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- Tired from too much attention, doggie hides in a laundry basket for a little nap and when the man calls for the basket, doggie, who is concealed among the clothes, is taken along. When the dog is missed, there is great grief and an advertisement is immediately inserted in the paper offering $100 for his return. Fatty's girl tells him he can win her hand by proving himself a great detective and bringing the little pet home again. He assures her that doggie will be found and sets out in search of an Italian peddler who called earlier that day and whom he suspects. He tells him he is a detective and demands the dog, whereupon the Italian treats him to a good walloping and doesn't do a thing to him generally. Then he gets two of his pals to sandbag Fatty and drag him into the bushes and relieve him of his clothes. Whereupon Fatty is obliged to come forth attired like Adam in a suit of leaves, and is followed for blocks by a howling mob. Finally he reaches home in an exhausted condition. The next day about a hundred dogs are brought to the house in answer to the ad, but still no sign of doggie. A couple of thieves read the ad and conclude that anyone who can give $100 for a lost dog is worth robbing. Their plot is overheard by Fatty and he sets out on their trail, entering the house through a window just as the robbers are starting investigations within. They spy him and give him a severe beating, making their escape. Fatty runs after them and is noticed by the police, who suspect him. They follow him all night in an automobile and chase him into the water. He finally escapes through a sewer and rushes to his girl's home just as the laundry wagon arrives and doggie is delivered to his owner to the great joy of all.
- Margery, in spite of the protests of Dr. Evans, her fiancé, decides to join a suffragette "hike," the other members of which are spinsters of the most modern type. On the same day that the "hike" starts, a tattooed lunatic escapes from Dr. Evans' sanitarium. Every endeavor is made to capture the man, who spreads terror throughout the countryside. The suffragettes take refuge in a vacant roadhouse into which the lunatic has climbed. As a result the women are thrown into a condition of terror through the antics of the fugitive, until he is first put out of business and then succored by the eldest of the suffragettes, who shows in the end an unexpected tenderness for the stronger sex. The doctor comes to the rescue of the women, only to find them contented, with the exception of Margery who, disgusted with her co-adventurers, is willing to be taken home by the doctor.
- Jack Benton, superintendent of the Knowlton Construction Company, and his chum, Dick Aves, go to meet the president of the company and his daughter, Jean, who have called on a visit of inspection. While viewing the scenery from a high bluff, the girl loses her balance and falls over the edge. Jack and Dick secure a rope and go to her rescue, but the weight of the two men threatens to split the rope, so to save his friends, Jack cuts it just above him and drops to the ground below, where Jean lies. Following the accident, Jack proposes to Jean and is accepted. Dick, who has just learned from the president that he is to supersede Jack, who is to be sent east, rushes into the room just in time to hear Jean's acceptance of Jack's proposal. Although he loves Jean himself, he hides his bitterness and makes the best of things for the sake of friendship. Jack and Jean are married and go east to live. Five years elapse. Jack is so engrossed in business matters that he thoughtlessly neglects his wife. Jean feels this keenly but says nothing. A letter from Dick arrives, saying that at last he will have a vacation and is coming east to visit them. Dick arrives and soon takes in the situation. He and Jean are left in each other's company a great deal and gradually an intimacy grows between them, and Jean confides in him of her husband's neglect. One evening Dick suggests they go to a theater, but Jack declines to go along, telling them to go without him. Something about their attitude, as Dick helps Jean on with her wrap, causes Jack a momentary twinge of jealousy, but he returns to his den and is soon wrapped up in his books. Finally he falls asleep and dreams that he receives warning from a friend to the effect that Dick and Jean are planning to elope. Jack rushes to the place his friend said the two were to be found and a tragedy results. Later, Jack awakens, but the vivid memory of the dream clings to him. Dick and Jean return from the theater and Jack, realizing the possible ending of his continued neglect, goes to Jean with the promise of a different life.
- Gay Sherman and her unscrupulous guardian live close to the Mexican border. Her guardian and his Mexican accomplice, Peto Montrey, are engaged in smuggling opium into the States, which violation of the law they accomplish by secreting the opium tins in water canteens that Gay unsuspectingly carries back and forth. Frank Weldon, a government officer, who is in love with Gay, suspects Montrey as being the ringleader of the smuggling conspiracy, and starts investigations. He is made prisoner by Montrey, but escapes and tells Gay of the part she has been playing in the operations. Thinking he suspects her, she returns his ring and confronts her guardian with his duplicity. The shock of discovery causes heart failure and he drops dead. Montrey, fleeing from the law, takes Gay with him into the mountains. She longs for Frank but does not know of any way to reach him. Frank, having later found Gay innocent of any part in the smuggling, repents of his hasty judgment and starts to search for her without success. Supplies run short and Montrey disguises himself and goes to town. On the packsaddle, Gay has tied a knot which Frank taught her and prays that he may see it and give him a clue to her whereabouts. Montrey in his disguise passes detection, but the knot catches Frank's eye, and he loosens a rope, unknown to Montrey which drags on the ground, leaving an easily followed mark which Frank pursues and finally reaches the hiding place. Discovering his approach, Montrey shoots Frank, dropping him. Gay finds Frank and seeing her anguish over him, Montrey's jealousy is aroused and he tries to kill her, but Frank rallies enough to send a shot which places Montrey outside the pale of the law. Later, things are satisfactorily explained and Gay again wears Frank's ring.
- Jim Neal and Mollie Wells are sweethearts. Molly is living with her mother in a small cabin out west. The mother is devoted to her daughter; she is lamentably poor, eking out a miserable existence by taking in washing. She realizes that she cannot give her daughter the advantages she would like to and finally she determines to rob for the sake of her child. Disguised as a man, she robs the paymaster of the smelter works of a large sum of money. During the robbery, she drops her handkerchief, which is found later by the sheriff and gives him a clue to her identity. Buck Carter, another sweetheart of Molly's, is as equally favored by Molly as Jim Neal. The employees of the smelter works roast Jim, the sheriff, for his failure to arrest the thief, Jim's great love for Molly prevents his arresting her mother. The name the men have given the robber is the Sand Rat. Jim happens upon a tender love scene between Buck and Molly and after the withdrawal of Buck, he upbraids Molly for her fickleness. She, in turn, tells Jim that he should have spoken to Buck, not to her, branding Jim as a coward. Owing to the failure of Jim to arrest the Sand Rat, the manager of the smelter company seeks outside aid. The Sand Rat is almost trapped and wounded, but makes her escape, subsequently hiding in a cave, the location of which is known to Jim. He finds the woman wounded to death and finally takes her home; he places her on a bed and leaves a letter for Molly telling her of the circumstances of her mother's death and his knowledge of the crime. The girl's heart goes out in gratitude to Jim. The identity of the Sand Rat is never revealed but the men are led to the cave which she inhabited by Jim, and are satisfied by the evidence they discover there that the Sand Rat is dead.
- DeLara, father of Marie and Mercedes, murders his friend in order to gain possession of a black pearl. Maria, the youngest daughter, witnesses the crime and the father, realizing this, repents the deed. DeLara is suspicious of everyone, believing they have designs on the pearl. Alvarado, a castaway and Maria's sweetheart, tries to ascertain the father's uneasiness. One day while gloating over his treasure, Alvarado and Maria think he is ill and knowing that Maria is the favorite daughter, request that she go see what the trouble is. Maria, knowing the cause of his seeming illness, to allay suspicion goes to him. Thinking that it is someone desirous of stealing the pearl, DeLara shoots through the door and kills Maria. Grief-stricken, he goes to the cliffs and plunges into the sea.
- The Boob and his sweetheart, Rena, plan to elope, and Rena's father overhears the plans. Freddy, a lunatic, escapes from the asylum. He arrives at the farm and makes father exchange clothes with him. He then follows Rena and the Boob. After many adventures the "Nut" catches up with them and when they discover he is perfectly harmless they go to a minister and are made one. Freddy is led back to captivity, and father thinks he might as well give his consent and blessings.
- Dan gets a letter advising him of the arrival of Lizzie, who is to marry him in order to inherit some money left them. He leaves the letter on the table and goes to meet her. A wire from Lizzie arrives which says she will leave earlier and come direct to the house. The butler gets the telegram, opens it, sees the letter which tells of a fortune and decides to impersonate Dan and cop the girl, who has never seen Dan. He does so and serious complications follow, in which Mag, the butler's self-appointed affinity, takes a heavy hand. Things fairly hum till Dan returns and finally the two conspirators, as well as the love-sick Mag, land in a convenient fountain.
- The murderer of Craig MacDonald, a wealthy bachelor, is discovered by Jack Wright, a sculptor, some months after the police have arrested and the State has sentenced to death his chum, Malcolm, Craig's nephew. Circumstantial evidence pointed strongly to Malcolm. He was known to have been in urgent need of money and to have quarreled with his uncle about his debts the night of the murder, and to have used threatening language; to have been much disturbed by the announcement the same evening at a house party given by Craig, of the latter's engagement to Geraldine, a society girl, since the marriage would mean not only a new interest for his uncle but the legal invalidating of the latter's will which made Malcolm his heir, and lastly, because he was found beside his dead uncle's body with the knife in his hand. Geraldine is in reality an adventuress in league with St. Clair. The pair are in imminent danger of arrest unless they can raise a large sum of money immediately to cover a "phony" check they have passed. Geraldine has seen a large package of bills in Craig's safe and has taken advantage of her stay in his house during the party to attempt to steal the money, and being discovered, she accidentally kills Craig while trying to escape without recognition. Inadvertently she left a thumb print behind her and Wright ingeniously trapped her into making another one with her subsequent confession. Malcolm is brought from the shadow of death into the sunlight and to his waiting sweetheart.
- While a son is born to Joseph Conway, he is overjoyed. Not so his cousin, Dr. Brennan, who, by the advent of the child, has been kept out of a fortune which would ultimately have come to him. The doctor talks over his ill luck with his housekeeper, a hard, grim woman, who suggests getting the child out of the way. Being in financial difficulties, the doctor calls on Conway to borrow some money which his cousin gladly consents to do, and accompanies him to a bank so he can get the cash immediately. Before they reach the bank, however, Conway is run down by an auto and taken to the doctor's house. Here the housekeeper gets hold of him and before Dr. Brennan realizes what has happened, poisons him. The housekeeper then calmly suggests to the shocked doctor that the baby now alone remains between him and the fortune. Dr. Brennan, apparently, in all sympathy for the bereaved Mrs. Conway, suggests her going to a hotel in the suburbs with her baby to get over her grief and tells her he will accompany her. The hotel has been annoyed by sneak thieves and a woman detective, Miss Kate Graham, has been employed. The coast being clear, one evening, the doctor kidnaps the baby and hides it in a dog bag which he carries away the next morning and delivers over to the housekeeper. Her suspicions being aroused, Kate gets on the job and traces a tag which came from the bag to the doctor. She succeeds in rescuing the child after several thrilling experiences, one of which culminates in the accidental death of the housekeeper and brings the baby to Mrs. Conway, who is being comforted by her false relative. Kate confronts him with his guilt and he is not strong enough to deny it. The mother and child are reunited and Kate is showered with thanks.
- Father wishes Fanny to marry a rich old banker, but she prefers Billy, a handsome young doctor, of whom father disapproves. Billy calls on Fanny and when the choleric father interrupts, Fanny pretends illness. Scoffing at Billy's medical knowledge, father telephones for the reliable old family doctor. When the old physician calls, he agrees to help the lovers and Fanny is quickly cured. Pleased with her rapid recovery, father remarks that when he can be convinced that Billy is as good a doctor as the family physician, he will consent to his marriage to Fanny. The old doctor suggests to Billy that father be made ill through "mental suggestion." Fanny has a conference with the kitchen staff. Father has been feeling unusually trim and athletic, but when his servants ask him whether he is sick and suggest calling a doctor, their comments soon take effect and he imagines he is really sick. The old doctor is summoned and tells father nothing is wrong with him, but gives him a powder, which really makes father pretty sick for a short time. Father angrily orders the "old-fool doctor put out" and a regular doctor called in. Here is Billy's chance. He goes to his laboratory and mixes a wonderful "convincer pill," composed mainly of cheese, as large as a golf ball. He runs an electric vibrator down father's back and then forces the "pill" down his throat. By this time the effects of the powder has worn out, and father feels himself again. Father is now thoroughly convinced of Billy's wonderful skill and readily consents to his marrying Fanny.
- Billy's weekly salary amounts to $9.00 per week, but his tastes are those of a millionaire. He has never met his boss personally, but the boss has taken an interest in Billy from the good work he has done and decides to pay the young man a visit. Accordingly, Billy receives a letter telling him of his boss's intention. The millionaire accidentally drops the letter of introduction to Billy, which he had taken along, and it is picked up by a tramp who, after reading it, decides to impersonate the boss. He calls on Billy, presents the letter and Billy immediately treats him with his best cigars, drinks and makes his visitor perfectly at home. Then he suggests going out to a restaurant to dine, and after phoning his sweetheart to meet him at the restaurant where he is going to have dinner with his boss, he and his guest depart. Arriving at the restaurant, the tramp, delighted at his good fortune, proceeds to order up the best in the place. To Billy's dismay, he discovers that he hasn't enough to pay the bill, and just then the real boss, who has come in, seeing Billy's predicament, slips a $100 bill into his hand. The tramp, noticing this, immediately accuses Billy of having stolen the money from him and calls the police. The party is taken to the police court, where the millionaire discovers that Billy is the young chap he has been looking for, while Billy makes the startling discovery that the boss is none other than Betty's father. After seeing that the tramp gets all that is coming to him, they all leave the courtroom. Shortly after Billy gets up courage to ask his boss for Betty's hand, which is granted together with a substantial check as a wedding gift.
- Percy de Gink decides to give the Hotel de Hobo a trial. He registers and is shown to his room by the head bellboy. Well satisfied with the interior of his future domain, he looks out of the window to observe his outside surroundings. He is soon absorbed in watching an old maid across the way relieving herself of several interesting articles of her wearing apparel, but she catches him spying and hurls a pitcher at him. He is just about to get back at her when somebody above drops a bottle on de Gink's projecting head and he quickly withdraws to safety. Percy then desires a bath but when he reaches the bathroom he finds Harold de Hobo has beat him to it, and has fallen asleep in the tub. He throws a wet sponge in his face, but Harold resents such harsh treatment and chases Percy. They run into a scrubwoman who throws her pail of water at them. After this excitement, Percy returns to his room, and looks out of the window to get some air. Three bottles of beer standing in a row on the windowsill below catch his eye. He gets an idea. Tying one end of the sheet to the bedpost and the other to his left foot, he lowers himself out of the window, head first, reaches out for the beer and soon empties the bottles. But he doesn't know how to get back to his room, and there he hangs in midair all night. Next morning, Harold sees him there and saws the sheet from the bed post, whereupon Percy drops into the snow on top of a sleeping policeman. The cop chases him, but has a hard time catching Percy. De Gink stops to call up the fire department, and merrily continues on his way, but at last the cop catches him and treats him to a good walloping.
- Richard Cameron, a wealthy broker, idolizes his daughter, Muriel, granting her every whim. One day while out in her car, she accidentally meets Jim Bannister, a young gambler, and love at first sight results. Her father suddenly meets with financial difficulties and through the aid of his valet, gets admission into a fashionable gambling club, of which young Bannister is the head. He loses steadily. Muriel, who is giving a party, is worried over the non-appearance of her father, and confides her anxiety to her maid. The maid prevails on the valet to go for Cameron, but when he arrives at the gambling resort, the broker has just about lost everything. Cameron, now desperate and heartbroken at not being able to supply his daughter with the luxuries she has been accustomed to, reaches out for a gun which he sees in Bannister's hip pocket and attempts to shoot himself, but Bannister sees the act and tries to prevent the tragedy with the result that, in the scuffle Cameron succeeds in accomplishing his purpose and drops to the floor dead. Shortly after the house is raided and the valet, Bannister and the gamblers make their escape. Just then Muriel and her maid arrive and Bannister, recognizing her as the girl he saw in the park, resolves to change his mode of life, and goes west to seek his fortune along better lines. Muriel swears she will never let up until she has found the slayer of her father. Two years elapse and Muriel is obliged to support herself by selling books. One day she calls at the offices of Bannister, who has now returned from the west and is a successful businessman. He recognizes her as the girl whom he met and has never forgotten. Due to the beard he has grown, she does not know who he is, but gradually she falls in love with him. One day while calling on her, he avows his love. She tells him that although she loves him, too, she cannot marry him until she has found and avenged her father's death. He tells her he will help her clear the mystery. In the meantime, the valet who has fallen down to the dregs of life, turns up and annoys his old sweetheart, the maid, who has stayed with Muriel ever since. Muriel tells Bannister about it. This gives him a clew. He hunts up and finds the valet, persuades him to come and tell the true facts to the police regarding the accidental shooting. Bannister tells Muriel that he will turn over the man who owned the gun to her on the morrow. He gets himself arrested as a suspect and before being taken to jail, phones her to come to the trial. When she sees her lover on the dock accused of killing her father, Muriel is heartbroken, but the testimony of the valet soon clears up everything and proves her lover entirely innocent.
- Syd, the village Beau Brummel. is preparing to go and call on his sweetheart when his nephew pushes him into a tub of water where his aunt is washing some clothes. Syd leaves the house with the back of his pants wet and meets Ann, a girl friend of his. They talk a few minutes and then Syd continues to his sweetheart's house. He asks her father on the porch where Marty is and the father tells him that she is out in the yard feeding the chickens, where Syd promptly goes to find her. He frightens the chickens and she throws some chicken feed in his face. Later Syd asks Marty to go for a walk. The father objects, so Syd straps him into his invalid wheelchair and takes him along by force. In the meantime a tramp has robbed Ann and she tries to find Syd to tell him. While Syd is trying to steal a kiss from Marty, a cowboy in an automobile lassos the wheel chair, dragging it along with Marty's father in it. As Syd and Marty see what has happened, Ann comes up and all start after the chair. Finally the chair becomes loose from the auto and continues its flight into a creek. Syd and Ann fall in after it and get it out. The father beats Syd and he and his daughter leave Syd and Ann, who say goodbye and go home. In the meantime the tramp has come to Syd's home and attempted to steal a pie but is frightened away by the dog. Syd, on arriving home, eats the pie and blames it on the tramp, whereupon his Aunt drives the tramp away with a hose. The tramp returns and steals Syd's pants while they are out to dry and Syd is compelled to wear one of his Aunt's dresses when he goes out to make an apology to Marty and her father. They drive him away, however, and Syd then goes to Ann's house. She receives him encouragingly. Whereupon Syd and Ann embrace and Syd pops the question. One evening Jones tells his wife that important business will detain him at the office, although in reality he and two friends engage in an absorbing game of poker. To dispel the loneliness, Mrs. Jones goes to the theater with a lady friend. Sue, her maid, seeing the coast clear, brings her sweetheart, Joe, in the dining room, and they embrace and kiss in fashion "a la Jones." Mrs. Busybody, seeing the slim shadow of a man and the graceful shadow of a woman upon the blind, concludes that Mrs. Jones is entertaining a strange man, as she is familiar with Jones' shadow which is a bulky one. In consequence, she waits for Mr. Jones to arrive and fills his mind with suspicions of his wife. Mr. Jones, on reaching the dining room finds cigarette smoke, and a mysterious pair of pants. Suffice it to be said that a serious disruption takes place in the Jones' household. Mr. Jones goes to Mrs. Jones' bedroom and drags her out of bed. He accuses her of infidelity. Following this the fun waxes fast and furious to a most ludicrous finish.
- David Garth, a country physician, earns only enough for a bare existence. His daughter, Winifred, takes care of their home. The doctor distrusts modern medical science and refuses to have anything to do with it. He is, naturally, infuriated when he learns that Kent, a young surgeon, has come to the village. The old man is further incensed when he learns that Winifred has taken a liking to Kent and refuses to meet him. Despite her father's prejudice Winifred and Kent become infatuated with each other and hold clandestine meetings. Dr. Garth falls into the snares of Shrubbs, a money lender. Shrubbs has a note of the doctor's and threatens to foreclose on the cottage. Tom, a servant of Garth's, steals the note from Shrubbs' office. Kent, in response to a letter from Winifred, leaves his office while Tom is committing the theft. The next morning the theft is discovered and Shrubbs offers $500 reward for anyone who will identify the thief. One of the townsfolk volunteers the information that Kent left the building late in the evening and the doctor corroborates the statement. Meanwhile Tom offers the note to Winifred and she tells him to return it. He leaves town at the same time Kent is accused of the robbery. Tom rushes back to Winifred and tells her of the arrest. They go to town to vindicate Kent. Tom declares his guilt and demands the $500 as a reward for finding the thief, himself. Shrubbs is compelled to pay and Kent makes him promise not to prosecute Tom. The doctor consents to the marriage of Kent and Winifred.
- Rena and the housekeeper are bitter enemies, both striving to win their way into the good graces of the rich old man for whom they work. When old Scroggs dies, he leaves a will to the effect that both Rena and the housekeeper can have the right to occupy the house jointly, for a period of one month, during which time they may search for his fortune, which is hidden about the premises somewhere in the form of jewels. Rena tells her sweetheart, Fritz, the butcher boy, about the will and they frame up a way to scare the housekeeper off so that Rena might have perfect right to search as she pleases. Fritz tries various disguises, but with no success. Finally, Rena gives up hopes of finding the jewels and decides to give a series of entertainments to her friends until the month is up. Accordingly, she invites all the hired help to a party that night. Fritz, however, decides to make one more attempt to scare the old hen off and disguises himself as a burglar. He breaks into the house during the course of a dinner and surprises the housekeeper searching for the fortune. Frightened, she rushes to the kitchen to summon help, and in her absence a real burglar enters, and when they return they chase him and he lands outside of the window beside Fritz, who is hiding. Fritz makes a hasty exit, followed by the burglar and the party behind them, and the chase around the house ends only when Fritz climbs back into the house and seizes an old blunderbuss and takes aim at the burglar. His shot goes wild and strikes an old grandfather's clock in the library, smashing it, when suddenly out of the clock falls the jewels they have been searching for. Rena enters and claims her legacy. The housekeeper recognizes in the burglar a long-lost husband and is more than compensated for the loss of the jewels in finding him, while he pays the penalty of his crimes by being taken back by her. Fritz and Rena are at last able to get married and the party, already started, continues as a wedding celebration.
- Percy, a soda fountain clerk, and Betty are in love. Betty's father objects to their marriage and they plan to elope. Percy gives Betty a sleeping opiate to put in pa's coffee. Betty breaks the bottle. At the drug store Percy learns that the bottle containing what he thought was a sleeping potion is deadly poison. He immediately phones for an ambulance. After a series of side-splitting scenes we see father safely home, and Percy and Betty happily married.
- A study of all sorts of animals in captivity.
- Fred and Rena leave on their honeymoon, much to the disgust of the boob, who has been rejected by Rena and maltreated by Fred. The boob is the local constable and decides to keep an eye on Fred. Fred trades an old cow for an automobile. The boob sees him take the car from the garage, and starts out to catch and arrest Fred on a charge of theft. He is finally arrested himself for speeding. He gets a jail sentence and is much chagrined when he learns that Fred was owner of the car.
- Al Ross, an outlaw, steals a string of pearls belonging to Captain Torres and gives them to his sweetheart, Alice Montrose. Captain Torres sees the pearls on Alice's neck and asks where she got them. She tells him Ross gave them to her. Torres threatens to arrest them both unless she marries him. She refuses and both are arrested. When in prison, Torres again offers to free Ross if she will marry him. She consents and tells Ross of the agreement. Ross, feigning illness, gets the guard within his cell, overpowers him and escapes. He follows Torres and Alice and rescues her. They shoot Torres and his guards and ride over the border.
- Mrs. Brooks has been led to her marriage with Mr. Brooks against her better judgment. He is a tyrant and treats her brutally. Her former lover, Joe Brown, shoots her husband in revenge. She. is not aware of this fact and is accused of the murder. Brown confesses to the murder and she is acquitted.
- Henry Core, a man of no integrity, practically sells his daughter, Alice, in marriage to Alfred Jackson. Although Jackson realizes that he is buying the girl, his affection for her is decent enough and it may be that he figures he is doing Alice a good turn in taking her away from her father. He does not know, however, that between the girl and a certain Allesandro Ettori, instructor in a drawing school to which Alice has been going, there has sprung up a great attraction. Alice cannot force herself to break off her relations, innocent enough, with the young Italian. She does not tell him of the marriage her father has arranged for her, yet she is frightened because of the obvious passion the drawing instructor shows toward her. Ettori's attentions to Alice have aroused the jealousy of Maria Ferone, the model of the school. This young woman is a simple sort of person who has worshiped Ettori for a long time, and who, although really expecting no return for her devotion, is happy when she can serve him slavishly and follow him about with dog-like care. Alice finally leaves the school and her fellow students give her a farewell supper. To this affair she brings Jackson and for the first time announces her approaching marriage. The students rejoice, but Ettori is thunder-struck. Maria is pleased, because she now feels that Ettori will have more thought for her. Ettori, in his own chamber, where he has erected a sort of shrine to Alice, upbraids the girl for her faithlessness. She almost succumbs to his reproaches and advances, but the entrance of Jackson saves her. Later they are married and, as she soon finds out, unhappily. Maria also suffers, in spite of the fact that she and Ettori would now be closer together. Once Ettori, supposedly sketching her, is so obsessed with the thought of Alice, that he draws her instead of the model. Unable to be without a sight of her, he rushes to her house and finds her in her own studio hard at work to forget the incompatibility that lies between herself and her husband. Ettori's attractions again overpower her, and she realizes her love for him but sends him away. Jackson, learning of Ettori's visit, is overcome with jealousy. He accuses his wife of loving Ettori and in a rough marital way, forces her to kiss him, whereupon she breaks from him and, going to her room, writes him a note that she does love Ettori and that she is going to him. Meanwhile Ettori has returned to his room to find the shrine he has erected to Alice destroyed. Maria, in a jealous fit, has wrecked it. Maria hides behind a curtain and in terror watches Ettori's rage. Suddenly Alice comes in and tells Ettori she is ready to go with him. He rejoices and makes preparations to leave. Maria comes from hiding, locks the door and confronts Alice. Finding Alice unmoved, Maria pleads for Ettori, his career, his future but Alice is still unmoved. Ettori returns and to prevent his leaving with Alice, Maria stabs her. Maria slinks out of the studio and meets Jackson, hastening to find his wife and ask for forgiveness. When he asks for his wife, Maria can only point to the room, where she lies dying. He rushes into the room and sees his wife dying and hears her prayer for forgiveness.