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- Manoah and his wife mourn deeply because both have passed the middle-age mark and remain childless. As they become older, their sorrow increases until one day the old wife calls upon the Lord and prays that they may have a child to gladden their declining years. An angel appears in answer to her prayer and prophecies that she shall have a son but that his hair must never be cut. The angel also declares that the son shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hands of the Philistines. In due time Manoah's wife has a son and names him Samson. As he grows to manhood, his extraordinary strength is the marvel of his parents and the community. When he has attained a man's estate he goes to Timmath, where he meets and learns to love Zorah, a Philistine's beautiful daughter. Samson overcomes his father's objections to his marrying a Philistine maiden, and he conducts his parents to Timmath that they may see his bride. While they are nearing the Vineyard of Timmath a young lion roars at Samson. He becomes imbued with the spirit of the Lord, and after struggling with the beast he breaks its jaws. Arrived at Timmath with his parents the nuptial feast is arranged for and the betrothal is announced. During the interim before his marriage, Samson returns to the spot where he slew the lion and finds that bees have gathered there and have deposited honey in the carcass, Thus at his wedding feast he proposes to his guests the riddle, "Out of the eater came forth meat and out of the strong came forth sweetness," and he offers to give to him who solves the riddle 30 sheets and 30 changes of garments. Unable to answer the riddle, the Philistines go to Zorah, and threaten her with death unless she draws Samson out and obtains for them the answer. She fights against their threats and persuasions but she finally weakens and after obtaining the answer from Samson she tells the Philistines. When the final day arrives and they answer the riddle Samson is deeply wrought up against his wife because he realizes her deceit. In his anger he renounces her and leaves her with her father. However, when his anger cools he returns and wishes to become reconciled. But in the meantime Zorah's father has given her to another. Samson's anger knows no bounds and he goes into the cornfields of the Philistines' and applies the fire brand. Driven to despair, the Philistines blame Zorah's father as the author of their misfortunes and they burn his house consuming Zorah and her father. Weary of the world, Samson seeks a cave on the top of the rock of Etan and dwells there. But the Philistines cannot rest in their hatred for Samson. They gather an army together and go to take their revenge on their enemy and upon the field of Ramath-Lehi, Samson meets the army of the Philistines and single-handed, with the jawbone of an ass he gives them battle, slaying a thousand soldiers in putting the remainder to flight. Samson then goes to the city of Gaze and strikes terror into the hearts of the people by his feats of strength. Sihon, the ruler of the Philistines, plots to take Samson prisoner, and he has the gates of the city locked against him. But when Samson is ready to leave, he wrenches the huge gates from their hinges and carries them away. Samson now meets the beautiful Delilah and is fascinated by her charms. Neither is she blind to the beauty or his strength and she receives him with favor. Making capital of their love Sihon entices Delilah to ascertain from Samson wherein his great strength lies. She refuses but Sihon convinces her that it is a matter of loyalty to her religion and people and she consents. She leads him to her home and employs her charms to fascinate him and she soothes and coaxes him as only a woman can until he is overcome and tells her: "There hath not come a razor upon mine head. If I be shaven then my strength will go from me." Then a prey to her seductions, he falls asleep and she cuts off his locks and summons Sihon and the soldiers. Then Samson is bound and thrown into prison where his eyes are put out with hot irons. He is then made to grind in the prison house and he is whipped as he works like an animal. When Samson's strength is gone he is for the moment forgotten and as the time passes his hair begins to grow out again. And when Samson's hair is again grown out the Philistines gather in the Temple and make merry and call for Samson that he may make sport for them. Samson is taken from the prison and led into the temple by a small boy. He is jeered and hooted at by the Philistines and is made to bow and do homage to Dagon the fishguard. Then Samson whispers to his boy guide to lead him to the sustaining pillars of the temple that he may lean upon them. Samson now calls upon the Lord for strength that he may be avenged for the loss of his eyes. The populace are wild with insane joy as they behold the once mighty man now their clown. As they rail and jeer him he places his mighty shoulders to the huge pillars. The frenzied mocking is frozen upon their lips and there is an awful silence. Then the massive pillars totter and crumble before his touch, the magnificent temple curves, collapses and tumbles upon the multitude. In that hour of death, the old, blind, dying Samson totters and crawls over the ruins until he finds a certain form, Delilah, and he falls upon the body of the faithless one he loved.
- Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman, being friends of both, persuade them to submit to the marriage. This they do. Eileen standing on one side of a curtain and Brandon on the other. The next day Eileen and Brandon are house guests of the Hardman's. When Eileen has finished dressing for dinner she locks her bedroom door, and turning quickly collides with Brandon, whose room is adjoining hers. The two have seen each other on different occasions and there has been mutual admiration. Eileen threatens to tell her husband if Brandon doesn't immediately leave this room, so near to hers. Hardman and his wife, listening at the keyhole, shout to Brandon not to be afraid, for Eileen is his own wife, whereupon Eileen faints in her husband's arms.
- An old maid receives a telegram from the administrator of a distant uncle's will, stating that he is shipping her share of the inheritance in a box. When the box arrives, the old maid discovers it contains a full-sized orangoutang, which escapes from the box and causes her no end of trouble when she tries to inveigle him to re-enter his prison. In the apartment next to that of the old maid is a musician who persists in torturing a trombone, to the exasperation of the old maid, who vainly tries to persuade him to cease his efforts. He, however, only slams the door in her face. When she returns to her apartment, she finds that the monk has again made his escape from the box and is roaming around the room, doing what damage he can. It is then that her attention is again called to the musician, who resumes his practice upon the trombone. The orang makes his escape from the apartment via a window and makes his way unmolested down the street, until he arrives at a circus tent, in which a performance is at that time going on. He enters the menagerie tent and proceeds to release all the animals of the menagerie. The elephants and camels are stampeded, and the lions, tigers, leopards, pumas, and other animals, proceed to make for freedom. Many exciting scenes follow, in which the animals terrorize the neighborhood. They are finally all captured by the keepers from the circus. The old maid and the musician make up their differences, and going after the truant monkey, find him engaged in eating fruit at a fruit stand. He is vengefully borne homeward and confined with no chance of escape, while the romance of the old maid and the musician ripens into love.
- The father is busy with his business. The little child is neglected as the mother is occupied in romantic speculations. And then enters the "friend," who sees his opportunity. One evening when the father is detained on business the wife accepts the "friend's" invitation to the theatre. The father returns and finds his wife gone. When the child tells where the mother is, he realizes that her love has flown, and the next morning he arranges for a separation. A year passes and the mother and child are living together, lonely. The "friend" sends her roses and says he is coming that night to claim his love. While dressing, the mother accidentally finds a white rose that her husband gave her a year before on their wedding anniversary. Memories come back to her, but she disregards them and rushes into the garden to meet her friend. The child, alone and frightened, goes to find its mother in the garden. The child picks a white rose and approaches with it. This brings the mother to her senses and she rushes back to the house with her baby. The baby then takes sick from exposure. The father is sent for, but before he arrives the baby dies. The mother and father are reconciled by their common grief. In the garden the mother sees a vision of her child, which she follows to the house. Here they find that the child is still alive, so the family is happily reunited.
- A confirmed bachelor falls in love with the young woman whom he had pawned off on his aunt when she was first put into his custody.
- Desire, Goody Margin's ward, is a waif from one of the French colonies. She is distrusted by the stern Puritans of old Salem. Goody Martin dies leaving her herb lore secrets to the girl who practices them. The old governor meets her and, being struck by her beauty, tries to kiss her. She slaps him and he never forgets. Later the fear of witchery spreads through the colonies. Desire's hut is burned and she is pursued and stoned until saved by Margaret Maiden, for whom she becomes a maid. Here Margaret's fiancée, John, meets and falls in love with the little maid whom he calls a very witch in all truth. Later he sees her dancing wildly and freely in the wood and his love cannot be repressed. He catches her in his arms and kisses her. She admits her love for him, too, but then remembers Margaret. Fearing to spoil the love of one who has been so good to her, she goes back to the woods. It is forbidden for any woman to practice what is called black magic in Salem. Desire, on a visit to the town, sees a woman burned and is horrified. Margaret falls ill. The doctor cannot help her. Desire comes back to see her. She knows the herb that will make her well, and despite all protest, goes ahead. Margaret recovers, but Desire is arrested as a witch. In her cell she is sentenced to death as a witch. John and Margaret visit her and say good-bye. Later the old governor comes in. He says good-bye and taunts her. Finally he offers her freedom if she will yield to his love. She laughs in his face. Later she is led out to execution. John comforts Margaret, but he thinks of the other girl, who goes to her martyrdom in that hour. And, as the flames creep about her, Desire bows her head in prayer.
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a quarrel. She tries to make him sign the "demands" of the Wives' Club to which she belongs, and leaves him when he refuses. He telephones to the Strike-Breaking Bureau, and the manager gets a girl from the burlesque troupe to act as strike-breaker till Wifie gives in. Dolly Dimples fits wonderfully well into the Carter household, and all goes merrily till Wifie telephones to ask Hubby if he is ready to accede to her demands. Dolly's voice over the phone and the reply of Carter that her place is satisfactorily filled by the strike- breaker makes her furious and she sets out in hot haste for the house. Hubby has telephoned that he needs police protection, and when the cop appears he gives Carter a whistle, saying that he is to blow it if help is needed. When Wifie sees the blonde beauty she rushes at her to scratch out her eyes. Hubby calls the cop and threatens to have her arrested. She succumbs, and he makes her tear up the "demands" before his eyes. She consents, so that she may have the pleasure of dismissing the blonde strike-breaker.
- Betty is giving a lawn party. When it is discovered that 13 are at the table the servant is sent out to bring in a passerby. The wanderer is brought in and seated beside Joe and Klein, two of Betty's admirers. That evening, Joe proposes to Betty, who refuses, and Klein watches for his chance to force his attentions on her. Maddened that he should be interrupted by the wanderer and refused by Betty, the next morning Klein writes to her father that she must pay the note for $1000 immediately. The wanderer finds this note on the floor. Klein goes to the squire, instructing him to collect the note. The squire collects his own note first. After a wordy argument with the colonel, he succeeds and is then ordered from the house. The wanderer notes it all and follows the squire. Later we find the wanderer at the tavern, where he is insulted by Klein. Joe enters, and, foolishly jealous of the wanderer, demands to meet him on the dueling grounds. Late that night the wanderer is seen writing a note enclosing $1,000. The colonel finds it under his door and after attempting an explanation from the wanderer, pays off his overdue note to Klein. Again we find the wanderer and Klein at the tavern. Klein urges the man to play cards. In the game he loses the money just paid. The wanderer turns it over to the squire saying that he is the messenger of another. Joe and the wanderer face each other for the duel. The wanderer manages to slightly wound the impetuous youth. Betty rushes up, having been warned, and inquires if Joe is badly injured. The wanderer smiles sadly and placing her hand in that of Joe's, tells her that the boy has fought for her and is worthy. He then resumes his journey.
- When the parents of Laurie Killikrankie realized their daughter was of marriageable age, each sets about to find her a mate. Dame Killikrankie selected Laird MacNutt. The father favored Laird MacNabb. Laurie decided that Tammy, a poor stalwart lad, was the ideal of her dreams. In her rambles she generally managed, with the aid of her dog, to come across this lad. The parents were ignorant of these meetings. The rivals, the Lairds MacNutt and MacNabb, were invited to visit the cottage and press their suit. When the two men arrive, each accompanied by his champion, Laurie flouts them, turns a cold ear to their pleadings. She runs to her room, locks the door and sits by the window. MacNabb is below, talking to Dame Killikrankie. Laurie, taking up the flower pot, drops it upon his head. Grandfather, who happens along, observes this incident. His sympathies being with the Why Did June Run Away? girl and her suitor, an idea suggests itself. He informs MacNutt that MacNabb threw the flower pot. MacNutt, believing him, hurls the pot at MacNabb. The throw is effective. The two men engage each other in a terrific combat. Laurie and the old man look on, enjoyingly. Father and mother rush in to protect their particular choice. They lead the boys into the house, put them to bed and attend to their wounds. Tammy, who has been chased from the house by the father, runs into a sword fight; several men have waylaid a soldier. The assailants, frightened by Tammy's intrusion, flee. As a reward for saving him, the soldier makes Tammy a member of his band. Tammy returns for Laurie at the gathering of the clan as Dame Killikrankie arranges to have Laurie married to MacNutt. Tammy, now a soldier, throws both suitors from the house, overawes the parents and commands the priest, brought by the old grandfather, to marry Laurie to him. The parents give their blessings, as there is nothing better to do, and the clan rejoices at the happy outcome.
- Father and Mother Lennox are a contented old couple, until daughter Jane comes home from college imbued with a passion for hygiene and an unswerving sense of duty toward them. With a book, "Old People and Their Care" as her guide, she puts them through a course of exercising "sprouts," orders hygienic meals, throws wide the windows to cold winds, and upsets their well-ordered comfort. After a period of submission they run away. Jane is almost distracted. Hoping for their return, she restores the house to its former old-fashioned comfort. Meanwhile, her parents rent a bungalow on the border of a large estate. Billy Harrison, the owner, drops in to see if he can be of service. In his rough outing clothes he is taken for the hired man by the old couple, who give him a dollar and set him doing the chores. He good naturedly lets them lord it over him and becomes a great favorite. Jane, learning of their whereabouts, arrives at the bungalow just as father Lennox returning from a hunting trip with Billy, shows his bagging of game. He and Mother Lennox are very happy over the event, but Jane's appearance dampens their spirits. Billy conspires with them to punish Jane by a siege of snubbing. With a maternal heartache, Mother Lennox is persuaded to ignore Jane, and both refuse to return home. Billy is resentful of Jane's treatment of her parents, and Jane is jealous of the hired man's influence over them. Later his ire changes to pity when he sees that their snubbing has made her cry. Thoughts of her begin to fill his own lonely life. Anxious to atone and longing for her parent's love again, Jane resolves to buy the little bungalow with her small inheritance. To this end she seeks the owner, and is amazed to find that Billy is host at the ranch house, and not merely a hired man. He listens to her plan, but refuses to sell the bungalow unless Jane will take the job of bossing him. Thinking him sarcastic, she leaves angrily. He follows and pleads his cause. Through binoculars Billy's guests on the terrace see Jane's antagonism to kissing vanish with her surrender.
- O'Rourke, soldier of fortune and hero of many wars, finds himself in Paris without funds. In a spirit of recklessness, he pawns a valuable watch given him by a grateful republic for services rendered. With the proceeds he enters a prominent Parisian restaurant to dine. There he attracts the attention of the Princess de Grandlieu, her husband, the Prince, and her legal advisor, M. Adolph Chambret. While there an incident occurs which earns the hatred of her advisor, who is in love with her. Later O'Rourke repairs to a gambling house, adjacent to the restaurant. The Princess and party go to a ball at the Hotel Ritz. As usual, the young adventurer attempts to increase his fortune and, as usual, he loses all. Meantime, the Princess receives a note, by messenger, from her brother, telling her that he is in danger of being killed in the desert of Sahara, where he is attempting to establish an Empire against the Princess' wishes. The note also informs her that the Prince, her husband, is at the bottom of it all, as his fortune will revert to her at his death and thus the Prince will gain control of more money. Out of loyalty to her brother, the Princess plans a rescue party which she hopes to have O'Rourke lead. Her adviser is ordered to search him out and bring him to her. Chambret finds O'Rourke in the gambling house, broke. He insults him by referring to a rose received from the Princess. O'Rourke, not waiting for explanations, knocks Chambret down and speeds away. The Princess, on her way home, is insulted by the Prince, who endeavors to learn the contents of the note she has received. Rourke hears her scream for help; he pursues in a taxicab, effects a rescue and takes the Princess home. There he is told of the mission which she wants him to undertake. Of course the adventurer agrees to her wish much to the discomfiture of the Prince and Chambret.
- Vitturo Caggoni is a gay-hearted, rollicking Italian troubadour. He meets a young woman, Marjorie Holbrook, and falls in love with her, serenades her, and courts her in the old romantic troubadour way. The girl, Marjorie, loves him, but his improvidence saddens her and she chooses as her future husband a practical merchant of the village. They are married and Vitturo, in broken-hearted resignation, conceals his grief, plays at her wedding. He wanders out into the world with his violin and his mongrel dog, saddened by his loss, and puts a new thrill in his music for the lovers who later hear him. Marjorie and her husband settle down to life. She finds her husband cold, and her life is miserable. She is forced to become a drudge. She bears a baby girl and the vagabond minstrel, who has returned to the village on his regular rounds, plays under window during the hours of her suffering, and in his music gives her strength to meet her ordeal. He knows of and shares her sufferings with her, and learning something of the character of her husband, he loiters in the neighborhood and watches over the woman secretly. The husband meets him prowling about and drives him away, but Vitturo returns, and when the husband is harshest to the woman, Vitturo, beneath her windows, plays upon his violin and sends her strength. Finally, the husband, grown rich by his miserliness, deserts the wife and baby for another woman. Marjorie is heart-broken and penniless. Vitturo provides for her, but makes no advances. Instead, he follows the man who has caused the unhappiness, meets him at a village fete, and in a dramatic scene forces him to give up his liaison and return to his wife and child. He effects a regeneration in the heart of the husband, leads him back to Marjorie, reunites them and takes up his old violin and his mongrel dog and goes on his way.
- One day while out for a ride Frank Bartlett meets Argo, a beautiful South American girl. With some misgivings she accepts his invitation to go for a ride. He takes her to a private room in a café and there tries to make love to her. Beau Brummel hears her screams and goes to her assistance. As a result of it all, the faculty of the college report to both parents. Argo is sent home and Beau is disowned. Beau ships as a stowaway on a South American bound ship. He lands in the same city where Argo lives. She recognizes him as her former rescuer and her father installs him as prime minister. Later he is forgiven by his parents. The friendship between Argo and Beau soon ripens into love.
- A young seminary girl finds romance.
- Headmistress Flo disciplines unruly boys at her father's school. Her innovative methods include hosing the boys down and locking them inside an ice house. Nothing like stranding the assistant principal on a hoist to make love bloom.
- At Burke's death, the bulk of his fortune goes to his only son, baby Rory, who goes into the keeping of his uncle, Sir Everett, who has a son Rory's age. That his own son might inherit the fortune Everett causes Rory to be kidnapped. Twenty years later show Sir Everett's son grown up to be a cad of dissolute habits, but wealthy as a result of the stolen inheritance. Rory has grown to manhood in the home of a poor widow and her daughter Eileen and is in love with peasant girl Kathleen. Sir Everett's son wrongs Rory's foster sister. She dies and Rory swears vengeance upon the wrongdoer. However, vengeance is taken out of his hands. The kidnapper gets into an altercation with the son and kills him. Rory finds the body, is accused of the murder and is convicted and condemned to die. The conscience-stricken kidnapper confesses to a priest--a good friend of Rory's. The priest cannot dishonor the sanctity of the confessional by making the confession public, so he goes to Rory's cell and changes clothes with the young man. Rory escapes, but is speedily recaptured. The time for his execution arrives. The death-bell tolls out mournfully. It arouses the conscience-stricken kidnapper to action. He rushes to the gallows and arrives an instant before Rory is to be hanged. He confesses that the crime was his. Rory is liberated. The tolling of the death-bell also arouses the conscience of Sir Everett. He confesses the kidnapping and restores Rory to his inheritance.
- A maid risks her life for her employer, with whom she is in love.
- In a little New England village dwelt this aged and lonely father who waited for the return of his prodigal son who had gone away many years before to join the navy. For years he had not heard from him, but the sweetheart who had been left behind came every day to cheer and care for him. Finally, one Sunday morning, the wayward boy wandered back to the little village where he had been raised. Meeting his sweetheart by the roadway, she tells him of his father's loneliness and yearning for him and shamed him for his neglect. Reproaching him for the condition into which he had allowed himself to drift, she persuaded him to go to her father, who was the village minister, to see what might be done to win back his manhood. Her father, for the sake of the aged parent, promised to give the boy a chance through the strength of his sweetheart's love and guidance, he was presently able to throw aside his evil ways and when his father's 80th birthday came along the sweetheart brought father and son together in happy reunion, receiving for her reward the love of the reformed son and the blessings of the aged parent.
- Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however. Phillip shoots a gambler in a quarrel and makes his escape to his brother's ranch. Here, he meets Meg and immediately begins courting her. She yields to him and he promises to marry her. Meanwhile the gambler dies and the sheriff and posse search for Phillip. Dave has learned of his brother's refusal to marry Meg. Determined that right shall be done, Dave goes for the minister. The father too has learned of the case, but thinks Dave the man. He decides to kill him and starts for the ranch. Dave returns to his home, only to find the posse on his brother's trail. He offers to exchange clothes with Phillip and submit to arrest in his brother's place, providing the guilty man will marry the girl. Phillip agrees. Dave, dressed as his brother, slips from the window to draw pursuit. Meg's father approaches and shoots to kill through the open window at Phillip, whom he supposes is Dave. Dave is brought back and the tangle is straightened out with the sad wedding of Meg and the true-hearted Dave.
- Rufe Eldridge, flat broke, is taken from his dinner by the landlord, who propels him out of the dining-room into the office. He discovers a letter informing him that his aunt, Priscilla Ware, has died and left him an inheritance. This turns out to be her boarding-house, "The Broken Shutter." Though ignorant of the ways of managing a boarding house, Rufe decides to take a chance. Susie Summers is accepted as a waitress. She tells him of a fortune teller who predicted many happy things for her. This gives Rufe an idea. Rufe dresses himself in Oriental costume, and, presenting himself at his former lodging house, tells them that he is the Princess Pashio, finder of lost heirs and heiresses. He walks through the streets of Circleville blindfolded, the entire town at his heels, until he arrives at his house. Rufe tells them that this is the place. He opens a fortune-telling parlor and does a land-office business. The boarding-house is filled to overflowing with the curious, who all pay him money for information as to who the heiress is. To the men he says that she is a sleepwalker, who wanders around in the dead of night. The women feel that they are slighted, so he explains to them that he meant an heir instead of an heiress. That night the women lie in wait for the sleep-walking heir and the men do likewise. Rufe, meanwhile, does a little courting with Susie. Susie, to carry out her end of the plot, walks down the hallway and is seen by Old Lollypop, Rufe's former landlord. He thinks that she is the heiress and he pushes his suit and asks her hand in marriage. She replies evasively, but finally promises to marry him if he will buy the hash house from Rufe. The landlord is undecided about this, but the pseudo fortune-teller advises him to buy it at Rufe's price, as his fortune depends on it. The landlord finally draws $10,000 out of the bank and gives it to Rufe, who gets Susie and the two are about to leave to get married when the landlord and the other boarders overtake them. They are received with the information that Susie is the heiress, that the money received from the landlord and boarders constitutes the fortune.
- Crooknose is a child of the slums. The slums his mother, dark alleys his father and his family is composed of the crook, the gambler, the demi-monde and the policeman. But despite these family connections Crooknose is organically a decent fellow. He believes in a "square deal." He insists on a "square deal" and as a result he commands the respect, which comes of fear of the gamblers with whom he associates. One day while Crooknose is a party in a quiet game of poker another incident of importance to this story is taking place in a nearby crockery store. Katie, a young saleswoman, and Crooknose's idol, sells a vase to a customer. The buyer of the merchandise asserts that she gave the saleswoman $50 bill. Katie says no and she is discharged. While seeking employment Katie falls into the hands of a procuress who offers her the position of housekeeper for two girl artists. Unsuspecting of the nature of the employment. Katie accepts the offer. The procuress leads Katie to her establishment. The innocent girl only too soon discovers the danger which threatens her. When she attempts to leave the infamous dive she finds that she is a prisoner and that a common person is her jailer. In the meantime Crooknose catches one of the players cheating. He draws his revolver, pockets the money on the table, which is rightfully his, and retreats from the room, holding the other gamblers at bay with his firearm. The proprietor of the house telephones to a number of confederates downstairs and instructs them to rob Crooknose of his winnings. Crooknose is "wise" to their game and he leaves the building by way of the roof. A hot chase over the tops of buildings ensues. In looking for an opportunity to reach the street Crooknose peers through a skylight and sees Katie, the object of his secret love, struggling with the pander. He jumps through the skylight and goes to her rescue. The gamblers follow and a one-sided battle begins. Crooknose is all but vanquished when Bullneck Gannon, a policeman and an old acquaintance of Crooknose, and an admirer of Katie, breaks into the room and turns tide of battle against the gamblers. There is a little scene in the hospital that night, when Katie visits Crooknose and the policeman, which suggests a future romance between Crooknose and the girl.
- The girl arrives on a steamer from Europe. She finds a place as maid with the Cliftons. Matters run smoothly until the butler invites the maid for a stroll. The maid declines. Mr. Clifton is called away. Mrs. Clifton takes advantage of his absence to carry on a flirtation with Trinker, a young fop. There is a bridge party. The maid, for the first time, sees Harsleigh. Thoughts, strange and disquieting, of him fill her mind. It is immediately after the bridge party that she finds her mistress in the arms of young Trinker. Mrs. Clifton pledges the maid to secrecy, promising her the gratification of any wish she may have. The maid, remembering Harsleigh, asks to be taken to Newport as an heiress, Mrs. Clifton is forced to consent. At Newport the maid is quite a lion among Mrs. Clifton's friends. Harsleigh falls in love with the girl and pushes his suit. While walking one day, the pair are followed by Louise Jones who is in love with Harsleigh. She observes Harsleigh propose and the girl accept. On their return to the drawing room, Harsleigh announces the engagement, Louise tells him he is making a fool of himself, that he is marrying a maid. When the maid refuses to tell who she is, Harsleigh denounces her as an impostor. At this moment a foreign Chancellor, a tutor and retinue of maids enter and acclaim the maid none other than a Princess of the Royal and the First Lady in Europe. The Princess leaves with her retinue and returns to the Royal Palace in Europe. Shortly after, she receives a letter from Harsleigh declaring his love for her and begging forgiveness. The Princess destroys the letter and thinks only of what might have been if Harsleigh had not failed when "his big chance" came.
- Unhappy with his marriage, The Dreamer runs away. He collapses and is found by The Desert Flower, who convinces him to return to his family. In various illusions he sees himself in three stories: in the first he is Napoleon, in the second he is a Knight, in the third he is a Sultan--but he dies in all of them. Meanwhile, his wife is about to be sent into the desert while refusing to marry a Stranger. Before this can happen, the Dreamer arrives and sends the Stranger into the desert. The Dreamer becomes again a loved, respected member of the Town.
- An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
- Lucille meets the head of the Matrimonial Agency, who gives her his card and asks her why she does not marry. She resolves to look over his stock. He has scolded the office boy that morning, and in revenge the boy changes the signs in the hall, putting the employment agency sign in the place of the matrimonial bureau sign. Mr. Brown has discharged the cook and his wife sends him to the agency to get another. He enters the Bureau by mistake, and engages Lucille. She thinks she is being chosen as wife. He takes her home and is dismayed by her airs of proprietorship. She seizes him and tries to kiss him, and his wife, coming in, makes a fearful scene. She calls a policeman, who takes the whole party to the Bureau. The mistake in the signs is discovered, the apologies take place. Then the whole party gets into the elevator, with the exception of Lucille and the boy. The machinery gives way, and the two are left laughing at the others trying to claw their way out of the wreckage.
- The gambler takes his sick wife to the mountains. The doctor has informed him that she will need special care, and he, with rich, red blood in his veins, is disgusted with life and her in particular. At the local saloon he finds comfort in the smile of one of the female regulars. Jim is jostled and insulted by the cowboys until, maddened, he draws his gun and fires. The posse pursue him, but he escapes to the mountains. Meanwhile, the wife has discovered her husband's infidelity; leaving a note she goes into the hills with the avowed purpose of dying. At the stream she finds Jim, weak from the loss of blood. She nurses him and he, in turn, takes her to an old couple in the hills, where she rapidly regains her health. Jim commences to realize the meaning of manhood. Time goes on; the wife feels now that she can regain her husband's love and starts for the mining camp. On the road her husband staggers to her feet and dies, having been shot after a saloon brawl. She goes on, meets Jim, and together they face the future.
- The curtain falls as Cleo finishes her remarkable portrayal of a woman dying after having taken poison, and she is enthusiastically applauded. Gordon, the debonair lover of Cleo, leaves his box and goes to her dressing room. He is making love to her when Harry Parker, her husband, enters and reproaches her for her unfaithfulness. The husband, picking up a revolver, is prevented from shooting his wife by Gordon, who struggles with him. The noise attracts the attention of Jack Stanley, who has just answered a telephone call at the back of the stage, and who rushes into the actress' room immediately after Gordon has killed Harry. Taking the pistol from Gordon, Jack asks for an explanation, and is bending over the body as Cleo hides Gordon and as the stage manager and stagehands rush in Jack is accused of the murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and Helen Forde, fiancée of the imprisoned man, is convinced from a newspaper story that he must have had an association with the actress. Despite the fact that Gordon is in love with Cleo, he tries to get Helen to marry him. Cleo also urges the marriage, as Gordon has promised to spend a good part of Helen's wealth on her. Finally, Helen consents, and they are married. Three years have passed, and Gordon tires of Cleo. Helen is brutally treated by her husband, and she realizes that she has made a mistake in marrying him. Cleo, to get revenge on Gordon, informs Helen that it was not Jack who had committed the murder, but Gordon. Through the pleadings of Beatty, the little daughter of Helen, as to the reason why her mother is crying, Cleo, who has been, touched by the child's pathetic appeal, becomes deeply attached to the mother, and the two, women plan to right the wrong. Helen, determining that she will not live with a murderer any longer, leaves with Cleo for the west, and everything goes along smoothly until their funds run low. Cleo, unknown to Helen, obtains a position as a dancer in a café in order to raise a little money to maintain their home. Here she meets Jack, who had escaped from prison. After the performance. Cleo takes him to Helen's cottage, where a happy reconciliation is effected between the estranged couple. Meanwhile, Gordon, who has returned from his business trip, during which time Helen left him, finds the note his wife wrote him before she left. Learning of the whereabouts of Helen, with the aid of detectives, he goes to the town, in which they live, and accidentally sees Jack. Gordon spreads the news that Jack is a jailbird, and a posse is formed and sent in search of him. Gordon calls upon Helen and encounters Jack, who, inflamed at the malicious work of Gordon, springs upon the culprit just as Cleo spies the posse surrounding the house. Holding a pistol at Gordon, she tells him to stand while Jack seeks refuge in a secret cellar, entered through a trap door under the carpet. After abstracting a full written confession from Gordon she permits him to escape. As he is making a getaway, the posse spy him, and taking him for Jack, he is shot. The posse discover their mistake and bring the dead man back to the cottage, but the situation is cleared by the written confession which Cleo produces.
- Helga Moran, a young violinist, desiring to play before a great manager, sends in her card only to be rebuffed by the office brat. She returns to the studio of her friends and plays for them. They are fascinated, so much so that they forget the supper cooking on the stove. After the meal Helga returns to the office. The manager is looking for a man to play a lead in one of his productions. He is pestered by all sorts of types: song and dance men, an old opera singer, an old tragedian who still thinks he can play a juvenile, when the manager is almost mad with the pests. There comes into his office a beautiful girl with her violin; he would drive her out as he has the others, but she will not go; instead she plays to him. He is enchanted by her music; they fade from the office into a wonderful glade; he is sleeping at the base of a grand oak tree. Suddenly the tree opens and out dances a nymph; she inhales the fresh air, dusts off the flowers and plays with the rabbits, awakens the sleeping knights, then runs away. With Sir Knight she is persuaded across field and dale, up deep slopes, and romps with him in hot chase. Then back to the office. She finishes her selection; he falls to his knees enchanted. He offers her his all, his heart and his hand, but she is enraged to think her music could affect a man so. She breaks her violin over his head and leaves.
- As Warren Prescott was sitting by his fireside he heard a gentle tapping against the windowpane that attracted his attention. He saw a form bending low. The person manifested that he wished to enter, and Warren opened it, only to find himself looking into the barrel of a revolver. After binding and blindfolding his victim, the intruder escorted him to an automobile. After a long ride Warren was taken into a house where he was released of his bonds. When he opened his eyes after the bandage was removed, he saw no one, but as he looked around he saw lying upon a tiger skin, the most beautiful woman he had ever seen. The woman looked at him for a moment with a sort of languid look, and then a slight smile played about her lips, and she began to speak. "You no doubt wonder what this is all about?" Warren could do nothing but nod in assent, so bewildered was he. "I'm the Princess Olga, my father is a reigning prince in India and has betrothed me to a neighboring prince whom I dislike, and to avoid him, I came to New York, but he has followed me, and is now on his way to this house. I saw you on the street today, and felt sure that you would help me. Will you?" "The reason that I do not seek help from someone else is that the Prince must be done away with without anyone knowing of it," said the Princess. "What is the matter with your man Friday who brought me here?" Warren answered, "He seemed to understand the work thoroughly " "No, he is of my tribe, and that could not be, besides even he must not know why I had you brought here." When Warren indignantly declared he would take no part in the contemplated murder her eyes flashed fire. "Very well then, you shall never leave this house alive, for when the Prince arrives. I will tell him that you have forced yourself upon me, and he will kill you and if you attempt to leave, I have given orders that you be shot at dawn. As Warren was trying to think out a solution, some way out of the dilemma, the noise of an auto was heard. The Princess arose and hurried to the window. She turned towards Warren, and as she looked at him, she seemed to melt before him, and tears filled her eyes. She fell on her knees and pleaded. She became hysterical, she told him that she believed in him, and that he was a real man, and that he would help her. Her orders that he be shot if he attempted to escape were given in a moment of thoughtlessness; she was sorry, but now it was too late; her man was deaf, and could not be called, and was standing ready to shoot. At last a knocking at the door was heard, and a demand for admittance, and the Princess bade Warren to open, which he did at once, but as the key turned in the lock, he remembered that he had no weapon, not even a penknife. It was then too late, and a burly fellow entered. As Warren and the man stood face to face, he could see no trace of an Indian Prince in him. The man accuses Warren of being in his wife's room and demands an explanation. Warren realizes he is the victim of a "badger game" and writes out a good big check. The woman leaves to cash the check. Warren, sitting reading, turns the last page, reads for a moment, then slowly goes to the window and looks out. The rain is still beating against the window. He turns, looks at the book, smiles, shrugs his shoulders, tosses the book on the table, picks up a cigar and sits down as the picture fades out.
- Alison Reeves, a young heiress, is engaged to Tom Moore. In a luxuriously furnished apartment two crooks, Marcen and Jakel, read in a newspaper an announcement that Miss Alison Reeves has retired from society owing to the death of her father. The article is accompanied by a picture of Miss Reeves, and the two crooks are impressed with its striking resemblance to Wanda, who is seated in another part of the room. In looking over the paper Marcen discovers an advertisement for a maid at the same address and he concocts a scheme to rob the Reeves establishment by having Wanda apply for the position. She secures the position. Jimmy, a product of the slums, steals a bag of peanuts from a pushcart and, being pursued by a policeman, finds refuge upon the roof of an apartment next door to the residence of the Reeves family. Afraid of capture, Jimmy decides to remain in the safety zone and falls asleep. Next we see Mrs. Vandergrift, Alison's aunt, placing a pearl necklace, given her by her niece, under her pillow before retiring for the night. Jimmy awakens on the roof and in descending the fire escape he sees Wanda, who has been given permission to leave until the next morning, enter Mrs. Vandergrift's bedroom. He notes that Wanda removes the pearl necklace from under the pillow and also catches a glimpse of the scar on her forearm. Then he sees her take a handkerchief with the initial "W" plainly marked on it and drop it beside the bed. She then chloroforms Miss Reeves, and has Marcen and Jakel take the helpless heiress to an old hag in an East Side tenement house. The following morning the robbery in the Reeves household is attributed to the maid, who has disappeared, owing to the discovery of a handkerchief with the initial "W" marked in the corner. Wanda, who is now impersonating Allison, declares that she is positive of the maid's guilt. She succeeds in deceiving Mrs. Vandergrift, but Alison's pet dog, Toto, growls at her and indicates that he, at least has not been deceived. Wanda, fearing the dog may eventually betray her, requests that Mrs. Vandergrift remove Toto. Presently Marcen arrives and Wanda explains that he is a new acquaintance. When they are alone Marcen questions Wanda as to her success. She gives him an assortment of jewelry she has stolen, which he hides under his coat as they hear someone coming. Tom is ushered in and Wanda's face is a blank as she doesn't know Alison's fiancé, but she has sense enough to greet him cordially. Marcen leaves and manifests jealousy as he looks back through the portieres and sees Wanda clasped in Tom's arms. After Tom's departure Marcen returns and accuses Wanda of being in love with Tom. Tom returns for his gloves and comes upon them just as Marcen is kissing Wanda. Tom accuses her of faithlessness and demands the return of their engagement ring. Professing to be too overcome to get the ring at once, Wanda promises to let him have it if he will return later, and Tom leaves in indignation. Wanda tells Marcen that the situation is growing serious as the ring is in Alison's safe, and that he must get the combination for her at once. At the Childrens' Court, Jimmy is held for truancy and petty larceny and Tom, having offered to serve as a "big brother," is appointed to look after him. Jimmy takes Tom to the tenement house where he lives, which happens to be the very house where Alison is being held captive. Jimmy explains to his mother who Tom is and shows her a new suit that Tom has bought for him. Marcen enters the room in the tenement, where Alison is held. He dismisses the old hag in charge of the captive and demands of Alison the combination of the safe. She refuses and while his gaze is distracted she escapes through the window and happens to run into Jimmy's room, where she sees Tom. When Marcen follows her through the window he and Tom confront each other in amazement. Marcen insists that the girl is Miss Reeves' maid who stole the pearl necklace, and that he has just succeeded in trapping her. Jimmy tells about the scar on the maid's arm that he saw from the fire escape, and Allison, to prove that she is not the maid, bares her arms. Later at the Reeves household they take Wanda by surprise, where Tom, after a while, draws the portieres aside. Then Allison enters and Wanda realizes that the game is up. She is placed under arrest. Thus the game, played for high stakes, terminates fatally for the crooks, for after their conviction, Marcen and Jakel are seen in prison clothes at work at the bench, and elsewhere in the prison Wanda is scrubbing the floor. Tom places the engagement ring upon Alison's finger as the picture fades out.
- Mary, a girl of eighteen, lives with her uncle, Dreen, in a cabin in the mountains. From her infancy she has been warned never to expose her eyes to the light of day else she will become blind. She has obeyed her uncle implicitly by always remaining in a darkened room. With a party of gay young people, Frank Forrest is spending a holiday at a luxurious hunting "camp" not far from the girl's cabin. Viola Dexter, a girl of millions, is in love with Frank, regarding the love making of Bruce Milton, of the same party, with indifference. Bruce plans to prevent Frank, who really does not care for Viola, from, marrying her. On one of the hunting expeditions Bruce maneuvers until he separates from the rest of the party and, being carefully screened, fires at Frank. He merely wounds him in the shoulder. This sends Frank hurrying to Mary's cabin for aid. Her uncle is away on a long hunting trip. Mary bathes Frank's wound and binds it. Under his persuasion Mary tells her life story and the reason she fears daylight. Years before in the same cabin lived her mother and father, the former ill and half-crazed, the latter prey to sudden heart attacks. The mother tries to revive him and then rushes to the door in the hope of seeing some chance of help. There is not a soul in sight. Nearly mad with grief the mother gets on her knees and blasphemes against the sun and the maker of it. Hours later Mary tells Frank, the men returned and found her mother in a faint across the threshold and her father dead. She explains that her mother, when her baby was horn, swore that the child should never see daylight, and when on her death, Mary's uncle came, he, too, carried out the same vow. Frank determines to help her all he can. Frank calls upon Mary a number of times and soon falls in love with her. He tells her that he has arranged for an eye specialist to come and examine her. Her uncle's hunting trip has come to an end, and burdened with game, he sits by his campfire on the last night in the forest. He takes a flimsy document out of a stout envelope and pores over the contents. It is a crude form of will, evidently written by Mary's mother, entrusting her life's savings, three bonds, to her brother to be kept for Mary. There may be a reason, as Frank suspects, for the old man's idea in keeping Mary from the light. The uncle gloats over the three bonds, wondering how long Mary will live and keep them from being really his. Next day the society people leave on a long tramp. Viola is disappointed because at the last minute Frank declares he must go to the village. In reality, it is to meet Dr. Trenchard, the eye specialist. Meanwhile the uncle has returned, and learns that Mary's unusual happiness is due to the fact that Frank, whom she says is her lover, is due with an eye doctor. The uncle is insane with rage and dashes off to encounter Frank. They meet and the uncle's gun goes off, wounding him. The society people hear the gun go off. And Mary hears it louder than anyone else. She snatches up a gun, flings the door open wide and stands for a second blinking, blinded by the sun. Then she goes off to save her lover. The uncle has flung Frank from him. The doctor has long since been overcome. The big gun is aimed at Frank. Mary points her gun at the old man. But she does not have to kill him, for the tramping party breaks in upon the scene and save the situation. Dreen, now weak and mortally wounded, collapses as they support him. Mary flies to Frank's arms. Dying, the uncle is asked why he raised the girl in darkness. He says: "Starving for light, I thought she would die." And when he hands the three bonds to Mary, it is clear to Frank that avarice prompted the old man's cruelty to her. She sees as well as anyone. Not many nights later, Mary is introduced to Frank's friends at the camp and she gets her first glimpse of the life that will soon be hers for all time.
- A Boston girl, Clairbel Sudds, laments that she has no talents and goes to Dr. Daws, something of a wizard, for help. He gives her five magic bon bons, each a different flavor for a different talent. They are accidentally sold to a 12 year old girl named Bessie Bostwick, whose family eats them with bizarre results. By L Frank Baum
- John is in love with Jane Wright, to whom he has been betrothed since they were children. Then one day John is forced to serve as a seaman on a man-o-war. Jane is heartbroken over her lover's departure, and takes passage to France in the hope of finding him. The ship is attacked by the French and Jane is rescued by a French officer who takes her to his home. Later John finds her but she does not know him, as she has lost her memory in the fight. Then he takes her back to the scenes of her youth and the sight of them bring back her memory and all end happily.
- The rivalry between two small-town old men for the hand of a widow.
- As the result of a strike, a foundry lies idle and the men become ugly. The owner upholds the superintendent, who has been cheating both him and the men by falsifying the payrolls. The superintendent's stenographer, a young girl, learns of his duplicity, and telegraphs the owner. The superintendent decides to take more of the owner's money and securities, and to prevent exposure, locks the stenographer in the office vault. He then takes a train for New York. The girl's lover, a railroad fireman, knows that she is in the office. He comes for her and discovers that she is in the vault. As the superintendent is the only one who knows the combination, the fireman and his engineer pursue the New York train on their engine and overtake it. After a desperate struggle the car containing the superintendent is dragged back to the foundry by the fireman's engine. The superintendent is forced to open the vault and release the girl. The owner, learning that he has been cheated and robbed, brings the strike to an end.
- Robert is offered the superintendency of a mine in the west on two conditions: first, that he report at once, and second, that he bring a wife with him. He proposes to his old sweetheart, but she rejects him. He next proposes to another, who accepts until she sees that he is wearing the picture of his sweetheart. He proposes to a third, but is rejected. Then he goes into the telegraph office to wire that he cannot accept the offer. In the office he meets Victoria, an old acquaintance, he proposes, and is accepted. In the meantime sweetheart No. 1 finds a telegram which Robert dropped, telling of the offer of $10,000 if he will report with a wife. She goes in search of Robert. Sweethearts No. 2 and 3 also go in search of the victim. He finds the three waiting for him, but beats them to the church and is married to his old acquaintance.
- The Pirate Chief (Pat Rooney) and his Flunky (Kewpie Morgan) are marooned and cast ashore on a cannibal island. The Flunky is caught and made King by the Cannibal Queen (Mary Haines) and he makes the Pirate work for him. The Pirate connives with the Councillor and the Flunky is captured. But the Pirate is also captured and given his choice of marrying the Queen or death in a boiling pot. The Flunky escapes in a boat. The Pirate chooses getting boiled over marrying the Queen. A stick of dynamite is placed under the pot and blows the Pirate onto the boat with the Flunky.
- Matt rescues Jane when her dog's leash is twisted around her ankle. He is struck with her and she with him. That night he celebrates with the boys, and in the morning he finds a letter from his father, telling him that from now on he must be on his own resources. Matt is almost penniless, but he reads of a Professor Kairo who is making large sums of money, and determined to go into the business of Swami-ing. He dresses himself and his man-servant in Oriental robes and hangs out a sign. His first client asks him to give a séance at her house that night. When he swims in, he is astonished to recognize Jane, who is entertaining Lord Fauntleroy, whom her mother fancies for her husband. Jane tells the Swami that she has lost Bruno, and Matt's servant finds him. This is a success. The professor places a crystal in the middle of the room, and telling them all to watch as it will reveal a secret, he goes out into the veranda to talk to Jane, who has recognized him. Her mother comes out and Jane runs off. The weeks pass by and Matt finds that love and swami-ing don't mix. He shoots a note into Jane's room with a bow and arrow. It reads: "Dearest, Have arranged marriage. Am waiting nearby with an auto to elope. Your own Matt." Jane tears the message from the arrow point, stuck in the wall, but mother finds the last part of it. She is horrified, and after the wedding she tears Jane from Matt by enlisting the aid of the chauffeur. Matt is deprived of his bride and goes back to swami-ing. The marriage is publicly annulled. Matt reads this in the paper and also that the De Puysters are at Tuxedo for the winter. In his despair he is cheered by a message from Mrs. Van Emery asking him to give a séance in her home in Tuxedo. He is not to ring as he will find the window open, and it is to be a surprise. Matt has the misfortune to enter the wrong house. It is the De Puysters. Mother holds him up at the point of a revolver, thinking he has come to kidnap Jane. She tells him that she is going to keep him under her eye till Jane is married to Lord Fauntleroy. He is to act as butler, and will be arrested if he betrays himself. Baron von Limburg and the Count de Fromage arrive for the house party. They can neither of them skate well, and Jane skates to the admiration of all with an unknown young man, who is really Matt. There is to be a masquerade ball that night, and Jane lays her plans for it. She asks the chauffeur to take the place of her sweetheart at the ball that night, so that they can elope. She tells him to wear a policeman's uniform which she gives him. They are overheard by the baron, the count and her mother. The two noblemen try their best to get policemen's uniforms so as to impersonate Jane's sweetheart. The result of the mix-up is that they are left with no clothes at all. At last they succeed in getting some and returning to the ball. Mother has watched the wedding of Jane and the policeman, thinking that he is one of the titles. To her horror, when the bridegroom unmasks she sees that it is Matt. But she is reconciled when she finds that he is not a Hindu Swami.
- Thieves steal the famous Remington diamonds; in order to throw the police off the track, they take possession of a country house where they hide with their plunder until the affair blows over. To further safeguard themselves, they make strange noises to imply the house is haunted.
- Carter loves from afar. Growing desperate, he decides to throw himself in front of his sweetheart's automobile, and is knocked down and loses his front teeth. The girl takes him to her home. Her father, a fiery Southern doctor, objects, but hospitality triumphs. Carter pretends to be very ill. He finally gets better, but feigns a limp and hobbles around with crutches. The doctor orders Carter and the girl to take frequent rides. One day they are secretly married. Carter cannot get up enough courage to tell his new father-in-law, and has considerable difficulty in seeing his wife. One night her father catches him in her room. Carter pretends to be walking in his sleep and the doctor forces him back to bed. The father finds him, learns of the marriage and also that Carter is the son of a southern colonel. This clears the atmosphere and the young people finally get the family blessing.
- John Rock, a human spider whose comfortable income allows him to ride about in a motor car to look for victims, foolish girls who are attracted by his promises of pleasure, while driving about has trouble with his car. His motor stops before the home of Joan, a whole-souled girl, living with her younger sister, Millie. Joan at once recognizes Rock, having seen his picture in the paper. She tells Millie how Rock snares innocent girls and ruins them. Left alone, Millie flirts and innocently accepts an invitation to go riding with him. That night Joan finds Millie gone and as the hours pass and she does not return, Joan connects her absence with the visionary face of John Rock. She goes to his home, where Rock explains that Millie had met her death in an accident. Realizing that Millie like the other innocent girls had been a victim of the "Spider," Joan attacks Rock with all her strength. The latter calls the police and later, on a trumped up charge, has Joan sent up the river for ten years. Two years of prison fare and misery hasten a deadly desire for vengeance in Joan's heart and one day Joan was freed. As if guided by an unseen hand she visits a notion shop and then calls on John Rock, who has become a nervous wreck through drink and dissipation. Rock is so horrified at seeing Joan and the knife that he falls over dead. Then Joan went forth into the twilight knowing that Justice had righted the wrong done her sister and herself.
- Romance develops between a young woman from the Tennessee hills and a man from the city; she saves his life when her brothers threaten to kill him; they part, eventually to be reunited years later.
- The daughter of an aristocratic Southern family, proud, but impoverished, enters into a marriage of convenience with a wealthy stockbroker.
- Hilda was hardly more than a child when she came to America. Yet it was on the ship that she first met the man who was afterward to take her hand in marriage. Hilda loved dancing and, one afternoon, on the ship's deck, she spun around to the notes of a violin played by an old man. For this her father beat her. John Maine, an artist, interfered. Hilda and her father are met at the pier my Michael, a degenerate brute, who is the foreman of a sweat shop. He offers the girl work at a sum unheard of by her father; the father sees a chance to remain home in laziness and consents. Six years elapse. Hilda has grown to beautiful girlhood. Michael, desiring her love, forces his attentions on her. When she repulses him he gives her more work to do and sends her home. Later, he complains to the girl's father that Hilda is too proud, that she refuses to kiss him. The father promises that the child shall reform. When Michael is gone, he beats the girl and tells her to obey the man who give them their bread. At the shop the next morning Michael again attempts to make love to the girl. Hilda throws him off, escapes from the shop, determined to be left alone. Fearing to return to her father, she makes her way into the country, where she finds shelter with a gypsy band. Here she is taught by Rigo, the leader, to tell fortunes. It is only a short time, however, before Rigo becomes enamored with the girl's beauty and he too attempts to force his attentions upon her. To protect herself, Hilda steals a pistol from Rigo's mattress. Soon after, she shoots a young farmer while in the woods, believing that it was Rigo following her. She discovers her mistake, imagines that she has committed murder, and flees. Rigo and some farmers find the wounded man; he was only slightly hurt, but Rigo sees a chance to get control of Hilda by reason of the act. By stealing a ride in a freight car, Hilda finds her way back to the city. Here she finds employment as a maid in a dancing school. It is not long before she shows marked talent for dancing and the teacher takes an interest in her. Later Hilda finds great popularity dancing for the public. Her picture often finds its way into the newspapers. Rigo, in the city and broke, sees Hilda's picture in the newspapers one day and decides to visit her. This he does and by holding the accident to the farmer over her head. Hilda still believes that she killed him; he manages to get money. Hilda, shortly after, meets the artist who befriended her years before at a café. They recognize each other and the artist asks Hilda to pose for a painting. Hilda consents and as the days pass a strong attachment springs up between the young people. But Hilda, thinking of her crime, fears to accept his proposal of marriage. However, matters come to a head the next night at the café where Hilda dances. Rigo comes to the place and shames her before the public; he demands more money. Fate then decides to play a hand. The farmer boy, visiting the city, walks into the café. Rigo sees him and so does Hilda. Rigo flees, knowing that his game is up. The next night Hilda gives her answer to her artist sweetheart.
- Mr. Cherub is believed to be a model husband and ideal citizen. But his behavior in private does not correspond with his public image.
- Concealing her identity, Lil goes into her husband's office to work. Marsden, the boss, has been gambling heavily on the stock market; money must be had. He returns home and practices the writing of a signature, and fixes up a check to be forged. Arriving at the office the next morning he gives it to Lil's husband George to cash at the bank. George presents the check. It is questioned. George is arrested. He explains, but Marsden, realizing his position, denies all knowledge. George is jailed; he explains the affair to his horrified wife. She comforts him with the assurance that she will right matters. She does so in her own way; she enters Marsden's rooms and secures evidence, then fights him. Marsden's foot slips and he takes a fall down the elevator shaft. He is forced to bed, mortally injured. He repents, and his stocks having gone up, he turns them all over to the young couple for the injustice he did them in blaming George. In the end the couple is in their own home.
- Jack Bryson, a young clerk, thinks himself in love with Maizie, one of the stenographers. But when the daughter of his employer, Penelope, calls at the office, he falls a victim to her charms. Henry, the secretary, is also in love with Maizie and seeks to win her; but she is in love with Jack and will not accept the secretary's attentions. Jack proposes to Penelope, who tells him her father would never consent to their marriage unless he had a certain sum of money. Jack attempts getting this by gambling and has secured the right sum when he chances to meet a chorus girl named Daisy. He falls in love with her. She demands twice the sum that Penelope's father demanded, and he starts gambling again in an endeavor to get that amount. Henry, who has persuaded Jack to try gambling, brings Maizie to the gambling house that she may see what sort of a chap Jack is. Yet with the perversity of woman, she still loves Jack and scorns Henry. Penelope is waiting for Jack on the corner with a minister. Daisy is to meet him at the Casino in an hour. Fate turns her wheel and Jack loses every cent of his winnings, whereupon Daisy turns him down. He fears to leave the Casino as he knows Penelope is waiting for him. Jack is astounded to see Maizie in the Casino. Henry, who now thinks he has won out, assumes an air of possession, but Maizie, taking Jack by the arm, takes him out the back way, leaving Henry a sadder but wiser man.
- Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.