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- A broker removes hire-purchase furniture during a dinner party.
- Two orphans. Helen Clayton and her sister, Fayetta, are living on their ranch, which is managed by their uncle and, having consummated a large sale of cattle, Helen is returning with the money when she is intercepted by Silverton, a former suitor, who again urges his love on Helen. She scorns him, knowing he is a "bad man." Silverton plots with Bob Hatfield, another "bad man," and a renegade Mexican to steal the money. While in the act of removing the money from the fireplace, where it was hidden, they are interrupted by the entrance of Helen, who is seized and carried off by Hatfield and the Mexican. Just as Silverton is about to escape with the money, Fayetta enters and drives him out at the point of a gun. For revenge, he decides to hold Helen for a ransom and, with the aid of Hatfield and the Mexican, he takes her to a shack in the mountains. Dan Clayton, their uncle, and Fayetta's lover, Jack Thorne, start in pursuit and gain entrance to the shack in the absence of the gang, who return while the rescue party is searching the premises. Approaching Jack from behind, they knock him senseless, escape with Helen and then blow up the shack. Dan Clayton, Jack and Fayetta barely escape from the ruins with their lives and, learning that the gang have taken Helen to Mexico, they decide to follow, but refuse to allow Fayetta to go with them. She resolves to follow them and disguises herself as a Mexican boy that she may continue to assist them in their search for her sister. The picture closes with a thrilling rescue scene and the death of Silverton at the hands of his own gang.
- Captain Smith sails away on his vessel for a trip around South America and through the Pacific, leaving behind him his wife and little girl, whom he dearly loves. The ship is reported lost with all on board, with the exception of a cabin boy who is picked up in mid-ocean. The captain's wife struggles to support her child, but owing to her rapidly failing health she fights a losing battle with poverty. One by one her valued possessions find their way to the pawnshop, where the kind-hearted old pawnbroker Levy becomes interested in the sad-faced woman and the pretty child, who never seem able to redeem any of their possessions. The last article of value left in Mrs. Smith's possession is her wedding ring, and Levy refuses to take this. Instead he offers her help, which the widow proudly refuses. She insists that she can go out and get work. Levy seeing that he can help in no other way, offers to care for little Marie, and to this the mother finally gives her consent. Half in jest, Levy gives to the mother a pawn ticket for the little girl, which he fills out to read that "a precious jewel, value beyond price," has been left with him and can be redeemed "at any time." The mother leaves the little one in Levy's care and upon reaching home and finding herself mortally stricken, she puts the pawn ticket he has given her in an envelope which she entrusts to a friendly janitress, to be given into no other hands than those of her husband should it be that he is not dead. And he is not. He has been cast up on a fertile island in the South Seas, where he lives a Crusoe-like existence for ten years, and incidentally finds buried treasure which makes him rich. He is finally rescued by a passing steamer and brought back to his own country, only to find that in his absence his wife has died, and no one knows the fate of his child. He only finds, in an envelope addressed to him in the hand of his dying wife, a pawn ticket for a "precious jewel" which she has pledged. Thinking the jewel to be some gift of his to his wife, which she desired him to have as a remembrance, he goes to the pawnshop and is there waited upon by a sweet-faced girl of fifteen to whom he is at once attracted. The girl is unable to find any article in the shop with a ticket corresponding in number to the ticket which the Captain carries, and appeals to her foster-father, Levy, to help her find the gentleman's goods. Levy at once recognizes the ticket as the one he gave for his little adopted daughter. Although he dislikes to surrender the one joy of his life, he finally decides to reunite father and daughter. The latter have the old pawnbroker make his home with them, so the reunion brings happiness to all.
- Ned Singleton, a country boy just grown to manhood, is about to leave his country home to seek his future life in the Metropolis. The breaking of home ties is faithfully shown; his arrival from the ferry; his first gaze at the tall skyscrapers; the lure that has called many a lad from a happy home, filled with ambition to do battle with the great big world and grasp for its riches. Through a combination of circumstances Ned does not find his path so smooth and rosy as he did amid the peace and quiet of his little native village. Things are going pretty hard for him, rough going and hard lines. Yet he is too proud to let the old folks know at home of his luck, also fearing to have the neighbors say, "Well, I told ye so." Besides, the pretty village belle at home that was waiting for him must never know. So Ned struggled along striving to get employment, until at last, worn with the ravages of hunger, he falls fainting in front of a café. A young man of the east side type coming from the café finds Ned. He assists him into the café and feeds him, besides giving him money. Ned tells his story to the young, who laughs at Ned, saying, "Pal, no one ought ever to go hungry in this big burg; come with me and I'll show you how to make more money than you ever saw." Ned, not suspecting that the plain-looking chap who was telling him this was none other than the famous Young Badger, known as one of the leaders of a band of counterfeiters. Ned is taken to the headquarters of the gang, and there shown large stacks of counterfeit bills. As Ned realizes the truth, all his manly instinct rebels, and with horror he refuses to listen to the Badger. The leader has just forced a $20 counterfeit bill into Ned's hands for examination, when at the same moment the door breaks in and police officers with drawn guns confront them. Ned, not realizing for the moment what he is doing, thrusts the bill into his pocket. When it is shortly after discovered by the officers, Ned pleads his innocence of course, but they only laugh at his story. Caught with the goods is too strong a case of circumstantial evidence for his poor word to beat. We find him a trusty in Sing Sing prison along with the Badger and many of his ilk. It's a very warm day. Ned is scrubbing the corridor of the prison landing from the office to the cells. The Governor of the State is making a call that day. He is seen with the warden inspecting the prison. The Governor wears a long light overcoat. It being too warm he removes it. The warden hands it to Ned to carry to the office. How well he does it is shown in the picture. Two years later the Badger has served his full term, and is seen leaving with the good wishes of the warden, who not only give him good advice, but stakes him to a little real money, as the Badger has promised to reform. About the first thing the latter does is to fit himself out with a check suit loud enough to talk. This was one of the things the Badger now considered essential for his reformation. In the meantime Ned has prospered after his unique escape from prison. He secured a position of trust in a real estate office and speculated a little in Jersey lots, until he was able to send for his country sweetheart and marry her, though she never knew what experience Ned went through. One day in the street at Fort Lee, the Badger, going along head down and broke discovers Ned, now well dressed and prosperous. Unseen by Ned, the Badger tracks him to his office. Imagine Ned's surprise when he is found out by the one who first got him into the toils. This is soft for the Badger. "Come across, Pal. You escaped. I served my bit. Now you settle with me or yon to bark to Sing Sing." Imagine poor innocent Ned's feeling? And it was true. The Badger had the power to send him back to serve the balance of a term given to an innocent man. Well, there was nothing to do but pay or go back. From that day forth Ned's life was simply a hell on earth. The Badger's demands and threats almost drove him mad. In despair he tells the Badger he is almost broke. The Badger points to the safe, "Get to the Gopher." Ned realizes now that something has to be done. He makes the Badger promise never to come near his office again under any circumstances, and to accept a certain amount of money for his silence, which is not a crime, as the Badger knows full well. The paper is signed. It runs on for some time. The Badger is again broke, so he trails Ned to his home, writes a letter to Ned asking for so much money, still holding the threat over him. As the Badger breaks in through a bay window of Ned's home and hides, Ned enters. Seeing the window open, he inspects the place, and finds the Badger. The Badger, with his old devil-may-care manner and maddening laugh, confronts Ned. All the instinct of the man possesses Ned. The Badger draws a gun, and in self-defense, one of the greatest fights ever seen in a picture takes place. Ned overcomes his enemy.
- Little Jane, a child of eight years, takes the management of a large farm during her mother's illness. She proves herself to be an excellent superintendent, keeps a watchful eye on everyone, shows herself a wary dealer both in selling and in buying. While keeping in touch with the many details of the farm management, she still finds time to care for her mother and for her little baby sister.
- So studious and retiring in disposition was Dave Randal, that no one, not even Annie Rodney, dreamed of his love. They had grown up together, and now that he worked for his father, she as frankly accepted his books and candy as of yore. Then, like a bolt from the clear sky, came the announcement of her engagement to the sailor, Robert Summers. Quietly Dave packed up his few belongings, then, leaving a letter of congratulation for Robert, in which he also acknowledged his love for the girl, the young man bade the Rodney family a hasty adieu, and departed for the city. The sailor and his bride had been married but two short years, when old man Rodney, much against the more experienced seaman's better judgment, induced his son-in-law to accompany him across the bay. Scarcely were they half way across, however, than a violent storm arose, and although Annie with baby Rosie in her arms, watched and waited on the shore that night, and all the next day, the tide but brought her back two hats, their overturned boat, and a broken oar. Five years passed, four of which Annie and little Rosie spent in the city, and although at Mrs. Watkins', where they had recently moved, their two rooms were but small and scantily furnished, the child seemed happier than ever before. This, Annie learned from the landlady, was due to Rosie's new friend, the rising young contractor on the floor below. So, when tired of watching her mother sew, the tiny girl would slip downstairs to "help" her admirer, usually by cuddling in his arms and falling fast asleep. One day, however, the child failed to appear. He called Mrs. Watkins, who told him the little one was sick and pointed out the room. But at the door the contractor was stopped by the doctor; in a couple of days he might come. Sorrowfully the young man returned to his room, but when next he called, it was Rosie's voice that bade him enter. Hearing voices, Annie hurried from the back room, and what was her surprise in discovering that the young contractor was none other than Dave Randal. Rosie was delighted. Clasping a chubby arm about the neck of each, she stoutly declared that Dave was to be her new papa, a prophecy which, happily, later on came true.
- Jennie Williams accepts Anse Langdon, who incurs the hatred and enmity of Lee Hayes, another of Jennie's suitors. After Anse and Jennie are married, Lee waits for a chance to inveigle Anse into a fight with him. Anse resents his aggressiveness. Lee draws his gun, but Anse is too quick for him, takes his gun away from him, and severely thrashes him. Lee has another gun concealed, follows Anse and from a point of vantage, shoots and mortally wounds him. Anse drags himself to the door of his cabin, where he falls dead. His wife finds his body and a note which Anse has written on a piece of birch-bark, stating that Lee Hayes shot him. The sheriff is notified of the shooting and is on the track of the guilty man. Filled with that primitive and inborn idea of justice, Jennie determines to interpret the law according to her own judgment, and if possible, bring the slayer of her husband to a full reckoning of his deed. She follows his trail, and with the unerring aim of a skilled mountaineer's daughter in the use of firearms, she gets a line on her husband's slayer, who receives the full penalty of Jennie's self-imposed sentence. The county sheriff meets Jennie as she is returning to her home with her rifle in her hand. He inquires of her for news of Lee Hayes. In reply, she takes the sheriff to the silent form of the fugitive, nodding her head in answer to his questions. He understands. He discharges the cartridges from the dead man's gun, places the weapon in the cold hand and tells Jennie to go to her home, that he will answer for the man's death, necessary in the discharge of his duty as sheriff, being sworn to capture his man dead or alive.
- Brought up in the lap of luxury and indulged in extravagance, Jack Morrison is gradually led into a life of ease and idleness, from which his father tries to arouse and induce him to interest himself in the large steel business, of which he is the head. Jack refuses to go to work: his father disowns him and tells him to leave the house. Jack's mother is heartbroken, and before her son leaves, gives him a rose, which is her favorite flower, and tells him whenever he is led into temptation to remember her parting words and the rose, indicative of her love. Thrown upon his own resources, he throws himself into a course of dissipation which soon brings him to disgrace and degradation. It is not long before he is entirely lost sight of, and his mother mourns him for dead, until heart-broken, she grieves herself to death. The wayward boy, unconscious of his mother having passed away, with a faint spark of conscience left, sees a vision of her and is prompted from time to time to write to her, but gives up in despair. Accidentally he reads a notice in a newspaper of his mother's death. He decides to go to his father. He is refused assistance by his father, who seems to be more embittered against him than ever. Jack longs for a look at the old home and the happy associations of his childhood. At night he enters his father's house, where he is confronted by a large portrait of his mother, and a vase of her favorite flowers standing on the mantle near it. He is overcome with remorse and sorrow. At this moment, his father, who has retired, hears him, comes down to the room, pistol in hand, and commands his son, whom he does not recognize, to throw up his hands. Jack makes himself known and pleads with his father, pointing to his mother's picture. His contrition strikes a tender chord in the heart of his father, and his love for his wife, the mother of his boy, reminding him that while he is not responsible for his son's deeds, he is responsible for his existence. With an outburst of uncontrollable grief, he clasps his son to his bosom and forgives him, while the boy promises to make amends for the past.
- A young boy, opressed by his mother, goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group where he dares to dream of a land where the cares of his ordinary life fade.
- Charles Kingley's parents gave him everything they had when he left his home to start business in a large city. Charles, like other country boys, by undivided effort and persistent application, made his way to the top. He married a woman of high position and had children, a son and a daughter. The daughter inherits her mother's snobbish characteristics, but the son is a democrat. Kingley's mother, a good, old, homely lady, not having seen her son for a number of years, decides to surprise him with a visit. She arrives just when the family is making elaborate preparations to receive the governor. Naturally, the snobbish mother and daughter make the old lady's welcome an unpleasant one. They don't know what to do with her until something occurs in the kitchen. Young Mrs Kingsley then has her mother-in-law attend to the preparation of the dinner. The old lady is only too happy to be of service and joyfully undertakes the work of the cook. When Kingsley, Jr., however, comes home and learns that his grandmother is doing the drudgework, he goes down there and sticks by her side, and in his soiled shirt and dress suit, assists her at her labors, He appoints himself her entertainer and does nobly. The old lady, not long afterwards, dies and leaves young Kingsley her large painted portrait. Soon after when Kingsley is in difficulties, he imagines he sees the spirit of his old grandmother and she seems to point to the portrait of herself. Several times this occurs and in order to satisfy her spirit, he goes to the portrait, takes the picture out of the frame, and to his delight, finds an envelope containing a good deal of money.
- Albert is a "Raffles," a social highwayman, who, while mingling with high society, takes toll of their jewels and pocketbooks so cleverly that his pilferings are unsuspected even by his big brother, Jim. Both love the same girl but Albert has the luck to steal her heart on the very evening when detectives have been detailed to shadow and arrest him at a grand reception. It happens that suspicion is shifted to Jim. and on being searched, a diamond brooch and an engagement ring are found in his pockets. Having just witnessed his brother's acceptance by his lady love Jim does not explain that he purchased this jewelry in hopes of winning her himself: and when the knowledge of Albert's guilt is forced upon him, he decides to pay the penalty rather than spoil the girl's romance. Albert reforms after his marriage, but the knowledge that his brother is paying the penalty of his crimes in the penitentiary, weighs upon him, and his health fails. Feeling that his end is near. Albert writes a full confession, but when this document is delivered to Jim he tears it up, refusing to secure his release at the price of disgracing his brother's widow and child. So Albert's memory is left without reproach.
- A professor of psychology succeeds in photographing members of the spirit world with a special apparatus he has invented.
- Realizing his neglect the husband sought to be more kind, externalized in a gift of a scarf. It found its way to the rival, thus widening the breach. Two fugitives crept forth into the forest wilderness with the dark, vengeful form of the husband behind. Then came the man chase, but fate intervened, placing the case beyond all law of man.
- Joe has become a fugitive. While the sheriff's posse is hunting him, one of the men, Bill, is wounded and falls from his horse. Joe returns after the posse have gone, and after blindfolding Bill, Joe takes him to his shack, dresses his wounds and takes care of him until he is able to travel. Joe then takes Bill to the edge of the town and points out the way. Bill goes immediately to the sheriff. Having blazed the trail, he tells the sheriff that he can take the suspect alone, but that the boys are to follow. Bill returns to Joe's shack, much to the surprise of the fugitive, but Joe, nevertheless, gets the drop on the newly-made deputy, and leaving him in the shack, starts outside for his horse. The sheriff's posse, riding up from the rear, fires upon him, the shot going through the window to where the deputy is seated. Joe makes his escape on his horse. The sheriff and his men run into the shack to investigate, only to find Bill, the deputy, dead, and a letter addressed to Joe from his brother, explaining that it is the brother and not Joe who is wanted.
- Captain Fane, an English army officer stationed at Cairo, is in love with Lady Fiennis, who is treated most cruelly by her husband. Fane returns to England when he finds that she refuses to leave him. Five years later Fane's sister summons him to tell him that her son Frankie, who is only twenty-two years old, has decided to marry a widow many years his senior. She begs him to go to Cairo and save the boy from this woman. Fane makes the journey, and upon his arrival Frankie tells him of his love for Lady Fiennis, now known as Mrs. Fenton, and how years before she had been infatuated with an army officer. Her husband discovered this and out of insane jealousy cut her off without a cent when he died. Fane listens with unusual interest to the boy's story, and when he brings in Mrs. Fenton, sure enough it is the woman he had loved all these years. She falls into his arms and Frankie leaves, realizing that youth's paradise is still ahead of him.
- John Koran, a rugged mountaineer, has an only child, June. She has given her heart to a young mountaineer known as "Cliff." They have the consent of her father, who tells Cliff to "come for her when the gentle band of time has ripened their love." Jack Rance, of the city, an unscrupulous villain, visits the neighborhood of John Doran. He meets June and is attracted by her. June is taken by the manners of the city gentleman. They meet clandestinely. He persuades her to leave her home and go with him to the city. June writes a letter to her old father and leaves with Rance. Rance, on arriving in the city, takes June to a house of the underworld. Here the vice of the underworld opens her eyes and she realizes what a man this Rance is. By the help of a woman, she escapes the same evening and starts for home. June arrives home and sees through the window her father seated by the table reading his Bible. She hesitates, knocks and patiently waits until the loving arms of her aged father draw her back into the modest cabin. Cliff, through the window, can see June clasped in the arms of her father. He passes out into the night, but there is a happy smile on his face.
- Tony, a little newsboy, witnesses the advent of a dainty Miss, who disturbs his otherwise carefree and happy-go-lucky existence. Falling asleep on his pile of newspapers, he dreams that the little Miss breaks down the barrier of wealth and gives him a hearty welcome. She invites him for a ride in her large touring car and his happiness is supreme. Driving to the seashore, they soon get into mischief. Tony, after plaguing one of the life-guards, becomes greatly aggravated when he sees that the saver of human lives has become his rival. He soon eliminates his massive rival, however, who seeks solace from another bathing nymph. Miss Ann Teak also hies herself to the "briny," and decides to go in for a swim. The two mischievous little imps cause Miss Ann Teak great embarrassment by taking her clothes and transferring them to another bath house. In the meantime, they re-enter the touring machine and are driven back to the little girl's home, where Tony is separated from her by the stern governess who drives him away. He is tormented by a gang of young rowdies, and in the excitement of his dream he awakes and realizes that the awakening has been a cruel one.
- Doris, the only daughter of old Reuben Meade, is the sweetheart of her father's hired man, John Carew. All goes well with the country lovers until one day the Thornbys arrive from the city to spend some time upon Reuben Meade's farm. Clayton Thornby is attracted by the fresh young beauty of Bess Meade, and she is not unwilling that he shall pay her attention. She does not know, however, that Thornby is married, as she has never met his wife, and it is only his first day at the farm. Thornby gradually weaves his net about the country girl, who little suspects the evil heart of the man who pretends to love her, and ignores the love of her old sweetheart, John Carew. Soon, however, John discovers her new attachment, and learns that Thornby is accompanied by his wife, so plans to break up thoughtless Bess's dream, and save her from possible humiliation and disgrace. Bess refuses to listen to John's entreaties, so finally he confronts Thornby and tells him his wife desires to see him. Ashamed and baffled, Thornby slinks away. Bess is angry at this rude awakening from her beautiful dream and refuses to notice her rescuer. Not at all discouraged, however, he picks her up and bears her to the house. When she arrives there, John finds Bess has undergone a change of mind and the last of all shows her with head upon his bosom.
- Prologue: Stuyvesant Hardy, a wealthy man, comes home to his wife and young son. He greets them happily, goes upstairs to his room and takes a drug which transforms him from a gentleman to a bestial and mean brute. He goes from the house and seeks out the roughest of companions in men and women. His wife, who is frail, dies during her husband's four-day debauch. Coming home, he finds his motherless son. It is this shock which braces Stuyvesant Hardy and saves him thereafter from the drug. The Story: Will Hardy, the grandson of Stuyvesant Hardy, is sent to college where, doing athletic sports, his leg is broken. The doctor leaves medicine for him. Instructions are that he is to take one dose in case of. severe pain. But Hardy suffers so that he takes another dose, and the next day bribes the porter to have the box refilled. In this way the youth contracts the drug habit. He is a brilliant fellow and graduates a valedictorian from college, with his secret affliction. He goes into his father's law office, the father having escaped the hereditary taint. The drug habit has him in its clutches, and he is compelled to live a Jekyll and Hyde existence. He has the inherited craving for low life and bestial living whenever under the narcotic. When the sale of drugs is put under the jurisdiction of the State he has a hard time. About this time his father takes a case against John Kerry, a crooked ward heeler. On one his debaucheries Will meets Edna Murray, who is a tool of John Kerry. She gets drugs for Will, and he, in his morbid condition, becomes enamored of her, not remembering bis sweetheart, Virginia Wells, whom he loves deeply while in his moral senses. It is the object of Kerry to get Will so tied up with Edna that he can hold it over the head of the prosecuting attorney when the time comes. Virginia, who is interested in mission work, has a fleeting glance of the dope victim in company with the Murray woman, but does not realize it is Will. The face affects her strangely, and when she sees her sweetheart again, who has supposedly been away on a trip, she tells him of this strange resemblance. The trial of Kerry draws near. Virginia that day, returning from the mission, wanders to where she saw the man resembling Will. She runs to him, in the company of the Murray woman and Kerry. She realizes it is her sweetheart and follows them to a den belonging to Kerry. Virginia rushes back to Will's father, who receives a note written by Will, at Kerry's command, stating that he will be harmed unless the case against Kerry is called off. Virginia tells where Will is hidden. The father phones detectives, and together they go to Will's rescue. They take him home, and when the drug wears off Will realizes, as his grandfather realized, what the drug had brought him to, and now Virginia's love had triumphed. He takes Virginia into his arms and then falls to her feet in humility and gratitude.
- Priscilla Glenn is a product of the woods, a wild, impulsive, nature-loving child. Her father is her antithesis, seeing none of the beauties of nature, thinking women only creatures to be browbeaten. Between her mother and herself there existed a strong bond of love and understanding, understanding that they were companions in the same misery and unhappiness. Priscilla had to fight for an education. At last, through the efforts of Anton Farwell, the schoolmaster, Priscilla had the opportunity of beginning her education. For a rest there came to the spot Mrs. Travers and her crippled boy, Dick, and later a specialist, Dr. Leydward, who was to eventually straighten the crooked limbs of the boy. Priscilla and Dick met and a romance between the two was begun. Jerry Jo, a half-breed, coveted the girl, and lured her to a house on the hill where there was a library. Although the girl was as sweet and pure when she returned home the next day her father sent her from his roof. Priscilla went to her only friend, Anton Farwell, and together they started for a new country. For Farwell was hiding from the world. In the long ago he had loved Joan Moss, and for the love of her killed the brother of Dr. Leydward. Before Priscilla and Farwell had gone far he received word that he must choose the alternative of living buried in the woods or in prison. So Priscilla went on to find her way alone in the big city with the mission to look for Joan. Priscilla devoted her life to the care of the sick, and so once more she and Dick Travers met, and worked hand in hand for suffering humanity. It was thus that she knew Dr. Leydward and his daughter, Margaret, who was to wed Clyde Hunter. One day as Priscilla was strolling in the park she saw Jerry Jo, now a nondescript beggar. Towards him she bore no malice, but a strong desire to make life happier. On following Jerry Jo to the tenement room he called home, some of the inmates mistook her for an angel of mercy for a dying woman, who was none other than Joan. From her lips she learned that the crippled child belonged to the affianced of Margaret Leydward, and also secured Farwell's exoneration. She showed Leydward and Margaret the true type of the man the latter was about to marry. Then she wandered back to the "place beyond the wind" to find comfort and peace. She found that her mother had died and her father had been stricken blind and still refused to own her as his own flesh and blood, and a second time sent her from his home. And then, crushed and wounded, she again found solace in her old friend, Anton Farwell, who a short time previous had returned to his home. To Farwell she told of the finding of Joan, but left with him his ideal of her, of her trueness and worth of trust. Priscilla returned once more to her little sanctuary in the woods, where she had erected her own altar to her own God, and where, too, she first met Dick. And there he found her. For realizing his love for her, he had followed her to the "place beyond the wind" and for a second time, with his old violin he started a new spark in the life of tho one woman, the one whom he would cherish and love and protect as long as time went on.
- Dane Ashley, a successful young author, is informed that he has inherited an old estate in a small village, and being tired of his work and life in the city, he decides to go down and stay on the place for a brief rest. One day Dane is amazed to find a crowd of boys and girls pelting a young girl. He rescues the girl and would punish her tormentors, but she begs him to let the matter drop and hurriedly disappears through the door in the stone wall which separates his house from the one next to it. Much impressed with his young neighbor, Dane makes inquiries about her and learns that she is a Miss Virginia Carlton and that nothing is known concerning her except that she is crazy. Disbelieving the rumors as to Virginia's insanity, Dane uses clever little ruses to further his acquaintance, and the friendship so strangely begun, soon develops into love. Although Virginia cannot conceal her love for him, she tells him their friendship must cease, that there is a wall of shame and misery between them which prevents their ever being anything to each other. Dane thinks he has guessed her secret when he hears a baby at play on her side of the wall; he believes she has been the victim of an unwise and too-great love, but when he is with Virginia her purity and innocence totally contradict this theory. One night he is startled to see a face, which he is sure is Virginia, which is lit is lit up by a wild and impish gleam, peering in at his window. When he reaches the window he sees the girl fleeing over the high stone wall. A few nights later he meets her on the road. She gives no sign of recognition, but leads him on. Dane cannot understand; his heart sick at the thought that the pure-souled Virginia, whom he loves could act thus wantonly, but the next day, when he meets Virginia, she is again the sweet simple girl and he becomes convinced that it must be during moments of temporary insanity that she makes her nocturnal excursions. Nightly the girl is seen in the village, a beautiful evil spirit luring men from their firesides, to render them mad with strange passions and unfulfilled desires, for she always escapes from her victims. At last Virginia can restrain her feelings no longer and she tells Dane that she wants him to hear her story and to help her. Two years before, her twin sister, Helen, had fallen in love with a young naval surgeon. When their father had sternly forbidden her ever to see him again, the impulsive girl left home and went to the surgeon's hotel. There she lived with him as his wife for two weeks, until he was suddenly called away to foreign waters. Returning to her father's home, Helen was injured in an automobile wreck and her mind shattered. The father died of the shock, and Virginia, realizing her sister's condition, had rented the house in the country. Here Helen's child was born. Dane is overwhelmed with happiness to know that the girl he loves is neither insane nor the mother of the child he had supposed hers. He tells Virginia he will locate her sister and bring her back. He sends his friend, Dr. Robert Haskell, to Virginia to aid her. Virginia denounces Dr. Haskell for his treachery to her sister, and before he can reply, Dane brings in the unconscious Helen, whom he found wandering about the streets. Doctor Haskell works over the wounded girl, and while they await anxiously the result of his operation, he explains to Virginia that she is doing both her sister and herself grave injustice. He tells the astonished girl that he and Helen were married on the day she left her father's home, and that ever since his return from the foreign parts he had been searching vainly for his wife. Gradually life and memory return to Helen and she throws her arms about her husband's neck as Virginia and Dane look on.
- John Blakely is a handsome young widower, father of a girl of five, and working in Morgan's office. Mrs. Morgan falls in love with him, and when he refuses to call she vows vengeance. Mrs. Morgan manages to have John appear guilty of theft, and Morgan, because of John's child, tells him to clear out. Shortly after Mrs. Morgan dies and confesses what she has done. But Morgan can then find no trace of John. John has gone to live in the Canadian wilds with his daughter, Dorothy. Years later Morgan's son, Paul, goes out there with a prospecting party. The two young people of course fall in love, and all would have been plain sailing if John had not found out Paul's identity from a letter he receives. He decides to kill Paul. He finds Dorothy in the arms of a man and so shoots him. The man is Dick Thornton, John's best friend, to whom Dorothy has come for advice. Then Paul and his father arrive. The mistake is all explained away so that Paul and Dorothy marry.
- The story tells of two young men, financially embarrassed, who decide to seek their fortunes in foreign lands. The sweetheart of John Leonard, Margaret, is imbued with a desire for professional laurels and tells John before he goes that she has accepted a position under the district attorney. John tells her that she will be an accomplice to a system of justice that is unsocial and in an angry dispute they part. The other man, Edwin Mattel, finds it difficult to leave his sweetheart, Elsie, who becomes hysterical when she hears of his intended trip. Edwin has been seen entering Elsie's apartment, but was not seen leaving it, so that when he comes back later to get his suitcase and finds Elsie dead he is stricken with horror. He is found there, and his only witness, John Leonard, has sailed. Because of his poverty he is railroaded to the electric chair, Margaret, until the last moment, helping the District Attorney push the case against him. Then Leonard comes back, but it is too late. "Who's Guilty?"
- Shanty Moir is the terror of "Fifty-mile" camp, a mining settlement in the great north country. He operates a gold mine, the location of which he keeps secret. By brute force he compels Roy MacGregor, half owner of the mine, to do the work of a horse. He intends to kill him when the gold supply is exhausted. Hattie, MacGregor's daughter, is rescued by Rivers, known as the Snowburner, at "Hell" camp. She and her uncle are searching for Shanty, whom they think has killed her father. After hearing the fate of MacGregor, Rivers decides to locate the gold mine. Pretending to be a half-wit, he goes to "Fifty-mile" camp where he meets Shanty and allows him to take him to the mine as a slave. After he has learned the location of the mine and found MacGregor alive, he kills Shanty in a hand-to-hand fight. Taking all the gold Shanty possessed. Rivers starts back to "Hell" camp with MacGregor. When MacGregor's daughter, Hattie, sees her father still alive, she throws her arms about River's neck and begs him never to leave her.
- Abois is a small French town near the edge of the Jura Mountains on the Swiss frontier. We see some of its streets and the marketplace where the market is held on certain days of the week. The inhabitants make good use of the Cuissance River which flows through the town. Abois is the boyhood home of the famous biologist, Louis Pasteur, the discoverer of the treatment named for him. The monument erected to his memory is seen.
- When Deputy US Marshal Frank Dalton is killed in the line of duty, his brothers Bob and Grat are appointed to replace him. However, when they discover corruption in the higher echelons of the Marshals Service, they resign in disgust. Grat is cheated by a crooked gambler and takes back his money at gunpoint, but that winds up getting them labeled as robbers. Grat is wrongly accused of train robbery and imprisoned. When he breaks out of prison he and his brother decide to take their revenge by actually robbing the express company that falsely accused him in the first place.
- Geoffrey Hampden, a Texas oil millionaire living in New York, seeks revenge against Philip Armond, the man who caused his sister to commit suicide. His attempt on Philip's life is unsuccessful, but he is sent to prison for five years, after which he returns to Texas using the name George Hammond. He moves into a cabin with his business partner, Dick Stewart, whose sister Cynthia is abducted by business rivals. In a rescue attempt, Dick is mortally wounded, and on his deathbed he asks George to protect Cynthia. Although she agrees to marry George, Cynthia does not love him, and immediately after the ceremony, she moves to New York to break into society with her husband's money. There she becomes engaged to Philip Armond, and the two return to Texas to ask for a divorce. Philip has heart failure when he recognizes George, and Cynthia, learning the truth about her lover's past, returns to her husband to start a new life.
- After the Du Bois family moves to the Canadian Northwest, young Horace Du Bois falls in with Black Fagan, the crooked manager of the Athabasca Fur Co. His brother Jean, meanwhile, settles in nearby Pine Prairie as a free trader in defiance of the Athabasca company, which controls the town. When Jean's friend Semcoe Charlie kills Fagan, Santel, Fagan's assistant, asks Horace to take charge of Pine Prairie, so Horace and his wife Eleanor move there under assumed identities. Santel is killed when Jean leads a successful attack against the company, and Horace is filled with remorse. Although Eleanor has fallen in love with Jean, she decides to remain with her husband, who needs her more.
- In Rhodesia, a woman leaves her cruel husband when their baby dies.
- A doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
- Clem Martin is searching for his brother Bud Simpson in the desert when he comes upon a woman with a child who says she is Bud's wife. He left his family five months ago for the fast-paced town of Yucca. Clem finds him,but Bud is killed at a bar and Clem returns to the desert to raise the child and live with his brother's former wife.
- Avis Langley's dying mother begs her to look after Avis's errant brother and continues after death to reappear in spirit form to remind Avis of her promise. Avis follows her brother to New Zealand in hopes of protecting him from his own ways, but on the trip tragedy apparently strikes.
- James Fordham returns home after a 6 months' absence to find that his wife has left him for another man. She returns, asking for forgiveness, but dies shortly thereafter. James swears to avenge her death and sets out to find the man who has wronged her. After changing his name, he discovers that the young girl with whom he is falling in love is engaged to the low fellow who stole his wife. He wins out by proving her fiancé is involved in a crooked business deal.
- Sally Marrio, neglected wife of a prominent shoe designer, has three wishes: to be a millionaire's wife, to be famous, and to have a child. When she is sent to deliver two pairs of shoes--one to Valicia, a dancer, and the other to Mrs. Weathersby, a banker's wife--she leaves a note saying she will not return. Before leaving the Weathersby mansion, she has passed herself off as the millionaire's wife, has saved him from paying blackmailer Lawton, and has been handed a fur coat by mistake. At an art exhibit where the dancer is to appear she is mistaken for a guest and is voted the most handsome woman present, but she barely escapes involvement in a murder triangle. Discovering that her husband has not read the note, she is happily reconciled with him when he plans to adopt a child.
- Documentary exploring icebergs in Alaska.
- Marion Taylor is secretary to Edward Mallory, a wealth Wall Street businessman. She supports her invalid brother Tommy, who has been told by his doctors that he has to go to the mountains for his health. Marion doesn't have the money for that, but Mallory, who has made no secret of his intentions towards her, does. She resigns herself to submitting to his advances in order to get the money in order to keep her brother alive. However, circumstances arise in which she may possibly get the money without having to debase herself with her boss.
- A man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love.
- A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.