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- PART I: Evangeline and Gabriel as children are being taught their lessons by Father Felician, priest and pedagogue. After their lessons they hurry to the forge of Basil, the blacksmith, to watch him at his work. Thus passed a few swift years and they no longer were children. Gabriel, a "valiant youth," helps his father, Basil, at the forge; Evangeline keeps house for Benedict, her father. We see Evangeline carrying a flagon of home-brewed ale to the reapers in the fields at noontide. We see the prayerful attitude of the reapers and Father Felician as they bear the Angelus. At eve the flocks return from pastures and "the cows patiently yield their udders unto the milkmaid's hand." "Thus at peace with God and the world, the farmer of Grand-Pre lived on his sunny farm." PART II: In part two the Arcadians are still enjoying their happy, peaceful life, but a shadow of gloom is thrown over them at times by the advent of English troops with a proclamation from Governor Lawrence commanding all the men to appear at church to hear the reading of His Majesty's wishes. Basil believes it threatens disaster. Benedict, however advises patience. "Now has the season returned when the nights grow colder and longer." We see Benedict by the wide-mouthed fire place and Evangeline at her spinning wheel. A knock at the door and Basil and Gabriel enter, followed soon by the Notary, who draws the betrothal contract. We next see harvests gathered in. the peasants working on the dikes, and then the betrothal feast spread "under the open sky. In the odorous air of the orchard." After the feast they dance under the orchard trees. PART III: "And lo, with a summons sonorous," while they were merrily dancing, "Sounded the bell from its tower" bidding them to come to the church to bear the King's Mandate. "Thronged ere long was the church with men. Without, in the church-yard, waited the women." The English soldiers marched on, and demanding admittance in the King's name, "enter the sacred portal." Colonel Winslow, in front of the chancel, reads the King's Mandate, that inside of five days they must be driven from their homes and their lands be confiscated by the State. Their wives may gather such of their household goods as they can carry with them. The men will be kept prisoners in the church until the day of embarking. After hearing the mandate all is uproar and confusion. High above the others rises Basil's voice crying, "Down with the tyrants." In the midst of the confusion Father Felician enters the door of the chancel and with a gesture, quiets them. Pointing to the figure of the crucified Christ he leads them to repeat His prayer, "O Father, forgive them." Meanwhile, Evangeline listens at the door and window, but in vain. Then, all forgetful of self, she wanders into the village, "cheering with looks and words the mournful hearts of the women." PART IV: On the fifth day the women and children are seen carrying their household goods to the seashore, urging on the oxen and looking back sadly at their homes that they may never see again. Late in the afternoon the church doors are opened and the soldiers lead forth the patient Arcadian men. When they reach the shore they find their goods piled in confusion and disorder. "So unto separate ships were Basil and Gabriel carried, while in despair on the shore, Evangeline stood with her father." They lighted fires on the shore and the priest wandered from fire to fire, cheering and consoling, until he approached Evangeline and Benedict. Vainly Evangeline tried to cheer her father. Suddenly there is seen a light, which grows broader and higher and redder. The crowd cry aloud in their anguish, "We shall behold no more our homes in the village of Grand-Pre!" Overwhelmed with the sight the priest and maiden gaze in horror. As they turn to speak to Benedict they find he has fallen, and lies motionless on the ground, his soul departed. Evangeline kneels at her father's side and wails aloud in her sorrow, "Let us bury him here." and the priest said, "Lo, with a mournful sound like the voice of a vast congregation solemnly answered the sea." PART V: "Many a weary year has passed since the burning of Grand-Pre." Evangeline commences her endless search for Gabriel, cheered by the faithful Father Felician. Hearing that he is with Basil in the South, they start southward with a few Arcadian boatmen. Evangeline, cheered by a vision of Gabriel beckoning her onward, falls peacefully asleep. "While all are slumbering, through the darkness a light, swift boat draws near and passes on the other shore." it was Gabriel, who goes to the western wilds seeking, "oblivion of self and of sorrow." When they reach Basil's home they find him a prosperous herdsman. Basil goes with Evangeline to pursue Gabriel, leaving Father Felician to rest. Gabriel is always ahead; sometimes they find the ashes of his camp-fire. A Shawnee Indian woman leads them to the Mission of the Black Robe Chief, who tells them Gabriel was there six days before and will return again in the spring. Evangeline remains to wait, while Basil goes back to his home. Gabriel does not return, and at length, discouraged, Evangeline gives up the search, and becomes a Sister of Mercy. "Fair was she, and young, when in hope began the long journey. Faded was she and old, when in disappointment it ended." After many years a pestilence falls on the city, and Evangeline, in a hospital ward of an alms house, finds Gabriel, who dies in her arms. "All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow." Meekly she bowed her head and murmured, "Father, I thank thee!" In an old graveyard are seen two nameless graves, in which the lovers are sleeping, side by side. "Still stands the forest primeval. Maidens still wear their Norman caps and kirtles of homespun, and by the evening's fire repeat Evangeline's story. While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."
- Silas Sterling, a member of the coast guard at Niles, Maine, when a young man, picks up a ship's emergency raft that drifts ashore from a wrecked vessel. Upon the raft is found a six-month-old girl baby. Silas carries the baby to his home, and, no one having been found to claim her and rather than see her enter the foundlings' home, he prevails upon his mother to adopt her. A few years later, Silas has a friend, Captain Dayrell, who sails away on the "Nancy Lee." The time for him to return is at hand when, in place of his trim little schooner entering the harbor, there arrives for the captain of the coast guard a telegram, stating that Captain Dayrell has been lost with all on board. Silas accompanies Jonathan, captain of the coast guard, and they depart to break the news to Mrs. Dayrell. The shock kills her. She leaves behind a fourteen-year-old son. The grief of the son affects Silas, and he gives him a home beneath his own roof. Ten more years have turned, and we find Hetty, the girl picked up from the ship's raft, growing into young womanhood; and Richard, Captain Dayrell's boy, a young man, and mate on board the "Mary Jane." One day Richard sails away. Silas notes at the parting the sad light that came in Hetty's eyes. Richard returns from his voyage, and asks Hetty to marry him. Hetty refuses, producing before him visions of herself being saved from the sea, and a vision of him clinging to his dead mother and of Silas gently taking him away, while saying, "Your home shall he my home.'* She tells Richard that they both owe it to Silas, saying that if he should ask her to marry him she must do so as a duty. Later as Silas arrives on the scene she tells him that she loves Richard only as a brother and that she will marry him. Dejected. Richard leaves, and Hetty and Silas are married. A year later, Richard's ship strikes a rock as he is nearing port in a bad sea. Rockets are fired from the ship, and the coast guard answers the summons. Through the glasses Silas sees that it is Richard's ship. The crew tries to launch the boats, but it is impossible. However, as the vessel is dashed toward the rocks, they succeed in forcing a line into the rigging and landing some of the crew. As Richard takes his place on the line the vessel strikes again. His hold is broken and he falls into the sea. Later, Silas is searching the sea with the glasses, and makes out Richard clinging to a bell buoy at the mouth of the harbor. He reaches Richard in time to save him. Upon reaching the shore, Hetty forgets herself and lavishes all her attention upon Richard. In the meantime Silas had endorsed a note for a friend. The note is not paid, and Silas is forced to sell the mill left him by his father to meet the debt. Thus he brings his wife and baby to poverty. Silas meditates, and being too old to make a fresh start, decides to leave, and leaves Hetty to Richard. Captain Fox is leaving port on a voyage to the Arctic Sea. Silas ships with him. The party reach the ice fields, and one day the ship becomes jammed in the ice flow. The food gives out, and Captain Fox calls for men who will dare cross the ice in the hope of bringing relief. Silas goes, but on the sixth day he falls between an ice crevice and loses all his provisions. Days later the ship sends out a searching party, and they find Silas dead. Later the ship frees herself from the ice field and Captain Fox sets sail for home. He tells Hetty of Silas and his end. A year later a pretty little wedding takes place in the quaint little fishing village church. Hetty and Richard are led to the altar.
- The daughter of Manuel Garcia, the leading citizen of a little Mexican settlement, while engaged in picking roots and berries, is attacked by a peon, a rejected suitor. Jack Nelson, a young American, arrives on the scene. A struggle takes place, with Nelson as the victor. A friendship springs up between the Mexican maiden and the American youth, but the maiden's father objects to the friendship on account of the man being a foreigner, and, also because the hand of his daughter has been promised to Venustiano Suarez. But the young Mexican maiden prefers the American. Her father finally consents to the union. Suddenly the betrothal feast is interrupted by the arrival of a company of soldiers belonging to the Revolutionary Army of Mexicans, under the command of Captain Diaz, who informs them that the advanced guard of the Federal Army is on the march, and that he has been ordered to hold them in check at this point. The Madero forces are seen upon the march, and finally arrive at the point of attack in full force. Nelson, being a foreigner, refrains from combat until the girl whom he loves and her father become endangered. He then rushes in and casts his luck with the girl's father, fighting on the side of the Revolutionists. A sudden change of plans due to the enemy's strength, forces Captain Diaz to withdraw, leaving Nelson and his sweetheart marooned in the old tower, firing through the loopholes. The Captain, learning that Nelson is familiar with the surrounding country, offers him his freedom if he will act as a spy against the Revolutionists; he refuses and is given until morning to decide. If the decision is not favorable, he is to be shot at sunrise. Nelson manages to escape by climbing down the ivy vines on the outside of the mill. The Captain, angered at Nelson's escape, is about to shoot the girl's father as an accomplice, when she intervenes and declares that it was she who aided him to escape. The commander of the Federal forces gives her two hours in which to find her lover. Half distracted, she runs through the woods, calling for Nelson. She finds him, but her love makes her a coward and she dare not tell him the truth. When the village clock strikes the hour, she runs to the village and finds her father standing against the wall ready to be shot. Nelson has followed her, and the commander orders the squad to fire just as Nelson rushes to release his sweetheart's father, in consequence both of them are killed. Then the battle takes place, the Revolutionists have returned, driving the Federal forces from the scene, leaving behind them ruins and desolation. Sitting in the midst of which is a beautiful Mexican maiden crooning in idiotic simplicity over the dead body of her father and lover.
- The widow Cooper and her two sons lived in moderate circumstances in one of the large Eastern cities. Her eldest son became cashier in the First National Bank. Some time after he had attained this position, he fell in with a class socially below him. In order to maintain the attitude and class of leader in this social set, his earnings were soon squandered. At this period there comes the woman. Cooper, to maintain this woman in style, steals from the bank. One morning on entering the bank, he is accused by the president of that institution of theft. He denies the charge, but he has left behind him finger prints on one of the ledgers. The president of the bank calls in the police, and Cooper is arrested. He is tried, found guilty, and sentenced to serve five years' penal servitude. After the trial he is confined in prison with his pal. They succeed in overpowering the guard and climbing the wall. The guard on the wall opens fire and kills Cooper's pal. At the critical moment, a freight train dashes past the prison wall. Cooper realizes his plight, and makes a plunge to reach the roof of the swiftly moving car. He succeeds and rides off, with the baffled guard on the wall emptying his rifle at him. Cooper leaves the freight train at a little way-station, and succeeds in stealing from the switchman's shanty a suit of overalls. A short time after this the younger brother receives an offer from the Premier Mining Company of British Columbia, to act as their cashier. He, his mother and his sweetheart decide to leave for the Northwest. Young Cooper arrives and takes up his position. In the meantime the older brother, now a fugitive from justice, arrives in the same town with his mother and brother. He, having sunk so low, is only too glad to fall in with two notorious crooks. The moneys of the Premier Mining Company have been delayed in transportation, therefore. Will Cooper, cashier for the mine, is forced to travel overland to get the money to pay the mine hands. The brother and his crook companions decide to hold up the cashier. However, the cashier fears that this attempt will be made; he empties the money box, fills it with stones, and secrets the money in his stuffed moose-head. The robbers hold him up in a lonely spot of the road and take the money-box, leaving behind as worthless the moose-head. Realizing that they had been tricked, they formulate a plan of entering the mine office. Will and Dora accidentally overhear this plan. They then make up their minds that they must save Cooper from himself. The robbers enter the mine office, leaving Cooper outside on guard. Will overpowers his brother, and locks the desperadoes in the office, while Dora rides for the mounted police. Will then takes his brother home to his mother, and pays double the amount of his brother's defalcation. Meanwhile the two companions of Cooper are arrested and sentenced. Cooper promises to go straight; he migrates farther west, and engages in the real estate business. Six months later, we find him honest, hard-working and making good, while the widow and her younger son and his sweetheart take up again the thread of their lives.