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- The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
- An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
- A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
- Ralph Hartsook becomes a schoolmaster of the Indiana Flat Creek district. He stays at the home of Old Jack Means, a wealthy citizen who wants Ralph to marry his daughter Mirandy. Instead, Ralph falls in love with Hannah Thompson, a 20-year-old orphan who works at the Means home. Political boss Pete Jones and local physician Dr. Small, to divert suspicion from themselves, accuse war veteran John Pearson of looting the house of toll-taker Dutchy Snyder. Hannah's brother Shocky and Ralph save Pearson from being lynched by a mob. Then Ralph is accused of the crime because he was seen in the vicinity of Snyder's house the night of the robbery. In the ensuing trial, Ralph successfully defends himself, while Bud Means exposes Pete Jones and Dr. Small as leaders of a gang of robbers. Ralph and Hannah marry after she is released from her bondage at the Means home.
- Neglectful husband Hugh Varley learns that his wife, Denise, is infatuated with philanderer Frank Despard. She enters Frank's apartment to recover some incriminating letters and makes a quick exit, unaware that the occupant is subsequently murdered. Denise seeks refuge in the apartment of Cort Maitland, who knows of her affair with Frank. Hugh later comes to his wife's defense when Cort attempts burglary and assault. In the struggle, Cort accidentally shoots himself and confesses to murdering Frank before he dies.
- An unhappy woman falls for a man far above her station in life. To only exasperate her strife, she finds out that her father is the stepfather of her obsession.
- Rosa Roma, an aspiring singer, is signed by backer Ogden Ward on condition that she not fall in love, appear in public, or use her own name. But she meets composer Griffith Ames, falls in love with him, and stars in his new opera. When Ward upbraids her, Rosa tries to satisfy her contract by means of a ruby necklace, which he has been secretly trying to obtain through devious means, but the rubies are stolen. Ames is accused of the theft, but the culprit finally confesses, and Rosa is reunited with Ames and her rubies.
- The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor.
- Driven by a careless act in his youth, King Rudolph dons a disguise and exacts his own idea of justice in the slums of Paris.
- Young Nell loses her job and home and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out bent on continuing his life of crime.
- To help her husband keep his job, a woman gives in to her employer's advances. When the husband finds out, he kills his rival.