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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Tom Owen and Mae Darcy have a very quiet wedding, wishing to avoid all notoriety for the present and intending to surprise their friends by the announcement later on. But their friends "got wise" somehow and when the young couple finally arrive at the railroad station, they find a crowd there ahead of them and they are duly dealt with according to the latest rules laid down for the accelerated departure of bride and groom. A year slips by and we find Tom wrapped up in business pursuits and careless of manner towards Mae. And Mae quietly grieves over his neglect. Then a former sweetheart of Tom's, Belle Stuart, sends them an invitation to a ball, where Belle proceeds to monopolize Tom to the utter disregard of poor Mae. Left all alone she sits and broods over her misfortune, and then she meets the famous poet, Claude Jones, who entertains her most pleasantly with his talk and his ability as a dancer. Tom finally thinks of his wife and goes to where he left her, but she has gone. He at last discovers her in the conservatory in conversation with the poet. It is his turn to feel jealous and he does so and going rudely over to the couple he informs Mae that they must go home at once. Before they go, however, she invites Claude to call upon them. Soon Claude accepts her invitation and calls, finding her alone. In the midst of their tete-a-tete, Tom arrives at home and orders Claude to vacate the premises at once. Tom and Mae have their first quarrel, and it is a good one. Tom then decides to keep close watch upon her and rigs up a bell so that it will ring in his den every time the door opens. Well, it works all right, only he is kept busy rushing into the room merely to meet the maid or the postman or somebody other than Claude. He then gives up and after another interview with his wife, he secretly writes Claude a letter, informing him that as he loves Mae and Mae loves him, that he, Tom, will surrender all further claim upon her. When Claude arrives he is received most cordially by Tom, who proceeds to pour out his blessings upon the pair and leaves the room. Mae is completely mystified, until Claude shows her the letter and proceeds to press his suit. She, taken entirely unawares, begs for time to think it all over and he goes out to purchase her some flowers. Tom, seeing him leave, telephones Belle Stuart and makes an appointment with her. Mae overhears him at the 'phone and breaks down completely, weeping as if her heart would break. Then Tom leaves the house. Claude, shortly after this returns and attempts to present Mae with the flowers, but she has had enough of him already, and, ordering him from the house, throws his bouquet after him. Tom's conscience will not permit him to keep his appointment with Belle and after wandering aimlessly about his club, he returns home to find his little wife curled up in his den, hugging his dressing gown, trying to forget her troubles in slumber, Tom's heart is touched, his old love is reawakened and taking her in his arms, she opens her eyes and twining her arms about him, they forget all their former doubts and troubles in their present happiness.
- Ralph Vincent is an all-round sport, in spite of the fact that he has a charming wife and lovely baby at home. His wife, Effie, trusts him implicitly, although she has heard some rather ugly rumors concerning him. Ralphs receives a tip on a horse by wire from the city and wants to play it, but has not the money. He tries to borrow it from a fellow employee in the office, but not succeeding, he, at last, obtains it from Hiram Hayes, the old man who runs the grocery store over which the Vincents have rooms. He tells Hiram he needs it for his family. He wires the money on and shortly after, receiving word that his horse has won, he hastily packs a bag and goes to the city. Here, inflated with his winnings, he joins a gay crowd and has the time of his life. He plays poker with the boys and joins a merry crowd of fast men and women at supper. In the meantime, he has mailed the amount of his loan to Hiram and his wife, Effie, is down in Hiram's store when it arrives. There is, however, no letter for her. Putting two and two together, she fears the worst and Hiram kindly offering to look after the baby, she departs for the city, in search of Ralph. Knowing the address of his hotel from the letter-head enclosing Hiram's money, she goes straight there and reaches the café at the height of the festivities, arriving at the very moment that Ralph is distinguishing himself by drinking a toast out of one of the woman's slippers. Effie takes one look and then burying her face in her hands, she rushes from the room and hastens home, heartbroken. Ralph is instantly checked in his mad career by the sight of his little wife and despite the pleadings of his companions, he leaves the café, accompanied by a good-hearted friend named Fred Strong. Some hours later, Ralph comes to his senses in a Turkish bath, surrounded by his friends of the evening. Realizing the baseness of his recent actions. Realizing the baseness of his recent actions, he wants to call up his wife on the telephone to ask her pardon, but he lacks the courage. There he sits a humiliated man, blankly staring at the picture of his baby in a locket. He has spent all of his winnings during his debauch, and has lost the love and respect of his wife and possibly his position. Overcome by remorse he lays down the locket and leaves the room, wandering aimlessly through the bath. Then Fred Strong, who has found the telephone number, calls up Hiram at the grocery store, who responds dressed in his night clothes. Effie and baby are soon brought down to the phone and negotiations for the return of Ralphs are begun. Fred and the balance of Ralph's friends at one end of the wire in their bath costumes and Effie, Hiram and the baby at the other, all in dishabille. Then Ralph is brought to the phone, he talks to Effie and she and the baby talk to him. Effie tells him to come home. While Ralph is dressing, Fred starts a collection for the baby, which proves a generous one and enclosing the bills with the locket in an envelope, directed to the child, they hand it to Ralph and wish him "Godspeed." Ralph arrives and regaining his wife's love and his position, he swears off from a sporting life and the next time he receives a tip by wire, he tears up the telegrams and throws it in the waste basket.
- A husband discovers his wife about to elope with a friend, and then forces her to go with him, making her write a note to her child saying that she is going on a long journey. Later the lover reads of a railroad accident, in which many people were killed and telegraphs the husband that his wife was one of the victims. The child mourns for its mother and asks the father to take her where her mother is supposed to be buried. He takes her there and puts up a tombstone. Later the husband falls in love with a widow, which is very objectionable to the child. On one of the child's journeys to her mother's grave, she meets her mother, who has returned, takes her father away from the widow, brings him home and there is a reconciliation.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- Terence Tightwad does not approve of the attentions paid to his daughter Marion by Harry Lightfoot; neither does family dog Murphy. Murphy and old Tightwad show their displeasure at Harry's insistence on visiting the Tightwad home by combining in a "free-for-all" fight with him, from which Harry emerges "third best." When old Tightwad spirits Marion away to a nearby resort hotel, Harry picks up the love trail, follows, and finds employment at the hotel as a bellboy. Overcoming all the hazards of the militant father's objections, Harry finally escapes in a spectacular manner with Marion, leaving father and the dog to fight it out.
- Jack Howard, a typical American boy, is addicted to reading literature of the yellow-backed variety, despite the admonitions of his father. One day he dozes off to sleep, after devouring a thrilling story of the sea. The story of his dream is told in detail. While walking on the dock he is seized upon by some sailors and shanghaied in the most approved manner, being taken aboard a ship bound on a long cruise. He is secreted and overhears a plot of the sailors to mutiny, seize the ship and sail to a desert island in search of a treasure. One of the sailors produces a chart of the island and the tars leave the forecastle. Jack comes on, takes possession of the paper and is joined by the winsome daughter of the captain. It is a case of love at first sight. He shows her the chart and she takes him to her father, where he discloses the plot of the mutineers. The desperate men attack the captain and the loyal members of the crew and there is a fierce fight. Jack saves the captain's daughter, who escapes with him in the garb of a boy. They take possession of a small boat and put to sea, where they are captured by pirates. The sex of the girl is discovered, but Jack secures immunity for himself and fair companion by showing the pirates the chart of the treasure island. The pirates go to the island, taking Jack and the girl with them, unearth the treasure and are jubilant, but their joy is short-lived, as they are in turn set upon by another gang of pirates and the struggle is a bloody one. Jack and the girl are subsequently rescued from the pirates by the father of the girl and his gallant crew and taken aboard his ship together with the treasure, which is Jack's by right of having the chart. Jack asks the captain for the hand of the daughter and the mariner is only too pleased at the prospect of the union. They are wed and Jack awakens to find it all a dream and he is in despair. His reflections are rudely broken into by his father, who hauls him out of the garret and sets him at the irksome task of sawing wood.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- Tom Alkins, a sturdy fisherman, loves Polly Berry, the daughter of old Nat Berry, the keeper of the light. Bert Duncan also loves Polly and is insanely jealous of Tom. The course of true love runs smoothly for the happy couple with the exception of an attempt on the part of Duncan to force his unwelcome attentions on Polly. He is soundly thrashed by Tom and vows vengeance. The wedding of Tom and Polly occurs and Bert, evidently penitent, congratulates them, assuming a friendship that is feigned. With the marriage of the couple, Bert takes to strong drink and becomes reckless. Polly and her father are about to go on a fishing trip. Rom asks to accompany the girl and the old man assents. They sail away, happy and contented. A furious storm arises and the ocean is lashed into a fury. Night approaches and the fishing smack does not return. The old lighthouse keeper is apprehensive. He starts to the lighthouse to light the beacon. Bert has been drinking heavily and he conceives a devilish scheme to wreak vengeance on his successful rival. He will go to the tower and tamper with the light, hoping Tom and his bride, unable to get their bearings in the storm, will go ashore on the treacherous rocks. He ascends the steps of the base of the light and is confronted with the keeper. He must prevent the old man form ascending the tower and, after resorting to the bottle, he struggles with the aged keeper. There is a violent fight and old Nat, endowed with a strength that is almost superhuman, when he thinks of the peril of his daughter, overpowers the desperate young man and staggers up the stairs and lights the lamp. The fishing boat is shown in the terrible storm. The lights of the tower flash out across the waters, showing the haven of safety. Bert, enraged beyond reason, at his failure, staggers out of the lighthouse and, endeavoring to reach the mainland, falls off the walk and is drowned. His descent down the lighthouse steps is spectacular, falling and rolling down the steps in his mad fury. The storm continues and the ocean is shown with the waves running mountain high. The villagers congregate on the beach, praying for the safe return of the fishing smack. Finally, the waves having subsided, the boat is shown, making a landing with Polly and Tom safe, to the joy of their friends, the old father being conscious that his struggle with the younger man was not in vain.
- A loutish husband neglects his patient, loving wife to enjoy a night on the town. When he comes home drunk and irritable, he mistreats her. Then he falls asleep, and has a dream that causes him to reconsider the way that he treats his wife.
- Maude is a hero-worshiper. She loves Artie all right, but he is not just her ideal. She has her dream shattered when Artie evinces cowardice over a trivial matter and Maude is indignant. She tells him to get out and do things. Artie plans a coup by bribing a prize fighter to allow him to beat him up. He makes the affair entirely too realistic and the "pug" turns in and wallops him good and plenty. Artie is once more in disgrace but not out of the running. He has another brilliant idea, and to plan is to execute. He visits the home of Maude disguised as a burglar and robs her of her jewels. Quickly changing his attire, he appears in his proper person and the girl tells him of her loss, being terrified. By dint of quick changes, thanks to a costumer, Artie chases the supposed burglar about the place and finally ends it by presenting to Maude her jewels and the outer garments of the burglar as proof of his bravery and prowess just as her parents return from the opera and share in his glory. Artie has made it good and strong by shooting a hole through his hat and Maude is satisfied that he is a real man. She throws herself into his arms, radiantly happy that she has discovered her ideal, a hero who has covered himself with glory.
- A happy young couple are Guy Judson and his wife Dora, until she receives a letter from her parents advising her that her father is going to call for her to take her on a little excursion. When her father arrives, she joyfully greets him and quickly getting ready, goes away with him, but leaves behind her, in the spirit of fun, a little note for Guy. And therein begins the trouble. The note simply announces the fact that she has "gone away with a handsome man." Guy finds the note and immediately goes out of his head. He rushes to the nearest detective agency for assistance in recovering his spouse. Now, it happens that Abel Sharpe, as alleged detective, who has been refused employment by the manager of the agency, has sneaked into the office and made himself the possessor of a badge and is seated in the manager's chair when Guy arrives. To him Guy pours out his woes and is assured of his help at once. Taking from a box a lot of wigs, beards, etc., Abel accompanies Guy to his home and begins operations. Going forth he constantly changes his disguises and drags into Guy's house every young woman he meets, only to be told that he has the wrong woman. He seizes one girl at the railroad station about to get into a train, catches another one on the street and finally arrests Guy's colored cook as she leaves the front gate for an airing. Guy at last becomes so enraged that he kicks Abel about the room and leaves in disgust. Then all of Abel's victims, accompanied by a policeman, arrive on the scene and what is left of him is taken to a police station. After all the excitement is over, Dora arrives with her father and is kissing him farewell, when Guy enters and is about to attack the papa-in-law, when he discovers in time who the "handsomer man" really is and laughing heartily at his ludicrous mistake, he explains matters and describes his horrible sensations of the afternoon.
- In response to Lincoln's call for troops at the outset of the Civil War, Bill and Jim Clark leave for the front with the consent and blessing of their mother. The brothers take an affectionate farewell of their mother and sister, Louise and Anna. Their regiment is reviewed by President Lincoln and the soldiers march away with buoyant spirits and with loyal hearts. The story reverts to the front, after a battle scene, within the Union lines, the brother in the country of the enemy. They are doing picket duty, stationed on an outpost. They meet at the end of their rounds and Andrew Down, a rebel sharpshooter, comes upon them stealthily. He takes careful aim and shoots. Jim falls, apparently dead. Bill looks upon the body of his brother and is obsessed with rage and grief. Forgetting everything else in the knowledge that his brother has fallen, he dashes after the rebel. Dowd drops his gun and takes to his heels. Endowed with super-human strength Bill gains on Dowd, bent on revenge, and the race is a highly excited one. With strength almost spent Bill reaches Dowd, but catches hi foot under a root and falls. Dowd quickly turns and makes him his prisoner, securing his gun and covering him with the weapon. At this moment a detail of Union soldiers are seen coming towards them, and Dowd gives Bill to understand that if he will protect him, he will not shoot. Bill promises, and Dowd returns his gun. Bill threatens to shoot anyone who lays a hand on Dowd, claiming him as his prisoner. Dowd, a prisoner, repentant for shooting Jim, asks permission to nurse the brother, which is granted, and he gives him every attention. An order is brought for Jim to be sent home as he is convalescing, and at the same time Dowd is exchanged among other prisoners. Dowd expresses a desire to accompany Jim home safely and he is given the privilege. Jim and Dowd take an affectionate leave of Bill and starts north. Arriving at the Clark home the handsome young rebel makes a favorable impression notwithstanding the fact that he is an enemy and is responsible for the condition of Jim. Two weeks later Louise Clark and Andrew Dowd, the rebel, are discovered in the garden of the Clark grounds confessing their love for each other, the old, old story. Dowd takes leave of the Clark family and goes to join his regiment. He promises to return at the close of the war and claim Louise, and the scene of parting at the well is very affectionate. The story reverts to the time of peace after the war, the Fourth of July. The family is reunited. Jim, Bill and Down having returned alive. Dowd and his wife, Louise, and their children visit the Clark home. The children are given some fireworks and they start to fire them off. Jim goes to the flagpole in the yard and commences to hoist the Union flag. As the stars and stripes flutter in the breeze, Dowd turns to his relatives and, with his arm around his wife, exclaims, "This is our flag now." They cheer the flag, shake hands with the former rebel and the story closes with a display of fireworks to celebrate the occasion.
- Two sweethearts have a misunderstanding over pressed roses and pressed pants.
- Jimmie Keene is an ardent devotee of the manly art of self-defense and never misses a boxing match when he can help it. Jimmie's father, however, being a deacon in the church naturally frowns upon such affairs, regarding them as brutal and demoralizing. Jimmie buys a ticket for an exhibition of this nature, but in rushing out of the house to attend it, he drops his ticket and leaves without it. The ticket is picked up by the maid, who hands it to Deacon Keene, who regards it with horror. Jimmie returns in search of the lost pasteboard and finds that his father has it. The deacon starts to reprove Jimmie, but the latter turns defeat into victory, by persuading his father to accompany him and judge with his own eyes whether or not boxing exhibitions are a pernicious form of amusement. At the height of the "star bout," when everyone is yelling at the top of his lungs, even including Deacon Keene, who is thoroughly enjoying himself, the place is raided by the police. Jimmie and his father make a tolerable "getaway" down the fire escape, but are closely pursued by a persistent officer, who would certainly have "landed" the deacon had not Jimmie displayed some of his science and "handed" him and uppercut, which sent the policeman "to the mat," where he "took the count." Father and son arrive at their own garden wall and are just clearing it, when the officer overtakes them and making a grab at Jimmie, tears off a piece of his coat. When the policeman tries to follow them, he is stopped by the large and healthy family watchdog, and remains to argue the matter with him. When the fugitive arrives in the house, Elsie, Jimmie's sister, who is "wise" to the whole thing, assists Jimmie in disguising himself in the maid's clothes. The policeman, having pacified "Hector," enters and demands the surrender of the individual who has resisted arrest by knocking him down. Deacon Keene, who is found busily reading a deeply religious book and nursing a black eye, is surprised at the intrusion and denies knowledge of anything. The officer searches the house and finds the torn coat, which matches the piece of goods he still holds and insists upon an explanation. Then Jimmie appears as the maid, and by his coquettish arts wins the attention of the representative of the law to such an extent that he completely forgets his mission and being escorted to the kitchen, divides his time between drinking a bottle of beer and making love to the attractive domestic. He finally leaves, escorted to the back gate by Jimmie. When Jimmie returns to the library, he falls into his father's arms, who embraces him warmly. Jimmie's mother then appears, and is horrified at seeing her staid old husband in such a familiar attitude with a strange maid-servant. But the deacon laughs and says, as his son removes his false hair and cap, "Why, it's only Jimmie, having a little fun."
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- A mother loses her sanity when she loses her child. Her husband brings home a newly adopted child, and she regains her health.
- A framed inventor flees to England and catches a spy at Epsom.
- Fanchon is a fascinating little girl, the grandchild of Mother Fadet, who is suspected of witchery by the people among whom she lives. At the opening of the story Mother Fadet is being attacked by a crowd led by Father Barbaud, the father of Landry and Didier, his twin sons; the former, a handsome and bright lad, the latter a little weak and foolish. The old woman is about to be beaten when Fanchon arrives, and she also is beset by the men and both are in danger, until Landry appears on the scene and upbraids the mob. He is attracted by the beauty of the little madcap, who thanks him as he leaves her. The foolish Didier is in love with Madelon, the belle of the village, who scorns him, and who is in love with the handsome brother. Didier is heartbroken and tells them he is going to commit suicide. He rushes away but is prevented from carrying out his intention by Fanchon, who follows him until he, tired, falls asleep in a clump of bushes. Landry seeks everywhere for his brother, even asking aid of the witch. She refuses to assist him, but meeting Fanchon, he asks for her help. This she promises if he will agree to dance whatever dance she may select at the fete to be held the next day. He, anxious to find his brother, consents, and she leads him to the spot where Didier sleeps. The next day while the festivities are in progress, Fanchon, dressed in the old-fashioned clothes of her grandmother, appears and demands her dance with Landry. This he is dancing with Madelon, but being a man of his word, he asks her to excuse him and then takes Fanchon as his partner. Madelon, angered at the manner in which Landry has treated her, tells the others that Fanchon has bewitched him by the aid of a witch's claw she always wears round her neck in a bag. She incites the mob, and they attack Fanchon, demanding to see the contents of the bag. This she hands to Landry, who reads on the paper "The Prayer of the Pure Maiden to the Holy Mother of Grace." Abashed, the mob leave the unhappy girl, who rushes home and tears off the clothes which she feels are the cause of her misery. To get away from Landry, whom she now loves, she accepts an offer to go to the city, although he begs her to remain and marry him. Later the grandmother dies and appoints Landry's father as her guardian. She returns to her home and going to Father Barbaud asks him if he will accept the charge. At first he refuses, but realizing that the happiness of his son depends upon his marriage to the now demure Fanchon, he consents, and the formerly despised madcap has the pleasure of being begged by the old gentleman to marry his son. Needless to say she does.
- Jack Haskins and Jim Darrow are rivals for the hand of Bess Kemp. Haskins is the favored suitor, whereat Darrow is furious. Fort Sumter is fired upon and there is a call for volunteers. A company is formed and Jack Haskins is made captain. Dave, the brother of Bess, has enlisted as a drummer boy. Jim Darrow applies and is duly made a member of the company. The scene reverts to the front with Jack and a small body of men fighting desperately to hold an outpost against the onslaught of the enemy. Jim Darrow is dispatched with an order for reinforcements. At a lonely spot on the road, he reads the note and conceives a plot to humiliate Jack. He forges a dispatch ordering Jack to retreat. Jack does so, with little Dave by his side. A shell explodes near them and the arm of Jack is torn off and Dave receives a mortal wound. Jack is in the act of placing the order in his pocket when he is struck by the missile, but it drops to the ground. The boy staggers towards him and, in a dazed condition, places the dispatch in his pocket, being unable to reach Jack, and falls dead. Jack, recovered from his wound, with an empty sleeve, is summoned before his superior officers, courtmartialed and sent home, branded as a coward on the evidence of Jim. The scene reverts to the north. An officer brings the coat and cap worn by Dave to Bess and gives her a letter from Jack, who writes that he has been proven a coward and releases her from their engagement. Twenty years have now passed. It is Memorial Day and the Union survivors of the war are having their annual parade. In her home Bess, now a saddened unmarried woman, sees the old soldiers march past. She gets the clothing of her dead brother to wave out of the window and the forged dispatch drops out of the pocket where it has lain so long. She reads with dilated eyes and then rushes to the street. Jack is surprised to find his old comrades at his window yelling for him to come out. He is told the forged dispatch has been found which proves his innocence. He rushes from his house to clasp Bess in his arms and to be placed at the head of the soldiers, in command. Three rousing cheers are given for Captain Jack Haskins and the old veterans march away. The closing scene is at the cemetery with Jack and Bess decorating the grave of Dave, with the grizzled veterans in the background.
- Mrs. Harry Hawkins has the ill fortune to drop her chain purse on the street and the still greater misfortune to have it picked up by Cyril Percy, who returns it to her in a most gushing manner. After she has thanked him and turned to walk away, he gazes at her receding form, enraptured by her appearance and straight-way follows her. When she reaches her home, he again accosts her, but she escapes him by running into the house and slamming the door in his face. Cyril, however, belongs to the persistent and irrepressible order of mashers, and so running around the house and climbing up onto a snowbank, he peers into a window, and seeing her inside telling her trouble to Molly, the maid, he raises the window and entering the room, rushes to her side and declares his undying affection for her. She beats a hasty retreat, ordering Molly to show him the door. He is not at all discouraged by his reception, but handing Molly a liberal tip, begs her to secrete him somewhere until he has the opportunity of meeting his inamorata again. Molly puts him in a large closet and then, looking out of the window, sees her sweetheart, Mike Dugan, a second-rate heavyweight prize fighter. She invites him in and explains the situation to him and asks him to throw the unwelcome visitor out of the house. Before, however, she can tell him where Cyril is concealed, she is called from the room. Then Harry Hawkins, the husband, who has been away on a trip, arrives home and as he answers to the description of Cyril, Mike "gets busy" and with a mighty lift, shoots Hawkins through the window onto the snowbank. Mrs. Hawkins and Molly then enter and Mike tells them that he has done what he was requested to do. Mrs. Hawking is delighted and thanking him heartily, she rewards him by giving him a bill of a large denomination. The three of them leave the room. Poor Hawkins has by this time gathered himself together and returned to the house, where he meets Cyril, who has come from the closet. Cyril is busy explaining that he has called on business, when Mike re-enters the room, and while Cyril again returns to his closet, seizes Hawkins and once more fires him from the window. Hawkins is again entering the front door when he meets the expressman with his trunk and quickly unpacking it, he gets into it and orders the man to deliver him inside. His orders are obeyed and he once more finds himself back in the room. As he starts to raise the lid, he hears someone coming and lets it fall back into place. Mrs. Hawkins, Molly and Mike are entering the room just as the lid falls and thinking the ubiquitous Cyril is concealed in the trunk, Mike picks it up and hurls it from the window and Hawkins again lands on the snowbank. Then Mike recalls the expressman and orders him to take the trunk away. Hawkins falls through the bottom of the trunk and again braves the front door. No sooner does Mike see him than he seizes him and is proceeding to shake the life out of him, when Mrs. Hawkins rushes to the rescue and explains matters. Then Cyril, the unsuppressible, peers curiously and cautiously from his hiding place and, well, he also goes flying through the window, propelled by the united efforts of Mike and Hawkins, and peace at last spreads her wings over the home of the Hawkinses.
- Dorothy is beloved by Dick and Paul, who are both persistent in their attentions. Dorothy is apparently unable to decide between them and is quite perplexed. She has been impartial in her favors, but the young men press her for an answer. She is walking alone when she passes the residence of a fortune teller and is possessed of a happy thought. She will consult the seeress as a way out of her dilemma. She goes in and crosses the palm of the delver into the past and future and is enlightened. Dick sees her enter the house and, surmising her mission, gains admission to an adjoining room by bribing the woman in waiting. He hears the instructions of the fortune teller, who informs the girl that if she will rise at midnight, descend the stairs in her sleeping robe, walk a certain number of steps, turn the required number of times, and hold a candle to the mirror, she will see the face of the man she is destined to marry. Dick is made acquainted with this by listening at the keyhole and is elated. At midnight he gains entrance to the home of Dorothy by adopting heroic measures, climbing the porch like an ordinary burglar. Paul discovers his actions and, under the impression that Dick is about to circumvent him in some way, summons a policeman and they enter the house. In the meantime, Dick clad in his stocking feet, has taken a position near the mirror to await the coming of Dorothy, who soon puts in an appearance. She follows the instruction of the seeress to the letter, with Dick, jubilant, imitating her movements. She gazes in the mirror, and the fortune teller builded better than she knew, for the face of Dick is photographed on the mirror. Dorothy turns and is too quick for Dick, and his little ruse is discovered. The humor of the situation dawns on the girl and, of course, Dick is forgiven for his deception, just as Paul and the policeman break into the scene. By bribing the officer, Dick turns the attentions of that worthy on Paul and the copper marches off with the lover who lost, and there is a pretty scene in which Dorothy and Dick are the principals. Dorothy pleased at her choice and Dick radiantly happy at the result of his little strategy.