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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Two hapless young men pursue a widow's affections.
- 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.
- 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.
- A young politician is elected to the legislature, from which he is absent during the debate of the very first bill of the term, because of his wife's illness. The bill favors a land company, and it is necessary to obtain his vote to insure its passage. A representative of the land company calls on him and proffers a bribe, which he indignantly spurns. Then, realizing that his wife is ill, and that he is in poor circumstances, they try to gain his gratitude and his vote by sending a doctor to attend the invalid. The doctor's examination results in his discovery that an operation is imperative, which requires a large fund of money. He decides to accept the bribe, and his wife dies under the dearly bought operation. At the next session of the assembly the vote comes up. A vision of his wife's empty chair arises before him, just as he is about to cast his vote, and he votes against the bill. As he leaves the assembly chambers he is confronted by the land company's president, who flies into a rage because of his breach of promise, and after a heated discussion he returns to his home, broken-hearted, and weeps over the empty chair.
- An ensign on a submarine boat has a love affair with the daughter of a lieutenant--his superior officer. The scene is laid in the U.S. Navy and a genuine submarine boat was placed at the disposal of the director in the filming of the picture. The young ensign loves the daughter of the lieutenant and his love is returned. The lieutenant has other aspirations and tells the young man to win his stripes before he will consider his suit. The lover is not crestfallen as he is ambitious and the girl is willing to wait. A French army officer also loves the girl but, while he is favored by the father, the girl despises him. The lieutenant receives a message from naval headquarters commanding him to take charge of the submarine boat on a cruise and to further instruct the ensign in his duties. Prior to his going abroad the ensign kindly shows the Frenchman, his rival, over the boat. The villain, anxious to avenge himself on the young man, steals the valve handle off the mechanism which controls the buoyancy arrangement when the boat is submerged and carries it away. The lieutenant boards the boat and she goes on the educational cruise. There are many scenes of the evolutions of the boat and she finally sinks to the bottom. The officers watch the gauge but find themselves powerless to rise, owing to the tampering with the mechanism. They are suffocating for the want of air and are doomed to die like rats in a trap. Then the young ensign shows his mettle. He proposes that his shipmates shoot him through the torpedo tube and he will swim for assistance. He is shot through the tube, against the wishes of the lieutenant, rises to the surface and swims for it, summoning a submarine boat tender. The boat is anchored over the submerged craft and the emergency expedient is resorted to with success. Air is pumped into the receptacles and the vessel arises and the crew is saved through the heroism of the young officer. The Frenchman is suspected of the trickery and is punished. The ensign makes good and the lieutenant removes all objections to his marriage to his daughter.
- 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.
- Two clubmen meet and decide to go out on a round op of the Rialto. You can't go boating down old Broadway, but in spite of that they embark on the schooner that sails in the night, and after they have sailed a few up and down several sounds, one of them lets several sounds escape him to the effect that he is a jolly good fellow, and that he won't arrive at the domicile until the Aurora Borealis has started work for the day. In short, he is pretty well beaten by the beverages imbibed in the course of the evening, and his friend, who has forfeited a few rounds and run away to live and drink another day, and therefore is still in possession of some of his senses, decides to take his all-in comrade home in a cab. He perches himself in the coachman's seat, and commences the journey home. At a point in the route a young lady, assuming that he is a coachman, hails him and he foreseeing an adventure, stops the coach and she enters. He takes her home, and is so struck with the beauty and grace of the fare that he decides to apply for the position of butler in her home, which he does successfully. The young lady gives a dinner to some of his club members, and he is dumbfounded to see some of his boon companions arrive at the house and fail to recognize him. He appeals to them to acknowledge that he is one of them, but they pretend to be shocked at his effrontery, and when the poor adventurer is almost beside himself, a few of his friends decide to discard the jest, and they introduce him to the girl of his dreams, to whom he explains the reason for his having applied for the menial position. He tells her of his love, and, inasmuch as a bold heart deserves the fair, who shall say he does not deserve her?
- 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."
- A modernized version of the Alexandre Dumas classic.
- Frances is a little factory girl who lives in the slums. She gets a holiday from her work and decides to spend it in one of the public parks. Her book under her arm, she goes forth in search of romance and flowers. Jack Raymond, a rich young man, has tired of everything he owns. He leaves his country estate and comes to the city. Stopping near the park entrance while his chauffeur attends to some detail of his machine, he sees Frances standing there. He sees in her a pretty girl, and he has long accepted all pretty girls as his rightful prey. Noticing that her eager eyes take in every detail of his beautiful car, he approaches her and invites her to go for a ride. She raises great innocent eyes to his and something in his hard young heart melts and he realizes that this girl is merely a child. In his machine they go to his home. He sends her out among the flowers, to pick all she wishes, and she runs about happily gathering great armfuls of the fragrant blossoms. He brings her into the immense dining-room and together they have luncheon. She is a little afraid of the imposing butler, but not a bit afraid of Dick. After luncheon he puts her into the machine and takes her back to town with her arms just filled with flowers of every kind. He leaves her at her corner.
- Bill Going is the star pitcher for his local Choctaw baseball team. Gamblers from Jimtown try to persuade him to throw the game and he shoots and kills them. He is given a reprieve to pitch the last game of the year.
- Sir Robert Audley, while a good and honorable man, has no social ambitions, and after a time Lady Audley's life becomes monotonous, so she devises a scheme which she believes will be of advantage to her. While her husband is away from home on a long trip, she plans to become suddenly ill and die; this is successful, and enables her to appear under another name. She next ensnares a wealthy nobleman, Sir Michael, and at last sees her dream about to be realized. When Sir Robert returns, he penetrates her disguise and threatens to expose the ruse. Failing to persuade him to keep silent, she determines to put him out of the way forever. For this purpose an old well in the Abbey Court grounds is used; there Sir Robert is supposed to have fallen to his death, but a villager whispers her secret about. Sir Michael's son denounces her but his father is completely infatuated, and therefore gives no credence to the rumor and orders his son from his home. Through a chain of circumstances Lady Audley succeeds in getting her enemies under one roof, a quaint old English inn. Here the desperate creature plans to destroy them all. The dread cry of fire rings out on the still village air, and heroic rescues alone save her victims from a horrible death. Confronted by them on the threshold of the castle, just as she fancied all evidence against her had been consigned to the flames, Lady Audley collapses and insanity mercifully closes the portals of her distorted mind.
- An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sharing in the lives of her child and grandchildren.
- Navy officer Owen Moore is sent to Cuba. This saddens girlfriend Mary Pickford, until her uncle invites her to a party in Havana. After a grand time, when Moore's ship is docking, she confuses him by pretending to be a Cuban girl.
- John Warren, a traveling salesman, arrives home unexpectedly. Upon entering his wife's bedroom he finds a beautiful evening dress which he has never seen before. Presently Mrs. Warren returns in a taxi. She is surprised, as she did not expect him for a week. She tells him that she will be economical in order to keep the maid whom she has just hired. The phone rings and Mrs. Warren answers it. In answer to his question Mrs. Warren tells John that it was her mother. In reality it was Dr. Carl. Warren's suspicions aroused, he sets a trap for his wife. A week later he announces that he is compelled to start on a business trip unexpectedly, and that he will be away two weeks at least. Immediately after her husband's departure, Mrs. Warren calls up Dr. Carl, who tells her over the phone that he will get ready at once to take her for their usual drive. Instead of leaving town, Warren rents a room commanding a view of his house from across the street. Dr. Carl enters his house, and soon afterward Warren sees his wife, handsomely gowned, drive off with him in an automobile. Warren is now convinced that Dr. Carl is his wife's lover. That night, Warren observes the doctor and his wife return and enter the house. The maid, who has been asleep on the couch in the dining-room, peeps through the keyhole and sees them enter the reception room, where Mrs. Warren removes her wraps. The maid shrugs her shoulders significantly, and lies down again on the couch. Soon afterwards, the doctor takes leave of Mrs. Warren. Warren makes up as the doctor, and after stealing the doctor's hat, coat and gloves from his office, goes to his own home. His wife, who is in her night dress, believes him to be the physician, and embraces him. Suddenly Warren removes his false mustache and his wife recognizes him. Her screams are heard by the maid in the dining-room. We see Warren with his fingers at his wife's throat. The maid looks through the keyhole or the dining-room door, and sees Warren come out of the bedroom and leave the house. The maid finds Mrs. Warren dead on the floor and telephones to the police station. Warren again returns to the doctor's house and, after replacing the coat and cap, he leaves. Meanwhile, a detective accompanied by policemen, arrive at Warren's house. The detective picks up the doctor's gloves that Warren has purposely left behind him, and the maid declares that they belong to Dr. Carl, being positive that it was he who killed her mistress. Dr. Carl is tried for the murder of Mrs. Warren and is pronounced "guilty" on the maid's testimony. The picture now fades into the next scene where we see King Baggot seated with a manuscript in his hand. Seated alongside of him is his director, Henry Otto, also holding a manuscript. Mr. Baggot tells his director that he thinks the story he has just read from the manuscript will make a wonderful photoplay, and the company seated about them, are equally enthusiastic.
- 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.
- Stephen Wright lives happily with his wife and baby daughter in New York. Partly in self-defense he kills a man. It is late at night when he returns home after committing the crime; his wife sleeps. His thoughts, however, are centered on his child. He steals into the bedroom, kisses his wife goodbye while she sleeps, and taking the baby in his arms, becomes a fugitive from justice. He is next seen in the mountains, his mind weakened after the mental and physical strain and seeking refuge in a cave. Fifteen years later, he has become old and gray. His daughter Peg has grown to beautiful young-maidenhood ignorant of society's ways, knowing nothing of men save her father, or women's dress. The wife lives alone in the East. About this time two detectives, Frank Noble and George Dean, come to the mountains, commissioned to corner a band of moonshiners. Noble, searching the woods one day, sees what he believes is a wild animal; he raises his rifle to shoot when there arises from the grass a girl, dressed in a single skin. She disappears. Later he meets the girl again. Noble has purchased some store clothes and she puts them on. A light comedy love scene is interrupted by the old father who resents the appearance of a stranger. He tears the clothes from his daughter's back and sends her to the cave. Noble has kept his romance from his coworker, Dean, but the latter learns of the affair. He is attracted by the girl and attempts to become unduly familiar with her. Noble interferes. Dean, suspecting that the girl and her father are moonshiners, enters the old man's cave. Through an old scrap of paper he manages by referring to his date book to identify the old man as Wright, wanted for murder. He telegraphs the mother to come to the mountains to make certain his identification. The hermit finds that he is suspected; he retreats into the forest. Peg has learned of her father's danger and she asks Noble to assist her in protecting him. Dean is determined to run the old man down. However, after a long search the old man is found dying. He lives only long enough to recognize his wife of years gone by. The mother is joyous at finding the child, and we have the rest of the story taken up with the happy marriage of Noble and Peg and the making of Peg into a "real" lady.
- Mr. Michael McCarthy and his associates struck work. They were brick layers and building men by trade. They struck and gathered themselves together; formed a local, elected "Mickey" McCarthy president, and asserted their freedom. Mr. "Builder," whose work was stopped, offered a reward of $500 to anybody who would break the strike. Mrs. McCarthy got wind of the offer. She gathered the wives of the strike-breakers together. They went in a body to the builder and offered to do the work, leaving their husbands at home to do the domestic work; a job of which they soon tired. The result was, of coarse, inevitable; the men went back to work. Mr. "Builder" kept his promise and paid the reward to the chief strike-breaker. This was Mrs. McCarthy, who triumphantly pocketed the $500 check.
- John is a writer who has no use for women. He takes two old male servants and goes to a house in the country where he can finish his book in absolute quiet. Waling about the place he congratulates himself on his Eve-less Eden. As he comments on the total peace, a wild discordant cry interrupts his reverie. He goes through the garden, finds a baby there, and carries it home. Finally driven to his wits' end, he runs across to the next house, where he finds a pretty girl and begs her to come with him. She assents and soon has baby sleeping in her arms, then declares she must go. She places baby on a couch, gives John a few instructions and leaves him. A few days pass. John finds himself attached to the child, whom he later adopts. The girl next door sees John with his baby and is much amused. He tells her with great dignity that the child is now his, and he has decided to make quite a writer of him and call him William Shakespeare Brown. The girl laughs and tells him that he can't very well do that as the baby is a girl. John decides to relinquish baby entirely. He cannot have a girl in his home. The girl tells John she will take the child until further arrangements are made. But John misses the kiddy and soon has an excuse for coming very often to the porch next door, and soon John and Violet discover that they make an ideal papa and mama for baby, and they are married.
- 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.
- Producer Leonard Dare finds himself without a player strong enough to enact the part of Philip Dawany, one of the important characters of the cast. His company is temporarily dismissed and he returns home. Derwent Hall calls for an interview with Dare. Hall's wife is sick; the doctor has instructed Hall to give her better food and medical attention. Hall, desperate, takes the opportunity of urging Dare to allow him to read his play. Spellbound, Dare listens to the most absurd line of talk he has ever heard, but is very much surprised by the magnificent acting of the author. Dare writes out a check for the play and, while the hungry man looks on, calmly throws the manuscript on the fire. Dare says he will make him the greatest living actor. Hall is cast in the part of PhiIip Dawany. At first Hall is treated with distinct coldness by the audience, but at last cheer after cheer rolls out as the curtain falls. In this moment, his hour of triumph, a message reaches him from home: His wife is dead.
- A wicked queen casts a spell over a prince and steals his heart.
- Claude Marlow, Eugene Wilson and Fred Strong pose as a trio of mashers whom women cannot resist. They find time hanging heavily on their hands, when the monotony is relieved by Edith Morton, a dentist. She is first noticed by Claude Marlow, who observes her enter her home in which her dental office is located. Marlow repairs to his club, where he raves of her beauty to Wilson and Strong. They are gazing out of the window when they see her padding. Not knowing she is the object of Marlow's glowing description, they follow unbeknown to each other. Each of the trio immediately develops a painful attack of toothache as a pretense of being admitted to the parlors of the fair molar extractor. Marlow arrives first and is ushered in by a maid. He is in the throes of a jumping toothache apparently, but is covertly congratulating himself that he will be admitted into the seclusion of the dental office. She gives a critical look at the alleged aching tooth. She extracts the tooth, and sends him out of the room in pain, after receiving her fee. In turn Wilson and Strong appear in the waiting room confident that the others are blissfully ignorant of any other intent than a visit to the dental office to be relieved of pain. They try to flirt with her, but she resents them. Just as the young rounders have had it brought home to them that they have been circumvented by the dentist and that they have all visited the office on the same mission, they have another surprise in store. The dentist comes into the reception room and gives them the laugh and, opening the street door ushers in a man whom she introduces as her husband.
- Mr. Kirby has rather a tarty disposition for a newly married man and his wife is exactly the reverse, being eager to look after his comfort even to the minutest detail. Kirby receives an invitation to attend a stag dinner on Thursday night and begins to make preparations Tuesday. He has only one dress shirt and admonishes his wife to have it sent to the laundry immediately. The wife sets about to do so, but she receives an invitation from a dear friend to go motoring and, of course, forgets all about the shirt. The evening of the dinner arrives and Kirby returns home out of sorts. He hunts for the dress shirt and then consults his wife. It dawns on her that she has been remiss in her duty. Kirby fumes and rants to the consternation of the young wife. In her desperation, she decides to launder the shirt and takes it into the kitchen, where she makes elaborate preparations. As she is a novice in the laundry art, she makes a mess of it, ending in burning a hole through the shirt and ruining the garment. Kirby enters the kitchen at the crucial time to find his wife in tears and the shirt smoking under the red hot iron. The humor of the situation mollifies him and he takes his wife in his arms and kisses away her tears.
- Jules, scapegrace son of General Bleriat, overhears a conversation between his father and a messenger about some precious military secrets. At "The Stag," a roulette club where the son spends the evenings, he again loses heavily. On his way home he is accosted by a masked stranger who, having learned of the valuable papers at General Bleriat's house and desiring to possess them, volunteers to give Jules a handsome sum if he will obtain the papers. Fearing exposure by De Vorchien, to whom he owes a considerable sum and being reminded of this fact by the stranger, Jules agrees to the other's demands. The son, masked, is about to get the military secrets when his father awakens. There is a struggle in which the son is wounded on the arm with a knife. The son later escapes with the papers and exchanges them for the gold. The general the next day makes a report of the assault, and declares that the person who attacked him wore a uniform and received a wound on the arm. Greatly worried, Jules goes to the home of his sweetheart, Marie, where he finds his rival, Jeffry Le Bland. He observes the ring on Marie's finger, and knows that he has lost. A diabolical scheme is evolved by Jules which will jeopardize his rival in the eyes of Marie, and he determines to put it into effect. He takes a knife from his pocket under the pretext of killing himself. When Jeffry goes to stop him, Jules stabs his rival in the arm. At the barracks, Bleriat, who has learned of the enmity between his son and Jeffry, has the latter put into the military prison under suspicion. At the trial Jeffry swears innocence, and testifies that the wound was received in an encounter with Jules. But this assertion is refuted by the son, who under a terrible nervous strain, leaves for home and confesses everything to his mother. She goes to the barracks and tells her husband, who frees Jeffry. The mother pleads with her husband to spare their son, even if his act involves a scheme whereby he will be enabled to get into another country never to return. The old general, to satisfy his wife, consents, but in reality he remains obdurate and resolves to adhere to the law. He forgives his son for his attack on the night the papers were stolen, but the disgrace of treason is constantly in his mind. At sundown the son is executed. The general, unable to witness the affair, is at home with his wife, who is happy in the thought that her husband has seen to it that blank cartridges were substituted in place of bullets and that their son has feigned death and escaped.
- Antonio, a poor Italian fruit peddler, is on trial for the murder of Hartman. In spite of his protestations of innocence and his story of the finding of the gun hurled into his fruit stand, the consensus of opinion is that he is guilty. The jury retires, and after being out for a considerable time all but one, Fillmore, are in favor of conviction. He stoutly adheres to his opinion and seems to be laboring under some strain. One of the jurors pleads with him to give in, as he is very anxious to get home to his wife, who is seriously ill, and still Fillmore holds out. At last he can seem to stand the strain no longer and calling for attention tells his story. His sister, Mary, a sweet, innocent girl, had been betrayed by Hartman and had drowned herself. Over her dead body Fillmore had vowed vengeance. He had followed Hartman to the city, and then one evening saw him entering a café. Knowing that he would return home some time, he waited for him outside until midnight, and then, as Hartman emerged and started walking down the street, he shot him and hurled the gun into the wagon of Antonio. The confession made, Fillmore falls dead and Antonio is cleared of the accusation.
- Vincent Lee is a crook. In pursuit of business, he arrives at the beach with the regular summer crowd. He is accompanied by his "valet," one "Shifty." Nan Larson is another who lives by her wits. Lee sees her plying her trade and invites her up to his room to talk business. He suggests she join him in a partnership, and she accepts. Jonathan Harkness and his wife, typical country people, are stopping at the hotel. In carrying out their plans Nan is established in the hotel with a maid and soon blossoms forth. Vincent scrapes acquaintance with Harkness and one day while he and Harkness are talking Nan nonchalantly strolls by and speaks to Vincent. Harkness is interested, is introduced to the girl and gladly accompanies her for a stroll as his better half is busy writing letters in her room. Harkness is willing to be led along and Nan uses her art on him. At last one night he tells his wife that he is not sleepy and will remain in the lobby to smoke and talk. He then calls up Nan's apartment and begs her to let him come up for a while. Harkness is admitted to the room, which is closed. He complains of the heat and Nan naively suggests he remove his coat. At first he demurs, but finally does so. At this point Lee returns to Nan's room on an errand and discovers them. Vincent suggests that it would be fine to tell Mrs. Harkness of her husband's presence in the room, and the victim, glad to get out, is strung to the tune of $1,000 for the silence of Lee. He returns to his room, having learned a never-to-be-forgotten lesson.
- John Storm wins a football game. The father of Doris Mills gives his consent to her marriage to John. When John gets home he finds the body of his father, who has committed suicide. The son discovers that his father bad been a defaulter. Knowing that Mr. Mills had been a heavy loser, John determines to go out into the world. He is unsuccessful. He falls into the clutches of crooks. By them he is led to believe that he is to do some detective work, but discovers the truth when he is led to the rear of Doris's home. John determines to see the affair through. He is admitted to the house by the butler, a confederate, and is the means of preventing the burglary and also of turning the crooks over to the police. He wins Doris.
- Lieutenant Shannon ( Owen Moore ) finds himself shipwrecked on an island and throws a bottle with a message into the sea, hoping it will reach civilization. His brave spirit impresses the islands savages and the King offers him the hand of his daughter in marriage. A rescue party suddenly disrupts the wedding already in progress, and the lieutenant is reunited with his sweetheart Louise Spencer ( Mary Pickford ). The heart-broken maiden stands alone, like a statue on a rock as she watches the boat carry away the man she loved.
- Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon landing in New England is captured by Indians and Hester waits for him in vain. There has never been much love in their marriage, Roger being an old man and she a comely young woman. Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, the handsome Young minister of the Salem community, is revered and beloved by his parishioners. He meets Hester clandestinely and an unlawful love is the result. When Hester is discovered with a baby, a mother but not a wife, she is arrested, tried and condemned to stand upon the public pillory with her child and for the remainder of her life to wear conspicuously on her breast the letter "A." As she stands on the raised platform, the governor of the colony commands her to divulge the name of the father of the child. She refuses. The Rev. Master Dimmesdale is asked to persuade her to reveal her secret. He addresses her, and tells her if she thinks it for the best, to do so. She again refuses. Roger, her husband, has been released by the red men and he appears in Salem on the day of her public disgrace and recognizes her. He signals for her to be silent as the recognition is mutual. A silence for a silence is agreed upon. He takes the name of Roger Chillingworth and, being a physician, is called to prescribe for the suffering minister, knowing him to be the father of Hester's child. The child, Pearl, grows into a beautiful girl and the governor decides that Hester is not the proper person to rear her. Hester in her grief, appeals to the minister and he in turn prevails on the governor to allow her the custody of the child. As time passes the minister is growing weaker and weaker in bodily strength and the guilty secret gives him no peace of mind. Meeting Hester and Little Pearl by accident, he tells the woman of his terrible punishment. She, in love and pity, tears the letter from her breast and proposes that they leave the country together to begin life anew. Little Pearl finds the letter and restores it to Hester and they realize they cannot escape the consequences of their sinning. On a holiday the minister preaches a powerful sermon in the church on the sins of the flesh and the penalty for evil doing. As he appears in the market place, he is cheered by the members of his congregation. He is overcome by emotion as the awful truth is brought home to him that he is a hypocrite. Seeing Hester and Little Pearl standing near, he pulls himself together by a mighty effort and resolves to confess his sins publicly. Taking them by the hands, he slowly and deliberately mounts the pillory, with Hester amazed, and then, to the astonishment of his flock and the loungers standing near, proclaims Pearl as his child and arraigns himself as a sinful teacher. The members of the church are appalled and dumb with astonishment. They cannot comprehend it. Hester smiles through her tears. She will no longer bear the burden of shame alone. The moment has arrived when she is partially vindicated by the self-sacrifice of the sharer of her degradation. The final effort, coupled with years of intense suffering, proves too great a tax on the strength of the minister and he falls dead at the foot of the pillory. Hester supports his head, with tears coursing down her cheeks. The vindication has come, but with it has gone the man she has loved in secret while being subjected to the jeers of her fellows.
- Cliff Jordan is down and out. He meets two crooks. Shorty and Slim, who live in his hotel. The crooks plan to rob a safe and to use Cliff and a girl as unconscious confederates. They hide the money in a box of candy, which they pass to the girl. She gives it to Cliff to hold for her. Detectives are chasing the crooks. Cliff, in his room, opens the box and finds money instead of candy. He goes with his find to the crooks. They tell him that he has been used as a tool. The detectives overhear this. They enter and arrest the crooks. They are about to arrest Cliff, too, when he pulls out a card, with "Phil Kelly, Detective," on it, and asks them to meet his wife, who is responsible for a large part of their joint success.
- An anarchist has a sweetheart who is sought after by another man. The latter meets the girl in a park, where, under the watching eyes of the anarchist, he makes violent love to her. Though she repulses him, the anarchist suspects her loyalty to him and casts her aside. The other man, in revenge, notifies the police of the whereabouts of the girl's lover and his companions. On the road home, after this happening, the unhappy lover, King, meets a little girl, buys her a toy horn and takes her to her doorway; she lives in an apartment directly above, where he has his studio. The police come and are about to break in the door. The anarchist, the girl and his companions decide to die rather than give up. Their leader is about to cast the bomb that would send them into eternity when he hears the horn blown by the little girl. He realizes that another life must be sacrificed if he throws the bomb. All surrender, and the anarchist takes the hand of the girl, assured of her loyalty.
- Ethel Edgar is a wild rose of the peaks, whose only associates are rough, honest miners. Her father and brother refuse her permission to accompany them on a prospecting trip, giving as an excuse that she is a girl and cannot withstand the hardships. She is peeved and decides to go gold hunting on her own hook. Procuring a mirror and a pair of shears, she clips off her tresses, dons male attire, and with revolver and pick sallies forth in search of adventures. One comes most inopportunely, for she falls over a cliff and rolls to the rocks below, stunned and amazed. She is rescued by Wayne Holland, a young miner, who lives alone in a cabin on the mountain. He carries her to his home, where she revives. Holland, while not conversant with the ways of women, has an intuition that his newly made friend is masquerading. The girl tries to bide her identity, but makes it all the more apparent that she is not what she seems. Leaving her in the cabin, Holland sleeps in the open and an unsuccessful miner tries to rob him, entering the cabin. The girl screams and Holland is awakened. There is a fight and the thief sent crashing down the mountainside. Ethel leaves the cabin and goes home, where she dons suitable wearing apparel. Holland, left alone, cannot forget the sweet face and resolves to seek her. After much primping he dresses in his best suit of clothes and goes to her home, where he discovers her in proper personae, and is smitten by her charms. He endeavors to make love to her, but she will have none of him in his make-up assumed for the occasion. He returns to his home crestfallen as the result of his courting expedition. Ethel follows him, anxious to make amends for her seeming coldness. There is a pretty scene in his cabin of the happy lovers.
- Young Dan Gardner is down-and-out. Arrested as a tramp, he is thrown into jail and forced to associate with disreputable characters. He is released with but a single coin in his pocket. Arriving at a bridge, he gazes into the water and his thoughts turn to suicide. He reaches into his pocket, extracts the coin, and flips it: Heads he dies; tails he lives. Fate is against him and he is about to carry out the decree when Farmer Barton drives on the scene. He's bound for the village to hire a man to assist him on his farm Dan is more than anxious to secure employment and accompanies the kind-hearted farmer home. Dan is fitted out with clothing and takes up his quarters in a detached cabin on the farm. Alice Barton, the farmer's rosy-cheeked daughter, has attracted the attention of Ed White, the sheriff who released Dan from jail. Dan and Alice are thrown much into each other's society and the new farm-hand loves her. Assisting her one day in the field where she has sprained her ankle, he realizes the truth, the difference in their stations, and resolves to leave the farm and go out into the world. He flips the coin and once more fate decrees that he should do that which is not satisfactory to him. The two thieves who were released from prison with him come to steal the farmer's money, and while Dan is temporarily absent from his cabin, Alice comes to bring him some socks she has darned. Ed White, the jealous sheriff, notices the action and mistrusts the girl of being unduly intimate with Dan and informs her parents. Dan arrests the scoundrels, holding them up at gunpoint and turns them over to the sheriff, but he's indignant at White's accusation and about to leave the farm when his deed of heroism is made clear to the farmer, who has implicit faith in his daughter. Dan and Alice have a pretty little love scene and Dan is welcomed by the honest old farmer as his prospective son-in-law, to the sheriff's discomfiture--he'd sought to prejudice the old man against him. All ends happily for Dan and he has at last found a home among kind, loving friends.
- Paula, the fisher maid meets her father as he returns from a fishing voyage. Ambrose Fenton, the sweetheart of Paula, arrives and is greeted affectionately. Ambrose asks the girl to be his wife; she consents, and tells her father. The honest old fisherman is doubtful of the sincerity of Ambrose and his suspicions are confirmed when he sees his daughter's lover in the company of a woman of his own social set. The daughter is hurriedly summoned and looking through a gate, they see Ambrose kiss the girl. Paula resolves to end her life and staggers to the beach, throws the oars out of a fishing dory and, seating herself fin the boat, is washed out to sea. Her father noting her absence, prosecutes a search, aided by the villagers. They discover the missing boat and the oars on the sand. Ambrose, missing his sweetheart, calls at the home of her father. He finally gathers from them that Paula, thinking him false, has gone to sea to end her life. He explains to the father, who falls unconscious. Ambrose starts to find the girl, and is successful. Stumbling over rocks on an island, with the spray dashing over him, he finds Paula lying at the water's edge. He takes her in his arms and swims for the mainland, arriving at the home of the father, exhausted. Paula is revived. The face of Ambrose is the first one she sees when regaining consciousness. He tells her the supposed rival is his sister and she is overjoyed. The finale is a pretty scene, with Ambrose and Paula on the seashore. The fisher maid has been transformed into a stylish garbed woman. Ambrose draws her to him and with her parasol writes on the sand, "My Wife."
- The blind musician makes a good living by teaching the violin. His life is made bright by the love of his pretty little wife. One day they are both walking in the park when the old gentleman drops his cane. It is picked up by a pretty little child walking with her father. The child learns the old gentleman teaches the violin, and her father seeing in this an opportunity to get better acquainted with the pretty young wife, asks that the musician give his daughter lessons. Discontent enters the heart of the hitherto happy wife, and in her frailty she allows the father of her husband's pupil to make love to her. The blind musician giving lessons in the next room sends the little girl for some music, and while there, the little girl sees what she thinks is a struggle between her father and her teacher's wife. She rushes into the next room and tells the old gentleman; he listens and realizing what it means, takes a revolver and discharges it in the direction from which the noise of the struggle comes. The young wife has been trying to free herself from the now insulting embraces of the man, but she receives the shot in her arm. The police arrive upon the scene, but are told that the revolver was discharged by accident. The little child and her father now thoroughly ashamed of his conduct leave the unhappy musician with his wounded wife, and she, contrite, asks forgiveness, which is freely forgiven.
- Norman Duncan, a civil engineer in the employ of the United States government, loves Elinor Williams and they are happy in their plighted troth. Duncan is ordered to the Philippines to take charge of some important work and takes an affectionate leave of his sweetheart to whom he promises to be faithful. We see him arrive at his destination, and take in the tropical surroundings. The young engineer is red blooded and human. He finds time hanging heavily on his hands and seeks diversion. He finds it in Lola, a beautiful Filipino girl, with Juno-like form and handsome face. She gives him a passing glance and Duncan is interested. He seeks the girl, and she is not averse to the attentions of the handsome young man from the states. Petro, her lover, takes in the situation, which bodes no good for the interloper. Lola and Duncan meet and the love affair is progressing beyond his fondest expectations. Returning from his foray into the swamps one day, Duncan is stricken with the deadly fever. He is overcome and his companions desert him, fearing the contagion. Lola finds him and, braving the ravages of the disease, assists him away. This episode is witnessed by the jealous native lover, who curses them, hoping his fickle sweetheart and her lover will both succumb to the dread fever. We see Lola nursing Duncan back to life and health, faithful in her duties as a nurse, and glorious in her satisfaction of saving the life of the man whom she loves with all the passion of the Latin women. Slowly Duncan regains his strength and we see him emerge from the hut supported by the faithful Lola. He is seated out of doors, when Petro appears and is surprised to see him alive. Stung to desperation in his jealousy, Petro steals up and is about to plunge a knife into Duncan's back, when the girl throws herself upon him, wrests the knife from his grasp and sends it spinning into the foliage. Petro and Duncan grapple, when a priest providently makes his appearance and Petro desists with an abject apology. In a few words, the situation is explained to the man of God, who with a keen discernment of right, inquires of the young engineer as to his intentions towards the native girl. He sternly insists that honorable union can be the only result of their relations. Duncan ponders and then his better nature asserts itself, and he assents to the marriage. The ceremony is performed. Later, Duncan, in the garb of a Filipino, is seated in his yard. His boy, the result of the marriage, comes to him. An American appears and questions Petro, who is standing near. The stranger inquires for Duncan and Petro, alert, his jealousy having not abated by the marriage of Duncan and Lola, points to Duncan. There is a recognition. Duncan is pleased to welcome his friend. He is informed that Elinor the sweetheart whom he left in the state, is outside the gate. Duncan is overjoyed. Elinor runs to him and there is a happy reunion. He is holding her in his arms when Lola approaches, terrified at the sight. She understands and humble makes her way to Duncan's side. He sees her and is racked with conflicting emotions. His wife and sweetheart, which? Sorrowfully he breaks the intelligence to Elinor, who stands aghast. She understands. The woman he has sworn to love and cherish holds out her arms to him. The girl, to whom he plighted his troth, assumes the same attitude, less demonstrative. Elinor sorrowfully walks away, and Duncan seats himself in anguish and then takes Lola in his arms and she is supremely happy and Duncan is content, a manly man.
- Wealthy bachelor Jack has become blasé and craves some unusual excitement. On the suggestion of his friend Jones, he leaves home in the midst of a social function and sallies forth into the highways and byways of the meaner section of the great city. At a cheap dance hall he protects a beautiful young girl who, by her refined, quiet ways, has aroused the enmity of the other females present; by doing so, he involves himself in a fist fight in which he emerges victorious. He escorts the young girl home, which her father resents. Her father is an exiled foreign nobleman who is eking out a precarious living for himself and Olga, his daughter. Jack tries to reason with him, which only further arouses the old man's ire and he attempts to thrash Jack with his walking stick. Jack takes it from him, breaks it over his knee, and departs. This incident is seen by a passing policeman, who at the termination of the fracas, stops and questions the young man. Jack makes light of the incident, gives the officer his card and a cigar, and starts for home. Upon thinking the matter over he determines to return to the little shop, and make the old man listen to him. Rudolph, Olga's father, receives a letter threatening his life for the part he has played in a revolution in his native country. Jack arrived at the shop, just in time to intercept the writer of the letter who a moment before had consummated his threat by stabbing Rudolph to death. There is a fight during which Jack gives the assassin a terrific blow on the head. The latter escapes, but Jack is arrested and accused of the crime. He is handcuffed and led to the station house, but on the way he knocks over the arresting officer, and escapes to the house of his friend, Jones. The latter not only relieves him of his manacles but supplies him with a disguise enabling him to reach his own house undetected. Nevertheless detectives discover his hiding place, and he and his faithful valet are arrested and thrown in jail. In the interim the real assassin, delirious from the blow Jack gave him, is arrested by a policeman who thinks him drunk. He is placed in the same cell with Jack's valet and the latter, listening to the man's delirious babbling, discovers him to be the murderer. Jack is released, and later he and Olga are married.
- Young Billy Burns is in love with Irene Brander, for whose father he works as a private secretary. Irene returns his affection but fears that her father will force her to marry his choice for her: young society and club man Bert Austin. Billy, seeing that this is imminent, goes boldly to Irene's house and asks her father for her hand. The father rates Billy severely for his impertinence in daring to put such a request, and forbidding him to ever speak to Irene again, sends him from the house. The next day when Billy arrives at his employer's office, he finds himself discharged. Discouraged, Billy goes to a nearby resort and obtains a position as lifeguard on the beach, where soon after his engagement, Bert Austin brings Irene and her father for a day's outing. Bert and Irene go for a swim, when Irene is seized with cramps and appeals to Bert for help. He deserts her in a cowardly fashion. Billy, on the lookout house, sees her plight and, jumping into the water, brings her safely to shore just in time. The father, who has also seen the accident, meets them on the beach. Explanations are forthcoming, Bert is discredited and Billy receives his reward, reinstatement, and permission to marry the girl of his choice.
- Henry Jenkins, who has served his time in state's prison, is released. He now seeks his former confederate in crime, Basil King, who is living in affluence. King is not overjoyed to see his former pal, but Jenkins comes just in time as King's butler has left and he is about to entertain lavishly. Jenkins dons the habiliments of the butler and enters upon his new duties. King loves Elsie Graham, who gives her heart to Ralph Webster. Miss Graham and Mr. Webster are guests at the reception. Ralph takes advantage of an opportunity and asks Elsie to marry him and she consents. He has forgotten the ring and announces he will leave the party to get it. One of the guests wears an expensive necklace, which is admired by all. King cannot resist the temptation to steal it and the act is noted by Jenkins. The loss is discovered and suspicion is cast upon Ralph, who left the party for a short time. The woman who loses the necklace employs the services of a clairvoyant and invites all the guests to be present at the test the following day. King is the last to arrive. The woman lapses into a state of coma and then announces that the thief who stole the necklace is in the room, being smoothly shaven. Ralph and King are the only men present devoid of hirsute appendage and King makes off unobserved. Suspicion falls on Ralph, of course, and he is driven from the house of his fiancée by her irate father, who believes him a thief. In his grief Ralph calls on King and tells him of the false accusation in a heart-broken manner. King, who has been refused by Elsie, is penitent and his better nature asserts itself. He bids Ralph be of good cheer and telephones Elsie to come to his rooms. She does so and King assures the pair that he will clear up the mystery, producing the missing necklace. They are happy and King is overcome with disappointment and is inconsolable to his grief at the happiness of his successful rival. Ralph and Elsie leave much elated. King summons Jenkins, gives him the necklace and a letter to take to the woman from whom the jewels were stolen. In the letter he confesses to having taken the necklace. Jenkins goes out. In the park he stops and reads the letter. He tears it in half and writes that he, Jenkins, is the thief, and that he can be found at the home of King. He delivers the necklace and letter and returns to find King dead in his chair. Jenkins, overcome with emotion, burns the letter written by King and calmly awaits the coming of the officer, which is inevitable. The story ends with Jenkins once more at the office of the warden of the penitentiary, coming voluntarily, to serve time for a crime he did not commit.
- King and Flo are in love with each other. She asks him to take her to a ball. He promises, but does not know how he will raise the money to do so, as he is broke. While meditating on this in his room, a bright idea strikes him. He decides to pawn his two extra suits, which he immediately does. He buys the ball tickets and a bunch of roses. After reaching his room, he notices how wrinkled his trousers are and decides to have them pressed. He calls a boy from the street, gives him the box of flowers with a note to his sweetheart and a box with the trousers in, with a note to the tailor. The boy gets the packages and notes mixed up, so that the tailor get the roses with instructions to press and return them immediately. Flo gets the trousers with the request to wear them that night, and King, after waiting in vain for the return of his aforesaid pants, rushes over to the tailor's in his pajamas, only to find him busy pressing the roses. Snatching a pair of pants from the rack and unheeding the fact that they are five sizes too big for him, he makes his way to his sweetheart's home to offer his apologies. Flo is highly indignant and throws the trousers in King's face. She then orders him from the house. He goes out on the front stoop and meditates on the frailties of human nature in general, until Flo's friend, Fanny, patches up their little differences. Flo makes amends by pressing the trousers, and the scene fades out just as the iron, left to its own devices, burns a hole in them.
- Dudsbury is found dead by his butler, Hatch. Dickson Fay, a reporter, answers the butler's call for help and together they carry the body from the veranda where it is found into the house. Dr. Adams, Dudsbury's physician, attributes death to heart failure. The reporter is just leaving the room when he hears a woman's voice urging him to remain, as she fears that her uncle has been murdered. Fay then asks Adams to give him some facts for the newspaper, and the doctor tells about Dudsbury and his wonderful collection of antiques. Elsie Wheaton, Dudsbury's niece, has hastened home and arrives that day, the housekeeper, Mrs. Weed, being the only one who knows of her coming. It is she who asks Fay to remain. The doctor thinks she is still in Europe. When Hatch goes to Dudsbury's bedroom where the body was taken he is horrified to find neither the undertaker nor the body. As Fay and Adams enter the museum to look about, the doctor goes out and locks the door, thus holding the reporter a prisoner. Elsie is terrified by the sight of her uncle, who passes by her without speaking. There is blood on the side of his head. She hears the hammering of Fay against the museum door and opens it, but faints upon seeing Fay. Adams and Hatch continue to search for Dudsbury and the undertaker, but, unsuccessful, they return to the museum. Fay and Elsie hear their approach and hide behind a mummy case. When the two men cannot find the reporter, they begin to look behind the large objects and soon come to the mummy case. They try to pull the door open and as it gives with a jerk, Fay and Elsie are thrown back, causing them to fall through a trap-door and disappear. Adams tells Hatch, the butler, that they will take anything valuable they can carry and make a getaway. Fay anti Elsie land in a room where they confront Dudsbury and the undertaker, who sits in a chair, tied hand and foot. Dudsbury then relates to them his story. Becoming suspicious of Dr. Adams, he began to watch him. Finally he saw the man drop some powders in a glass of wine, and although Dudsbury merely touched the liquor to his lips he fell as he was entering the house and regained consciousness only to find the undertaker working over him. They grappled, but Dudsbury at fast forced him to enter the secret room, and fearing that he was an accomplice of Adams, tied him securely in the chair. Hearing a noise in the museum, Fay and Dudsbury discover Adams and Hatch as they are loading themselves with priceless antiques. At the sight of Dudsbury Dr. Adams recoils in horror. Hatch is afraid to look his master in the face. When the policemen arrive Dudsbury tells them to watch Adams carefully, and pays the undertaker and the police a large amount of money to keep the affair quiet. So the mystery is solved.