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- Mad scientist works on a death ray in his mountain hideaway.
- Typhus specialist Dr. David West has fought long and hard for the construction of the new municipal waterworks. Harrison Blake, the town's leading lawyer and banker, conspires to have the waterworks put into private hands and frames David for accepting a bribe. As none of the town's lawyers will take the case, Katherine, David's daughter and a recent law school graduate, accepts her first client in her father. However, the circumstantial evidence is too great and David is convicted. Harrison bribes a worker to sabotage the waterworks, causing a public clamor for their takeover by private interests. Katherine, with the aid of newspaper editor Arnold Bruce, uncovers the conspiracy after the outbreak of a typhus epidemic. David is freed, and Katherine weds Arnold.
- Cyclone arrives in town just in time to see Slade cheat Courtney at poker. Cyclone takes Courtney's IOU and returns it to him. But Courtney is a compulsive gambler and Slade lures him back for another game, this time winning his ranch. Cyclone once again returns the note but is captured by Slade's men. Slade then heads out to force Courtney to sign over the deed.
- In New York City, Rachel Abrams, daughter of struggling ghetto pawnbroker Aaron Abrams, elopes with Russell Mortimer, a wealthy young member of society. Russell's father quickly offers $10,000 to terminate the match, and Aaron accepts over Rachel's objections, hoping to use the money for revenge. After Rachel dies while giving birth to a daughter, Ruth, the elder Abrams becomes a callous money lender on Wall Street. Years later, a romance develops between Ruth and Sheldon Sherman, protégé of Russell Mortimer, and between Russell's daughter, Hazel, and Saul Cohen, a friend of the Abrams family. Using a pseudonym, Aaron threatens Russell and insists that Ruth marry Saul. Complications ensue, involving love and finance. Aaron sends Ruth away for giving her love to a gentile, but the old man ultimately relents, and all are reconciled.
- Small-town girl Mary Barry wins a beauty contest and goes to New York to meet D. V. Cortelyou, the magazine's publisher. Greatly taken by young girl, Cortelyou arranges for her to live with Dolly Griffith, a woman of questionable reputation who often aids him in his wicked schemes of blackmail and seduction. During a party seemingly in Mary's honor, Cortelyou obtains some apparently compromising evidence with which to blackmail Mrs. Young, the wife of a wealthy broker; Cortelyou then makes rough advances toward Mary, and one of his assistants, Jack McGuire, gives him a good beating. Threatened with blackmail, Mrs. Young turns in desperation to Jack for help. Jack and Mary attempt to trap Cortelyou in a net of his own making, but the blackmailer is too smart, outwitting Jack and abducting Mary. Cortelyou also kidnaps Mrs. Young, keeping her and Mary in a deserted house. Jack learns of their whereabouts and arrives with the police. Cortelyou is arrested, Mrs. Young is saved from the consequences of scandal, and Jack proposes to Mary.
- Bud Bryson is framed for cattle rustling and branded. Walker's brand was used and he heads for the Walker ranch to get revenge. He gets a job there and slowly realizes that Walker was not responsible. But when the man that framed him shows up he goes into action.
- A young ranch foreman, Bud Drake aka The Kid, is wrongfully arrested for the theft of six-thousand dollars from ranch-owner "Hardshell" Beckett. He escapes and with the aid of Beckett's adopted daughter, Alice, sets out to clear his name.
- The Dales need money for their sick mother and Bart Travis, having found gold, says he will provide it. Duke Remsden learns of the strike and waylays Buzz Dale as he tries to record Bart's deed. Dressed as Bart, Duke kills and robs a man. With the Sheriff after Bart, Buzz escapes capture, finds the clothes worn to impersonate Bart, and heads for the Sheriff.
- After rich playboy and philanderer James Malvern marries successful stage actress Gloria Dawn, the newlywed couple entrain for Malverncroft, the family lodge in the Canadian wilderness, where they spend their honeymoon. When Gloria's boat is caught in the swift current above a steep waterfall, she is rescued from certain death by Pierre du Charme, a guide and also caretaker of the Malvern estate. Gloria soon discovers that Malvern is unfaithful to her, and she allows herself to fall in love with Pierre. When Malvern is found murdered, Pierre, who has followed the Malverns to New York, is charged with the crime. After a sensational trial, the innocent guide is sentenced to death, but he is saved from the electric chair when Gloria discovers the real culprit: Wheeler Johnson, a theatrical agent who had a grudge against Malvern. Pierre and Gloria make plans to be married and return together to the Canadian woods.
- Disowned by her family for marrying beneath her class, Alice Larkin lives in a modest home with her husband, John, and their children. Meanwhile, wealthy Ethel Lewis is separated from her husband, Robert, because she refuses to have children. On Ethel's behalf, a lawyer offers Alice $50,000 in exchange for the adoption of her youngest child, Louise. After Alice reluctantly accepts, Ethel presents the child to Robert as their own. Alice visits the Lewis home frequently, rekindling Robert's long-dormant romantic feelings for her. John is consumed with jealousy and attempts to shoot Robert, but accidentally hits Louise. Alice then awakens to find that it was a horrible dream. She refuses the lawyer's offer just as her Aunt Martha enters with apologies and Christmas presents.
- District Attorney Bruce Steele is concerned about the extent of profiteering in foodstuff. He assigns men to investigate the problem, then dashes off to propose marriage to Ethel Armstrong, who accepts him, but later breaks the engagement when the investigators report that her father, financier Henry Armstong, is one of the profiteers. Bruce interrupts Ethel's father's trial, dismissing the case for lack of evidence. Grateful, Mr. Armstrong arranges to get Bruce and Ethel together again by a plot involving his son and Bruce's brother in a forgery case. The plot proves successful, everyone involved is proven innocent, Henry Armstrong releases the food he has kept from the market, and Bruce and Ethel rediscover their love.
- When Martin Wells tires of his wife Esther, he boards a train with her and then deserts her. When Esther discovers that she has been "discarded," she leaves the train and comes upon the cabin of Samuel Radburn, who soon returns home drunk and attacks her. After he falls asleep, Esther escapes. Later Radburn goes to New York, searching for Martin Wells's wife to deed her half the gold mine that he held jointly with the now-deceased Wells. Radburn meets the pregnant Esther there, and believing that she is carrying his child and unaware of her true identity, he marries her. They are content until the Graeber gang, in an attempt to secure control of the Wells's mine, blackmails Esther with the threat of exposing her true identity. Esther finally confesses to Radburn, who forgives her, and all ends happily.
- Wall Street financier Frederick Searles goes bankrupt, prompting his mercenary wife to marry their eldest daughter Needa to the wealthy, disreputable John Davis Warren, despite Needa's love for Hugh Stanton. Needa and Warren leave on their honeymoon cruise at the same time that Stanton departs on a mission to salvage torpedoed ships. Adrift for days after his ship goes down, Stanton is picked up by Warren's yacht and hears Needa's tales of her husband's brutality and drunkenness. Back in New York, Warren's mistress hints to him that the baby Needa is expecting may be Stanton's instead of his; enraged, he strikes Needa, causing her baby to be stillborn. Needa leaves her husband and takes a job. Then Warren, unable to persuade Needa to return to him, blames his mistress for poisoning his mind against Needa and threatens to break off with her. The woman shoots and kills Warren, and Needa and Stanton are free to marry.
- Mimi, known in the Latin Quarter as "The Mad Dancer," poses in the nude for sculptor Verlaine. When her father later commits suicide, she goes to the United States to live with his family, but she is insulted by them for having posed for Verlaine. Mimi soon walks out and goes to live in Washington, where she becomes engaged to Keith Arundel, the son of a United States senator. Verlaine appears in Washington for the official unveiling of the statue for which Mimi posed, meets Mimi again, and unsuccessfully attempts to force her to marry him by threatening to reveal that she was the model for this statue of "the mad dancer." Mimi later enters Verlaine's room and smashes the head of the statue beyond recognition. When the mutilated work is unveiled, the sculptor in his fury relates Mimi's history to the assembled guests. Keith knocks him down. Senator Arundel later bribes Verlaine into publicly retracting his statement, and Keith and Mimi are married.
- Rancher Harvey Comstock(Lafe McKee), whose cattle are being rustled,is killed by a shot through an open window. Joe Clark(Ted Adams), the killer, heads the rustlers and with inside help from Comstock-cowhand Pete(Blackie Whiteford), plans to buy the Comstock ranch cheap. Foreman Steve Andrews(Francis X. Bushman, Jr.), who loves Comstock's daughter Rose(Caryl Lincoln),finds oil on the ranch. Both he and young Buddy Comstock(Buzz Barton)are captured and taken to a hacienda by the gang. Buddy frees them and they and a posse rescue Rose from Clark and his gang.
- In order to promote a marriage between her daughter Antoinette and multimillionaire Benson Churchill, Helen Gerard tells Antoinette that her father has stolen funds and that the marriage will save the family. Though in love with John Hamilton, Antoinette agrees to marry Churchill. When she visits Hamilton's office with Churchill to look over plans for their home, Churchill learns that the young couple are in love; later Antoinette revolts and reveals the reason for her being forced into the marriage, and Churchill, having many years before loved Hamilton's mother, releases her. As a wedding present Churchill releases to Gerard the financial assets he has purchased as a lever to force the marriage.
- So engrossed by his desire to be elected governor, Philip Pemberton neglects his wife Dorothy. Horton, a political boss opposes Pemberton's candidacy and conspires to prevent his election. To accomplish this, Horton hires two crooks to pose as the Baron and Baroness De Ville to gain Dorothy's confidence. One day while out motoring with Dorothy, the Baroness feigns illness and is taken to the bedroom of an inn, where her husband unexpectedly appears. When the Baroness steps out, the frame-up for a potential scandal is completed. Horton threatens to blackmail Pemberton with the situation unless he drops out of the race, but at the last minute a detective who has been tracking the Baroness appears and arrests her, exposing the Horton plot. Pemberton then realizes he has neglected his wife and begs her forgiveness, which she grants.
- As Jack Hammond succeeds in perfecting his invention of a valuable formula, his uncle, Mark Hammond, for whom he has been working, declares it to be his own. Jack decides to fight him in court, but the uncle hires Capt. Samuel Yearkes, a desperado living on the Florida Keys, to do away with Jack. Risa Bartlett, a cafe hostess and admirer of Jack's, decides to lend him the money for a legal battle, but he is lured away to Tostado Island by a bodyguard position offered by Yearkes. There he falls in love with Wanda, Yearkes's ward, but Yearkes tries to influence her against the boy. Meanwhile Risa learns that Jack has been framed by his uncle and flies to Tostado with Craig Gordon, a millionaire suitor, and lands on a pretext. Yearkes's plan to kill Jack is foiled when they escape in his boat; Wanda decides to join them at the last minute.
- Paul Fairweather, whose father was robbed by Gideon Bloodgood, is crippled by an accident for which Lucy Bloodgood is unknowingly responsible. Badger, a clerk who has blackmailed Bloodgood for many years, identifies Paul and becomes jealous of the latter's love for Lucy. He arranges a meeting between Paul, now healthy, and Bloodgood to eliminate both of them. There ensue a fight and a storm during which Badger and Bloodgood fall to their deaths; Lucy is rescued by Paul.
- A gang of crooks kills a gold miner while trying to find out the location of the mine. They then terrorize the miner's son to get him to reveal the mine's location.
- Jeremy Wales, a crook who stays on the safe side of the law but bends it whenever possible,has tricked short-sighted John 'Dad" Saunders to sign a note for ten thousand dollars instead of the one thousand that Saunders borrowed to work his "Rose o' My Heart" mine. Saunders tells his problem to Phil Lee, a prosperous young rancher, whose method of settling problems has gained him the nickname of "Quick Trigger." Lee ambles over to the Wales office and battles it out with Jeremy's son, Sam, and two henchmen and comes away with the note. Leaving the office, he rescues a girl from what is apparently a holdup and subsequent run-away team --- only to find that he has interrupted a scene which a motion picture company is filming. Rose Campbell, the actress in the scene, is impressed anyway and invites him to a dance at the hotel. Sam Wales has already met Rose and isn't too happy about seeing Lee with her. In a moonlight conversation, Rose tells Lee that she is searching for her grandfather, who she has not seen since her mother's death when Rose was a young child.She says his name is John Saunders and Lee says he knows him well, and Rose says take me to him after I change clothes and Lee says okay. While Rose is changing clothes, Sam and his two henchmen capture Lee and tie him up. Sam, driving a touring car longer than an 18-wheeler trailer, meets Rose and says he will take her to her grandfather because Lee is tied up and, besides that, Lee is just a two-bit swindler out to beat her old granpappy out of his mine. Rose buys that and gets in his convertible bus. But Lee has gotten free and he and his horse are on the way.
- Billy Kershaw, the son of a manufacturer in a small western town, takes a business trip to New York City and becomes engaged to flapper Peggy Rice. Sometime earlier, Billy had sent Jim Gorman to jail for theft, causing Jim's girl, Minette Christie, to leave town. She reappears at a fashion show, modeling an ermine wrap trimmed with rhinestones. After Peggy persuades Billy to buy the wrap for her, he realizes that she is only interested in his money and breaks the engagement. Jim is released from jail and follows Minette to New York City with plans to kill her, believing she is responsible for his incarceration. Billy defeats Jim in a fight and saves Minette from being gassed to death in her apartment. He then comes to realize that Minette is the girl for him.