy than friendship develops and Mark comes home one evening to find Ruby in his friend's arms. Disillusioned, his last ideal, friendship, completely shattered, Mark hurries away. After the divorce, he seeks Doris and the two become engaged. She remembers the letter and opens it. Herein Hugh has outlined his plans, the story of the fortune was a hoax, wherewith to entrap Ruby. For the sake of friendship he had sacrificed himself to bring happiness to the two he loved. Mark telephones to him and when he comes the old feeling of happiness and love fills once more the little studio in MacDougal Alley.