- Episode 1: "The Traitor" Captain Ralph Payne is chosen to convey to the Major General at Panama a document of vital importance which discloses a weakness in our canal defenses by which a monarchy (hitherto overlooked by the United States) plots to overcome this nation. The document is secreted beneath his left shoulder strap, it first being prepared with invisible ink. From that time Payne finds himself the victim of a queer being that, through a strange medium, juggles with his good name and martial standing. At his apartment he finds a letter in handwriting the exact counterpart of his own and in it the startling contents: "The left shoulder strap and the locket reveal the secret; take the tip in time." Bewildered, he consults his chief, Colonel Dare, who instructs him to attend the Embassy ball that night as though nothing had happened, promising added secret service protection. In the midst of the evening's festivities, Payne and Pearl Dare find a secluded spot in the conservatory. Encouraged by a responsive light in her eyes, Payne is about to ask for her "yes" to the question that means happiness to him, when a messenger orders him to report to Colonel Dare at once. There he is informed that the Grenadian Ambassador has been murdered and in his lifeless hand a message found to Payne thanking him for services rendered Grenada. When Payne is searched the left shoulder strap reveals nothing hut a worthless piece of paper. In a daze he hears the order given to arrest him on a charge of treason.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 2: "Found Guilty" Captain Payne is court-martialed and convicted of treason because he lost a secret dispatch under suspicious circumstances. Unable to explain, he is placed in prison preparatory to being drummed out of service. In his solitary prison room, Pearl Dare visits him, and placing her hands in his, tells him she has come to say she believes in him. Before he can voice his gratitude, an orderly enters announcing the time is up. The news of his downfall comes as welcome news to Major Brent, a less favored rival for Pearl Dare's hand and millions. But on the horizon of his hopes a cloud drifts from out of the past in the person of Bertha Bonn, a girl he has wronged and who has a miniature signed by him years ago, "to my darling wife." During a stormy meeting with her, Brent is astounded to discover that the locket which holds his portrait is strangely like the one lost by Payne, but he is unable to secure it from her, and lives in constant fear of its power. The Silent Menace visits Col. Dare's home, and is discovered and pursued by Pearl in a taxi. A rug in the taxi suddenly comes to life. It overcomes her, and when next she gains consciousness she is in an unknown spot. Following some footprints she discovers the secret meeting place of the Foreign Alliance, where the plots for the downfall of this Nation are hatched. She contrives an entrance, overcomes the Silent Menace with an ornament, and has nearly succeeded in snatching the mask from his face when his lieutenants discover her, and she is compelled to flee.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 3: "The Silent Menace" Pearl, failing to convince the General Staff that she has discovered a clue to the theft of the Panama Canal defense plans which might prove Payne's innocence, boards the Southwestern Limited on which Payne, under guard, is on his way to prison. Bertha Bonn, following a command of the Silent Menace, travels on the same train. The train is wrecked and Payne is killed. A stranger, T.O. Adams, evinces a strange interest in Bertha and attempts to take the locket and packet from her, but is defeated in his purpose by the Silent Menace. Pearl, overhearing a wireless message, learns of this and fearlessly "beards the lion in his den." During a struggle in a shack on the edge of a cliff, she and the Menace fall from the dizzy heights into the water below. An ever present silent watcher plunged to her aid. Suddenly, the Menace dives from view. T.O. Adams, who, with Toko, is rescuing Pearl unnoticed, picks up the precious packet and they all make for shore.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 4: "War Clouds" In the first reel, the mysterious hand manipulates the ropes of a huge tent which falls and enmeshes the government officials, just as the stolen defense plans are almost in their grasp. In the second reel, the Silent Menace invades a government building and we see Pearl's heroic hand-to-hand battle with him in the tower and her hairbreadth escape by hanging on the parapet till help arrives.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 5: "Somewhere in Grenada" The Silent Menace orders a copy of the stolen plans, slightly altered, returned, to prevent the government discovering their loss. Pearl, recognizing the Alliance's messenger, leaps on him as he is departing in an auto for the Capitol. In the struggle. Pearl gets the plans, but falls uninjured from the machine. T.O. Adams meets Col. Dare to join the engineering corps just as Pearl rushes in with the recovered plans. Suspecting Adams, she privately relates to her father how she secured them. Adams, in the next room, overhears this and manages, while being sworn in as Col. Dare's orderly, to steal the plans from his pocket. Col. Dare, ordered to the Grenadian frontier, establishes headquarters at Paso Del Norte. Bertha Bonn, determined to prevent Brent from marrying Pearl, arrives also. Brent is mysteriously warned that the only way to gain Bertha's silence is to send Pearl, with Adams' belt, containing the precious document, to a designated place. Brent inveigles Pearl to go there by telling her that in this way she may get a clue to prove Payne's innocence. The Menace orders Bolero, a Grenadian confederate of the Alliance, to storm the town. In the melee Pearl and Adams are taken, as prisoners, to an underground cell connected by a secret passage with his headquarters. The Del Norte water works are wrecked by shell fire, which floods the cell. While the fight between the Grenadians and Americana continues fiercely overhead, the water rises higher and higher on Pearl and Adams below. A bursting shell makes a hole in the ceiling, through which they make their escape.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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