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- The cartoonist, Winsor McCay, brings the Dinosaurs back to life in the figure of his latest creation, Gertie the Dinosaur.
- A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.
- After a love triangle results death, St. Elmo falls from grace and is eventually redeemed in this now lost silent film based on the best selling novel by Augusta Jane Wilson.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- The story is laid in Palestine, sixty years after the destruction of the last temple by Titus. The lot of the Jews was not a happy one during the succeeding reigns, but they were a fairly contented people until Hadrian ascended the throne. It is at this point that the opening scene of the picture begins, and leads the spectator back to the magnificent scenery of the Holy Land. It pictures Hadrian who decrees that Jerusalem be rebuilt as a Roman city. The temple is turned into an arena, where lions are roaring over the prey that is cast them, and bloody gladiatorial contests are presented. The oppression now becomes so terrible that the people can bear it no longer, and the vigorous younger party, under the leadership of Bar-Kochba, the noblest of the Jews, begins to sow the seeds of rebellion throughout the land. Now a flowery garden is presented to the sight, and the Oriental tribes that collect there to crown Bar-Kochba in secret are to offer their lives for the sake of a common cause. But it is through Paphos, a Phoenician cripple, disappointed in his mad passion for Dinah. Bar-Kochba's beloved, that destruction descends upon everyone. With his insidious plots, he works upon Rufus to such an extent that he casts Dinah into a cell after accusing her father, Eleazar, the leader of the Council of Elders, of inciting the rebellion. Not content with all this mischief, Paphos informs Bar-Kochba of Dinah's imprisonment Bar-Kochba hastens to the rescue and is seen just after the first chariot race entering the great arena, where a multitude of Romans are celebrating the downfall of Jerusalem. He defies Rufus and demands that Dinah be set free. Rufus commands Horatius to slay him. Defenseless as he is. Bar-Kochba sweeps him aside with one thrust of his mighty arm, but spares his life. Rufus now orders him cast to the lions. Bar-Kochba advances upon the raging beasts, quells them with his glance, and drives them into the crowned seats. Terrified, the Romans fly from the arena. Bar-Kochba has been successful all along the line, and has driven the Romans into Magdala. Within the fortress Paphos makes a final effort to win Dinah, is repulsed again, and determines to cause her death. He watches Rufus staggering drunkenly into a cell. Dinah lures him, and is about to dispatch him when his wife, summoned by Paphos, saves him. A messenger excitedly announces that the Jews are attacking the town. On the advice of Paphos, Dinah is exposed on the battlements and threatened with death unless Bar-Kochba withdraws his army. Bar-Kochba is before the walls of Magdala. Dinah appears on the tower, but rather than hinder her people, dashes herself to pieces on the rocks below. Infuriated by the death of Dinah, the Jews storm the town and set it on fire. The enemy perish in the ruins. Three years of bloody warfare have swept the Romans from the land. Bar-Kochba, king of Judea, welcomes all the people to his realm, irrespective of race, creed or color. He would have kept the Romans at bay. In spite of the fact that Hadrian sent his best generals and the pick of his legionaries against him, were it not for the despicable treachery of Paphos, the Phoenician. Bar-Kochba trusts him blindly, and believes his accusation that Eleazar had surrendered Dinah to the Romans. Maddened by the terrible misfortunes that had befallen him, Bar-Kochba calls Eleazar traitor before the Elders and plunges a dagger into his breast. Just then news comes that the war has recommenced, and Bar-Kochba hastens to defend the frontier. But Bar-Kochba is beaten everywhere and driven into Bethar. Hope flickers for a moment, but Paphos commits his most stupendous piece of treachery. He leads the Romans by a secret passageway into the fortress, and the Jewish cause is lost. Bar-Kochba fights his way through the enemies' lines and tries to lead his reserves to the attack. But seeing all his efforts useless, he falls on his sword as Eleazar's spirit towers above him.
- The Princess Lestorys, beautiful and brilliant, is much sought by London's men of affairs. Arthur Gerald, wealthy oil operator, casually remarks that he would give $100,000 for an introduction to the princess. This remark is repeated to the princess, who writes to Gerald, and suggests that in return for an invitation to her reception he forward a donation for a philanthropic institution in which she is interested. Gerald assents and sends his check for the amount. At the reception is also John Holton, a young civil engineer, deeply enamored of the princess. She declines his proposal of marriage, saying that his financial inability to provide the luxuries she demands outweighs her regard for him. Holton leaves for America, swearing to return with the necessary money. Gerald falls desperately in love with the princess. His daughter, Lena, who distrusts the adventuress, learns of her father's danger upon reading through the society columns of a newspaper. Suspicious, she obtains information from a detective agency, which brands the princess unmistakably as a peculiarly dangerous woman. Convinced by his daughter of the princess's sinister character, Gerald leaves with Lena for his oil wells in America. Meeting Holton he engages him as manager. The princess, foiled, determines upon revenge. Following Gerald to his oil lands, she hires several desperadoes to aid her in her diabolical doings. John and Lena are ambushed, the former shot and severely wounded, and the girl kidnapped. Writing to Gerald, Madam Satan, the princess, threatens dire happenings to Lena if Gerald does not fulfill his promise of marriage. Holton, revived, springs from a rock as Madam Satan's messenger passes and falls with him to the rocky ground. The messenger is subdued. The two hours elapse. No answer from Gerald. Madam Satan with her accomplices drag a cannon into the fields some distance from the petroleum tanks. The first shot penetrates the main reservoir, the fluid pouring outward upon the surface of the nearby river. A second shell explodes the works. The fire spreads to the oily fluid. In an instant the stream is ablaze from bank to bank. Her revenge incomplete, Madam Satan returns to her cabin and prepares for flight. Lashing Lena against the upright post, she ignites the cabin. In dashes Holton, weak from his wound. He moves toward releasing Lena. Madam Satan's pointed revolver halts him. Then within her stirs the old affection for the only man she had ever loved, from whom she was separated only because of his lack of money. Her revolver drops. Holton creeps forward and cuts Lena's bonds. Out from the stifling smoke and the stabbing flames he darts, carrying the insensible Lena. Madam Satan, saddened, sickened by the cumulative remorse of her wickedness, sinks upon the burning pyre.
- The princess is presiding at a reception being given in the old castle during the absence of her venerable father. The prime minister announces that the old soldier has again overcome his warring neighbors. The princess does not appear to be over elated, because she recalls that a young captain, whom she had once met in times of peace, might be among the dead or the wounded. Sure enough he is brought to a hospital, a wounded prisoner, and Elena volunteers to act as his nurse despite the protests of the prime minister. As he regains some of his normal strength he chafes under the restraint imposed upon him, and in her efforts to ease his lot, the princess issues orders that he may have use of the castle grounds. In his walks he frequently comes in contact with the princess, and while their intimacy ripens, the prime minister arrows more jealous. At length he clearly indicates his aversion to her companionship with an avowed enemy of her country, and in the name of the king seeks to restrict the captain from exercising in the grounds of the castle. The princess dismisses him and continues to secure an occasional tete-a-tete with the captain. He persistently pleads to her to help him escape from the confinement that is so galling to him and at length she accedes. She forwards to his apartments a rope ladder and a revolver hidden beneath a consignment of books. In the silence of the night he lowers his rope and makes his perilous descent to the foot of the walls. A sentry spies him, fires a warning shot, and engages the captain in a stern struggle. The captain manages, however, to break away; but soon he has a troop of cavalry on his track. He swims a river and rushes pell-mell through woodland country, but his mounted pursuers gradually gain upon him and, still weak from his wounds, he falls panting to the ground as they reach him. A court-martial quickly follows his recapture, and the dread verdict is summarily issued. Princess Elena sends for the prime minister, who has already signed the death warrant, and pleads to him to revoke it. He says he is ready to do so, but imposes, as a condition, that she should become his (the prime minister's) wife. She returns abruptly to her apartments and determines on a course which seems to her to offer the only possible way out for her and the man she loves. Under the cover of the night and closely veiled she steals to the prison and then gains admission to the cell in which the condemned man is crouched in an attitude of hopelessness. At first he thinks she is but a vision of his disordered mind, but when he folds her in his arms he understands the depth of love which has prompted her to come to him. She tells him that the chances of escape are too forlorn to attempt, and knowing that she cannot save him, she has decreed there is only one thing to do, to die together. She takes a paper knife, from her dress and hands it to him, but he recoils, and in an outburst declares that he will not die, but must go back to his country. His country comes first, and recognizing the inevitable, and the futility of their love, the princess rushes from the cell and secures a uniform of a prison warder. The captain kisses her and makes his escape. Later she is found on the floor of the cell, a victim of her own stiletto.
- Murice Brachard, a dock laborer, rises to be a "Samson" of finance with terrific power and a primordial ferocity, which he needs when his wife spurns his devotion, and people he trusts try to pull down the structure of wealth he has erected.
- Dr. Warren, a reserved man of a seemingly stern, cold nature, which is roused only in behalf of his loved profession, is an army surgeon, stationed in India. In the pursuit of his duties, he leaves his beautiful, pleasure-loving wife, Alice, to her own devices. Captain Richard Alston, a handsome young officer, tries to make up for the husband's neglect by paying the pretty wife decided attention. Dr. Warren's suspicions are aroused, but at this juncture he is called away by an attack of plague at the river camp, some distance away, where a serum that he has discovered is demanded to stem the death rate. Dr. Warren works heroically among the wretched huts of the natives, nursing the sick and burning down the hovels to prevent the spread of the infection. In her loneliness, Alice sends for Captain Alston. On the road he encounters a child stricken with the plague. Alston puts the little one on the saddle before him and gallops away toward the hospital. When later he arrives at the Warren villa he reels with an awful sickness; the deadly infection has overtaken him. Alice, horrified and distressed, suddenly discovers a note to her husband, advising him of the plague at the river camp. This is her first knowledge of the reason for his absence, and suddenly she realizes that it is her husband she fears for most, and loves most, after all. At this moment the Indian servant announces the approach of Dr. Warren, returning after successfully accomplishing his surgical labors. Alice drags Alston into an adjoining room and goes to meet her husband. The doctor wonders at her nervous, frightened manner, when there is a sudden crash in the next room. The doctor rushes in, his terrified wife following, and finds Captain Alston prostrate on the floor. Alice springs between the angry husband and the helpless officer. Dr. Warren pushes her aside, and going into his laboratory, selects a revolver from the wall. As he turns to go, Alice confronts him and forcefully reminds him of his duty as a soldier and a surgeon. Torn by conflicting emotions but moved by his sense of professional duty to suffering humanity, the doctor hesitates only a moment. Forgetting all other impulses, he treats and cures the stricken captain. After Alston recovers, he goes to the doctor and promises to do whatever may be asked of him as atonement. The doctor asks him to promise to leave the country forever. Then, turning to his wife, he tells her to choose whether she will go with the captain or remain with him. Alice, now awakened to the full nobility of her husband, asks him to let her remain. The doctor, too, realizes his neglect of Alice, and husband and wife are at last united on the basis of a greater understanding and a truer and more abiding bond.
- 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.
- In this story the hero is haunted by a beautiful young woman who tries to stab him to death with a knife. This fantasy recurs on each of his birthdays, becoming more and more real as the years go on. He leaves home to secure a place as groom, but arrives at his destination too late. Forced to retrace his steps, he seeks shelter in a little inn, forgetting that the hour of his birth is approaching. In the middle of the night he awakens, terrified with fright. Standing by his bed with a deadly knife in her hand is "The Dream Woman." She plunges the blade into the mattress as he squirms out of the way. Twice she attempts to reach him. He yells for help. The innkeeper and his family are aroused. Seeing nothing, they drive him away for disturbing them. As he is escaping the apparition appears once more. Fear lends speed to his quaking legs and he runs until he falls exhausted in his mother's arms. Francis Raven, the young man, is home from his hair-raising adventure. His mother is sick and he goes to the druggist for medicine. While there, Alicia Warlock, a very pretty girl, enters. It is easily discerned that she has been wayward; that she is tired of life. She asks the druggist to sell her laudanum. He refuses. As she goes out, she attracts Raven's attention. He is fascinated and follows. When he introduces Alicia to his mother, that good but very superstitious woman receives her with askance. But the son is infatuated and when the mother orders the girl away he goes with her and the two are married. They settle down in a home of their own, but when Raven is absent his wife associates with questionable companions. She drinks and is frequently under the influence of liquor. He finds her in this state and scolds her, but she is defiant. Not willing to give her up, he summons his mother, who promises to use her influence toward reforming the girl. But the mother sees her daughter-in-law cutting bread with the same knife that has always been a part of her son's dream and runs away. Not long afterward, Raven finds his wife stupefied with whiskey. He handles her roughly and finally strikes her. She falls to the floor completely sobered by the blow. In a second the husband regrets his hasty temper, but his wife, beside herself with rage, declares she will murder him with the very knife that has tortured him in his dreams. He gets the knife and vows to put it where his wife cannot find it, but while traveling a lonely road he is attacked, the knife is stolen from him and he is thrown into a well, from which he escapes. A few years elapse and Raven is engaged in the care of horses. Upon the anniversary of his birth two strangers, a man and his wife, employ him to drive them to their station. Having heard his cries they ask for an explanation and he tells his weird story. They pity and employ him as a second groom. To protect him over his birthday the first groom is instructed to watch him constantly during the night. But the first groom while in the village flirts with a woman who readily accepts an invitation to visit his lodgings. Just as she is about to partake of food and refreshments there are groans and cries of distress in an adjoining room. The first groom, not wishing to be disturbed, goes to the frightened man, ties him hand and foot, places a gag in his mouth and returns to the woman he picked up in the street. He does not have much time to revel in her society, however, because his mistress calls him. While he is gone, Alicia steals into the adjoining apartment, recognized the helpless occupant of the bed, draws a knife from the folds of her skirt and plunges it into his heart. The story ends in the fascinating atmosphere of the spirit world with the "Dream Woman" enveloped in soul stirring mystery.
- Loco Juan, a peon wood chopper who is afflicted, is befriended by Carmencita, the flower girl, when he incurs the ill favor of Senor Dominguez at the Cantina El Toro. Juan, through his appreciation of his heroine, is inspired with the thought of love, and falling asleep in the wildwood, dreams that a kind fairy transforms him into a dashing hero. Juan, in his newly attained manhood, foils the attempt of Senor Dominguez to abduct Carmencita, who has in the meantime accepted him as her betrothed. And aided by the vision of the good fairy overpowers Dominguez and his accomplice Sanchez the bandit in a spectacular knife fight. He triumphantly carries Carmencita away. But when she, enthused by his description of the good fairy who floats in and out of his adventures at opportune moments, takes the magic bracelet from his arm, the spell is broken, and Juan awakes from his dream, still the half-witted wood chopper lying under the sun-flower in the wild-wood.
- The secret marriage of a farmer and servant girl in an English household leads to a child born that is not believed to be legitimate.
- Paul, raised by gypsies, is sent to college and falls in love with the co-ed Daisy.
- In their sumptuous headquarters a small faction of the militia of the Kingdom of Ircania are conspiring to dethrone their King, Ircanus III, and they decide to act that night. It is Queen Maritza's birthday and the favored guests are assembled in the magnificent reception room of the Royal chambers. Toward evening they depart and the King retires to his apartment, but Oscar, his aide-de-camp, remains. Beneath her costly robes Queen Maritza hides a woman's heart full of love for Oscar. She invites him into her sitting-room and after spending some time together, he cautiously leaves her on his return to the headquarters. In the meantime the conspirators have collected a large force ready to attack the palace. Oscar hides behind a bush and sees them advance in boats. The faithful aide-de-camp immediately retraces his way to the palace and informs the astonished King and Queen. Oscar leads them from the palace and in an automobile they flee to safety. While King Ircanus and Queen Maritza are breakfasting the next morning, Oscar arrives with a newspaper account of the rebellion and decides to return and fight in the name of his King. In the land of exile the King finds diversion among boon companions, but Queen Maritza pines for her country and the presence of Oscar. As though her desire were answered, she receives a very encouraging letter from him, stating that the attitude of the people was becoming favorable to them, and that he was on his way to the King. Oscar arrives with some documents and promises to return that night. He is leaving the house when he receives a note from the Queen requesting him to see her before his departure. The King has just returned. In the early hours of the morning, from a pleasant evening, and while sitting in his study carelessly places his lighted cigar on the edge of his desk. He leaves the room shortly, unaware that it had dropped on the carpeted floor. Queen Maritza and Oscar, who are enjoying their last few moments together, are startled at the sight of flames. They are in a private room adjoining the house, from which escape was shot off by the flames. Oscar, realizing his compromising position, the firemen now ascending on a ladder to the balcony, makes for the burning house, but Queen Maritza with all her strength tries to restrain him. Rather than any suspicion darken the name of his beloved Queen. Oscar prefers death for himself. Locking her in the room, he rushes into the burning house and Queen Maritza falling in a swoon, is rescued by the firemen. Eventually King Ircanus III is restored to his throne, but Queen Maritza, her secret safely locked in her heart, can only offer tears and flowers to the one who sacrificed his life for her honor.
- Dorothy Madison, a secret service operative, is sent into the West Virginia mountains to locate a still, after male operatives failed. She carries a sketching outfit and a carrier pigeon into the moonshine country, and hides the pigeon in the woods near a mountain cabin, where she hopes to make headquarters. She walks along the road until she sees Dave Parks coming, falls, feigns a sprained ankle, and is taken home by Dave, who is a young, good-looking moonshiner. Dave's mother is a sour-faced, pipe-smoking, suspicious old mountain woman, and only tolerates Dorothy. Nell Oatsey, typical mountain girl of bold beauty, hears of Dorothy's plight and goes to see her. She carries her rifle. Dorothy is in the woods near the road sketching and looking about for signs of a still. Nell sees her and approaches. Dorothy is sitting on a log back of which is a big rattlesnake ready to spring. Nell shoots the snake and saves Dorothy from being bitten, but nearly scares her to death. Dave Parks, who is Nell's sweetheart, is smitten with Dorothy and grows cold toward Nell, which increases his mother's antipathy for Dorothy. By climbing a tree and using a spyglass Dorothy discovers the still and how it is guarded. She sends the information by her carrier pigeon and arranges for a signal to raid. At the appointed time she takes Dave to the woods to sketch him, and he is her unconscious tool in arranging the signal, which is seen from a nearby hill by the secret service men. The moonshine plant is raided and Dave, who is on his way to the place, runs afoul of a secret service guard and both shoot and both are wounded. Dorothy, who has followed Dave, desires to save him from prison and goes to his aid, helping him home. He is not badly hurt and is hidden in a woodshed. After dark Dorothy helps him away and takes him home. Nest day Nell Oatsey on her way to market learns that Dave and Dorothy have disappeared. She believes Dorothy has stolen Dave from her and starts on a mission to kill Dorothy. She reaches Dorothy's home the next day and enters the library, where Dorothy and Dave are talking. She tries to shoot Dorothy, but Dave spoils her aim. She accuses Dorothy, who for the first time is found to be the wife of an operative and the mother of a beautiful three-year-old child. Dorothy's husband appears, the child follows and all is explained. Dorothy making it plain that she saves Dave because Nell had killed the snake that menaced her. She reunites Dave and Nell.
- Edwin Tremayne and his brother Hal live with their widowed mother in a pretty home beside the seashore. The young men are in love with Neva, the daughter of a widow residing near the Tremayne home. Neva finally decides to become the betrothed of Edwin, and when she announces her decision, Hal becomes embittered and forsakes the village, going to a city where he obtains work in a fashionable hotel as bellboy. His youth and good looks win the admiration of one of the hotel guests, Miss Ruth Grant, a handsome young woman of wealth. Ruth professes love for Hal, and they marry. In the meantime, Edwin and Neva have been joined in marriage. Hal and Ruth send an invitation to Edwin and Neva to come to the city and visit them. When Edwin and Neva arrive at Hal's home they admire a $10,000 necklace worn by Ruth. Edwin and Neva then decide to make their home in the city and rent a house, which they occupy. Hal and Ruth give a masque ball, and Neva obtains from Ruth the loan of her necklace to wear at the ball. A gang of robbers read of the forthcoming ball and decide to attend in masquerade costumes. The gang leader manages to steal the necklace from Neva during the dancing. Edwin and Neva fear to tell Hall and Ruth of the theft, and fearing condemnation, they buy a similarly-appearing necklace worth $10,000 from a jeweler on credit, signing a contract to pay $1,000 a year. This substitute necklace is given to Hal and Ruth. For ten years Edwin and Neva toil from early until late to earn the money to pay the jeweler, undergoing great privations. When they make the final payment the truth of the substitution is revealed to Hal and Ruth, and the latter then tell Edwin and Neva that the original stolen necklace was only a string of paste imitation gems.
- The gift of seeing into the hearts of others is given to a young artist by Brandis. He now looks at the people he comes into contact with and realizes they are not what they appear.
- Deane Maxwell, the daughter of a wealthy banker, is much interested in charity work. She contributes to the maintenance of a small orphan asylum, where she finds a three-year-old blind child, Ruth, to whom she becomes greatly attached. In the meantime she and Philip Osborne, her father's secretary, have fallen in love, but for some reason which he will not disclose Philip tells her that he can never be more than a friend to her. One night during a severe storm, Deane is roused out of sleep, and a vision of a woman she has never seen appears before her and impresses her with the conviction that some danger threatens little Ruth. She rushes out into the storm to the orphan asylum, finds the building in flames, and arrives just in time to rescue Ruth. She carries the child to her own home. Philip discovers them in the library, and confesses to Deane that Ruth is his daughter. He then tells her of his past life; a life of sin and sorrow, involving the death of his young wife and the affliction of his child. It is because of his tainted past that he has felt himself unworthy of Deane's love, but the vision of the dead wife now appears to him, the same vision that came to Deane, and bids him accept her love, as he has redeemed his past through sorrow and repentance.
- A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead.
- The president of an Australian detective agency offers the services of their best man Henry King to the southwest coast police of California, who have been baffled by the many daring crimes committed by a gang of the underworld. Mr. King arrives in America, and upon the day of his arrival the most daring crime ever heard of is committed. Miss Dorothy Stevens is kidnapped in broad daylight in her automobile. The chauffeur was found drugged in an alley. Mr. King decides not to report this crime to the police, as to be seen with them might hinder him in his work, so he starts on the case alone. He spots his man, "Smiley Randel," holds him up, and thereby gaining his confidence, joins the gang as a first-class hold-up man. When he has located Miss Stevens, and about to get her away, Madge Burke does a clever piece of work and upsets his plans. He is bound and thrown into a room but upon rolling toward the door overhears the plans of the gang, namely, to leave the port on the schooner Blanche that night. He finds a mirror, and by throwing a mirror into a policeman's eyes, attracts his attention and gets him to come to the window. Writes a note, drops it down to him, thereby telling him of their plans, and to have a police-boat at the end of pier 21 and to watch out for the Blanche. That night he succeeds in freeing himself out of the room. He swims across the bay, secrets himself on the Blanche before the gang arrive. As the Blanche is making her way out of the harbor the police boat starts in pursuit and a battle ensues. Detective King takes Miss Stevens in his arms and jumps overboard. They are in turn picked up by the police boat and capture the fugitives. Miss Stevens is greatly surprised the next day by receiving a call from Detective King, of Australia, who proves to be the man who aided her in her escape and whom she thought was a member of the gang. After a short conversation with Miss Stevens, Mr. King decides to cancel his passage back to Australia, and remains in America indefinitely.
- George Reed, a gay young rounder from the city, visits the fishing village where Ethel lives with her brother John, a fisherman. He makes love to her. She is fascinated with his manners, and consents to marry him. He seals their engagement with a bracelet of very odd and antique design, which he places on Ethel's wrist. John disapproves of Reed, and warns Ethel against him, but she will not listen, and when John becomes angry and denounces her engagement, she elopes and goes to the city with Reed. At the end of six months he deserts her. Overcome with shame and torture she goes back to her village home, and falls dying upon the porch. John finds her there. She tells him of her betrayal and desertion, and over her dead body swears vengeance. Reed meets Mary Clarke, and becomes engaged to her. John happens to see a newspaper account of the ball to be given in honor of the engagement. This is the first clue as to the whereabouts of Reed, and he at once goes to the city. Seeks out the house in which the ball is to be given and finds Reed alone on the balcony outside of the conservatory, where he has just had a quarrel with Mary for dancing with her former sweetheart. Reed is found dead with a revolver lying beside him. Suicide is suspected, and Mary takes the blame to herself. Declaring that Reed killed himself on account of their quarrel. Overcome with grief and remorse, she later seeks the quietude of the fishing village. In a fit of despondence she attempts to commit suicide by throwing herself into the water, but is rescued by John. He falls in love with her, and proposes, but she tells him that the memory of the man who gave her the bracelet that she wears must ever stand between her and any other man. John recognizes the bracelet as the same one that Reed had given to Ethel, and he tells Mary of Reed's real character and his betrayal of Ethel. In the light of this revelation Mary accepts the love of John, and the bracelet, the cause of sorrow, is cast into the sea.
- Muriel Yorke has a fond husband, but he is so absorbed in his duties as head of the detective bureau that he has little time to devote to his wife. He is inattentive, not intentionally, but the fact remains that all of Muriel's pretty arts designed to distract him from his work are in vain. Time hangs heavily on her hands; she takes her meals alone, and gradually sinks into a state of melancholy. One evening while in search of recreation, Muriel visits a fashionable café unattended, and there meets Eric Le Blanc, a gentleman in manners, but in reality the chief of a band of international conspirators. He introduces himself as the Baron de Corril and Muriel keeps her identity a secret. Their friendship soon ripens into love, but Yorke is so deeply absorbed in his duties that he fails to notice the change that has come over his wife. In the interim, Le Blanc receives secret information from one of his spies that inspector Yorke has in his possession a description of every member of the gang and Le Blanc is urged to obtain possession of these at once. This he undertakes to accomplish and breaks into Yorke' s house on the same evening. During his search for the incriminating evidence, he comes face to face with Muriel, and for the first time learns her identity. He hides the real purpose of his visit to the house and explains that love had prompted him to follow her from the museum, at which they earlier had held a rendezvous. She aids him to escape, but in the meantime inspector Yorke has been attracted by strange noises in the house and makes an investigation. He enters his wife's bedroom and finding her apparently asleep, continues his search. He finds finger prints on the door and later identifies them as those of Le Blanc, the conspirator. When Muriel learns that her husband is preparing to raid on the apartment of the conspirator, she hesitates between love and duty and finally decides to warn her lover of his danger. She hastens to his apartments and implores him to escape while there is yet time. She points out that they may both leave the place without being seen, but Le Blanc refuses, and prates that her love has made him a better man, and that he proposes to accept punishment for his crimes and then lead a better life. In the meantime Yorke has obtained proof of his wife's perfidy, and with two detectives breaks into Le Blanc's apartments. Standing in the center of the drawing-room is the guilty pair awaiting the blow that is about to fall. Inspector Yorke glares scornfully at his wife for a few seconds; then challenges Le Blanc and orders his arrest. As the detectives are taking him from the room Muriel makes a move as if to rescue him, but Yorke grasps her by the wrists, and. after burning her soul with his reproaches, casts her aside as an object unworthy. She is left to her own conscience.
- George Lloyd, land owner, orders the fishermen in a coast village to vacate the property. Lloyd quarrels with his son Fred, an art student, and the latter leaves home and embarks on a steamer, from which he falls and is rescued by a fisherman known as Captain Jack. Fred's memory is lost by the fall. In the village he woos Nan, a fisher girl, thereby incurring the enmity of Joe Porter. Nan accepts Fred's love. Fred's father wages war on the fisherman. A battle over possession of the land takes place, and in the fight Porter shoots Fred in the back. Nan nurses Fred to recovery, and they are married, Fred still unaware of his identity. Porter becomes a desperado, and joins a gang of smugglers. Fred paints a picture of Nan, and an artist takes the portrait to a city, where it wins high praise. The painting is purchased by Blanche Dexter a former fiancée of Fred, and she, with Fred's mother, visit the fishing village to see the man who painted the portrait. Blanche and Fred's mother see Fred, and the sight of his parent restores Fred's memory. Porter about this time abducts Nan in a boat but Fred rescues her. His mother pleads with him to return home. Fred learns that his father is dead and that he has inherited the estate. Blanche, meanwhile, falls under the wiles of Porter, and meets him secretly. Fred leaves his wife, Nan, their baby having died and goes home with his mother. Fred indulges himself at cafés and forgets Nan, who is pining away in the village. Porter follows Blanche to the city, but later he returns to Nan and asks her to accept his love. She spurns him and, believing Fred lost to her forever, she rows a boat far out to sea and fails to return. Fred sees a vision of Nan, and prepares to return to her. He goes to the village and learns that Nan's body was washed ashore. He finds her grave beside the place where their child was buried, the two crosses bearing silent witness to the entanglements in the web of fate.