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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- A woman is forced to reevaluate the quiet man in her life when she finds he actually could be her knight in shining armor.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- The son of a poor inn keeper decides to leave his home to seek his fortunes in a foreign clime. Bidding his mother good-bye, she puts a locket around his neck as a remembrance. Tears roll by and the folks have not heard from their son. In the meantime, the son has struck it rich, but he has neglected his parents, and in a quiet moment, he remembers the locket his mother gave him. He desires to return home, but to surprise his parents, he writes them he is coming home poor instead of rich. Tears have changed his appearance and on his return his parents do not recognize him. He rents a room from them without telling who he is. In paying for his room, he shows a large sum of money, which tempts the mother to steal, so she can have money to welcome her poor son's return. She enters his room and kills him. She then discovers it was her own son by the locket hanging around his neck. The sheriff arrives and takes her away. While pleading with the sheriff, she awakes and finds it all a dream. The son comes down and tells her who he is.
- Things go too far for a group of bullies, when Raymond, a 12-year old boy with a troubled life, who they make fun of and tease for their amusement is hit by a car.
- David and Jane are in love, but each suspects that the other is unfaithful. Jane employs Bessie to meet David and put him to the test by trying to induce him to make love to her. David employs John to make love to Jane to see if she will accept his attentions. The scheme progresses better than expected. John persuades Jane to elope, although her conscience tells her to stick to David. Likewise Bessie persuades David to elope with her. Autos are employed for the elopement, and both take place at the same hour. The autos collide at a crossing, and Jane steps right out and accuses David of unfaithfulness. David draws himself up to his full height and makes the same charge against Jane. David and Jane walk with their respective partners and quarrel. They reach the train so wrapped up in each other they cannot be separated, so finish their honeymoons by eloping with each other, and John and Bessie are left flat. We then learn that John and Bessie planned the two elopements and the auto wreck to bring David and Jane to their senses through jealousy. John and Bessie have been sweethearts all along without the audience knowing they were even acquainted.
- A woman innocently stealing roses catches the attention of the owner of the garden, who falls in love with her.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Mercy Merrick, released from prison, goes to the Rev. Mr. Gray at the mission for assistance. He sends her to the French consul. The latter aids the girl just released from jail by sending her to France as an army nurse. Horace Holmcroft goes to the continent as a war correspondent. His mother in her loneliness writes to Grace Roseberry, an artist struggling in France, to come and live with her. Grace accepts the invitation. On her way she gets caught in the battle lines and takes refuge in a hospital in which Mercy is acting as a nurse. In a burst of confidence Mercy tells Grace of her prison record. Grace is struck by a shell and apparently killed; in fact, one surgeon says she is dead. Mercy takes from the bag of Grace her passport and the letter from Mrs. Holmcroft inviting her to visit her and sets out for the home of the latter. Young Holmcroft, who has met her at the hospital, keeps her company. Mrs. Holmcroft receives Mercy with open arms. The young woman wins the affection of Horace, he proposes and is accepted. Grace, at first thought to be dead, recovers through an operation and resumes her journey. When she arrives at Mrs. Holmcroft's she is spurned as an impostor. Grace goes to the Rev. Mr. Gray, who calls on Mrs. Holmcroft. He recognizes Mercy. The girl, however, insists that she is the one she pretends to be. The clergyman is not insistent. Grace again appeals to Mr. Gray. Mercy, suffering the tortures imposed by a guilty conscience, also visits Mr. Gray. Later, in a strong scene, when a policeman is taking from the Holmcroft home the victim of Mercy's pretensions, the impostor breaks down and confesses. Mercy returns to the mission, where the clergyman advises with her and consoles her.
- A dramatic love triangle between two women and a man.
- Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon landing in New England is captured by Indians and Hester waits for him in vain. There has never been much love in their marriage, Roger being an old man and she a comely young woman. Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, the handsome Young minister of the Salem community, is revered and beloved by his parishioners. He meets Hester clandestinely and an unlawful love is the result. When Hester is discovered with a baby, a mother but not a wife, she is arrested, tried and condemned to stand upon the public pillory with her child and for the remainder of her life to wear conspicuously on her breast the letter "A." As she stands on the raised platform, the governor of the colony commands her to divulge the name of the father of the child. She refuses. The Rev. Master Dimmesdale is asked to persuade her to reveal her secret. He addresses her, and tells her if she thinks it for the best, to do so. She again refuses. Roger, her husband, has been released by the red men and he appears in Salem on the day of her public disgrace and recognizes her. He signals for her to be silent as the recognition is mutual. A silence for a silence is agreed upon. He takes the name of Roger Chillingworth and, being a physician, is called to prescribe for the suffering minister, knowing him to be the father of Hester's child. The child, Pearl, grows into a beautiful girl and the governor decides that Hester is not the proper person to rear her. Hester in her grief, appeals to the minister and he in turn prevails on the governor to allow her the custody of the child. As time passes the minister is growing weaker and weaker in bodily strength and the guilty secret gives him no peace of mind. Meeting Hester and Little Pearl by accident, he tells the woman of his terrible punishment. She, in love and pity, tears the letter from her breast and proposes that they leave the country together to begin life anew. Little Pearl finds the letter and restores it to Hester and they realize they cannot escape the consequences of their sinning. On a holiday the minister preaches a powerful sermon in the church on the sins of the flesh and the penalty for evil doing. As he appears in the market place, he is cheered by the members of his congregation. He is overcome by emotion as the awful truth is brought home to him that he is a hypocrite. Seeing Hester and Little Pearl standing near, he pulls himself together by a mighty effort and resolves to confess his sins publicly. Taking them by the hands, he slowly and deliberately mounts the pillory, with Hester amazed, and then, to the astonishment of his flock and the loungers standing near, proclaims Pearl as his child and arraigns himself as a sinful teacher. The members of the church are appalled and dumb with astonishment. They cannot comprehend it. Hester smiles through her tears. She will no longer bear the burden of shame alone. The moment has arrived when she is partially vindicated by the self-sacrifice of the sharer of her degradation. The final effort, coupled with years of intense suffering, proves too great a tax on the strength of the minister and he falls dead at the foot of the pillory. Hester supports his head, with tears coursing down her cheeks. The vindication has come, but with it has gone the man she has loved in secret while being subjected to the jeers of her fellows.
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- Harry Spencer is jealous of his fiancée Pearl Brown, she is jealous of him, and each resolves to cure the other. Harry persuades a friend to dress up as a woman and sends him (her) to commiserate with Pearl, which he does so thoroughly that Harry becomes alarmed at the display of affection on the part of the disguised man towards the unsuspecting girl. After a series of cross-purposes, however, the disguise of the spurious woman is accidentally revealed and he is ejected from the house. Harry confesses his fault, then learns that the original suspicions were unfounded and that Pearl's alleged admirer was only her cousin.
- Emerson Boyd is the owner of the Great Boyd Mills, a relentless scheming, grinding corporation, which employs child labor and disregards all laws of health and sanitation. He is also in control of the Boyd Chemical Company, another large corporation with the same greedy and heartless policy which turns out upon the public certain harmful and toxic medicines, among which is Saco-Ozone, a widely advertised cure for tuberculosis and pulmonary diseases. Back of the powerful arm of Emerson Boyd is David Duncan, general manager of the Boyd Mills. Duncan is also a crooked politician. He is in love with Eleanor, Boyd's daughter, who, however, is secretly engaged to Matthew Brand, one of the idle rich. Emerson Boyd reads a newspaper attack upon the Boyd Corporation and, in a great rage, calls Duncan to see what influence he can use as a political boss to muzzle the paper. Eleanor goes away and Brand runs across the newspaper article against her father. Alarmed by the facts set forth in the paper, Brand determines to investigate, and, calling upon Cole, the editor of the "Clarion," hears a story that makes him sick at heart. Then he learns that Boyd's political machine has muzzled the paper. Brand pays a visit to Boyd's factories, and is horrified at the unsanitary conditions. Brand visits the "Clarion" office and buys the paper, but retains Cole to help him. They start at once on an article that drives Boyd wild with rage when the paper comes from the press. Brand goes to call on Eleanor. At the same time Duncan and the detective are closeted with Boyd. While Brand is telling Eleanor of his campaign with the Tuberculosis Society to wipe out the dread disease the detective is telling Boyd that the man who is so bitterly opposing him and printing the vitriolic stories is none other than the quiet Matthew Brand, who has been courting his daughter. Boyd is astounded. Meanwhile, Eleanor has become so enthusiastic that she determines that her father must hear the story and hurries to the library, where Boyd is closeted with his hirelings, and begs him to come and listen to Matthew Brand. When Brand sees Boyd, the latter attacks him unsparingly and, refusing to grant him a hearing, orders him to leave the house and never return. Eleanor is astounded. The National Tuberculosis Society meets with failure, for, when Boyd learns of the proposed sanitarium, he orders the mayor to prevent it, fearing that it might hurt his patent medicine business. Following the dictates of his superior, Mayor Alrich replies that the finances of the town would not warrant such a measure. Meanwhile Boyd becomes interested in the persistent attack upon the horrible system of the great mills and inquires of Duncan as to the truth of the stories. The latter lies glibly. In the meantime, Eleanor has gone to the "Clarion'' office to see her sweetheart. Duncan calls, and Brand pushes Eleanor into an adjoining room, that she may hear what is said. Duncan threatens Brand to induce him to stop the damaging articles, but Brand defies him. Boyd is beginning to admire Brand, but Duncan plans to dynamite the "Clarion." Eleanor, becoming very ill, the old family physician is sent for, and, making a thorough examination, tells Boyd the crushing news that his daughter has symptoms of tuberculosis. Duncan arrives at the rendezvous where he learns that the police have become suspicious of the gangsters and they had retired to await his orders. Duncan is angered to the utmost over the hitch in the well-laid plans, and, calling them all the utmost cowards, takes the bomb himself and bids them follow. In the darkness of the rear of the "Clarion" office, Duncan sets the bomb and lights it, while on the inside, Brand and a helper are working over some copy. The bomb has a defective fuse, and a premature explosion takes place, killing Duncan, while the falling bricks and masonry seriously injure Brand. Boyd's family physician tells the money king that there are no places in Every-town for the proper treatment of tuberculosis, as Boyd and other corporation owners have persistently fought to keep out all sanitariums. Boyd thinks of his own remedy, and sends for a case of Saco-Ozone. He reads from the testimonials of its wonderful cures, but the family physician appears, and hurls it all from the window, telling him that it is harmful and poisonous. He then tells Boyd that Eleanor, to get well, must be sent to an open air sanitarium. When Boyd tells Eleanor of the doctor's suggestion, and offers her anything her heart desires, if she will only try to get well, he is told that her one wish is that he will send for Brand and listen to him. Boyd leads Brand to the library, where he listens to the other's talk on the existing evil conditions and of his efforts to prevent the spreading of tuberculosis. Boyd thereupon plans to reconstruct Every-town. Miracle upon miracle is accomplished by the enthusiastic money king, who sends his daughter to a sanitarium, where she ultimately recovers after receiving good care, fresh air, rest and wholesome food. The story ends one year later with a big banquet to celebrate a new and clean Every-town and, incidentally, the engagement of Eleanor and Brand.
- Herbert Wood, a confidential clerk, is in love with Julia Dale. Mr. Dale approves of his suit for his daughter's hand, but Julia's mother favors Don Wallace, who poses as a society man, but in reality is the leader of a notorious gang of thieves. Affiliated with Wallace is Olga Strogoff. Wallace plans to discredit Herbert. Wallace and Olga both attend the reception given at Dale's residence. Olga steals a watch from an old gentleman and drops it out of the window to the waiting gangster. Then she adroitly unclasps and removes from Julia's neck a pearl necklace. Herbert drops a card-case. Wallace picks it up, and, after enclosing the necklace taken from Julia, puts the card-case back in Herbert's pocket. The old gentleman discovers the loss of his watch and Julia the loss of her necklace. Mr. Dale telephones to the police station, and Detective Lamar responds. Wallace announces that he knows Herbert to be the thief, as he saw him put the necklace in his coat-pocket. The detective searches him and the necklace is found. The arrest of Herbert is stopped by Mr. Dale, who declares there must be some mistake. Wallace has apparently accomplished his purpose, as Julia will not recognize Herbert. But there is trouble in store for Wallace, as Olga betrays jealousy, and after trying to get him to desist in his attentions to Julia, she plans revenge. Olga overhears Wallace giving directions to rob the safe of the office where Herbert is employed. Detective Lamar accuses Herbert and arrests him. On the way to the police station, Olga informs the detective of Herbert's innocence. The den is raided and Herbert, the detective, and half a dozen policemen engage in a fight with gangsters, who are ultimately subdued and led off to the police station. Wallace is shot while attempting to make his escape.
- Gerald Kinney is a roué and travels with a fast set, having plenty of money to indulge his tastes and going the pace that kills. He is somewhat satiated with the life he is leading and his better nature asserts itself at times. He leaves his club, where the wine is flowing and the tables are strewn with poker chips, and motors out into the country. In a pretty wooded dell, by the side of a quaint old well, he meets Myrtle Edgar, a simple country maiden, pretty, pure and demure. It is a revelation to him. The girl is a new type, unlike any woman he has ever seen. She shyly gives him a drink of the cool water. Endeavoring to take liberties with her, he is repulsed, kindly but firmly, and that is a new experience for the debonair clubman. It is a welcome innovation and he sees in her only the pure and holy. Roses grow in profusion in the pretty spot and she plucks one and fastens it on his lapel. The rose acts as a talisman. Whenever he is tempted to do wrong, he regards the flower. His friends rail at him and wish to learn his secret, but he guards it jealously; gradually dropping his old acquaintances and leading a more quiet life. The memory of the sweet country girl is always before him. At a swell society function, he suddenly thinks of her and is distrait. He leaves his handsomely gowned partner and walks out into the night, the memory of Myrtle haunting him. He seeks her out and makes an honest declaration of his love, but she intuitively divines there is a disparity in their station. He tells her of his past life and she puts him on probation. They are married and after a few years of wedded life a child comes to gladden their hearts. One night the wife is conning a book and finds between the leaves a pressed rose. She questions him and he tells her it is the rose she gave him at the old well, the flower that made a man of him and brought him a true and trusting wife, making his life brighter.
- Luther Clews, a Kentucky gentleman of the old school, finds himself in financial difficulties. His son Howard, owns Queen Bee, whom father and son expect to retrieve the family fortune, as she is entered in the famous Latonia Derby. Young Howard has lost heavily on a previous race, and without his father's knowledge has given his note for $5,000 to Doc Martin, an unscrupulous poolroom owner doing business in Lexington, Kentucky. Martin, knowing Queen Bee's great value and thinking that if she were scratched, his own, Eagle, would win the Derby, induces young Howard to give him a mortgage on Queen Bee to secure the note. The day Howard is to ship his horse to Latonia, Martin forecloses. At this juncture. Howard's fiancée buys all interest in Queen Bee. Martin secures the assistance of a friend who endeavors to poison the animal in order to prevent her entry in the race. The plot is foiled by Howard, who is secretly watching his pet. The race is run. Queen Bee is victorious, and fortune again smiles on the Clews family.
- Plunged into the depth of mysticism and led by the ever-beckoning finger of science, the mirage of an Eleventh Dimension is always before the old professor's eyes. His concealed laboratory is filled with the latest chemical appliances and, in spite of his daughter's pleadings, his days and most of his nights are spent vainly searching for the unknown. Betty's joy in the love of young Lloyd Chambers is interwoven with anxiety for the state of her father's mind, especially as, for some unknown reason, he disapproves of her union with her lover and at the same time countenances the suit of his elderly friend, Dr. Lovejoy. Betty having retired for the night, the old man prepares to spend the hours in his beloved experiments. The electric furnace is at white heat. All the test tubes are laid out and retorts cast their reflections around. He transfers a few drops of liquor from one tube into another and a pale blue smoke arises, a flash, and to his distorted brain appears the image of a large cat. His hoarse cry of "success at last" is heard by Betty, who has crept from her bed and now stands at the open door of the laboratory. The terrible light in his eyes tells her that his brain has at last given way, and frightened, she closes the door. Dr. Lovejoy, interested in the old man's work, to a certain point, offers to bring one of his patients for experimental work, one whose life is despaired of. However, the sight of the laboratory quenches all desire for martyrdom in the visitor and he promptly refuses to lend himself. Foiled by his departure, the professor's twisted mind prompts him to chloroform the doctor and in an unwary moment the latter is drugged and strapped to the chair. Recovering consciousness, he pleads for mercy and the professor agrees to play a game of chess, the loser to give up his life, in order that he, the professor, may prove his theory that one lives after death. Beaten in the game, the doctor cheats and the old man turns the gun on himself and fires. A moment passes and he finds that he is still alive. Quickly he grabs the paper and writes, "This proves existence after death." Meanwhile, Betty, sensing something is wrong, tells Lloyd that her father and Lovejoy have been for hours in the laboratory. The police are called and the door is burst open. The wild exclamations of triumph from the professor are cut short by the discovery that the bullet has been deflected by his watch. The fact that he was not dead, not even hurt, is a sore blow to the old man's pride, but his sorrow is short-lived, however, for the sight of his daughter being embraced by young Lloyd restores his reason.
- Bill, having decided on a day's fishing, casts his line into the river. A nibble on the line causes him to draw in his line quickly, and, to his surprise, a boot is caught on the end of his line. Violet and a number of girls are off for a picnic, and are scouting around for a desirable spot to spread their luncheon. Bill falls asleep and rolls into the water. He undresses himself and hangs his wet clothes on the bushes nearby. Then he jumps into the water to await the drying of his clothes. A goat from a nearby farm wends its way to the bushes and eats Bill's clothes. Violet and the girls find the desirable location where the goat has just finished eating unfortunate Bill's clothes. The girls are about to enjoy their luncheon when a snake scares the girls away. Bill, seeing his opportunity, wraps the tablecloth about his body and starts to go home. Twilight having set in, a negro, who has just stolen a number of chickens in a bag, sees Bill dressed in the white tablecloth, thinks he is a ghost, and runs for dear life, dropping the bag of chickens. Bill picks up the chickens and again starts for home. A farmer, discovering his loss, starts on a hunt for the culprit, and sees Bill carrying the bag of chickens. He takes Bill to the sheriff, who, after listening to Bill's plea, starts for the scene of Bill's misfortune. They see the evidence of Bill's plight and release him. Left alone, Bill picks up the boot that he had fished out of the water and discovers a bottle inside containing a note requesting the finder to communicate with the writer a£ a certain address. Violet, who wrote the note, is duly advised of Bill's intended visit. She confides in a number of her girlfriends, who decide that she must dress herself up as an old maid. She follows out the suggestion. Bill calls on Violet. When he sees Violet in her old maid make-up he takes to his heels, followed by Violet. The chase leads through a field where a bull, angered by the color of Violet's dress, dashes madly after her. She is rescued from the maddened bull by Bill. During the chase Violet has lost part of her old maid's costume. She looks at Bill, who loses no time in capturing his prize.
- Wilbur Rallston, a young lawyer who has a fair practice, is in medium circumstances. His friends are artist Paul Schall and doctor Calvert Irvine. In the same city is Harris Raymond, president of the city's largest bank. Raymond has one daughter, Nella. At the studio where she is to be painted with her wealthy suitor Feldman, Nella meets Wilbur; later, after a number of studio sittings, they fall in love. Paul is also in love with Nella, but keeps this secret, except from Irvine. Later Wilbur and Nella are married. Feldman goes to Paul's studio to have his portrait painted. Nella tells Wilbur that Raymond, her father, is retiring from the bank after a most successful career. By talk like this she urges Wilbur on to make a name for himself and to rise to the pinnacle of his profession. He devotes all his time to business, but with little success. Feldman goes to see his finished portrait, and worried over financial troubles and further angered because the painting does not suit him, he attempts to tear it up. Paul tries to stop him, and in the struggle Feldman strikes Paul a blow, which accidentally kills him. Wilbur oversees this and Feldman tells him that if he will clear him of the crime, he will give him entire charge of his affairs and make him famous. For Nella's sake, Wilbur consents. Feldman is freed of all blame, and true to his promise, he begins to send Wilbur rich clients. Finally Wilbur reaches the pinnacle of success as a lawyer. In the meantime, Feldman has been paying attention to Nella. Wilbur and Nella are invited to a reception, but at the last moment Wilbur finds that business prevents his attending, and he suggests that Nella go with Feldman. After the two have gone, Wilbur goes to the office. Coming home shortly before the time for the reception to be over, he finds a letter from the hostess saying that on account of her illness, the reception has been called off. He inquires of the servants if Nella has returned and is told she has not. A couple of hours pass. Nella and Feldman return and the latter tells Wilbur that the reception was a great success. Wilbur keeps quiet and asks Feldman to sit down. He then shows him the letter saying that the reception was canceled. A struggle takes place. Nella hears the noise of the struggle and is frightened. Pulling aside the curtains, she sees the finish, Feldman dead on the floor. Husband and wife are reconciled.
- Percy Vane's young wife goes out for the day, leaving her house all locked up. Hubby arrives home unexpectedly early, is unable to enter by the front door, and tries the fire-escape route. A policeman sees him, arrests him, and marches him off to the station. Percy convinces the magistrate that he is not a burglar and is allowed to go free. He makes his way indoors at last to discover that his wife is out and that she has left an unfinished letter on the table. That letter is addressed to a man. Rage and jealousy take possession of Percy. He is in the middle of packing up his belongings when his wife returns. A quarrel ensues; she packs up her things, and the stupid young couple would have inevitably parted if it was not revealed that the letter the girl was writing was meant for a relative and not for a lover. Percy apologies for his haste and is forgiven.
- A wealthy iron master finds sufficient argument to justify his ill and sometimes inhuman treatment of his men. His daughter Viola is a wholesome-spirited girl whose cosmopolitan training and direct contact with the grosser sides of life counteract the impotent beliefs and principles that have sought to smother her. The professional agitator stirs up discontent among the laborers. David Greig, dreamer and philosopher, imbibes new teachings on the governing principles of love and war. When the strike breaks out, led by the fiery agitator, Ben Shoreham, young Greig preaches tolerance to the men. After a physical encounter with Shoreham, Greig takes the deputation of the men to see the iron master. At this psychological moment the iron master is at a crisis in his own business: unable to make delivery on a certain contract and news of the pending strike spells ruin to him. It is during the heated argument that Greig meets Viola. The girl becomes interested in the grievances of the men. Greig takes her into the home of her father's laborers and points out to her the results of cupidity on her father's part. Meanwhile, Morton's troubles increase. The date of the forfeit clause in his contract draws near and it is only the ending of the strike that can save him. His daughter, unaware of this, assists the men in their fight by disposing of her jewels. Greig discovers her sacrifice and promises to do what he can to save the father. At this time his great teacher Rossini passes away and Greig learns for, the first time his true identity, he was Count Michael de Rossini, of Tuscany. Greig inherits a legacy of $250,000. Overcome with the emotion he rushes to the iron master and asks if it is true that, through the action of the strikers, he is ruined. The iron master grimly admits it. Greig shows him Rossini's letter and offers to buy an interest and settle the strike. The iron master consents and the strike is settled by granting the request of the laborers. Later, the spirit of Rossini brings David and Viola into the harbor of sweet content.
- Miles Darragh and Matthew Daly are two old cronies who have reached that stage of life where, having plenty of money, they decide to take things easy and enjoy themselves. Darragh has a daughter named Maud and Daly has a son called King. King and Maud are engaged to be married, much to the joy of their fathers who see in the union of the two families the culmination of their fondest dreams. One day, while the two old gentlemen are peacefully playing cards in the Darragh library, King and Maud have a violent lovers' quarrel in the drawing-room, over King's refusal to give up cigarettes. The quarrel finally reaches such proportions as to attract the attention of the two fathers, who stop playing and rush to the door of the room just in time to see King leaving the house "forever." The two old friends, fearing the end of all their dreams, hold a brief conference and decide upon a ruse to draw the young lovers together again. Hastily drinking a glass of wine apiece, they pretend they have been poisoned and soon arouse the house by their pitiful cries and groans. Maud, frightened out of her fit of anger by the noise, rushes into the room, and learning the cause of the trouble, becomes terribly alarmed and dashes for the telephone for aid, and to whom should she call in her hour of need but to her faithful King? Learning the dreadful news, he runs for a doctor. In the meantime, the old gentlemen have enjoyed listening to Maud's end of the telephone conversation, but when she returns to the library with a maid, the old schemers are again writhing about in apparently mortal agony. Taken to a bedroom by the two girls, they fall helplessly on the bed and continue to call madly for help. King soon arrives with a physician, who is escorted to the bedside of the sufferers and after a brief glance at the old men he orders the young couple from the room and begins his examination. Being soon convinced that his patients are merely "faking," he proceeds to frighten the truth from them by a liberal display of deadly looking surgical instruments. His artifice proves entirely successful, for they immediately leap from the bed and confess their duplicity and the cause of it, but, nothing daunted, secure his assistance by presenting him with a liberal fee. The doctor then visits the young folks, whom he finds clinging lovingly and sorrowfully to each other, their recent quarrel completely forgotten. Telling them that they may have one last look at their fathers before the end comes, the two follow him, and entering the room, gather sadly about the seeming deathbed. The two old reprobates then ask the children to promise they will never quarrel again. As the young people fondly embrace and solemnly promise to love and cherish each other as long as life shall last, the old gentlemen leap from their bed of suffering and boisterously disclose their clever ruse.
- The story opens after the death of Vivian's father, with the reading of his will, Vivian is made sole heiress, while her uncle is placed over her as guardian for a term of years. Should she marry, the estate goes to the husband. The uncle, Ralph, determines to marry his own son, Jack, to Vivian, and as the estate is on a secluded island, he is confident that matters will work out his way. We are then introduced to Teddy and Brian, who leave in a motor launch to look for what Brian calls "the land of romance." They arrive at Vivian's island and make camp. Vivian, meanwhile annoyed by the attentions of Jack, complains to her guardian, and declares her intention of returning to the mainland. She attempts it that night, but is injured in a trap set by the father and son. Brian and Teddy hear the girl's cry; they rush to her assistance, only to be met by father and son, who order them from the island as trespassers. As the girl lies unconscious on the bed, the guardian takes her picture to be used as a lantern slide. His purpose is to throw the picture by means of a lantern, into Vivian's room, showing her dead. It is his scheme to drive her insane or to suicide. Teddy, while roaming around the house investigating, is captured and made a prisoner in the cellar; his boat is overturned to give Brian the impression that he is drowned. Later a nurse comes to the island to care for Vivian; she soon suspects something wrong, and informs Brian whom she has met, of her fears. Vivian asks Brian to take her from the island. The plot discovered, the nurse finds herself also a captive with Teddy in the cellar. Vivian and Brian carry out their attempt to escape, but are foiled. It is Teddy's dog that rescues him from the cellar, and it is the dog which, while swimming to the mainland carrying a note for help, meets the boys in the rowing skiff. Following the race to the island, there is a terrific fight. But the guardian and his son are captured and made prisoners in the cellar themselves. Later, there is a double wedding, Brian and Vivian and the nurse and Teddy. Visiting the island in a launch, they send the dog off to the cellar with a package. The dog pulls the bolt and the guardian and his son stagger out; they open the package left by the dog. It is a wedding cake, and the two men are glad to get even a wedding cake to eat.
- James Randall is an austere businessman and often keeps his stenographer working overtime for hours. His neglect of his wife induces her to encourage the attention of social parasite Fred Ames. The evening when Mrs. Randall has gone to the theater with her admirer, Randall falls asleep by the fireside. In a vision he sees the curtains part and there appears The Traveler, who urges Randall to forget business and follow him. The Traveler takes him to the top of a high mountain; looking down they see the squalor of the city below. Randall wants to give money to a group of little children, but The Traveler stops him and says that happiness cannot be purchased with money. The Traveler then takes Randall into "The Little Church Around the Corner," where they see the choir boys singing, and it brings back to Randall memories of his young days. In his reverie, the austere businessman sees himself again as a young man escorting Nellie Good home from school. Later he has a rough-and-tumble fight with another schoolboy. The teacher sends him home, but instead he goes to a swimming pool where he is joined by the other boys after school. For this disobedience his father gives him a spanking, but his mother comes to his aid. The other scenes of Randall's boyhood follow in rapid succession, until we see him grown into young manhood. Nellie Good married another young fellow, but Randall's mother comforts him until he finally finds the "right girl" and marries her. Years later he has become a successful businessman, but his desire for riches has so warped his nature that he has entirely forgotten his mother and developed into a severe man of business. Randall comes out of his reverie just in time to hear the minister at "The Little Church Around the Corner" say, "How many of those in my congregation have a mother?" He is overcome with emotion, and The Traveler takes him out of the church and leads him into a scene showing his boyhood home. He knows his mother is there and just as he is about to open the door the scene fades out, and he finds himself in his library. He is weeping with bitter remorse as his wife, who has become tired of her admirer, comes in. Mr. Randall recognizes by intuition that a change has come over her husband, and he takes her in his arms, saying, "Let's go home to Mother."
- Betty Pendleton, daughter of Cyrus Pendleton, a retired banker, makes her debut in society. Bob Blair, her girlhood lover, and her brother, Jack, note her transition from an immature girl to a woman of charm. The first man to fall under her bewitching glance is Hugh Forrest. Bob becomes jealous, but overcomes it a few days later, when Betty dismisses Forrest from her thoughts. Stanley Gates, one of Bob's friends, has promised to marry Katherine Gray. Betty casts her covetous glance over Stanley and he neglects Katherine to make love to her. But he is discarded when Betty tires of him. Bob brings about a reconciliation between Stanley and Katherine and begins to woo Betty again. Despite her brother Jack's warning that she is too young to think seriously of marriage, Bob proposes to Betty and she consents to marry him. Bob, who has taken his medical degree, now starts out to establish himself in his profession, but patients don't come to him very rapidly. So, on the advice of Mr. Pendleton, he locates in a new field, where he acquires a large practice. Betty has promised to go to him as soon as he sends for her. But no sooner has Bob left town when Betty meets Count Casalone, an Italian nobleman. She soon forgets her promises to Bob and pledges herself to marry the Count. She receives a letter from Bob telling her that he has provided a home for her and is anxiously awaiting her arrival. Betty reads the letter to the Count and the two have a good laugh over it. Then Betty writes Bob informing him of her engagement to Count Casalone. Bob is heartbroken when he receives the letter. Meanwhile Betty has amused herself sufficiently at the Count's expense and begins to tire of him. In driving through the park one day she sees Stanley Gates and his young wife and proceeds to engage him in a flirtation. That night Jack writes a letter to Bob, telling him that, despite the fact of Stanley's being happily married, Betty still has the power to enchant him. Later Bob meets Betty at the Van Aldyn reception and she greets him as of old. But Bob cuts her cold. Bob notes that Stanley is nervous, and that Betty cannot keep her eyes off him. Later Betty leads Stanley to the conservatory, where he proclaims his love. She yields to his embraces and he rains passionate kisses upon her face and hair. Bob is a witness of their love-making, and unable to contain himself any longer, he bursts in upon them and tells Stanley that his wife is ill. Stanley is completely dazed by this information and hurries away. Bob denounces her and then leads her back to the ballroom, where Stanley, meanwhile, has found his wife waiting for him. Suddenly realizing the meanness of his conduct he takes his wife home, followed by Bob, who, later in the evening, upbraids Stanley for his behavior. Stanley decides to break off his relations with Betty. After returning home Betty broods over Bob's denunciation of her as a silly social butterfly. Bob, who is about to leave to resume his practice at his own home, receives a call from Mr. Pendleton, who informs him that Betty has been taken seriously ill and implores him to come and attend her at once. Accordingly, he hurries to the Pendleton home, where he attends Betty with considerable medical skill and succeeds in saving her life. During her convalescence Betty repents of her past flirtations. Bob how makes a discovery. His love for Betty has by no means vanished forever, as he had supposed it had, and for fear that he may again fall a victim to her fascinating wiles, he turns her case over to another physician and returns home, where he finds himself besieged on all sides by his waiting patients. On returning to his office one evening he finds Betty awaiting him there. But she is now very meek and a different sort of a girl than she had been formerly. Bob soon realizes that his love for her is fully reciprocated, for she tells him that she loves him with all her heart. A reconciliation is the result.
- An old one armed soldier reads over yellowed love letters and they awaken fond memories. He is delighted to receive a letter from his old sweetheart, who is now a widow and he visits her. Over a cup of tea their romance is depicted in a pleasing manner. They are shown as youthful lovers, happy and envied. Older grown they plight their troth and the young man marches away to war. He is reported among the dead and she yields to the pleading of another man. Her soldier lover arrives home the day of the wedding but does not disclose his identity, not wishing to mar her happiness. She had supposed him dead until just prior to the opening of the story. The fond old memories are revived, and, with a sigh, the veteran turns to go. His romance, he thinks, is over. He has loved the old lady but lost her. She follows him to the door and puts her arm around his neck and they are both happy again.
- A penniless European aristocrat finds love in the tobacco fields of Cuba.
- Arthur Dennison, the only son of a wealthy man, selects the stage as his profession. His father strongly objects to the choice, and arguments proving unavailing, finally threatens to disinherit him should he persist in his determination to enter the dramatic field. Lucy, Mr. Dennison's adopted daughter, pleads for her brother, but the father remains firm, and Arthur leaves home. While he is absent, Mr. Dennison comes under the influence of a clever adventuress with whom he falls in love and unable to resist her fascinating wiles, settles his fortune upon her. Through this woman's scheming, Lucy is driven from home, and she writes Arthur to return and save his father from ruin, for he is induced to make bad investments by the woman and her brother. Arthur hastens home and finally succeeds in opening his father's eyes to the true character of the schemers. Mr. Dennison, realizing what a terrible mistake he has made, forgives the boy and willingly consents to his marriage with Lucy. Thus Arthur wins a bride and a prospective fortune.
- Toto lives with her uncle, Emoe, who compels her to dress as a boy and earn her board by picking pockets. Toto's ambition is to be like other girls. She dresses up much to the enjoyment of herself and her small sister. One day while Toto is dressed as a girl, Andy, a detective, tries to flirt with her, but gets his face slapped, and is reprimanded by Sergeant Bruce Reid. The whole force is on the lookout for a band of pickpockets. Andy sees Toto counting money. Bruce has seen Toto steal, but has lost track of her in the crowd. Andy follows her home, where she gives the money to Emoe. He leaves and is taken in custody by Bruce, who notices his stealthy actions. Andy enters Toto's room and tries to force his attentions on her. The little sister goes for help and, meeting the Sergeant, takes the latter home. The girl is struggling in Andy's arms. Andy is discharged and the sergeant takes Toto and her little sister to his home to be cared for by his mother.
- Bill Going is the star pitcher for his local Choctaw baseball team. Gamblers from Jimtown try to persuade him to throw the game and he shoots and kills them. He is given a reprieve to pitch the last game of the year.
- Jane, left an orphan in the Reed family, is unhappy. Under the harsh treatment of her foster parents the child grows delicate and the doctor orders her away. She is sent to the orphan home and there grows up to girlhood. Next she is sent to Rochester's home, where she is governess to his young ward, Adele. Many times during the night she is disturbed by strange noises. Time goes on and she learns to love her young master. He. in turn, loves her and his proposal of marriage is accepted. It is the wedding eve before Jane comes face-to-face with the origin of the strange noises: it is a crazy woman. This woman is the wife of Rochester and has been held captive in the upper part of his home for years. The crazy wife attempts to burn Rochester to death. Jane saves him. Rochester confesses all, declaring that the woman she has seen was forced upon him by his parents. While Jane would forgive, she declares herself unable to stay longer in his household; that all is over between them. The night that Jane leaves, the mad wife again escapes from her room and again sets fire to the house. She rushes to the roof. Rochester attempts to save her. Jane, looking back, has seen the fire. Rushing up, she asks about her lover. The mad wife jumps from the roof and dies. Jane enters the burning house and manages to save Rochester. He is made blind. It is Jane's loving hands that guide him through life.
- The great opera singer, against the advice of her physician, insists on singing at one more performance, to earn enough to complete the trust fund she desires to set aside for her child. The effort is too much, and she dies onstage. Her brother, who has been left guardian of the child, is crazed by the immense sum of money in his hands, and hides himself with the child and the money in a tenement, where the child is kept a virtual prisoner. The miser spends his days gloating over the stolen money. After 12 years, three Bohemian friends rent the studio immediately above, and the imprisoned heiress, through the ministrations of the tenement slavey, meets Karl, the pianist. The miser falls asleep after counting his treasure and leaves a candle burning, which sets fire to the room. Trying to reach the concealed fortune, he is burned to death. Karl seeing the smoke, gallantly rescues the girl who, alone in the world by the death of her uncle, is adopted by the three friends. Later, Karl discovers that the girl has a wonderful voice, and sets himself to develop it, his influence gaining the hearing of a rich man, who in turn brings the great impresario who personally coaches her until she is ready for her debut. On the evening of her first appearance, she insists on making the supper for the boys, and in an alcohol lamp explosion Karl, rescuing her from danger, burns his hand so badly that he can never play the piano again. After her triumph at a studio gathering, the rich man, intoxicated, forces his attention on the girl, and she, running to her own room for safety, is followed by Karl, who saves her once more, and in the struggle the hidden treasure is brought to light. The rich man is paid back for his expenditures, and Karl and the girl are placed beyond the reach of want.
- Gilbert Irving and Bertie Erroll have been inseparable companions since boyhood. At a house party Mrs. Allen announces the engagement of her daughter, Lucille, to Gilbert and the pair are congratulated. At the reception Madam Eloise and her companion, a count, are introduced. Gilbert is at once infatuated by her charms, and neglects Lucille. Bertie sees the trend of affairs. By intimidation and money he induces the count to leave, but the woman remains. The count informs her that she has Bertie to reckon with and resolves to defy Bertie. Gilbert loves the woman madly. Madam Eloise sets about it to effect an estrangement between the friends and incidentally remove the opposition of Bertie. She first succeeds in making Gilbert insanely jealous, and then writes Bertie an impassioned letter declaring her love for him, knowing that he will be too honorable to divulge the contents. Bertie replies to her in a denunciation. Gilbert discovers the correspondence and demands that the Madam show him the note. She burns it and then tells him Bertie has tried to force his attention on her and, failing, has written her an insulting letter. Gilbert is wild with anger. The plans of the woman do not miscarry. Gilbert challenges Bertie to a duel and his friend has no alternative than to fight. Lucille is dangerously ill and Gilbert and Bertie are summoned to her bedside. Bertie arrives first and she dies. The grief of Bertie is pitiful. He throws himself across the form of the girl and his anguish is witnessed by Gilbert. Bertie is thoroughly aroused and he asserts himself, being shown in his true character. He orders Gilbert from the room. Gilbert and Bertie meet on the field of honor. Bertie discharges hi pistol in the air, but falls mortally wounded. Gilbert bends over him, and with his remaining strength, Bertie gives him the note received from the perfidious woman and falls back dead. Gilbert reads and it is revealed to him the treachery of the woman, the innocence of his friend, and his headstrong action. All stand out clear and he is stricken with remorse. He proceeds to his home and seeks out the woman. He confronts her with the letter. She denies having written it and he, in his rage, forgets that he is a gentleman, that she is his guest and orders her from his house. She goes and Gilbert falls, prostrated with grief and remorse.
- Sir Arthur Braham and his wife have been happily married for about five years, during the last two of which, however, he has become so engrossed in political affairs that he has almost entirely neglected her. Wearying of the ordinary routine of society, the wife turns eagerly to the new cause, Woman Suffrage. Cecil Tudor, a professed believer in the cause and a political rival of Sir Arthur, has been trying to force his attentions upon Sir Arthur's wife. Cecil realizes that if he could make it appear that Sir Arthur is secretly in league with the militants he would defeat him at the polls. Sir Arthur has been bitter toward the women's cause and they fall easily into a plan to wreck his political career. The destruction of a series of warehouses is the first step in their plan. They aim to throw the city and country into a state of famine. Their next step is to kidnap Sir Arthur's child. This is done without the knowledge of his wife. The life of the child is threatened by Cecil unless Sir Arthur signs a certain bill advocating the Cause. When the wife discovers the loss of her child she turns against her allies and pleads for its return. They refuse, believing the Cause more important, and in order to push their purposes they make a prisoner of her. Sir Arthur, now aroused, turns Scotland Yard on the search. The baby is rescued, and, after many thrilling events, a reconciliation is brought about between husband and wife.
- A framed inventor flees to England and catches a spy at Epsom.
- Arthur Ames and Cora Rogers are sweethearts, but her family will not allow any of her young men friends to enter their house. Cora is told that she is expected to marry the son of old friends of her parents, the Rev. Harold Goodleigh. He arrives and is at once shown up to his room by the butler. Realizing that his clothes need pressing he sends the man out with them, arraying himself in a blanket taken from his bed. The butler, passing the disconsolate young couple on their way to the street, Arthur spies the clothes and is seized by a sudden idea, which he hastens to explain to the butler. The butler escorts him to another room in the house, where Arthur sacrifices his lovely mustache and clothes himself in the clerical garments of his rival and coming downstairs, surprises Cora by the daring nature of his ruse. Mr. and Mrs. Rogers have never met either Arthur or the Rev. Goodleigh and so, when Arthur is introduced by Cora as the reverend suitor for her hand, they suspect nothing and Arthur goes in with the family to dinner, which he gets through with very nicely. In the meantime, the Rev. Goodleigh, attired in his blanket, is having a mournful wait. Then a new element is injected into the plot. "Mad Harry," a lunatic from a neighboring asylum makes his escape. Now, Harry imagines he is an Indian chief and proceeds to decorate himself with feathers from the tail of a turkey hanging outside of a butcher shop, and with a horse blanket and hatchet, which he takes from a hardware store. Running swiftly down the street, he comes to the Rogers' home and climbing up he pries open the window of the room which contains the Rev. Goodleigh and springing in upon the terrified clergyman, he compels him to join in a war dance. The Reverend gentleman finally breaks away and rushes out of the room into the street closely pursued by Harry. Harry, getting sidetracked, runs into the midst of the Rogers family and soon has them all busily dancing in a circle, he dashing everywhere, fiercely brandishing his bright, new hatchet. The Rev. Goodleigh, clad in his primitive garments, breathlessly meets the keeper, who is seeking Harry, and leads him to the house. But before the keeper can overtake him the clergyman, who arrives at the height of the war dance, is compelled to join in it. The keeper arrives, Harry peacefully surrenders to him and quiet is restored. Then explanations follow as to who is who and Arthur is duly unmasked as a bogus minister. But nothing daunted, he puts in his claim for Cora's hand and after strenuous begging on the part of the young lovers he is finally accepted as the son-in-law, that is, to be. And the Rev. Goodleigh's sad but exciting courtship is over.
- A romance produced at the Gettysburg Reunion in which every important event of the most memorable celebration of "The Boys in Blue" and "The Sons in Gray" will be interwoven.
- John is a writer who has no use for women. He takes two old male servants and goes to a house in the country where he can finish his book in absolute quiet. Waling about the place he congratulates himself on his Eve-less Eden. As he comments on the total peace, a wild discordant cry interrupts his reverie. He goes through the garden, finds a baby there, and carries it home. Finally driven to his wits' end, he runs across to the next house, where he finds a pretty girl and begs her to come with him. She assents and soon has baby sleeping in her arms, then declares she must go. She places baby on a couch, gives John a few instructions and leaves him. A few days pass. John finds himself attached to the child, whom he later adopts. The girl next door sees John with his baby and is much amused. He tells her with great dignity that the child is now his, and he has decided to make quite a writer of him and call him William Shakespeare Brown. The girl laughs and tells him that he can't very well do that as the baby is a girl. John decides to relinquish baby entirely. He cannot have a girl in his home. The girl tells John she will take the child until further arrangements are made. But John misses the kiddy and soon has an excuse for coming very often to the porch next door, and soon John and Violet discover that they make an ideal papa and mama for baby, and they are married.
- Jack Herrick and his brother-in-law, Tom Duncan, are fishermen, a part of the crew of the schooner Ariel, commanded by Captain Donald Jessup. The weather is propitious for a catch and the sailors are summoned to report for the trip. Tom is addicted to strong drink. Jack is apprehensive, and when the brother of his wife does not show up, he goes in search of him. He finds him drinking with convivial companions. He tries to induce him to accompany him, but Tom is crazed with drink and refuses. Jack adopts rather heroic measures and a fight ensues in which he is dropped to the floor insensible. Captain Jessup is becoming impatient and finally orders his sailors to cast off. A storm breaks forth in all its fury. Susan, Jack's wife, the daughter of a fisherman, born and reared near the sea, notes the significance of the storm and is apprehensive. She fears for the safety of her husband and brother and, taking her child in her arms, runs excitedly to the beach and looks out across the water. She staggers to the door of the wireless station in the fierce wind, summons the operator only to be told that the Ariel has foundered with all on board. Susan is brought to her home unconscious and a kind neighbor ministers to her sufferings. The woman, instinctively, requires a stimulant and rushes to the nearest place where it is kept for sale, which is the saloon in which Jack is lying on the floor with Tom bending over him. The neighbor rushes in, sees the sailors, who are supposed to be shipwrecked and she is overjoyed. She implores them to hasten home. They do so and, at the sight of her husband and brother, Susan regains consciousness and is supremely happy that they have escaped the fury of the storm.
- Standing and Hammatt, two young surgeons who have quarreled because Hammatt is a drug fiend, and neglects his business, agree to dissolve partnership. Later they both meet Betty at the home of Willard, who is giving a party. Hammatt, to disgrace Standing, puts dope into his glass. The drug makes him appear intoxicated, and Betty shrinks from him. Willard places Standing on a couch, behind a screen. Hammatt suggests that they play cards. Willard is called to the telephone, and Hammatt takes advantage of his absence to examine his cards. Willard notices that the order of his cards has been changed, and accuses Hammatt of cheating. This leads to a fight, in which Hammatt stabs Willard with a paperknife. Hammatt is about to leave, when the screen falls and he sees Standing on the sofa. He arranges the room to throw suspicion on Standing, and disappears. Standing is arrested. When Betty reads the news of the murder she faints. The jury brings a verdict of guilty against Standing. Later we see Betty visiting him in prison. She begs the warden to allow Standing to visit his dying mother; the warden has to refuse. Standing escapes and is pursued. He reaches the residence of the judge who convicted him. There is a thunderstorm. The judge's daughter is eating plums, and a pit sticks in her throat. She is at the point of suffocation. Standing appears and pleads with the judge to save him as he is innocent of intentional murder. The judge promises to help him if he, as a surgeon, will operate and save his daughter. The judge orders out the guards when they arrive. Standing performs the operation successfully. The judge then sends Standing to his mother's bedside in his auto. Hammatt has been going downhill under the influence of drugs. In a fit of insanity he confesses. Standing and Betty are reunited and his mother recovers.
- An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sharing in the lives of her child and grandchildren.
- When Elliot, a master crook, fires his secretary, Bruce Morgan applies for and secures the position. Elliot has a sister, Sybil, who is in love with Eden Villiere, a young author. Matt Owen, a tool, of Elliot's, is instructed to rob a bank. While doing the "job" he is interrupted and pursued by a policeman. He takes refuge in Elliot's home. While the man is still in hiding Sybil observes a figure in the garden watching the house. Elliot investigates and finds that it is Morgan. On being questioned about his presence there, Morgan simply says that he was enjoying an evening walk. Elliot is satisfied. However, Morgan continues his watch, and when Matt leaves the house, Morgan follows him. Matt finds that he is being followed and confronts Morgan. They fight, Morgan is tricked and Matt gets away. Later, back in Elliot's office. Matt recognizes Morgan and informs his leader. Elliot asks Morgan what he knows and receives the reply, "everything." Morgan refuses to name his "price." Elliot, though, believes that Morgan will become his tool also. Matt on the other hand, does not trust him and persuades Elliot to send him to kill Morgan. He attempts it while Morgan sleeps. Another fight follows between them, then the room is pitched into darkness. Morgan goes to Elliot with the information that he has killed the man sent to kill him and that it is now up to Elliot. Meantime Sybil and Eden find a skull in the garden. Eden takes it home, in the hope that a study of it will give him inspiration for a story. As he watches the skull it dissolves into a human head and tells him the story of how he was murdered. Eden writes the tale down. Elliot comes upon the finished script, reads it and finds it a history of his own crime. He instructs Eden not to publish the story. Eden refuses to obey. Elliot threatens; there is another terrific fight. Sybil tries to enter the room, but finds herself locked out. Morgan watches the fight through a hole in the floor above. This proves one of the unique photographic effects of the picture. Before the fight is finished, Morgan brings the police. The door is broken down and Elliot, the "Master Crook" is arrested. As he is led off he asks Morgan who he is. Morgan replies, "Sybil's brother and the son of the man you murdered eighteen years ago." Later, it develops that Morgan had Matt in hiding; he had not killed him.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- A modernized version of the Alexandre Dumas classic.