- Chapter 12 - A Fight for the Franchise: Helen Holmes (Helen Holmes) and Roy Wilson (William Brunton), president of the K and W Railroad, become suspicious of the dealings of Thomas Desmond (J.P. McGowan), the railroad superintendent, with Boss Hogan concerning the railroad company that will be granted the Copper City franchise. Through an open window at Desmond's house, they overhear the plot to double-cross them and give the plot to The Eastern Railroad Company. They see the contract placed in a desk and overhear the scheme to send Wallace Burke (Leo D. Maloney) to Copper City the next day to get Hogan's signature. They make a copy of the contract and place the A and K Railroad on the franchise line. They them secure the services of Lightfingered Tom (Marvin Martin), to pick Burke's coat pocket and switch the contracts. ,—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
- Episode 1: "Circumstantial Evidence" Receiving many complaints of thefts along the road, Homer Frost, general manager of the K. and W., makes a tour of inspection and catches the agent at Garden City in the act of stealing cases of canned goods. Steve Arnold, the agent, is arrested, but escapes and catches a freight headed for Deer's Head. David Holmes, assisted by his daughter, Helen Holmes, is station agent at Deer's Head. He receives a telegram saying seventeen thousand dollars will be sent on No. 7. As Steve Arnold loiters around the station at Deer's Head a gust of wind blows the telegram out of the office window and it lands at his feet, and he picks it up. Thrown off the top of a train where he is stealing a ride out of Deer's Head, Arnold lands near a party of confidence men and becomes leader of the gang. The reading of the telegram coupled with the discovery that one of the gang closely resembles Holmes leads to their seizing Holmes and holding him in the back room while Masters dons his uniform. Even Helen did not notice the deception, and receiving the money from the train handed it to her supposed father. The gang escape with the money. Word is sent of the theft, and Frost arrives to investigate. Holmes is accused of the theft and sentenced to ten years imprisonment, although there was only circumstantial evidence to prove his guilt. Morton Webb, head of the K. and W. Claim Department, assures Holmes that he will look after Helen.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 2: "A Double Steal" After David Holmes was sentenced to ten years, Morton Webb gave Helen Holmes a position in his own office as his secretary. Burke, Webb's assistant, is detailed to accompany Lord Melrose and party over the division. Burke is a crook and knowing that Lord Melrose carries his valuable family jewels with him he goes to a pawnbroker and has duplicates made of the collection, telling the pawnbroker to be at the station at Mountain Springs to receive the real jewels he will hand him from the train. Meanwhile the railroad raiders under the leadership of Steve Arnold set up apparatus in an old house and tap the telephone wires. They get news of the coming of Lord Melrose and also plan to steal the jewels. When the party are at dinner Burke steals the jewels and puts the imitations in their place. He drops the jewels out of the window into what he supposes are the hands of the pawnbroker, but they fall instead into an ice cart pushed by one of the railroad employees. The gang of raiders hold up the train and secure the paste jewels, but Helen Holmes, following Masters because he looks so much like her father, foils their plot, secures the jewels and leads the policeman to the gang, two of whom are captured. The jewels are returned to their owner, but Lady Melrose discovers they are only imitations.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 3: "Inside Treachery" Arnold and his gang rush to the shack delighted with their success in securing the jewels. They are faced by the police Helen led to the shack. A fight follows. Arnold drops the jewels out of the window and rushing down the stairs starts to pick them up, but Helen shoots and Arnold runs. Helen picks up the box and signaling the special to stop returns them to Lady Melrose. She is delighted until she discovers they are imitations. Helen returns to the house and tears away the telegraph instruments and starts home with them. On the way she meets Webb, who has been carousing all night and is just returning home in an intoxicated condition. Frost calls at the office the next morning before Webb is down, and disgusted with the way things are running threatens to discharge Webb. The next day the iceman finds in his cart a package of jewels, and not realizing their value saves them to take home to his children. When Helen is eating her lunch the iceman's little boy brings a lunch pail to his father. The iceman gives him the trinkets to play with, and he runs to Helen with them. Realizing that they are the Melrose jewels, Helen offers the iceman five dollars for the lot, and he gladly takes the money. Just then Webb appears, and running after him Helen gives him the jewels, telling him that with these to offer he probably can save his position.—Moving Picture World synopsis
- Episode 4: "A Race for a Fortune" Helen is reinstated in the good graces of General Superintendent Frost with "power to act." The young woman at once proceeds to put into effect her own ideas of how a secret service department ought to be run, but owing to the misgivings of Superintendent Frost that she may fail, he so complicates matters as to render the young sleuth's plans unavailing. Frost is seized by the raiders as he starts out to aid Helen when he has intercepted fake information sent for the purpose of entrapping him. The old man is held prisoner until rescued later by Helen and Roy Wilson, private secretary to the superintendent. The raiders seize Helen and in trying to escape with her on a tug to the open sea are pursued by a harbor patrol, whereupon they tie the young woman to a fifty-pound anchor and toss her overboard. Helen sinks like a stone, but is able to loosen the knot and rise to the surface where she floats until discovered by the searchlight of a patrol boat and rescued. The "Railroad Raiders" narrowly escape capture in the ending of the chapter, but they get away after a fight, leaving Helen in possession of information that seems certain to lead to their early arrest.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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