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- Jesse Williams, an old clam digger, finds in the sand while digging clams, an old ring. He takes it back with him to his lonely cabin, sits by the fire and holding the ring in his hand falls asleep. His youth comes back to him as he sees himself waiting outside Mary Randall's cabin to take her to church. Mary and her father come out, the young people exchange tender glances, the girl goes with her father and the boy follows. After church he meets the girl with a rival; the girl shows preference for him and playfully steals her mother's ring before going out for a row with Jesse. Unfortunately Mary loses the ring overboard. Jesse comforts her and promises to see if he can find the ring later at low tide. In the meantime Mary's father has found that some miscreant is robbing his eel and lobster pots at night and goes with the rival to the seashore to discover the rascal. They see in the dim distance the robbers, Jesse comes ashore after a fruitless search for the ring and is promptly accused by the fisherman of robbing the pots. This he strenuously denies, but is warned never to come near the house again. He meets his girl clandestinely and they go for a walk over the rocks. She falls over a cliff. He rushes down only to find her unconscious and perhaps dead. He tells her father and rival who carry Mary home. They find that she is dead. James is warned away and is not even allowed to mourn over the grave. He returns to the fatal rocks and is bowed in grief. The lonely old man slowly awakens from his dream of the past and takes the little ring to his breast as the picture fades.
- Myrtle Henderson is in love with Harry Marsden, but her father, knowing that the boy is something of a ne'er-do-well, forbids the match and orders Harry from the house. The young people meet clandestinely and go for a walk over the hills. Myrtle accidentally stumbles on the root of a tree, and falls over a cliff. Harry runs to her aid, but finds her unconscious, and thinking her dead, runs away. The father, who has followed them, discovers Myrtle and carries her home, where she revives. In the meantime Harry has gone to the city to find employment, and sometime later Myrtle also secures work in the city. One evening she misses her train home, not arriving until late. Her father, in a rage, accuses her of meeting Harry against his wishes, and turns her from home. Harry has lost his position and contemplates suicide. Myrtle, in despair, intends to do the same thing. By chance of fate they both come to the same dock to jump into the water. She sees him preparing to jump, and rushes to his aid, but is too late. Just as she places her hand on his shoulder he jumps. Two police officers see her, and think she has pushed him overboard. She is arrested and accused of his murder. Harry has not drowned and discovers later that she is accused of his murder. He comes forward with the information that he is the man who jumped into the water, and she is released. Her father, seeing their devotion, accepts Harry as his son-in-law.
- Julius Searth, the private secretary of Marriott, a wealthy jeweler, is in league with a gang of thieves. One of the gang, the Woman in Black, visits Marriott at his office, ostensibly to purchase a necklace. Not one which he has is satisfactory, and he cables to Paris to have a matchless string of pearls sent over. Jack Dacre, in love with Nellie Marriott, is contemptuously refused by her father, and he returns to Paris. Meanwhile the necklace arrives in London, and is stolen by Searth, who substitutes one package for another. Searth makes love to Nellie and is angrily dismissed by his employer. He then goes off to Antwerp to sell the jewels. On opening the parcel which should contain the necklace, Marriott is horrified to discover merely some lumps of sugar wrapped in a newspaper. Nellie insists on cabling to Jack Dacre, telling him of their loss. He receives the message and vows to track down the thieves. He confides in his friends, Mr. and Mrs. Maxwell, who tell him that Searth has offered them the necklace for sale. He returns to London and meets Searth at Charing Cross. He disguises himself as a workman and tracks him to his house. He is, however, set upon by the gang who follow him through the streets, until he contrives to escape by a great crane which swings him high up in the air. Dacre again meets Searth at Lipton's Café, where he is shown three pearls out of the necklace. Dacre then disguises himself as a French jeweler, and being introduced to the gang, they show him the entire necklace. Dacre then arranges to have the gang arrested at the Tube Station. Searth, however, confides the necklace to the care of the Woman in Black, who gets away. There is a terrific struggle on the station platform, and Searth overcomes Dacre and escapes by boarding an outgoing train. At the next station, he gets into a motor-car and is pursued by Dacre and the chief of detectives in Marriott's car. While both cars are traveling at high speed, Dacre leaps from his car into Searth's. Searth jumps out, but is overtaken by Dacre. After a fierce struggle, Searth is seized, handcuffed and taken back to prison. The Woman in Black, realizing that her only chance for safety lies in getting rid of the pearls, throws the necklace away. It is found by a laborer, who offers to sell it for a drink, and when he is refused, takes it to the police station in the hope of getting a small reward. Dacre is compensated by gaining Marriott's consent to marry Nellie.
- An old tramp, begging from door to door, is refused by one woman and given an old loaf of bread by another. He retires to his hut on an island to eat and rest. In the meantime the children of the two women go for a walk along the seashore with their pets, a cat and a dog. They are cut off by the rising tide and meander around disconsolate. The tramp, hearing their cries, goes out to see what is the matter. He brings them back to his hut, feeds them on the loaf given him by one of the mothers. They sleep on his cot while he goes out to get wood. Meanwhile, the children are missed by their parents, and calling the sheriff, they organize a search party. The first clue is the dog that swims across the tideway. The cat is next found on the island near the hut. The fathers of the children take them home, while the sheriff and his assistant search the woods for the tramp. He is captured, recognized by the women and incarcerated. The children later tell of his kindness, which brings about his release. The happy men, who have recovered their babies, give him work with themselves at the forge.
- Andrew Wilson and Robert Beeton are classmates at West Point. While on sentry duty one night, Robert finds his chum endeavoring to sneak in after hours, and although he hates to report him, duty forces it with the result that Andrew is discharged from the service. Notwithstanding this disgrace, he enlists as a private soldier in a regiment commanded by Colonel Schaeffer. On graduation, Robert Beeton, is appointed lieutenant in Col. Schaeffer's regiment and promptly falls in love with the Colonel's pretty daughter. The girl, however, falls in love with Andrew, meeting him clandestinely. Robert, going on his rounds as officer of the day, finds him off post and investigating discovers the young folk together. This time his report is embittered by jealousy. Andrew is remanded to the guard house. One day the Colonel's daughter is going out for a ride; she loses control of her horse. While working as a prisoner, Andrew sees the runaway, and, suddenly jumping on Robert's horse which is being held by an orderly, gives chase and saves the young lady's life. Stern discipline again sends him to the guard house. The Colonel, finding out the state of things, decides to release him if he will buy himself out of the company. Andrew does so, forgives his former chum and drives off with the daughter on an automobile honeymoon.
- Before going to the fishing grounds, granddaddy builds baby Grace a boat. They sail away leaving her in charge of her mother. The little girl asks her mother if she can go to the shore and sail her new toy. "Yes, but be careful, dear." So off the child goes with her boat in her arms and her chum Whiskers, the dog, reluctantly pulling on his lead. She gets her toy in the water, the boat becomes unmoored and drifts away. Missing her baby by meal time, the mother looks out of the window out on the bay and discovers to her horror that the boat is almost out of sight, and the baby standing up waving her little arms for help. The mother frantically runs out to seek assistance; she dispatches a boy to the distant life-saving station, and in the meantime with the assistance of the priest and neighbors, builds a signal fire on a high rock, with the hope of summoning her husband and father. The fishermen see the distant fire and row back to shore; the frantic mother tells of the accident so they stumble hack into their boats and row off to seek the child. In the meantime the boy has given the alarm to the lifesavers who launch their boat in record time and row with mighty strokes to the rescue. They save the child and dog and transfer them to the fishermen; the baby is taken home. On returning to consciousness she asks plaintively, "Where is my doggie?" The dog is returned to her arms and happiness reigns.