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- Tarzan and Jane are sailing for France in answer to a call for help from Countess de Coude who is being persecuted by her brother Rokoff.
- Monte Brewster learns that he has inherited $10 million from his late grandfather, but then learns that he must spend $2 million in less than a year and remain unmarried to inherit the rest of the money.
- An orphan boy from the Kentucky hills joins the Union Army and rescues his adopted family from Morgan's raiders. He learns his real identity when he returns after the war.
- In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped into thinking Poll is Rosa and marries her. When his vision is surgically restored, he leaves for Siam to find Rosa.
- Elinor "Swifty" Forbes and her younger sister Marjory are the carefree daughters of wealthy J. D. Forbes. Their mother shows no restraint over her daughters, so they live among the flapper set. Lester Hodges, a songwriter, is enamored of Marjory, while Garside, who runs a card room, is interested in Swifty. While gambling at Garside's place, Swifty meets Roger Corbin, who works as an engineer at her father's business. Corbin falls in love with Swifty. When Mr. Forbes protests against both his daughters' behavior, they move out. Marjory marries Hodges, but eventually leaves him and returns to her parents. Swifty, who has gambled herself into debt, agrees to marry Garside. But when the couple are together in a café, prohibition agents raid the place. Corbin, who has been searching for Swifty, helps her escape, and the two are united.
- Bavahari, a half caste Indian girl, renounces her oath as a sacred dancer to the worship of Buddha. The High Priest, who secretly loves the girl, is enraged and vows vengeance. Bavahari marries an English army officer, and they move to Paris where she becomes a sensation as a dancer. After she deserts her husband, he kills himself at her feet. The High Priest, discovering that Bavahari is in Paris, announces his presence by marking the "Sign of Death" on her dressing room door. He then disguises himself as a Buddha idol. As Bavahari dances on stage, the High Priest kills her in front of the audience.
- The hunter becomes the hunted as Corporal James Kent (Lew Cody), of the Canadian Royal Mounted, fighting for his life, is guided to a secret valley, a refuge for wanted men, by a French-Canadian beauty, Marette Radison (Alma Ruben), with a secret of her own.
- David Harrington plans to marry Betty Graves. He is an old-fashioned boy, believing in marriage, having children, and living a suburban life. Betty is more ultra-modern, and independent. When Betty gets a tour of the bungalow that David has built for them, she says it's cute but she would hate to have to live in it. The two break up and Betty goes back to a former sweetheart. Sybil, the wife of David's friend Herbert, has just has a row with her husband because he wouldn't buy her a new hat. So she takes their three children and hides in David's home, hoping to throw a scare into her husband. Now David tries to take care of the kids, hoping to forget his own troubles. Herbert phones David that he is coming over, but David tells his friend he has the measles. Meanwhile, Sybil's kids have gotten sick from eating too much taffy. So David calls Betty's father, who is a doctor. Betty comes over with her father, and David cooks up a scheme with the doctor to quarantine the house so that Betty will have to stay and help him take care of the children. Herbert arrives and chaos ensues when he discovers his wife and kids are there. Eventually, things get straightened out and David regains Betty's love.
- An engineer in New York is unhappily married to a politically ambitious wife. When their son dies due to his wife's neglect, he deserts her and goes to South America to help build a bridge. But he loses interest in life, starts drinking, and loses his job. As he is about to hit rock bottom, he meets a cabaret dancer named Carita who helps him recover. He falls in love with her. When his wife loses her senatorial race, she goes to South America to reunite with him. Carita mistakenly believes that he still loves his wife, and decides to kill herself.
- A girl and a prince fall in love and plan to elope. But the prince's father dies, and the prince must ascend to the throne. The prince is forced to marry someone with royal blood. The girl attempts suicide. The prince, believing her dead, never sees her again until she rescues his baby from a 360-foot chimney, where it has been taken by a crazed circus chimpanzee.
- Lassiter, a Texas Ranger, goes after the sect which has abducted his sister Millie. During his search, he encounters Jane Withersteen, who owns a rich estate. Lassiter saves a man named Venters from a whipping by men who think Venters is courting Jane. Lassiter takes Venters' place as manager of Jane's ranch, while Venters goes in search of cattle thieves. Venters discovers the thieves are led by a masked rider, and wounds the rider. The rider turns out to be female, and Venters nurses her back to health. Lassiter discovers that Millie is dead, and takes an orphan girl named Fay Larkin under his wing. When Fay is abducted by the same sect that had taken his sister, Lassiter takes his vengeance out on their leader, Dyer, and rescues Fay. As they are fleeing, they meet Venters and the masked rider, whom Lassiter recognizes as his sister's daughter, Bess. Venters and Bess ride east to be married, but Lassiter's escape route is cut off by pursuers, led by Elder Tull. Lassiter, Jane, and Fay find an entrance to a canyon, but it is blocked by a massive rock. Lassiter manages to push the rock down on Tull and his followers, but in the process, he seals himself, Jane, and Fay in the canyon.
- Chauncey Short, an orphan, takes a job as a clerk in a village grocery store. One day a letter arrives informing him that his uncle has died and has left him $5,000,000. Chauncey recklessly starts spending the money until he meets a banker's daughter, who has a positive influence on him. Chauncey then helps the banker through a financial crisis.
- Ruth Sawyer discovers that her mother has an ill-savory past and decides to withhold this information from the man she loves. But a crooked pal of Ruth's mother shows up with blackmail in his plans.
- The true story of Edith Cavell, a British nurse who served with the underground in Belgium during the First World War.
- Mary Ainslie has been waiting 30 years for her fiancé, a sea captain, to return. She has kept a light burning in her window to guide him home. His son Carl, by another woman, arrives on vacation in the New England village where Mary lives. Mary is overcome by the resemblance between the young man and his father. The young man falls in love with Ruth, Mary's young comrade. On her deathbed, Mary wishes Carl and Ruth the romantic life that she did not live.
- An attractive young woman thrusts an attorney into wild adventures.
- Blanche Henry, a vivacious young woman, finds what she believes is true love with a handsome young man, but then learns that he has designs on her younger sister.
- Hiram Scudder is a blind cobbler, with a son named Tommy. Hiram passes the time listening for the footfalls of passersby, correctly identifying who they are. His son Tommy is in love with Peggy Hawthorne, the village belle. Peggy tells Tommy he must get a job and make a name for himself before she will marry him. Tommy becomes jealous of Alec Campbell, who shows interest in Peggy. Campbell, an engineer, lives above the shop where Tommy's father works. Tommy has a fight with Campbell in the latter's room. Hiram hears the struggle, and goes upstairs, but is tossed back down to the floor of his shop, where he breaks his leg. During the struggle, a lamp is overturned, the room catches on fire, and one man is killed. The survivor creeps downstairs, carrying a satchel of money. Hiram grabs the man's hand, but is beaten off by a wrench. The man throws the money behind a wall and runs out. The body found in the fire is charred beyond recognition, but since Campbell's clothes and watch are found, the body is assumed to be his. Tommy is then wanted for murder. Hiram, whom the villagers now think is insane, listens for footfalls night and day, certain the killer will return for the money. One night, Hiram hears familiar footsteps and struggles with the intruder, choking him. The intruder is revealed to be Campbell. Tommy is posthumously cleared of murder.
- Alice West gives up her sweetheart lawyer, John Travers, to marry broker Norris Dacre, who controls her father's fortune. Five years later, Travers is elected District Attorney. An investigation is launched against crooked brokers, and Dacre is on the list. Dacre's friends offer Travers a bribe, but the lawyer refuses it. Alice intercedes and Travers promises to be lenient. Then Alice discovers her husband's crimes and tells Travers to prosecute him. Dacre learns what has happened and threatens to drag Alice and Travers through a messy divorce suit. Dacre has taken up with Mimi, a dancer, which enrages her lover, who is a musician at the café. When Dacre goes to the café, he gets into a quarrel with her lover, who kills him. Travers destroys the evidence against Dacre, and he and Alice are reunited.
- John Gibbs, a former dock worker, becomes a successful stock broker. Through his friends Donald Valentine and Elsie Chandler, he meets Marie Van Dusen. When the Van Dusens lose their money, Marie's mother advises her to marry Gibbs to save the family. Marie does not love Gibbs, but consents to the marriage to please her mother. Gibbs learns that Marie has been out with Valentine for an evening, with his wife being insulted by Valentine. Learning that Valentine's money is tied up in stocks, Gibbs decides to break him. He forces the stocks down and ruins Valentine, but in the process, loses his own fortune. Marie now realizes that she does love Gibbs and stays with him.
- After eluding authorities, Jaca Javalie goes to the home of wealthy Theodore Banning, where he professes to be a man of magic who learned his skills in India. He demonstrates his ability by bringing peace to the Banning home. In actuality, he plans to rob Banning's private vault. When he tries to commit the robbery, he is stopped by a guest who promises to say nothing in exchange for a portion of the loot. Javalie makes another attempt to break into the vault, but the same power that he had exerted over the Banning family compels him to stop. He confesses what he had planned to do and wins the hand of Banning's daughter Nanette.
- Larry and Barbara, both the products of rich but broken homes, plan a marriage of convenience. He really loves Marcia, a dancer, and Barbara vamps Keith, an architect. Keith's good sense prevails, and he marries Marcia and helps Larry make a man of himself. Barbara, after an unsuccessful attempt at an acting career, returns and asks forgiveness.
- Barney Kemper works hard on a farm so his younger brother Dick can go to college. However, Dick squanders Barney's money. Margaret Danford, daughter of the village doctor, loves Barney from afar and tries to educate him. A girlfriend of Margaret's comes for a visit and steals Barney's heart. The young girl turns to Dick, and Barney discovers them together. Embittered, Barney goes west to work in a lumber camp. But Dick reforms, and becomes a minister, and is assigned to the lumber camp. Margaret goes along to start a hospital. Tex Daly, leader of the lumbermen, resent Dick and try to frame him with a saloon girl. When Dick is shot by Tex, Barney appears and helps his wounded brother by taking charge of the church. Dick dies, and Barney kills Tex. Barney and Margaret are united.
- Mary Randall, who has just lost her job, is taking care of her widowed mother. Mary learns that her late uncle has left her part of his estate. She and her mother move to Florida to live on the Twisted Oaks Plantation. Mary meets her neighbor, Jack Carleton, and the two fall in love. The workers on the plantation believe in voodoo. The Voodoo Priest incites the superstitious workers. Mary orders him off the plantation, and he vows revenge. After Mary and Jack become engaged, an old mammy tells them the legend of the Ghost of Twisted Oaks: Miss Madeline was loved by all the slaves on the plantation, and was engaged to Master Billy. Justin, his rival, vied for Madeline, and fought a duel. Madeline was killed by a stray bullet. Ever since then, her ghost has haunted the plantation. Now, the voodoo followers decide to make a sacrifice out of Mary. The ghost appears to Jack and leads him to the sacrificial altar, where he saves Mary. The Voodoo Priest is killed when he accidentally sticks his hand in a snake's cage. The voodoo followers are driven from the plantation, and Madeline's spirit can finally rest.
- A young soldier returns from the war to find his western homeland despoiled by conflict between the wheat farmers and a crooked lawyer.
- Sergeant O'Malley, a member of the Northwest Mounted Police, is assigned to bring in the murderer of a saloon keeper named La Grange. Disguised as a cowboy, O'Malley attends a rodeo, where he believes a group of outlaws, including the alleged killer, are performing. He follows them to their stronghold in the mountains, then robs a bank in order to ingratiate himself into the gang. After making off with $5000, he is chased by a posse, but he manages to elude them, and then is admitted into the gang. O'Malley falls for Rose Lanier, who cooks for the gang. Rose's brother, Bud, is the alleged killer. When the leader of the gang, Red Jaeger, makes unwanted advances towards Rose, O'Malley thrashes him. Jaeger decides to betray the gang, and secretly rides to the sheriff's office. There, he learns that the stolen bank money has been returned, and that O'Malley is working undercover. Jaeger shows the evidence to the gang, and they tie O'Malley to a tree. He is placed under guard, and is set to be hanged at daybreak. Rose secretly gives O'Malley a knife, enabling him to escape, along with her and her brother. While the three are on the run, O'Malley learns that Bud killed La Grange because the saloon keeper had wronged Rose. Later, O'Malley leaves a note telling Rose and Lanier who he really is. He also informs then he is headed back to his post to resign, but will return for Rose if she is willing to wait for him.
- After his wife/model dies of starvation with her portrait unfinished, an impoverished artist meets another woman with a striking resemblance to her.
- Elga Pulaski and her brother Ossip live in Warsaw. They belong to a secret society whose goal is to liberate Poland and Russia from the Romanoffs. Elga is loved by Baron Jan Slozek. But Slozek is a spy who has Ossip and other members of the society arrested. When Slozek is slain, Ossip is the key suspect. He escapes to America with his sister. There, Elga meets Norman Hutchinson, and marries him without telling him her past. When Hutchinson learns the truth, he leaves Elga. Eventually, when Elga appeals to him, he sees the light.
- Jules Le Clerq, a trapper, falls in love with Adrienne Cabot. Adrienne reveals that her father, Jacques Favre, owned a trading post, but lost the company's money gambling with "Devil" Cabot. Cabot agreed to cancel the debt if Adrienne married him. After a forced marriage, Cabot killed Favre, but was shot himself and left for dead. After hearing this story, Jules marries Adrienne. However, Cabot was not killed, and after a child is born to Jules and Adrienne, he kidnaps Adrienne. Jules goes in pursuit and finds his wife next to Cabot's body. Believing Cabot dead, they return home, but Adrienne dies from the hardships suffered during her kidnapping. Twenty years later, Le Clerq and his daughter, also named Adrienne, are working at a trading post. Cabot is drinking in a saloon and pursues Adrienne when she tries to get some brandy for a sick neighbor. Jules, who is passing by, recognizes Cabot and a fight ensues, during which Cabot is finally killed.
- Actress Jane Carleson has three admirers: Henry Strong (a millionaire), Hamilton Ross (a chemist), and Murray Campbell (a district attorney). When Jane weds Campbell, Ross writes an anonymous letter to Campbell, warning him that Strong is after his wife. Ross smears the flap of the envelope with poison. However, Strong is the one who opens the envelope, and dies from the poison. Since Campbell and Strong had quarreled just before the arrival of the letter, Campbell is convicted of the murder. Jane must expose the true murderer and save her husband.
- Lem Hardy leaves his home and aging mother to work at a lumber camp owned by Henry Colby. Lem falls in love with Colby's daughter Evie. Harry Blake, who is the superintendent of the camp, also wants Evie, so he steals the company payroll and pins the crime on Lem. Lem is convicted and sent to prison. Evie, who assumes Lem was guilty, marries Blake. Blake then induces Colby to speculate in stock, which leads to Colby's ruin and death. Blake and Evie move to the town of Red Dog, where Blake sets up a faro game. Meanwhile, while in prison, Lem meets Father Rochelle, the prison chaplain, and becomes deeply religious. Upon his release, he becomes a preacher. As he travels the country, he stops in Red Dog and encounters Blake. When Blake is killed in a gambling brawl, Lem and Evie are reunited.
- Young Victor Jones of America is discovered to be an exact lookalike for England's Earl of Rochester, a circumstance which results in Jones deciding to replace the Earl after an unfortunate accident.
- Sam, a young man in a small town, is accused of being a thief. Unable to prove his innocence--and not knowing that he's being framed by a local villain to keep him away from pretty young Mary, the town beauty whom the villain wants for himself--he leaves town and goes to Hollywood to become an actor. He eventually returns home to town as a star, but once again finds himself the victim of the town villain, who this time abducts sweet young Mary. Sam must use all his acting skills to track down the villain and save Mary.
- "Katy" Didd is in love with Alice, but her guardian wishes her to marry Tetlow, an influential man in town. Katy knows Alice will be unhappy with Tetlow, and decides to win her by force. While Alice is on her way to meet Tetlow for the wedding, Katy holds up the stage and kidnaps her. Tetlow suspects Katy and has him captured and taken to the desert to die. Katy escapes, and returns to town just in time to stop the wedding ceremony. He gallops into the church and carries Alice off with him.
- Gilbert Brockhurst, an Englishman living in America, has an American wife and a six-year-old son named Robert. His wife inherits a ranch in Arizona. A short time later, Brockhurst is informed that his cousin has died, and that he is now the Earl of Somerfield. He deserts his wife and goes to England. When his wife dies on the ranch, Brockhurst remarries and has a son named Stanley, who is regarded as his heir, but he's a spendthrift. When Brockhurst is sent to America on a diplomatic mission, he takes Stanley with him and threatens to leave him in America unless he reforms. Meanwhile, Brockhurst's older son has taken the name Robert McKeever and taken over the ranch. McKeever finds Stanley in a gambling house, pays off his debt, and takes him to his ranch. He then fears that his half-brother is winning the affection of Ruth, the local schoolteacher. McKeever eventually tells Ruth she can go to Stanley, but she tells him that she really loves him. Brockhurst offers to make McKeever his heir, but instead, McKeever sends Stanley, who has reformed, back to England.
- Jack Brookfield is a professional gambler. His niece, Viola, is engaged to Clay Whipple. Whipple's mother, a widow, was Brookfield's former love. Frank Hardmuth, the District Attorney, is Whipple's rival for Viola's affections. Whipple has inherited a fear of a particular cat's-eye jewel. At a party, a drunk named Tom Denning taunts Whipple with the jewel, causing Whipple to strike and kill him. Hardmuth prosecutes the case, and gets Whipple convicted. Behind bars, Whipple has a dream of his wedding day, seeing himself and Viola at the altar; then a rope falls from above and encircles his neck. Whipple's mother remembers that Judge Prentice, who is on the Supreme Court, was once in love with her own mother. She appeals to him to intercede, and he recalls an incident involving the jewel which caused him to fight over Mrs. Whipple's mother, who also had a reaction to the jewel. The Judge secures a new trial for Whipple, and testifies on his behalf regarding the jewel. Whipple is acquitted. Brookfield exposes Hardmuth, who had been seeking the Governor's office, in a murder plot.
- David Corson is a Quaker who is admired by members of his community for his spiritual ways. He has a crisis of faith when a snake-oil salesman named Dr. Paracelsus arrives in town with a young gypsy named Pepeeta. Thinking Pepeeta is Paracelsus' daughter, he becomes enamored of her and joins Paracelsus and Pepeeta as they travel about the countryside. He eventually discovers Pepeeta is Paracelsus' wife. David descends into drunkenness and gambling, and has a fight with Paracelsus, leaving him for dead. David then marries Pepeeta. Eventually, David meets Paracelsus, who was not killed, but was blinded in the fight. David, feeling remorse, allows Paracelsus to try to stab him, but Paracelsus drops dead in the attempt. David, with the help of Pepeeta, begins to regain his faith.
- Jimmy Gilley is engaged to Fanny Blaine. Jimmy would like to live in a more luxurious style, so he and Fanny urge her sister Virginia to marry wealthy Robert Stafford although she doesn't love him. She does so and the couple is happy for a time. But Robert begins drinking and eventually mistreats Virginia until she is forced to leave him. Robert hopes for her return and quits drinking. But pride and misunderstanding block the way for renewed romance.
- Elizabeth Schuyler is the daughter of a wealthy man, and is spoiled by him. But then the war comes and she goes overseas as a nurse. She returns to her former life as a changed woman. She decides to help out returning soldiers who are looking for jobs. Her father promises to give her $10,000 if she can raise the same amount on her own. To win the help of the returning soldiers, she poses as a "slavey" at Mrs. Murphy's boarding house, where many of them are staying. She gains their trust, then puts on a circus, in which she rides a horse bareback and does stunts. The circus raises more than $10,000, so her father honors his part of the bargain. With the additional money, she sets up an office and devotes her energies to finding jobs for the servicemen.
- A simple country girl comes to the big city and is taken advantage of by unscrupulous city-slickers.
- An innocent man goes to prison for obstruction of justice when his wife refuses to reveal that her father was killed by her mother (and it wasn't suicide). When he is finally released, he meets and becomes involved with a young woman who belongs to the town's influential elite. Once again, he finds himself caught up in intrigue - which eventually leads to his exposing the mayor of the town as corrupt.
- Jim Rittenshaw is happily married to Daisy, or so he thinks. Richard Desborough, Jim's friend from his college days, becomes enamored of Daisy, who leads him on. Desborough lives by the creed "No God. No Sin. No future life." Desborough neglects his own wife and child. His wife Caroline goes to Rittenshaw and tells him what is going on. Rittenshaw then kills Desborough. However, before his spirit can be at rest, Desborough must make right the things he left wronged. He appears in visions to the various characters, even his dog, and one by one they are guided to perform acts that set conditions right. Eventually Flora confesses that she is the reason Desborough was murdered. When Desborough's wife recognizes him, she forgives him, and he is able to depart the earth.
- Jim Sloan abandons his wife Hilda and goes off in search of gold. He arrives in the town of Calet and meets and becomes infatuated with a dancer named Mazie, who relieves him of most of his money and takes up with Carson King, the nephew of Old Davie King. Sloan and Carson have a fight, and Sloan falls, apparently dead. Old Davie puts Sloan's body in a canoe and sends it down the river. Police later find the capsized boat. Meanwhile, Sloan has been rescued by an old Indian. When the Indian comes across an unconscious stranger in the woods, he goes through his pockets and finds a bag of gold, which he buries. Sloan finds the gold, and returns to Calet, where he runs into Mazie. Mazie tells him that his wife is there and about to marry Carson King. The stranger who lost the gold recovers and tells the Mounted Police of his loss. The police find the old Indian, who goes to find the gold and discovers it is gone, along with Sloan. The police go to Calet, and find Sloan taking his wife away from Carson. Sloan is arrested for stealing the gold. When he resists an officer, the officer's gun goes off and Sloan is shot dead. Carson then feels free to marry Hilda.
- A country boy comes to the big city and falls in love with a showgirl, but turns his back on her when she decides to give up the glamorous life for the homespun existence of a homemaker.
- Lady Maude elopes, then flees from her wicked husband. A generation later, her daughter, Lady Rose, follows the same fate. A generation later, we find Lady Rose's daughter, Julie le Breton, living along in a furnished room. Julie's aunt, Lady Henry, believes Julie is in need of guidance and invites the girl to move in with her. But once Julie moves in, Lady Henry constantly criticizes Julie about her predecessors' misfortunes. Lady Henry's nephew, Lord Delafield, falls for Julie, against his aunt's wishes. But Julie falls for Captain Warkworth, a rake who is having an affair with another woman. After Julie flees from her aunt's home, Warkworth invites her to spend the night with him. There, she discovers what a cad he really is. She wanders away, takes poison, and sits on a park bench, waiting to die. At the hospital, the police find Lord Delafield's card on her, and contact him. Delafield finds her and proposes marriage. The two live happily ever after.
- Rita Hackett's father has unscrupulously gained possession of an old southern mansion. The owner, Randolph Manners, is evicted and takes up residence in the training quarters on the estate. It is there when Rita meets Randolph and learns of her father's deeds. Rita disguises herself as a jockey and enters a a race, determined to help Randolph reclaim what is his.
- When Julian's wife Daisy leaves home to visit her sick father, he finds himself attracted to his best friend's wife Margaret, who has been neglected by her husband. Julian and Margaret take a drive to a mountain resort, and find themselves about to consummate their affair when something happens that makes her have second thoughts. Complications ensue.
- Mr. and Mrs. O'Malley inherit three million dollars. Mrs. O'Malley devotes all her time to temperance issues. Mr. O'Malley decides to hang around burlesque shows and becomes infatuated with Carrie, an actress. Unbeknownst to him, O'Malley's son John is also infatuated with Carrie. Carrie jokingly tells John that the man she marries must have at least half a million dollars. John discovers his father and Carrie together in a café. Mrs. O'Malley arrives with her temperance friends, so John and his father hide. John then places a blank check in front of his father and tells him to sign it for half a million, or else he will tell his mother what is going on. Mr. O'Malley submits, and John wins Carrie.
- Robert Moore is general manager of the firm run by John Gibson. After Gibson makes several visits to Moore's home, unfounded rumors begin of a relationship between Gibson and Moore's wife. Moore is discovered with a revolver in his hand, standing over Gibson's dead body. In fact, the murder was committed by Moore's best friend, but Moore is convicted of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 20 years in prison. His wife remarries, and her second husband proves to be a brute. The real murderer eventually confesses and Moore is set free. He visits his former wife and arrives just as her husband attacks her. In a struggle, Moore shoots him in self-defense, and is then reunited with his family.
- Country girl Sheila goes to work in a city department store. After a quick courtship she marries Ray Underhill, unaware that he is a car thief. She is sent to prison with him, where he meets Norries, a swindler who has hidden his money but intends to pay back his victims. Convict 565 tells Norries he does not expect to live long and offers to transfer to him a diamond mine he owns in Africa. Norries and Underhill escape, and Underhill discovers the location of Norries' money. After Sheila finishes her sentence, Ray joins her and is arrested again, but not before telling her where Norries has hidden the money. Sheila takes the money and goes to South Africa. Eventually she meets Norries, who has secured the diamond mine. Believing that Underhill is dead, Sheila marries Norries, who decides to return to America and return the stolen funds. Sheila discovers that Underhill is still alive, but when Underhill is hiding from detectives, he is mistakenly shot by his pal Valhays. As Underhill falls, he shoots and hits Valhays. Sheila and Norries realize that the police are not after them, so Norries pays back the swindled money.