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- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- Little Jimmie starts off for the country fair with his donkey only to be intercepted by a thief, who robs him of his faithful animal friend. Jimmie pleads for the beast but all efforts of entreaty prove futile till he secures the aid of a sheriff whom he happens to meet. Even then, Jimmie's arguments are overcome by the cunning of the fellow, until he finally evolves the idea of asking the thief to tell the sheriff in which eye the mule is blind. The first guess is the left and then when found to be wrong, the right, only to learn that the beast has two good eyes. Of course Jimmie walks off with his donkey while the sheriff goes off with the guilty fellow.
- Elsie Green cannot decide which of her two suitors to marry. When she reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop", she dreams that she is its heroine Polly Goodkin, and this leads to her final decision.
- Seeing that her employer is falling in love with her, Claire Kenwood, a stenographer in the law office of John Denham, resigns. She is in love with Robert Royce, a rather weak young man who works for David Reed. Unfortunately for Claire, Royce is under the influence of Kara Dalton, an adventuress who is a cabaret singer. Kara finds it profitable to stand in with Tom Carroll, a gambler who wields some power in the underworld. Carroll has a spatulate thumb on one hand, differing from that on the other. This is recognized by criminologists as the "murderer's thumb." Medical authorities estimate that only one person in one hundred thousand has such a thumb. The bearer is a marked man. Things go from bad to worse with Royce. Kara is getting all his money and continually demanding more. While with her one day, he drops a letter announcing that a wealthy customer, John Brewster, is coming to meet Mr. Reed. Kara turns the letter over to Carroll. As it says Brewster has never met Reed, Carroll decides that he will impersonate the customer in the hope that he can profit by the deception. Just before Carroll appears at Reed's office, Royce robs the safe. The door of the safe happens to be open when Carroll calls after office hours. Reed catches him at it, and is astonished that his customer, Mr. Brewster, should be going through his strong box. Seeing that he has been detected, the gambler grapples with the aged merchant. The shock is too much for Mr. Reed. He succumbs to heart disease. Carroll takes what little money is left in the safe and gets safely away. Royce is suspected. Despite the fact that Denham believes Royce had a hand in what the police believe to be a murder, the lawyer looks after the case for him because of his love for Claire. He even gets the money Royce had taken, and places it where there can be no suspicion of Royce's theft. The clerk, however, is arrested. Denham is able to show that the thumb marks on the lawyer's collar are not those of his client. It is then that suspicion points toward the owner of the spatulate thumb. Through Denham's efforts Royce is acquitted at the trial, and Carroll is brought to justice. During all the trouble which the weak youth had brought upon himself, Claire has been drawing closer and closer to Denham. At last she must choose between the two. Her first love has been weak, yet she feels that his experience and her love has now given him strength. She sorrowfully refuses the lawyer, to marry the man she can help.
- A stolen mummy's ring brings death to all who acquire it until it is returned to its owner.
- Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having been paid a dollar in advance for his services, invites Bud to have a drink. While Fields engages the bartender in conversation, Bud fills his pockets with free lunch. Fields manages to pour down three drinks for the price of one, and sticking a piece of chewing gum on the end of his cane, he succeeds in hooking up again the dollar with which he had paid for the Scotch. Last, but not least, the big-hearted bartender blows them each to a good cigar. Fields and Bud, blessing their luck, retire to the park to enjoy the spoils. Finding a newspaper handy, they read that Lord Swan has won a Fifth Avenue heiress, Dolla Bills, by his wonderful golf playing. Fields lies down on a bench to take his afternoon nap, and is visited by a beautiful dream. He does not win his heiress by golf playing, exactly, but by his skill and bravery in using one of the clubs to whack a bomb planted by two black-handers on the steps of Mr. Moneybags' palatial home. He wakes embracing Bud, who cannot control his laughter. In disappointed rage. Fields pushes his ex-valet off the bench into the lake. As the latter fails to rise to the surface. Fields wanders away, realizing that now he must fight his battles single-handed.
- An American adventuress is loved by an Indian rajah and she happily lives at his court. When a young American artist competes for her affection, the rajah is enraged.
- Uncle Adolph could be very happy with his two young comely nieces, if they but made their eyes behave. Alas the flirtations that they carried on whenever he relaxed in his vigil were such as proved a continuous source of annoyance. Things got so exasperating that poor Uncle Adolph began to look around for a female chaperone for the two jolly though naughty girlies. One night the gentleman-oglers became so bold as to serenade the nieces much to Uncle's chagrin. That was plenty. A chaperone must be engaged, but who? An ingenious moment, suggested his sister-in-law, Aurora, whom he had not seen for more than twenty-five years. She was written to and on she came. But what a surprise to Uncle Adolph; instead of securing the aid of a typical spinster for the office, he found that he had brought a merry, yes flirtatious relative into his midst. Of course the girls were never checked in their flirtations and Auntie even encouraged them in their amusement of this variety, with the result that Uncle Adolph, so deluged with relatives of this kind, was finally forced to change his views and give his sanction.
- Proud of his Knickerbocker descent, the Elder Van Kortland is ashamed of his son, Philip, for having adopted the stage for a profession. Although Philip is famous as a Broadway Star under the name of Edwin Hargrave, his father begs him to give up the stage and marry the daughter of an old friend. Hargrave refuses to give up his life-work or to marry a girl whose name he does not even know, much less a girl whom he has never seen. He departs on a western tour. While playing a week in a western city he meets and falls in love with Doris Morton, not knowing that she is the girl his father hoped he would marry. Her father, not knowing that Hargrave and Van Kortland are one and the same, tells Doris he would rather see her dead than married to an actor. Philip and Doris elope and are married. Philip and his wife go to Chicago, where he is booked to play several weeks. Here she falls ill, and the actor learns that long and careful nursing will he required to restore her health. He watches over her until his own health is wrecked from his stage work and sleepless nights nursing her. While building up his own constitution, he becomes a victim of narcotic drugs. Leaving Doris in charge of a nurse, Philip continues his tour. When this ends he accepts a position as leading man of a southern stock company to get money to pay the expenses of his wife's long illness. Marion, daughter of the manager, falls in love with him, not knowing that he is married. His mind clouded by a drug, Philip wanders into a Chinese Opium den masked as a curio shop. Here Marion follows him. Philip pretends he is buying a bracelet. This he gives her to allay suspicion, but later she finds him smoking in a back room. Trying to get the actor away from the den, she puts her diamond ring on his finger, coquettishly telling him it is in exchange for the bracelet. Finally curiosity overcomes her, and despite Philip's objection she tries opium smoking. Philip's senses are deadened by the drug and he does not know the effect it has on her until he awakens the next morning to find Marion in a nearby bunk. Realizing the situation, Hargrave resigns from the company as soon as he has safely led Marion from the opium den. Marlon sees the note to her father which says Hargrave, as he is known, must rejoin his wife in Chicago. Her love turns to hate. When Philip reaches Chicago Marion has him arrested for stealing her diamond ring. Mentally irresponsible because of his drug habit, Philip cannot make the fight that he should. He weakly pleads guilty, despite his duty to his wife, so that Marion, whom he considered had been kind to him, should not be compromised because of her visit to the opium den in an effort to save him. The convicted man is sent to a convicts' camp. Here Doris visits him. She arouses the passion of Clark Porter, a "Trusty" who secretly supplies Philip with morphine when told that Philip will be free as soon as he is cured of his craving for narcotics. Through trickery Porter gets an account of Doris' visits to the camp into a blackmailing society paper, making it appear that she is coming to see him. Doris is thereafter refused admittance and Porter thinks to win her when his short term expires. Doris disappears and leaves no trace of her whereabouts, her story not having been believed. When her baby son is born she does not communicate with her husband or her family. Because of the story in the society paper, Philip thinks his wife has deserted him. When he leaves prison he goes into business forsaking the stage. Finally he establishes himself in the city where Doris is living, her son now old enough to contribute to her support by selling newspapers. On the night of a benefit performance of "Ingomar," the hero is taken ill. The elder Van Kortland, who is visiting his son, suggests that Philip play the part. He does so on short notice. Doris is in the audience and recognizes him. Already Philip has been drawn to the little newsboy, his own son, and it is through giving the lad tickets that Doris happened to be present at the performance. On the way home from the theater, Doris is recognized by Porter, now a tramp. He follows her and forces his attentions upon her. The boy, seeking help, appeals to Philip and the elder Van Kortland. They rush to aid the boy's mother, and are overcome with surprise to learn that the woman is Doris. Philip forces a confession from the tramp, thus learning of his wife's innocence. The two are reconciled, and Philip's father is so softened that he even agrees that his grandson may follow the stage as a profession without protest.
- Kronstadt, that grim and forbidding looking pile of granite that rises out of the Baltic Sea and appears, by its very look, to give the mute but stem warning "Sheer Off" to all would-be intruders. Yes, this fortress was indeed a formidable and apparently impregnable guard to the capital of Russia, and had always defied the wiles of the ever-watchful and eagle-eyed spy. Yet its secrets and fastnesses were at length pierced by a frail girl who unwillingly lent herself to the most despicable of work, but stress of circumstances forced Marian Best to surrender both scruples and principles to the unpalpable task of "spying out the land." Left an orphan with no means of subsistence and her invalid brother to nurse and support, Marian found the burden too heavy, so when a relative offered what appeared to her untold wealth and the means of saving the life of her little brother, she succumbed to the tempting offer thus placed before her. This relative was a member of the International Secret Service, and he found it possible to place in the household of General Stefanovitch, Deputy-Governor of Kronstadt, an English governess. Marian's consent to do the work being obtained, she found herself established in the household of the Deputy-Governor and quickly became an immense favorite with everyone, with the exception of Colonel Bonzo, the general's chief of staff, who looked on everyone, especially foreigners, with suspicion and dislike. This was not the case with Captain Paul Zasaulle, who quickly succumbed to the charms of the English girl. After a few weeks the attachment became mutual. One day Paul proposed to take Marian and her charges on his yacht, the "Esmeralda," to explore Battery No. 3. This and other similar excursions gave Marian the sought-for opportunities. She could not, however, control her love for Paul, and when he proposed she consented, although recognizing her engagement was to a man whose country she was betraying. One day Marian received a secret letter, which to her delight informed her that as soon as she could obtain the plan of Fort St. Peter, she could leave Russia. The same mail brought a letter to General Stefanovitch, informing him that various sketches of the fort had fallen into the hands of the enemy. The suspicions of Colonel Bonzo, ever on the alert regarding Marian were now roused into activity and he determined to trap the spy. Marian had found out that the desired documents were kept in a secret drawer in the General's desk and having secured the key she made plans for obtaining them that night. On finding the key of his study missing, the General explained to Colonel Bonzo that he must have mislaid it. The latter having a duplicate one, was able to secure the door. Marian, who always entertained the Governor and his friends, after her charges had retired, pretended that evening to be ill and left the drawing room early. She had not, however, reckoned with Colonel Bonzo's cunning, who, now thoroughly suspicious wished to find out if Paul was her accomplice, so handing him the key. sent him on some trivial pretext to the study. There Paul discovered the spy was no other than his beloved Marian. In an agony of terror and remorse, she told him the reasons for undertaking her hateful role and implored him to save her. Paul had only time to whisper, "Trust me; there is only one way to save you," when the General, Colonel Bonzo and some soldiers entered the room. Paul, who had concealed the document, entirely disarmed suspicion by recounting how he caught Marian searching the room. He was then commanded to take her on board the "Esmeralda" and conduct her to the dungeon on the Island of St. Paul. On reaching the yacht, the escort was ordered to remain in their boat and allow it to be towed behind the "Esmeralda." Too late, they found they had been duped when the tow rope was severed, and they saw the yacht steaming away at full speed. When Colonel Bonzo found the plans of Fort St. Peter missing, he determined at all hazards to have the two runaways brought back, and he instructed the Russian Secret Service agents to trap them, so that when Marian and Paul arrived in Paris these sleuth-hounds were already on their track, and one night Paul was overpowered and dragged to the offices of the society. Marian called in the services of a clever and well-known detective, Robert Stevens. Meanwhile, Paul, finding himself imprisoned, discovered means of communicating with Marian, who, aided by the detective, concocted a scheme to rescue Paul. Marian wrote a letter stating that unless a free pardon was granted to Paul within an hour, the plans would be in the hands of the enemy. This letter was delivered by Stevens, Marian waiting outside with a number of detectives. Colonel Bonzo, who had arrived in Paris to take charge of the culprits, apparently agreed to Marian's terms and she was summoned to the room. Colonel Bonzo, always prone to treachery, as soon as he got the plans into his possession, gave a signal to his men to seize Marian, but the detective, who had taken precautions against such treachery, was too quick for him. With his whistle to his lips, he pointed out the guard to the Colonel, who, fearing the disclosures that would be entailed by a public fracas, was forced to capitulate and write a document granting a free pardon to Paul Zasaulle.
- While visiting Atlanta, pampered Northern heiress Olive Thurston meets and marries Southerner John Arms, a member of an impoverished but old aristocratic family. John attempts to force his wife to conform to Southern ideals of womanhood, resulting in many conflicts between the newlyweds, but after a brief separation, Olive and John are reunited, resolving to look for each other's virtues and forgive the faults.
- The story opens with Alan Armadale, Sr., on his deathbed. With him are his wife, his infant son and family physician. They have been traveling but are forced to stop through the serious condition of the senior Armadale. Calling for a lawyer, that his confession may be legal, Armadale tells the following story: At the age of twenty-one he had taken the name and become sole heir to the Armadale fortune. The legal son of the house had been cast out because of disgrace he brought upon the family name. The adopted son falls in love with a Miss Blanchard through her photograph. At the same time he meets a young chap called Inglesby, who in reality is the blood son of the house of Armadale. The two men become friendly, and Armadale, in a burst of confidence, tells Inglesby of his infatuation for Miss Blanchard. Shortly afterwards Armadale is stricken with fever. Upon Armadale's recovery he learns that his friend Inglesby has gone away. The young lover leaves shortly for Madeira, to meet and woo the unknown Miss Blanchard. He arrives at the home of the girl only to learn that Inglesby had been there before, and that the two were now husband and wife. The outlawed son, Inglesby, had recognized the foster son, Armadale, and had, through stealing from him the girl of his choice, repaid in full measure the loss of his own fortune and name. Meeting Inglesby, Armadale learns that he has married the former Miss Blanchard under the name of Armadale, the girl thinking him to be the foster son and heir. The two men exchange cards and a duel is arranged. In the meantime, Inglesby confesses to his wife the truth of his assumed inheritance. The wife accompanies him in quick flight aboard ship. When Armadale arrives at the beach chosen for the duel he learns that Inglesby has taken flight. Quickly pursuing him, in a swift yacht, he arrives to find the ship carrying the fleeing Inglesby, his wife and her young maid, a victim of a big storm at sea. Armadale, in the pursuing boat, gives quick aid to the passengers, rescuing Mrs. Inglesby and maid among the first. Inglesby returned to the cabin to find his wife's jewels. Armadale followed him there, and locked him in the stateroom. Inglesby thus perished. His wife and her maid escape and drop out of the life of Armadale, who marries later and has a son. This is the confession of Armadale. It is followed by his dramatic death. The story then deals with the fortunes of the son of the adopted Armadale, known as Midwinter, and the son of the disinherited Armadale of the earlier story who now enjoys the name of his forefathers as well as Armadale fortune. Legally, Midwinter should have the position. Mrs. Armadale, née Blanchard, has been a party to the crime of her drowned husband in failing to disclose the proper heir to the millions. She is devoted to her son, but endures a fearful menace in the person of a mysterious veiled woman who pays her visits frequently to collect hush money. The veiled visitor is the erstwhile maid who had been Mrs. Armadale's companion on the fateful sea flight when the husband was drowned. Armadale, the son, is out riding one day when he chances upon a stranger, hungry and exhausted. The former takes the stranger into a nearby inn and cares for him. Upon the latter's recovery he tells his benefactor that his name is Midwinter. Armadale gives his name. Midwinter recognizes in his friend the man who is keeping him out of his rightful inheritance, but because he knows, too, of his own father's share in the death of Armadale's father, Midwinter decides to allow his friend uninterrupted enjoyment of his wealth and position. Midwinter becomes a guest in the Armadale home. Mrs. Armadale recognizes him, but fears to make her discovery known. One night, from his room, Armadale sees the figure of a woman dancing gaily and with abandon on the moonlit lawn of a neighbor's home. He is vastly attracted to the girl and makes an effort to meet her. She vanishes however, leaving a gauzy veil in her trail. The following day Armadale calls upon his neighbor in the hope that the fair dancer may have been the daughter of the house. Instead, she is the governess, known as Miss Gwilt. Armadale is deeply infatuated. In the meantime his mother has died, and with her one link that might bind the boy to the secret of his false position. Midwinter in the meantime has discovered that Miss Gwilt is no other than the young girl who acted as maid to Mrs. Armadale on the sea voyage when the deception as to legal rights was practiced. That she is a schemer is plain to Midwinter but Armadale will hear nothing against his promised wife. It is at this point that Midwinter finds his big opportunity to repay to the son the debt he owes him. Midwinter captures the fancy of Miss Gwilt and is caught by Armadale leaving her bed chamber late at night. Armadale is prostrated by the shock. He has recently drawn up his will, preparatory to his marriage, naming Miss Gwilt as his heiress. The woman knows this, and, in one last attempt to gain the wealth she has struggled so hard to win, attempts to poison the sleeping Armadale. Midwinter frustrates her plan and at the same time unveils to the eyes of the believing Armadale the duplicity of his former fiancée. The sound, lasting friendship that springs up between the sons of the two men who had fought and struggled to injure each other, comes as a pleasant climax to the story.
- Robert Gray, a brilliant young lawyer, who has just been elevated to the bench, is greatly in love with Eloise, daughter of Reverend Morgan Landman, rector of the village church. Though well beloved by his flock, the rector has one failing, an ungovernable temper, which is evidenced when he discharges his coachman for a trivial offense. Unknown to anybody excepting the rector, Abel Harrison has a mortgage on the rector's home. James Harrison, the son is also in love with Eloise. When James proposes to Eloise she refuses him, and he taunts her with loving the judge, who has never asked for her love. The rector, coming on the scene, canes James. James induces his good-for-nothing brother Luke to take a job at the rector's left open by the discharge of the coachman. Emboldened by his successful career, the judge proposes to Eloise and is accepted. They are about to be married when James Harrison comes to the judge and demands the arrest of the rector on a charge of murder. James says that the rector murdered his brother Luke, and produces numerous witnesses with seemingly conclusive proof. Much against his will, the judge is forced to issue the warrant and hear the case. The rector is found guilty of manslaughter and given a long term by the judge. Meanwhile, in order not to hinder his career, Eloise refuses to marry the judge until her father is vindicated. James finds that he holds a mortgage on the Landman home, and turns Eloise and her brother Harold out of the house. Judge Gray tries to raise a loan to help Eloise, but the banker to whom he applies is the father of the girl. Alice Ward, whose advances the Judge had received coldly. She blocks the loan. Five years later, James Harrison, now a church warden, is haunted by memories of the rector. Thinking he sees the rector in his old pulpit he drops the collection plates and falls unconscious to the floor. The ordeal affects his mind and body. Meanwhile Luke, the good-for-nothing brother, is discharged from prison, where he has been serving a term for a minor offense. Luke is in the power of an evil man who demands money. Luke tries to raise money from his brother at whose house he is staying, concealing his identity from everybody, but his brother, James. Refused by James, Luke puts his room in disorder, leaving bloodstains everywhere, thus manufacturing evidence of a probable murder. The old servants take the story to Judge Gray, who orders the arrest of James Harrison, At the trial the jury failed to agree. The old servants came and asked the judge to go to the home where they were haunted by strange noises. The judge finds Luke Harrison there hiding in a closet. "It is Luke Harrison," cries the judge to Harold Landman, "Then your father and James Harrison are innocent men." The appearance of Luke in the flesh automatically brings about the release of the rector. His story causes the conviction of James Harrison. The rector is reinstated in his position in the church and in the hearts of his parishioners. Eloise and Judge Gray are married by the rector a few days later.
- Helen Arthur, petted, spoiled and successful prima donna of the light opera stage, goes to a fishing village to gain color and atmosphere for a new operatic role. She boards at the cottage of a fisher maiden, Nettie Lea. Nettie is in love with a young sea captain, Rex Bristol. Rex falls in love with the prima donna, and rescues her from drowning. Rex's infatuation increasing, Nettie becomes jealous. Helen has come to the village incognita, and when Nettie learns that she is an actress, she turns her out of her cottage. Securing lodging at a nearby hotel, Helen, out of revenge, plans to complete her conquest of Rex. One day while out sailing with him, Helen sings the popular ballad, "The Isle of Love." Her conquest is complete. Rex seizes her in his arms and kisses her. Helen is indignant, then taunts Rex by saying she has been playing with him, acting, all the time. She returns to New York, leaving him a victim of despair. After a successful season in New York, Helen is preparing to start west on a tour. Among her admirers coming to her last performance in New York is John Leonard, a wealthy clubman and yachtsman. Rex is now captain of the yacht owned by Leonard, and goes with him to the theater. He is persuaded to bid Helen good-bye. Hurt at Helen's cruelty when they meet, he leaves her in highest indignation. The following day, as a farewell entertainment to the star, Leonard makes up a cruising party in Helen's honor. Because of an automobile accident, other members of the party fail to reach the boat. Leonard determines to run away with Helen, and orders Rex to take the yacht to sea. When Helen screams, Rex rescues her, but still cannot be convinced of the girl's innocence in her relations with Leonard. Rex is discharged, and is unable to get another ship. Following a nervous breakdown, Helen abandons her theatrical trip and a month or two later boards an ocean liner for a vacation in the Orient. On this same ship Rex is serving as wireless operator. When the vessel is burned, Rex rescues Helen. They reach an uninhabited island, and here again the flirt in Helen asserts herself. Rex, goaded on by her witchery, takes possession of the girl. He uses the authority vested in him as a sea captain, and performs his own marriage ceremony. Helen rebels against her husband's authority, and thinks she hates him. A child is born to them. When a schooner, stopping for Water at the island, offers to take her and her child back to civilization. Helen tells the captain that there is no one else on the island, and she and her baby leave for civilization. Rex is left alone, not knowing what became of his wife and child. Helen goes back to the stage. However, she comes to realize gradually that there is no sweetness in triumph now. The need of a father for her child also drags on her heart. Finally she makes a big resolve and returns to "The Isle of Love,'' where her husband welcomes both wife and child.
- Martha, the old nurse, in the employ of Donald Bryce, a wealthy young artist, believes the small happenings in life foreshadow important events to come. Muriel Allen, the daughter of the wealthy William Allen. is much annoyed by the attentions of Leonard Brandon, who really is in love with the fortune he knows will come to her on her father's death. Martha serves Donald his afternoon tea, and when removing the dishes calls attention to the tea leaves, informing him they mean he is to meet a beautiful girl and be very happy. Muriel has seen Donald painting in his garden, and by chance they meet at a weekend party in the country. It is love at first sight, and before retiring that night, they are engaged. The next day, Muriel receives a telegram from Brandon, that her father is seriously ill, and arriving home with Donald, learns that her father died. On his deathbed William Allen tells the doctor that his wife died in the Stanhope County Insane Asylum, also that Muriel is to inherit his wealth. Some weeks later, Brandon again requests Muriel to marry him, but is told that she is engaged to Donald Bryce. Donald calls on his fiancée, and Brandon, who happens to be present, wishes him luck with insanity in the family. Muriel is shocked to hear this, but the doctor has to confirm Brandon's remark. Muriel thereupon breaks her engagement. The news of what killed her mother so unnerved Muriel that the doctor gives her a morphine tablet. Upon arriving home, Donald is served with tea, and Martha again reads signs in the tea leaves, that he is ultimately to have happiness, but with a great deal of torture before obtaining it. Muriel tells her housekeeper she is going away and to close up the house; she also writes, informing Donald of her plan. Arriving in the city, Muriel obtains employment in a department store. Brandon, believing there is great wealth in the Allen house, breaks into it, but is unable to locate the supposed money. To further embarrass Muriel, he has a detective agency in the city watch her, and receiving word that they have discovered her whereabouts, he calls at the store, in which she is employed and induces the manager to discharge her. Brandon calls upon her, but is again repulsed. Looking into the mirror, she realizes she is not the pretty girl of a few months ago, and although tempted to take a tablet, she fights it off, but the habit is too strong and she succumbs. Before the tablet takes its full effect, she has a vision and is being drawn toward Brandon, when just about to fall into her arms, Brandon disappears and there stands a little imp, who tells her if she will continue in her bad habits, he will see that she is made beautiful again. Coming to her senses, she throws herself on her bed and sleeps. Another vision appears to her in the form of angels. Realizing that they are far superior to the people in her former vision, she awakens and resolves never to use a drug again. The next day she goes to the Stanhope County Asylum, and although seeing the record of her mother's death, promises the superintendent that she will go back to her old home, on his assurance that she shows no sign of insanity. Brandon again searches the home, but without result, and is surprised in his work by the return of Muriel. Donald decides to paint the Allen home, and calls his picture "The House With Nobody in It." While sketching the house, a thunderstorm comes up, and, taking refuge on the porch, he hears a struggle inside. He sees Brandon struggling with Muriel, and in a fierce struggle, overcomes Braadon, who falls by the fireplace. A bolt of lightning comes down the chimney, killing Brandon, also knocking away the bricks near the fireplace, disclosing the hidden wealth of William Allen. On top of the box containing the money, is a letter to Muriel, informing her that she was found on their doorstep when but a mere babe. Realizing that it was not her own mother who died in the insane asylum, she readily agrees to become the wife of Donald Bryce.
- Everywhere-in-America: Have you joined the Red Cross? Be one of the ten million new members and make this a year of mercy. Join now. Subtitles: "Go to Your Local Red Cross Chapter." "Send a Dollar on its Errand of Mercy." Chicago, Ill: Getting ready for Santa Claus. Our soldiers will not awaken on Christmas morning with empty socks. Chicago, Ill: Christmas tree ship arrives from the Michigan forests. Miss Elsie Shoneman follows her father's custom of bringing trees to market by the lake route. Boston, Mass: "Cut-a-cord" of wood movement started here. Appalachian Mountain Club members chop wood to relieve coal shortage, plan of Mr. Jas. J. Storrow. Chicago, Ill: Alien enemies take warning! Stay out of barred zones. Subtitle: United States Marshal Bradley. San Pedro, Calif: Incendiary plot suspected in burning of steamer. The O.P. Clark goes down with valuable cargo. Loss $100,000. Camp Kearney, Calif: Are you observing a wheatless day? Our boys, at one camp, require 12,000 loaves of bread daily to keep them in proper trim. Charlestown, Mass: In memoriam. Sailors fire volley on Boston Common in memory of lost comrades on the Jacob Jones which was sunk by a German submarine. Camp Kearney, Calif: The "Pershing" of Japan visits General Strong here. General Hibiki will probably lead Nippon troops in France. Subtitle: "He Thought Our Boys Were Good Marksmen. This Is What He Said." Haddock, Ga: In the Winter . George Stallings, "gentleman farmer." Subtitles: "In the Good Old Summer Time." "The Miracle Man." "Manager of the Boston Braves." Thoune, Switzerland: A convoy of interned French soldiers leave the prison camp to go back to France. Excerpts from a Letter Received from a Boy in France with the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps: U.S. Official War Pictures released by the Committee on Public Information through the American Red Cross: Subtitles: Dear Mother: Our trip across was uneventful. We arrived in Paris in good health and immediately went to the Red Cross headquarters and received our credentials. Our personal belongings were loaded in trucks to be sent to our ambulance base while we were bundled off to the station to go by train. After a long, tiresome ride in a stuffy French train, we were glad of the opportunity to make a hasty though primitive toilet. We were almost starved. After a good feed, the word was sent that General Pershing was to visit our camp and give our bunch the "once-over." The following day we had our first experience at the actual front, being under fire for the first time. It was a common sight to see wrecked ambulances by the roadside. The wounded get first aid treatment at dressing stations just behind the lines and then are removed to base hospitals farther from danger. On returning to camp this evening I found your letter awaiting me and was overjoyed to hear from you so soon.
- Johnny's stepmother goes uptown and leaves him to mind the cat. The cat gets frightened and breaks up the china and Johnny is locked in the closet in punishment for same.
- The first part shows us the happy home of a prosperous American broker, Julius P. Leclerc. His daughter, Suzanne, is possessed of rare beauty and charm, and it remains for a daring young French aviator to capture the heart of the charming young girl. It is a case of love at first sight when the two meet on the aviation field close to New York City. But Serge Renot, although a capable and daring flying-man, proves to be unsound in his ideas of business morality, and is not blessed with a goodly store of wealth by any means. This information is ferreted out by the powerful capitalist, William Runciman, who desires nothing so much as an alliance with the fair daughter of his friend Leclerc. Runciman and Leclerc visit Renot's club and discover the young man gambling heavily, and Leclerc is strengthened in his determination to put a stop to Renot's suit. But the broker has not seen the storm gathering around him; his speculations fail one after another. His Liberlan stock drops to zero, other stocks fall to vanishing point, and Leclerc wilts under the crushing blow. Seized with sudden heart failure the broker expires. Suzanne realizes that union with a penniless aviator is impossible in their present straitened circumstances, and that the only way that she and her mother can continue to live in comfort is for the daughter to make a rich alliance. So with sadly diminished income they resolve to spend one more season in Europe, and depart for the sunny lands of the Riviera. Serge Renot returns to his beloved Paris. At Cannes Suzanne is introduced to a French lieutenant named de Vergne, the eldest son of a wealthy countess, and the officer promptly falls head over heels in love with the beautiful American girl. Suzanne likes him sufficiently to promise to become his wife. But here upon the scene appears William Runciman, whose chief creed is that his money can procure anything he may want. Runciman invites Renot to Cannes and shows him Suzanne and de Vergne returning from a ride in the woods. Renot is furiously mad, and with jealous rage he challenges the army man to a duel, Next morning we see this duel take place, and de Vergne is badly wounded. Renot calls on the Leclercs, but Runciman has forestalled him. Suzanne tells the aviator that she can never forgive him, and that her former love has turned to hatred. She rushes to the house where Countess de Vergne and her son reside, only to learn that her fiancé and his mother have departed. A few days later Serge Renot writes a pathetic note to Suzanne appealing once more to her love, and stating that unless she will relent from her present attitude, he has resolved to commit suicide in a dramatic manner while in the air. At this proof of his devotion Suzanne does relent, and hurries off to the aviation ground to prevent Serge carrying out his intention. But she gets there too late; Renot has started. We see his aeroplane sailing through the cerulean blue of the southern skies like a swallow on the wing, when the explosion takes place, and the aviator falls to the ground, crushed to death beneath the wreck of his machine. A month elapses. Suzanne and her mother are back in the New York house, but it is a sad homecoming. The sheriffs have been busy and everything of value bears a justices' seal upon it. Poor distracted Suzanne knows not what to do. At one time she contemplates a speedy release from earthly troubles, but the thought of her helpless mother being left alone to battle with the world deters her. And then she makes the supreme sacrifice. William Runcimaq has told her that when all else fails, when her friends have all deserted her, when everything looks black, all she has to do is to send him the single word "'Come." The story closes with Suzanne addressing a note to the financier, couched in the following brief manner: "Come, Suzanne."
- An absorbing and beautifully illustrated story of man's progress and civilization up to the present time in spite of Satan's efforts.
- New York City: Old Dominion Line steamer "Hamilton" severely damaged by a collision with a stone pier at Sandy Hook during a terrific storm. New York City: Girls in the white goods trade joining the great garment workers' strike. Philadelphia, Pa: The annual New Year's Mummers' Parade. Pittsburgh, Pa: The Ohio River sweeps through the city. The railroad yards and business section inundated. New York City: J. Pierpont Morgan, and the heads of the Stock Exchange at the funeral of James R. Keene, the well-known financier and sportsman. New York City: M. Andre de Fouquieres, the French nobleman, who is now giving lectures at Maxine Elliott's Theater on "Heroism" and "Dandyism." San Francisco, Cal: Olympic Club's Swimming Contest in mid-winter. A dip in the sea at the Golden Gate. Baltimore, Md: Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, receiving the National Guard officers of his state. Salem, Ore: Trusted convicts prove worthy. Governor West, of Oregon, as an experiment, allows penitentiary prisoners to work outside the walls, without guards. It is a success. Ellis Island: Castro, the stormy Petrel of the South and the Northern Broom. The Fashion in Paris and New York. France: The Greyhound Club of France. Powerful coursers with the hares in speed. Constantinople, Turkey: Funeral of the patriarch, Joachin III. Paris, France: Four-footed police. Useful auxiliaries against the Apaches. Nuremberg, Germany: The flames destroying the Art Gallery. A great loss financially and artistically. The Balkan War: The embarking of the Greek troops. The disembarking of the Bulgarian artillery. The triumphant entrance of the Greeks into Salonchi. Princes Boris and Constantin. The spoils of the war. The cruisers of the Great Powers watching in the bay. Valley of Strouma. In flight before the Bulgarian Invasion. The Servian Infantry advancing on the conquered countries.
- Ethel is suddenly popular in her boarding-house when the men mistakenly think that her brother is wealthy. Becoming confused by all the attention, she agrees to marry three different men. Each arrives with a minister but Jake, the rich brother of another boarder, takes care of all three and marries Ethel himself.
- A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.
- When Gaumont releases "Reel Life" No. 66 the public will see on the screen how machine guns are made. A Gaumont cameraman made a trip through one of the largest American factories, securing some highly entertaining pictures. Necessarily there are some processes which cannot be shown, but enough is pictured to give a good general idea of the work required. A second section of the reel shows the manufacture of beads from rose petals. It requires a wheelbarrow load of petals for the making of a single necklace. This is a queer California industry which is now for the first time receiving wide publicity. When the "Bear" went ashore on the Pacific coast, the vessel was regarded as a million dollar loss. But a wrecking firm saw that by cutting the ship in half, the forward part could be saved. While engaged in this work motion pictures were taken, and these are now shown in this issue of "Reel Life." It shows the ingenuity of marine engineers. The boat is to be floated, towed to San Francisco, and a new stern added. "Keeping the Boys at Home" shows how the young, active members of the family are entertained by means of a billiard table, saving them from the street and the saloon. The reel concludes with two animated drawings based upon humorous illustrations in "Life."
- In this particular episode in the life of the McGinnises a pet parrot works havoc in the domestic machinery of the household.
- An Indian Princess is decoyed by a New York tourist from a small isle in the South Atlantic to Broadway where she dances in native costume in a café. Castelene becomes the petted favorite of Claud Dixon, Ned Astor, his millionaire chum, and their gay crowd. From this life she is rescued by the old captain of the ship in which she made her flight from her native island. He takes the girl to a quiet sea town in New England, where her romance turns to tragedy. Castelene returns to the isle in the Far South and seeks Lisa, her native lover. She discovers that during her absence Lores, a native girl, has been trying to win Lisa away from her memory. Lores recently has been stricken with leprosy. She believes that this calamity has befallen her as a punishment for trying to steal away the love of another woman. Now she turns about and assists the princess in wreaking revenge upon her betrayer in New York.
- Ma McGinnis takes a marvelous joy ride, in which she knocks over a train and many other obstacles with her automobile.
- The Prince of Balanza is the young ruler of a principality of contented subjects. Since the Prince is now twenty years of age, his councilors wish him to marry. A Princess of a neighboring realm is suggested, but the Prince will not consider a young woman whom he has never seen. Not even yet in love with love, the Prince persuades his friend and adviser, the Duke of Perrettino, to take him in search of adventure to foreign lands. The Duke lays his plans to bring about the marriage on which the councilors have set their hearts. The Prince in his travels comes at last to the walls of the Convent of Palladio. Gazing upon a casement, he sees framed there, the most beautiful young woman he has ever beheld in all his life. The Prince of Ballanza breaks a red rose from a bush and throws it to the divinity. He is further encouraged to see that she hides the flower next her heart. Little does the youth know that the lady is the Princess of Cellini, the one whom his state councilors wish him to marry. The crafty Duke persuades the convent gardener to take the young Prince, who remains incognito, as his assistant. This brings him into his lady's presence. She does not spurn the admiration of the gardener's handsome assistant, since she does not know of her own high station in life. Notes pass between the two. When at last the Princess brings herself to confess that she loves him, she learns immediately after leaving the note at the accustomed hiding place, that she is a lady of high degree. At the same time the Mother Superior tells her that affairs of state require her immediate presence at Cellini. Knowing something of royal customs, the Princess recognizes sadly that she must give up the youth who has won her heart. Accordingly she leaves a second note for him, saying that they will never meet again, as she is going into a far country. The Duke follows to Cellini with the Prince. The lady has already refused the Duke of Florenze, who has asked her hand in marriage, and is overjoyed to find her friend of the convent garden has followed her to Cellini. Willing to abjure her rank for love, the Princess listens to his story, still unconscious of the fact that he is the Prince of Ballanza. Prompted by the Duke, the Prince elopes with the Princess, and all ends happily.
- Gaston Beraud is employed as assistant to Mr. Launay, of the firm of Dammond and Co., gramophone manufacturers. He is bribed by a rival firm to steal the formula of an important invention. He is discovered in the act by Mr. Launay, who accuses him of robbing him. The accusation was recorded on a gramophone record, and later proved to be his downfall. Gaston realized that he was irretrievably ruined. Not only had he lost all hope of marrying the girl to whom he was engaged, but his professional career was at an end. Too late he reflected that the curse of gambling had been his ruin, and he passed out of the lives of those who loved him regretting that his fall might easily have been avoided.
- When Deacon Crabapple introduced his young wife at the candy-pull, there was much agitation in the little village, Cissy's way of winking at all the men within range especially set the women agog with jealousy. An anonymous note notified the deacon that his wife was carrying on something scandalous with one of the staunchest members of the flock. So, at the holiday exercises of the public school, the deacon asked the women to step outside. Then he told the men of the note and said that unless the guilty party made amends that night, dire results would follow. The announcement created great consternation, as each man present believed himself guilty. That night the delinquents came from near and far. Their number was so great that the irate deacon chased them out of the house with a shot gun. The next day he imprisoned his wife in a cage and sent for the doctor. "All that ails your wife is a nervous affliction of the eye which makes her wink freely," was the doctor's diagnosis. So the deacon apologized for his misconstruction of Cissy's innocent wink.
- Fremont, a stock-broker, plays poker; his wife is a bridge friend; their son Carl inherits a craving for card playing, for which he neglects his studies, his business, and his sweetheart, Nita. Carl asks his father for money, and is told that no more gambling debts will be paid for him or his mother. His mother overhears this, and takes money from her husband to pay a gambling debt. Carl is accused of the theft, shields his mother and is cast out. As Nita bids him good-bye, his friend and classmate, Zimar, invites him to accompany him to India. Carl declines. A year later the ragged Carl wanders the streets, his gambling passion stronger than ever. He is knocked down by a man, who, sorry for his action, tosses him money. With this, Carl wins more money, which he gives a poor woman in a generous spirit. His studies completed, Zimar returns and gives an exhibition of his hypnotic power by curing Nita's headache. He proposes, and when Nita tells him she loves only Carl, the noble Zimar tells her he will cure Carl and make him worthy. Carl is located by the crystal. Unable to borrow money with which to gamble, Carl robs the poor woman of the money he gave her, and is captured by her husband. Nita and Zimar appear, and Carl is hypnotized and taken home, where Nita makes the parents realize their responsibility for Carl's passion. Zimar tells them he will cure this craving by causing Carl to experience a gambler's hell. In a hypnotic trance, Carl plays cards with Nita and his parents, and Nita wins. Carl creeps to her room, steals her winnings, and when she awakes, stabs her. Her body changed to the Queen of Hearts. He flees, and is intercepted by his parents, whom he also stabs. He gambles with Nita's winnings, and draws the Queen of Hearts, which changes to a picture of the dead Nita. He finds Nita in his nurse, after he has become a maniac. He finds Nita and his parents in the death chair, and in the final horror, finds Hell's flames full of playing cards which assume their forms. And in the end of the terrible trance, Carl and his mother are senseless and Zimar announces that they are cured. Nita, believing fully in Zimar's power, is perfectly willing to marry Carl.
- Maud was married to a very well educated man, who had drifted down to the lowest depths and had become associated with several men of very bad character. On the day the story opens Ralph Ansell, her husband, returns, followed shortly after by one of his original friends, who proposes that they should commit burglary and endeavor to obtain some very valuable jewelry, which he has located in a wealthy residence. Maud, hating the life that she is being forced to lead, decides to leave her husband and go away. The poor girl wanders about homeless and is taken care of by some nuns, who train her as a nurse. Meanwhile Ralph Ansell and his friend, Joe Carter, in the act of committing the burglary are discovered and traced to their hiding-place. A desperate encounter follows. Ralph is shot by the police while trying to swim the river, and Joe Carter is caught and sentenced to seven years' imprisonment. Maud is not aware of these facts, and some years later, while nursing the Earl of Bracondale, she reads the news of the release of Joe Carter, and the history of the case is revived and mention made of her husband's death. At this time the Earl of Bracondale has become infatuated with Maud and proposes marriage. While they are spending their holiday at the Seaside. Ralph Ansell, who is supposed to have been fatally shot by the police, but who had cleverly escaped, recognizes his wife. He follows her and endeavors to blackmail her. He is successful in forcing her to make an appointment at midnight, when she promises to hand him over her jewelry, as she had no actual money to give him. By curious coincidence, Joe Carter had that night intended to burglarize the place, not knowing who resided there. He breaks into the house and is disturbed by footsteps. Hiding behind the curtain, to his astonishment he sees Maud enter the room, followed immediately after by Ralph Ansell (whom he thought dead) and notices the passing of the jewelry. A dispute arises between Maud and Ralph and he is about to kill her. This is too much for Joe Carter (who had always had a secret love for Maud) and in a fit of desperation he shoots his late co-partner in crime. Realizing that he has aroused the household with the noise of the revolver, he begs Maud to accept the revolver and suggests that Ralph was killed in self-defense, he escaping unknown. The family believing this "The White Lie."
- Isabel Bland is a fun lover and does not want children, but her wealthy, reclusive husband Robert desires some. They drift apart, and after Isabel learns of Robert's involvement with another woman, she divorces him and goes to their Florida island summer home, while Robert retires to the Everglades, leaving his business with his roguish brother John. When Robert learns that Isabel's old sweetheart, William Proctor, is coming to visit their island home, his love for Isabel returns. He goes there and during a storm, sees Isabel passionately embracing Proctor. A flash of lightning illuminating Robert's face on the window pane strengthens Isabel's resolve to resist Proctor. She reconciles with Robert and after a year, dies giving birth to their daughter Bella. Twenty years later, when Bella rejects her cousin Ralph's proposal, Ralph's father John proclaims that because Bella's parents never remarried, she is illegitimate and not Robert's lawful heir. Judge Randolph, the father of her sweetheart, Sidney Austin, learns that because the court fees were never paid, the divorce decree is invalid. With her legitimacy proven, Bella marries Austin.