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- A nice young couple moves to a community where the bonds of matrimony are not held in much respect and where it is fashionable to carry on with one not one's spouse.
- A young wife slaves for her cad of a husband. When she learns that he has been "stepping out" with his secretary, she gets revenge by going after the attentions of her husband's employer.
- Judge Lowell creates The Society for the Uplift of the Negro to satisfy his passion for the equality of the races and to further his own political ambitions. At Tuskegee Institute, Lowell meets Alexander Marshall, an extremely bright mulatto student. As Marshall shares Lowell's dream to see the intermarriage of the races result in equality, he becomes Lowell's private secretary and passes for the son of a wealthy Creole abolitionist in order to raise money for their organization. Lowell's daughter Margaret falls in love with Marshall, who satisfies his lustful "instincts" in brothels. After Margaret recoils from his advances, Marshall encounters Belle Andrews, a good-looking maid who earlier flirted with him, and kisses her against her will. Margaret comes to apologize and witnesses Marshall inadvertently kill Belle as he clasps her throat to stop her from shrieking. During Marshall's trial, Margaret admits that she married Marshall, but a young mulatto woman testifies that she is really Marshall's wife, and a black woman reveals that she is his mother. Lowell, horrified to learn of Marshall's marriage to Margaret, throws the book he had been writing, which advocates full equality, into the fire. Marshall is taken to prison, where he madly clutches the bars.
- Unhappily married to Sir Robert Grimwood, an older man whose only passion is chess, Lady Marion finds solace in the arrival of her old suitor, John Heritage. Soon after Heritage's departure, Sir Robert's body is found floating in the lake. Subsequently, a suicide note is delivered to Lady Marion, charging that her husband's death was caused by Marion's love for Heritage. Lord Waverly, the owner of an adjacent estate, orders his servant Ling Foo to steal the letter, and then demands that Marion meet him or he will expose the scandal behind her husband's death. Arriving at the appointed rendezvous, Marion is assaulted by Waverly. Heritage comes to her rescue and Waverly, in a dazed state, falls to his death over a cliff. Through a series of deductions, Heritage discovers that the bizarre deaths were caused by Ling Foo who years earlier had sworn revenge on Sir Robert for the death of his son. Lady Marion then burns the incriminating letter, destroying the last barrier between herself and Heritage.
- In a prologue, as a woman pages through a book, male figures, including a musketeer, a cowboy, a swordsman and a military officer, appear and bow. In the main story, the visit of Prince Ferdinandi sends New York society ladies scurrying to purchase gowns for the upcoming ball. The woman seen earlier looking longingly at the book, model Marjorie Bowen, fights off the advances of Cadwallader Smith, who accompanies a patron. When handsome Sir Derwain Leeds, the prince's aide-de-camp, arrives to see his fiancée Yvette Fernau outfitted, Marjorie exchanges a shy smile with him. After Derwain leaves, Marjorie overhears Yvette and Cadwallader plot to obtain proof of the prince's affair with a married woman. The next evening, Marjorie is mistaken for Yvette and abducted to lure the pursuing Derwain to a deserted house. There she convinces Derwain that Yvette is a conspirator. At the ball, Marjorie, posing as Yvette, obtains an incriminating letter about the prince's liaison. After Marjorie struggles with Yvette and hides the letter in her silk hose, Derwain reveals that he is really a U.S. Secret Service man and kisses her. Later, Marjorie is not sure whether she dreamed her adventure or not.
- Dorothy Warner, a ten-dollar-a-week shop girl, is saved from arrest by Congressman George Graham, who spots her in a store stealing a doll for her sick sister. Afterwards, Graham takes Dorothy home, where her sister has just died, and later hires her as his secretary. The dandy-ish Graham then invites Dorothy for a drive, and when a storm blows in the couple is forced to spend the night together in a country inn. With her honor compromised, Dorothy suggests marriage, but Graham informs her that he has a wife already. Deeply in love, Dorothy accepts an extramarital arrangement and soon discovers she is pregnant. Taken with Dorothy's beauty, Steve McNott, a political boss, resolves to win her and writes to Graham's wife, telling her of her husband's affair. At first unbelieving, Mrs. Graham eventually sees Dorothy and demands that she terminate the relationship. Despite protests from Graham, Dorothy agrees never to see the Congressman again and goes off.
- Ezry is a hardworking hired man who saves his money carefully in the hopes one day of going to college. But when his girlfriend's brother gets in trouble for bank robbery, Ezry tries to help out by offering his savings in exchange for the stolen funds.
- After being dishonored by noted artist Fielding Powell, struggling model Paula Lee resigns herself to living as his mistress until a misunderstanding causes their separation. Paula meets and falls in love with Powell's old friend Dr. Melfi, and they marry and are happy until Powell pays a visit to Dr. Melfi and is astonished when Paula is introduced to him as Melfi's wife. His old desires aroused, he forces a promise from her to visit him that night. In his home, he demands that their old relationship be continued as the price of his silence. Paula tries to escape and is struggling with him when Melfi's servant, desiring to avenge his sister's honor, which had been destroyed by Powell, plunges a knife into the artist's heart. Dr. Melfi is summoned and arrives in time to hear Powell confess that he was responsible for Paula's predicament.
- Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.