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- An injured little girl is taken in by a tribe of Gypsies. When she is a grown beauty, she is caught between the love of a man and the Gypsy chief.
- Allen Dodd, Professor of Ethnology in an eastern college, succeeds in locating Robert Harris, son of an old college chum, and invites him to come east for a visit. Professor Dodd's secret wish is that Robert Harris and his daughter Alma will become sweethearts. Robert's heart is weak, and owing to the excitement of preparation for his long journey he collapses. His death suggests an opportunity to Robert Haines, a gambler, whose similarity to Robert Harris has often mystified their home town. Haines decides to impersonate the dead man, and try for the hand of Alma, who is an heiress to a large fortune. Professor Dodd and Alma unsuspectingly accept him as Robert Harris, but the girl has already given her affection to Joe Craig, her father's chauffeur. Haines discovers this, convinces Alma that Joe is a married man, and she curtly dismisses him. Deeply wounded by her refusal, Joe starts for the northwest in search of a reported lost mine. Alma discovers the trick, and goes to Joe's house, only to find that he has already departed. As the professor has often desired to study the northwest Indians, Alma succeeds in getting him to take her near the place where Joe is located. Haines, learning of their plans, disguises himself as a professor, and meets Dodd and his daughter. In the meantime Joe has been well received by the Indians, and saves the chief's daughter, Waterlily, from death. Alma discovers Haines' identity, and exposes him. Haines then attempts to abduct her, but her father arrives on the scene, and after a lively flight Haines throws him over a cliff into the river. Alma, by a well-aimed rock, stuns Haines and flees to Joe's cabin. Joe rescues Professor Dodd, and Haines succeeds in paying some ruffians to attack Joe's cabin. A doctor who is attending the professor gallantly aids in the defense. Waterlily discovers the situation and goes for help to her father. The defenders are overcome by the outlaws. Haines offers to save all the lives if Alma will but marry him. In the nick of time Waterlily comes back leading her Indians. The gambler Haines is killed, and the outlaws made prisoners. Alma and Joe find happiness in their love.
- The small amount of information located about the film's story indicates that a villain's plot against the innocent heroine is foiled by the young hero. "Merritt" is the father, "Madge" is the second heroine, and there is a fight between "Tom" and "Paul" after "Tom" finally sees through "Paul's" treachery. Two motor cars are involved in a smash-up.
- Syd and Pat are two men about town and as the story opens they are bathing in the sun in Central Park. Judge happens along and stumbles over the projecting foot of the slumbering Pat. In the mix-up that follows the judge is forgotten when the two sun bathers catch sight of Ann Blaum, who is taking an early ride through the park. Syd distracts the attention of Pat and hies himself to the side of the fair equestrienne. He finds that she has broken a stirrup leather which an obliging cop is in vain attempting to repair. While Syd is doing the needful repairing, Pat arrives and he and Ann are immediately smitten with each other. Both gallants engage in a struggle with the officer, during which Ann returns home and on arriving there gives the repair job over to the faithful Chink. Chink repairs the damage, but the cook comes out and attempts to mount, and being a heavyweight she breaks the stirrup leather. Pat and Syd hire a couple of livery horses and, leaving them at a nearby post, seek Ann in order to invite her to accompany them on a ride. She consents, but in the meantime the Chink has stolen Syd's horse, so Pat and Ann ride away, leaving disconsolate Syd to follow on a burro. Failing to overtake the riders, Syd engages three hobos to abduct Ann. The abduction is successful excepting that the stout cook, who has stolen a ride on Ann's horse, is taken instead of Ann. Syd, learning that the fair captive is a prisoner, secures the services of the Judge to marry him and secures a license also, and then presents himself before the astonished cook. Learning of his mistake, Syd calls the matter off, but the romantic heavyweight clings to him, and it is only after a general fight involving all hands that Syd succeeds in breaking away. Later he finds the tramps slumbering beneath a tree, and, setting a slow match to work, he leaves them as he supposes to their fate. In the meantime Pat and Ann come to an understanding and one of the tramps wakes, sees the lighted fuse, throws it so it lands in Syd's hat under a tree where he is slumbering. Explosion, exit Syd.
- Marvin, a writer, is just finishing what he considers his masterpiece, "The Rose of Madeira," the production of which will enable him to marry Estelle, the girl he loves. Mary, the daughter of his landlady, loves Marvin in silence, and in various ways does little acts of love which go unheeded, making her sad and hopeless. Higgins, a supposed friend of Marvin, reads the play, without Marvin's knowledge, and recognizing its merit, plots to have Marvin shanghaied and pose as the author of the play, and perhaps win Estelle, with whom he is infatuated. Marvin is shanghaied, Higgins places his coat on the wharf and he is reported drowned, Mary is heartbroken, but Estelle soon forgets Marvin and gives her love freely to the successful playwright, Higgins. The play is rehearsed and Higgins is the cause of much admiration, but his attention to the leading lady is the cause of much uneasiness to Estelle. Marvin, meanwhile, is unable to stand the roughness of the sea, decides to make a break for liberty and swim to shore. He succeeds and on his return home faces Higgins. Estelle's shallow love has been proven to him and recognizing the sincerity and depth of Mary's love he proposes and is accepted. His right to the masterpiece is restored at once. By chance Higgins is shanghaied by the same rough necks that he paid to shanghai Marvin and is given a chance to try the hardships he imposed on an innocent man.
- Mr. Burns, a rich farmer in Scotland, holds a mortgage on an adjoining farm, owned by a widow, Mrs. Thomas, whose son Paul, is in love with Mr. Burns' daughter, Esther. When Mr. Burns learns of the young couple's infatuation, he refuses to countenance it, owing to Paul's poverty. Paul, heartbroken, tells his mother he will go to America to earn the money necessary to pay off the mortgage. Mona Higgins, the postmaster's daughter, is also in love with Paul. Finding that Paul rejects her love, she destroys all communications between Paul, his mother and his sweetheart. Paul secures employment in America at the home of a wealthy landowner, and at a critical moment rescues his master's baby from a gypsy kidnapper, for which deed he receives a check for $5,000 and also a medal. Paul eventually returns to his home, just in time to rescue the old homestead from Mona, who had endeavored to secure it. It is needless to add that Paul and Esther "lived happily ever after."
- Harry is a middle aged benedict, comfortably well off and married to a charming lady. In his home there is every evidence of material wealth and happiness, but a long-forgotten photograph of an early sweetheart starts him off on a train of reminiscences, which, as they unfold in his mind are depicted on the screen. The first of his day dreams shows him "Creeping like a snail unwillingly to school." Presently there follows a tender love passage with Doris, the school belle; then comes a battle royal with the school bully which culminates in the bully being immersed in the village duck pond. The tread of the well trained valet arouses Harry from his dream, but presently his eyes close again and he sees again himself as the leader in the school room pranks which brings him to logger heads with the sorely tried master. The vision changes to early manhood at the college, where the irrepressible Harry leads a midnight charge. A falling jar of molasses and a suspicious college scout lands the bold Harry and his companions in further trouble, notwithstanding which he emerges from college with his degree and commences the serious occupation of life. Harry wakes from his reverie to recall the sudden inheritance from a rich aunt which placed him among the ranks of the idle rich, and now he dreams of the tennis match where a wild ball brought him to the side of his old sweetheart, now grown to charming womanhood and still with a warm place in her heart for the lover of the long ago. When Harry's dreams are ended the material element of life, in the person of his wife, comes to tell him that dinner is served and as he embraces the partner of his joys and sorrows he dismisses memories for realities and prepares to enjoy the gifts that God has given.