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- A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
- A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
- Ming Toy, the eldest of Hop Toy's many children, is rescued from the auction blocks by Billy Benson and sent to the United States in the care of Lo Sang Kee. There she continues her interest in western ways and attracts attention of a powerful Chinatown figure, Charley Yong.
- War buddies Burr Winton and Dave Stewart retreat to Burr's cabin in the Canadian Northwest after Dave helps Burr pay a gambling debt. During the winter months, Jacques Fachard, a French trapper, and his daughter Manette, who have eluded the Mounted Police, seek refuge in their cabin. Fachard dies of a bullet wound, after having persuaded the men to care for his daughter. Both fall in love with Manette; Burr, deeply in love for the first time and eager to marry her, is furiously jealous and threatens Dave. Food shortage makes it necessary for Burr to seek aid. Manette, after having been defended by Burr, starts after him in the storm; but Dave stops her and brings his friends back and leaves them to their happiness.
- A massive earthquake strikes the United States, which destroys the West Coast and unleashes a massive flood that threatens to destroy the East Coast as well.
- Western sheriff Bob Wells is preparing to marry Sally Morgan; she loves part-Indian Wanenis, whose race is an obstacle. Sally flees the wedding with hypochondriac Henry Williams, who thinks he's just giving her a ride; but she left a note saying they've eloped! Chasing them are jilted Bob, Henry's nurse Mary (who's been trying to seduce him) and others.
- The cult of Ubasti, headquartered on the isle of Lemuria, believes that Princess Nadji of Egypt is a reincarnation of their long-dead goddess, Ossana, and intend to sacrifice her so that Ossana may be resurrected.
- Marie is kidnapped and taken aboard ship, then thrown off at Yucatan. She winds up singing in a café in the Panama Canal zone. There she gets involved in a plot to destroy the canal and runs into American intelligence officer Crawbett.
- After Tarzan's estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist.
- Love and logging in the Cascade Mountains of Oregon.
- Jack Derry accidentally becomes involved in a mystery surrounding Glory Billings, when fate makes him her rescuer in a kidnapping episode.
- A newlywed couple journeys west to make their fortune, and begins a banking empire.
- A lawman sets out to tame Tombstone, Arizona.
- A Rin-Tin-Tin serial presented in 12 episodes. The mysterious Wolf Man is terrorizing settlers in a western town. With the help of Rinty, young Jimmy Carter unmasks the Wolf Man and foils his evil plot.
- Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
- In Shanghai, an American girl smuggling opium is put under surveillance by an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she determines to get out of the drug business, but she is afraid of the man who is the head of the drug ring for which she worked.
- Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi River. Accompanying him is Jim, a slave running away from being sold. Together the two strike a bond of friendship that takes them through harrowing events and thrilling adventures.
- Bulldog Drummond goes up against a group of jewel thieves led by Blackton and a Masked Strangler they double-crossed who wants revenge.
- Maj. Ralph Seton is a British army officer stationed in Cawnpore, India, when the Sepoy Rebellion--a mutiny of Indian soldiers in the Brtitish army in India--breaks out in 1857. He receives the prestigious Victoria Cross--the highest decoration that can be awarded to a British soldier--for his actions in battle. However, after a night of drunken debauchery, he is stripped of the honor and disgraced in front of his love, Joan Strathallen, the daughter of his commanding officer. When Indian rebel leader Azimoolah instigates an uprising by the natives and has Joan kidnapped, Seton sets out to redeem his honor and save the woman he loves.
- An Indian scholar seeks an American colleague who is working on a powerful explosive, trying to get to his formula by taking advantage of his drinking problem.
- Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. They succeed in overpowering the turnkey and, assisted by Colin, who insists that his friend don the clothes of the turnkey, Villon makes his escape. Colin is tried, convicted and hanged. At the foot of the gibbet, Villon's farewell to the swinging Colin is interrupted by the entrance of the Chevalier do Soissons. Villon resents the knight's tirade against the corpse of Colin. Fight ensues and the crafty vagabond slays the knight, using as a weapon a great stone. The rich purse, armor, etc., of de Soissons proves too strong a snare for the impoverished Villon, who quickly changes habiliments with the dead knight, props the body against the gallows and then continues on his way to Paris. Philippa de Annonnay, the fair ward of the Chevalier Bertrand de Pogne, is held prisoner in an inn. Villon chooses this inn wherein to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Here he meets de Pogne. From her window she sees the entrance of Villon and determines to appeal to the strange knight. An animated discussion between Villon and de Pogne is interrupted by a scream from Philips. Villon starts to climb the stairs to the gallery of the inn. De Pogne bars the way and a terrific battle with swords ensues. The fight continues up the stairs and toward Philippa's window, through which the girl reaches as the fight continues on the balcony and stabs de Pogne, who falls to the floor below, dead. Villon conducts Philippa safely to her castle, then resumes his journey to Paris. Having dissipated the proceeds of the de Soissons adventure, Villon hies himself to a garret, where he spends his time in courting the muses. Louis XI, the "Prowler," determines to test the loyalty of Villon. To this end, the king hies himself to a dungeon in the Bastille, causes the arrest of Villon, then offers that worthy his freedom if he will help overthrow the king. Villon indignantly refuses to purchase his freedom at such a price. Whereupon Louis reveals himself to the poet and presents Villon with a bound copy of his (Villon's) manuscript, which was the first book to be printed in France. Then Louis knights him, bestowing upon Villon the title Chevalier des Loges.
- The adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
- Animal trainer Clyde Beatty heads a rescue party in search of his girl, Ruth, and her father who get lost looking for an uncharted island. His dirigible crashes into the jungles of the island. When he locates Ruth, he learns that her father has disappeared. The ensuing search is hindered by greedy gold hunters and wild animals.
- A prospector is murdered by The Cactus Kid and his gang, who hope to find the murdered man's goldmine. The miner's dog, Rin-Tin-Tin, recognizes the killers, who thereafter seek to use the dog to locate the lost mine. With the help of a government agent and a young girl, Rinty saves the mine and brings the bad guys to justice.
- A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's true identity. The murdered man's son sets out to locate the seven men and find his father's slayer.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Blackie Saunders and his young partner Sandy arrive in Indian Springs where Blackie meets his old friend Jim whom he once rode with on the wrong side of the law. Jim is now the Parson but Blackie still carries the reputation of a killer. When the townspeople decide Blackie is not a fit guardian for the boy, Jim convinces Blackie to leave the boy with him. But just after Blackie leaves town, the express office is robbed and it is assumed Blackie did it.
- A man wrongly accused of murder escapes from prison to clear his name, but is mistaken for a town's new lawman.
- A boy from Ireland comes to America and makes good, but he doesn't forget the poverty he left behind. He returns to rescue his sweetheart just as her family is about to be evicted from their land.
- In a provincial Spanish town, during the mid-nineteenth century, Manuela is sold as a dancing girl to a strolling musician. In their wanderings, she meets Don Bartolome, who left his poor father Don Luis to become a highwayman. Bartolome falls in love with Manuela and takes her with him after killing the musician. When they meet Osmund Manvers, an English squire, Bartolome wants to use Manuela to rob him, but Manvers rescues Manuela from a gang of drifters and carries her into the country. Later, Manuela stabs and kills Bartolome after he threatens her. Manuela flees and Manvers searches for her. When Don Luis learns about Bartolome's death, he challenges Manvers to a duel. After Manvers refuses, Tormillo, Don Luis' servant, stabs Manvers in the arm. When Manuela offers her life to Don Luis to save Manvers, Don Luis relents, but Tormillo remains frantic. Manvers' valet and friend, Gil Perez, prepares poison for Tormillo, but Tormillo demands that Gil Perez drink first. To save Manvers and Manuela, first Gil Perez drinks the poison, then Tormillo drinks it, after which they both die. Manvers and Manuela are now reunited.
- Tom, about to go on a hunting trip, consults his almanac and finds there will be a total eclipse of the sun, visible about 2:45 p.m. On his way he stops to visit his sweetheart, Nell. He has hardly left the cabin when in an attack by Indians, Nell's father is shot and she is made captive. Returning to the cabin about noon, Tom discovers Nell's absence, and noting the signs about realizes her danger. Trailing her to the Indian camp he seeks out the big chief and says: "Release her or I shall put out the sun." Instead of heeding Tom's request, the chief orders him tied to a stake. Just then the heavens begin to darken until the sun is totally eclipsed. The Indians, believing that Tom has made his threat good, release the captives, who quickly make their escape. A few minutes later the sun coming out from under the eclipse, the Indians start in pursuit of their fleeing prisoners. Nell's horse soon gives out. A few miles further on Tom's horse drops also. They continue running on foot dodging their pursuers until they cross the trail of a party of new settlers just as the Indians are about to reach them. A short and sharp fight takes place, the Indians being finally defeated. Tom thanking his rescuers declares that friends in need are friends indeed.
- James Newcomb and Jim Ward, two old settlers seated in front of Newcomb's log cabin, are discussing their fights with the Indians when the cabin was first built. Bobbie Newcomb's nine-year-old son, listens with rapt attention. Going to the house and getting a gun, little Bobbie shows the old timers how he would defend the cabin from an Indian attack. The following day Dick Lathrope, a half-breed trapper brings word that the Indians have arisen during the absence of the troops. Preparations for flight are made by Bobbie's parents. What household foods they can carry with the family are bundled into the prairie schooner and the team starts on the dead run for the nearest military post. Just as they are about to drive away from the cabin Bobbie throws out a gun and unseen by the other occupants of the wagon drops to the ground in his determination to stay behind and defend the cabin. Shortly after the family drives away the Indians appear. Little Bobbie opens fire and beats a hasty retreat. Safely arriving at the fort, the Newcombs discover Bobbie's absence. Dick Lathrope volunteers to go back for him and arrives in time to rescue Bobbie from a perilous situation.
- A sheriff and his posse shoot it out with a gang of robbers headed by Bad Jake Kennedy. The surviving robber, Buckshot John, won't tell where the gang's loot is hidden and gets 30 years in prison. Halfway through his sentence he "gets religion" and in order to save his soul, decides to tell where the gang has hidden its stash of gold. However, a phony clairvoyant, The Great Gilmore, finds out about John's intentions and tricks him into revealing where the gold is. When John finds out what happened, he decides to break out of prison and take care of matters himself.
- A Canadian Mountie is assigned to bring in his brother, who was framed for the murder of a gold mine owner.
- Hal, now fully grown, leaves his wife Edith and his estate in England to return to the land of his Indian mother. There he works for the rights of Indians in a land deal which pits him against David Ladd, the wily reservation agent who is secretly in collusion with the asphalt trust which is trying to rob the Indians. Hal falls in love with Wah-na-gi, the Carlisle graduate who has returned to teach at the agency school, but he is too honorable to conceal that he is already married. Upon the death of his father, Hal returns to England as Lord Effington to discover that Edith loves Lord Yester and wants a divorce. Hal gladly agrees, but when the family physician informs him that Edith is addicted to morphine and his presence may save her life, Hal consents to stay. Returning to America to testify in a lawsuit against the asphalt trust, Hal regretfully informs Wah-na-gi that he cannot leave his wife. The Indian maiden goes off in the snow to kill herself by the grave of Hal's mother when Hal receives a message that Edith has died from an overdose of morphine. Hal rushes into the snow, overtakes Wah-na-gi and asks her to marry him.
- His spoilt and pretty daughter Gem and a lively dog make the old chemist's days far from the serene ones his labors in his laboratory require. Left to her own devices, willful Gem selects her unlikeliest suitor and thrusts him upon papa for approval. Aroused, the old chemist endeavors to separate them by locking Gem in her room but is compelled to repeat the forceful ejection of the persistent lover many times over. Determined by papa's refusal, Gem and her lover plan to get even with him. He believes that he has made a wonderful discovery and calls in two of the scientists in his city to test the mixture. Gem and her beau replace it with a harmless mixture, of which the dog approves. Entering the laboratory, the scientists are amazed to find the dog drinking the supposed poison. Fearing his bite, they lose no time in making their getaway. Ever ready for a chase, the lively dog sets determinedly after them. Their frantic efforts to escape result in disaster to all encountered en route. Believing the dog to be mad, a general call is turned in for the police. Gem and her lover rush to the minister's house but he refuses to marry them and tries to give them the slip. The lovers give chase, overtake him at the lake's edge, and force him to perform the ceremony. Driven by the dog to a high bridge, the scientists decide to take to water rather than risk a bite. Not caring for the jump, the dog leaves the bridge and encounters the police, but discovering his mistress, he makes a glad rush to the consternation of the minister, whose fright precipitates the three into the lake, where the dog joins them. The yells of the scientists and the bridal party bring the police to the rescue, and the lake is filled with swimmers whose struggles show little enjoyment in their dip.
- Stern parents have ever been relentless obstacles in love's young dream, but it is perhaps quite doubtful if ever love could equal the accentuated bliss and anguish of these two. She refused to eat for her hero and for her he bore the marks of battle, an eye made black by a cruel parent's fist. Tired of such an unsympathetic world, they sought the wilderness, where, had it not been for Indian Charlie, these two "babes in the wood" would have ended their dream in a manner quite too disagreeable to think of.
- Infamous Mexican bandit Pancho López recognizes Gilbert Jones as the man who once saved his life; therefore, when Jones is in danger of losing his ranch for default of mortgage payment, López determines to help him. At the same time, Morgan Pell, intending to cheat Jones out of his potentially oil-rich property, offers him a sum of money, which Jones conditionally accepts. When López discovers that Jones and Mrs. Pell are in love he has Pell shot, then robs a local bank, pays the mortgage, and returns the cattle he has stolen. With Mr. Pell out of the way and the ranch secure, Jones and Mrs. Pell are free to marry.
- A 1918 silent film serial about an intrepid woman heroine who has adventures in the jungles and deserts, and is attacked by both man and beast.
- A man returns to a small town in Kentucky to find his father's killers.
- When the Nevada Kid gets caught in a stage robbery, the gang leader Cherokee gets him released by forging a petition to the Governor. The Kid tries to go straight but the stage he is guarding gets robbed. When the Sheriff jails Cherokee who was not in on the robbery, the Kid gets caught effecting Cherokee's escape and finds himself in jail again.
- Cowpuncher Vic Collins, who is suffering tremendous losses at the hand of cattle rustlers, falls in love with Lorraine Leighton from Kansas City. The rustlers hide their tracks, but Lorraine is suspected of being their leader. Vic, however, will not believe the rumor even though she hits him on the head with a gun butt while he is fighting a rustler. Ultimately, Lorraine discloses that she is trying to capture the gang for sending her brother to jail, and with the help of Lafe Brownell they capture the horse thieves.
- A government agent is sent to a tough frontier town to arrest & bring back one of the most ruthless criminals in the region.
- An American army officer, Kenneth Holbert, is after a Mexican bandit, El Zorro, who he doesn't know is his long-lost twin brother. Dorothy Holbert has a hard time figuring out which is which, especially since Romanian native Renaldo uses the same accent for both brothers.
- Bart Morgan controls the town of Cactus City and is keeping all men away from Jane Rankin. When Johnny Day arrives and takes an interest in Jane, Morgan tries to kick him out. Johnny refuses to go and the stage is set for a showdown.
- Young John Glenarm's wealthy grandfather leaves him his estate, but the will stipulates that John live in the estate--rumored to be haunted--for one year or it will be forfeited to schoolteacher Marian Deveraux. John moves in and strange and unexplained events begin to occur. He really doesn't want to stay there anymore, but finds that he is falling in love with pretty young Marian, and decides to stick it out. However, there's more to his grandfather's will than John realizes, and it's not long before he finds out just what that is.
- Bud has sent for a mail order bride but so has Ben and Ben used Bud's picture. When the two girls arrive at the same time, Bud is in trouble and fakes being crazy which gets him thrown in jail. With his boss in jail, Sam sees a chance to sell Bud's cattle and run with the money.
- A young Scottish immigrant to Canada becomes a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. He finds himself framed on a forgery charge, but before he can clear himself he must capture a gang of train robbers and stop a band of marauding Indians.
- Hunting the desert for his daughter, Jonas Warren finds the man who took her away, who then produces a marriage certificate to pacify Warren's anger. After the husband finds a gold mine and uses the certificate to mark it, they die in a sandstorm. Later, Dick Gale, an Easterner in search of adventure, rescues his friend Captain George Thorne and the captain's sweetheart Mercedes Castenada from Mexican bandit Rojas. Dick takes Mercedes to Jim Belding's ranch, where Dick falls in love with Belding's adopted daughter Nell. When Rojas arrives with a band of outlaws, Dick and the ranch cowboys escort Mercedes to the mountains, led by Dick's Yaqui Indian friend. After the Yaqui throws Rojas off a cliff and locates a water source for the ranch, he shows Nell the gold mine. The marriage certificate of her parents proves that the mine is hers. Since she now knows she is not illegitimate, she can marry Dick.
- Phil Dolan (aka Black Jack because of his talent at cards), Nancy Dolan, and a rustler each have a piece of a silver dollar; each piece has a portion of an indented map of an ore mine. Phil must rescue Nancy from the rustlers to keep their portions of the silver dollar from them. The sheriff's posse captures the gang of rustlers just as they reach the ore mine, ensuring their claim to the mine.
- Cobb plays a Mountie called Field, who protects a girl from Jackson Rasker, the leader of an outlaw gang. Field falls for the girl, but her father's dying wish is that she should marry Rasker, who will stop at nothing to get the gal.
- Barney McFee, a clerk in the service of the Canadian Northwest Mounted Police, is finally given the long-desired opportunity of going out on a case. Inspector McGrath sends him out to bring in John Ramsay, wanted for murder. Barney, enthusiastic over the chance given him, rushes off to tell his sweetheart, Dorothy Alden, daughter of an ex-Mounted Policeman. Later Barney is told that the man for whom he's looking went out with Dorothy who called for him. Barney accuses Dorothy of harboring a criminal, forces his way into a room in her cabin and finds his man. He takes him away despite the pleadings of his sweetheart, whose brother the criminal is, and with heavy heart turns his captive over to the Inspector. Dorothy, proud that her lover is a real man, relents and forgives him.
- Richard Young, an American immigrant, and his sick wife find shelter at the Hacienda del Cerro. Dolores, daughter of Estebon Hernandez, owner of the Hacienda Del Cerro, is fascinated by the young American and attempts to win him from his wife, but her advances are scorned by the honest American. This incites the vindictive Dolores to revenge herself on Richard by having Gray Bear, an Indian Chief, abduct Richard's wife. Dolores summons Gray Bear to her home and makes known her plan. The Indian apparently becomes a willing tool, but when he arrives that night with four or five braves, instead of kidnapping the American's wife they capture Dolores, with whom the Indian chief is madly in love. A prisoner in Gray Bear's tent, Dolores is informed she is about to become the Indian's wife. The rescue is splendidly portrayed.
- Mary Thorne, a quarter-breed Native American, returns home from the East with a college degree and an air of refinement, although she relishes the freedom of her father Marshall's mountain cabin. When Mark Hamilton and Chester Martin visit the cabin on a hunting expedition, Mary, in a spirit of mischief, dons her Indian clothing and convinces them that she is full-blooded. Mark falls deeply in love with the girl, while Chester, contemptuous of her Indian background, though attracted to her, decides to possess her. While her father is hunting for gold at Lost Lake, Chester enters Mary's room and attacks her. Mark rescues her, after which he realizes, by the modern décor of her room, that Mary is a cultured young lady. Later, Marshall is killed by an Indian guard at Lost Lake, but Mary inherits the gold he discovered and marries Mark.
- After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.
- Poor Percival Butterfingers is the butt of all the pranks played by Billy Stout and his chums. The arrival at college of Ralph, a freshman, diverts attention from Percy. Just before Ralph appears, Billy receives a letter from the boy's brother, requesting that some of Ralph's conceit be taken out of him. As luck would have it, Ralph and Professor Nutt overhear Billy and his chums concoct a black hand scheme. At the same time, a real gang of black handers plan to blow up Ralph's room to square a fancied wrong against his wealthy father. One of the black handers enters Ralph's room with a bomb, whereupon the boy, believing him to be a student in disguise, beats him up and chases him away. The bomb dropped by the black hander sputters on the floor. Carelessly picking it up, Ralph throws it out of the window just as Billy and his crew arrive. The bomb explodes, knocking the boys over and wrecking the building. Police and faculty members are attracted to the scene. In their effort to escape, the conspirators run into the real black hand artists and a battle royal takes place. When the police arrive, they arrest Billy.
- Bored with peacetime lack of action, a Great War veteran dashes off to the Greek army to hunt down a marauding bandit. His hatred for women is tested by a saucy young lady he rescues there.
- Larry Lang has carried the memory of his father's killing by Claude Dutton since his youth and is determined to avenge the crime. The townspeople of the small western border town believe Larry is "plumb locoed" because he employs a rowdy gang of cow punchers for only a few head of cattle. Dutton is ensconced in Bottle Canyon, the neck of which is constantly guarded by his men. When Dutton's henchman Two-Gun Dan fails to capture Larry, Dutton attempts the job himself. Meanwhile, Larry's cousin Dora Lawrence arrives to make her home with Larry who is to be her guardian. Larry's men are absent, and while Mexican bandit Pedro holds Dora, Dutton searches for a large sum of money hidden in Larry's bed. Larry returns and kills Dutton, then a romance develops between Larry and Dora.
- The uncle of "Bare-Fisted Gallagher" dies and leaves the Eagle Mine in the San Rafael Valley. When he arrives to take possession of it, he meets and falls for pretty Jem Mason, a woman who dresses like a cowboy and, to show she's a good shot, shoots off his hat. Gallagher doesn't know that Aliso Pete, the owner of the general store, is also interested in Jem. He also doesn't know that Aliso Pete has another secret, one that could cost Gallagher his life.
- A threatened Indian uprising sends the 13th Cavalry into camp. While scouting through the country a small party of soldiers drive their horses into a pool, thereby unwittingly profaning a sacred Indian spring. This incident takes place while the beautiful Indian girl Summer Morn is close to the spring. Calling her father, a strong protest is made against the sacrilege by the pale-faced soldiers. Lieutenant Bob, in charge of the scouting party, falls in love at first sight with the beautiful Indian girl. Pressing his suit, he finally gains the consent of her father to their marriage. The regiment, returning to headquarters, Bob's Indian wife is ostracized by the woman of the post. Recognizing the unfortunate position Bob is placed in, Summer Morn, although dearly loving her husband, steals away to her own people. Big Bear, her father, hides her and leads Bob to think that she is dead. Two years later Bob woos and wins Ruth. A camping honeymoon trip brings them into the Indian country. Accidentally meeting Summer Morn, Bob's old love instantly returns. The Indian girl, however, sends him away, and to make her sacrifice complete, throws herself into the sacred spring.
- Young American John Maude is forced to find a job when he falls in love with society girl Betty Keith. He accepts a sudden offer to go to Mervo, a tiny island country, where he is hired by Benjamin Scobell to pose as the lost prince of Mervo as an attraction to bolster the Mervo casino as a rival of Monte Carlo. Scobell also wants John to marry his stepdaughter, who turns out to be Betty. When Betty accuses John of being simply a shill for a gambling house, John closes the casino and tries to stage a revolution to make Mervo a republic. The natives resist, but the President of Mervo returns to run the casino himself, and Betty and John escape to America together.
- Jerry Jerome, a rich young Wall Street broker, follows doctor's orders and goes West to relieve strain. He stops at the ranch of Jim Yancy, then agrees to be the maid of the farmhouse to earn his keep, because he is attracted to Yancy's daughter Ruth. After a series of stagecoach robberies by a masked man wearing a blue bandanna, Jerry, the new man in town, is suspect. When he finds a blue bandanna in Yancy's barn, he decides to investigate, and discovers that Yancy is an ex-convict being blackmailed into helping with the robberies. Jerry dresses up like the bandit to stop the stage and warn the driver of an intended robbery, but he is arrested himself. He convinces the sheriff to let him out so he can bring in the real thief. Yancy accidentally shoots his former partner Ben Cowan, who confesses to being the stagecoach robber. Jerry and Ruth marry and go to New York.
- A story that is always told to the Indian boy when the father desires to rouse his ambition and to enthuse him with a daring to do great deeds. Scar Face, as the legend goes, when a baby was clawed and torn by a bear, so that when he grew up he was so badly crippled as to be almost utterly unfitted for the strenuous games and cruel warfare of his tribesmen. The old men of the tribe, however, had for years handed down a story that some day one of his tribe would be developed into a warrior much greater and braver than any who had preceded him, and bearing this story the daughter of the chief decides that she will be the squaw of this famous warrior, and of none other, and in a vision the face of the great warrior is revealed to her and to other members of the tribe. It is that of Scar Face except that it has none of the scars nor deformities. The bucks of the tribe in derision tell Scar Face that he must indeed be the great warrior and suggest that he go forth to win fame and renown for himself. Scar Face takes their jibes seriously and does venture forth. His adventures are shown in the picture and it is useless to say that they are of the most thrilling character, and when Scar Face has achieved all the necessary coups, a vision of the mighty Manitou appears to him and he is told that if he will bathe in the waters of a certain mystic spring all of his deformities and scars will vanish. Scar Face does as he is told and is transformed into a noble and prepossessing warrior. His fame has gone before him and when he returns to his tribe he is acclaimed as the great war chief of the legend and the chief's daughter becomes his bride.
- A half-breed Indian is befriended by a settler and in addition is given a job in the settler's family where he becomes the devoted servant of the settler's daughter. As time progresses the girl's father becomes interested in some recently discovered mining claims and decides to buy one which has not yet been registered. Some claim jumpers who by chance learned of the deal started to get possession of the claim by getting to the registry office first and in order to accomplish this, one of them holds up the girl's father while the other rides to town to make the entry. The half-breed gets wind of the conspiracy and is able to warn the girl who mounts her favorite pony and races with the claim jumpers to the registry office. She is enabled to win out through the pluck of the half-breed who holds up the claim jumpers until she gets a good lead but in his efforts to help the girl the young half-breed is mortally wounded and thus gives up his life for his white friends.
- Fifteen years before the story opens, John Marshall, a prosperous cattle raiser, had shot a man. He knows the act justifiable, but because of the political influence of his victim he felt that his only recourse is to flee. Taking his little daughter he hides himself in a fastness of the mountains that constitute part of his great ranch. The only man he trusts in the outside world is "Topaz" Taggart, a political boss and all-around tricky citizen, who really is trying to get Marshall's ranch because of knowledge that on it is buried a fabulous treasure guarded by an aged Yaqui, last of his tribe. "Bud" Hughes, one-time aviator now a tramp, has attached himself to Marshall's hiding place personnel which included also, Miguel, a faithful Mexican. Into the hiding place there drops one day Terrence O'Rourke, a forest ranger with a double mission, who because of a wound, had lost control of his aeroplane. Marshall's daughter, Mary, grown to young womanhood nurses the young man back to health and from then on he becomes her father's and her protector in a long series of disheartening experiences at the hands of Taggart and his tools.
- Jim Hillis, ranch manager, is jealous of Lord Verlane's attention to Nancy Etheridge, the young owner of N.E. Ranch. Lord Verlane goes security for the horse secured by Slabsides to visit his sick papoose. Jim, believing that Verlane has won Nancy's love, decides to quit his job and so advises her by letter. The next morning Jim leaves. After receiving his note Nancy rides after Jim to explain, but becomes confused regarding the direction he has gone and takes the wrong trail, leading to the desert. Slabsides finds Jim and Nancy in the desert and goes for aid, but on his arrival in town is held for failing to return the horse he had borrowed and is shot as a horse thief while trying to escape.
- Facile as a child, lovely as a flower, the woman takes up her journey along the road to life. She is happy in her innocence because she loves and is to marry Good, her life-long companion. One evening, on her way to a store where she is to purchase material for her trousseau, she is accosted by fawning Vice and smiling Lust. But she shrinks from them in terror. She has not yet made the acquaintance of Evil, but is soon to meet him. As Woman passes the stage door of a theater, Evil and his first lieutenants, slant-eyed Vanity, and a silver-tongued Flattery, are attracted by her freshness, innocence and youth. Through the cunning offices of Flattery, the Woman is enticed into Vanity's dressing-room. There she is arrayed in costly silks and laces, and she sees in herself the fairy princess of her dreams come to life. After the play she is taken to a café. She is dazzled with the many lights and the brilliant colors. She is intoxicated with the glamour and the music, and the hot lips of Evil plant a kiss upon her hand. She forgets the existence of Good, her first and true love. Good seeks her out in the café and pleads with her to return home to her mother. But the poison in the wine has penetrated her heart and she turns from Good to Evil with a passing smile. A year elapses. The woman has lost her freshness. She comes to know the meaning of lassitude in the world of plenty. The false feathers have begun to fade. Evil tires of the worn-out Woman and bestows his caress upon Youth, the most recent acquisition to his court of tired gaiety. The Woman is outraged at being thrown aside, but through the cunning of Flattery she is cast out of the house. Woman hastens home and learns that her old mother died of a broken heart six months before. Good again appeals to her, but she is blind to his beauty, and again casts him aside. Now she naturally falls in with Lust and Vice. She knows them this time, and allows them to lead her to the underworld. She drinks the cup of depravity to its dregs. In a low dive of the underworld she again meets Youth, who, like herself, has been cast off by Evil. However, the beholdment of Youth in the talons of Lust causes an awakening in the Woman. In the fallen Youth she sees herself; she realizes what a terrible creature he is, and like the myriad of others before, she decides to take her own life. At the crucial moment, when she holds the vial of deadly poison to her lips, Good and Evil come upon the scene and battle for her. The advantage is with one and then with the other. She hesitates and leans over the table. Before her is the old family Bible. Her eyes shift from the death-dealing poison to the holy writ. Long forgotten memories of Good return to her. She sees herself not as an angel of the devil, but as a daughter of God. The scales fall from her eyes, and before her Good is kneeling, her old sweetheart. She shrinks from him as though she might contaminate him. But in all forgiveness and sweetness he takes her up in his arms and guides her to the Great Tomorrow.
- A wealthy father disinherits his son on learning his intention to marry a chorus girl. The son defies his father and marries the girl. Together they go to live on a farm. Time passes and poverty follows the young people, though their love for each other grows stronger. And all the while the old man, alone in his mansion, misses his son. Pride, however, prevents him calling the boy back, and the days pass in loneliness. His great wealth brings him no happiness. While plowing in the fields one day the son, weakened by hardship and anxiety for his wife and children, is suddenly stricken with paralysis. The family is plunged in gloom. The small savings disappear; the wife tries to hide the worst of it from the children and the husband. One day the old father leaves the mansion for a few weeks' visit to a small country village. He hopes to get away from the old familiar scenes and forget the sorrows that press upon him. Meantime the two children beg their mother for permission to wander in the fields. Shortly after we find them by the lake shore picking flowers. Nearby the old grandfather is strolling. The children are wading in the water. They get out beyond their depth and death threatens them. The grandfather hears their cries for help. He rushes to their rescue. Once safe on land, he takes them to their mother. The children have insisted on this. The mother greets the children frantically and thanks the old man. Strangely fascinated by him, the babes climb upon his knee and he clasps them with a smile. The wife asks him to come in and meet her husband. And as the old man stands in the doorway he sees his son, helpless in a chair. And as he gazes, all the old grudge and anger is forgotten and, dropping on his knees, he weeps over his boy and begs forgiveness.
- White Elk, a light-skinned Indian chief, incurs the enmity of Chief Black Panther, whom he prevents from looting a westbound wagon train. Although White Elk is betrothed to an Indian princess, he falls in love with Lucille Cavanagh, a white woman from the East. After her father, John Cavanagh, tricks White Elk into signing away the lands of his tribe, the young chief is condemned to be burned alive by Black Panther. However, a sudden rainstorm douses the fire and enables White Elk to escape. He soon learns that he is actually a white man, adopted by the tribe as an infant following the disappearance of his parents. Meanwhile, Lucille is abducted by Black Panther, strapped into a canoe, and set adrift above a waterfall. When White Elk rescues Lucille, the princess takes her place, offering herself as a sacrifice. Free to marry Lucille, White Elk also discovers that his birth father is the old scout leading the wagon train.
- The prison doors open and Tom Benton, a first timer, and Slim Jim, alias Red Davis, of the underworld, are liberated. Tom learns that the prison odor clings by being ceremoniously turned away wherever he applies for work. Slim Jim immediately on his release beats his way west. Eventually Tom goes west and finds his work. Several months later Slim Jim gets a job at the same place Tom is employed. Slim Jim, being caught at his old tricks and exposed by Tom, reveals Tom's past. The several thrilling scenes that follow show Tom's genuine manhood and gives Slim Jim an opportunity to prove that even the underdog has at least a spark of good lying dormant under the rough exterior.
- In the tiny Latin American country of Altamura, American architect, sculptor, and adventurer Larry Donovan is executing a magnificent palace for the vain, diminutive Governor Romero, who is angered by Larry's lack of respect. After leading his co-workers in a riotous Fourth of July celebration, Larry responds to the insults of Generalissimo Pedro Mendez by knocking him out. Mendez' sweetheart Rosa, plotting for Mendez to be governor, hides him in the mountains and fakes his funeral so that Larry will be executed and Romero thrown out. When Larry is taken to the whitewashed execution wall, however, he appeals to Romero's conceit and gets a one-week reprieve to build a statue of Romero for the palace. Before his time is up, Larry receives a gun in jail from an Irish friend using the name of Patricio Cassidano, who also proves that Larry did not kill the now deceased Mendez. After he uses Romero as a shield to escape, Larry obtains Romero's consent to marry his pretty niece Concha.
- Donald Hearne flees Borneo and its island justice when he fears he has killed a man. Later his name is cleared and it is up to his sister Johanna to risk sea, pirates, and capricious fate as she makes way to bring her brother back home.
- Colonel Baker, in charge of a regiment stationed at Fort Nelson, near the Blackfoot Indian Reservation, marries Goffersocks, a full blooded Blackfoot Indian. The fruit of their union, a beautiful daughter, Maude, is sent east to be educated. Our story opens with a letter from Maude to her father, advising him of her intention to return home. On Maude's return to the fort her Blackfoot mother begs her to visit the Indians. While occupying her mother's tepee, Big Chief, the chief of the tribe, covets the handsome half-breed. Maude, finding Indian life unbearable, returns to her father, Captain Tingley, next in command to Colonel Baker at the fort, has long been an admirer of Maude, and their engagement is finally announced. Maude's return to the fort angers the Blackfoot chief, and she is urged to return to her mother's wigwam to prevent hostilities. On arriving at the Indian village, Goffersocks plans to marry her to Big Chief. Fawn, an Indian girl friend of Maude's, goes to the fort with news of Maude's situation, and asks for aid. Captain Tingley, at the head of a party of soldiers, effects a rescue and Maude renounces her tribe.
- Jim, the village blacksmith, is in love with Beth, who apparently returns his love until a well-dressed stranger comes to the town. The stranger eventually marries Beth and takes her away. After five years of unhappiness Beth, for the sake of her baby determines to seek Jim's aid. Locating Jim in a mining camp, Beth leaves her baby girl, Virginia, in his tent and slips away. Jim, finding the pretty little child on his return from work, decides to keep her. Twelve years later Jim and Virginia meet Tom, a newcomer. Jim and Tom become partners and make a lucky strike. Tom tells Jim of his love for Virginia and after talking the matter over they both decide that Virginia shall go to college. Virginia is the belle of her class with many admirers. On her graduation day she refuses a San Francisco millionaire. Returning home, she is greeted by her old friends. The next day her wealthy admirer, who has followed her home, begs that she listen to his pleadings, but she refuses the fascination of wealth and allows unselfish love to triumph.
- Two brothers, Dick and Frank, both fall for pretty Virginia. Frank travels to the West and later sends for Virginia. Dick decides to accompany her for protection. After a series of adventures including an Indian attack on their wagon train, they arrive out west only to find that Frank is involved with dance-hall girl Camille and disreputable thug Black Joe, who gets one look at Virginia and decides that he's going to have her for himself. Complications ensue.
- Jim Hoyle, an independent tobacco grower, is reading to his wife an account of the fire of the company's warehouses, where a year's supply of tobacco was stored, when Bob Pritchard, his friend the sheriff, with his son Ted, rides into view. The two men continue the discussion of the raids of the Night Riders upon the company's property, while the two young people, Jim's daughter Sue and Bob's son Ted, wander away into the garden, where Ted asks the all-important question. They return to find their fathers quarreling bitterly, and to hear Jim say that the riders are right and that he is going to join them. Bob is furious, calls his son, tells him to have nothing more to do with the Hoyles, and rides away. As summer approaches, the raiders increase their activities. Bob overhears two of them whispering; one says, "Felton Woods this afternoon at four." Bob determines to investigate. Meantime, Ted rides near the Hoyle home and whistles for Sue, who quickly goes to him, her father being away. While the two young people are talking. Orrin Black, a neighboring grower, sees them and informs Jim. Jim is furious and raves at Sue, while Black stands trying to get her attention, but she ignores him. Bob creeps near enough to the group of men, among whom are Jim and Black, to hear them say: "Tomorrow night at the entrance to Box Canyon." Bob gathers together his deputies, instructing them not to fire until the raiders have passed into the canyon, where the deputies can hold them there until morning. That night, when the raiders are cornered In "The Box," Ted and Sue are with Mrs. Hoyle, who is taken ill. Ted rushes for a doctor, who sends a young fellow to find Jim at once. Ted comes upon Bob, who is covered by Jim. Jim hears Ted asking for him and the reason for so doing. Bob exchanges hats and coats with Jim and has him wear his badge, while Bob puts on the black mask. Ted is taken prisoner by some of the raiders. Black is told to lock him in a shack, and later, when the raiders decide to blow up the warehouse and make a dash for freedom, Black again offers to place the bomb, but instead of putting it near the warehouse, he puts it by the shack, and the explosion immediately occurs. Bob joins the deputies, and they rush to the shack, where they find a body and think it is Ted's. Bob dashes to Jim's home with the news. Jim is amazed. He enters the bedroom and sees Sue and Ted seated by Mrs. Hoyle's bedside. Bob is bewildered. Ted tells him that the dead man must be Black, who tried to get rid of him because of Sue, but in the fight Ted overpowered him and escaped. Moving Picture World, September 22, 1917
- The feud waged between Ham and his assistant, Bud, waxes stronger, when Ham accidentally swats Wise, the owner of the building, in the face with a mop. Ham and Bud are fired. In revenge, the former chases the latter with blood in his eye. Angered by the swat, Wise discharges his stenographer, Lizzie, when he sees her flirting with Johnny, his nephew. Lizzie later gets a job as a life saver at the beach. All the men at the resort promptly try to drown, much to Johnny's jealousy. In the meantime Bud gets away from Ham by leaping into a motorboat. In his effort to stop the craft, Ham seizes hold of the mooring line and is dragged all over the bay. Bud beaches the vessel and flees, with Ham close behind. Wise comes to the beach. He falls into the water and is on the verge of drowning when Lizzie and Johnny come to his rescue. His gratitude causes the wealthy uncle to present them with a check for $5,000. As for Bud and Ham, the former enters a sewer outlet to escape from bloodthirsty Ham. Too large a man to follow, Ham secures a three-pronged gaff and waits for his foe to emerge.
- "Tick, Tick, Tick" shows Bessie, ex-chorus girl, with an office where, as Bessie Pinkerton Holmes, she detects anything and everything. She even manages to evade detecting the rent. The landlord threatens her with the detection of another office. Bessie reads of bomb outrages in which the police are baffled. Meantime, Tony has gone to work. His wife and son plan to buy him a birthday present. Bessie observes Marie and Angelo on the street. Tony comes by and they hide. Bessie hears the "Tick, tick, tick" of the package under the boy's coat and her suspicions are aroused. Later Bess is thrown out of Tony's flat and she returns to her office to don an Italian disguise. Tony has received a blackhand letter. He returns home to find Bessie, disguised as an Italian. He captures her after she has snatched up the "tick" box, and thrown it down stairs. It hits a policeman. Friend policeman passes it on to the next man. Marie approaches, grabs the box, and throws it upstairs. Following there is a general scramble all around. Bess offers to open the box for ten dollars. The money is forthcoming. She opens the box and finds the clock, the birthday present for Tony. Bess has enough money to pay her week's rent.
- The Severed Hand, a society of Italian criminals and blackmailers, swear to kill Danny Dawson, who has turned traitor. Dawson has a daughter, Nan, whom he mistreats. One day while he is beating her, he is overtaken by the rector and his nephew, Dick Ralston. Ralston punishes Dawson. Nan is taken in as a member of the rector's household. At intervals, every time Dawson catches his daughter alone, he beats her until Nan makes the threat that if he returns again she will kill him. One night while Dawson is looking for his daughter he is followed by Guinio and Pietro, members of the Severed Hand Society. From a distance Nan sees the Italians kill him. The murderers escape. She runs to her dead parent. A moment afterwards Dick Ralston and the rector arrive on the scene. In view of her recent oath, they believe she is guilty. Although Ralston loves her, she cannot convince him of her innocence. To save herself from suffering for a crime, her innocence of which she cannot prove. Nan escapes with Guinio and Pietro. After a lapse of ten years, Nan is known as the Countess Messina. She is a secret agent in the employ of the Severed Hand Society. She maintains herself in splendor and has cultivated the bad habits of a certain class of European aristocracy. Dick Ralston is now chief of a division of the secret service assigned to round up the members of the Severed Hand Society. There is to be a ball at a foreign embassy. Nan attends for the purpose of stealing certain valuable documents from Captain Korsloff of the Russian embassy. Ralston's men are already on the trail. Nan lures Korsloff to her apartments and there drugs him and steals the papers. For additional security she then goes in hiding in a foreign quarter of the city. Ralston and his men come to the apartments to arrest her and find her gone. A woman whom, however, can render the most cleverly laid plans useless. Cooped up with Guinio and Pietro, she runs out of cigarettes. The ordinary brands of cigarettes do not suit her taste and she sends her maid to her apartment for a stock of her own material, Ralston and his men follow the maid back. The secret service men force their way into the hiding place. As a last resort, Guinio releases a cask of deadly fumes in the room. Ralston and Nan recognize each other simultaneously. All are being overcome by the fumes when Nan drags Ralston to the open window and compels him to inhale the fresh air. Guino is overcome, but his last effort is an attempt to shoot Ralston. Nan anticipates his move and kills him at a single shot. In return for saving Ralston's life Nan goes free and her old life is wiped out and forgotten when she marries Ralston.
- Bill is discharged from Bar K Ranch and in his desperation decide to turn train robber. On his way to town he rescues Myrtle Mulligan, who has been driven from protection to the high branches of a tree by a vicious bull. Arriving in town Bill applies to the superintendent of the railroad and secures a job as track walker. Pinto Joe, a friendly Indian, learns of Bill's train wrecking plans, and tells Myrtle about it. Hearing Bill intends to dynamite the bridge the plucky girl decides to take a hand in the game. Arriving on the scene just after Bill has lighted the fuse she fearlessly picks up the cartridge and throws it where it can do little damage. Rushing up the bank to the track she flags the oncoming train. When the passengers and trainmen cluster about her to learn the cause of the explosion she tells them that Bill saved their lives by finding the burning fuse just in time to prevent the blowing up of the bridge. Bill, realizing that Myrtle had rescued him from a perilous position allows the grateful passengers to tell him he is a hero and claims the hand of Myrtle as the hero's reward.
- Lee Holly, a card shark, has brought up his daughter, Monte, in boys' clothing, She escapes to an Indian village when Holly is chased out of town and remains there two years with her friend Akkomi, resuming feminine attire and taking the name Tana. Dan Overton, a young prospector, becomes interested in her and takes her to live with white people in a boardinghouse. She is introduced by Dan to his mining partner, Harris, as "Montana Rivers," the daughter of a partner of his, but Harris recognizes her as "Lee Holly's brat" and denounces her. Dan defends her, and after Harris suffers a paralyzing stroke, he relents and makes her a partner in their mine. Holly comes to their camp after they strike gold and is killed by Harris, who learns that Tana is the daughter who was stolen from him. Dan's unfaithful wife is killed by a jealous lover, freeing him to marry Tana.
- Although fond of childhood playmate Marcelle Riley, Luke Halliday, whose father made his fortune as an Arizona miner, becomes engaged to Eleanor Steele, a New York society belle. When Scar Norton arrives from Arizona and discloses that Luke's mother was an Indian, Luke is so traumatized that he breaks his engagement and ventures West to live among his mother's people. About to marry the Indian maiden Mo-Wa, Luke discovers that he cannot go through with the ceremony and retreats to the Settlement of Lost Hope, where he again encounters Scar Norton. Enraged when Scar taunts him over being a half-breed, Luke is about to kill his accuser when Marcelle and her father arrive and prevent him from committing the crime. Returning home with the Rileys, Luke finally realizes that Marcelle's pure love transcends all boundaries of race.
- Instilled with the spirit of patriotism after her teacher reads to her the story of Joan of Arc, Marie Yarbell goes home, persuades her father to enlist and then organizes a "military company" comprised of her playmates. Wealthy old Nathan Mulhouser, who is financing the development of a torpedo, is so touched by the children's patriotism that he buys them a flag. Marie's mother rents out a vacant room to Hertz, a stranger, who instructs her to see that no one enters his room because he is working on an important invention for the government. Curious, Marie follows Hertz as he leaves the house carrying a suitcase. He goes to a building that houses Mulhouser's laboratory, tosses in a bomb and runs away. Marie disposes of the bomb in time, but is stunned by the explosion. Mulhouser finds Marie in a state of shock and takes her to his home. Meanwhile, Mr. Yarbell has returned home at his wife's alarm and finds Marie's soldiers holding the spies prisoner. Mulhouser finally ascertains Marie's identity, discovering that she is his granddaughter, and all ends happily.
- Practically beggared by financial reverses, the Reeds and the Blakes, neighboring families in an eastern town, leave for the California gold fields. After many days of weary travel they fall in with an emigrant train and continue westward. During the journey Jack Blake pursues his courtship and Mary Reed. Before the emigrants have completed more than two-thirds of their journey they find themselves in a territory peopled with hostile Indians. The Reed wagon and the Blake wagon become separated. Without any anticipation the redskins fall upon the handful of white men. Mary's mother is killed and herself, her father and brother barely escape with their lives. Even a worse fate overtakes Jack Blake. Every member of his family except himself is massacred. The surviving members of the Reed family settle in California, but the older Reed's sorrow for his dead wife preys upon him so heavily that he loses interest in the affairs of life. Surrounded by rough men, Mary accustoms herself to the use of a revolver that in time of need she may protect herself. But misfortune follows her family. One day while she is practicing with the weapon she accidentally shoots and kills her brother. After a lapse of a number of years Jack Blake again shows up in California. He is now a graduate mining engineer. In a fight which begins over a game of cards he is wounded by Red Lawson, a worthless vagabond and gambler. In hiding from the authorities, Lawson seeks refuge in the Reed home. Mary is there alone and in protecting herself from the fugitive, a lamp is overturned and the house is burned down. His fortune has done its worst for the Reeds and the turning point is at hand. While in pursuit of Lawson, Jack Blake finds Mary, his former sweetheart. The elder Reed sees the lovers reunited and, concluding that they have no more use for him, leaves him. The story comes to a dramatic climax when in the midst of a homesteaders race Red Lawson comes upon Reed, who is mourning beside his wife's grave. Red is about to kill Reed when an old enemy of the bad man shoots and kills him. Jack Blake and Mary seek out the elder Reed and the remaining members of both ill-fated families reunite for a luckier future.'
- Anthony Campbell threatens to send his daughter, Marie, to China as punishment for her continued extravagance. She welcomes the suggestion because her sweetheart, George Holt, is planning a business trip to the Orient. When they arrive, Marie's Chinese maid, Liu Po-Yat, gives her a tiny vase to keep her from harm. However, the vase was stolen years earlier from the Manchus, China's ruling dynasty, and their pursuit of the lost treasure plunges Marie and George into danger. The young lovers are ultimately sentenced to death, and as they are being led to their execution, Marie awakens, realizes she has had a nightmare, and makes George promise that they will honeymoon anywhere except China.
- Fatty and Hungry Ike, hungry and stranded in the Alps, notice the delight which some tourists take in listening to echoes. After "planting" Hungry Ike nearby, Fatty informs the tourists that he knows a place where the most wonderful echoes in the world can be found. They follow him. One of the tourists shouts. Ike, playing the echo, answers. Fromage de Brie, a guide, becomes suspicious. At his suggestion the tourists shout together. Angered, Hungry Ike shouts back, demanding to know whether they think him a crowd. The resultant exposure causes Fatty and Ike to touch only the high spots in fleeing from Switzerland.
- Molly, while among her favorite pigeons, is approached by Jake, whose boldness receives a just rebuke. Two months later Jack agrees to take Molly's pet pigeon for a practice flight and makes the most of the opportunity. A few days later Jack, while driving his team, comes across a half-breed Indian, who is unmercifully beating his horse. Jack stops the Indian's cruel treatment of the pony and chastises the half-breed. In revenge the Indian plans to raid the bullion wagon. Jack, starting out on his trip to the smelter, takes Molly's pigeon for a long flight. While on his way he is ambuscaded by the Indians. Jack puts up a good, stiff fight, but the odds are against him. As a last resort he scribbles a message on a piece of his handkerchief and attaches it to the pigeon and sends the bird on its way. The message is delivered. Molly quickly organizes a rescue party, which rides to the rescue, arriving just in the nick of time.
- Laughing Larry O'Doone, corporal of the Royal Mounted Northwest Police outpost, while on patrol duty sees a masked bandit hold up the stage. Larry dashes to the rescue and manages to reach the bandit and fight him, but the bandit slips from his fingers, leaving a locket which he had been wearing around his neck. Larry opens the locket and finds in it the picture of the girl he loves, Flora McKenzie. Hastings, a fur trader, tries to kiss Flora. She screams and her father, just returning, hears her cry and dashes in. He tries to throttle Hastings, but Hastings threatens to tell his secret. Peter McKenzie, Flora's father, is the masked bandit. Larry, who has followed Peter from the scene of the robbery, overhears this. Hastings leaves and Larry trails him. Flora sees the mask and some of the loot drop from her father's pocket during the fight and realizes that her father is a thief. She is overwhelmed and begs that they leave immediately and start over again in a new place. Meanwhile, Larry has seen Peter hide the loot in a nearby river, and he dives for it and refills the bag containing the loot with stones and lowers it again. He hides in the bushes when he sees Hastings coming and watches him while he fishes up the bag of stones. Hastings, thinking Peter has double-crossed him, starts out for the McKenzie home. Larry goes to his superior officer and hands over the loot and promises to get his man that night. He starts for the McKenzie home, hating to arrest Peter, but bound to by his oath of service. When he arrives at the cabin he finds Peter dying and Peter tells him Hastings has wounded him and then kidnapped Flora. Larry follows Hastings and dives from the river bank to the river and pulls Hastings out of the canoe in which he has Flora and the two men fight under water. Larry handcuffs Hastings and takes him back, with Flora, to the cabin, and hands McKenzie over to the inspector. Peter dies, and Flora and Larry marry.
- Sheriff Tim has killed Crip's outlaw brother in the line of duty and now Crip is out to get Tim. He makes Tim's brother Bud a prisoner to lure Tim into a trap. When Tim is warned by Bud, Tim is saved but Bud is killed. Tim arrests Crip but Crip escapes and he and his gang now make a final stand against Tim and his men.
- A young scientist and his bride go to Africa, accompanied by the villain, a former admirer of the wife.
- Dan Burke, newly-arrived in the Yukon, is ridiculed as a tenderfoot when he attempts to find the pocket of flat gold (gold that is black, soft, and flat "like coins from the mints of hell") which Old Man Chaudiare, to keep its location secret, has not claimed. After Dan and his dog team encounter a blizzard, they are saved when Chaudiare and his daughter Aline hear the dogs howl. As Aline nurses Dan, they fall in love, even though he thinks that her mother is an Indian. After Dan thrashes Clay Hibbing, who earlier attacked Aline for refusing to disclose the mine's location, Hibbing and his pal Reirdon find the mine. Dan, although suspected of committing Hibbing's murder of Reirdon, also discovers the mine and races against Hibbing to claim it for Chaudiare. Hibbing freezes to death, Chaudiare makes Dan his partner, Dan is found innocent of killing Reirdon, and Aline, upon learning that she is not a half-breed, marries Dan.
- Steve McCully, of the Northwest Mounted Police, asks the Inspector to allow him to "get" the man who killed his pal, Evans, whom he had known from childhood. He suspects Jim Blake, ringleader of a lawless faction, of the murder, and does not allow his real identity to be known. Blake takes him to the gang's rendezvous and shows him the coat which belonged to Evans, and tells him he killed him (Evans) alone. Steve knocks him down, and is just about to ride away when the other men come in and after a fight he escapes. He goes to a house for refuge and they follow him there. Steve hides in an alcove when he hears them coming, and they do not find him. One of them tries to take the girl in his arms, but Steve knocks him unconscious. The others, attracted by the noise, come in and see Steve jump from a window on his horse's back. They' follow him. He traps them by fixing his gun and hat to appear as if there was another man there, and lands them all in jail. Steve comes back to the girl and they embrace.
- "Nifty" Smith and "Killer" Joe are pals. Both are gunmen. "Nifty's" sweetheart is Annie. She has extracted a promise from him that he will never shoot a man again. Big Bill Rosen also loves Annie and jealousy prompts him to "get" Nifty. He promises to deliver the gunman to the police. He makes the killer an offer of a thousand dollars to shoot Reed in a certain alley that night. With a thousand dollars Nifty can marry Annie and start fair. He accepts and Rosen notifies the police. Despite the pleadings of his friend and sweetheart Nifty starts out. The police trap is laid. Only a miracle can save him. But the miracle is already worked in the heart of his friend, whose love passeth that of woman. For "Killer" Joe has but two loves, the one for Nifty and the other for Annie. But she does not know it and her heart belongs to Nifty. So Joe takes Nifty's place and goes to prison for five years. Nifty and Annie go west. Their child is born and the five years pass. Joe comes out of prison and follows them. Still bent on vengeance. Rosen shadows him to Nifty's home. The latter sees the man who would have ruined him and would shoot Bat Joe takes the gun and does battle with Rosen. Both are killed. Dying, Joe tells Nifty and Annie of his love for each, the pearl in the shell in the slimy mud of the river bottom.