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- An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
- An American Indian raised by his grandmother on Lake Superior is declared a prophet of his people.
- Lydia Vengar goes to bed much depressed by her father's refusal to countenance the suit of Raoul Bardy for her hand. Silently three masked men enter through a window. They carry out Lydia, knocking over her new camera in their flight. Webb, a celebrated detective is engaged and, in answer to a letter demanding a ransom for Lydia's return, instructs her father to put a bundle of counterfeit money in a box at the place designated. A dog comes sniffing about, takes the box in his mouth, scampers away and is lost to the pursuers. It is learned that three men took part in the abduction as the camera in falling to the ground took an accidental snapshot. Webb advertises for a butler, feeling sure that one of the three will be sent to keep watch on him and to do worse. In a series of moves Webb learns that the supposed servant actually is a member of the band. The detective foils efforts to poison him and later to asphyxiate him. Supposing Webb to be dead, the crook servant goes to the rendezvous of the gang closely trailed by Webb. Webb enters by means of a rope and going down the chimney is attracted by the sound of voices. Three men are in conference. The late servant is telling his confederates that he has killed off their dangerous foe. Webb emerges the chimney cautiously after two of the men have left the room and creeps up behind the remaining conspirator. In a champagne cooler, the conspirator sees Webb's reflection and turning quickly gets the "drop" on the detective, with the revolver at his hip pointing upward. There is no sound but the conspirator topples over. It was an either revolver which projected from pressure of the trigger. Webb hides the insensible man in the fireplace and searches for the imprisoned girl. Meanwhile the other two conspirators have gone back into the room where their confederate is lying insensible in the fireplace. One throws his cigar into the fireplace. It flames up and the smoke restores the stupefied man to consciousness. The three, thoroughly alarmed, go after Webb, and trap him in the room with the girl. When he pursues an apparent means of escape, they release a trap door and he falls into a well. The water rises higher and higher and it is only by cleverness consummate that he extricated himself. Hiding under the sofa, Webb overhears the conspirators' plans to take the captive to another hiding place. Webb slips out to intercept the chauffeur of the automobile which is to convey them. He overpowers him and after a quick change of make-up, stations himself at the wheel. Feigning accident to the car by a trick, he drives off with the girl, who he restores to her parents. Here he also kills two birds with one stone by unmasking Vengar's supposed servant, who is in reality one of the three kidnappers. With policemen he then rounds up the remaining two.
- At the beginning of the story Colonel Crawford has completed a device for dropping explosive shells from aeroplanes while in full flight. Requested by his government to guard the plans of the invention with his life if need be, he has installed a safe in his home in which the plans are kept. Colonel Crawford's son is continually getting into scrapes from which he is quite often rescued by his sister, who is married to Lieutenant Gordon, an attaché of Colonel Crawford's staff. Young Crawford has unfortunately borrowed twenty thousand dollars from one of his companions, who is a spy in disguise. Pressed for the money, the ungrateful son resolves to steal the plans of his father's invention to settle his loan with the scoundrelly McDonald. Young Crawford executes the theft in the middle of the night in the presence of his sister, who has followed him into the room. When dawn breaks, Lieutenant Gordon finds his wife in a stupor, the safe door swinging open and every evidence that the thief has made a clean getaway. The military detectives who are called in to investigate, discover Lieutenant Gordon's gloves on the table, and lock him up as the culprit. To save her husband. Colonel Crawford's daughter informs her father that his son is the real thief. Unable to bear the disgrace that an exposure of the theft will bring, Colonel Crawford resolves to sacrifice his son's life in order to regain the precious plans. Taking his seat in a hydroplane, he flies through the air and gradually overtakes the motor boat in which the conspirators are escaping. With a blinding explosion, a shell speeds downward, totally destroying the motor boat plowing through the water beneath it. Weeks after the catastrophe has occurred, the sorrowing father received a letter from his son, stating he was not on board the boat that was destroyed, having changed his plans for flight at the last minute.
- Among the guests at the Countess Rita's Masquerade Ball are her lover, Count Hugo, and the Barrys, two brothers, whose fame as diamond dealers has penetrated to every quarter or the globe. They prevail upon the Countess to show them her remarkable diamond, "The Devil's Eye," which is, without doubt, the largest uncut diamond extant. She sends her lady companion to the strong room to fetch it, and in the meantime the party break up and mingle with the merry throng. Suddenly a servant appears to announce the fact that the door of the strong room is closed and the lady companion is a prisoner. When the strong room is opened again the lady is found to be dead, and "The Devil's Eye" has disappeared. The police are summoned, and the servant accuses Count Hugo whom he observed near the safe. Ere the police can find him, the Countess has warned him of his danger, and promising to return when he has established his innocence, he starts towards the border, knowing that once it is crossed he is safe from the bloodhounds of the law. The actions of the Countess and Hugo, who, in the excitement of the moment, have acted very foolishly, intensify the police's suspicion, and they follow hotly on his trail. It is impossible to describe in a brief synopsis, the manner in which the Count reaches the border. With consummate skill the producer of this drama has made full use of the talent and unparalleled daring of an actor, who is never more happy than when flaunting death in the face. Three times three does he risk his life jumping from high bridges, climbing perilous heights, riding on horseback down steep precipices, and, in fact, defying death in every possible form. The chase is one succession of thrills and daredevil feat, until at last the border is reached. The Count's next step is to go to Amsterdam, which, being the diamond market of the world, is the place in which the thieves will seek to dispose of their booty. After a trying time, in which he finds himself staring death in the face time out of number, he is surprised to find that the Barry brothers stole the diamond, and have it in their possession. In order to prove his case against them he taps the telephone wires and records all their telephone conversations on the Dictaphone, thus obtaining valuable evidence. He then communicates with the Countess, and she avails herself of an invitation to spend a week end at the Barrys' house, and is thus enabled to smuggle Hugo into their house, where he learns that the diamond is hidden in a basket which is suspended on a wire stretched from one tall chimney to another in the factory where the Barrys are conducting an illegal process for improving the luster of diamonds. The Count makes a bold bid to obtain the diamond. He climbs out along the wire, until he reaches the basket in which it is hidden. His dangers are manifold, for the basket is suspended at a great height, and while he is laboriously working his way towards it, a storm arises. In order to prevent the Barrys interfering with Hugo, whilst performing this dangerous operation, Countess Rita steals up into their secret laboratory, and handcuffs one of the brothers. Finding that the game is played, he makes his way to a switch, which has been prepared to destroy the factory in the event of such a discovery taking place. A few moments later a terrific explosion rends the air, and two immense chimneys totter to the ground, and the factory is blown to atoms. This brings the Count hurtling from his perilous perch to the ground, but, fortunately, his fall is broken, and his life saved. Hugo has now established his innocence, recovered "The Devil's Eye," and brought the thieves to justice. No obstacle remains between him and the Countess, who welcomes him to the kingdom of love with smiles of joy and happiness.
- Tom Kirby and Buck Edwards are partners in their mining claims. Both have been up against it. Tom makes a big strike and he suggests that Buck finish making the monuments, so that he may be able to go and record the claims as quickly as possible. Tom gets his horse and as he is about to mount when the demon of avarice enters Buck's soul and he shoots at his partner and wounds him. Buck thinks he is dead, and going on to the county town, he records the claims. When questioned, he states that Tom shot himself in despair before the strike. He proposes to the saloon keeper's daughter and is accepted. Tom pulls himself together and with his finger dipped in his own blood, he writes on the horse's side, "My partner killed me." The horse is found at a water hole. Tom is found, revived and taken home. Buck confesses and is taken to the desert and left there.
- A child startles a group of Native Americans by tapping on a pot with a spoon, which they believe are spirits.