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- When the circus comes to town, the town's orphans are treated to an outing to see the show. The circus troupe's 'Jinx' girl causes so many problems for the performers and performances that, to escape punishment, she must run away. She mingles with the orphans and runs away to join an orphanage.
- Rival logging companies battle for the Valley of the Giants (redwood trees) when a young engineer returns home to help his father by building a new rail line to transport the logs to the sawmill. A romance between the engineer and the rival's niece complicates the situations.
- A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
- Bara is unusually cast as a nearly virginal nurse and actress. She does manage to get one man to blow his brains out before she reforms and marries an Episcopal priest.
- Although separated at birth, Siamese twins Fabien and Louis de Franchi remain united emotionally. One day, Parisian Emilie de Lesparre arrives in their Corsican village with her father, and both brothers fall in love with her. Louis goes to Paris to study law and sees Emilie often, but Emilie loves Fabien who has remained in Corsica with their mother. While attending a dinner given by another admirer of Emilie's, M. Chateau Renaud, Louis is drawn into a duel with Renaud and killed. Back home, Fabien senses what has happened and journeys to Paris to avenge his brother's death. After he kills Renaud in a duel, Emilie finally confesses her love to Fabien.
- The Warrens have a full dress Navy wedding, but to sneak out on the reception guests, Dorothy disguises herself as a sailor. But she's caught up with a group of real sailors and finds herself aboard a battleship. Incredibly, nobody spots her as a small female impostor, causes foul ups and gets chased around the decks and cannons.
- Peter James Slaney, just released from prison, is the only boarder who is kind to Lena, the maid at the cheap Paris Hotel. So that Lena can leave her abusive landlady, Slaney accepts $2,500 from a stranger, who threatens to send Slaney back to prison unless he undertakes a job. Slaney is sent to the home of political boss John Biggs with a sealed envelope which he is to open after entering. When a grieving child in the house complains of being mistreated by Biggs, Slaney takes her to Lena and throws the envelope away. When Slaney is later arrested, Lena and the child hide out. After Slaney's release, thugs beat him and he winds up in the county hospital. In the midst of a heated political campaign, Biggs submits to Lena's blackmailing, and Slaney learns that the brother of Bigg's divorced wife originally hired him to kidnap the child. After the child is returned to her mother, Slaney and Lena head for the country to start a new life.
- Sylvia Langdon is haunted by the memory of a would be rapist, whom she believes she has killed.
- The Felborn theater is crowded to witness the first performance of Lord John's play, dramatized from his novel. Opposite the box in which sit Lord John and other guests of the manager are Roger Odell and Maida. Lord John notices a spasm of pain flash over Maida's face and traces her gaze to a sinister figure in the orchestra. It is Doctor Rabousmeses. Lord John hurries after this person, arriving at the curb just in time to see his automobile roll away, not, however, before Lord John jots down the number of the machine. This is seen by a veiled woman who sits far back in the car. It is the Head Sister. Dr. Rameses and the Head Sister hasten to the former's house, the upper floors of which are given over to the doctor's lectures on hypnotism and Egyptian wisdom, the basement den being the place where he receives the criminals in his employ. Three-fingered Jenny, a trusty confederate of the Head Sister, an inmate of the Grey Sisterhood Home, is waiting there with her son, Nickie, a dumb boy of ten, who is used by Dr. Rameses on special occasions. Jennie and Nickie are given hurried instructions about the night's work. Roger Odell shows Lord John the wonderful mummy case belonging to Matua and the elaborate electric wiring system which surrounds it and prevents theft. As Roger is going away, and Maida will also be out of the house, he confides to Lord John the secret of the valuable curio's safety. He gives him two envelopes, one containing diagrams of the apparatus, the other the printed key to the secret system, one being useless without the other. While Lord John sleeps, after consulting and noting some deductions in his journal, chiefly his suspicions of the Grey Sisterhood, and the eagerness of the head of it to gain possession of the mummy, Sickle slips from under the bed. He cuts on the automobile number noted on Lord John's cuff, his chief object in coming. When Lord John later finds the box under the bed, misses the envelope and sees the severed cuff, he knows he has been tricked, but can do nothing. In the early morning Lord John starts out in his motor to be at the point where he knows Maida will be met by the Head Sister and driven to the home. On the platform he sees a woman whom he recognizes by her garb to be the Head Sister. The wind tosses her veil from her face and she is seen to be wearing a gray mask. Word comes that Maida's train is stalled up the track. Lord John finds Maida troubled by the delayed train and in this condition persuades her to tell him what is and always has been the shadow of her life. Maida concludes her story: Years before, her mother had jilted Roger Odell's father to marry an English Army Officer of whom nothing was known. Three years later the mother returns, dying, and begs Odell to take Maida. As a young girl she is loved by Lieutenant Granville, who is insanely jealous without cause. In the midst of a ball he enters the small anteroom where Maida is surrounded by young men. He then vents bis jealous rage upon the girl, finally sinking into a chair, panting, asking Maida to get his handkerchief where it protrudes from his cuff. Maida draws it out. Granville starts and falls writhing to the floor as a muffled report rings out. Maida tears open his shirt, revealing a revolver with a string leading from the trigger to the handkerchief. The guests burst into the room and Granville's mother accuses Maida of murder. This is her tragic past, and the world has never let her forget it. She is entering the Gray Sisterhood in search of peace. Lord John jots in his faithful journal: "My Maida's sorrows make her mine to save from the Gray Sisterhood, tonight." In the Sisterhood home Maida is asked if the mummy case will come with her trunk. She says it can never be removed from its shrine. Then a light beams from the half-globe of glass, and in the aperture Rameses' face appears. But Lord John had discovered the nunnery and is waiting for just such a contingency in his automobile outside the gate. He assists Maida to escape and then restores her to the Odells.
- Jules Le Clerq, a trapper, falls in love with Adrienne Cabot. Adrienne reveals that her father, Jacques Favre, owned a trading post, but lost the company's money gambling with "Devil" Cabot. Cabot agreed to cancel the debt if Adrienne married him. After a forced marriage, Cabot killed Favre, but was shot himself and left for dead. After hearing this story, Jules marries Adrienne. However, Cabot was not killed, and after a child is born to Jules and Adrienne, he kidnaps Adrienne. Jules goes in pursuit and finds his wife next to Cabot's body. Believing Cabot dead, they return home, but Adrienne dies from the hardships suffered during her kidnapping. Twenty years later, Le Clerq and his daughter, also named Adrienne, are working at a trading post. Cabot is drinking in a saloon and pursues Adrienne when she tries to get some brandy for a sick neighbor. Jules, who is passing by, recognizes Cabot and a fight ensues, during which Cabot is finally killed.
- Nineteen-year-old Muriel Fletcher suspects her severe guardians, William and Freda Whitefield, of trying to rob her and her cousin, Fletcher Hempstead, of their inherited estate. For romance, and to find someone to help her, Muriel decides to drop her purse with a note inside inviting the retriever to return it, but when she sees Ashe Colvin helping an elderly lady across a busy street, she puts the purse in his hands. When Ashe meets Freda, he recognizes the woman who years earlier ruined his career as district attorney in a scandal. Muriel's lost cousin Fletcher, who was driven to forgery by the Whitefields and is now a burglar known as the "Hornet," takes refuge from the police with Ashe, who gets him to rob the Whitefield's safe of documents clearing Ashe's name of scandal and confirming Muriel and Fletcher's inheritance. After the police arrest Ashe, disguised as Fletcher, for the robbery, Fletcher makes Whitefield confess. Upon his release, Ashe embraces Muriel.
- A wealthy young chap who served in France discovers that the beautiful doughnut designer he fell in love with during the war is running an employment agency for returned soldiers and sailors in his hometown. He puts on the khaki, hurries to the office, and succeeds in obtaining a situation as an assistant gardener for her father. Circumstances force his employer to install him as butler. Green but willing, he seizes the chance to be near his adored one, but almost explodes with jealousy when he finds a rival seated next to the fair cruller composer. There is plenty of excitement for the entire dinner party until the new butler's parents, who are among the guests, recognize him--and the buddy and the fried-cake finisher find that their families have arranged a match between them.
- Jim, a young freight conductor, is in love with Nell, daughter of the yard master, who objects to the match. When Jim reports for duty he finds that his train carries a car containing a valuable consignment of silk. While the train is in transit the couplings unloosen and by a peculiar accident the train splits into three sections, each gaining speed until the valuable car of silk loses its balance, crashing over the embankment and disappearing among the trees beyond. On an up-grade the sections come together and the train proceeds without the loss of the car being noticed. A few days later, when the shippers have held the railroad responsible for the loss of the car, Jim is dismissed from the railroad's service. He applies at the local factory for employment, but is informed there is no place for him. Meeting Nell, Jim tells her that he will not rest until he has found the car and cleared himself. He therefore starts out on foot to traverse the right of way. The president of the road comes through on a tour of inspection and invites the yard master and his daughter to accompany him over the division. In his travels Jim discovers a burning bridge and hears the President's special coming in the distance. He succeeds in flagging the train and the crew extinguishes the flames. It is necessary to secure timbers from the nearby woods to brace the bridge, and while engaged in this work the lost car is discovered hidden by broken branches. The accident is therefore explained. Jim gains the good graces of the president and, best of all, the yard master's consent to his marriage.
- Civil engineer Robert Clay (Norman Kerry) is commissioned by wealthy New Yorker Mr. Langham to open iron deposits in the tiny South American republic of Olancho. General Mendoza (Wallace Beery), the unscrupulous head of the army, unsuccessfully tries to persuade President Alvarez, and then Clay, to divide the spoils of the contract. Mendoza begins a revolution against Alvarez, but Clay and his men set out to stop the plan. Meanwhile, Mr. Langham arrives with his two enchanting daughters, Alice (Anna Q. Nilsson) and Hope (Pauline Starke), on board a yacht owned by Reginald King, Alice's suitor. Clay's long-lived attraction for Alice has been met with coldness, but Hope wins his heart by shooting down some of Mendoza's men when they try to kill him. After a savage battle, and the arrival of a U.S. battleship with sailors, Mendoza is finally beaten.
- Uncle writes he is coming to see his niece's husband for the first time, and that if he likes the chap, he will give them a home. Of course, the lesser half has to get in wrong with Uncle before either recognizes the other, and he dons the garb of a southern colonel to avoid detection. Then chorus girls add to his difficulties, but Uncle proves a good sport at the end and hands over a welcome check.
- Lord John, brother of the Marquis of Haslemere, receives word from his friend, Carr Price, in New York, that the latter's dramatization of the detective story written by Lord John will not be purchased at all. This decision was brought about by Roger Odell, the millionaire friend of Julius Felborn, who has a strong animus toward Lord John, even though the latter does not know Odell. Odell arrives in London, but returns when he learns that Grace Callender is bound for New York. He books passage on the same steamer. Lord John learns of the hurried departure of Odell and determines to follow. On the boat Lord John hears Grace say to Odell in reply to his request to marry him, "No, Roger, do you suppose I could let you die like the others." Lord John's curiosity aroused, he opens his journal wherein he keeps notes to help him in his story writing, and sees that Grace had been successively engaged to Perry and Ned Callender-Graham, her cousins, but that in each instance just one week before the wedding each man was found dead in exactly the same place and each with a bunch of keys in his hand. No one could explain the cause of these deaths, and Grace vowed never to become engaged again and expose her affianced husband to the mysterious "curse." By the employment of an artifice, Lord John becomes acquainted with Odell, from whom he learns that the Marquis broke the heart of Odell's adopted sister. Maida, by canceling her presentation before the court. Lord John promises to atone for his brother's act, and before leaving the ship he makes an appointment with Odell to be in Felborn's private office within twenty-four hours. With the aid of Carr Price, Lord John is given permission by Yelverton of the police department to go through the records of the Callender-Graham case, and he learns that ten years ago Marian Callender, who was acquainted with Paola Tostini, a famous tenor, and who refused his offer of marriage, was given an inheritance on condition that she remain single and act as guardian over Grace. Tostini lost his voice and it was rumored that Marian shared her fortune with him, but her love for Grace was established when she urged her niece to accept Antonio, brother of Paola, notwithstanding that she would lose her income even in such an event. In an apartment occupied by a couple known as the Paulings, Lord John discovers a lock from which a needle containing poison projects when the knob is turned. The needle extends just far enough to touch the hand of the person opening the door. Lord John then goes to the country home of the Paulings, but the place is empty. The Lord, however, notices a picture of Marian Callender on the wall. A futile attempt is made by the Tostinis to steal the Egyptian mummy belonging to Maida Odell. The brothers are confederates of Dr. Rameses, whose present cult is hypnotism and Egyptian occult lore. Dr. Rameses has a twin sister who is the head of an organization known as The Gray Sisterhood, but in reality it is a branch of Dr. Rameses operations. Lord John writes a note to Grace Callender telling her to be at Felborn's office with her aunt in the morning. Marian Callender, the aunt, tells Dr. Rameses of the note and he informs her that she better go, as she cannot avert anything by staying away. He and the Tostinis follow her and stay outside the building. Lord John hides Roger Odell in the safe, and when Callender women appear he tells them that the double murder was carried out by two men and a woman, those interested in keeping Grace unmarried. Paola, a skilled chemist, compounding the poison. A woman was called upon to write the note decoying the brothers to a fiat on the pretext of learning a grave secret. Keys were enclosed for a midnight visit. The Callender-Grahams never learned the secret, being poisoned by the deadly needle only to hurry away and drop dead on the street. Marian Callender's hand resting on Grace's chair is so tightly clenched that her glove splits, revealing the poisoned ring which Dr. Rameses had given her. Lord John says, "I accuse the wife of Paola Tostini, still known as Miss Marian Callender." Marian attempts to get the ring to her lips. Grace struggles to prevent her and Roger bursts out of the safe in time to catch Grace, who is hurled aside. Marian eludes Lord John, and horrifies all by leaping out of the window to the pavement below. Lord John, Roger and Grace hurry out of the building, but find it is too late.
- Accustomed to flirting and dropping every suitor at her feet, Cora Madison - a young woman belonging to one of the most prominent families in the city - collides with Valentine Corliss, a newcomer.
- Maury Brady, a product of New York's East Side, has learned the craft of safe-cracking and shoplifting from her uncle, "Nunc." While "working" a department store, she captures a lost poodle belonging to Mrs. Hardage, wife of a millionaire. When Maury later is caught lifting some lace, Mrs. Hardage vouches for her, takes her into her home, and puts her to work on a crusade against profiteers. The fiancé of Mrs. Hardage's daughter, Captain Ransom, is attracted to Maury, who consequently is asked to leave. Before leaving she takes a paper proving Mr. Hardage to be one of the country's most unlawful profiteers. She shows the paper to Ransom, who, deciding not to join the company, uses the evidence to bring down the cost of foods. Maury says yes to Ransom.
- When stenographer Janet Butler's malevolent employer, Claude Ditmar, starts to sexually harass her after carrying on an affair with her younger sister Elsie, Janet decides to quit her job and join forces with the disgruntled mill workers. While attempting to avert a looming strike, Brooks Insall, one of the mill's major stockholders, meets Janet and the two fall in love. In the ensuing chaos of the strike, Ditmar is shot by Janet's deranged mother, and Janet is imprisoned for the crime. Insall exonerates her, replaces Ditmar as the mill's manager and rescues Elsie, whose shame had forced her into exile. Elsie's return restores Janet's mother's sanity, and they all face a happy future together.
- Bruce Burt and his partner Slim Naudain prospect for gold. When Slim picks a fight with Bruce, Bruce kills him in self-defense. Bruce then discovers Slim has a sister, and decides to find her and give her half of his own gold dust in restitution. Before he can, he meets Victor Sprudell, who has been caught in a blizzard during a hunting trip. Bruce offers to find Sprudell's cook, who was left ill in a cabin. Before he leaves, Bruce tells Sprudell about Slim's sister and his plan to give her the gold dust. When Bruce does not return, Sprudell heads home to Indiana, where he opens the Bitter Root Mining Company. A reporter named Helen Dunbar is sent to interview him. Sprudell tells some of his story involving Bruce, and Helen realizes that Slim was her half-brother. Sprudell gives Helen $500, telling her that was what her brother left. Bruce returns and obtains water rights to the Company, in an attempt to control Sprudell. When Helen learns the truth about Sprudell, she and Bruce go into business together. But Bruce's water plant burns down, and one of Bruce's workmen confesses that Sprudell was behind it. Helen approaches Bruce's estranged father, who is a wealthy rancher. Together, they restore what rightfully belonged to Bruce.
- A tough preacher comes to the rip-roaring gold town of Panamint in hopes of reforming it. But disaster awaits.
- When Texas ranch owner Ellen inherits the estate of her long-lost uncle, the Duke of Wilshire, her unscrupulous attorney, Wesley Saunders, who has been plotting to seize control of her ranch, decides to capitalize on the opportunity. Confiscating Ellen's identification papers, Saunders journeys to England, accompanied by a chorus girl who is impersonating Ellen. When Ellen appears at the estate, her British relatives are appalled by her rough-and-tumble manners, and with the subsequent arrival of Saunders and his protégé, Ellen is treated as an impostor. Now stranded, Ellen is forced to sell Saunders an option on her ranch in return for a ticket back to Texas. Lady Harriet and Sir Gerald, two of her English relatives, discover Saunders' treachery and follow Ellen back West. Thus, Ellen is finally accorded her ranch and her British estate, and she happily marries her foreman, Slim Higgins.
- A friend of Dick Bailey is killed by a mysterious assailant, whom Dick suspects to be Stack, who is in league with the crooked sheriff. Out on a spree Dick swears he will marry the first woman he sees, who happens to be Ruth Hammond, sister of his dead friend, arriving to take charge of the Hammond ranch. Revolted by his rough proposal,she fires him as the Hammond foreman and she proceeds to the ranch. Stack informs her he has purchased the ranch for the payment of the back-due taxes, and she relents and rehires Dick and his friends to aid her in her fight against Stack.