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- Swift Wind, a young chief, loves Dancing Fawn. In their ramblings they, too, see white wolves, which is an object of fear and veneration among the Indians, and return to the village. The two are betrothed by the old chief, but old Red Nose, the medicine man, demands her hand for himself. The chief, fearing his magic powers, considers. Dancing Fawn runs away to her lover. Swift Wind is taught a secret by an old trapper, "If a trap is baited with an animal's own hair the iron jaws will never fail to catch it." The Indian decides how he will overthrow his rival. At his instruction Dancing Fawn cuts off a lock of hair from the sleeping medicine man. With it Swift Wind baits the trap. The next day a wolf is caught and as the Indians approach the trap the beast turns into the medicine man. The hand of the great father has proven his love again and Swift Wind and his sweetheart are united.
- Like Peter Pan, Jack absolutely refused to grow up. His six feet and five and twenty years made not the slightest difference! In spirit he remained the same mischievous boy as of yore. Small wonder then that when he arrived at Uncle Jim's, whom he had not seen for ten years, and was mistaken for their new minister, that he should have instantly decided to have a little fun with the dignified church committee who met him at the station. With much pomp, they escorted him to John Scott's, the minister's boarding place. So the next day when that worthy returned home with just a drop too much, Jack read the old man a severe lecture on the evils of drink, then demanded the bottle and calmly drank its entire contents before the eyes of the astonished John. The pack of cards which the bewildered man dropped as he pulled out his handkerchief caused Jack to follow his host that evening, even without Betty Scott's advice. And great was his glee in beholding the staid committee quietly enjoying a little game of poker. To their amazement the young man joined the game, and proved such an apt pupil that not only did he win everything in sight, but also secured an I.O.U. from Hiram Jones. It was by waving this I.O.U. over the grouchy old bachelor's head that induced that individual to buy Amanda Sniggins a ticket for the Tripe supper, which was to be given for the benefit of the church. Hiram's marked antipathy to Miss Sniggins gave his tormentor an idea. So writing the lady a note in which he congratulated her upon a mythical inheritance, he handed it to Hiram to post and calmly awaited results. Nor had he long to wait, for scarcely had he and Betty seated themselves on the lawn than Miss Sniggins and her now ardent admirer presented themselves to be married. Hardly able to keep his face straight, Jack put them through the most ridiculous of mock ceremonies; then fled into the house, only to be confronted by the real minister and an indignant church committee. Jack's knowledge of their little gathering, however, held the men's tempers in check. But, indeed, so jolly a companion had he proven that when Uncle Bill stepped forward to vouch for the young scamp, even Betty was forced to accept his humble apology.
- Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes, leaving his father a note: "Dear Dad, I am going out West and try to make a man of myself. I hope some day you will be proud of me. Your son. Bob." His father relents and, after tracing him to the station, buys a ticket for the same place. In the meanwhile, Rob has arrived, and reading a notice that cowboys with outfits are wanted on the Carter ranch, he buys an outfit from a man near the station and starts for the Carter ranch. However, the foreman will not have him, as he confesses that he cannot rope, so Bob rides on until he comes upon an Outlaw's Camp, and is glad to accept their rough hospitality. In the meanwhile, the ranchman, Joseph Carter, receives his new automobile, but being unable to take his daughter, Jessie, sends her with the foreman for a ride. The machine breaks down and the chauffeur returns for parts, while the foreman takes his opportunity to force his attentions upon Jessie, her cries bring Bob and the outlaws to the scene. The foreman recognizes the outlaw chief and returning to the ranch, starts out at the head of the cowboys to capture the band. Bob has loaned Jessie his horse to return home, and the outlaws have just broke camp, so when the foreman and the boys return they only succeed in capturing Bob and hustle him off as an outlaw. Jessie arrives at the ranch, learns where the boys have gone, so together with her father, rides to the rescue, arriving just as his father comes along. The two fathers learn that they are old friends. The man at the station recognizes Bob, and general rejoicing takes place.
- On her deathbed, Renee's mother confides to her daughter the troubled history of her life. She was wealthy and she was loved alone for her riches. She was to be married; on her wedding day the bridegroom married another woman he really loved. She married her second choice of men and after two years, he left her. When Renee was born she swore an oath to the effect that her baby, Renee, would be a siren and break a heart for every tear she had shed. With this confession Renee's mother dies and the daughter takes the fulfillment of the oath upon herself. Finally she picks out Dick Northrop, the eldest of two brothers. Dane, the younger brother, admonishes Dick to beware of her. But Dick is young also. He proposes to her and is accepted. On his wedding day he receives a note which reads: "I despise you. I never intended to marry you, you fool. Renee." Dick commits suicide. Then it is that Dane swears to repay the siren in her own coin. She promises to marry him. On her wedding day she receives a note: "I despise you, I never intended to marry you, you fool. Dane." Once again Renee and Dane meet. She is at her mother's grave. He is at the grave of Dick. Over all the madness and folly which is buried in those two graves Renee appeals to Dane for forgiveness. He turns away and leaves her in the darkness with her dead.
- A company detective goes undercover to expose a gang that uses inside information to rob gold shipments.
- Neal, while sitting in his room, notices an accident in the street and kindly goes to the man's rescue with his car and takes him to the hospital. The nurse assigned to the case, Billie, makes a great hit with Neal. That night at the club Neal cannot get the pretty nurse out of his mind. He pretends illness, and is rushed off to the hospital, but, much to his disappointment. Stella is assigned to him. He throws pillows at her and altogether gives the impression that he is violent. A new nurse is put on the case, but when Neal discovers that it is not Billie, he again raves. Harry and Stella try to soothe him and Harry promises to give him another nurse, but again Neal is disappointed, and the two start fighting. He decides that he will leave the place. As they have taken his clothes he wraps a sheet around him and starts out. A chase follows through the ward which disturbs the patients very much. Billie is attending a woman in a private room. Harry and the others finally capture Neal and tie him in bed, but he manages to get loose again. In the hall he encounters one of the attendants and the two grapple. Another chase follows through the ward, and back into the hall. Neal knocking down a couple of cripples and Harry. Neal finally manages to barricade himself within one of the rooms and escapes through the window, but his escape is soon noted and the attendants give chase. Neal hides in an apartment house, and from there runs to an alley. Billie, who has left her patient, is walking along the street when Neal spies her, and oblivious to everything, rushes up to her and commences to talk. The attendants soon come on and they take him back to the hospital, where Billie is installed as his nurse.
- IT is the wedding day of Ellen, her parents having forced her into a marriage arrangement with her unworthy cousin. The bridegroom, late for the wedding, starts out in his jitney, and, stopping on the way to flirt with the bridesmaid, he is further delayed. Young Lochinvar, accompanied by his trusty broadsword, passes the cousin, his rival, and, as the cousin is arrayed in his Sunday clothing, gets an inkling there is something unusual happening at Ellen's. He follows the cousin to the bride's home, where the wedding is about to proceed, with the heart of the fair Ellen breaking. But first Ellen and Young Lochinvar dance. They reach the door and Young Lochinvar seizes Ellen and carries her to his car, after stealing the crank off the car of the cousin. Of course there is a wild chase, during which the entire wedding party get stuck in a hall of sand. Ellen and Lochinvar, quicker that the rest, extricate themselves, and, taking the preacher with them, the trio rides off, the preacher uniting the two lovers, and the others looking on in despair. - The Moving Picture Weekly, August 17, 1918.
- "Extremes arc ever neighbors." So the wise-heads nodded and smiled their approval when David Silver's staunch, energetic daughter, Mary, became the bride of the indolent, self-indulged and fickle John Plume. Mary would arouse his ambition and instill new blood into his veins; and they beamed with satisfaction when they learned that the young wife had already successfully planted the gold-bee in his bonnet, and the couple were departing to search for a claim. The claim, when staked out, they called Silver Plume, and until John was laid up with fever, both husband and wife worked it unceasingly. Mary, however, was not to be discouraged. Every moment she could spare from John's side was devoted to the mine. But lack of sleep and proper nourishment was commencing to tell upon her, and it was, therefore, small wonder that upon picking up a piece of quartz in which she discovered free gold, all else was forgotten, even the blasting powder and her lighted cap, forgotten until the cap fell and an explosion followed. Painfully Mary groped her way out, but when at last the miners found and helped the unfortunate wife home, the doctor held out very little hope for her sight. A letter was hurried off to her father, who answered he would start at once, bringing with him Edith Ausdel, her Eastern cousin. In the meanwhile, as the fever left him, not only did John's old indolent disposition return, which caused him to gladly dispose of his share of the mine, but likewise his fickleness. Edith Ausdel was a new toy and he gave himself up to a flirtation with her with all the relish of his self-indulging soul. In the very room with his blind wife the deceitful couple would show their infatuation. However, Mary was not yet blind, she but awaited the doctor's permission to remove the bandages. At last the permission came, and oh! happiness supreme; she could see! Joyfully the little wife parted the curtains to tell her husband and Edith, but, to her horror, beheld her cousin in John's arms. And he, finding that reconciliation with Mary was impossible, whispered to Edith he would meet her at their old trysting place and there he waited and waited and waited, while Edith stole quietly out of camp and boarded the first train going east.
- The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal Benton, an easterner, rides on to ask his way to the hotel, where he is stopping with some friends, among them his fiancée, Veda Mead, and her father. Knowing that the Indian ceremonies will interest his friends, Hal obtains permission to come the next day and bring his friends. The Chief calls Morning Star, an Indian maiden, telling his son that she is to be his squaw. Silver Water is pleased with her. The next day Hal Benton and his friends arrive. While the others inspect the camp, Veda Mead amuses herself with Silver Water and ere long is thoroughly infatuated with him, while the Indian's vanity is touched by the attentions of the society coquette, and he promises to meet her the next day. Their little tete-a-tete is cut short by the entrance of Morning Star. The next day they meet and, after coquetting with Silver Water until he forgets his Indian sweetheart, the eastern girl gives him her calling card, upon which she writes "To my Indian Hero" and asks him to call upon her in the east. Several months pass, and Hal Benton and Veda Mead are preparing to wed, when a letter arrives addressed to Mr. Mead from Silver Water, telling him that as he is in the east, he will do himself the honor to call upon them that evening. To Veda, who had been reading of the Indians' lives and customs after her meeting with Silver Water, the news is very terrifying. Recalling how she played with him, she fears that he may now make trouble. She goes to the veranda and sits down to think over the situation. Suddenly she sees Silver Water in full war-paint and feathers coming up the steps, he sees her and advances. Touching her upon the shoulder, he beckons her to follow. She obeys. As they reach the garden be tells her of his love, reminds her of her promises when they last met and insists upon her fulfilling them now. She cries out, and her cry brings Hal. Silver Water tells Hal why he has come for Veda, and Hal agrees that she must go with him, but Silver Water is not satisfied. He throws down his knife and insists upon Hal fighting with him for the girl. At a given signal, both men start for the knife. The Indian secures it and soon kills Hal, then, throwing his blanket over the terrified Veda, he drags her off to his camp and commands her to fetch and carry and cook his meals. Veda sinks to the ground as Silver Water stalks off, but no sooner has he gone than Morning Star slips out from her tepee and, creeping down upon Veda, raises her knife to strike the girl dead. Just as the knife descends, Veda forces herself to rise, only to find herself in Hal's arms on the veranda, for the young man has been trying to awaken her to tell his sweetheart that their Indian friend, Silver Water, has arrived, and at that moment stands beside them in the most correct evening dress. At the first glance she gives him, Silver Water realizes that it would be impossible to ever win the white girl, so leaving her with Hal, he tears up her card and returns to the blanket and Morning Star, his sweetheart, before he has learned the white man's ways.
- The first Universal motion picture released: dying Will Barton has to go to the mountains in search of health and is distracted thinking about leaving his beloved daughter, Netta, behind.
- Robert Lee is deeply in love with Margaret Ellison. Both are undemonstrative, and Robert, not feeling quite sure that he possesses Margaret's heart, delays his proposal. He is called imperatively to New York and writes a letters to Margaret asking her to be his wife and this he places in his pocket to mail. But his valet points out that he has his wrong coat on. He changes it hastily and starts for the railroad station. Arriving in New York, he awaits patiently for the answer which never comes. Robert is terribly grieved and decides that Margaret did not love him sufficiently to marry him. He instructs his valet, Parker to close the house, to remove everything to New York and to offer the place for sale. Margaret wonders why she has neither seen nor heard from the man to whom she is so deeply attached and is shocked when she sees the empty house and the "For Sale" sign, as she drives up to inquire the cause of his absence. The years pass and Margaret accepts a rich suitor, who later dies She still cherishes the memory of Robert, who also is constantly thinking of days gone by and of her. One day he decides to rummage through old trunks, and finds the letter be wrote to Margaret thirty years ago. He decides to call upon her and in her own home to at least explain. The years have not stolen any of Margaret's charm. She is surprised and pleased to see him. He explains the missing letter. They decide to remain inseparate forevermore.
- Alice receives an invitation from her grandfather, who is the minister of a small country church, to pay him a visit, which invitation she accepts. Mandy is loved by Jed, but her affections are with the deacon. The deacon holds a mortgage on the village church and presses the old minister for his money. Alice arrives at the minister's house and the deacon, catching sight of her, falls in love. The old minister plans a barn dance and basket social to raise funds to pay off the mortgage. The night of the social Alice arrives accompanied by Jack, the leader of the church choir. The minister announces the auctioning off of the lunch baskets furnished by the girls. The man buying any of the girl's basket must eat lunch with her. The deacon resolves to purchase the basket belonging to Alice. Alice tells Jack she will tie her hair ribbon to her basket. The deacon overhears their plan. He confides his intentions to Alice, but is overheard by Mandy. She changes Alice's hair ribbon from Alice's basket to her own. Jack and Alice plan to take their basket away and eat together, while the bids are being called for. The deacon bids $100 for the basket with the hair ribbon on it and finds that he has drawn Mandy. He buys another and is stung. Thoroughly disgusted, he buys the whole lot of baskets, only to find that he has been fooled. He presents his mortgage to the minister and is paid off with the very money he has paid the auctioneer for the baskets.
- Wandering figure of Charlie (known from the Chaplin films). After visiting a second-hand bookshop, Charlie dreams that he has kidnapped the Queen of Sheba. Yet there is no beautiful woman behind the veil of this Turkish lady.
- Stan and Teddie go to the city and have some amusing experiences. However, their adventures turn out to be a dream.
- "A Revenuer!" The one word that strikes terror to the heart of the moonshiner. So that a stranger who wanders too near the vicinity of the illicit distiller is apt to receive a gentle warning in the form of a bullet that he is on dangerous ground. It was one of these "warnings" that Frank Parmeley had received from the Nelsons, father and son, when Nelson met him and after satisfying herself that he was not a revenue officer took him to their cabin, dressed his wounds and was about to advise him to profit by the lesson when she became aware of a face in the window. It was that of her sweetheart. Jack Geering, although this she did not learn until he came to her aid in preventing her brother Jim from again firing upon the retreating form of the stranger. As a result of his interference, however, Jack was ordered from the place, but this did not keep him from calling whenever he found the coast clear. Nance would not have had him otherwise, still the young mountaineer's masterful manner of wooing led her to believe he might think her too easily won, and as a consequence, when a few days later he attempted to put his arm about her the girl feigned anger and ran into the house. This piece of coquetry, however, came near turning out rather seriously. for at that moment Frank Parmeley appeared with a book and a box of candy for the young lady, but upon meeting the stern glances of Jack hastily remembered a previous engagement, while Nance, humiliated and angry at his cowardice, threw his presents after him. This little incident had consumed so much time that Bob Nelson now returned to find Jack again upon his premises, and, although he was allowed to depart with merely another warning, Nance knew from her father's tone that this would be the last. It was small wonder then that she turned pale with excitement when a couple of days later she beheld her father and brother gazing earnestly through the spy-glass and getting their rifles in readiness. As her father passed into the house she managed to slip the glass from his pocket and as she looked her worst fears were realized! It was Jack, coming up the mountain! When her father had looked a few moments before, it had not been Jack, but Frank Parmeley he had seen. Ignorant of this, Nance grasped the rifle which stood by the porch and with a rock quickly knocked off the hammer, rendering the weapon useless. Then when her brother appeared she distracted his attention while she took the revolved from his holster and tossed it into a clump of bushes. And this was very fortunate for Frank, for scarcely had Nance started down the mountain to warn her sweetheart than the valley man came strutting on, but seeing the Nelsons' intention, although they were powerless to harm him until they could get into the house for other weapons, he took to his heels and only stopped to beg protection of the lovers. Being assured that he was not a revenuer and not wishing to see innocent blood shed, Jack commanded the terror-stricken man to lie down while he fired a shot in the air, and as the father and son came hurrying up declared that they had arrived too late. It so pleased the Nelsons that Jack had sided with them that they at once gave him their hands and all enmity was at an end, while Frank, as soon as they were safely out of sight, lost no time in making good his escape.
- It's said "There's no true love without jealousy," yet Henry Taber overstepped the mark in this direction, and, although Tess was the most devoted of wives. Henry saw in every man upon which her glance fell a possible rival. Jack Wilson, the amateur photographer, stopped at their cabin for a glass of water, and merely because Tess hid him a pleasant good day, Henry was vexed. Indeed, that evening when Jack again chanced that way and showed the little wife a few prints of her estate. Henry displayed his displeasure in no uncertain manner, and coax as she would, he refused to come in to supper, but instead sank wearily down on a bench. As he lay there, he beheld his wife come to the door, look cautiously about, and steal softly around the house. Instantly he sprang up and crept after her, until she came to the Big Rock, where he beheld her clasped in the arms of Jack Wilson. The unhappy husband raised his gun and fired, but it was Tess who dropped. So grasping the photographer by the throat he slowly but surely forced him over the cliff. Turning, he found that Tess had staggered off and from his position on the rock he could see her notifying the woodsmen below. Perhaps after all, Jack had been only wounded, but as he climbed down, his worst fears were realized, and he had scarcely time to hide behind the rocks when Tess and the woodsmen appeared. Then commenced a chase up the mountain. At last he reached the top and laid down to rest. Suddenly the woodsmen's heads appeared. Stealthily they crept upon him, while he lay as one petrified, unable to move hand or foot, until the sheriff grasped him firmly by the shoulder. But, as Henry started up, he looked into the pleading face of Tess, again imploring him to come to supper, just as Jack Wilson appeared to get the camera he had forgotten. The man looked around. There stood his cabin. It was only a dream. Gratefully he clasped his wife in his arms, grasped the photographer's hand, insisting upon his sharing their humble evening meal.
- A white man befriends a half-breed, who subsequently saves his life.
- While hunting, Dick Lee meets James Gordon, an old rancher who invites him to his cabin. Here he meets the rancher's daughter Mary. They soon become friends, and her heart is almost broken when, at the end of his holidays, he is to return to the city. Mary makes Dick promise to write. Back in the city, Dick tries to forget the country girl, and as he is engaged to Lillian West, life is very gay indeed. Somehow, he cannot forget the little girl back on the ranch. The promised letter, however, is never written. Mary looks every day for the letter that does not come, and her father is very sad to see her pine away. At last he cannot stand it longer, and makes up his mind to go to the city and hunt up Dick. In the meantime Dick has grown tired of the gay life, and thinks more and more of Mary. One night in a café, he and Lillian have words; they leave the gay party, return home, quarrel, and part. The next day Dick receives a letter from her with their engagement ring enclosed; he is filled with joy, realizing that he is free to return to the girl he had left behind. He hurries home, dresses, and leaves the city. The old rancher arrives at his home soon after, and learns that Dick has left town. Slowly the old man turns and makes his way back to the station. Arriving home, he is about to enter the house, when hearing laughter, he turns and walking over to the window he looks in and is overjoyed to see Dick placing an engagement ring on Mary's hand.
- For her daughter Edna to refuse wealthy Godfrey Ainslee and accept a poor Pony Express rider like Ned Hayden, appeared to Mrs. Nolan to be the height of folly. Firmly determined to marry the girl at any price, Godfrey, accompanied by Bert Hill, galloped after the Pony Express rider, overtaking and attacking Ned as he reached the most dangerous part of the road. Then followed a hand-to-hand conflict between the two men, ending in Ned being forced over the edge of the cliff. As Pete, the half-breed, to whom Bert had readily disposed of Ned's horse, rode past the scene of the struggle, he spied the young man's hat, and going to the edge of the cliff, was astonished to behold its owner, whose fall had been broken by the ledge below, holding his head and staring around in a bewildered condition. Hurrying down on the other side, he helped Ned to mount his horse, then taking the wounded man to his cabin, Pete offered the Pony Express rider what humble hospitality lay in his power. Here, physically recovered, but with memory gone, Ned remained for two months, and the time might have run into two years, had not Sheriff Nolan and his men recognized Ned's horse, followed his tracks, and discovered their lost friend in Pete's cabin, from whence he hurried them to Nolan Hotel, where the sight of Edna and Godfrey (who had spread the report that Ned had been seen in another part of the country), completely restored his memory, enabling him to give a full account of Godfrey's treachery, to the horror of foolish Mrs. Nolan, who at that moment had the minister ready to make her daughter Mrs. Ainslee. Without loss of words, Sheriff Nolan hustled Godfrey off to prison, while Ned, greatly to the satisfaction of all present, quietly took his place as the bridegroom.
- Hawkeye, a young Apache brave, happens one day on a beautiful Hopi maiden busy working in the field. He immediately pays court to the lovely Mona. Mona's heart is elsewhere, however, and she scorns his love. Ortega, who is the favored one of Mona, asks her hand of Kolan, the Hopi chief, and wins his consent, hut Hawkeye refuses to be repulsed. He determines to win the Hopi maid. He watches, and when he finds her alone by the creek, attempts to make violent love to her. Mona's scream brings Ortega to her assistance, and the two men engage in a hand-to-hand fight. Ortega finally trips Hawkeye into the creek, and picking up a stone, threatens Hawkeye, who drags himself from the water, and mounting his horse, rides away, threatening the young pair with vengeance. Mona's wedding day dawns brightly and the preparations for the Hopi wedding are made, but Hawkeye, with a band of his braves, attacks the wedding procession from two sides, and during the struggle between the Hopis and Apaches, Hawkeye grabs Mona, and. throwing her across his horse, dashes away. Ortega, with blood streaming from a jagged cut in his face, staggers after them. Hawkeye takes the Indian maid to his wickup, and, finding her unwilling to become his squaw, binds her with rawhide thongs. He then leaves her and goes to the river for water. Ortega, who has followed, quickly frees Mona and taking Hawkeye's gun, escapes swiftly. Hawkeye returns and finds them gone. He shows pleasure, however, when he realizes that Ortega has taken the gun, hut has no ammunition. He follows the fugitives and Ortega and Mona, in fear, hide in the foliage of an overhanging tree. Hawkeye follows and a battle between the Hopi and the Apache takes place in the branches of the tree. Mona comes to Ortega's assistance, and together they throw Hawkeye into the canyon below.
- Mamma and her two girls are in the park, all very stylish, especially the eldest daughter, who is conscious of her station in life and adds dignity to her years. Louise, the younger, is just roguish and pretty. Edward Girard notes this as he passes and Louise notices him. She drops a package in a shameless manner, and so gets into conversation. Edward obtains an Invitation to call. But scheming mamma sees a last chance of marrying off her elder daughter. She, therefore, insists upon dressing her rebellious younger girl as a maid. Edward is bored to distraction and is properly mad when the simpering elder daughter appropriates the five dollar bouquet he brought Louise. But he overhears a fragment of conversation between Louise and mamma and he "tumbles." As he goes, he bestows a meaning wink upon Louise and she too knows. Edward holds up a milk wagon for a consideration, borrows the milkman's hat and apron and his cart. He gains an entrance into the kitchen and is caught by mamma flirting with the "maid." He assures her he is the milkman and mamma flounces out in a rage at being so deceived. Louise agrees to a ride, and off they go. Mamma sees them and pursues in an auto. The audacious and presuming "milk man" pulls up before a fine residence, and mamma finds Edward and Louise in the embrace of another mamma, Edward's, and she recognizes an old and wealthy friend. All are now satisfied except the elder daughter.
- The old chief desires to see his son provided with a squaw, but she must be good and beautiful. He summons many braves and sends them to distant camps and villages, calling for an Indian maiden, one who will be a fit mate for Ortega, the son of the powerful chief. From the villages come many maidens, including the beautiful and modest Mona. In one of the villages the old hag, the "Devil Woman," hears the message and decides that her daughter, Kulush, shall be chosen. The day of the choosing arrives and the maidens file by the expectant Ortega. He gazes at them with indifference until Mona slowly raises her eyes to his, when he smiles. Kulush is led to Ortega by her mother, who watches him closely. Ortega does not smile. The maidens form a circle around Ortega and smile. They dance and Ortega impulsively pulls Mona from the circle and his choice is made. The maidens shower the couple with the corn and flowers they have brought and depart as the "Devil Woman" forms her horrid schemes. One day the hag discovers the weeds she is searching for, and with a triumphant and malicious grin she throws them on the fire, incanting the while she throws the ashes in the air and lo! Mona sees the beloved form of Ortega slowly change into a beautiful pinto pony. The "Devil Woman" croons her joy and Mona runs in fear, the pony always at her shoulder. Arriving at the village, Mona tells the story, and Comanche, the pony, nods an affirmative. Darkface, who himself admires Mona, is secretly pleased, while the rest of the tribe show their sorrow and pet the pony. Darkface tries to persuade Mona to go with him, but she points sadly to Comanche. He determines to get the pinto out of the way in order to compel Mona to listen to him. He takes Comanche away into the woods, bobbles him, and jeering at him, returns. He surprises Mona at the waterhole, puts his hand over her mouth, and carrying her off, ties her to a tree until she will obey his will. Comanche undoes the bobbles and starts in search of Mona. He finds her and, loosening her bonds with his teeth, he frees her; but she, weakened with long standing, falls, whereupon Comanche lies beside her and helping Mona gets her on his back rises and gallops away. They meet the revengeful Darkface and Comanche edges him over a cliff. The Devil Woman finds him so and goes for herbs. Comanche looks over the cliff and starts a big rock over the edge. It crushes the inhuman couple as Manitou, the good fairy of the Indians, rides on and flourishes a spear. The spell is broken and Comanche gradually fades away and Ortega stands again before his beloved Mona.
- Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where his wounds are dressed by Senora Paranze. The latter falls in love with the American when he defends her from her brutal husband. She is about to aid him to escape when she discovers that he has a sweetheart. Learning who the girl is, Senora Paranze bids Wallace go to a certain spot and there await further instructions as to his escape. She then writes a note to Dorothy telling her to meet her wounded lover there. Dorothy receives the note and with her father makes a night ride to the spot. On arriving, the three Americans are captured by Mexican bandits. The Senora had arranged it. She awaits to enjoy the sight of her triumph. But it is more than she can stand; she attempts to secure their freedom. Unable to do this she returns to her husband. In the meantime Dorothy secures a knife and cuts the bonds of her lover and by an adroit action the pair holds up the chief and the band. They escape to be pursued across the border, where a skirmish takes place. A squad of American cavalry rescues the lieutenant and his party and drives off the Mexicans.
- Lillian is an unfortunate woman. After leaving her baby at the door of a hospital she meets David, the author of her misfortune. It is a case of starvation or the "easiest way." She chooses the "easiest way." After eighteen years she again shows up, a social outcast and a tool for David's black profession. David has his eye upon a mere slip of a girl who works in a department store. He attempts to lure her to his resort, but fails. He then turns the case over to Lillian. Dorothy needs money for clothes. Lillian offers her the position and she accompanies the older woman to David's resort. Wallace, Dorothy's sweetheart, waits for her outside the house. Once inside the resort Dorothy is beautifully gowned. While changing her dress she takes a locket from her neck and lays it aside. Lillian finds it. Dorothy is her daughter. All the mother instinct and realization of her actions awaken in Lillian. She saves her daughter from David and her own fate and turns her over to Wallace. David is sent to prison. Lillian dies, despised and shunned, and Dorothy never knows that the woman who delivered her to evil and then saved her was her mother.
- Sunbonnet Sue, the moonshiner's pretty daughter, is carrying a basket of cookies to her sweetheart, Dave, a poor but honest moonshiner, when she is followed by a spying revenue officer. She suspects the agent's intentions, however, and lays him low with a well-aimed blow. The brave girl then notifies the moonshiners of their danger. Red Eye Pete, one of the gang, attempts to steal the affections of Sue and is cruelly rebuked. To revenge himself Pete offers to lead the revenuers to the moonshiners if the girl will be delivered into his hands. His treacherous offer is accepted. The revenue men are again outwitted by Sue, however.
- The editor of the "Clarion" sends his star reporter to investigate conditions in the State Asylum. The star fails, and the job is given to a "cub." The young fellow pretends to be insane and is admitted to the asylum. He falls in love with the warden's niece, though he deplores the fact that she is weak-minded. His watch and wallet are taken away from him, and he is allowed to roam the grounds with the other inmates. After a talk with the steward and after a secret inspection of the books, he determines to escape. He is pursued by guards to the doors of the newspaper office, where his editor protects him. The next day the warden's niece calls on him and returns his possessions, all except his heart, which is permanently lost.
- Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is. She knows the house well and can go about it without making a break. Clara proposes to get the valuable for him. He agrees, but inwardly decides to watch her every move. Feverishly Clara goes to her dresser and draws forth all her jewels. The patient grows restless and she soothes and caresses him till he's quiet again, then she glides silently out of the room in search of the burglar. The midnight visitor, however, is not a bad sort. He has seen, and the woman's brave deed brings back to him that spark of manhood long since departed. He refuses to accept her sacrifice, and vanishes into the night ashamed of himself and determined to lead a better life. Clara returns to her husband's side and hugs him for very joy.
- Something is decidedly wrong with Mutt. He has not the slightest desire for food, and Jeff's most solicitous efforts are unavailing to stimulate his friend's appetite. Jeff finally decides that a fishing expedition is a consummation devoutly to be wished. Acting on his suggestion, the two colleagues get busy securing tackles, lines, bait and other necessary fishing paraphernalia. How they secure this outfit is a caution; what the outfit looks like is a scream. Suffices to say that the long and the short of it migrate to the country, select a nice, shady nook close to a babbling brook, and start their fishing operations. Mischief is brewing. Two convicts, tired of grafting on the State, bid adieu to the large establishment in which they had roomed for years, and make for the open country. They come upon Mutt and Jeff and, as might is right, they swap the striped garments for the fishermen's garb. Escaped convicts dash away, with Mutt and Jeff pursuing, at a safe distance. The prison guards? Oh, yes, they are coming! The lynx-eyed runaways repair to a friendly barn, while Mutt and Jeff are flagged by some inviting clothes swinging to and fro from a line. The lady of the house, or rather the owner of the clothes gently swaying in the breeze, creates such a commotion as to bring on the guards. Realizing that Mutt and Jeff are not the birds they are hunting for, they send our heroes into the barn to remove the stripes. There's something doing in that barn, and the guards, fearing the two friends are murdering one another, rush in upon them and come out with the escaped convicts and the striped garments. Mutt, looking somewhat like his famous ancestor, Adam, arrayed in a barrel, goes on a still hunt for some apparel, to cover up the primitive appearance of his companion, Jeff. A voluminous nightgown meets his gaze; he captures it and throws it into the barn, whence Jeff soon emerges enveloped in the capacious folds of the nightie.
- Gentleman Jack is a general favorite at the summer hotel, until the arrival of Eddie and his new and fickle wife. Each time Eddie looks at his wife and conceives her smiling at another man he immediately sees visions of a tragedy. Affairs go on until one day Eddie sees his wife smile at Gentleman Jack, who occupies the apartment across the hall. He leaves for work and as he goes along he thinks. Then he turns around and hotfoots it to his wife. In the meantime the young wife has locked herself out of her apartment and can't find the janitor. Gentleman Jack obligingly offers her the use of his apartment while he finds the janitor. An old maid sees the young wife enter Jack's room. When Eddie arrives he is met by the old maid. "Your wife, sir," she whispers, "Is in that room." Presto, all his suspicions are verified. Eddie gets his gun and goes after his imaginary rival. Jack does not stop to explain matters. After a half dozen bullets have sung their little song in his ear he concludes to move on down the street. Mutual explanations are exchanged and Eddie goes on beating his wife. even more violently than before.
- The setting is a vaudeville act and the humor is in lifting weights, etc. A pet pig and some flirtations on the part of the strong man are features.
- A man is a fugitive from the law. A reward of $2,000 is offered for his capture. A large posse is on his trail. Weary, hungry and haunted, the refugee is slowly but surely being hemmed in. His capture is only a matter of seconds when he staggers up to a hut. He is confronted by a girl. He appeals to her for aid. She sends him inside the hut and when the members of the posse ride up, she misdirects it as to the direction the fugitive took. The criminal feels a great dog-gratitude to the girl for his deliverance and giving her a whistle, he tells her to blow it three times if she ever needs him. The girl's father is the cashier for a mining company. One day in a moment of foolishness he gambles the payroll money away. He attempts to take his life to wipe out his dishonor, but his daughter deters him. She goes to the appointed place and the fugitive comes to her in response to the signal. She explains her father's predicament to him. He weighs the matter carefully and then tells her that he will save her parent from the anger of the miners. Against her will, he compels the girl to lead him, at the point of his gun, to the sheriff. She receives the $2,000 reward and saves her father.
- Wally Bristow is a wealthy young chap infatuated with a heartless society girl. He discovers that she is not true to him and leaves her. At the club he runs into an argument among the members to the effect that none of them could start out with nothing and return in a year, married and successful. Wally takes his friends up on the bet. Wally goes west and secures employment on a ranch. He becomes the butt of the cow punchers jokes, and his employer's daughter thinks him a prig until, one day, she observes him thrash a ranch bully for ill-treating a dog. Soon after she promises to be his wife. The society girl, meantime, hears of it and starts west to break up the match. Arriving in the neighborhood she sends a note to her rival saying that the man is untrue to her and to go to a certain place and she will see him with another woman. The ranch girl does this and sees her sweetheart with another woman. There is a quarrel, but the fiancée, just before Wally is about to return finds her mistake. She overtakes Wally at the station; there is forgiven and the two hoard the train for the east. Wally wins his bet.
- An old professor loves cats and children, but his hobby is making bombs. He has a secret room, in which he constructs infernal machines.
- The wife takes with her their small daughter, leaving the son to the care of the father. The forlorn woman wanders into a fishing village, and is taken into a kindly fisherman's family. To more surely separate herself from the world that knows her. She assumes her maiden name. Many years afterward the father and the son, now grown, pass through the village. The son becomes acquainted with his own sister, knowing nothing of the relationship, and falls in love with her. He persuades his father to spend his season at a summer resort nearby. Later, the son and the daughter are secretly married. The girl leaves a note for her mother, telling her of the act. The mother follows to the parsonage, and then the summer resort, where she overtakes the couple. The mother recognizes the father, and the young couple are told the horrifying news. Distracted, the girl runs away. After upbraiding his parent, the boy seeks out his father. Together they solve the tragic question which confronts them. Hand in hand they walk into the illimitable ocean until they are covered by the water.
- Edith, a Boston novelist in search of local color, arrives at Grizzly Gulch. The boys hear of her coming, and though the town has long since reformed, determine to return to the "bad old days" during the time of her visit, so that she shall not be disappointed. They meet her and the sheriff starts things by shooting a man who steps in front of her. Then he tells of a desperate bandit, "Rattlesnake Ike," who is in the neighborhood. This is none other than Eddie, the Parson's son, dressed up for the occasion. He appears and holds up the gang, giving the money to Edith. She deposits it with her own in the bank, and then "Rattlesnake Ike" holds up the bank. They capture Ike and prepare to hang him, but Edith shoots the rope in two, and forces Ike, at the point of her revolver, to board the train with her. She tells him that she is going to reform him in Boston, and the boys have to watch the disappearance of Eddie, with all their available funds.
- An Easterner wins the girl of his choice in a Western ploughing contest.
- William Blake is a respected citizen of Tropico, Cal., a man looked up to by his neighbors and worshiped by a devoted daughter, whose love he fully reciprocates. The inhabitants of Tropico and other towns are much puzzled over the frequent robberies of the stagecoach which runs through Eagle Pass in the Sierras. The hold-ups have been boldly executed by a lone bandit who has made several good hauls. The robber is known as "The Mysterious Bandit of Eagle Pass." So bold and frequent have his depredations become that the State offers a reward of $5,000 for his capture, dead or alive. Neither his neighbors nor his daughter, Kitty, connect William Blake with these robberies. They even consult him regarding the bandit and the State's reward, yet Blake is the bandit who is committing these daring hold-ups in order to provide his daughter with comforts and make her future secure. Both because he regards Jim Sherwood, the young sheriff, as a suitable husband for Kitty, his daughter, and to further protect his dual life, Blake encourages the young man's suit. Disguising himself in rough garments and a thick, black beard, Blake steals out at night, successfully robs the stagecoach and, covering his tracks with extraordinary cunning, he eludes his pursuers and gets home without exciting suspicion. Blake has occasion to knock down Pete, a tough cowboy, who, while drunk, insists upon being introduced to Blake's daughter. Pete follows Blake into a saloon where Blake is "treating the boys" and, thrusting aside Blake's proffered hand, shoots and mortally wounds him. Realizing that his time has come, Blake sends for Kitty and the young sheriff. He then writes a note advising his laughter to tell no one but Jim Sherwood. Kitty arrives in time to see him alone. She gets the note and the false beard before her father dies. The young sheriff, on being informed that Blake is the bandit, slowly burns the tell-tale evidence. He then takes Kitty to his arms.
- Mutt and his dear colleague Jeff have the blues. While Jeff falls to thinking, Mutt, being in doubt as to what to do, takes a shove. Most of the time he manages to wipe his razor on the face of the shining dome of the hard-thinking partner. Once, however, he uses a piece of newspaper, and an advertisement, "Police Wanted," meets his gaze. Mutt promptly decides to join the force, much to Jeff's displeasure. At Police Headquarters he is thoroughly examined, physically and otherwise. Mutt becomes a guardian of the peace. Jeff is disconsolate and lonely. He, too, yearns for the blue uniform; but nature has been unkind to him. Roaming about the streets, he comes to a telegraph office. A large sign, "Messengers Wanted," causes him to halt and think. He finally decides to become one of the boys in blue. While "showing off" at the Police Headquarters, Mutt is astounded to see his confrere in uniform chatting pleasantly with the captain. Jeff has just delivered a message apprising the police officer of a planned robbery for that evening. Mutt is promptly detailed on the job. He starts out like a conqueror, but the burglars go about their work with Mutt as a witness. He does not arrest them because, well, because they refuse to believe him a policeman. At the station, when the facts are known, the captain and other policemen gently pick up Mutt and tenderly throw him out. Full of life and energy, Jeff comes upon his friend lying bruised and hurt on the sidewalk. He offers consolation, but Mutt will have none of it. Was it not Jeff and the message he delivered that caused his downfall? Mutt must be revenged. They're off! Stick in hand, Mutt chases Jeff over the marathon route. A friendly telegraph pole ends the run, for Jeff scales to the top and waves an affectionate adieu to his foiled chum below. And now, Mutt and Jeff no longer have the blues!
- Deacon Squibbs is leader of a choir of which Eddie and Betty are the mainstays and in love with each other. The deacon himself is very sweet on the girl, but Eddie has the inner track. One night the deacon sees Eddie and Betty holding hands and determines to put his fate to the test. When practice is over the members find that it is raining hard outdoors. The deacon, has brought his umbrella and offers to escort Betty home. Eddie left behind, follows the two, vowing vengeance. Next day the deacon calls to ask for Betty's hand. The girl has informed Eddie of the expected visit, he determines to put the deacon out of the way. The deacon drives up to the girl's home in a buggy, and leaves the horse tied outside. Eddie and his friends secure a wooden horse used as an advertisement for a livery stable, and exchange horses with the deacon's. Then they send word to the deacon that he is wanted at the church. The deacon is compelled to leave without deciding his fate. Hurriedly jumping into his buggy he tries in vain to start the horse. He does not realize the trick that has been played on him until the livery stable owner has missed the horse and comes with an officer. The deacon is arrested for horse stealing and taken to the lockup. Betty has observed the trick played upon her suitor and is enjoying the fun, unseen by the deacon. Eddie returns to the house and tells of the trick. As father has expected someone to ask for the daughter's hand, it is not such a difficult job for Eddie to win his consent and the two laugh over the deacon's Waterloo.
- Mert, the station agent, loved Al the foreman, and Mert's father, the engineer, loved Al's mother, and Al loved Mert, and Al's mother loved Mert's father. However, Mert's father did not love Al, and Al's mother did not love Mert, so that kept things from being monotonous. Al invited Mert to the soda fountain, but when Mert found that he had no money she suspected that the attraction was Babe the dispenser of liquid refreshment. Herein she wronged Al's honest soul. Al found Mert's father making love to his mother and threw flour at them. Just then the train arrived, and with it Terrible Ted, the He-Vampire. Ma and Pa were sitting a truck, and Al sneaked up and tied it to the train as it pulled out. However, the end of the rope caught his foot and he was hauled along the track till Pa cut the rope and they all came home. Mert was making making eyes at Ted. His idea was to get into the safe while she flagged the train. He and his confederates had almost succeeded, when Mert managed to grab the bad in which they had placed the money and pull it up through a trap in the ceiling. They discovered her and pursued her to the roof. She jumped off, but they got her, and put her in a trunk. They then loaded the trunk onto a passing train. Al and Babe went to the rescue on a handcar. All of them arrived in the Great City, and the trunk with Mert inside was taken to a room. Al and Babe arrived, and Mert, looking out of the window, saw them. She wrote a note which she placed in the water pitcher and threw out of the window. Al snatched a bow and arrow from a child and shot a reply to her. He sent up a rope and Mert lowered the money to him. She then slid down the rope after tying it to the bed, and they all went off on the handcar, pursued by the villains in an auto. But the handcar reached the station first. Ted was not to be foiled, and be subdued them all with chloroform. She grabbed him, threw him off the train, and then returned with the money. Moving Picture World, October 27, 1917
- Gaston's wife does not allow girl models to pose for her artist husband, but when Jean, his dearest friend, expresses a wish to have his sweetheart's statue made in clay, he is powerless to refuse. The two artists concoct a scheme to get the jealous wife away. "You look so pale and then you need a vacation in the country," whispers Jean to Gaston's wife. Their little scheme works out fine. She takes steps to go away, but the eternal feminine prompts her to eavesdrop. Her curiosity is rewarded, for she finds that they are planning to get her out of the way, so Mrs. Gaston decides to turn the tables and see it through. When Jean returns to Lee's studio with his sweetheart, she sees them from across the street where she is in hiding. Lee does not permit Jean to remain while he is working, and tells him that he will spoil his inspiration if he is around. Jean leaves the studio, but his suspicion aroused, he decides to return. In the meantime, Mrs. Gaston feels that she has waited long enough and also returns. Gaston hears her and hastily pushes the girl out on the fire-escape. She climbs into the window above, and scares a student, who runs down the fire-escape into the artist's studio. Gaston rushes up to him and forcefully insists upon him posing as his model. When Gaston's wife and Jean break into the room, they see the student posing for Gaston. This was all the jealous wife waited for. Jean, removing his angry sweetheart from the scene of battle, leaves the two to fight it out. Moving Picture World, December 22, 1917
- Aunt Jemima and her nephew, Neal, are in the garden reading when they notice a newspaper article saying that she has inherited a large fortune. Auntie promptly faints and Neal goes into the house for a pitcher of water just as Betty, his sweetheart, calls him on the phone. Neal returns to the garden and revives his aunt. Uncle Jasper also sees the article and shows it to Betty, who is delighted. Captain Obadiah, an old sea captain, also notes the article and the two men decide to win the hand of the rich aunt. Both buy flowers and meeting on the way, go to her house together. Each is jealous of the other and Aunt Jemima tries to keep peace between them, finally telling them that she is too young to marry. Both men are angry and leave. Neal meets Uncle Jasper at the gate and tells him of his own engagement to Betty, but the uncle says there will be no wedding for them, as Aunt Jemima will not consent to marry him. Neal starts plotting. Knowing that Uncle Jasper is nearsighted, Neal dresses in one of his aunt's dresses and hats and goes into the garden, where he tells Betty of his plans. Uncle Jasper comes in and mistakes Neal for Aunt Jemima and starts making love to her. Neal pleads with uncle to allow the young folk to marry. Neal sees the captain coming and tries to break away from uncle. He finally succeeds in doing so and later joins Betty at the curb, where a man has left his bicycle. This Neal mounts and rides away after knocking down the captain and other bystanders. About this time Aunt Jemima, who has been shopping, comes on and questions the man who owned the wheel. An officer comes on and arrests Stella. On the way they discover the captain, but he refuses to say a good word for her, and she has to go on with the cop. They finally meet Uncle Jasper, who takes her in his arms and the two officers leave. Meanwhile Neal has returned home, changed his clothes and has hunted up Betty in the garden. They have a hearty laugh over the situation. As they look off they see uncle and auntie in the swing, which breaks. Nothing daunted, the two old folks kiss and embrace.
- Jerry is a janitor at a popular boardinghouse. The landlady looks at the world with a distrustful eye. Jerry, having found her soft side, is assured of a job for life. One of the boarders is an actor who has long been out-of-work and he has been informed that he must either pay up or get out. The Hammond sisters' finances are low too; while they have a good act, they are unable to secure engagements because they are brunettes when the popular demand is for blondes. Billie and Ray have eloped and flee to avoid the rage of her angry father. They decide that the safest place to hide in would be a boardinghouse, and secure quarters in the place where Jerry is janitor. Her father secures the services of a famous detective and the search for the missing daughter begins. The Hammond sisters have been told so often that they will not suit because they are brunettes that they decide to be manufactured blondes. Jerry, passing their door, hears the gruesome remark made by one of them stating that "she will get the stuff from the drugstore and they will dye together." Jerry thinks he is on the trail of a tragedy, and when one of the sisters leaves for the drugstore he follows her. The actor, meanwhile, has received notice of an engagement and having only one pair of trousers sends them out to be pressed. Ray and his wife think they are safe from pursuit until suddenly the girl looks out the window and sees the famous detective following their footprints. Jerry sees the girl buying the product in the drugstore, and hurrying to the police station and hurries to the police station to tell them of the impending tragedy. The officers accompanying him back to the house. The landlady, meanwhile, has stopped Neal's trousers from going out, telling him he will have to pay up his board bill before running any others. In desperation he sneaks into the newlyweds' room while they are at lunch and steals a pair of Ray's trousers. Jerry and the police arrive at the girls' room, and hear one of the girls say, "farewell forever," referring to her brunette hair. They think she is taking poison and break in the door. The matter is explained and Jerry receives the benefit of the policemen's rage. As they are belaboring him with clubs, he sees Neal sneaking from Ray's room with the stolen clothes. He puts the police on Neal's trail and they have a merry chase in and out of the house. The detective has notified the girl's father and he hurries into the house and confronts his daughter. She shows him her wedding ring and announces that they are married. Her father is unable to take out his spite on her now and grudgingly accepts his new son-in-law. Jerry the janitor is thankful that he is losing some of his customers as his many duties have proven to be too much for him.
- Mary, the lighthouse keeper's pretty daughter, is betrothed to Jack, the son of a hardy fisherman. Jack's foster brother, Phil, is none too honorable a fellow and, if the truth were known, he has wronged Carmen Felipe, a little fisher girl. The girl appeals to Phil to marry her, but he throws her aside in scorn. She then appeals to honest Jack, and when he remonstrates with his foster brother he is advised to mind his own business. One night Mary and Jack agree to meet in a cave near the lighthouse. The same night Phil takes Jack's boat and, with two other rough characters, he engages in smuggling a shipload of goods. While Jack is going to keep his tryst with Mary he is waylaid by Carmen who tells him that her father is intoxicated and is beating her mother. Jack goes to her home and sets matters right there. In the meantime Mary has Jack's boat on the water and concludes that he is not coming to meet her. The following morning revenue officers make an investigation and as Jack's boat was seen leaving its moorings, Jack is arrested and charged with smuggling. Carmen knows who the real smugglers are and she appeals to Phil to save his foster brother. Phil refuses and threatens Carmen if she informs on him. Carmen's sense of justice, however, overcomes her fear and she notifies Jack's father that Phil is the guilty party and not Jack. This bit of information is set before the revenue men. Phil and his companions are captured, while Jack is released and hurries to break the good news to Mary.
- Mrs. Glendon, proprietress of Hotel Glendon, as businesslike and sensible as she appeared, was still a woman and, therefore, curious. In vain Nell had protested with her for examining the Howard's things, but Mrs. Glendon, feeling confident that father and son would remain downstairs to play a game of cards, went smilingly forward in her tour of inspection, until Mr. Howard's step sounded in the hall. With a spring, Nell succeeded in getting into the closet, which divided the Howard's rooms, and, slamming the door, left poor Mrs. Glendon to brave it out as best she could. But panic was in the air, so finding herself alone and all means of escape cut off, Mrs. Glendon hastily crouched behind a settee. Nell had intended making her escape through Bob Howard's room, but, as she looked through the keyhole, she beheld the young man comfortably smoking a cigar, So donning a coat and hat which she found in the closet, the girl waited until the old gentleman had turned out his light. Then, creeping softly out, she made a dash for the door and succeeded in gaining her own room unrecognized. Mrs. Glendon attempted to follow suit, but her exit was cut off by Mr. Howard springing from his bed and locking the door, so she was forced to retreat into the closet. From here, she might have later on adopted Nell's method of escape, had the girl not dropped a coat-hanger, in her haste, and sent Bob scurrying to the office to tell the boys of the "burglar" in their closet. Armed with various weapons, the party crept cautiously up to Mr. Howard's room, where the recent commotion seemed to have taken place, but that gentleman absolutely refused to open the door until he was warned that they would break it down. This reluctance on Mr. Howard's part was entirely misconstrued, when Mrs. Glendon was taken from the closet in a fainting condition, and it was only his nimbleness of foot which enabled him to keep ahead of his pursuers, as down the stairs and around the hotel they ran. At last he succeeded in dodging them, and again sped upstairs, only to mistake Nell's room for his own. It proved, however, to be Nell, who, seeing a man under the bed, fled downstairs and brought up the crowd. But no sooner had they dragged him out, than she recognized the old gentleman and hurriedly informed her mother that they must now make a clean breast of the matter. And, although somewhat uncomfortable for all concerned, it proved an excellent lesson for the proprietress. Nothing could again induce her to meddle with a guest's belongings
- Sid Dalton had returned just in time to protect his angry little wife, Billie, from the embraces of Pete, the cowardly and drunken half-breed. The husband handed her his quiet, and Pete could testify that she knew full well how to wield it. This, however, was not the reason he gave the chief and his tribe for wishing to ransack the ranch, but because he had overheard Billie's father, Sheriff Colby, telling his wife and daughter that he and Sid would be away for a few days. Therefore, Pete declared, they could select an hour when the women were out and carry off everything in sight. The Indians had put their plunder in a blanket when Mrs. Colby returned. Quickly they tied her to a chair and would have then escaped had not Billie ridden up and, hearing a noise inside, armed herself with a club. Although for the moment she succeeded in stunning both Pete and another, it only served to anger the half-breed the more, so instead of tying her beside her mother, he bore her off to the camp. As they half dragged, half carried Billie past his kennel, Scout tugged madly at his chains, but it was not until the Indians had reached camp that he finally broke loose and came bounding into the tepee where they had thrown his mistress. Billie crawled out cautiously to the front of the tepee; the redskins were all busily engaged with the whiskey they had stolen, and while to affect her escape with her feet so securely bound would be well-nigh impossible, she hoped to get a message off by Scout. Tearing off a piece of her white skirt, and snatching up some charred wood from the dying campfire. Billie hastily scrawled a line for help, then tying it around the dog's neck, sent him back to the ranch. Here, although he sniffed and whined at the door, no one let him in and he was forced to set off for his master, whom he found, with the cowboys, searching for a horse thief. At first Sid paid no attention to Scout's furious barking and strange antics, until reaching down to pat the brute's head, he found Billie's message. Instantly every boy was in his saddle and galloping madly after the excited Scout. As the cowboys came tearing down upon them, the Indians turned and fled, leaving Sid's little wife to the rescuing party. Putting her aboard his horse and vaulting into the saddle behind, Sid and the sheriff made what speed they could to the ranch to release Mrs. Colby, who was so thankful to again behold her daughter alive and well that she insisted she never felt better in her life and straightforth set about preparing a feast for the delighted cowboys.
- At the last performance of the season the leading man is attracted by the appearance of a "peach," sitting in the audience. The "peach" notices the handsome man and immediately falls in love with him. The next day Billie's mother sends her downtown to advertise for a maid, as the regular girl has left. While she is in the store Lee comes in and recognizes her as the "peach." He learns from the clerk that the girl is advertising for a maid. The girl recognizes the handsome leading man and on the way home buys one of his portraits. Lee has had quite a bit of experience in female impersonations, and decides to try for the job of maid. Out of many applicants he is selected by the mother, and immediately starts his duties. The maid's service is satisfactory. Billie confides her admiration for the handsome leading man to the maid and is surprised by the sudden affection of the aid, displayed toward her. The butler tries to flirt with the maid and receives a jolt and tells the other servants that the new maid has an awful punch. Mr. Simps was a rich young man and a persistent caller at the house of the "peach." While mother had favored him to a certain extent, Billie detested him but was unable to get rid of him. Shortly after the new maid takes charge, Mr. Simps pays a visit and becomes very affectionate towards Billie. Her calls for help reach the maid and he goes to her assistance, takes Mr. Simps by the collar and deposits him out in the yard. They all compliment the maid on her wonderful strength. The maid learns of Billie's plans and when he is off duty sneaks home and then changes to his regular clothes and meets the girl. While she is bashful at first, the two finally become very chummy and spend several happy evenings in the park. At last Lee decides to remove his disguise at the house instead of his hotel, and is seen entering the room dressed in man's clothes. Billie's mother thinks he is a burglar and calls a policeman. They all go into the room and Lee is discovered dressing in the clothes of the maid. The deception is found out and while the mother is angry at first she decides that there is some excuse for his devotion because he was willing to do the duties of a maid in order to be nearer the girl he has admired.
- Jack and Betty are married; so are Dave and Helen married. But several years before, rumors were rife to the effect that Jack cared for Helen and Dave cared for Betty. So that as Jack gives Betty a very scanty kiss the latter feels in her heart that Dave would have been far more affectionate to another. And in the case of Helen, the same sentiments abide. And the two men are business partners, too. Helen protests against Dave's going on a fishing trip with Jack. She therefore writes a note to Jack pleading with him to dissuade Dave from going and signs herself, "for auld lange syne, Helen." Betty, finding herself without money, goes to the office, sees the signature, takes a taxi by mistake with Dave and they arrive in time to see Jack caring carefully for Helen, who has sprained her ankle. There is trouble to pay until a young grizzly happens along and solves the difficulties.
- Only two years in the Land of the Almighty Dollar, and Mariangelo Pinozzi and his good wife, Francesca, are the happy owners of a busy fruit stand, which unfortunately comes under the notice of the Black Hand Society. Unless Mariangelo contributes the large sum of money thrice asked by the dreaded bomb throwers, he and Francesca will journey forth to that undiscovered country whence no traveler ever returns. As time is nearly up, poor Pinozzi grows frantic with fear. Mutt and Jeff approach. They have a whole dime to spend, they also have a well-developed case of "appetitis." The bananas look very inviting, and they are very filling. With a "lead us to them" rush, the hungry twain swoop upon the gesticulating Sicilian. As the bananas do the disappearing act, Mariangelo gets an inspiration. Will Muitt and Jeff take charge of the fruit stand for one week, or two, or longer, eat all the fruit they want and take all the receipts? Will they, huh? So, while Mr. and Mrs. Pinozzi scamper to safely, Mutt and Jeff take possession of the business. The Black Hand cannot be trifled with; Mariangelo has not "come across" and the kidnappers get to work. Mutt and Jeff are soon captured and taken before the Presiding Bunch of Crooks, who fail to find any resemblance between Mutt and Jeff and the Pinozzi couple. Peeved over this measly trick, they force "the long and the short of it" to join the "ranks." This is done, with the aid of numerous stilettos acting as accelerators. The police have been over-active of late; why not blow up Headquarters? Lots are drawn and the fatal slip of paper goes to Mutt. Luckily for him the Chief of Police has heard of this Black Hand meeting and sends out a number of his best men to corral the entire outfit. After a nice mix-up, Mutt, Jeff and the Black Handers are taken to Headquarters. Jeff is recognized as an old time friend of the Chief, who treats him to a good cigar, while poor Mutt goes to a dark dungeon because the tell-tale slip of paper is found on him. Alas. Poor Mutt.
- Texas Tommy enters the dance hall of Peaceful Gulch. A rough-house is on, and Texas Tommy finds himself a living bone of contention. Things look bad for Tommy, when suddenly a large and loving lady clasps him in her arms saying that he belongs to her and that she will protect him. Idaho Ida bore the reputation of being a woman of her word. Also her gun was man-sized. Also she has a double cartridge belt that went all round her, and was crammed full of bullets. So all respected her wishes - all but Montana Joe, who decides to steal the fickle charmer, and engages two Mexican lariat throwers for the purpose. When they made known their sinister intention, Texas Tommy loses his faith in womankind, and escapes. Mounted on their horses the villains rope Ida and attempt to drag her to them. But not in vain had she been called the terror of Peaceful Gulch. She dragged the villains from their horses, and might have succeeded with it if Joe had not attacked her from the rear. Tommy took refuge in a deserted cabin, and to this remote spot Joe now bore his kicking prize. The Mexicans were sent headlong for a minister. But Tommy saw his chance, and felled Joe with a terrific blow. Ida fell into the arms of her rescuer just as the minister arrived.