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- Syd and his chum, Add, are feeling rather gay and decide to take a little trip to the seashore, and give the girls there the "once over." After stealing a ride on a "jitney" auto-bus, they arrive on the beach and settle themselves on a convenient bench, when presently a flashily-dressed "chicken" passes by. Syd, with his most winning manner, goes up to her and asks her permission to share the bench with her. This granted, he gradually gets bolder, and finally tries to kiss her. She administers several hard wallops with her parasol and Syd rushes back to his friend, who is waiting for him. They decide to try their luck elsewhere, and finally come upon an elderly gentleman and his daughter. Syd's efforts to flirt meet with no success, and finally the old man and his daughter get up and walk down to the beach, followed by Syd and Add. The girl's father meets a widow, and leaves the girl for a few minutes while he goes for a stroll. Add and Syd get an idea. While the father is away, Add gets behind the girl, and shoves her into the water; the next minute Syd jumps in and heroically "rescues" her. The father comes on the scene and showers Syd with thanks, while the girl falls in love with her brave "rescuer." Syd pretends not to know Add, who comes along waiting for an introduction, so Add gets another idea to win over the girl's father. He goes to where the widow is waiting and pushes her into the water, and is just about to rescue her when Syd and the father come over and throw him into the ocean, leaving him to struggle for himself, while Syd jumps in and rescues the widow. While the girl's father is holding the widow in his arms and comforting her, Syd does likewise with the girl, while everybody forgets all about poor Add, who is sinking for the third time and finally disappears under the water.
- John Mason, a good, whole-hearted cowboy, is in love with Mary. Tom West is a rival of John and tries in every way to disillusion Mary of John's faithfulness. Jim Burton is a drunkard and abuses his wife and little son. While he is in one of these fits of anger, John stops him and advises the wife and child to go away. Burton, who is drunk at the time, starts to lash Mason over the back with a cowhide whip. Mason stands there and laughs in derision of Burton. From a distance Mary sees this and assumes that John is a coward to stand for such treatment. Tom West, who also witnesses the same thing, runs to Mary and taunts her on her cowardly lover. John does not know why Mary sends his ring back and is brokenhearted. Jim Burton's wife receives a letter from her sister, telling her to leave her husband and use the money that is enclosed in her letter and come to her with her boy. Jim sees her open the letter and he takes the money away from her. Mason appears on the scene and learns from Mrs. Burton the cause of her trouble. He gives her money enough to go to her sister and drives her to the station with her little boy. Tom West sees this and tells Mary about it. They immediately follow. Jim, who has been thrust out of a saloon, passes by the station and sees his wife getting out of the carriage and forthwith starts trouble. John, who will stand Burton's fury no longer, shows his superior strength by putting Jim out of the way. Mary observes that John's manhood has asserted itself, and perceiving that he is no coward, goes to him.
- Frank introduces Fred, his pal, to his fiancée, Rena, and becomes jealous. This jealousy is increased when he finds Fred looking at Rena's picture. He goes to bed and, falling asleep, dreams. The story on the screen then shows Frank's nightmare. Fred climbs out of bed, dresses and leaves the room. Frank follows in his pajamas. Suspecting Fred of planning to elope with Rena, he stays close behind. This is exactly what Fred has planned, and when Rena refuses, he carries her off. After saving her from Indians, highwaymen, counterfeiters, and Fred's hired assassins, Frank wakes up to find himself being shaken by Fred, and wants to know what the trouble is.
- Dan gets a letter advising him of the arrival of Lizzie, who is to marry him in order to inherit some money left them. He leaves the letter on the table and goes to meet her. A wire from Lizzie arrives which says she will leave earlier and come direct to the house. The butler gets the telegram, opens it, sees the letter which tells of a fortune and decides to impersonate Dan and cop the girl, who has never seen Dan. He does so and serious complications follow, in which Mag, the butler's self-appointed affinity, takes a heavy hand. Things fairly hum till Dan returns and finally the two conspirators, as well as the love-sick Mag, land in a convenient fountain.
- Abnormal mentality sharpened and developed into clairvoyance by his sufferings. A crippled brother's second sight leads him to cry out a warning to his mother when his sister, who has just graduated from business college, becomes the stenographer for the wealthy owner of a steel works, but the mother, thinking it only one of his "queer spells," contents herself with soothing the boy. On a pretext the steel magnet detains the sister in his office when the clerks quit for the day. Although unsophisticated, the girl divines her employer's intentions when he attempts to take her hand. Then ensues a struggle between the employer and his stenographer, ending only when the girl threatens to brain the steel magnate with a typewriter. The employer pretends to desist, bids her go, and never to come back. As she turns to leave the office, the employer seizes her from behind, drags her to a panel in the wall, which is operated by a secret mechanism, and throws her a prisoner into a concealed chamber in the steel works. The hours pass and her brother, an ironworker, begins to doubt her chastity. The mother is not worried, thinking perhaps the girl has obtained a position which keeps her away from home. The crippled brother's abnormal brain pictures for him a portion of the struggle in the employer's office. His pleadings finally induce his brother to set out with him in search of their sister. They arrive at the steel works shortly after the employer has returned to renew the battle with the girl. The crippled boy recognizes the place of his dream, and he and his brother enter as the man-brute and the girl are in the midst of another struggle. The employer emerges from the secret chamber into his office just before the girl's brothers enter, as he has been warned by the tapping of the cripple's crutch outside. The older brother, still doubtful of his crippled brother's "visions," asks half-heartedly after his sister. The employer denies all knowledge of her. But just at that moment the cripple's fingers, which have been busily exploring find the combination which opens the panel. The older brother beholds his sister, rescues her and then turns to wreak his vengeance on the steel magnate. A fight rages, which is ended when the brother hammerlocks the employer, saves himself from a stabbing and throws the steel man to the bottom of the stairs. Millworkers and a watchman attempt to stop the brother as he starts to leave the works, but the sight of what he has done to their employer and the rage that shows in his face cows them. The steel man, naturally, refuses to prosecute the brother, who insists that his sister remain at home and not seek to make her own living.
- The town artist draws a picture of an anarchist with a bomb in his hand. So realistic is the picture that the anarchist comes to life and pursues the hapless artist. After a series of side-splitting adventures we see the bomb explode and the anarchist and the harassed artist hanging from a telegraph pole.
- Through his various misdeeds and daring holdups, Big Bill, the outlaw, has gained the name of "The Terror," and although the sheriff has tried many times to capture him, his attempts have always proven fruitless. Bill's one friend is John, who drives the stagecoach to Long Dog and who had once befriended him; his bitterest enemy is Tex, with whom he has had several encounters. The sheriff's sister, Helen, is on her way to visit her brother in Long Dog, when the coach is suddenly followed by a band of Indians. "The Terror," seeing his friend's predicament comes to his aid and helps fight the Redmen. Just then the posse, led by Tex, on a search for the outlaw, passes by and Fate delivers Bill's enemies to the Redmen, between whom a battle takes place. In the meantime Helen has climbed out of the coach in terror, and, discovering that the outlaw has been hurt quickly tears off her skirt and binds up her forehead. Helen arrives home safely, and from that day Bill is a persistent wooer. One day, while Helen is riding through the woods alone, she is stopped by Tex, who attempts to kiss her but the sudden appearance of "The Terror," with the aid of his revolver, soon sends the offender on his way, swearing vengeance on Bill. Helen then makes Bill promise never to shoot another man and to reform for her sake. He keeps his word, and as time passes, secures work on Brown's ranch. In a few weeks he gains Helen's consent to marry him. The wedding day arrives and all the boys are invited. As the minister utters the last words of the marriage ceremony Bill unfastens his revolver and hands it to his bride. Then the dancing commences, and Bill, who has never learned to dance, is a little jealous at seeing his wife snatched up by the cowboys. He goes outside the house for a second, when suddenly he is held up by Tex, who has been waiting for him. Bill is in a bad fix, being unarmed, and the two men struggle for a hold on the revolver. They fall to the ground and it looks as though Bill is getting the worst end of the scrap when Helen comes out of the house looking for Bill to whom she intends returning his gun. Seeing his predicament, she shoots just as Tex pulls the trigger of the revolver, and in the scuffle he is killed. Bill then takes Helen in his arms, assuring her that it was Tex's own shot that killed him. They then re-enter the house and join in the merrymaking. A few years later we see them in their own home. "Terror. Jr.," seated on his daddy's knee playing with a toy rifle, much to the delight of his proud parents.
- Mercedes Hoover, star of a theatrical company considers her baby an unwelcome burden. Her neglect of the child is the cause of many bitter quarrels with her husband. At the home of Hal Bickfort, an actor in the same company, a baby has been born dead and the grief and disappointment have bereft the mother of her reason. After a particularly heated quarrel during which the baby has been accidentally struck with a bottle, leaving an ugly scar on its neck, Hoover takes the child and leaves it with the Bickforts, where the joy of holding the little one in her arms restores Mrs. Bickfort's sanity. During rehearsal, a shooting scene is being enacted and a "prop" gun is required. After some search, one is found and Mercedes again tries the scene, fires the shot and the next moment her husband, who has been playing opposite her, drops dead to the ground, the gun having been loaded. Years pass and the child has grown into a beautiful girl, and developed talent as a moving picture actress. She is very happy with the Bickforts, who she believes are her real parents. Time has not dealt well with Mercedes. Lines of poverty and dissipation mark her face and she is forced to earn her living by doing menial work in a cheap road house. While taking some outdoor scenes, the moving picture company stop near the road house, and Marie goes in for a glass of water. It is brought her by Mercedes and something about the woman moves Marie to pity and she places some money in her hands as she leaves. The next day Mercedes arrives late for work and is discharged. Aimlessly she wanders about and at length secures a position as "an extra woman" with the moving picture concern. She is put in a scene with Marie, and while bending over her, she suddenly catches sight of the scar on her neck, and at once recognizes her child. She falls in a faint and is carried away by Bickfort, who is standing nearby. He recognizes Mercedes and offers her money, pleading with her to go away and not reveal the fact that she is Marie's mother. Refusing the money, Mercedes sorrowfully leaves the studio and goes wearily to her poorly furnished room. There she writes a letter full of self-accusation and repentance and addresses it to Bickfort. The next morning she is found dead by neighbors.
- Professor Muggles sneers at Billy's temerity in asking for the hand of his daughter. He tells him that he has never done anything for science, and until he does so he had better keep away. Billy sadly kisses Rena good-bye and he leaves. Before he gets home he has an idea definitely outlined, suggested by the sleeping form on the beach of Fritz, the apartment house janitor. With care and tenderness, Billy wraps Fritz in a winding sheet and then buries him by the seashore. An excited phone message to the professor, and Billy returns to wait. The professor, followed by Rena, arrives duly and the professor's delight at the discovery of the mummy is great. He and Billy dig up the body and the professor takes it to his laboratory to try the effect of the elixir of life he has mixed. Meanwhile Mrs. Fritz searches for her lost spouse. She trails him as far as the beach but loses all trace of him there. Discouraged, she starts home and passes the Muggles' residence on the way. Fritz has just been awakened by Billy while the professor's back is turned and a liberal injection of the elixir has been made. The method of injection more than the elixir itself has aroused the sleeping janitor and as he sits up and gazes on the formidable array of knives and operating instruments, a sudden desire to leave possesses him. He takes his departure before the professor can interfere and starts for parts unknown. Professor Muggles is close in pursuit, but Mrs. Fritz, whom Fritz passes without stopping, is closer. Drawing up the rear are Rena and Billy, delayed somewhat by their laughter. The professor bravely follows until he loses track of Fritz, and then he returns home, regretting only that while his elixir of life is wonderful it is a bit too strong for an ordinary mummy and he will never be able to prove its value to the world, as the mummy is gone. Billy, however, he gratefully thanks and as proof of his gratitude he gives him Rena's hand.
- A city chap arrives at a ranch and decides that he will spend a few days with the kindly people who have given him a hearty welcome. He is at once smitten with the daughter of the rancher and shows her much attention. Rube, a farm hand, is in love with the girl, and he notes the attentions of the city chap to his girl with much concern. During a troubled sleep, the Rube dreams that his fair enslaver has been decoyed away from the old home, taken to a big city and once there she has been forced to don male attire to become an assistant to a gang of thieves. Finally, in his dream the Rube takes a hand himself and succeeds in rescuing the heroine from her perilous surroundings and brings her back to her old home, thereby covering himself with glory and winning the eternal love of the girl. When things are brought to this happy pass, the Rube awakes to find that the girl and the stranger are still bent on a flirtation and that his troubles instead of ending are just beginning.
- While returning from the army experimental station, Lieutenant Lawrence Barr is attacked and an unsuccessful attempt made to rob him of a secret formula for a new explosive which he carries. He continues on his way and succeeds in delivering the formula to the scientist, Robert Bayley, who has made the discovery and with whose daughter, Louise, the lieutenant is in love. Louis Delano, an adventurer, is detailed to endeavor to secure this formula for the Norovian government and makes an attempt to purchase it from the scientist without success. During this visit Delano meets Louise and sees through her an opportunity to procure the formula. He writes her a note, telling her she has a chance to be of great help toward universal peace by securing the formula and giving it to him, for he will keep it from the world powers. Believing him to be sincere, Louise meets Delano and promises to secure the formula for him at nine o'clock that night. The chauffeur, an old army man, overhears her promise to Delano and confides what he has heard to Barr, who plans to frustrate the scheme. At eight-thirty that night, a forged note is delivered to Louise, purporting to come from Delano, and as she goes to meet him, she is overpowered and carried away by Barr, who, despite her anger and attempt to escape, holds her prisoner until such time as he thinks Delano has grown tired of waiting. Meanwhile, Delano, becoming suspicious at the delay, steals into the house and attempts to secure the formula himself. As he is searching for it, Barr brings Louise back to the house and hearing the noise, Delano switches off the lights. In the darkness he runs against and upsets the receptacle containing the explosive, with the results that it explodes and he is killed. Barr, Louise and her father, aroused by the explosion, rush into the laboratory and discover Delano, dead. On his body Barr finds a note proving the mercenary cause of his desire for the formula. Louise, now apologetic, asks forgiveness, which is willingly granted her.
- Jack Benton, superintendent of the Knowlton Construction Company, and his chum, Dick Aves, go to meet the president of the company and his daughter, Jean, who have called on a visit of inspection. While viewing the scenery from a high bluff, the girl loses her balance and falls over the edge. Jack and Dick secure a rope and go to her rescue, but the weight of the two men threatens to split the rope, so to save his friends, Jack cuts it just above him and drops to the ground below, where Jean lies. Following the accident, Jack proposes to Jean and is accepted. Dick, who has just learned from the president that he is to supersede Jack, who is to be sent east, rushes into the room just in time to hear Jean's acceptance of Jack's proposal. Although he loves Jean himself, he hides his bitterness and makes the best of things for the sake of friendship. Jack and Jean are married and go east to live. Five years elapse. Jack is so engrossed in business matters that he thoughtlessly neglects his wife. Jean feels this keenly but says nothing. A letter from Dick arrives, saying that at last he will have a vacation and is coming east to visit them. Dick arrives and soon takes in the situation. He and Jean are left in each other's company a great deal and gradually an intimacy grows between them, and Jean confides in him of her husband's neglect. One evening Dick suggests they go to a theater, but Jack declines to go along, telling them to go without him. Something about their attitude, as Dick helps Jean on with her wrap, causes Jack a momentary twinge of jealousy, but he returns to his den and is soon wrapped up in his books. Finally he falls asleep and dreams that he receives warning from a friend to the effect that Dick and Jean are planning to elope. Jack rushes to the place his friend said the two were to be found and a tragedy results. Later, Jack awakens, but the vivid memory of the dream clings to him. Dick and Jean return from the theater and Jack, realizing the possible ending of his continued neglect, goes to Jean with the promise of a different life.
- John Kingsley while passing through a small fishing village meets a young fisher lass, with whom he falls in love and later marries. He insists that the marriage be kept secret owing to a stipulation in the will of his father, and for a time the two are happy. Business calls him back to the city and as time passes, he forgets his bride, who in his absence has given birth to a baby girl. The townspeople look upon her with contempt as they do not know of the secret marriage, with the exception of Luke Martin, a smuggler, who has been in love with her for many years. He takes the young mother and her baby and sees that they are well taken care of. One day while shipping smuggled cargo, he is attacked by revenue officers and leads them a chase. They fire several shots after him and a stray bullet hits the young mother who is killed. Snatching up the baby, Martin makes his escape and takes the child to a convent, where he leaves it to be educated. Years pass, and Kingsley having learned of his wife's death, marries again and lives in luxury with his new wife, their two children and an adopted son, Tom Walsh. The little girl has now grown to womanhood and leaves the convent. She goes to the fishing village to seek Martin but is told that he is not there. She then goes to the city to seek employment. By coincidence, she secures a position in the Kingsley family as a governess. The family goes to the seashore on a vacation and while strolling with Tom, who has fallen in love with her, the girl comes upon the grave of her mother, and finds Martin bending over it. Kingsley comes to look for her, meets Martin and they recognize each other and explanations follow. Kingsley is told that the girl is his daughter, and he begs for forgiveness for her mother's neglect, swearing he will do everything to make her happy. Later, Tom and the girl are married and all live very happily.
- Sargent gives his wife some money to buy their daughter a birthday present, and she starts out to a jewelry store. The daughter has had a quarrel with her sweetheart in the park and runs away from him. Syd watches Mrs. Sargent enter the jewelry store and trails her after she comes out. Later, he cops the gold bracelet she has bought for her daughter and beats it. She gets hysterical and comes upon her daughter's sweetheart, who takes her home. Syd meets the daughter in the park and falls for her. He gives her the bracelet and she invites him to take her home. He does. In the hallway she bids him wait, while she will bring her folks to meet him. Mother immediately recognizes the bracelet and also the crook. She hands two big bats out of the window to her husband and the boy, who wait for Syd to come out. The things which happen to Syd after that are hot, fast and furious and he is finally cornered and given a good beating. The boy gets back his sweetheart and everyone is happy again.
- Tom Blair, a violinist, falls in love with Lola Monroe, the leading lady of the dramatic company playing at the theater where Tom leads the orchestra. James, an eccentric actor, is discharged, and to get even, smashes the glass fire alarm back of the stage and summons the whole fire department, resulting in the show breaking up in the midst of a tensely dramatic scene. Tom rushes up to the stage and tries to reassure the audience, who leave the theater panic-stricken. Seeing Lola has fainted, he goes to her and succeeds in reviving her. Cleve, the manager of the show, gets a telegram asking him to come to New York and star Lola in a big production. On learning this, Tom joins the company in the capacity of an actor, as he dreads being separated from Lola. He is rehearsed and makes good in his part. Cleve, who is in love with Lola, becomes jealous of Tom and plans to put him out of the way. He goes to the property room and fills the "prop" revolver with genuine bullets. His action, however, is observed by James and when Cleve sees him he warns him to keep his mouth shut, and promises to give him an engagement in his New York production. During the action of the play, Tom is shot and falls to the ground. At first neither actors nor audience realize that it is anything but a bit of clever acting, but on his failure to arise, the curtain is lowered and the audience dismissed. Tom is found to be badly wounded and sent to a hospital. Here, Lola calls to say goodbye and departs to fill her starring engagement. Tom's letters to Lola are all intercepted by Cleve, and she believes that he has forgotten her. Meanwhile James has made several calls on the manager and demanded "hush" money, threatening to reveal Cleve unless he complies. Tom leaves the hospital and immediately comes to the city. He is unable to make a livelihood by playing the violin, owing to an injury to his arm resulting from the shooting, so applies for a position as "extra man" at a theater. It happens to be in the same play that Lola is starring in and the two meet on the stage and are overjoyed at seeing one another again. Suddenly, a shot is heard, and they rush to see what has happened. James again called on Cleve for money but the enraged manager refused to give him any, and in anger shot him. James, badly wounded, tells those about him that the same man who tried to kill Tom had shot him, and, pointing at the manager, collapses. Cleve is taken away by the police and hurried to prison. Lola and Tom are married and live happily. They have a son and, to the delight of his proud parents, he gives every promise of becoming a great violinist.
- This is a comedy showing the troubles caused by a milliner's assistant when she borrows a "Paree" model. The husband of the woman who has purchased the hat sees it on the assistant and takes her for his wife. Then starts the trouble. After a series of comedy scenes the hat is returned to the rightful owner, and all matters are straightened out to the satisfaction of all except the "old man."
- While out for a ride in his new auto, his valet perched behind him holding a tiny sunshade over his head, Syd suddenly spies a frisky young "chicken" crossing the road, and invites her to get in for a spin. He is soon so engrossed in his fair companion that he doesn't notice his overcoat slip out of the car and fall on the railroad tracks. Sometime later, a cop passes and picks it up. Identifying it as Syd's, he brings it to Syd's wife and she thinks he has been killed, whereupon she immediately calls up her affinity and prepares to give a big party in celebration of the event. Having stopped off for some refreshments, Syd is on his way back, when he meets the cop who tells him of the big doings at the house. Syd decides to surprise his wife. Stopping off at a costumer's, he soon emerges disguised with a little mustache and beard, and accompanied by the "chicken," he enters bis home while the party is at its height and discovers his wife seated on the lap of her affinity. This is too much for Syd, and with one bound he is on top of the "home-breaker." In the scuffle his false facial adornments are pulled off, and then Mrs. Syd gets busy with the "chicken." One of the guests, fearing a murder, calls the police, whose timely arrival soon breaks up the party and the disappointed guests, including the affinity and Syd's charming lady friend, all leave in a hurry. Mrs. Syd then leads poor Syd out in the back yard, where she proceeds to duck his head several times in a big tub of water. Then she indignantly enters the house and locks the door.. warning Syd never to dare come back again.
- Jones, a little insignificant man. is jealous of his wife, whom he imagines is infatuated with the boarder. Syd Brown, who is a big, athletic-looking fellow. He finds Syd helping his wife with the family wash and flies into a rage, so decides to move into another neighborhood and. taking a "to let" sign, he tacks it to his house. Just then he receives a telegram from his employer advising him to go to a nearby town on business, and after scolding his wife, Jones leaves. The boarder's wife writes him a letter that she will arrive in town next day. This letter has been left in the Jones' letter box by a mistake of the postman's and Mrs. Jones, noticing it, throws the letter out of the window to Syd. This is observed by Jones, who has returned for some money and, believing his wife is sending love letters to Syd, he leaves in despair, resolving to end his life. Syd meets his wife the next day and when she sees the "to let" sign on the Jones' house, she persuades him to rent it. This is done and Mrs. Jones takes a room with a neighbor. Syd and his wife then take possession and make themselves at home. They are about to retire, when Jones, who has changed his mind about committing suicide and has taken to drink instead, returns, and finding Syd's clothing all about the place, gets suspicious. He breaks down the bedroom door and finds Syd sitting up in bed, while his wife, thinking there are burglars, has covered up her face with the sheet. Jones takes a couple of shots at Syd and chases him all over the house, until Syd takes refuge in a clothes closet The neighbors gather in front of the house. A couple of melancholy undertakers, who have found business slack, happen along and, upon inquiring about the disturbance, are told that there is a murder being enacted inside. This pleases them immensely, and they dash inside and encourage Jones in his good work. Jones decides that his wife shall witness the murder. He goes up to the bedroom and drags the woman out of bed. with her head still covered. Meanwhile Brown tries to escape but is prevented by the undertakers, who see a job in sight. Jones drags the woman into the dining room and commands that the cover be removed from her head so that she may witness the murder of her. lover. Just as he is about to shoot Syd, he sees the woman is not his wife and the next moment Mrs. Jones comes in and explains the situation. All shake hands, much to the disgust of the disappointed undertakers.
- At a summer resort, Dora quarrels with her sweetheart because he stops to speak to a girl. He explains that the young lady is his cousin and Dora relents somewhat, but later, when she again discovers Jack swinging another girl and apparently very attentive to her, she becomes angry and refuses to listen to his assurance that this girl also happens to be a cousin of his. When he calls that evening she returns his ring, remarking he has entirely too many cousins to suit her. To forget about Jack, Dora accepts an invitation to spend a week end in Los Angeles with her newly married young aunt, whose husband, "Duckey," Dora has never met. Jack, learning of Dora's departure, hastens after her, with the intention of making up, but arrives while Dora is out shopping. In the meantime, "Duckey" is speeding home to his bride and by chance he and Dora get on the same trolley; in fact, they share the same seat. "Duckey's" shoestring having become untied, he stoops to fasten it and unknowingly ties the loose end to Dora's shoelace. Reaching her destination, Dora gets ready to alight when she discovers her shoe is fastened to her neighbor's. She becomes very indignant and refuses to listen to his profuse apologies, claiming he did it on purpose. Her indignation grows no less when she perceives that the man is apparently following; in fact, they both stop right at her auntie's door. The next moment the door is thrown open, and to Dora's amazement her auntie and her trolley companion are in each other's arms, obvious to her presence. Later she is properly introduced to her new uncle and they become good friends. Dora is still a little reluctant, however, to forgive Jack, who now appears on the scene, but a little persuasion on his part soon wins her over and he again places his ring on her finger.
- A miner sends home a box of gold dust to his wife with a note telling her he has struck it rich. This so excites his son that he leaves home to seek his fortune in the west. The boy reaches an Indian encampment where his skill at playing the mouth organ is regarded with superstitious awe by the Indians, and the chief, who is enchanted with the music, has the boy fed and well taken care of. The boy's mother, anxious over him, goes out west with her little girl. Her approach is observed by a half-breed who leads a band of Indians out to capture the "white squaw." She is dragged from the wagon and taken to the encampment, while the little girl who has been overlooked, wanders about by herself. On seeing his mother being brought in by the Indians the boy rushes to her and embraces her, then explains to the chief that she is his mother. The chief, who has taken a great liking to the boy, angrily dismisses the half-breed and, giving the boy a gun, tells him to go with his mother in search for his little sister. The half-breed stealthily follows them as they leave and finally attacks the boy from behind, choking him and trying to wrench the gun away from him. In the meantime the little girl has been found by her father and together they go to look for mother. They arrive near the spot where the half-breed is strangling the boy and a shot aimed from above by the father succeeds in putting the halt-breed out of commission and soon the family is again reunited.