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- An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance.
- When Indians attack a white settlement, a brave kidnaps a white baby to give to his wife as a replacement for their dead baby. The white mother goes to the Indian camp to look for her child and is captured by the Indians who plan to torture her. The settlers attack the Indian camp, destroying it completely and killing the braves, while the Indian wife returns the baby to the white woman and allows her to escape. The Indian wife mourns her baby at its grave, unaware of the destruction of the Indian camp.
- With the opening of the story Richelieu pardons the Duke of Orleans and all his followers in the Languedoc revolt, save one. The exception is Adrien de Mauprat, because he seized a French town without his leader's orders. Richelieu advises him to lead his troops against the Spaniards and seek honorable death in battle. Julie, Richelieu's ward, loves de Mauprat, but notwithstanding her entreaties, the Cardinal is relentless; de Mauprat courts death on the battlefield. But now that he seeks death, it shuns him; instead of a soldier's grave, he wins glory. Julie has another admirer, Haradas, the King's favorite. Aware of de Mauprat's place in Julie's affections, he sets himself to bring discredit upon his rival. Later, Julie, at the King's request, attends court. She makes a deep impression upon the weak-minded, fickle monarch. A year after the departure of de Mauprat, Baradas and his followers conspire to murder Richelieu and seize the throne of France. At this critical time de Mauprat returns, famous in battle, sad of heart and loathing Richelieu. Thus he becomes a ready member of the conspirators. However, Richelieu hears of his arrival and of the conspiracy and has him arrested. In the meantime, Julie has returned from court and again appeals for de Mauprat's life. Thus, when de Mauprat is ushered into the Cardinal's presence, instead of hearing his death sentence, he is informed that he will marry Julie the following day. Hearing of this the King is violently angry: Julie is summoned to appear at court. Once there she is virtually held prisoner and her marriage is declared invalid. The false Barad is convinces de Mauprat that he has been tricked by Richelieu. De Mauprat swears vengeance and again joins the conspirators, all of whom sign a scroll addressed to the Spaniards offering to deliver France into their hands. From here the story develops with plot and counterplot. How de Mauprat discovers his tragic mistake in thinking the Cardinal has double-crossed him, how he manages, through a heroic effort, to save the old man's life, how de Mauprat falls into the hands of the King and is only saved by a master stroke of diplomacy on Richelieu's part, the death of the scheming Baradas and the final achievement of happiness for the young lovers, Julie and de Mauprat, makes up the essential points of the story.
- The emigrants are seen fighting the hordes of redskins. The hero rides to the settlement for help and engages in a thrilling duel with pursuing Indians. The settlers swoop down on the unprotected Indian village and burn it up. The savages seeing the flames, hurry back and fall into an ambush. They are attacked from the rear by the emigrants and from the front by the settlers. In a wild scene of carnage the surprised Indians are mowed down by the hail of bullets, horses and riders falling in tangled masses.
- Jeanne La Roche lives alone with her brother in the great northwestern country. Jacques is a ne'er-do-well and has fallen under the suspicion of the mounted police, two of whom are dispatched to arrest him for robbery. The stolen goods are found in his home. Jeanne is too young to be left in their lonely cabin, so she is taken to the post, where the wife of the proprietor welcomes her and gives her a home. Several years later, Donald McLean wins her for his wife. Meantime Jacques escapes from prison, eludes his pursuers and takes refuge in McLean's home. Recognizing him, Jeanne hides him until she has dispensed with the police, then carries food and drink and an exchange of clothes to him and bids him an affectionate farewell. McLean, upon returning, sees his wife in another man's arms. He shoots the stranger, leaving him for dead; locks his wife in the cabin and proceeds to the tavern to drown jealousy in drink. Meantime, Jacques, recovering consciousness, staggers off. Jeanne, angered by the unreasoning anger of her husband, disguises herself in an old suit of his, steals out through the window, discovers her brother has gone and follows his footprints. McLean, returning, finds both gone, apparently together, and starts after them. Jacques is taken care of by a friendly Indian and Jeanne finds refuge in the home of Cox. Mrs. Cox is touched by her story and has Jeanne in her arms when Cox enters. Cox, seeing the affection displayed by his wife toward a strange "man," shoots and wounds the girl. Explanations follow and Jeanne is given a home with them. Fully recovered, Jacques, with much money from a trapping trip, through the northern woods, grows reckless and returns to see his sister, only to find her gone. He makes his way to the tavern, where a poker game is in progress. He flashes his money and is followed and murdered by a half-breed. Suspicion falls on McLean. He is arrested and taken to police headquarters. Meantime the half-breed, sorely wounded in the encounter which proves fatal to Jacques, staggers to the home of Cox, confesses his crime, and tells of the arrest of McLean. She arrives in time to save him and all ends happily.
- The prologue shows the life of a trapper, living in the solitude of the forest. He digs a bear trap, which is covered with boughs and grass. An Indian girl, armed with a bow and arrow, creeps close to a wild turkey, which she brings down. As she runs forward to gather up her prey she falls into the trap. Evans, the trapper, finds her there and on lifting her from the pit, finds that she has sprained her ankle, and takes her to his cabin, and makes her as comfortable as possible. As the shades of evening fall and the pain subsides, the girl drops into a slumber, and loath to awaken her, Evans leaves her in possession of his cabin and, wrapped in a blanket, sleeps outside. In the morning, the girl having recovered sufficiently, he lifts her to his horse, and mounting behind her, proceeds to the Indian camp. On the way he is attacked by a trio of Indians, who fire at him from behind a tree, and the trapper brings down one of his assailants. The others rush back to the camp, and when Evans arrives he is roughly dealt with by the Indians, but is saved by the intervention of the girl, who is the daughter of the Sioux chief. Some time later a party of Cheyennes visit the Sioux, and the chief buys the girl from her father. Though she has not seen the white trapper since the day of her accident, the Indian girl's heart has gone out to him, and the prospect of becoming the squaw of the Cheyenne chief is distasteful to her. It is an unwilling bride, indeed, whom the old Cheyenne brings to his tepee, and when he attempts to subject her, she turns upon him with a knife, and leaving his lifeless form dying in the tent, makes her escape. When she reaches her own village, however, she fears the wrath of her father, and suddenly the thought occurs to her to seek refuge again in the trapper's cabin. Evans, who has fallen in love with the girl, assures her of his protection. The Cheyennes, wild with anger at the death of their chief, call upon the Sioux to deliver the girl to them, and are assured that she is not in camp. They trail her to the cabin, and, while Evans is away examining his traps, break down the barricaded door and set the house on fire. As Evans is returning he sees the Indians gallop off with their prisoner, and flying to the Sioux camp tells of what has occurred. The Sioux chief immediately calls out his braves, who start in pursuit of the Cheyennes. The girl is about to meet her death when the Sioux arrive, and a hand-to-hand conflict ensues, in the heat of which Evans rescues the girl and gallops away with her. As the sun is setting, standing on the crest of a hill, he points out to her a wagon train of emigrants, and hand-in-hand they go to his people, and safety.
- Gray is a scout. He and his wife are traveling West with other settlers and soldiers. It is Gray who has the tragic fight with the Indian, which results in the loss of his memory. Gray slinks away into the mountains, attended by the sister of the Indian he fought, who has taken a fancy to him. Later, this squaw falls in love with Gray and guards him jealously. Time passes on. Gray's wife, Grace, forgets him in the good time she is having at the Fort flirting with the officers, and in particular with Lieutenant Lloyd. He proposes to her and she, thinking her husband dead, accepts. Time comes when miners and others complain of a bad man who throws rocks at them and seems impervious to their shots. Soldiers are sent to get this fellow, but he manages to drop from a tree upon a prospector and escape. Many times the soldiers and miners try to get him, but fail. Grace's wedding day arrives. She and Lloyd walk in the woods. Lloyd returns to the Fort for a few moments and it is during his absence that Grace comes face to face with the famous 'Mad Hermit,' her husband. She backs off, horrified. When Grace goes, the squaw approaches Gray, whose memory is returning through the meeting with his wife. Gray returns to his cave to gather his wits and the Indian follows, angered. Grace seeks her room in terror. She takes a revolver and goes into the woods again to kill the man who once loved her. She fails when Gray comes upon her suddenly; she returns to the house and starts to dress for the wedding. That night Gray follows and enters her room. Alone, he is confronted with Lloyd, and a terrific fight ensues. The squaw, furious with jealousy, sees a shadow from the outside and shoots. Lloyd staggers into the room to lift Grace, but is pushed aside by Gray, who tenderly lifts the woman and starts away with her, laughing wildly at Lloyd and the assembled guests.
- All the men in the neighborhood love Bess, the daughter of the Mayor of Rockville, but she treats them coldly. Among this number is Jack Dayton, a son of Old Ireland known as the "No-Gun-Man" and Lesparre, leader of the Coyote gang. Lesparre brings his gang to town, holds up the bartender, secures all the whiskey they want, then robs the bank belonging to the Mayor, who offers $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen property. Jack's great desire is to get enough money to send to his mother in Ireland, to pay for the cottage in which she lives; so he starts after the bandits unarmed, although he is urged to take a gun. In the meantime, Lesparre has also kidnapped Bess and taken her to a place in the hills known as Coyote Hole. When Jack learns of this, he redoubles his efforts. He allows himself to be captured by the bandits, and on being taken before the chief, tells him he wishes to join the gang, and the chief finally consents. As soon as everyone is asleep, Jack enters the room in which Bess is imprisoned, and helps her to escape. He then wraps his blanket about him again and goes to sleep. In the morning the loss of the girl is discovered and Jack is suspected, and is locked in the room in which Bess was imprisoned. He finds the money and papers hidden in the bed, watches his chance, attacks the two men who are guarding him, defeats them after a desperate fight and escapes with the money. He reaches the railroad and climbs on a passing freight train. The gang follows closely, and after a fight, Jack throws Lesparre off the train, He finally reaches Rock River, is acclaimed a hero, returns the money and papers to the Mayor, and receives the girl in exchange.
- A woman is in love with a dashing Army lieutenant, but her father refuses to consent to give him her hand. The daughter appeals to her father's patriotism, but when he fails to relent, declares her own independence.
- Fulfilling a promise made to his mother on her deathbed, Dr. James Gibson finds his sister Pauline who has run away after giving birth to an illegitimate child. His sister's mind has snapped and Gibson takes his sister and his baby niece home with him. The years pass and the niece has grown into a beautiful woman while her mother is kept locked in a room that the young woman is forbidden to enter. Gibson and his wealthy neighbor, John Morris, are both interested in hypnotism, and one night the two men conduct an experiment by hypnotizing Gibson's niece. Pauline sees Morris from her window and recognizes him as the man who deserted her after fathering her child. One night she escapes from her room, takes her daughter's shawl, and stabs Morris to death. Returning home, she touches her daughter's hair, leaving blood stains on the sleeping girl. Morris is found murdered, the young girl's shawl is found near his body, and his blood is found on the still sleeping girl. The niece is arrested and convicted of murder, but Pauline is found dead in her room clutching a watch taken from Morris, and the young girl is cleared.
- Harry is thrown out of town and on his way across the desert meets a minister and his family; when the man is killed in an Indian raid, Harry takes care of his little daughter, later puts on the minister's frock and reforms a town.
- At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. She meets Harry and together they take a coach to the Southern town they have selected to spy upon. A prominent colonel in the Southern army deals with dispatches, and it is this man that Grace investigates while Harry awaits events. The colonel has a sweetheart, May, and Grace manages to got an introduction to her at a ball by purposely tearing her dress and appealing to May for help. This leads to an acquaintance with the Colonel, and she practices all her woman's wiles and fascinations upon him and he is impressed with her. Grace learns that important dispatches are to be forwarded and plots to get into the colonel's house. She manages matters cleverly, and contrives to have her carriage break down before his residence. The colonel endeavors to get rid of her, but she stalls him off until the arrival of May, when he has to hide her in the next room. May comes to warn him about Grace, for she is suspicious and her woman's intuition tells her that Grace is there for no good. The colonel tries to defend Grace, who gets a chance to change the dispatches for false ones, but drops a letter by mistake, and escapes by way of the window, giving the dispatches to her brother. May sees the letter of commendation from the North. A servant has seen Harry. The colonel rides off after him. He catches up with him as they ride into the battlefield, and in a hand-to-hand duel Harry is killed by the colonel, who is himself mortally wounded by a stray bullet. Grace returns to Washington and receives compliments and rewards. She returns to her home with a clouded conscience, and while sitting looking at her reward, the specters of Harry and the colonel appear and beckon her. She is forced to go with them, and together they appear on the battlefield and they show her their own bodies, and slowly they fade away and their specters enter their dead bodies. She comes to and staggers to the stairs to get assistance. She faints and falls down the stairway and dies.
- When bandits capture the wife of a US army lieutenant stationed in the Philippines, along with her lover, the choice is his whether to forgive.
- Billy Carter and two Mexicans, Cuteo and Estaban, are smugglers of opium which they bring across the border from Mexico into the United States. The authorities are unable to apprehend them, so "Pinnacle" Bill and "Cheyenne" Harry of the Arizona Ranger Service are sent to assist the sheriff, Dan Beckham, and the inspectors in their search. "Cheyenne" and "Pinnacle" put up at a Chinese restaurant. "Cheyenne" becoming suspicious of Wong Lee, the proprietor, and the Mexicans, shoots a hole in the floor of his room, apparently by accident. His room is directly above the kitchen in which Wong Lee, Cuteo, Estaban and Billy are conversing and plotting. Enlarging the bullet hole, "Cheyenne" is able to confirm his suspicions. However, he and "Pinnacle" wish to catch the smugglers red-handed and wait until that night when the law-breakers intend to make a trip across the border. Late in the night, as the smugglers are about to cross the river intersecting the two countries, "Cheyenne" and "Pinnacle" as well as the sheriff's party, begin to fire. Billy attempts to get away and is pursued by "Cheyenne." Harry overtakes the boy and when he discovers who it is, he allows him to escape across the line. Billy is the brother of Mary Carter, whom "Cheyenne" has always loved. "Pinnacle" then arrests "Cheyenne," but gamblers by nature, they toss up a coin to decide if the prisoner shall be jailed or freed. The coin, fortunately for "Cheyenne," falls "heads" up. He hands his Ranger badge to "Pinnacle" and rides across the boundary with Billy.
- Gervais Delemere and Sydney Archdale, Sr. are lifelong friends. Archdale's son, Sydney, and Constance Delemere are affianced. One day as the friends are playing chess, an Indian runner brings a message bearing the information that King George III has directed that a tax of three pence per pound be put upon tea. The message virtually presages a call to arms. The men argue violently, Archdale asserting the tax an outrage and Delemere advancing strong Royalist principles. The men part enemies and the young people are forbidden to see each other. Hostilities start and Archdale shows his partisanship by drilling recruits. Delemere watches his daughter Constance carefully, he introduces her to Captain Devereaux and intimates to her that it will please him if she will show him attention. Delemere and Constance are out riding, when they hear a child crying. They investigate and find a six-year-old boy apparently deserted. Constance insists upon taking the child home with her. He is the son of Captain Devereaux, who has deserted little Phillip after he has struck down his Indian wife, Osano, leaving her apparently dead. Osano recovers and vows vengeance after her kind. Constance is unaware of the child's identity. Delemere accompanies Capt. Devereaux east in answer to the call for men to serve the King. Devereaux presents Constance with a charm from his chain as a remembrance. Constance accepts it to please her father. Constance cannot face the loneliness, and accompanied by her servants she starts for Boston, accompanied by the boy, to join her father. Arriving at a blockhouse, Constance requests accommodations for the night. It is acceded to. The blockhouse is attacked and after a bitter fight the survivors are taken prisoners by the Indians. One man escapes and, arriving at Boston, he seeks out Delemere, who receives a message from General Gage to the Mohawk chief, Main Rouge, asking him to deliver up his daughter. Delemere is on his way to Connecticut, when he is arrested for a spy by American soldiers and put into jail. In the meantime Constance is taken to the tepee of Chief Main Rouge, where she is found by Osano, the deserted wife of Devereaux. Osano recognizes the charm, and is about to kill Constance, but fearing detection and death, she conducts the white girl to the woods and leaves her to her fate. Constance wanders about and is found in an exhausted condition by a Quaker family and is taken by them to Boston. The Archdales, father and son, are very active in the interests of the cause. Archdale, Junior, leads the Boston tea party, overpowers the English crew and throws the tea chests overboard. He is also in command at the battle of Bunker Hill, from which he retreats fighting hard. Constance visits her father in prison and secures an interview with General Washington. She obtains an order for Delemere's release. The Declaration of Independence is signed. Delemere, Constance and the boy Phillip settle down happily in a cottage and the lad is devoted to his protectress. One afternoon Constance and the boy are seen by Osano, who attacks Constance with a knife. Phillip tries to defend her and thwarts her long enough to allow of her rescue by Sydney Archdale and his father. The squaw falls and the knife enters her side. They carry the woman to Delemere's cottage, where they find Devereaux, who has just returned from England. Osano recognizes Devereaux and denounces him as the husband who deserted her. In a fit of rage Devereaux draws his sword and lunges at Sydney, to whom Constance has run. Archdale. Sr. kills Devereaux. Osano sees the tribal mark on Phillip's arm and tells Constance he is her son. The boy runs to his protectress. The old men are reconciled and the way is open for the marriage of Constance and Sydney.
- The Apache Chiefs and Sub-Chiefs, Naitche, Ketena, Tahchilsa and others, come to the reservation barracks and demand liquor. They are very angry at the refusal given, and Lieutenant Davis, in charge, is apprehensive of trouble. The Apaches return to camp and make the squaws brew tizwin, their native liquor. A scout sees the effects of the brew and notes the braves in full war paint dancing. The scout reports to Lieut. Davis, who sends Second Lieut. Clark, with a troop of cavalry, to stop the warlike preparations. The troopers go to the Indian camp and the chief is informed that his tribe will be punished if he is not careful. The Indians show their resentment plainly and Chief Mangus's squaw would shoot Clark but for the interference of Mangus. After their departure, the squaw fires the braves on to action, and they start out to exterminate the Pale Face upstarts. They fire a pioneer cabin, kill the man and take the woman off. Clark reports to Davis, who leads a troop to the Indian camp and confiscates the tepees and takes the squaws prisoners. Mangus's squaw, Huera, being amongst the number. The Indians swear a terrible oath of vengeance. From their mountain retreat they descend cautiously to the reservation barracks and Chief Mangus climbs the brush stockade and rescues his squaw, Huera. An Indian climbs a telegraph pole and cuts the wires to destroy communication. Davis deems it advisable to call for reinforcements. He finds the wires are cut. He determines upon an immediate attack and rides after the redskins. The Indians see them and plan an ambush. They see the troopers enter a pass, which leads to a sandy plain. The Indians race across the mountain path, enter the plain and bury themselves in the sand. The Cavalry comes along and falls into the trap. The Indians rise from the sand on every side and annihilate them, and all that is left the next day are the naked bodies of the dead troopers.
- Felix, an American, is employed as a bookkeeper at a large hacienda in Cuba. Juan, a half-breed overseer of the estate, loves the planter's daughter. He makes brutal advances to her, and the girl is saved from his violence by Felix. Juan is deposed as overseer and Felix is given the position. In a spirit of revenge the peon steals Arabia, the daughter's horse, rides to the headquarters of the Spanish general of the district and reports that the hacienda is recruiting a detachment of insurgents. During Juan's absence the horse effects its own escape. The planter is arrested, taken to the Spanish headquarters and sentenced to be shot at sunrise. An insurgent leader in the vicinity is notified of the proceeding and hurries with his detachment of rebels to aid in the rescue. The trusty horse carried a file to the prisoner and after the bars have been demolished he carries the planter to his friends. The Spanish soldiery gives chase and is caught in an ambuscade and captured. Juan has returned to the hacienda to take the daughter away, but his evil purpose is interrupted by the arrival of a United States soldier with dispatches to Felix. The insurgents arrive with their prisoners and Felix reads a dispatch, which tells that Santiago has fallen and that his services as a military spy are ended. Juan steals away in an attempt to escape, but Arabia chases him back into the patio, where the half-breed lands in a fountain.
- Jack Rance and Bess Shackelton, an engaged couple, are part of a party of settlers, moving westward. The settlers' camp near a band of Sioux Indians. Chief Eagle is picking herbs when he sees the wagon and prairie schooners in the valley below. As he hastens to his tribe, the bridle rein breaks, and Eagle is thrown and badly injured. He is found by his devoted squaw, but she cannot lift him. Jack and Bess are out riding. They come across Eagle and Dark Feather, and, seeing his bad plight, lift him on his horse and take him back to their camp and attend to his injuries. Dark Feather, believing that Eagle is being taken a captive, rides into the Sioux camp, and gives the alarm. The Sioux thereupon ride swiftly to the settlers' Camp and attack it. Eagle hears the war whoop, and, crawling painfully from his packet, he makes himself known and stops the attack. During the short fight, a half-breed steals through the wagon lines, and attempts to abduct Bess, but Eagle appears and commands him to go. Jack and Bess go to get water, the olla breaks, and Jack returns to camp to get another, leaving Bess to await his return. Boyd and two Indians find her and ride off with her, but they are seen by Dark Feather who gives the alarm. Eagle overtakes the half-breed, who transfers Bess from his horse to one ridden by one of his Indians. He and Eagle fight on horseback and the half-breed falls. Jack and several Indians intercept the half-breed's companions and rescue Bess and take the abductors prisoners. Eagle and Dark Feather ride to the settlers' camp with Jack and Bess, and are amply rewarded with a big dinner.
- Francis Benedict is called away on a business trip to Chicago, leaving his young wife in New York. His friend, Norman Reynolds, offers to look after her and entertain her during his absence. After his departure we see the Benedict library about midnight. Dugan, a burglar, enters through a bay window and floors the butler with a blackjack. Dugan ties and gags the butler and then carries him into a closet. He is about to begin operations on the wall safe when he hears an auto horn and conceals himself again behind the window curtain. Mrs. Benedict and Reynold return to her home from the opera and Reynolds, intent on winning her love, extracts the cartridges from a revolver in a drawer in Mrs. Benedict's library table and puts them in his pocket. Then he puts the revolver back and shuts the drawer. Meanwhile, Dugan, having seen Norman extract the cartridges from the revolver, decides to queer his game. So he removes the revolver from the library drawer and substitutes his own loaded weapon, putting the unloaded pistol in his pocket. Mrs. Benedict returns to the parlor with Norman, who now begins to make love in earnest. Mrs. Benedict fights him off and runs to the desk and pulls out the loaded revolver. When she points the revolver at Norman, he, believing it to be unloaded, only laughs at her. To save her honor, she pulls the trigger. Norman drops to the floor mortally wounded. Dugan opens the window and disappears. The butler believes the burglar shot Reynolds and tells the police of the assault. Mrs. Benedict is thus saved from dishonor and the public disgrace of a murder trial.
- Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly couple from their poor home. Whereupon he empties his own and Colin's purse, pays the Beadle, and then resume their journey. Overcome with the pangs of hunger, they "lift " the purses of a couple of corpulent monks. For this breach of law both Villon and Colin are arrested and thrown into prison. They succeed in overpowering the turnkey and, assisted by Colin, who insists that his friend don the clothes of the turnkey, Villon makes his escape. Colin is tried, convicted and hanged. At the foot of the gibbet, Villon's farewell to the swinging Colin is interrupted by the entrance of the Chevalier do Soissons. Villon resents the knight's tirade against the corpse of Colin. Fight ensues and the crafty vagabond slays the knight, using as a weapon a great stone. The rich purse, armor, etc., of de Soissons proves too strong a snare for the impoverished Villon, who quickly changes habiliments with the dead knight, props the body against the gallows and then continues on his way to Paris. Philippa de Annonnay, the fair ward of the Chevalier Bertrand de Pogne, is held prisoner in an inn. Villon chooses this inn wherein to satisfy the cravings of hunger. Here he meets de Pogne. From her window she sees the entrance of Villon and determines to appeal to the strange knight. An animated discussion between Villon and de Pogne is interrupted by a scream from Philips. Villon starts to climb the stairs to the gallery of the inn. De Pogne bars the way and a terrific battle with swords ensues. The fight continues up the stairs and toward Philippa's window, through which the girl reaches as the fight continues on the balcony and stabs de Pogne, who falls to the floor below, dead. Villon conducts Philippa safely to her castle, then resumes his journey to Paris. Having dissipated the proceeds of the de Soissons adventure, Villon hies himself to a garret, where he spends his time in courting the muses. Louis XI, the "Prowler," determines to test the loyalty of Villon. To this end, the king hies himself to a dungeon in the Bastille, causes the arrest of Villon, then offers that worthy his freedom if he will help overthrow the king. Villon indignantly refuses to purchase his freedom at such a price. Whereupon Louis reveals himself to the poet and presents Villon with a bound copy of his (Villon's) manuscript, which was the first book to be printed in France. Then Louis knights him, bestowing upon Villon the title Chevalier des Loges.
- Bored with the ranch, Buck's girl goes off to the city and gets involved in a brothel. When Buck brings a herd of cattle to town, a streetwalker lures him to the house just in time for him to save his girl from Martin.
- Jim Hoyle, an independent tobacco grower, is reading to his wife an account of the fire of the company's warehouses, where a year's supply of tobacco was stored, when Bob Pritchard, his friend the sheriff, with his son Ted, rides into view. The two men continue the discussion of the raids of the Night Riders upon the company's property, while the two young people, Jim's daughter Sue and Bob's son Ted, wander away into the garden, where Ted asks the all-important question. They return to find their fathers quarreling bitterly, and to hear Jim say that the riders are right and that he is going to join them. Bob is furious, calls his son, tells him to have nothing more to do with the Hoyles, and rides away. As summer approaches, the raiders increase their activities. Bob overhears two of them whispering; one says, "Felton Woods this afternoon at four." Bob determines to investigate. Meantime, Ted rides near the Hoyle home and whistles for Sue, who quickly goes to him, her father being away. While the two young people are talking. Orrin Black, a neighboring grower, sees them and informs Jim. Jim is furious and raves at Sue, while Black stands trying to get her attention, but she ignores him. Bob creeps near enough to the group of men, among whom are Jim and Black, to hear them say: "Tomorrow night at the entrance to Box Canyon." Bob gathers together his deputies, instructing them not to fire until the raiders have passed into the canyon, where the deputies can hold them there until morning. That night, when the raiders are cornered In "The Box," Ted and Sue are with Mrs. Hoyle, who is taken ill. Ted rushes for a doctor, who sends a young fellow to find Jim at once. Ted comes upon Bob, who is covered by Jim. Jim hears Ted asking for him and the reason for so doing. Bob exchanges hats and coats with Jim and has him wear his badge, while Bob puts on the black mask. Ted is taken prisoner by some of the raiders. Black is told to lock him in a shack, and later, when the raiders decide to blow up the warehouse and make a dash for freedom, Black again offers to place the bomb, but instead of putting it near the warehouse, he puts it by the shack, and the explosion immediately occurs. Bob joins the deputies, and they rush to the shack, where they find a body and think it is Ted's. Bob dashes to Jim's home with the news. Jim is amazed. He enters the bedroom and sees Sue and Ted seated by Mrs. Hoyle's bedside. Bob is bewildered. Ted tells him that the dead man must be Black, who tried to get rid of him because of Sue, but in the fight Ted overpowered him and escaped. Moving Picture World, September 22, 1917
- Christy Mathewson is engaged to Lillian Terry, daughter of Edward Terry, a rich merchant. The father favors the match, but dislikes the way Christie fools away his time playing baseball. Jack Prescott, the rejected suitor, tells Terry that if ever he lets Christy marry his daughter he will regret. At the instigation of his daughter, Terry makes Christy an offer to come into his office to work for the sum of $25 per week. Christy, against his own inclination, accepts the offer. This does not suit Prescott, who does all in his power to have Christy fired. In the office we are introduced to Otto, a baseball fiend, who is never happier than when arguing with his fellow clerks or in demonstrating to them the way in which various players pitch the ball. He and Christy soon become fast friends. Christy still continues playing baseball with an amateur team. On one occasion he leaves his sweetheart, telling her he has a business engagement. Prescott, meantime, meets Lillian on her way home. Christy is caught in the lie. Christy gives his word he will not play again. Otto, one day, is having a heated argument with his pals, and is trying to show them how a certain pitcher won his game. Christy is asked for his decision. He gets a baseball and as he throws it the door opens and Terry, with a rich client, enters. The ball strikes the rich client. Terry fires Christy. Christy, that evening, writes to Lil to the effect that he never was cut out for office work, and that he was going out into the world to find a career himself. He asks her to wait for him, which she promises to do. Later he is discovered by Jack North and the scout. North is the manager of a big league team. He makes him an offer, which Christy accepts. A year passes. The boys at the office learn that their old pal, Christy, may get a chance to show his worth that day at the ball grounds. They all fake telegrams saying that their grandmothers are dead. Terry, who knows himself what is in the wind, sympathizes and gives them the day off. He then 'phones Lillian. On the way to the game they meet Prescott, who accompanies them. At the Polo Grounds we have the regulation scenes of the different players warming up; this includes Tesreau, Marquard, Mathewson, etc. Later, end of eighth inning, score tied, four to four. The manager of the team decides to give Christy his chance. He takes out the man who has been pitching and sends Christy in. Christy is so nervous that he can scarcely hold the ball, but as he looks toward the grandstand, he sees Lil watching him eagerly. His nerve returns, and pitching a wonderful game, he shuts out the opposing team. Lillian sends a note to him to call at the house that evening. When he arrives there he finds that Lil's father has become a baseball enthusiast. Lil finds it difficult to get Christy alone, as Terry wants him to demonstrate the game and how he won it. Prescott has to sit and listen to all this, and to his disgust, Terry tells Christy that he can marry Lil whenever he likes.
- Everybody knew Sheriff Baxter of Maverick was considerable of a coward and a "softie." The stage coach approaches Maverick, with one lone passenger. Two men see it. One wants to rob it, the other demurs. The first man, Giles, decides to rob it alone. He does so, taking the money he finds in the possession of the lone passenger, who is Dick Lonagan. Giles returns to his companion, Clanman, and goes to Ballinger, where Pete Howell recently robbed the post office. Cranman proceeds after the stage coach to Maverick. The stage coach driver makes known the holdup. Lonagan is introduced as a cattle buyer from El Paso. He says he is broke and is taken home by McGibben's daughter, and immediately takes a liking to her. Cranman arrives and is seen by the Sheriff, who becomes suspicious of him, but McGibben tells him he is not the holdup man. The Sheriff gets the idea that Cranman is the man who is wanted in Ballinger, and confers with McGibben. Cranman meets Elsie. Elsie likes Lonagan and Cranman is unable to warn her against him, although he believes Lonagan to be a bad character. Lonagan calls on the Sheriff and the Sheriff tells him that he suspects Cranman of being the bandit. He encourages the Sheriff's belief. The Sheriff decides to "get" Cranman. Elsie learns of this, and is cautioned by her father to stay away from Cranman. Lonagan presses his suit, favored by the father. Elsie agrees to marry Lonagan. Lonagan insists that the Sheriff arrest Cranman, and, believing the Sheriff afraid, he agrees to arrest him, giving the Sheriff the reward and the glory. Lonagan lays for Cranman and covers him. No one but the Sheriff and Elsie (unseen) sees this. Elsie is not quite satisfied that Cranman is guilty. Lonagan places Cranman in jail, then urges Elsie to leave with him on their honeymoon in Oklahoma. Meanwhile Giles arrives in Maverick. He overhears a conversation and learns Cranman is in jail. The Sheriff, Lonagan and McGibben meet Giles. He is recognized as the hold-up man. Giles admits Cranman is his partner, but does not reveal his character or business. Giles is denounced as the robber. Lonagan attempts to cover Giles, but the latter is too quick for him. Giles disarms the men, keeping them covered, leads them up to the jail and explains that they held up the stage to get the evidence on Lonagan; that he is Pete Howell, and that they have the money he took from Ballinger. Giles turns over photo of Howell to Sheriff and convinces him. Moving Picture World, September 15, 1917
- Dr. Reid, a young American physician in the Philippines, risks his life in the cause of patriotism, and eventually wins the love of the girl of his choice. With the idea of developing in the natives in his community the spirit of manly citizenship, Dr. Reid requests the War Department to furnish him with a number of discarded Winchesters with which to drill the natives. His request is granted and he succeeds in getting together quite an enthusiastic company. Dr, Reid is not the only instructor in patriotism. Young Pauline Bush, a teacher in the Islands, has for some time been instructing her pupils in all that the American flag means to her. When she finds that Dr, Reid is also patriotically inclined, a bond of friendship is cemented between the two Americans. Bonita, one of Pauline's pupils, has for some time been deeply but hopelessly in love with the young doctor, and is very despondent when she sees the growing attraction between the young Americans. Her father wishes to join Dr. Reid's company, but because of his age is not allowed to do so. Dr. Reid, however, gives him a gun, which the old man becomes very fond of. Camped close to the settlement is a company of Spaniards, one of whom, through disorderly conduct, is stripped of his uniform and driven from camp. This renegade makes his way to the settlement and there encounters Bonita, the young native girl. Bonita's beauty attracts the renegade, who makes insulting advances to her. Doctor Reid witnesses the encounter and after a short, sharp fight with the renegade, he is sent about his business. The renegade, smarting under the drubbing he has received, vows revenge on the American, and when he discovers him drilling the natives, he hastens to the Spanish camp and informs the officer in charge that the American doctor is teaching the Filippinos war. The Spaniards hasten to the settlement and finding Bonita's father fondling the gun given him by the doctor; they decide to make an example of him. They seize the old man and drag him to a nearby wall, where they proceed to execute him, Bonita, who witnesses the shooting of her father, is wild with grief, and runs to her beloved teacher and tells her what has occurred. Pauline fearlessly rushes to the place of the execution, and furiously reprimands the two Spaniards who are standing by the body. They debate for a moment, then grab the teacher and attempt to drag her away. Dr. Reid, who is hunting nearby, sees the struggle and swiftly dispatches both soldiers. He hastens to Pauline's side and leads both girls away. Dr. Reid realizes the significance of the shooting of the old man and quickly gathers his little company together. They are not a moment too soon, for the Spaniards charge the settlement. The women and children hide at the school house, where they are at last joined by the men, fighting each inch of the way. A desperate battle is waged around the tiny school house and the doctor and his little band are more than outnumbered. Bonita sees the battle from a distance and hastens swiftly to the American camp and informs the officer what she has seen. The American troops hurry to the scene of the conflict and reach the schoolhouse just as the doctor, who has fired his last round of ammunition, is about to surrender. The Americans quickly drive the Spaniards from the field, but Bonita, who has followed, is shot. She falls, clutching the American flag which she has learned to love. Dr. Reid and Pauline find the young native girl and feelingly drape her remains with the silken folds of "Old Glory."
- Bad Pete, who passes the cabin in the mountains wherein live Bara and Old Fleming, determines to stop for food. Bara objects, but Old Fleming invites him in. When Old Fleming leaves the room for a moment, Bad Pete makes advances to Bara, who stabs him with a table knife. Pete leaves upon Fleming's return and goes to the settlement of Red Wolf, where he meets Tom and Jeff, who buy him a drink or two and tell him of a deserted silver mine. As Bara is returning that night from a tramp through the woods, she passes the mine, and hearing voices inside, enters. She is driving the men, Pete, Tom and Jeff, out when Fleming, awakened from his doze by the noise approaches with a gun. He is knocked motionless by Tom. Pete rejoins the camp of the Yaquis while Tom and Pete start for the settlement. On the way they are horrified, for they see "The Ghost Wagon." Paralyzed with fright, Tom and Jeff rush to the saloon and tell the bartender, who says that what they saw is a sure sign of death. Tom and Jeff think of Fleming's death, but say nothing. A month elapses and the beautiful offices of Fairchild and Gould, Silver Mine Investment Company, are shown. Young David Fairchild, just returned from college, informs his indulgent father he is anxious to get to work. Tom and Jeff are shown in, and although the elder Fairchild does not know the men, he listens to their proposition. They show him specimens of silver they had taken from the mine in the mountain and say that they will give him a half interest in the mine if he will work it. David is interested and asks to go with the men and investigate the matter. His father consents. Later, David arrives in Red Wolf, and is shown to a shabby bedroom over the saloon. He determines to go out and explore for himself, not seeing Tom and Jeff in sight. He comes upon Bara seated beside Old Fleming's grave. David inquires about the grave. Bara tells him that it is the grave of the only father and mother she has ever known. Drawn to him, she tells him of her parents coming there in a prairie schooner. Bara's father drives while her mother holds Bara, as a baby in her arms. Old Fleming and others are on horseback. They are attacked by a band of Yaquis and all are killed but Old Fleming and Bara. Bara ends up by telling him there is a story that "The Ghost Wagon" still runs in the mountains. David reaches for her hand as Jeff, Tom and Pete come in sight. When Bara sees David talk to the men she turns on him in a fury, saying he too is one of their breed. She rushes out and Pete, unnoticed, follows her. He attacks the girl and David seeing him starts after him. Bara escapes and David and Pete have a fight in which Pete is beaten, That night Pete, half drunk with "fire water," incites the Yaquis, who have also shared the, whiskey, to a raid on the settlement. David, watching from his bedroom window, thinks of Bara, and determines to rescue her. He grabs his gun and jumps from the window, making his way cautiously along the buildings. Pete, bent on murder, finds David's bedroom deserted and calls his men to follow him. David, meanwhile, attacks a lone Indian on the outskirts of the settlement, takes his horse and rides toward Bara's shack, Pete following closely with the drunken Yaquis. David arrives at the shack and Bara attempts to repulse him. David picks her up and carries her out to his horse and rides away. After a chase, David and Bara seek safety behind a rock near the roadside. Their guns are empty and, knowing death is inevitable, they cling to one another. The Yaquis come up and surround the two. Pete dismounts and crawls toward them. The posse of Red Wolf are seen in the distance. Pete determines to kill Bara and David. As he raises his gun "The Ghost Wagon" is seen speeding by, and a spurt of flame comes from old Fleming's upraised gun. Pete falls dead, and when the amazed Bara and David see the dead man. Bara says her father's spirit has saved them. Meanwhile the posse, coming up, gives chase to the Yaquis and captures and kills them. Bara and David, in each other's arms, turn and see "The Ghost Wagon" going across the mountain trail.
- In the present day women are filling, and adequately, too, positions where men used to shine; but one, that of bartender, seems to be beyond the sphere of womanhood. However, Nell, in a western town, runs a saloon and is treated, mind you, with the utmost respect by all. The sheriff of the town proposes marriage to her, but she declines and returns to her position behind the bar. Her cowboy lover, Slim, joins her, and when the sheriff turns to see who his rival is he laughs contemptuously. Nell entrusts to Slim the mailing of a letter to her parents, enclosing money for them and announcing her engagement. The sheriff and a Mexican girl are drinking in a gambling room, where Slim comes. The envelope projects from his pocket and the Mexican girl appropriates it, giving it to the sheriff, who reads the enclosure and hands the money to the girl. Slim, now ready to mail the letter, discovers its loss, finds it at his feet, reads it and realizes the importance of the trust. He searches all the male inmates of the room, but finds nothing. The Mexican girl he does not suspect and gives her a note to Nell, saying he will come back soon. This note the sheriff uses against Slim, showing it to Nell and saying it was to the Mexican girl, and tells her that Slim lost her money. She only believes this when brought before the Mexican, who pretends jealousy. Slim meantime tries to regain what he lost by cattle thieving, but his gloves identify the culprit and he is searched for. He is shot and wounded. At first she would cast him off, but finally hides him. The sheriff and posse enter, but she denies the presence of Slim. All leave but the sheriff, who suspects Nell. He discovers that Slim is hidden and intends arresting him, but Nell suggests a game of cards; if she wins, Slim is free; if she loses, she marries the sheriff and her lover is arrested. She wins, the sheriff goes, and she is reunited to Slim.
- Bill French, a ranch owner, determines to press his suit with Edna. He goes to where she is drawing water and proposes. Edna refuses and Tom comes up and interferes, and there is a rough and tumble fight, in which Bill gets a bad mauling. Bill is furious. He goes to the village with ugly feelings, and insults an Indian squaw who inadvertently gets into his way. He goes into a saloon and after an altercation with an Indian chief, who wants a drink. Bill throws him out of the saloon. The old man waits for him and accosts him upon his appearance. Young Bear, the chief's son, tries to pacify his father, but the old man, goaded to madness, draws a knife and Bill shoots him. Young Bear, now chief, determines upon vengeance and his followers are eager for war. They set out to exterminate the Pale Faces. Tom sets out to get stock and bids Edna and her parents farewell. The latter start for town in a wagon. Tom reaches the brow of the hill, sees the Indians and dashes back to warn the Lees. The horses attached to their wagon run away and the father is thrown out and sustains a broken leg. They get him back to the cabin and Tom elects to stay and defend the old people, whilst Edna rides for assistance. Tom barricades the doors and windows and the Indians attack. They roll rocks down upon the roof and they crash through into the cabin. Tom picks the Indians off as they come to the opening made. They throw fire brands in, which Mrs. Lee puts out with a pail of water. Young Bear gets impatient and climbs to the roof himself. Tom shoots first and the Indian falls into the room. Tom disarms him and throws him aside. The defenders have held their own and look anxiously for Edna's return with help. Whilst all this has been going on Edna has spurred her horse until the poor beast has gone lame. Bill rides up and gloats over her misfortune. She implores him to let her have his horse in order to get assistance to rescue her people. Bill says he will help her if she will marry him. She retreats. He is adamant. She consents in despair and they ride to a Justice of the Peace and are married in haste. They secure the help of troops and ride in haste to the cabin in time to affect a rescue and to drive off the Indians. Bill announces his marriage and Edna hangs her head, but Young Bear sees his vengeance at hand and creeps up behind Bill, and with a last effort he kills him with a knife thrust. Tom and Edna pass out hand in hand, awed by the terrible retribution.
- Lucille Lawton is a ward of David Driscoll superintendent of the Belmont Iron Works. George Belmont, the head in the industry, is the pampered pet of society. His younger brother Jack is just the opposite. Jack inherited a big block of railroad stock, got a job as a worker on the railroad and is now engineer. Jack on one of his regular runs is horrified to see a horse dashing toward the train with Lucille dragging from the saddle. Jack calls the fireman to take his place and leaping from the train, succeeds in bringing the horse to a stop. His brother drives up in an auto and Jack surrenders the unconscious girl to him to be taken to a hospital. It is two months before Lucille fully recovers. She goes to the railroad yard to thank the engineer. Jack comes to his engine and is greeted by Lucille. He promises the girl to call on her the following evening. George has fallen in love with Lucille and promises Driscoll that if he will use his influence to favor his suit, that he will receive a large compensation. Lucille has become more and more interested in Jack. When Jack calls at the house he finds George there. Driscoll monopolizes Jack's time, leaving the girl to George. George comes to the office half drunk, Driscoll tells him Lucille will be alone that night and suggests that he call. Lucille has retired when George arrives and forces his way through the door. The maid tries to keep him out and a struggle takes place between them in which the maid is knocked unconscious. Lucille tries to get Jack on the phone and leaves word at the office for him to hurry. She barricades her door, but George, in his drunken frenzy, breaks the door down and attacks her. Jack gets the message. Hastily cutting off the engine, he and the fireman make a dash for the house. Driscoll's auto is wrecked and he is pinned under it. The maid has revived and attacks Belmont again. He throws her down the stairs. Jack breaks in and they have a fight. George is knocked down the steps. Driscoll is found to be only bruised. Learning George's real nature, he is glad that he has received such a good lesson.
- Jim Strong, an English army officer, in charge of a British trading post in the jungle, lives with his daughter Nettie. Nettie and Dick Price, an official guide of the British army, are sweethearts. Dick goes into the interior with a party, and soon after his departure Strong is bitten by a poisonous snake and dies before help can reach him. Nettie sends word to Cape Town for relief, and Lieutenant Harry Reynolds hastens to the post. Two days later, in the jungle, the party of investors, led by Dick, enjoy themselves trapping game. During this excitement, one man injures an elephant, and the huge animal, enraged by the bullet wound, attacks the camp, completely destroying it and thus causing the party to start for the post. Meanwhile, Reynolds, who is an impostor, posing as an officer, has determined to take advantage of his being alone with Nettie. He tries to make love to her, but she repulses him, though unable to repress her fear of him. Finally he becomes angry. He grabs her and they struggle; she hits him with some heavy article, which staggers him, and gives her a chance to make her escape from the cabin into the jungle. Soon Harry loses track of Nettie, who has run up a path along the side of a hill. She enters a cave and confronts a wounded lion. Harry discovers her footprints and finds her. He pulls her out of the cave. From a distance, Dick sees Reynolds and Nettie struggling on the edge of a precipice. Leaving the party, he rides rapidly toward them. He cannot ascend the side of the cliff that they are on. So he throws a rope over a stump on the other side, pulls it taut, and swings over, hand over hand, to Nettie's aid. Nettie is saved, while it is discovered that Reynolds is an impostor and he meets his deserts. Moving Picture World, October 13, 1917
- Tom and Joe are rivals for the hand of May. She favors Tom. The latter proposes and upon getting a refusal determines upon revenge. He is goaded into further passion through his dismissal at the hands of Max Weyman, the ranch boss, for ill treating his horse. Tom and May are married and have a baby. Their household duties are attended to by a half-breed. Tom departs for the village one day and shoots a rabbit, which he hides under a bush to pick up upon his return. The half-breed goes out to pick wood. During their absence, Joe enters the cabin and forces his unwelcome attentions upon May. She stops him by showing him the baby and talking until the half-breed returns, when he makes his exit. He follows Tom to town and sees him enter the saloon with Max the ranchman and some cowboys. Tom and Max get into an argument over their cards and the hot tempered Max strikes at Tom, who retaliates. Max draws his gun and Tom anxious to avoid bloodshed smashes the lamp with a chair. In the brief spell of darkness a flash is seen and when lights are brought Max is seen lying across the table badly wounded and unconscious. Tom demands to know who did it and the guilt is fastened upon him. He is taken off by the sheriff. In the meantime Joe has disappeared from the scene. May becomes anxious at Tom's absence and sends the half-breed to find out the cause. He traces Tom and in an interview learns all about the shooting of the rabbit and the cause of the empty chamber in his revolver, which led to his arrest. The half-breed rides back and gets the rabbit and tells May the news. May leaves the baby in the charge of her mother and sets out on horseback to right matters if possible. The cowboys, enraged at the attempt upon their boss, go to the jail and take Tom and lead him out to hang him. May comes across Joe, who is mortally injured. He calls to her and tells her the truth. The half-breed takes him upon his horse. The party reach the scene of the hanging just in time and Tom is set free.
- As six priests are in prayer in the Temple of Buddha, a band of marauding coolies sweep down and annihilate them. The last priest to die, perceiving that the coolies are taking the sacred eye of Bnddha, a precious stone, curses the stone and exclaims that the possessor of it shall die. He then passes away. The coolies arrive at the desert, where they begin to quarrel about the emerald. One by one they die and the surviving coolie grasps the stone and runs away with it to the jungle, where fear and excitement make him a madman. Casting the stone into the air, it hangs suspended, and, as the maddened coolie falls dead upon the ground, the stone descends upon his breast, where it is found by a caravan of merchants, one of whom appropriates it. The merchant goes to the bazaar at the English barracks, at Cawnpore, India, where he sells the stone to Sir Hugh Wheeler and his niece. Just as the transferring of the stone has been completed, the merchant is seized with an attack of fever and dies. Several days later, as Sir Hugh and others are admiring the stone, a dispatch comes to him bearing the news that the fanatical Sepoys have thrown down their arms and deserted, having been told by a Buddha priest that they are being defiled with greased bullets and that he had better prepare for immediate defense. Nana Sahib, a treacherous man, offers his assistance to Sir Hugh, which is gladly accepted. Back in the temple the High Priest Djalma sees in a vision Sir Hugh and his niece admiring the stone with the sinister Nana Sahib standing in the background with upraised knife. He makes a passionate vow that he will devote his life to regain the stone. When Cawnpore is invested. Nana, who had promised to take care of the English troopers, the invalids, the women and the children, fails to keep his promise and the troopers are killed, while the women and children are hustled into the old barracks. This also is seen by the High Priest Djalma in a vision as he stands before the idol of Buddha in the temple. The Sepoys, having been defeated by the advancing troopers of General Havelock, avenge themselves by slaughtering the women and children. A Hindu woman with a white baby escapes. In the temple the high priest throws incense on the brazier, and again in a vision he sees the Hindu woman give the baby to a Sepoy coolie who is in a boat, he having escaped after having looted the bodies of the dead and found the emerald. The old priest makes a solemn vow that the baby boy shall grow up and reclaim the stolen eye and that he shall adopt the boy. Twenty-five years later the emerald, after having passed through many hands and each time causing a calamity, finds its way into the possession of Colonel Van Alston, his wife and daughter, Nellie. The High Priest Djalma, now an aged man, realizing that his days are numbered, calls the little boy he adopted years ago, now known as Afga, the White Priest, and makes him swear that he will devote his entire life to the restoring of the eye of Buddha. Afga promises and the old priest passes away. Taking his ball of crystal he concentrates his mind upon it and sees in it Nellie at a reception with the emerald around her neck. That night, as Afga throws incense on the brazier, he sees in the smoke that rises, Nellie, admiring the emerald and gently refusing the proposal of a suitor. She suddenly falls in a trance, in which she sees Afga and the idol of Buddha with the missing eye. Recovering her senses again, Nellie becomes very ill and the doctors advise a change in climate. Just about this time the colonel is ordered to take his regiment to Cawnpore, India. In taking in the sights of that city, they eventually come to the Temple of Buddha, where Nellie meets Afga. Nellie continues to be sick, and one of her attendants, a native coolie, seeing the emerald about her neck, goes to the head of his sect and tells him of the emerald. He is given silken cords with which to hang Nellie. Meanwhile, Afga calls upon the colonel and asks to cure his daughter. He is given permission, and almost simultaneously with the laying of his hand upon her brow, she gets well. That night in the temple, Afga sees in a vision Nellie being maltreated by the coolie thus. He goes at once to her rescue and transforms the leader into a dog. The rest slink away in mortal fear. He takes Nellie home and leaves. The next day Nellie goes to the temple and is taken before the idol of Buddha. Pointing to the eye socket Afga tells her of the story of the emerald. Impulsively she gives him the precious stone, and immediately after it is placed in the socket it flares fire. They then go to the colonel, the history of the young man is told, and he is recognized as Nellie's accepted suitor.
- In a small mining community lives an orphan girl who is engaged to a miner. A degenerate Mexican infests the camp and proves a menace to the citizens. The orphan's sweetheart finds him intimidating two young sweethearts and gives him a well-deserved beating. Thus he incurs the Mexican's hatred. A young stranger, coming into camp, accidentally shoots himself while cleaning his revolver. The orphan girl takes him into her cabin and dresses his wound. She is called out by the Mexican and attacked, but is saved by the stranger. To secure revenge, the Mexican informs the miners that the orphan is harboring a man in her cabin; this reaches the ears of the orphan's sweetheart. With a strong fist, the young miner smashes the lying mouth. In the meantime, the stranger, unaware that the girl is engaged to the miner, falls in love with her. The miner finds it out and his heart aches, but he acts straight. Upon learning the truth, the stranger departs; he makes his way up the hill, leaving the girl behind with a sore heart, for she loves him in a way. However, as he looks back and down the mountain, the stranger sees the Mexican below him on a cliff about to shoot the miner and the girl as they stand on the door-step. He hurriedly throws his pack onto him, spoiling his aim; then he jumps over and down. He kills the Mexican, but his own life is sacrificed.
- This Bison film tells of a young Western girl and her love for an Indian. A Mexican, who attempts to caress her, is driven away by the Indian lover. Little Bear is sitting alone in his camp when his sweetheart enters. He gives her many gifts in exchange for her photograph, and she leaves him gazing at it in rapt admiration. The girl, upon returning home, displays her presents, and acknowledges her love for Little Bear, who at that minute comes upon the scene. The father orders him away. The girl awaits an opportunity to slip from the house, and as she enters the woods she sees Little Bear's sister fall from a rock, and goes to her aid. By this time the girl's flight is discovered and the father goes in pursuit. He passes the spot where the Mexican and his band are sitting. After he goes by, orders are given and the band mount their horses and ride off. The Western girl has in the meantime returned home with the squaw, whom she places on the sofa. She shows much distress when she discovers the Mexican and his men outside the door. The squaw sees the situation, and by the time the Mexicans break into the house she has managed to send a note by climbing to the roof and shooting an arrow, to which the note is tied, high into the air. They take the girl prisoner and ride away with her. The father searches for his daughter in the Indian camp, and while there the arrow bearing the note falls lo the ground. After learning its contents, he and the Indian return home, hear particulars, and the Indian promises to bring the girl back. After a hard struggle, Little Bear releases her and they ride off, pursued by the Mexicans. The girl readies her home in safety and the father gives her to Little Bear, who, to please the father, adopts civilian clothes.
- Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed. Reed saves an Indian, Eagle Eye, from the drunken taunts of a half-breed, and the latter swears vengeance. The half-breed knows that the gold is ready for the final payment and decides to steal it. With the aid of his pal, a rustler, he kills the watchman and escapes with the gold. Then he kills Eagle Eye and puts the gold sacks near him. The Indians, thinking the white men have murdered their brother, plan an attack on the mine. Pauline's faithful Indian girl servant learns of the proposed attack and warns the miner. The attack is made and Rosson rides for help. He returns with the cavalry as the miners are making their last stand, and, after a hot fight, the Indians are driven away. The half-breed and his pal in the meantime, have camped in the desert. When the half-breed is asleep his pal steals the gold and rides away. He is bitten by a rattlesnake and decides to risk discovery as a thief and rides to town for aid. A miner meets him and the rustler, now delirious from the poison, confesses the murder of the watchman and the theft of the gold. The miner is honest, and, after the rustler dies of the bite, carries the gold back to the mine just in time for the final payment to be made.
- General Gordon, of the Federal army, receives a message from General Grant, telling him to intercept important dispatches "from Lee to Webber, carried over wires" in Gordon's vicinity. Lieutenant Barrett assumes the task, takes his instruments and sets out. Colonel Webber, of the Confederate army, has a daughter Edith. Lieutenant Fairfax aspires to her hand, but his attentions only annoy her. Barrett taps the wires, but is seen by a Confederate officer and shot. The officer creeps up to him, thinking him dead, and Barrett suddenly shoots, kills him, and takes his uniform. He finds some plans in the dead man's pockets addressed to Col. Webber and copies them. He ties the copied information on his horse and starts the animal toward the Federal camp. He then mounts the Confederate's horse and soon meets Edith. She, seeing a wounded Confederate officer, sympathizes with him and takes him to her father's home. Meanwhile the horse reaches the Federal camp and Gordon gets the message and plans. Barrett meets Webber and Fairfax, and gives Webber the original plans. Edith binds Barrett's wounded band and the handsome couple are mightily attracted to each other. The household retires for the night and Barrett prepares some dummy dispatches. For seals he uses candle wax and the blood from a cut finger. He then enters the Colonel's room, changes the dummy dispatches for real ones. On the following morning Webber, Fairfax and others depart for the front and Barrett is left with Edith. By this time he is thoroughly in love with the girl and he leaves her with genuine regrets. Riding to the dead officer he dons his own garments and rides safely to the Federal lines. That night Edith takes a message that the Federals are advancing. She gets her horse and rides madly to her father's camp, where Barrett's treachery is discovered. The Confederates fill the trenches with dummy soldiers. When the Federals charge they are overwhelmed by the Confederates. Barrett's troops are beaten back. The retreating Federals decide to surprise the town where Webber lives. The Colonel, Edith and Fairfax barricade the house, hut Fairfax is fatally wounded. The Colonel also is badly wounded. Barrett gives Edith his coat and hat, telling her to save her father. As they are about to go, Barrett is shot in the head and passes, away in the arms of Edith.
- Upon a strongly fortified island dwells the Seigneur D'Yvry, commonly known as Monsieur Bluebeard. This man openly defies God, King Louis and the world in general. Aside from this, Bluebeard preys upon the maidens of his small domain, especially such as leave the altar as newly wedded wives. Louis XI has been patient with the vagaries of Bluebeard, hoping that someday he may win him over to better ways. To this end Louis sends Oliver le Dain to Bluebeard. Oliver's reception is anything but flattering. He returns to Louis, having barely escaped with his life. Whereon, Louis goes into a violent rage. Deep in thought, his mind reverts to Francois Villon as the instrument whereby Bluebeard may be humbled. Villon is summoned before the irate king, who orders him to proceed to the D'Yvry stronghold and cut Bluebeard's claws. Before starting for Castle D'Yvry, however, the crafty Villon takes into his confidence one Petrara, a magician of the period. It is well known that Bluebeard is a devotee to the practice of "black art." Working in the mines of Bluebeard are many men of a peculiar race, the Lhetta. The local priest has succeeded in converting these monsters to a belief in a Higher Being, the good man ruling them with kindness instead of fear. Villon and Petrara arrive at Castle D'Yvry at a time when the community is greatly wrought up over the action of Bluebeard's elder son, Tankred, who has bidden the newly wedded wife of young Carca present herself at the castle. Villon is quick to seize upon this incident. He interviews the priest. Between them they hatch a plot whereby the Lhetta will be permitted to wreak their vengeance upon Bluebeard and his two sons. At a barbecue which is held in the castle courtyard, and to which the villagers and the Lhetta are bidden, the signal being the ringing of the castle bell, the rebellion takes place. Bluebeard, trapped in a tower room by Villon and Petrara hears the battle raging below. Wrenching loose the bars of the window, he climbs out upon a narrow cornice. Here he is seen by the maddened Carca, who lets fly a bolt from the cross. The Seigneur's death follows his two sons meeting a similar fate. The wily Villon then determines to play a joke upon Louis XI. He dresses himself in the clothing of Bluebeard and returns to court. Here he is seen by the nerve-shaken Oliver Le Dainthat they are besieged by Bluebeard. Villon is shown into the presence of the king, who quickly orders the arrest of the visitor. Whereupon Villon discloses his identity, much to the annoyance of the frightened Oliver. Louis XI appreciates the poet's joke and the incident ends happily.
- The Lamb is one of these gentle young men who spend their lives looking after the affairs of others and in the meantime lose all the best that is the heritage of the young. This particular Lamb is devoting his life to his invalid mother and in his spare moment editing a weekly paper. The citizens of the small western town deride the editor and his paper. But there are two persons who have faith in him, and they are the Woman and his mother. He loves the Woman deeply, but would not propose marriage because he deems it would be unjust to saddle an invalid upon a young wife. After an absence of five years, the Wolf, a husky mountaineer, who is sure of himself and devoid of the finer instincts, visits his home town. He had an old love affair with the Woman. He again renews the suit for her hand. She is captivated by his masculine force of character and accepts his proposal of marriage. They are married and the Wolf takes the Woman to his hut in the mountains, where he is the agent between a stage line and a mining company. The monthly payroll money for the miners is delivered to him by the stage company and he turns it over to the mining company. The Woman learns of her mistake in marrying the Wolf. He is all the things she least suspected, a brute, an egotist without sentiment, or love for her. In the meantime the Lamb's mother dies. Nursing this sorrow and the hopeless love for the Woman, he goes into the mountains in search of solitude. He falls in with a band of outlaws and at first is a visitor among them. Word travels to the village that he has actually become an active member of the band. He becomes a marked man, shunned and ostracized. He then determines that he will afford the village people cause for their fear and hatred of him. He becomes an outlaw and grows as coarse and as hardened as he was previously gentle and refined. The Wolf decides that as he is now thoroughly tired of the Woman, he will steal the payroll money left in his keeping and leave her. On the night set for the theft the Woman is alone guarding the money. The Lamb also has decided to steal it and he arrives first and is admitted by the Woman. He recognizes her as his first and only love, but she does not recognize him. To quiet her suspicions he lays his revolver upon the table. Presently someone outside is heard tampering with the lock. Each thinks the intruder a confederate of the other. The Woman covers the door with the Lamb's revolver. A masked man enters and she shoots and kills him. It is her husband, the Wolf. She then recognizes the Lamb and with the new light that comes into her face and into his face, it can be seen that in the future a different, better life is in store for each.
- The Indian chief mourns for and is burying his little child, and his squaw is inconsolable. An Indian goes to a saloon and is plied with the forbidden firewater. Another Indian tries to get him to leave. He refuses and when he finds he is being tricked by a gambler, a fight ensues and the Indian is killed. His companion escapes and tells the chief that his brother has been killed by a pale face. The chief swears vengeance. He goes to the fort to demand justice, and is told that Red Tape demands a civil and not a military trial. The chief, unable to comprehend and believing that there is no justice where the redskins are concerned, takes an oath over his brother's body to exterminate the pale faces. The Indians go on the warpath. They first attack isolated settlers and in one instance are repulsed by sharp shooters, who pick off several of the redskins from a tree. Prairie schooners, filled with settlers fleeing from the avenging Indians, leave their wagons and ride off on the horses. A party of several wagons is caught and massacred. A woman has her baby torn from her arms by the Indian chief, who is about to kill both when his squaw, with the mother instinct, begs him to save the woman and to let her have the child to fill the void caused by the loss of her own baby. The Indians decamp with the little girl, and when the troopers arrive they find a raving woman, bereft of reason. The squaw cuddles the baby to her bosom and is content. Fifteen years later the poor mad woman lives in a tree house. It is partially ornamented with scalps, scalps of Indians, for the wild woman has become the scourge of the red man. She hunts amongst the rocks. When the Indians approach she throws a rock at one of them. He falls dead. His superstitious companions flee in terror. The wild woman laughs with glee and adds another scalp to her collection. The little white child taken by the squaw grows into a beautiful young woman and she lives happily with the Indians and is attached to the squaw. The authorities at Washington write to the commandant of the fort, requesting that investigation be made of the presence of a wild woman stated to be in the vicinity of the fort, a young lieutenant offers to take it up unofficially, and is granted permission. The wild woman kills another Indian and the tribe is filled with terror. The young lieutenant, at the head of a detachment, visits the Indians and learns of the terrible scourge. Several of them lead the lieutenant to the scene of the outrages. The wild woman sees the cavalry and hesitates. Then she sees the Indians and savagely kills one with a rock from her three home. An Indian fires, and the lieutenant climbs the tree and finds her desperately wounded on her platform. The cavalry take her, unconscious to the Indian camp where she is laid on a pallet in a tepee. White Dove bathes her head and the woman comes to and looks at her curiously. She suddenly grabs at the locket White Dove is wearing and faints. The lieutenant notes all this and interviews the chief, when he learns how his squaw adopted the child, thinking the mother dead. The lieutenant is much attracted to the beautiful girl. Time passes. The mother recovers her reason and is taken back to civilization.
- Hartley is a rancher. His daughter, Bess, is the sweetheart of Jack, a fine, manly fellow. Bosco is a card sharp who inveigles Hartley, while under the influence of liquor, into a card game. Jack catches Bosco cheating, stops the game, and after an encounter with Bosco takes Hartley home, where a scene of pathetic tenderness is enacted with Bess. In revenge, Bosco and his partner carry Bess away. Jack rides in pursuit while Hartley assembles a posse and follows. The two renegades quarrel, and during the ensuing fight Bess makes her escape. As Bosco is about to recapture her, Jack arrives on the scene and a terrific encounter follows, in which Bosco falls over the cliff. In the meantime the posse is riding hard and comes up in time to escort Jack and his sweetheart back. Hartley is stricken with remorse over the trouble his drinking has brought on and takes an oath never to touch liquor again. The last scene shows Jack and Bess at the little church, about to be married, while the cowboys fire their revolvers and cheer them.
- The action of "Custer's Last Scout" takes place in 1876 when our Indian wards took it into their hands to exterminate the white soldiers. General Geo. A. Custer is in command at Fort Lincoln. With him as chief scout is Alfred L. Chapman. Others in his command are Major Reno, Capt. Bates, Lieut. Woodruff and Lieut. Kane. Marjorie Woodruff, sister to Lieut. Woodruff, is the belle of the post. Every officer is in love with her, but Captain Bates and Chapman are recognized rivals. Marjorie's brother has a decided objection to Chapman's suit, and does not hesitate to acquaint Marjorie with the fact. She, however, possesses a will of her own. Chapman proposes to Marjorie, who tells him that she will give him an answer on the morrow. Chapman leaves her, meets the young lieutenant, and the two are kept from coming to blows only by the intervention of brother officers. Bates then proposes to Marjorie, and is accepted. Whereupon Marjorie writes a note to Chapman, telling him of the fact, and sends the article to Chapman by a passing trooper. Lieut. Woodruff sees the action, holds up the trooper and forces the latter to give up the note. That afternoon Chapman is sent to observe the movements of Chief Rain-in-the-Face, while Lieut. Woodruff and Kane, accompanied by two troopers one of whom figured in the note incident, set out to hunt antelope. The little party is ambushed, and the two officers and one trooper are killed. The survivor is the trooper from whom Woodruff took Marjorie's note. The trooper falls in with another band of Indians who fire upon him. He rolls down a steep embankment and under a growth of bush. Later, he crawls from his concealment and heads for the fort. Custer sends Captain Bates to Fort Rice. En route, Bates and his small escort discover the bodies of the murdered officers. Bates also picks up the note written by Marjorie and dropped by the Indians when they rifled the bodies of their victims. Bates returns to the fort where he accuses Scout Chapman of haying murdered Woodruff, producing the note to prove the accusation. Custer is forced to order the scout arrested. As Chapman is led away, another scout enters with the half-dead trooper who, seeing the predicament of Chapman confesses to them that his superior officer had forced him to give up the note. Chapman is freed and the incident closes. Reynolds the second scout, informs Custer that Rain-in-the-Face is in possession of Lieut. Woodruff's gold watch. Custer decides to arrest the Chief, and sends Bates, Chapman and Tom Custer to Standing Rock Agency. Here the soldiers, after a struggle, succeed in arresting the Chief, and return with him to Fort Lincoln. The Chief's followers, enraged at his arrest, immediately bring warfare against the white settlers. Washington hears of this, and Custer receives orders to pacify the redmen. To this end he takes with him the seventh cavalry and starts after the Indians. Chapman is sent ahead but is unfortunate enough to tall into the hands of the Indians, who submit him to the usual tests for cowardice. After an interval. Chapman escapes his captors and heads back to rejoin his command. Underestimating the force of the Indians, Custer splits his command, sending Captain Bates and a troop up the Little Big Horn. Custer and his troops go down the river, leaving Reno and his men at a fixed post. The plans of attack call for a simultaneous movement from three sides. Reno, however, is drawn into an ambush and loses nearly half of his command. Bates is cut off, and Custer, unaware of these events, advances upon the Indians. His attack proves a failure, for the Indians are massed thousands strong, and he is compelled to fight a hand to hand conflict. Scout Chapman, hearing the firing, hastens forward, but he, too, is cut off. Hoping to circle the Indians, Chapman climbs to the top of a small hill. Here he views the terrible spectacle of Custer's massacre, unable either to advance or retreat. Later he is able to leave his position and picking up the disabled Reno command, tells them of the fate of Custer. Finding Captain Bates sorely wounded, Scout Chapman picks him up and brings him back to the fort. Marjorie weeps as she thanks the faithful scout for bringing back her accepted suitor while Chapman grins and rides away to live down his own disappointment.
- The Kid enters the tavern in time to prevent Andy from forcing a drink on Red Fern. She entered to dispose of some bead work, when Andy thought it would be a huge joke to compel her to drink the undesired liquor. The Kid saves her from this and thereby earns her gratitude, and, it would seem, her love. Andy, provoked at his interference, wants to stroke her, but the Kid is undaunted by the approach of the cowboys, and they, admiring his bravery, repulse Andy. When Red Fern and the Kid meet later, they tell of their love and the latter of his wish to make her his squaw. So they go to the Chief and the Kid offers his horse and saddle in trade for Red Fern. But this is not enough, the Chief would have two horses. Unable to pay the price, the Kid bids good-bye to Red Fern and gives her his handkerchief. Love, and the desire to become the Kid's squaw, being uppermost in her mind, she steals money from the tavern, and when about to be detected by the proprietor, she wounds him and makes off, dropping, however, the Kid's handkerchief. She runs to him and gives him the money wherewith to purchase her. He asks how she obtained it and hesitatingly she tells him. He puts it away and at that minute the sheriff comes to arrest the Kid, having identified the handkerchief. Red Fern holds them off and the Kid makes his escape. At the end of a long chase they catch him and are about to hang him. Red Fern arrives, however, in time to make the needed explanation, when they are presented with the money and all made happy.
- The sheriff of the county is elected by men who call him the "squarest sheriff alive." Panchita Garcia, the flower of the town, loved by all, leaves home for a walk, passing through the town, where all the cowboys come out to meet her. "Bad" Pedro, a native, sees her and follows. He overtakes her and tries to kiss her. The sheriff, who has been passing by and has given Pedro's wife money to buy food for the starving children, hears her and runs to her assistance. He takes as a remembrance her shawl which she drops. A week elapses and Jose Del Barra, a handsome Mexican, is caught stealing cattle by Jim Stephens. Stephens recognizes Jose, who escapes. Jose goes to his paramour, Faro Mamie, who keeps the roulette hall, and tells her what has happened. Meanwhile, Stephens rides for the sheriff and he returns with Stephens. They attack the roulette hall and in the fight Stephens kills Mamie and Jose in turn kills Stephens. Jose and the sheriff fight and Jose hits the sheriff on the head, causing amnesia. He forgets all. A year elapses and the sheriff still worships at Panchita's shrine. He calls to see her and four other sullen cowboys call at the same time. Panchita runs out and leaves them. Jose, returning to his old haunts, is startled by Panchita falling over an embankment at his very feet. He picks her up and finds she has only fainted. It is a case of love at first sight. The sheriff, returning angry and hurt, sees Panchita in Jose's arms, but does not see Jose's face. That night the sheriff determines to see Panchita again and goes to her house to find Panchita in Jose's arms. Jose does not see him but suddenly the sheriff remembers all and recognized Jose. Panchita pleads with the sheriff to let her elope with Jose as she says she loves him. Without telling her about Jose, the sheriff lets her go. Returning to town he hears shots in the saloon and, rushing in, finds a posse formed to go after Jose. The posse has received a telegram from the Albuquerque police, telling them of the murder. The sheriff takes a warrant and says he will go alone. He intends to prevent Panchita's marriage by winning her himself. He rides all night and arrives at Los Levos at dawn. As he rides up to the church Panchita comes out with Jose and informs the sheriff, joyfully, that they are married. The sheriff is dazed, but then gamely tells Panchita that he has brought her a wedding present. He deliberately tears up the warrant and leaves them. Heartbroken, he takes off his badge and rides slowly back along the trail.
- John Clayborn has been absent from his small mountain town for some time; he is returning as an ordaining minister. Tess' uncle, old Hank Harding, who owns a large farm, is not enthused over ministers; he likes his whiskey too well. Harding's daughter Bess is so devoted to him that she will not leave him to marry Lew Sanderson. Lew does not appreciate the arrival of Clayborn, as he realizes that Bess likes him, as does Tess, but Clayborn considers her a mere child. Bess promises her father that she will not marry as long as he lives, so Lew builds three or four stills on Harding's place, then informed the revenue officers that Harding is operating stills. During his calls, Clayborn visits the home of one of the men who is dying and has worked for Lew and has been mistreated. He tells him of the plot and Clayborn arrives at the station just in time to meet the officers and explain that it was only a trick against Harding. Lew, who has laid his plans well, has taken a couple of jugs of moonshine to Harding's and plied him with drinks, until he is in a drunken stupor. Clayborn secures Bess' aid and they destroy the stills, but the old man, hearing a noise, takes his gun and shoots Clayborn in the arm. That night, Lew sends word for Bess to meet Clayborn at a certain house and sends word to Clayborn to meet her at the same place. When the minister arrives, he is beaten and taken to the loft. When Bess arrives she learns of the ruse that has been played upon her and Lew demands that she marry him or he will have her father sent to prison. He threatens Clayborn with damaging Bess' name if he will not marry them. Just as he is on the point of performing the ceremony, the officers fire the house. Clayborn rescues Bess from the burning loft, and, at the risk of his own life, drags Lew from the burning building, but he later dies. Tess is heartbroken because she has lost the minister, he and Bess being happy in their love.
- May Arnold is living happily at home in the far Southwest. She is happy with her father, and happy with the thought that she is soon to wed Billy. Young businessman Clarence Van Nest, a distant relative of farmer Arnold from the East, is summoned on urgent business to the Southwest. His mother accompanies him. They are warmly greeted at the ranch house. Little May gazes wonder-eyed at Clarence. His easy grace and polished manner attract the girl to such an extent that after a little quarrel with Billy, she allows her thoughts to wander to the East, and a life of luxury. While pondering over these thoughts, she drops to sleep and dreams it all came true, but soon found her life was not one of sunshine and roses, and after many tribulations, she awakens with a start only to find she is at home and in the sphere in which Nature had placed her.
- Sheriff Crane's wife and child are preparing for a little journey with their wagon and team. On arriving at the store, the wife, on attempting to get out, stumbles and startles the horses, which causes them to run away, the child hanging on to the wagon. This is seen by Harry, who gives chase, captures the runaway horses, and returns the child, unhurt, to the mother, she returns home to tell her husband of the bravery of the stranger. Harry stops at the saloon kept by Vesta, which is patronized by rough Bill and his gang. While there a poor old man enters accompanied by a dog. He begs for something to eat for himself and the animal, saying that the dog, will do tricks in payment. After the performance Bill abuses the dog. Bill strikes the old man and is called to account by Harry. There is a struggle and the gun explodes, killing the old man, but before dying, the latter gives his dog to Harry, begging him to care for it. Harry leaves with the dog and a threat from Bill. Later, Harry returns and there is a general fight. The gang get after Harry but escapes. Later he is shot and falls from the horse. The latter races on and crawls in the brush. The gang, misled, ride on. They meet the sheriff and tell him of the affair. Vesta is called away by one of the men. The dog enters, sneaks the bacon Vesta was cutting and takes it to Harry. Vesta cannot understand how the bacon has disappeared. The following day the same thing occurs but the dog is seen by Vesta, who shoots, wounding him in the leg. He follows and sees him take the food to Harry. He returns to the saloon and tells the gang. Harry is captured and brought to the saloon to be lynched. He is seen by the sheriff's wife. She explains to her husband that he is the man who saved their child's life. The sheriff gives Harry his horse and allows him to depart.
- "Davy" Crockett, whose motto was "Be Sure You're Right, Then Go Ahead." Story opens with Davy's home. Next we see Blake and Anna, who arrive to have saddle girth mended. Davy a backwoods man mends girth, while the young lady reads a poem of young Lochinvar to him. They fall in love with each other. Later Davy sees storm arising, and follows them. They are about to be lost in the storm, when Davy rescues them from the wolves, after finding them exhausted. Later is shown where Anna is about to be married on the lawn of her Father's house to Blake, whom she now hates, when Davy rides in, grabs Anna, pulls her on the horse and rides away to a Country parson's house, marries Anna, takes her home to his own cabin, and says, "Mother, I have brought you a daughter."