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- The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm.
- When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
- Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.
- Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.
- Charlie does everything but an efficient job as janitor. Edna buys her fiance, the cashier, a birthday present. Charlie thinks "To Charles with Love" is for him. He presents her a rose which she throws in the garbage. Depressed, Charlie dreams of a bank robbery and his heroic role in saving the manager and Edna ... but it is only a dream.
- Charlie is trying to get a job in a movie. After causing difficulty on the set, he is told to help the carpenter. When one of the actors doesn't show, Charlie is given a chance to act but instead enters a dice game. When he does finally act, he ruins the scene, wrecks the set, and tears the skirt from the star.
- Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a fruit stand and samples the fruit. When he goes to pay for it he finds his $5.00 is missing. This results in a battle with the fruit dealer, but Chaplin finally escapes. He is held up by a footpad and finds it is his former cellmate. He is inveigled into joining him in robbing a house. They put a police officer out of commission with a mallet and stack up the silverware. They then start upstairs to search the upper rooms, but are met by a young woman who implores them to leave because her mother is ill and fears the shock will kill her. Chaplin's heart is touched but the footpad insists on ransacking the house. This results in a battle between the footpad and Chaplin. While they are fighting, a squad of police arrives. The footpad makes his escape, but the police capture Chaplin. The woman of the house, however, saves him by telling the police he is her husband. She gives him a dollar and he leaves. He goes to a lodging house and in order to save his dollar from thieves puts it in his mouth, swallowing it while he sleeps. A crook robs all the men in the lodging house but Chaplin takes the money away from him, and also the rings his "pal" had stolen. This starts a battle in which all join. Chaplin flees. In order to do a good turn to the woman who had saved him from the police, he takes her rings back.
- After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.
- Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.
- An amorous couple. A crook. A policeman. A nursemaid and a stolen handbag. These are some of the things the Little Tramp encounters during a walk in the park.
- A man disguises himself as a lady in order to be near his newfound sweetheart, after her father has forbidden her to see him.
- Intent on scuttling his ship, a financially-pressed shipowner conspires with the vessel's captain to collect the insurance money, unbeknownst to him that his daughter and her beau, Charlie, are aboard. Will they get away with it so easily?
- Chase Me Charlie was an anthology consisting of excerpts from several of Chaplin's short films made for the Essanay Company, including The Tramp, Shanghaied, In the Park and The Bank.
- Efficiency wins success in business; why not in love? Edgar Bumpus, a rising young man, applies this reasoning to his courtship of Mary Pierce. He first eliminates Wimple, his closest competitor, who plays a guitar, by learning to play a saxophone, which makes louder noise, and by sending Mary flowers and candy each time Wimple calls on her. The plan works O.K., until the saxophone disturbs Mr. Pierce's slumbers. He and Edgar clash and the latter is forbidden to visit Mary any more. Edgar employs a clipping bureau to send news items to Mr. Pierce which tells of the troubles young girls get into when their fathers refuse to let them have beaux. One eloped with a milkman; another disappeared. This has no effect upon Mr. Pierce, however, except to make him hate Edgar more. However, the youth's persistence finally wins Mary's love. Then Edgar plays his trump card. He gets Mary to sign a legal agreement to forfeit $10,000 to him, unless she marries him. The two then confront Mr. Pierce with this document. Rather than lose the money, he consents to lose his daughter, the only stipulation being that Edgar will throw away his saxophone. Thus efficiency triumphs.
- A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.
- Mr. Flip flirts with every woman he sees, and ends up with a pie, shaving cream, and seltzer in his face.
- Foreign agents try to steal a wireless explosive from an inventor. Only the clueless Little Tramp and the Keystone Cops can stop them.
- Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.
- It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.
- A lone prospector comes to a cabin in the woods where he seeks food and lodging. There he meets a woman and her small daughter who put him up. Soon her father and brother, miners, arrive and are uneasy with the stranger. That night, they plan to rob him, but the woman alerts him and helps him fend off his attackers. This gesture moves the prospector to marry the woman.
- Rev. Paul Manson, pastor of St. Mark's Church, is ordered to the country for his health. While he is sojourning in a lumber camp with Wilks, his guide, he reads of his "sudden death" in his home-town newspaper. Rev. Manson has longed to clean up the slums of his city, and decides to return incognito and do so. Upon his return he is met by a street urchin, Sid Farley, who recognizes him as his missing father, Joe Farley. Rev. Manson is recognized by the boy's mother, Mary, also, as her husband, and he does not deny it. Under the guise of Joe Farley, Rev. Manson begins the work of uplifting the slum district. Though he does not live at Mary's home, declaring he is tired of her, Manson gradually recognizes her good impulses and falls in love with her. Manson has just triumphed over an evil political ring in the slums when he is recognized by Mrs. Sewell Wright as the supposedly dead Rev. Manson. But having attained his ambition in the slums he remains there, marrying Mary.
- Helen Steele, who has theatrical aspirations, has been told by Sidney Parker that, owing to her lack of stage experience he cannot entertain her proposition of giving her the leading part in his new production, "The Siren." Believing that she can get Parker to consent if she is persuasive enough, Helen has her fiancé, Henry Tracey, invite the theatrical manager to the party to be given by John W. Cannell so that she may work upon him. At the affair Helen manages to obtain Parker's consent to give her a trial it she is successful in having Jack Craigen, a friend of Cannell, who has been living in Patagonia for a long time and who is a woman hater, propose to her. Helen works her wiles upon the adamant Craigen and finally elicits a proposal from him. The guests in the next room, who have been listening, come out at the critical moment, and congratulate her. Craigen demands an explanation, and he is told that it is all a joke. He refuses to accept the incident in such a light, however, and makes preparations to leave for his home in the mountains. At this juncture. Tracey, who had been called out of town on important business before the commencement of the party, returns. When told of Helen's episode with Craigen he becomes very angry and upbraids her. Tracey then goes in search of Craigen, whom he does not know, and mistaking Keen Fitzpatrick, a reporter, who has been waiting in the next room for an interview with Craigen on Patagonia, for the man he is in search of, he starts to pour a scathing indictment upon him. The guests hear the tirade and inform Tracey of the identity of the man to whom he is speaking. Meanwhile Craigen, having packed his belongings, is leaving in his auto. As he is passing the back entrance, Helen jumps in front of his auto and tells him that, inasmuch as he does not know anything about women he should adopt the Patagonian savage method and carry her off to his home where he could study her. He puts her suggestion into effect and Helen is carried off in the auto to his home in the woods, where he brutally orders her about. She attempts to escape, and Craigen chains her to the floor. While he leaves her for a moment to put his car into the garage, "Boney," an escaped lunatic, makes his way into the cabin. He styles himself Napoleon Bonaparte, and raves about his armies. As he is swinging his sword about the room, Craigen appears, and by diplomacy succeeds in getting "Boney" upstairs to review his armies where he is locked in a room. Craigen returns to Helen. His back is turned to her and she knocks him unconscious with the telephone. Taking the keys from his pocket, she releases herself and escapes into the woods. Craigen recovers his senses and, finding the note Helen left informing him that she feels sorry for her action and has gone for help, fears for her safety, and goes out in search of her. During his absence Fitzpatrick, who was trailing, arrives. On searching through the house for Craigen, he comes upon "Boney," whom he takes to be the man he is searching for. He demands to know where the girl is, but "Boney" only raves about his armies. The two are just on the point of clashing when Craigen returns. He reveals his identity to the reporter, and tells him that Helen has fled into the woods. The asylum keepers trace "Boney" to Craigen's home, and take him away. Tracey, who has also been following, arrives at the cabin and confronts Craigen with a revolver. He demands Helen or his life. Craigen manages to convince Tracey, after an argument, that Helen has fled into the woods. Helen has seen Tracey's car going in the direction of Craigen's home, and fearing trouble, makes her way back. She arrives just after Tracey has left. The other members of the house party arrive to take Helen back, but she refuses to leave Craigen.
- Edgar Allan Poe, while at college, incurs many debts and is sent home in disgrace. He is ordered from the house by his father. Shortly after, he marries, and tries to make a living by writing, but is a failure financially. His wife dies because he is unable to furnish her with even the bare necessities of life. He is plunged into great grief and despair. All night he sits brooding over his loss. Through his distorted imagination he sees the ominous raven enter his chamber and croak gloomy forebodings. The spirit of his wife also appears and finally he himself dies, and is wafted to heights supernal, where he is united with his "Lenore."
- Because her father breaks her engagement to a young man, Jane, a spoiled girl of luxury, retires to a country hospital of which her father is a director, in order to sulk and give vent to her feelings. She and her father have many tilts over her stubbornness, and Jane is perpetually victor. Her father discharges the flirtatious hospital superintendent one day, and that worthy leaves, taking with him the entire staff and leaving the hospital isolated and cut off from the world. That evening, the "red-haired person," the new superintendent, arrives and his experiences with the hungry patients, not to mention the bad-tempered Jane, serve as a background for a most delightful little comedy. Suffice to say, Jane, for once in her life, meets her match in the "red-haired person," but she rather enjoys being bossed, and an ultimate midnight episode in which she is the moving factor, brings father, the next morning at dawn with three autos loaded with assistance, only to burst in on the greatest surprise of his life. But we'll not discuss it here.
- "Billy" Bell, orphaned by a sea disaster, lives with her rich grandfather and has won a warm place in the old man's heart. The Appersons, avaricious relatives, have their eyes on his wealth, and fearful lest "Billy" get the most of it, seek a means to oust the little girl. But Grandfather Bell suspects the plot, and gets his family doctor to announce that he is dying. Immediately the Appersons throw "Billy" from the home and usurp everything for themselves. At this moment Bell appears. Driving the designing Appersons from his home, he recovers "Billy" and proclaims her his "guiding hand."
- The subject illustrates the eventful life of the James and Ford brothers, from the .time the former left their home after the attempted lynching of Dr. Samuels to the surrender of Frank James to Governor Crittenden of Missouri. Among the thrilling and vividly graphic incidents are the "hold up" at the County Fair in Kansas City, and the robbery of the Chicago and Alton train, showing a race between rough riders and a locomotive. The death of Jesse is depicted, according to history.
- Dr. Jameson, a widower, has a daughter of five, who he feels is sadly in need of a mother. After some thought the doctor decides to propose to Nan Warren, a young western woman, working a claim alone on the hillside. His courtship is successful as she accepts him but hardly has he left the house when a young man, an old acquaintance of the girl, enters and tells her of his love. Jameson finds them making love and realizes that he must give up his claim to the girl. A month after the marriage Nan's husband is hurt at the mine and the doctor is sent for. He refuses to go. Nan herself comes and pleads with him and he finally consents to go. It is a difficult operation and temptation comes when he realizes that the slightest slip of the scalpel will cause the man's death. Why not? The doctor suddenly realizes the enormity of the crime he is about to commit, sets resolutely to work, and the operation is successful.
- Jack Hartley, the foreman of the Triple X Ranch, is engaged to Nellie Monroe, the ranch owner's daughter. A quarrel starts between Jack and "Red" Williams, a cow-puncher, when the latter first makes advances to Nellie, and second, when Williams abuses a faithful Indian ranch hand. On this latter occasion Jack is unable to restrain his temper and the result is a short fist fight in which Williams is defeated. Smarting under the punishment, Williams seeks revenge. For some time the miscreant cow-puncher has been in league with a bunch of cattle rustlers, whose several attempts at a raid on the Triple X cattle, however, have brought them nothing, and due entirely to the alertness of Hartley, the foreman. They have sufficient cause to hate the manly young fellow and when Williams, after having been put out by the foreman, stalks into their camp, begging them to join him in obtaining his revenge, all are willing. That they must be cautious, however, is plain to them when another of the band joins them, bringing in tow Indian Pete, whom he had found spying about the shack. When Williams sees the Indian and recalls that he was the cause of his beating from Hartley he is in favor of killing the Indian, but the others restrain him. Having settled upon a plan of revenge, Williams is dispatched with a slip of paper, bearing a few words scrawled in lead pencil which is to be the undoing of Hartley, providing, of course, the game works right. The others ride off leisurely to the Tripe X horse corral and make away with a dozen or more ponies, while Williams is to work his end of the same with Hartley. He finds Hartley at another part of the ranch and succeeds in establishing a reconciliation, after confessing his wrong and pleading forgiveness. Hartley gives him his hand and brings out his cigarette paper and tobacco when Williams asks for "the makin's." When Hartley is not looking Williams slips the bit of paper in among the rice wrappings, then bids Hartley good-bye and leaves to put the finishing touches to his nefarious scheme. A few minutes later he rides excitedly up to the ranch house and calls loudly for Monroe When the old ranchman appears, Williams tells him of the stealing of the ponies, and adds further, "And I know who's at the back of this dirty trick. It's Hartley. If you don't believe it, I can prove it." The alarm is given and Hartley, unsuspicious of the conspiracy, comes running on the scene. A little crowd has gathered when Williams makes his accusation: "I saw him with a bunch of greasers this morning, and I saw him get a note from them fifteen minutes ago, and that note is in the pocket of his shirt. Search him." The astonished and enraged Hartley is seized and searched. The note is found and reads: "Jack Hartley. Got the horses all O.K. and will divide with you to-night. Meet us at the usual place. The Bunch." Hartley is given no attempt to defend himself, despite Nellie's desperate pleadings. He is ordered to mount his horse and leads the procession on the way to execution. In the meantime, Indian Pete, left with a drunken cowboy, makes his getaway and, with his hands still tied behind him, mounts a horse and rides desperately back to the ranch. There is no one there but the heart-broken girl. He tells her everything as she releases him and the two mount and ride at top speed to the scene of the execution. They are just in time. The Indian proves Hartley innocent and Williams is seized and stood in Hartley's place. The film ends here, with the embrace of the lovers.
- DR. John Lancaster lives in dread of a family secret from his past being exposed, and makes him act in irrational ways, even with his fiancée Joan Wentworth.
- Buffalo Bill is shown in the early days of his thrilling career as a pony express rider in the pioneer west; later as hunter of buffaloes and then as the chief Indian scout for the United States army. Appearing with Buffalo Bill in the picturization of the Indian battles which follow are Lieutenant-General Nelson A. Miles, Major-General Jesse M. Lee, and Brigadier-General Frank D. Baldwin and Marion P. Maus and other heroic figures of the pioneer days. Historically accurate versions of the Battle of Summit Springs, the Battle of Warbonnet, Col. Cody's knife duel with the Sioux Chief Yellow Hand and his fight with Chief Tall Bull, in which the Indians were killed are shown. Five thousand United States troops and Indians participate in the battles. Buffalo Bill's later life, giving intimate glimpses of him at home and, of his great hunting expeditions, including that on which he guided the Prince of Monaco after big game in the Rockies, conclude this picture.
- Broncho Billy comes between a Mexican thug and the young woman he is disturbing. The Mexican plots revenge for the insult and captures Billy, who has rescued a lost old man. The young woman discovers Billy being held prisoner and rides for help. The townsmen gallop toward Billy's rescue.
- An old man plots to have his enemy's son convicted of his own murder.
- Matt Malone, a highwayman and night rider who has long baffled the police authorities, loves Nona McMahon, posing with her as a cowboy from up country. The McMahons are in trouble and old McMahon has been forced to mortgage the homestead. The money lender has been lenient up to this time, but, struck by the beauty of Nona McMahon, he endeavors to win her love. But she declines his offer. The lender, named McDermott, threatens foreclosure. In the meantime, Malone has been idle. It is his desire to make one grand coup and quit the game for good. He hears that the mountain stage coach is soon to carry a large amount of gold, and he decides to make a try for the loot. The hold-up occurs, but it's not as profitable as he expected. Also, he fears his identity has been discovered. He returns to his dugout, resolved to see his sweetheart and then quit the country. On his way to the girl's home he sees a notice posted by the sheriff, offering a reward of $5,000 for Malone's capture. He shoots down the sign and rides off to McMahon's. The girl greets him pleasantly. Their conversation drifts to McMahon's financial troubles, and the girl shows Malone a note from McDermott, stating that $5,000 must be paid the day after or they must vacate. Malone decides to tell the girl everything, and insists that she turn him over to the sheriff and gain the reward. He thrusts a revolver in her hands just as the sheriff enters. The manacles are slipped on and Malone and the sheriff go into the jail as the girl drops sobbing on the doorstep.
- Broncho Billy learns that part of his land is occupied by a "squatter." He orders the "squatter" evicted. The latter starts out to kill Billy, but Bessie, the "squatter's" daughter, prevents him. She pleads with Billy to permit them to remain on the land. Billy immediately falls in love with her. He returns with the girl to the "squatter's" house only to find that it has been burned by a posse sent to evict the father and daughter. Billy offers them his own home and then writes his mother he "has a hunch" he is going to be married soon.
- William Skinner is very pleased with the news his wife Honey is expecting their first child. He eagerly prepares for the new arrival, as he is sure it will be the next William Skinner Jr. When the bundle of joy finally arrives, much to his surprise, it's a girl. However, Honey and William are just as happy as if she were a he.
- A tramp on roller skates.
- Drowsy Duster, a genial specimen of the genus "hobo" is the target for an old maid who, taking advantage of leap year, proposes to him. He finally tells her to get the license and he will wait. The moment she is gone he flees for his life. Drowsy now goes to sleep before a classy billboard on which is depicted "La Belle Cassie," a noted actress. Suddenly Cassie comes to life, steps out of the sign and asks Drowsy to escort her home. He joyfully does so where he obtains a shave and swell clothes. Cassie now takes him to the theater, where Drowsy is suddenly called upon to take the part of the hero, who is ill. Drowsy costumes up in old Roman style, rehearses his role of sawing off the villain's bead and is a great hit. The manager engages him on the spot at a fabulous salary, the curtain goes up. Drowsy and Cassie prepare to make their entrance when, Drowsy is rudely jerked to his feet and gazes into the grinning face of the old maid, who has returned with the marriage license and a minister. With despairing looks toward the billboard, and cursing his beautiful dream. Drowsy is forced to listen to the minister toll off the words that unites him for life to the old maid.
- Buster Brown and Tige, in real life enjoy their creator's caricature of them. Having purchased box seats at a theater where R. F. Outcault is appearing, they are given a splendid opportunity to see themselves as others see them. R. F. Outcault enjoys the entertainment as much as his protégés, and delights in giving their secrets away to the public.
- American sailor Allan Carroll, an American sailor, is shipwrecked of the coast of Japan in the 19th century. He makes it to shore and is rescued by kind Yori. The local ruler, Prince Iku, has ordered that all foreigners who are "trespassing" on Japanese soil should be killed. He hears about a foreign sailor who washed ashore and has been hidden by villagers, so he sends his sister Omi San to investigate. She finds Alan, and instead of turning him in to be executed, she falls in love with him. Prince Iku captures both Allan and Yori and intends to execute both of them. Complications ensue.
- Graustark needs thirty million dollars to satisfy a Russian loan. The Prince of Dawsbergen, ruler of the adjoining principality, will advance the money if the young Prince of Graustark marries his daughter. Prince Robin, however, inherits an independent spirit, his father having been an American. He refuses absolutely to marry a Princess whom he has never seen. His councilors plead in vain. With the ruin of his country imminent, the boy ruler hastily sails for America to negotiate the loan, hoping at the same time to meet the girl of his dreams. The money is readily advanced by William W. Blithers, a self-made millionaire anxious to have his daughter marry into royalty. The daughter, however, avoids the Prince and he does not see her. He rescues a girl from drowning and falls in love with her. He believes her to be Blithers' daughter, but she does not reveal her identity. Simultaneous with the Prince's departure for home comes a note to Blithers from his daughter that she has sailed for Europe to escape the Prince. Blithers is elated. He is certain they will meet on shipboard. The Prince does meet the girl he loves. In Paris he makes a tryst with her and they are arrested for speeding. Before any sentence can be passed upon her, however, a diplomatic document reaches the court and they are freed. The Prince believes the power of Blithers to be world-wide. The night of his return to Graustark with the welcome news of the loan, the Prince of Dawsbergen is a guest at the palace. A mysterious note calls the younger man to the terrace. There he meets the girl. He tells her that even though she is Blithers' daughter, he wants to marry her. Taking her into the palace he announces her to the councilors as his future bride. He cannot account for their approving smile. "There is your father," he tells the girl as Blithers, who followed them across the ocean, enters the room. She laughs. "No, my father is over there," she exclaims, pointing to the Prince of Dawsbergen. The energetic Blithers explodes when he learns the news. He recovers himself, however, and says: "Congratulations. Prince. I can be a good loser."
- A newly married man finds it impossible to get along with his wife's mother, who lives with the couple, and plans to get rid of her. He receives an advertisement from a hypnotic school, which informs him he can learn to hypnotize by mail. He has an idea that he can hypnotize his mother-in-law, thereby making her leave his home. He receives the lessons and proceeds to learn the art. He practices continually wherever he goes. In the street car he scares passengers with funny antics; runs into a man carrying a sack of flour; makes his mother-in-law pack her belongings and leave his home. The amateur hypnotist meets his Waterloo when the indignant old lady finds him later.
- Sweedie, the cook, decides that it would be nice to learn to swim, so goes to a "dry land" swimming class for instruction. She is thrown out of the class after fighting with several of the members and goes home, where she fills the bathtub with water and proceeds to learn to swim. After the water is knee deep in the room, she also practices a little fancy diving. By this time the plaster has begun to fall on the floor below, where a card game is going on. The members of the family rush upstairs and find Sweedie having the time of her life. A riot call is sent in to the police, and when they arrive they find Sweedie holding off the entire family with a club. They all then chase her out of the house and finally capture her in the lake.
- Young Frank McLain loses his position in the east, and resolves to go west to prospect for gold. Arrangements are made that he leave his wife at home, and send for her later, as soon as he has found a position. Frank's prospecting proves a failure, and he is without funds, when his plight is made more severe by receiving a letter from Alice, his wife, stating that she also is out of money, and is threatened with expulsion from their home by the landlord. It is at this moment of despair that an escaping bandit, one "Bad" White, as he is known, enters Frank's cabin, begging protection from the sheriff and posse, who are in hot pursuit, promising Frank a bag of gold if he will secret him someplace about the prospector's quarters. Frank hesitates but a moment, and, finding the temptation too strong to resist, yields. The sheriff enters, and asks Frank if he has seen White, and then leaves when Frank says he has not. Later, Mrs. McLain receives money from her husband, and decides to go west without notifying Frank. She arrives, and takes the stagecoach to Snaketown, a mining town, unaware that her husband and "Bad" White have made plans to hold up the very stage upon which she is a passenger. White, however, learns of her arrival in time to forestall the hold-up, and later, when Frank and his wife meet, the two resolve to give up the game of outlawry, happy at having escaped the disastrous end of Frank's romance, which would surely have occurred had the hold-up happened.
- Broncho Billy saves an Indian from starvation. The Indian's intelligence is soon discovered by Broncho, who determines to make the red man a partner in his prospecting camp. An accident renders the prospector unconscious and the Indian hastens to the village for a doctor. The physician discovers that Broncho Billy's marred face is filled with dirt and gold. He tries to bribe the Indian. "Where did the explosion occur? See, Buck, I'm going to give you this money, tell me?" But the Indian is loyal. With the aid of two or three miners, the Indian is overpowered in Broncho Billy's shack, yet he will not tell them where the prospector has been working. Regaining consciousness, Broncho Billy enters the adjoining room in time to save the red man from the hands of the outraged miners, and the prospector voices his appreciation of the Indian's loyalty.
- The story opens in a bank in Minneapolis. Fred Wentworth, one of the clerks, is sent out on a message, and while he is gone the cashier is shot dead by Frank Davis, a robber and bad man generally. Davis secures a package of bank notes and hurriedly departs. On his way to the street he runs into Fred Wentworth (who is returning to the bank) with such force that he drops the package. He recognizes Wentworth and, fearful of arrest, rushes away and catches a northbound train that is just pulling out. Wentworth stops amazed and lifts the package. Entering the bank, he discovers the dead cashier and a revolver on the floor. Horrified, he lifts the revolver, and while holding it and the package of bills in his hands the president of the bank enters. The proofs of murder are so clear that Wentworth is sentenced to life imprisonment in the penitentiary. Frank Davis, in the meantime, has gone to one of his old haunts in the North, near the boundary line. He induces one of his former associates to join him in whiskey-running across the border. While the men are engaged in this outlawry, Fred Wentworth escapes from prison and heads for the Northwest. He is saved from death in the snowdrifts by an officer of the mounted police, who carries him to headquarters. After his recovery he applies to the chief for admission to the force, and is accepted as a member. The president of the Minneapolis bank, a brother of the chief of the N. W. M. P., chances to arrive at the post on a visit about, the time that Wentworth is about to leave on a search for the whiskey smugglers. The president catches a side glimpse of Wentworth's face as he rides off, and tries to recall it. He fails, but it still haunts him, and the truth flashes on him some time after Wentworth's departure. He immediately denounces Wentworth as an escaped murderer, and the chief dispatches two of his men to arrest that officer. Wentworth, in the interim, has discovered the smugglers, and is badly worsted in an encounter with Davis, whom he recognizes as the murderer of the cashier. The two officers arrive at the spot shortly after the struggle, and Davis opens fire on them. They mortally wound him and he is carried into the cabin, where they arrest Wentworth. Davis, after confessing that he killed the cashier, and that Wentworth is innocent, dies. Wentworth is taken back to the post and is cleared of the crime in presence of the chief and his brother. He is then restored to his former position in the Minneapolis bank.
- Tired out, a ranger happens upon a cabin in the woods to ask for rest. He is met at the door by a pretty girl, and it is a case of love at first sight. The girl's father, leader of the lumber thieves, returns to find her before a small mirror arranging her hair, and upbraids her for her vanity. The ranger hears and, as the father is about to strike the girl, rushes out and hurls the man from her. When the ranger departs, the leader of the thieves follows with a rifle, and catching the ranger unawares, forces him to go to the thieves' rendezvous. The girl, who has seen, rushes to call the sheriff. Meanwhile the thieves draw lots to see who shall kill the ranger. It falls to the chief, who is about to shoot the ranger when the sheriff and his aides rush up and arrest the thieves. The ranger and the girl pledge their love.