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- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- Dr. Chisolm sees that Sam, his butler, is drinking his very best whiskey, so he dopes it with tartar emetic. Sam gets a big dose. So does Major Leigh, who comes to call. This is something the doctor does not know about, so when Sam tells him that he doesn't feel very well, he is told if he wants to live he must keep moving. Sam is on the run with Mandy, his best girl, after him with a whip to help him on the move. Sam and Mandy meet the major, who is also sick. Sam passes the advice to him. Mrs. Leigh and Mandy keep the two men moving. Meantime, the doctor tells the joke to Brooks Mannor, an acquaintance. Brooks meets the major and tells him of the joke, just at the time when the major has decided he would rather die than keep running. The major gets a shotgun, captures the doctor, forces him to drink the rest of the doped whiskey and starts him on the run.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Rawhide, Arizona, was certainly some tough town when Reverend Simpson first blew in from civilization and started his campaign of redemption. From Alkali Ike to Shorty Smith, not a man of them had seen the inside of a church in fourteen years; there has never been a sermon preached in the county, and the only hymns that had ever been heard were those of the coyotes. The Rev. Simpson soon set up the "Rawhide Mission," but in spite of the hot weather, the result was a heavy frost. Nobody came even as far as the door, except Black Mike, who was drunk and who thought he was at the XXX saloon. The worthy pastor pleaded, prayed and billed the town without result. He undertook a one-man raid on the Silver King club-room, but soon landed wrong side up in the street. He was in despair and the redemption of Rawhide seemed a long way off. Just at his darkest hour, however, his daughter came to town to assist him. The results were magical. The boys straightened up and brushed up. They didn't bank very much on the sermon, but certainly were strong for Sunday School, where Mary taught. Mary had the Bible class and they were all in it. The town soon turned temperance and the faro dealer made a shack to shack collection for the heathen. At length, they all wanted to make love to the teacher, and to prevent a riot she agreed to keep company with the one that learned the most scripture texts. The result was the hottest contest ever known in the west, and it turned out, well, it turned out to the satisfaction of all concerned.
- John Henson and his sister Mary are surprised one morning in learning that they have new neighbors in Mr. Gray and his son, Danny. Danny is taught to say the Lord's Prayer every night and to practice its principles in his daily life. In his play one day, Danny is hurt and the father, in distraction, calls upon Mary for aid. She gives the care that only woman can give to a sick person, and the acquaintance commences, so that later, when Mr. Gray is seriously injured at the stone works, she nurses him back to health. It is plain to be seen that Mr. Gray is beginning to evince more than admiration for his pretty neighbor. Mary takes Danny to town on the day that a theatrical troupe arrives and one of the actresses recognizes in the lad her little son. She tells Mary and is taken to Mr. Gray's house, but he will not receive her, because shortly after Danny's birth she left his home and went astray. Danny is soon taught by Mary to love his mother, but the kind neighbor is not equally successful with the father. Finally Danny brings about an unexpected meeting between father and mother, and, on bended knee repeats the prayer his daddy had so often taught him: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive . . ." The father touched by these words from his son, repents his sternness and receives his wife once more unto their home.
- About 1722, Spain, in her command of Texas (named from a confederation of Indians, who called themselves Tejas), established the Franciscan mission of San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo). Around this mission was built the pueblo (village) and presidio (barracks), which formed the nucleus of the present city of San Antonio. In 1824 Texas withdrew from Mexico and formed a separate republic, and the Mexican general Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, was sent to force her back into allegiance. At San Antonio in 1836 Col William B. Travis was in command of the fort. With him was Col. William Bowie, David Crockett, Lieut. Dickenson and a small force. He received word that Santa Anna, at the head of a Mexican army of several thousand, was advancing to take the city. Travis dispatched a message to Gen. Sam Houston for aid, sending Lieut. Dickenson and taking his force of 140 men and women of the city, among whom was Dickenson's wife, Lucy; he retired to the Alamo. On February 23, Santa Anna sent a message to surrender, and upon the brave refusal of Travis, he attacked the place. Travis held the Alamo until March 6, 1836, his little force constantly diminishing. On that day, when all seemed lost, Travis drew a line with his sword down the center of the room and asked all who would die with him to cross to his side. All crossed save one, Rose, who announced his determination to try to escape. He succeeded in leaving the building but was never heard from again. A breach was made in the wall by the cannon of Santa Anna, and the Mexicans entered to find all the men dead except Travis and four companions. These were immediately slaughtered on the spot, and Lucy Dickenson, with two other women and three children, were all to leave the Alamo alive.
- When Bob Stanley from New York arrives in Sulphur Mountain he gets mixed up in a fight with Jose, a Mexican, and is injured. Joe, a miner, takes Bob home where his wife dresses the wound, and offers him shelter until he shall become well. Joe mistakes Mary's sympathy for Bob for love and decides to put himself out of their way. He causes an explosion, at the mine, leaves his hat and coat and makes it appear as though he has been killed. But Mary loves Joe, and her grief at his apparent loss is great. Six months later Joe, in rags and with beard, comes back to the scene of the explosion. But his mind does not recall everything perfectly, for in his brooding he has become mentally deranged. Miners see him, and believing him a ghost, flee in fear. Bob heads a party to investigate the place of the reported apparition and in a most unexpected manner comes face to face with his old benefactor. The man's mind slowly regains balance and he remembers that he has a wife. Bob persuades him to come back, but as they approach the house they discover a doctor just leaving. Joe enters to find his wife still longing for him, and to share with her the joy that has just come to them both, an offspring.
- Buck and Jeff, cousins, are the last two males left in the McCall clan to continue the feud between the McCalls and the Buckners. Jeff falls in love with Almyry Buckner, daughter of old Simon Buckner. Buck McCall, having been in hiding from the sheriff before young Jeff met Almyry, finally returns to the old home and learns of Jeff's marriage. He meets a pretty little child, who says she is Honey Bee McCall. He takes a great liking to her. Through the untiring efforts of Preachin' Dan, the feud is dropped and a general reconciliation follows.
- Dick, an easterner, comes west to try his luck at mining. No sooner does he arrive than Hartley, the local gambler and all-around villain, commences to make sport at his expense. Dick endeavors to bear it patiently, but a clash is inevitable, until the arrival at the village store of Mary Brown, one whom all held in respect, excepting Hartley. The latter grabs the girl and endeavors to steal a kiss, which she struggles to resent, aided by Dick. In the fight Dick is knocked unconscious. The men become frightened and slink off. Mary is favorably impressed with the stranger and aids him back to consciousness. Dick is also impressed and accompanies her home. Mr. Brown, hearing of Dick's bravery, is only too pleased to give him pointers on mining, and every day they start out together to prospect for the precious metal. A month passes with no results, and Dick is downhearted. Were it not for the encouragement of Mary he would quit. On one of these days he strikes the vein, discovers a great mine, but when he has the dust in his hand, Hartley and his men appear, overpower and bind him and hasten to register the claim for themselves. Meanwhile, Mary at home has discovered a photo in Dick's coat of a woman and two children, with an inscription on the back that leads her to believe Dick is married. With a broken heart she seeks him at his work, only to discover Hartley's dastardly trick. For the love she bore Dick, she herself mounted a horse and rode like mad for the claim office, just in time to foil Hartley. Dick, of course, is pleased, and with the prospect of wealth, expresses his love. Mary produces the picture, which, however, he is able to show is that of his sister, after which all Mary's objections are for naught.
- Unjustly driven from his post, the young lieutenant keeps his oath of allegiance to the flag by saving his persecutors. Suspecting treachery when he leads the Indians into an ambush, the chief forces him to take his sweetheart with him, and she is killed by the bullets of the soldiers.
- Jean Dyer, an old one-legged hermit who lives in a mean abode on Lonely Mountain, has the villagers all guessing as to where he gets his gold, for whenever he comes to town he spends freely. The villagers appoint Jimmie, a genial cowboy, to visit the old man, get him "full," and pump him as to the location of the mine. Jimmie wins the old man's confidence and liking, but in a terrific storm that comes up, a tree crashes through the roof and mortally wounds Dyer. His last words are an endeavor to locate the mine so that Jim might have the benefit. He dies before he finishes. The news of the death stirs all the villagers to an organized hunt for the gold mine, but their efforts are in vain. Jim buries the old man respectably, and when a few days later he visits the grave, finds there Dyer's old burro which had been his only chum. An idea comes to Jim. He puts on the old hermit's wooden leg, mounts the burro in the old man's way, kicks him with the wooden leg, as was Dyer's wont, and is led to the very entrance of the mine. The villagers would share it with him, but "Findings is keepings" is the unwritten law of the west.
- A father is greatly beloved by his two children and it is a bitter blow to them when they learn from their nurse that they are to have a stepmother. They decide to run away, leaving an affectionate note for their father, in which they explain that they don't want a "stepmother," so they have "runned away." They pack their toys together and make their home in a huge piano packing box. The father returning with his pretty young bride finds the note, and immediately starts a search for them. They come upon the packing box and the children reading "The Story of the Cruel Stepmother." The stepmother asks her husband to leave her alone with the children. They ask her if she is running away from a cruel stepmother too, to which she answers "Yes." Of course they take her into their confidence. The wife finds a better story in the same book, entitled "The Story of the Fairy Godmother," and it is while reading this to the little ones, that they fall asleep. The husband now returns with some men, and they carry the children asleep in the packing box, back to the garden of their home. Here he awakens them, after he has sent his wife to the house to be ready to receive her stepchildren. They do not like the idea of having to meet the stepmother, but the father persuades them, and gently takes them to the room. They are astonished to find it is the lady who read them the story of the "Fairy Godmother."
- A staged Wild West kidnapping goes awry when the cowboys accidentally capture an actress who uses her acting skills to turn the tables on them.
- The play opens with the escape of John Forsythe from prison, where he has been sentenced to a term of ten years for counterfeiting. He is seen running through the woods in striped clothing until he emerges on an open road. He there holds up a passing chauffeur and secures a linen coat and cap. These cover the stripes to the knees, and he blacks the remainder from the mud of a swamp until those who sit in front can't tell the difference. In this guise he makes his devious way to the house of his brother Robert, a highly respectable member of good society, who has just been made guardian of person and property for a young lady he has never seen, charming Rosalie Clarke, just fresh from boarding school. John enters the house of Robert and demands protection. Robert offers a small sum of money and tells him to get out. John tears up the money and insists upon a larger amount. The good brother goes to another room, while the wicked one responds to a new criminal impulse. He shoots through the door and kills the man who sought to befriend him. He swaps clothes with the dead man, makes up to resemble him, and rings for the police; the latter is an act of insane cunning. Meanwhile, Dublin Dan hears of the escape of a convict he was instrumental in sending to jail for a long term. He goes to the country home of Robert Forsythe and watches at the railroad station. Who should come down by the next train but charming Rosalie. In gathering together her effects she drops the card of Robert Forsythe, and it falls into the hands of the detective. He promptly makes her acquaintance and assists her to find what is to be her future home. His pleasing appearance and manners, he is a winner, inspire confidence, and Rosalie consents. Thus it happens that they arrive simultaneously and opportunely just as the police John has summoned come on the scene. John claims that he is Robert and asserts that he shot a burglar whom he caught in the act of breaking into his house with the intent of committing a felony. This part of, the plot is replete with dramatic possibilities. Detective and criminal both fall in love with Rosalie, and it is man to man from this moment through exciting situations to the end. Dublin Dan's suspicions are excited by some trivial clue he finds, and he manages to examine this silent testimony while the others are variously engaged. He also objects John to sharp scrutiny when the latter receiver Rosalie. The criminal betrays that he did not know she was coming, and the fact that he has not had time to adjust himself to his new environment is shown in his conduct. Forsythe is savage and brutal, or merely sensuous and lazy as the mood strikes him, but in all cases an instinctive malefactor. Forsythe naturally gravitates to his old haunt, a den of counterfeiters, and there renews relations with confederates who have been operating in a small way. Their laboratory is shown behind a long screen, and John takes up his former occupation with the fanatical enthusiasm of an artist. It is revealed that the adventuress, Jumo, is still infatuated with him, though she has ostensibly given her affections into the keeping of his pal, Bill Steele. Mag Steele is an old hag whose services are those of guard over the safety of the retreat. Forsythe has the temerity to take these people to the house of his slain brother and there make merry to the discomfiture of innocent Rosalie. Rosalie escapes and goes to faithful Dan for advice and help. Dan places her with his mother. Dan goes to the Forsythe house in disguise and informs the merry party he meets there that his motor car is stalled not far away from lack of gasoline. Forsythe offers to send a servant for a new supply. Dan extends a hundred dollar bill, the smallest he has with him, in payment, but this does not attract suspicion. Forsythe takes it and gives counterfeit money in exchange. He is certainly suffering from induration of the occipital. The detective detects, but no matter, just wait. He must locate the den. Forsythe locates him and attempts to abduct Rosalie. She barely escapes the first time by the timely intervention of Dublin Dan in the disguise of a cabman. The second attempt is more successful, and Rosalie is carried away to the den. She is there incarcerated in a prison cell; the den is almost as well equipped as a motion picture studio, to languish while Forsythe resumes his nefarious work in the hidden laboratory. Now comes a closing in of all the elements. Juno is so cruelly jealous that she releases Rosalie from the cell after the others have retired for the night and proceeds to torture her, at least she makes ready, when Rosalie's screams bring the others and the former status is restored. Dublin Dan is not idle. He chances upon Matt, the thug of the counterfeiting gang, in a nearby tavern. In preparation for this encounter the detective has brought along a makeup bag which contains among other wonderful things a live carrier pigeon. Matt the thug has become interested in a drunken sailor who rashly flashes a roll. Dublin Dan interferes and conducts the drunken sailor to a bed-chamber. There the detective has an inspiration. He disguises himself as the drunken sailor, secretes the carrier pigeon in his bosom and contrives to encounter Matt the thug near the counterfeiter's den. Matt takes the drunken sailor into the den to rob him. Dublin Dan not only sees imprisoned Rosalie looking out from behind the prison bars, but is given a full view of the secret laboratory. Feigning sleep while the others play cards, he manages to write a note and attach it to the carrier pigeon's legs. As he sends the dove up the chimney, Matt the thug turns suddenly to help himself to whiskey and catches Dublin Dan in the act. The entire gang assaults the detective in a terrific struggle, with a result that he is overpowered, bound and thrown into a dungeon through a trap door. Is he done for? Ask of the white rats that crawl over his prostrate body and gnaw the ropes that bind him. Dublin Dan rises and rids himself of his bonds. He creeps up an iron ladder, opens the trap and seizes a brace of pistols. Now he has the whole gang at bay. After effecting Rosalie's release, he marches the counterfeiters, one by one, into the prison cell and there he holds them until the police arrive. Best of all, he is so cool about it. When the officers come on the scene he is calmly smoking a cigar.
- He is a millionaire, young and a bachelor, with all the treasures of the earth, but is unhappy. One cold night after a brilliant reception at his home, he decides to walk about the city. After a long stroll he found himself near the waterfront and a child crying. He questioned her and found she had been sent out to sell papers and as the rough street boys had driven her away her day had been a failure and no papers had been sold. He brought her to her wretched room and left her. The next day he told his servants he was going away to another country and speedily made his way to the little waif's house, where he engaged a room and made friends with her father, a wretched derelict, broken in health and ambition. The world-weary man has found the world still attractive, for with the child as his companion he becomes interested in the amusements of the poor. One day the wretched father suddenly died. This was the turning point in the lives of the waif and the millionaire. He sent for his automobile, and going to her wretched room, where he found her asleep, he put her rag doll in her arms and brought her to his mansion and ever after was a father to her.
- Grace Merrill and her brother Edwin, orphans, are doing light housekeeping in a cheap apartment, when a letter reaches them from a wealthy uncle on a Southern California ranch offering them a home with him. Grace welcomes the opportunity, but Edwin objects to leaving the city and persuades her to go without him. Upon her arrival at her uncle's ranch Grace meets his foreman, Jack Winston, and they are mutually attracted. Jack has been engaged in a love affair with a Spanish dancer employed in a concert hail frequented by the Mexicans, but when he meets Grace he promptly breaks with her. Inez creates a scene in the concert hall by trying to stab Jack, and when he leaves she follows him and discovers his relations with Grace. After a time Grace and Jack are married and establish a home, and Inez broods over the loss of her lover. In the east, Grace's brother finds it difficult to make a living: he is broke and the prosperity of the western country attracts him and he decides to follow his sister. Arriving in the western town he visits the town drinking place to make inquiries and through no fault of his becomes involved in a quarrel with a drunken cowboy, who picks a fight. In attempting to disarm the cowboy the revolver is discharged and Edwin finds himself in the position of his slayer. He flees from the place with the crowd after him, but dodges his pursuers and takes refuge in the barn on the premises where his sister lives with her husband. There she finds him and consents to hide him until night and obtain money for his escape. Inez sees Grace and a stranger together in the barn, hears the appointment for that night made and decides to make use of the information. She lies in wait for Jack and makes one last desperate effort to win him back. When he tells her that his wife is the only woman he can love she tells her story and again urges him to take her. Jack is suspicious and determines to watch. At night he retires and pretends to sleep but listens and watches. He hears his wife leave the house, follows her and sees her embracing a strange man who escapes before he can reach them. In his excitement he accuses his wife in a manner that so angers her that she refuses to explain and they quarrel and separate. A week later a letter comes from Edwin and Jack opens it by mistake. It throws a flood of light on past events and shows him his mistake. He goes at once to acknowledge the wrong he has done Grace and she, convinced of his love and loving him in return, consents to a reconciliation. Meanwhile, Inez also has found a way to mend a broken heart.
- Mr. and Mrs. Horton go shopping and leave their little son in the automobile at the curb. The boy steals out of the car and explores the neighborhood. He finds his way to the stage entrance of a theater and enters. There is a rehearsal in force and the leading lady sees the boy and makes friends with him. The rehearsal is temporarily suspended, and the actresses crowd around the bright-looking boy and make much of him. In the meantime the Hortons return and miss the boy. They begin a search for him and find him in the theater. The mother is shocked to find him in the arms of an actress and denounces the stage woman. The actress, wounded and hurt, vows vengeance. She immediately inaugurates a siege against the husband, exerts all the wiles of which she is mistress and wins him. He lavishes jewels and costly gifts upon her, and neglects his wife and son. At last his infatuation utterly overpowers him, and he deserts his wife. In poverty and helplessness, she moves into a squalid little room with her boy. Accustomed to having everything she wanted, her destitution is doubly severe. In the meantime, the actress' purpose accomplished, she rejects the man's further advances, secretly and sincerely despising him. Things go from bad to worse with the other woman and her boy, and at last, in despair and buried pride, she applies for a position in the chorus. On the stage both women meet; the actress glories in the degradation of the other, when the child, recognizing her, runs to her arms. The child touches the warm spring of sympathy and true womanhood in the actress' heart, and she walks toward the woman whom a moment before she had been persecuting, and offers the hand of friendship. She forces her to accept the jewels her husband had given her, telling her they belong to her, and when she refuses, urging her to do so in the name of her boy. Both forgive and forget, and the woman become sisters.
- Bonnie is alone in the world, but a short while before her dear old daddy was put away beneath the sod. She is tenderly patting the grave and caressing the headstone, when there came on the scene two eastern hunters. The elder of the two is exhausted, and the younger man, who is the son, makes known their predicament to the huntress, who invites them to her shack. Straightaway the two young people fall in love, but the boy's father will have none of it. And the girl, possessing a high-strung vanity, can never give her heart when the covering is so uncouth; and so they part, not, however, without an understanding. Around the girl's neck the eastern lad places a gold locket, given him by his sweet little sister, and which contains his sister's photo and his own. Now Bonnie has a staked claim that her father left her, and nobody knew of it. So one day she started east for a certain young ladies' academy, conducted by a Miss Argyle. When the principal saw the heap of money our heroine carried, there was no question about the cordiality of her reception. A young girl came to the school for whom Bonnie formed a deep attachment. And it so chanced that this was the sister of the man Bonnie loved, and whose locket she was wearing. Bonnie and her chum were out riding one day when who should chance along but her companion's father and brother. An introduction followed, but there was no recognition on either side. However, they drove on in their auto. At a lonely spot in the road two highwaymen surprised them and they were forced to alight. As her sweetheart's father stepped from the machine Bonnie noticed that his coat pocket held a trusty gun. In an instant she turned the tables on the outwitted outlaws: up went their hands, and as prisoners they entered the machine and were driven to police headquarters. A few hours later the little chum was explaining to her mother Bonnie's part in the adventure. Then father and son came in from the station, and they recognized in our heroine the lovely young huntress who had befriended them. At the time of the auto drive Bonnie had worn a veil, and therefore they had not known her. But now, however, the young couple embraced to their hearts' desire, to the keen satisfaction of all.
- Irene before being married was in love with one of Uncle Sam's sailors. A few years later he returns, honorably discharged. He sees Irene on the street and follows her to her home. Thinking to surprise her, he enters the house and makes his presence known by kissing and hugging Irene. Just at this moment Irene's mother-in-law enters and sees this lavish display of affection. She runs out to tell hubby. Irene explains to her old lover that she is married and bids him he on his way. Hubby returns and Jack hides in mother-in-law's trunk. She sees him and determines to lock him in. She looks for her keys and Jack gets out. Hubby, still hunting Jack with a gun, comes upon the open trunk. His mother, thinking him Jack, throws him in and locks the trunk. She sits on the trunk to keep him safe, and hubby shoots through the top of the trunk, the bullet lodging in her band. Meanwhile Jack escapes through the window, and hubby, being let out of the trunk, nearly suffocated, upbraids his mother for falsely accusing his faithful wife.
- The Lady Lilitha didn't hate him, she merely disliked him. There was something wrong about him. Sir Guy Lancaster might have been considered a cavalier by the gay members of his set, and a thorough gallant by all others, but Lilitha knows somewhere in his heart was malice and dishonesty. So she frowned upon his suit, angry as it made her father. There traveled through the country a troubadour. None knew whence he came nor whither he was bound, but the manly figure and the clear eyes made friends along the long way. He was walking through the woods one day, and detected a few outlaws evidently waiting for their intended victim to pass. He hid behind a mass of bushes. Along came the king and Lilitha, who were immediately attacked by the waiting outlaws. The troubadour came to their rescue and routed the assailants. The King thanked him and invited him to the palace. When Sir Lancaster saw the troubadour and learned of his favor with the King his heart filled with rage and envy. Passing the scene of the conflict he found the bag which the troubadour had carried and which he had thrown aside when he ran for shelter and concealment. In the bag was a letter signed by his brother, to the effect that he was bidding his son, the troubadour, to proceed to the King and prove that the charges made by Guy Lancaster (himself) were untrue and that the lands and possessions that had been confiscated should be returned, and enclosing the family jewels as a gift to the King and a token of regard. He at once knew that the troubadour was his nephew, the son of the brother whom he had tried to depose from power, and calling his faithful servant to him, explained the missive and gave him possession of the letter and the jewels. Sir Lancaster pressed his suit, and finally won the King's intervention. Lilitha was by this time in love with the troubadour, as you must have divined. Unwillingly, her consent was forced to the betrothal. Sir Lancaster offered the jewels of the brother as the bridal gift, but the court jester, who had overheard the conversation between Sir Lancaster and his servant, was determined to righten things, and did. He got the servant drunk, his favorite pastime, stole the letter from his bodice, and placed it in the jewel-box instead of the jewels. Therefore it followed that when Sir Guy Lancaster presented his prospective with the box in which he thought the jewels reposed, she found instead the proof of his deception and dishonesty and the high birth of her lover, whom she had believed but a humble troubadour. And to climax the happiness, the jester appeared with the jewels rightfully belonging to the troubadour, but which later was bestowed upon Lilitha, that is, when their marriage was consummated.
- Frank Donald, a young Englishman, who spent his summers at his western ranch, was fond of taking long rides through the woods on his favorite mare, a beautiful grey. On one of these occasions, he left the grey by the roadside, whilst he made his way through the thickets to the brook to drink. Pedro, a half-breed, was eagerly waiting this opportunity, and when Frank stooped to drink, make away with the mare. Several months elapsed when Dolan, a respected ranch owner, visited a camp of horse dealers and purchased a beautiful grey mare, with which he surprised his daughter, Doris. She tried out the mare, and upon returning, tied it in the front yard, while she sought her father, to express satisfaction, and thank him for the beautiful present. The ever-alert Pedro, now saw his chance to divert suspicion. Knowing that Donald followed close behind, with some cowboys, he slipped a branding iron on the grey's saddle as it stood in Dolan's, and rode hastily away on his own horse. Dolan noted Pedro's strange actions and gave chase. Meanwhile, Donald and the boys discovered the grey and the tell-tale iron at Dolan's. Doris innocently told them in which direction her father had gone, and they immediately followed. Donald, however, remained to claim the mare, much to Doris's surprise. Upon learning the truth from her, he realized with horror that a horse thief's fate was about to befall an innocent man. Directing her to ride the grey, he mounted his own horse, and together they rode madly to stay a hastily-formed sentence. The rope was already about Dolan's neck when Doris and Frank came into sight. The grey stopped short, Doris took steady aim, the rope cracked, and Dolan fell to safety. Pedro, the real culprit, was then sought, while Frank remained to receive the father's thanks and the daughter's admiration.
- An actor in action that is not all acting is rather a remarkable sight, and when he loves both on the stage and off simultaneously, and when he is observed making love to the make-believe sweetheart on the stage, by the real, sure enough sweetheart who does not understand that love making in a play is only play, and very far removed from the sacred course of true devotion, there is quite a healthy complication. A young leading actor saves a youth's life, by catching him just in time to save him from what might reasonably he a fatal fall over a precipice, and to reward him the young man promises to intercede with the father of the girl who causes the actor chap sundry heart throbs and a little soul-anguish. But all good intentions do not materialize, and the young man falls in his ambassadorial mission. The summer comes on, and to fill in the time the actor decides to apply for a position in a moving picture studio. While he is making the eternal vow to a girl in the scene, he is detected by his sweetheart, and is renounced forever. In still another scene, his friend whose life he had saved discovers him tied to a tree, soon to be burned to death. He borrows a shotgun and starts to shoot everybody to save his friend from what purports to be a horrible death. After the excitement subsides, the actor explains that he is simply posing for the pictures. Things commence to go right again, as things do when they tire of going wrong. It appears that the father's refusal to consent to his daughter's marriage is based on the fact that the girl has an older and ugly sister, who is unable to secure a lover or a husband; so as a reward for having saved his life, the young man offers to marry the sister, so that the actor can marry "the sister's" sister. The wedding bells send forth a double peal, and four that are but two face this crazy old world for better or for worse, 'till death do them part.
- Vinnie, Colonel Beggs' daughter, complains to her father that Lieutenant Sterling is paying her unwelcome attentions. The Colonel assures his daughter that she has no cause for fear. He immediately forgets the incident, as important military developments occupy his time. But soon Vinnie has a more serious complaint, and the Colonel is forced to act. While on a short canter through the woods, Vinnie was again insulted by the forced attentions of Sterling. Fortunately, Sergeant Karr was nearby and he saved Vinnie from a disagreeable situation. The Colonel orders Sterling's arrest and later this untrustworthy officer is dismissed from service. Captain Sterling is now out for revenge. Not being satisfied with having broken his oath to Uncle Sam, "not to commit any act that is unbecoming of a gentleman and a soldier," he plans to immerse himself further in crime. In line with his plans for revenge, he engages a number of drunken Mexicans to aid him in kidnapping Vinnie and also to help him teach Sergeant Karr a lesson for interfering with the actions of a "superior officer." The degenerate soldier is temporarily successful in his plans, but Karr is fearless and, with indomitable courage, protects the girl he has begun to love.