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- Mr. A. Duncan traveled in the best society and was generally a gentleman of high esteem among the fashionable element of the city. Mr. Duncan met Mr. Castlemain and the latter told him that he proposed leaving for his villa for a brief stay at the seashore. Oddly enough. Castlemain had no sooner left his home when thieves entered and looted the place. Kitty Castlemain, returning from the depot in her motor, suffered the inconvenience of a breakdown, and was met and assisted home by Mr. Duncan, a coincidence which explained itself to Kitty some days later. James Fox, a private detective of renown, was called and the news soon spread to the stronghold of "The Black Lily Gang" that Fox was after them. Hence, Kitty received an anonymous note, suggesting that if she would like to regain her jewels, to send someone in whom she had confidence to the Aqueduct. This, note she gave to Fox, who sent his assistant to shadow the bearer of the note back to the stronghold of the gang. A sensational motor car race followed and the important capture of one of the gang by Fox, who, with assistants, made his way to the secret meeting place of the gang, and by dint of much effort managed to find the secret spring that opened the door. Exultingly, Fox stepped into the room, the walls of which suddenly rose before him, revealing a dozen of the gang, revolvers in hands. Suddenly the very floor beneath his feet gave way and the detective was precipitated into a deep pit, which, at the pressing of a button on the part of one of the gang, began rapidly to fill with water. Meanwhile the police were active. They also discovered the secret button marked by the sign of a black lily, and, after a valiant fight, managed to overpower the criminals. Meanwhile one of the gang had taken a message to Duncan. The messenger was shadowed by an assistant of Fox, who returned to the gang headquarters with the information that Duncan was really the leader of the band. Fox then disguised himself as one of the important lieutenants of Duncan, and, going to the Castlemain Villa, where a reception was being held, managed to convey a message to Duncan. The old man stepped into the garden and then Fox, with his evidence complete, revealed the wary old criminal as the real head of "The Black Lily Gang."
- After the murder of her lover Julius Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor, Octavius.
- Alarmed by the threats of his laborers, Manarez gives his little daughter, Carmen, in charge of his faithful friend, Roberts. Together with valuable papers relating to the whereabouts of a hidden fortune, he attempts to flee the country. He is shot and killed by the rioters, who then seek out Roberts. An encounter takes place in the woods and Roberts is shot, but manages to creep to the hut of two forest dwellers, Manuel and Juan, in whose home he dies, after consigning the fortune and little Carmen to their care. Juan yields to temptation and shoots his partner, leaving him for dead in the woods. At great risk to his life, he obtains the hidden treasure and in the years that follow, marries a beautiful and good women and leads a fashionable life in the city. Carmen, meanwhile, has been picked up by gypsies and grows to womanhood in their wandering encampments. One day Juan's wife passes the gypsy encampment, takes a fancy to the pretty Carmen, invites her to her home and sends her back to the gypsies again, after a day of entertainment. The gypsies plan to rob the home of Juan, and Carmen overhears the plot, warns the wife, and the capture of the thieves is affected. Naturally, they make much of Carmen, and in the jubilation that follows, Juan and Carmen recognize each other. Overcome with remorse, Juan rushed into another room to commit suicide, and is stopped in the act by Manuel, who, after years of work, succeeds in getting his hands on his old partner in time to prevent suicide. Thus Carmen comes into her legacy and Juan is allowed more time to repent for his misdeeds, in prison.
- Danton passed a millinery shop, saw a pretty hat and bought it for his fiancée. Inez wore it and then all sorts of mysterious things began to happen. Wherever Inez went money and jewelry were roughly crowded into her pockets. The police were helpless. And then suddenly, Inez disappeared. Danton grew desperate and sought out Henry Sterret, a famous detective, who agreed to undertake the case. Sterret soon solved some of the mystery of that dainty bit of headgear. Madeline, his assistant, purchased one and immediately became the recipient of money and jewelry. What happened to her and Sterret, the thrilling rescue of Inez from The House of Mystery, makes a film that for absorbing story, dramatic situations, spectacular effects and convincing acting, is the vast exception among multiple reel subjects.
- George Potter, a wealthy banker, disowns his only son Henry as the result of the boy's gambling escapades. Shortly afterward he meets Sylvia Gray, a young woman of great beauty and charm, and falls in love with her. She is fond of him, imagines herself really in love and promises to become his wife. Then she leaves for a short vacation in the South and there meets Henry, who is living under an assumed name. Ignorant that Sylvia is his father's fiancée, Henry falls in love with her and she returns his affection. A letter from Potter, saying that he is coming soon, awakens her to the seriousness of the situation and, loyal to her promise, she refuses to see Henry again. The boy is brokenhearted. An acquaintance, trying to console him, makes the remark that Sylvia is "not worth losing sleep over;" Henry resents the statement and, as both young men are hot-headed, a duel ensues. Potter arrives just in time to learn that his son has been badly wounded. The father rushes to the bedside of the son, who has received a sword thrust in the breast. He finds Sylvia there and learns the true state of affairs. Convinced that the girl's influence for good will be the making of his son, he renounces his own claim, and soon after Henry's recovery becomes the father-in-law of his former fiancée.
- Broken-hearted, Count Castel dies, leaving a will which completely disinherits his dissipated son Charles and the Countess Castel. His entire fortune goes to his beloved daughter, Marie, with the strict provision that she is never to allow the control of the property to pass from her. Shortly after, John Ruggles, a mining engineer, leases the marble quarries on the Castel estate. He falls in love with Marie, who reciprocates the affection. The brother Charles, meanwhile, has involved himself with an unscrupulous banker named Samuels, who, learning that Charles is disinherited, conspires with the mother and brother against Marie. This plot is overheard by Marie and she flies, panic-stricken, into the forest, where Ruggles finds her hours later. He places her in charge of his aunt. In the interim, the trio locate Marie, and after a struggle, forcibly take her home. Ruggles is then assaulted and left to die in an old, deserted building. He escapes by an ingenious trick and gathering his mine workers together, hastens to the rescue of Marie. He arrives just as the girl, her determination undermined by the events of the past few weeks, is about to sign away the Castel estates to the sharper Samuels. How Ruggles solved the difficult problem and rendered both mercy and justice makes a highly sensational climax to a thoroughly interesting story.
- The story centers about a government wireless operator who finds his salary too small to meet the demands of his wife. A banker, speculating on the decline of stocks in the event of war, bribes the operator to change the government message, announcing the success of the peace negotiations, to read that a declaration of war is inevitable, so that his Board of Trade operation would prove successful. The wireless operator accepts the bribe and perverts a message. All that follows shows a nation in the throes of a great war. The entire operation of getting out a war "extra" from the time the false message is received in the editorial rooms until the street urchins and old women get the "extra" on the street, is shown. The excitement of the stoic compositors in the press rooms setting the "scare head," and even the haste of the "devil" is racing to and fro from editorial offices to press room is very realistic and interesting. Much of the film was made on the day that Italy declared war against Turkey, and the Cines people swept the streets of Rome with their cameras gathering some splendid views of the "war-mad" thousands as they thronged the big thoroughfares, shouting and waving papers, and carrying stump orators around on their shoulders. To further carry out the thread of the story, the Cines Company made use of some splendid pictures taken during the Balkan War, of the big thirteen-inch disappearing guns, many inspiring cavalry charges and infantry engagements. As a punishment, the only son of the wireless operator, whose traitorous action created the war, is killed by the burst of a bomb in one of the first battles. This was the only battle scene the Cines Company found it necessary to stage. Incidentally, one of the features of the story includes a three-minute scene from the Opera "Aida," showing about a thousand people watching the performance, with the stage with its multifarious costumes in the distance. All this material has been worked into an especially pretty story. The casual picture goer will wonder how the picture company managed to get such realistic scenes and such crowds of people.
- Helen Reynolds, an heiress, finds life a great bore in spite of the adoration of her many suitors, because among them all there is no one who is able to inspire in her heart the love she longs to give. At last, however, she becomes acquainted with a poor artist by the name of Vargas, with whom she falls deeply in love and who, hoping to mend his fortunes by means of a rich marriage, pretends to be infatuated with her. Springtime finds them on their honeymoon. Vargas is entirely mercenary and absolutely selfish and heartless, incapable of a deep, abiding affection. After he has dissipated the greater part of her fortune through riotous living, Helen finds her husband's love less ardent. He then succeeds in fascinating Mrs. Freeman, a rich widow, and in order to marry her, forces Helen, by continued cruelty, to secure a divorce. He leaves her heartbroken, and although she presents a brave face to the world, she spends many tearful hours alone and inconsolable. She seeks forgetfulness at the seaside and there becomes great friends with pretty Dorothy Clarke, a seventeen-year-old girl who, she afterward learns, is the niece of Mrs. Freeman, now the fiancée of Vargas. The artist, upon meeting Dorothy, is smitten with her naive charm and exerts all his powers of fascination to win her love. He finally succeeds, but Helen learns of his plans and to save the girl from his wiles, tells her own sad story. The child's love for the artist quickly turns to contempt. Vargas learns that his failure to win the heiress is due to the activities of his former wife and upbraids her villainously, threatening her, and ending his tirade with, "Must you always be a chain upon my life and actions?" The next day he is horrified to step into the room adjoining his own and there to find the body of Helen lying lifeless at his feet. The chain is broken.
- Bloomer, a cadet at a Military Academy, almost disrupts the morning drill, when he rushes through the lines exclaiming, "Look at the balloon!" While the men are in derision for his action, a hazing is planned for Bloomer. He is quickly tied up in a bag and he first experiences a rough ride in a wheelbarrow, after which he is dumped into a bay-mound. He is next suspended in midair at the end of a rope, where he is left to dangle until he is released by his superior officers. After many such painful subjections, he is finally given a note to deliver to the landlady, which upon reading, she begets herself into such a passion that before Bloomer leaves the room, he is a sorrowful looking spectacle.
- Beth Landis. a pretty eighteen-year-old girl, returns home at the end of a year in boarding school to find that her father, a well-known novelist, is about to marry his stenographer. Although unfavorably impressed with the woman from the start, she makes no effort to persuade him not to fulfill his promise of marriage. Beth is in love with her father's secretary, and her dislike of her stepmother increases when, a few months after the wedding, she discovers that the woman is practicing her arts of fascination upon the youth. In a fit of temper she accuses her rival and during the argument the father enters the room. In a mad attempt to stop the girl's tirade and so prevent her husband from learning the truth, Mrs. Landis seizes a revolver and fires. The bullet strikes Landis instead of his daughter, and he falls apparently lifeless at her feet. Beth swoons, and before she regains consciousness, the woman places the butt of the revolver in her nerveless hand. The shot does not kill the novelist, but deprives him of the power of speech, so he is not able to report the actual truth of the affair, and Beth is sent to prison. The secretary, however, is suspicious. He summons a great specialist and without the knowledge of Mrs. Landis an operation is performed which restores the injured man. Then the truth comes out, the guilty one is punished and Beth is freed to become the wife of the secretary.
- Rudolph Morton, a civil engineer, is constructing a railway in India for James Dexter, an English millionaire. Rudolph incurs the hatred of Rajah Nadir, who is ruler of the province in which he is working, and to injure him, the Rajah orders his servant, Ali, to steal Rudolph's plans. All carries out his orders and delivers the plans to his master, who upon examining them, discovers a photograph of Elsie Dexter, who is Rudolph's fiancée, also a cable from Elsie, asking Rudolph to try to purchase for her Rajah Nadir's splendid collection of antique rugs. The Rajah at once falls in love with Elsie through her photograph, and he immediately leaves for Europe, taking his rugs with him, and is determined to win her. On his arrival, he sends the rugs as a present to Elsie, and to further his plans, he is made president of a European branch of a desperate society called the Ghost Club. Rudolph, while attending a reception given at James Dexter's mansion, witnesses the receipt of an anonymous note to Mr. Dexter, containing a warning that his daughter Elsie's life is in danger, being threatened by the Ghost Club. Mr. Dexter and Rudolph thereupon decide to keep an all-night watch. However, notwithstanding their vigilance, two messengers of the Ghost Club mysteriously enter the house, and leave behind them a threatening letter. A few days elapse, and while Elsie is returning home from a charity visit, she is waylaid and attacked by the Ghost Club's assassins. Rajah Nadir, knowing of the plans of the Ghost Club, in the disguise of a workman, rescues her from the band, and hastens away without disclosing his identity. Later, however, he communicates with Elsie and informs her that he will attend her father's masquerade ball, providing she will send two invitations to the Black Dragon Inn. This Elsie does, and the Rajah presents himself at the ball with his native servant, Ali. Meeting Elsie, he immediately declares his love for her, and succeeds in winning her heart. Rudolph, mad with jealousy, readily falls into the trap set by Ali, which is a pretense to plot with him against the Rajah. His first step is to persuade Rudolph to join the Ghost Club, one of the rules of which is that the world must believe him dead. In order to obey this rule, Ali gives him a stupefying drug. Later he is found unconscious: the general belief is that he has committed suicide. This belief is strengthened by the fact that Ali at the right moment discharges a pistol, which he places beside Rudolph. Rajah Nadir, in the guise of a friend, then takes Rudolph to his own home, and when he recovers from the effects of the drug, he is made a member of the Ghost Club. During the ceremony he recognizes in the president, Nadir, his rival in love, and incensed with anger, he demands revenge, which is denied him, so he follows Nadir to his home, but there again his plans are frustrated, as he is no match for the Rajah, and is soon overpowered. He is then forced to write a letter to Elsie, declaring that he wishes to be revenged against her. Nadir sends this note to Elsie, with a request that she meet him by the lake. He steals the funds of the Ghost Club, and meeting Elsie at the appointed hour, he elopes with her. Rudolph and the other members of the Ghost Club pursuing them. He boards the same train taken by Elsie and Nadir, while the other members hasten off to attempt to undermine a bridge over which the train passes. In attempting to escape from Rudolph, Elsie and Nadir leap from the fast moving train and both are killed, the result of unfaithfulness.
- Judson is forbidden the pleasure of calling and resorts to serenading his sweetheart. When Mabel's father ejects him from the premises, Judson decides to outwit him. The next day the father receives an anonymous letter from the desperate lover, warning him that the secret society. The Friends of Humanity, are after him. Judson advertises himself as a detective and is hired to defeat their purpose. Judson acquires the confidence of the father and regardless of what happens, his slogan is, "Leave it to him." Using this ruse as a means to an end, eventually results in Judson's marriage to Mabel.