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- Petted and pampered all his life, Reginald Mallory has grown to manhood easily swayed by flattery. On the verge of an outstanding career in civil engineering, he is appointed city engineer by a corrupt cartel of politicians and contractors, who use his vanity to further their crooked ends. Mallory is wheedled into signing a contract for the construction of a new city hall that will provide the minimum of quality at the maximum of cost. Everyone loses faith in Mallory except Betty Biddle, his sweetheart, who is the daughter of the president of a construction company. Mallory appears to have turned crooked, but he finally demonstrates his honesty--first by producing enough documentary evidence to convict the cartel of fraud and then by blowing up the partly finished city hall to demonstrate its substandard construction.
- Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.
- Dick Alden, a 12-year-old boy mistreated by his stepfather and picked on by the other residents of his village, is wrongly accused of setting fire to the local schoolhouse. He runs away but vows to take his revenge on the village. Years later he gets his chance when he returns to take over the mill he has inherited--he plans to close it down, which would throw most of the people out of work and destroy the economy. However, he runs into someone from his past that could put a halt to his plans.
- Randolph Adams, a medical student, and his friend, Ned Hastings, have lost their way while on a hunting trip in the north. In a cabin which they enter by chance, Adams' medical skill is called upon to save a sick child. In response to Noah Redstone, the master of the cabin's, question, "Why do you go about killing things when you can spend your time saving human lives?" a change comes over him, and realizing the thrill of being able to relieve suffering, he decides to devote his life to the work. Later he enters the Red Cross service in France,leaving the children's hospital he has erected in the care of a friend. He is reported dead, and his wife is about to accept Hastings' offer of marriage when Adams appears on the scene, having spent some time in a hospital abroad recovering from an injury. Just at the moment his mother is pronounced dead from an automobile accident. But refusing to give her up without effort, he hurriedly puts a new respiratory invention to work and succeeds in saving her life. The story closes with a happy reunion.