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- Gray Otter, the last of a line of powerful Sioux chiefs, eagerly awaits the return of his son from the government school, to save the name and the glory of his clan from extinction. Tiah, however, turns out to be a drunken renegade. Violating the peace compact between his father and the colonel of the local garrison, he leads an attack upon the army paymaster. The old chief surprises him in action, and swiftly deciding that his son's crime is punishable only with death, he shoots and kills Tiah. The American soldiers all are killed by the Indians, who then escape. Gray Otter makes the colonel believe that Tiah died defending the paymaster, and has the happiness of seeing the last of his line buried with high military honors.
- The scenes of the story are laid in Japan during the last revolution in the late 1860s. The Emperor is growing old and infirm. He has two sons: Yorotomo, the elder, will succeed to the throne; his younger brother Togowawa would succeed to the throne in the event of his brother's death. The Emperor, for reasons of state, betroths Yorotomo to Sada San, daughter of the Prime Minister. The Chief Shogun, supposedly loyal to the emperor, covets the throne. He realizes that the Japanese people would never permit him to ascend the throne himself, and he casts about for a dummy to occupy it. The Shogun calls upon the younger prince and unfolds his plan to kill Yorotomo. Togowawa enters into the conspiracy and promises to aid the Shogun. The conspirators are overheard by a spy of the Emperor, who reports the plot. Yorotomo is sent away in disguise. During his sojourn he falls in love with Mimi San, daughter of the gardener of the summer cottage of the Mikado, who does not know that Yorotomo is a prince. The Mikado dies and Yorotomo is called to take the throne, and he is compelled to leave O Mimi San and marry Sada San.
- Anne Larson, tired of the brutality of her husband, Pete Larson, decides to leave him. She goes back to her father. Her father dies and she starts south again. She runs short of provisions while on her way, and is in a very weakened condition when Jim Dawson, a young hunter, rescues her. He takes her to his home, and his mother cares for her until she recovers. Jim falls in love with Anne and proposes marriage. She accepts his offer, believing her husband dead. A stranger comes up to their home and asks for something to eat. Jim takes him in. Anne recognizes him as her husband. Larson promises to keep silent if she supplies him with all the money he needs. This she promises to do. One day while intoxicated Pete Larson has a row that ends in a tragedy. He escapes from the posse and seeks shelter in Jim Dawson's home. The posse comes there to hunt for him. He again escapes them, but later is caught and killed.
- Jim Cameron becomes desperate at his failure to get work, and resolves to hold up the stage in order to provide necessities for his wife and sick child, Mildred. Mrs. Cameron discovers him in the act of making a mask and pleads with him to give up the thought of such a thing. A $500 reward is offered for the outlaw, Andy Stiles, or any member of his gang. Anticipating a holdup of the richly laden stage, the sheriff plans to take passage on the stage in the disguise of a minister. Andy Stiles and his gang hold up the stage, but they are overpowered by the sheriff. Andy is injured and flees from his pursuers, taking refuge in Mrs. Cameron's cottage. She is unaware that she is bandaging up the outlaw's wounds and upon seeing the posse coming to her cabin, tells Stiles to run for his life. Stiles then reveals his identity to her. Begging her to remove the bandages, he shoots in the air and claims that she has captured him. thereby receiving the $500 reward. When the posse arrive they are surprised to see that she has been brave enough to capture Stiles, Jim comes home to find his financial problems solved by the $500 reward earned by his wife.
- Pasquale, the saloon keeper, furious because Emma Frazer, the sheriff's daughter, resents his advances, fakes up two a fight between the worst men in Snake River City and calls out Jake Frazer to arrest them. All the men in the saloon pitch into Jake and he is getting badly beaten up when a stranger enters, routs the crowd, knocks out the two bad men and rescues Jake. Pasquale, resenting the stranger's interference, draws his gun to shoot him. The Man From Nowhere catches him, however, and the saloon keeper is obliged to pretend that he has taken the gun from one of the others, thus saving the stranger's life. The newcomer thanks Pasquale and tells him that he will go through hell for him. The saloon keeper, seeing in this man a dangerous rival for the love of Emma, pretends to send him after some horse thieves. The Man From Nowhere, however, has begun to distrust the Mexican and insists upon his accompanying him into the desert. While his companion sleeps, Pasquale hides the water bags in the sand, and lets the horses loose. The stranger, realizing that both of them cannot get back alive, gives up his chance because of the debt he believes he owes Pasquale. But the Mexican fails to find his cache, and in drinking from a poisoned spring, gets his death. The stranger discovers the half-buried water bags and arrives at Snake River City. There he learns from the sheriff the real character of Pasquale and the story of his end. He wins Emma for his wife.
- A very important treaty bearing on international affairs which would, if it were known, involve the United States in a war with Japan, was signed and given to Richard Hastings to keep overnight and deliver to the State Department in the morning. Baron Matsumoto, the Japanese Ambassador, through secret channels, learns of this treaty and dispatches his envoy, Kamuri, to secure it. Kamuri's plans are helped by the fact that Hastings is summoned away for the night. Kamuri, with several accomplices, racks the safe in which the treaty is kept but they are foiled by the fact that Mrs. Hastings, suspecting something, had removed it previously to a far safer hiding place. Hastings returns unexpectedly, and finds Mrs. Hastings as she had been trussed up by the Japs but the treaty was saved.
- In the colony of Salem, Faith dumps her current boyfriend Jim Farley for newcomer Richard Crewe. Seeking revenge, Jim accuses innocent Faith of witchcraft, which lands her in jail with a death sentence of burning at the stake. She is saved in the nick of time when the new Governor arrives, who fortunately does not believe in capital punishment for witchcraft, pardons her. Faith and Jim are banished and set off into the wilds of the new world to make their own life together.
- Nora Brady, living with her father, is invited to a shindy by a suitor, Michael. She accepts. Barney O'Shea is the one she loves, but who does not propose to her. He does later, however, and finding she is going with Michael, plans to play ghost, which he does, as they are on the way, and Michael, nearly frightened to death, runs away. Barney then takes Nora to the Shindy. Michael later finds out the trick and turns informer for the British, telling of Barney, who is leading the Irish patriots. The British burn the cottage of Barney's mother in an effort to discover the leader. Nora takes the old woman into her home. Barney and his friends, in an effort to punish Michael, drive him insane. A dispatch bearer with papers is wounded and seeks refuge in Nora's cottage, and asks Barney's mother to take the papers. She does so, is discovered with them, and arrested for treason. The colonel informs Barney if he gives himself up he would save his mother's life. Barney agrees, and is consequently hanged for treason.
- Jimmy, a newsboy, is the sole support of his mother and crippled sister, Mary. His mother reads of the arrival in the city of Dr. Lobel, a noted European surgeon, and his offer to treat a number of patients at a free clinic. She and Jimmy see in this the chance of a lifetime to have Mary cured. Mary is taken to the hospital and while Jimmy is holding her place in the line of waiting patients, the surgeon announces that he will not have time to treat more patients as he has to leave at once to catch the steamship to return to Paris. Jimmy, deeply disappointed, pleads with the surgeon. Dr. Lobel telephones the officials of the steamship and persuades them to hold the vessel for a half hour. After the operation the doctor rushes to the pier in time to see the vessel steaming down the bay, but the captain of a tugboat near at hand loads the party into his boat and succeeds in overtaking the steamship.
- Guy Roberts, an Alaskan prospector, comes into Nome with two hundred ounces of coarse gold to cash at the sub-treasury. He is given a one hundred thousand dollar bill by the superintendent. The news spreads and Soapy Smith and his gang get busy. Roberts takes passage on the "Circle City" for Seattle. Soapy and his pals dope some of the sailors from the ship, change clothes with them, and go aboard. They drug Roberts, but cannot find the bill. Later he pretends to give the money to Ruth Duncan, the skipper's daughter, with whom he has fallen in love. The crooks get the girl in their power, but again are baffled. They then determine to torture Roberts, but Ruth calls the crew to the rescue. The crooks are captured, and Roberts has the satisfaction of showing them where he has concealed the one hundred thousand dollar bill under the steamship label on his trunk.
- Shotoku, the son of the Marquis Osaka, attends a theater and falls in love with O San, one of the actresses. He makes love to her, disguising himself as a tradesman. The marriage is arranged, unknown to Osaka, who betroths Shotoku to Yama, the daughter of Baron Kamuri. Shotoku protests, but his father forces him into the marriage. Shotoku sends O San to her people, telling her that he must go to America. However, she sees the announcement of the wedding, for Shotoku had told her after their marriage his real identity. She disguises herself as one of the entertainers at the wedding festivities and during a dance stabs Shotoku. She escapes, but is pursued and brought back to the dying Shotoku. He asks that they be left alone. He asks her forgiveness and dies in her arms. She then commits suicide, and they find her beside his body.
- Bob North, station master at Crescoe Station, is very much excited over the birth of a baby boy at his home and forgets to deliver a train order, thus causing a collision between a fast passenger and a freight train. He is sentenced to five years in the state prison for criminal negligence. During a mutiny at the prison one day, he is left alone in one corner of the prison yard and thinking his chance has come, Bob tries to escape. He is spied by a guard and shot at, the bullet hitting him in the head. He, however, in a frenzied fear, manages to get as far as Valley Junction where he staggers up against the station window. As he leans there he hears the telegraph instrument frantically clicking, and breaking into the station he takes a train order, ordering a meet between the Flier and the President's Special, which in some way has been overlooked and he thus averts a great tragedy. He is overtaken at Valley Junction by the posse from the prison and taken back to his cell. A few days later his wife, Myrtle, comes to the prison with a pardon for Bob. The president of the railroad also asks that Bob be reinstated in his old position at Crescoe.
- Don Gomez, a Spanish Grandee, his daughter, Mercedes, and her fiancé, Juan Puyan, are seated at a table in the garden of Don Gomez's country home when a servant enters and announces the arrival of a stranger to see Don Gomez. Don Gomez goes into the house to meet the stranger, who proves to be Carlos Ferrara, who bears a letter from General Gonzales, an old friend of the Don's, asking the hospitality of the Don for Ferrara while he is touring Spain in the interests of the government. Carlos falls in love with Mercedes, whom he persuades to elope with him, thinking thus to gain possession of the Don's fortune. Juan and the Don learn of the elopement and follow Mercedes and Carlos to the Mission, arriving there just too late to prevent the marriage. The Don disowns his daughter. Juan, brokenhearted, becomes a monk. Carlos proves to have been an adventurer and his letter a forgery. Several years later Carlos, leader of a gang of bravos, runs a disreputable road house. A Mexican gardener in the monastery gardens overhears a conversation between the monks to the effect that the ship will arrive at sunset with the Sacred Chalice. The Mexican runs to inform Carlos, and Carlos plans to trail the monks and get the Chalice. Mercedes overhears the conversation and runs to the monastery to inform the monks of the plot. She finds Juan there as Father Superior. Juan takes all his monks with him to protect the chalice and leaves Mercedes to ring the Angelus. The Chalice is delivered to the monks and on their way back to the monastery with it they are waylaid by Carlos and his men. A fierce fight ensues. It is interrupted by the ringing of the Angelus, to which all the Mexicans bow their heads in prayer. The father points out to the Mexicans their sin in defiling the Holy Chalice. Carlos urges them on, but they turn on him and tear him to pieces. The monks return to the monastery with the Chalice. The father finds Mercedes in sorrow, and when she asks his advice, saying she cannot return to Carlos, he tells her to carry her sorrow as he did to the foot of God's Holy Cross. Mercedes sobbingly kneels at the foot of the cross.
- Nora Egan, a pretty attractive Irish lassie, is very much in love with Rory O'Connor, who has aspirations for the priesthood. This situation worries Father Daly, the parish priest. Jim Macy, the bailiff, loves Nora, but she spurns him. Angered, he vows that unless the taxes are paid that Nora and her widowed mother shall be the first to be evicted from their home. Father Daly attempts to quiet the mob that has gathered around the notice of eviction of non-taxpayers. The bailiff, with some English troops, starts evicting the Irish from their homes and a great fight takes place. Nora's mother is arrested and Nora, pursued and insulted by Jim, meets Rory, who gives him a good beating. Father Daly arrives upon the scene of the fight and succeeds in stopping it until he can arbitrate matters. That evening, tired with his strenuous day. Father Daly falls asleep. He dreams that the English are attempting to evict the Irish from their homes. Rory is pursued and escapes into a cave where he finds the Harp of Tara, which, according to the legend, when found by a good man, shall prove the saving and freeing of Ireland. Rory takes the harp to the rectory just as the English are making a stand outside the church, where Father Daly has marshaled the Irish. Jim, unknown to Rory, has entered the rectory and while Nora is making love to Rory, seizes the harp and threatens to smash it unless Nora promises to become his wife. Father Daly begs her for the sake of Ireland to marry Rory, but Rory takes Nora in his arms. Angered, Jim smashes the harp. Father Daly awakens to find a messenger from the Mayor promising an extension of time.
- Phyra is a virgin reserved for sacrifice in an Indian Temple. She meets Capt. Brenner of the English Army, and he persuades her to flee with him and marry him. This flight is accomplished at great danger to them as the Indians lie in ambush and make a desperate fight before the girl can be removed to a ship sailing for England, as Capt. Brenner is returning, having been transferred home. On arrival in England, Phyra is welcomed into society. She and her husband are very happy. Back in India the Hindoo priests, by an occult process, summon the soul of Phyra and threaten her husband unless she returns and fulfills her allotted mission. She is alarmed and does so, leaving Brenner a note informing him they will be united forever in another plane. She returns to India, is burned on the funeral pyre, and her soul ascends to Paradise. Meanwhile Brenner has gone to the dogs. The Scotland Yard detectives are unable to locate his missing wife and Brenner is drinking heavily. One day in a club he is drinking when Phyra in Paradise beckons to him, as the girl has read in the Brahmin Philosophy that one soul which beckons another from Paradise will be obeyed. Brenner is shown to die in the club, and his soul ascends and mingles with that of Phyra.
- Dustin Blake, a millionaire philanthropist, is approached by the rector of his church and asked to aid a girl who is only receiving $6.00 a week salary and who is in need of financial assistance. Blake refuses and tells the rector and his family doctor and personal friend, Doctor Merritt: "This girl lacked moral fiber. Statistics prove that one can live comfortably on $6.00 a week. I am sorry, but I cannot help her." The rector leaves in disappointment and a sociological debate follows between Blake and the doctor, which ends by Blake offering to prove his theory by living for a month in one of his own tenements on $6.00 a week allowance. Blake takes board at Mrs. Flannery's boarding house under another name. There he meets Miss Vail, and her brother, Harry. Although Blake does not know it, Miss Vail is in reality the girl he has refused to befriend. She and her brother have seen better days. Blake finds the girl and her brother cultured people and the three become great friends, Blake, of course, keeping his real identity a secret. Harry has served a term in prison in a noble cause. One day Detective Grogan happens upon Harry at work and tips off Harry's employer that he is a crook. Harry is fired and is unable to obtain another job. Miss Vail, in spite of her own hard life, is always cheerful in disposition and is helping others. Blake's friendship and admiration for her turns into love. Miss Vail refuses to accept a dinner engagement with her employer and rebukes him for his attempted familiarities. The employer discharges the girl. She and Harry are broke, and with their room rent coming due and board, Miss Vail makes a loan from a loan shark to meet the landlady's wishes and the loan shark presses his claim. Blake saves her from the loss of her clothes to the loan shark by parting with his own last ten dollars of his allowance. Shortly afterward, while looking for work, Miss Vail is run down by a machine and badly hurt. An expensive operation being necessary, she and her brother are in despair. Blake, rather than sink his pride and apply to the doctor for aid, resolves to burglarize his own house. He and Harry do so and pawn the loot for money for the operation. Grogan trails Blake and Harry and places them under arrest just as the operation is to be performed upon Miss Vail. They are dragged off to the station and it being the last day of the wager, Blake phones for Merritt, who comes down to the station and secures the release of Blake. The operation is a success, and Blake marries Miss Vail and lays plans to aid the indigent poor with the erection of a costly free hospital.
- Ludwig Von Hoffman, son of a German nobleman, elopes with Gretchen, daughter of Schultz the innkeeper near "Old Heidelberg" college. Ludwig's father disowns him because he has disgraced the family name, and Ludwig becomes a fisherman. The boy writes to his father with the hope of effecting a reconciliation with him. The reply to the letter falls into the hands of Gretchen. who realizes the only way to have the son forgiven is to put herself out of the way. She leaves a note for Ludwig telling him her reason for drowning herself. Gretchen is rescued by the Count's driver and taken to their hotel. The Count realizes the only way to bring back his son's reason, which he lost when he finds Gretchen's note, is to forgive and forget, which decision he puts into effect.
- Dr. Romaldo is a typical American fakir. He has a small troupe and is touring the country giving a musical entertainment and featuring his hypnotic marvel Mlle. Florine. The girl has been forced by circumstances to accept a position with the doctor. He exerts his evil influence over her and has her mentality completely in his power. Florine runs away from him. She loses her way in the woods and falls asleep by a pool. At daybreak a young society man, Thos. Waldron, returning home from a party, finds her asleep. He is touched by the girl's story, and takes her home to his mother who adopts her. Later he marries her and we see her mingling in the best society. Dr. Romaldo deprived of his chief attraction, Florine, dons the garb of an East Indian Yogi and becomes a fad in society by reason of his bogus mysticism. He has disguised himself with whiskers and darkened his skin. He meets Florine at a society event and recognized her. She does not recognize him, however, but his eyes have a strange fascination for her although she cannot recall where she has seen them. Romaldo learns of her address and that she married a wealthy man. He desires to test his former power over her, and one night goes under her bedroom window. Sitting on a bench he mentally calls her to his presence and forces her to rob the family safe of its money and valuables. The butler sees his shadow in the garden, telephones his master who is at his club, and also the police. The police arrive first and see Florine passing the loot out to Romaldo. Romaldo is shot by the chief of police and Waldron is informed that Romaldo has a confederate in the house and that the chief of police can identify her. He identifies Florine as the accomplice of Romaldo. Tom Waldron realizes that Florine has committed this act under the hypnotic spell of Romaldo. He explains to the police and consoles the girl with the information that Romaldo is dead and henceforth he can never exert his evil influence over her again.
- A young Puritan boy in Salem, Massachusetts falls in love. When the object of his affection is accused of witchcraft, hysteria envelopes the town and the boy must find a way to prevent his beloved from being burned at the stake.
- Jim Hull, his wife and their son, Jack, are settlers on the far frontier. While the troops are called away to find the trail of the hostilities, the settlers are attacked by the Indians. Jim Hull is in the field plowing. The Indians tie Mrs. Hull to a tree. Jack gets away and hides under the water in a river, using a reed in his mouth for air. There is a fierce battle and just as they are about to overpower the settlers, the troops arrive, and Jim Hull is overjoyed to have his wife and Jack restored to him.
- His courtship of Celeste Lebault forbidden by her father, Jean Desmond, a young French Canadian trapper, is forced to meet his sweetheart clandestinely. He calls at her cabin in the absence of her father, who is nearby chopping cord wood. The father breaks the handle of his axe, returns home, and catches Jean courting Celeste. The father orders Jean from the cabin and a fight follows, which is witnessed by the neighbors. Jean and Francois, the father, are separated. Lebault sends Celeste on a long visit to her aunt to break the infatuation for Jean. On the morning of Celeste's return, she finds her father's murdered body in his cabin. She is thrown into hysteria and the village seethes with excitement and speculation of who could have murdered him. Suspicion falls upon Jean, the villagers remembering the hard feeling between him and the dead man. The police are sent for and Sergeant Adams of the Northwest Mounted, reports in citizens clothes. Sergeant Adams finds a clue in a torn piece of playing card clutched in the dead man's right hand. The torn piece of card is a piece of the ace of hearts. Adams searches the village for a similar pack, he, too, at first suspecting Jean, but a search of Jean's cabin shatters the suspicion, for in it Adams finds a deck of cards with the ace of hearts intact and of a different design from the one taken from the hand of the murdered man. Celeste refuses to share the village suspicion of Jean and believes him innocent and welcomes his sympathy of her bereavement. Adams, unable to solve the mystery, starts back to headquarters to report. His horse falls and throws him hard, breaking his left arm, also breaking the leg of the horse. Adams is forced to shoot the horse to end its sufferings and he looks about for a shelter for the night. He comes to the cabin of Baptiste. That night a terrific blizzard swoops over the mountain and snows Adams in and he is unable to leave. The next day Baptiste proposes a game of cards to pass the time. Adams consents. During the course of the game the damaged ace of hearts turns up and Adams tries to arrest the man. Baptiste overpowers him and is about to kill him with his own revolver when an avalanche of snow hits the cabin and shatters it. The cabin takes fire. Baptiste, badly hurt and dying, is rescued by Adams. Dying Baptiste confesses to the murder of Lebault.
- Red Elk, a young Indian brave, marries Little Fawn of the Sioux and takes her home with him to his village on the California coast. Big Bear, fired with jealousy, tells Red Elk that he will not keep his bride many moons, and one night while they are sleeping. Big Bear enters the tepee and carries Little Fawn away. Red Elk pursues them all night, overtaking them at last by the sea. A glimpse of the Indian girl's face tells him that she is dead. The young brave returns to his people, half-crazed. An aged woman of the tribe relates to him an old, old legend of the village under the ocean where Little Fawn awaits his coming. At midnight Red Elk throws himself into the sea.
- Donna Carrillo and her daughter, Maria, are the descendants of an old Spanish family and have sunk to comparative poverty. Their notes are held by a Don in the neighborhood, who insists upon the payment of the interest or the hand of Maria Carillo in marriage. This condition is hateful to both the daughter and the mother. On the estate of the Carrillos, a party from an eastern university is excavating for Indian relics. They find a petrified Indian which proves very valuable. The University makes Donna Carrillo an offer which she accepts and with this money intends to pay off the interest. Don Jose discovers this and shoots the petrified Indian, destroying it. Embedded in the breast of the Indian is a parchment which reveals the hiding place of immense treasure. Tom, the son of the professor in charge, heads an expedition to recover the petrified Indian. Tom is particularly desirous of recovering it because of the love which exists between himself and Maria. Meanwhile, Don Jose, learning of this, incites the Indians to waylay the expedition. They do so, desperate fighting results, the expedition being rescued by Mexican rurales. Don Jose returns, informs the Carrillos that the party has been massacred and insists on the payment of the interest or Maria's hand in marriage. The party arrive in opportune time and everything ends happily for Maria and Tom, while Don Jose is killed by the Indian chieftain, whom he failed to assist at the crucial moment with his peons, thus resulting in the extermination of the tribe.
- "Old Mother" Hudson, a woman of 45 or 50, ragged and a confirmed and sodden drunkard, is a Southwestern type of the "no good" settler. Her one aim in life is to keep herself supplied with whiskey. Her daughter, Ivy, a product of environment, is about 18 years old. Under ordinary circumstances she would be very pretty, but under the existing conditions, she is dirty, shiftless and lazy. Ivy is mortally afraid of her mother, who is very cruel to her, and who offers to swap her to "Big" Anderson, proprietor of the Dogtown Saloon, for a half keg of rye. Anderson, however, refuses to make the bargain as he does not think Ivy worth the price. In a nearby town, "Missouri" Joe, a ragged, dirty young man, and an exact replica of Ivy, so far as his soddenness and lack of spirit goes, is given his choice of leaving the town or breaking rocks. He chooses the former and drifts into the town where Ivy lives. There he is given work around the saloon by Anderson for his meals and sleep. He and Ivy meet and are mutually attracted, their companionship afterward becoming the one bright spot in their sordid lives. As their acquaintance ripens into love they both try hard to improve their appearance. Joe shaves himself with a butcher knife and Ivy washes her face and hands and combs her hair, which improves her appearance so much that Anderson awakens to the fact that he would like to make the swap with Mother Hudson. He therefore puts a keg of rye in a wagon and goes to the Hudson cabin to make the trade. In the meantime. Ivy and Joe are getting married, Joe having left Anderson's employ and gone to work on a farm. Despite Joe's pleadings, Ivy decides she cannot leave without bidding her mother goodbye, so she returns to the cabin and finds Anderson there bargaining for her with her mother. Ivy runs away and is pursued by Anderson. She runs to Joe for protection, and he, the primitive instinct awakened in him, fights desperately to protect Ivy. He springs to Anderson's throat and chokes him into insensibility, then, shouldering a club and with one arm protectingly thrown about Ivy, he points off, saying, "Over the hills lives the world. Come." Thus they go out into the world.
- Richard Barr who lives in the suburbs of New York, and John Colville, honest directors in a dishonestly managed corporation, are fighting to save their own investments, and those of small individual stockholders from ruin. They are holding a very important meeting which runs far into the night. Barr is called to the telephone by his wife, who has only time to tell him that burglars have entered the house, when the wires are cut. Barr is frantic at the thought of his wife's peril, but is loath to leave the meeting, knowing that the dishonest directors will put through their election if left alone. He explains the situation to them and leaves, making a quick dash in his car to his home to find his wife and boy bound and gagged. The burglars are captured as they are making a getaway. The wife explains that she saw the burglars enter the back door and quickly telephoned to him, but that the wires must have been cut and that Billy had held the burglars at bay for a short while with a revolver he had taken from her bureau, and when she realized where the child had gone the thought of her child's danger gave her courage and she attempted to save the child. Colville held the directors from voting at the point of a revolver, which proved later to be empty. His bluff went through and Barr reached the office in time to put the election through as he wanted it.
- Judge Landsey sees in Walter Parker, brought before him for burglary, the makings of a man, and grants him his freedom to begin life over again. Parker gives the judge his word to live on the square. A few weeks later, the judge, entering his home late one evening, hears his wife, Viola, earnestly pleading with Paul Armstrong, a young clubman, in the drawing room. He recalls how of late he had been forced, by absorption in his work, to neglect her. Doubtless, this is the outcome. The blow stuns him. Meanwhile. Parker, who has not kept to his promise, climbs up the fire-escape, not knowing that the house he had selected to rob is the home of the judge who pardoned him. On discovering the judge within, he beats a hasty retreat. Parker is in the act of getting away, when he is grabbed by a policeman. A struggle ensues. Parker shoots the officer and runs. By this time Viola has persuaded her visitor to leave the house by the fire escape. He is seen and arrested for the murder of the policeman. At the trial, the jury declare Armstrong guilty. Judge Landsey is called upon to pronounce the sentence. He knows the man is innocent, but to establish this means involving his wife's reputation. The judge is under a tremendous strain. Viola discovers the dilemma, and begs her husband to substantiate the truth. She really is innocent, and so she has no fear of being misunderstood, she says. Her husband, and his honor, are dearer to her than life. At the last moment Parker comes forward and confesses.
- Jack Dow and Jim Harris, two wireless operators, are both in love with Nell Wolfe. Jack goes to sea as operator on a vessel. The ship takes fire. Jack flashes a message back to mainland. Jim Harris receives the message asking for help but withholds it, thinking that if the ship burns he will be rid of Jack Dow and be able to win Nell. The ship burns but Jack and the captain are saved. Nell, thinking Jack has been burned at sea, consents to marry Harris. On the day of the wedding, Jack and the captain arrive in the village. The captain accuses Harris of withholding the message and Harris is arrested and placed in prison. Jack and Nell are reunited.
- Pierre Duval, leader of the Forest Vampires, a band of robbers, with his confederates, holds up and robs a lady and two gentlemen of the Royal Coach. Armand Pauvre, a detective, disguised as a musician, goes to the Tavern de Lion to watch the Landlord, Pierre Duval, as it is suspicioned by the chief of police that he is in league with the Forest Vampires. Pierre Duval's daughter, Marie, falls in love with Armand, He determines to use her love as a means of discovering the secrets of the robbers, and writes a letter to the chief of police to that effect. Pierre Duval, finding the letter, becomes suspicious of Armand and calls the band together. They capture Armand and take him to their cave. Marie, hearing the noise, rushes to the office of the magistrate and tells him what has happened. The magistrate and soldiers go to the cave to save Armand, and there, to Marie's surprise, is her father. She tells him that she loves Armand and that it was she who sent the officers. Pierre Duval shows Marie the note, where Armand tells the chief of police that he is only using her. As Armand comes out of the cave Marie shoots him. Then he learns that it is she who has saved him from the hands of the Vampires; he pleads with her to come to him, but she refuses.
- The Strolling Players' Company are stranded in Dawson City, and Andrews, the leading man, with his wife, Edna, is almost penniless. They start for the gold country. Tired and hopeless after a long tramp, they come upon the shack of Dan Shaw. The old miner takes them in, and trustingly shows them a bag of nuggets which, for many years, he has been gathering to buy a home in California. Andrews and Edna take heart. They start out anew upon their quest. Andrews dies. Edna, to support herself and baby, becomes a dance hall girl. Because she resents the insults of the patrons, she is fired by the manager. In despair, she happens again upon Dan Shaw. That night she steals from him the bag of nuggets. But her conscience constrains her next day to return them. Meanwhile, Dan has been planning to sacrifice his dream of a home in California for the sake of Edna and her child. Putting the nuggets in another bag, so that she may not recognize them as his, he places them on her doorstep with a note, purporting to come from an old friend of her husband's. Edna takes the child and joyfully returns to her home in the east. Dan Shaw is left alone, to die in the gold country.
- Tom Walton is a poor boy attending the public schools. His mother, Mrs. Walton, earns a living for herself and Tom by doing washing and ironing for the wealthy people. Helen and Dick Kent, children of about the same age as Tom, are the pampered children, of a wealthy mother, and have a private tutor. One day while Helen is riding her pony she is roughly treated by a crowd of the poor children and her pony is taken away from her. Tom comes along, rescues Helen from her tormentors and puts her on the pony and sends her home. About ten years later Tom and Dick are attending the same college. Tom is working his way through college by working in a freight house nights. One night as Tom is coming back from work he meets Dick and a crowd of his wealthy friends. They surround Tom and a fight ensues, in which Tom is victorious. Tom graduates from college with highest honors. After finishing college Tom and Dick are both nominated for governor of their state. Helen overhears a plan of Dick and his campaign managers to ruin Tom's reputation. Helen begs Dick to forego the plan. Dick refuses, and Helen, in order to repay the debt of gratitude to Tom, informs him of the plan, thus enabling him to win the election.
- Star of the North, daughter of Iron Heart, a Sioux War Chief, is in love with Owahtonah. Black Kettle, a Cheyenne chief, hearing of her beauty, comes to her father's village to pay court to her. Iron Heart accepts the presents of Black Kettle, and betrothes his daughter to the visiting chief. Star of the North and Black Kettle leave for the Cheyenne chief's village. The first night they camp their horses are frightened by a bear. While Black Kettle is away looking after the horses, Star of the North escapes and takes refuge in a deserted cabin. Black Kettle, unable to trail Star of the North in the darkness, gives up the pursuit until dawn. The Indian girl, tired out, goes to sleep in the cabin, but is rudely awakened by Jim Holt, renegade trapper, who returns to his cabin after a night's debauch at the saloon. After a struggle with him, she escapes, takes his horses and goes to her lover, Owahtonah. Fearing punishment by her father for her broken engagement, Star of the North and her lover leave the village and seek refuge with another tribe.
- A messenger rides into the Dutch village of Schermer with the news that the Spaniards are approaching to attack the village. The burgomaster calls a council of the elders and they agree to surrender, as the town is in no condition to withstand a siege. After the surrender of the town, the Spanish officers are quartered upon the head men of the town for entertainment. The dashing and handsome Captain Rondez is assigned to the home of Dirk Myneer. He is at once attracted by Elsie, Dirk's pretty wife, and tries to make love to her. A spy brings Dirk the news that Major Van Voort is coming to relieve the village. To distract the attention of the Spaniards. Dirk arranges a fete at his home to entertain the Spanish officers. During the course of the fete, Rondez makes ardent love to Elsie, much to her disgust. While he is so engaged, the Dutch reinforcements arrive and are joined by a band of armed villagers. The Dutch succeed in routing the Spaniards. When Captain Rondez realizes that the battle is lost, he rushes back to the Myneer home. Elsie flees to the old mill for refuge. She reaches the second floor and being unable to prevent Rondez following her there through the trap door, climbs the ladder to the outer platform used in repairing the fan. Rondez follows and while struggling with her there, loses his balance. The rail gives way with him and he falls into the water below where he is shot by two of the villagers.
- Ezra Tucker, keeper of the lighthouse for 30 years, receives a letter from the Government stating that he has reached the age limit and asking for his retirement. Tucker is heartbroken; he has a real, personal affection for the light, which he regards as his own. His sorrow, however, is soon replaced by a feeling of deep resentment toward the new keeper. When Coates, the new keeper, arrives at the lighthouse. Tucker refuses to meet him in a friendly manner. This angers Coates, and the two old men become hostile toward each other. Coates' son John, a young captain of a fishing vessel, arrives in port, and not knowing the way to the lighthouse, inquires of Tucker's daughter Hattie the right path. John makes a favorable impression on Hattie, as she also does on him. Several days later Hattie sets out in a small boat for the village. The boat overturns and Hattie is rescued by John. John dismisses Adamson, his first mate, for drunkenness and greatly infuriated, Adamson seeks revenge. On a very foggy night, he visits the lighthouse, overpowers old Coates and turns off the light. When Tucker goes out to bid good night to his light, he is amazed to find it is not burning, and feeling that there is some trouble, he and Hattie start for the lighthouse. They find Coates bound and senseless. Hattie is put through one of the windows of the lighthouse, climbs the stairs and lights the light, thus saving John's boat from being wrecked. Adamson, who has gone out onto the big rock out in the sea, in a rowboat, loses his boat and is drowned by the rising tide. When John reaches the lighthouse the next morning a happy reconciliation takes place between all parties, and the picture finishes with a love scene between Hattie and John.
- Danny Sullivan and Patrick O'Neill are both in love with the village beauty. Rose O'Farrell, a pretty little Irish girl, whose father is a gruff old fellow. Rose favors Danny and when Patrick proposes to her, she tells him she would marry him if she were not going to marry someone else. Patrick is broken-hearted and decides to go to Dublin to study for the priesthood. Danny and Rose are married by Father Donegal, the village priest and sponsor to Patrick. Five years later, the "patriots" of Ireland, resenting the rule of England, decide to take matters into their own hands and Danny is chosen their leader. A reward is offered for the capture of Danny, and Felix McCann, who wanted to marry Danny's mother, because she owned a little land and a cottage, and was kicked out of the house by Danny, forges a note, purporting to come from Danny, who offers to betray his band if the British officer will give him freedom. Danny is about to be court-martialed when Rose finds the notes thrown away by Felix when he was trying to imitate Dan's handwriting. Danny is restored to his place as leader, hearing the wrath of a betrayed people. Felix confesses to Father Donegal and Patrick that it was he who told the British soldiers where they could find Dan. Dan and his men have a fierce fight at the tavern and Dan is captured and sentenced to death. Patrick visits Rose and touched by her grief, plans to save Danny at any cost, and help them to escape to America. He borrows a dress and shawl from Dan's mother and visits Dan in prison. He changes clothes with Dan, telling Dan he need not fear for him as they will not dare harm a priest. Dan and Rose, assisted by a couple of fishermen, escape to a ship leaving for America. The colonel, when he finds the ruse used by Patrick and Dan, is so angry that he condemns Patrick to be shot, unmindful of the fact that he is a priest, and at sunset of the day that Dan and Rose depart for America. Patrick, with a true Irish heart, sacrifices his life for the girl he loved when he was a boy.
- Jim Haley, an ex-crook, unable to get work, cannot support his wife and child, Thelma. Jim runs across Shifty Anderson, a crook stool pigeon for the police, and Shifty persuades Jim to return to his old trade and burglarize a residence that Shifty has picked out. Jim consents, since it is a case of life or death for his wife. Shifty tips off the police and Jim is pinched and caught with the goods and sentenced to the penitentiary for ten years. Jim's wife dies, leaving Thelma a dependent child. Unable to support Thelma, a kindly neighbor woman takes the child to an orphan asylum. Jim is heartbroken and swears to kill Shifty for his treachery if fate ever throws him in his path. The warden of the penitentiary to which Jim is sent and his wife have lost a child by death and they resolve to adopt another to raise. They visit the orphanage and adopt Jim's child, not knowing that she is the daughter of a convict. Shifty gets in bad and is sent to the same prison where Jim is. Jim sees Shifty one noon in the prison mess room and tries to kill him but guards prevent him. Shortly afterward word reaches the warden of an attempted prison outbreak. The warden searches for the ring leaders to punish them. Shifty tells him that Jim is one of the ring leaders, though Jim is innocent. The warden throws Jim into the prison dungeon and laces him in the "jacket," a terrible instrument of torture, to make him confess and betray his fellow-companions in the plot. The following morning Jim escapes from the jacket and by impersonating the guard he has overpowered, escapes from the prison, though wounded in his getaway. The hunt for the fugitive has no more than started when the real outbreak occurs within the walls. Shifty joins the mutineers and is shot down by a guard. Jim gets away from the prison and takes refuge in the warden's garden, unaware of where he is. Thelma, playing in the garden, finds Jim unconscious and revives him. Jim recognizes her as his own child. She aids Jim to escape. He tells her before he leaves that her Daddy will come back for her some day.
- Widow Maloney lives with her son, Dan, who is her idol. He is in love with Mary O'Connor, as is also Mike Dooley. Mike's father owns a fleet of whalers, and Mike gives a dance in Sailors' Home, to which Dan and Mary are invited. The plan to pick a fight with Dan at the dance meets with disappointment for Mike Dooley and his friends, as Dan comes out victorious. Mike then bribes Dougherty, the saloonkeeper, to put chloral in Dan's whiskey and he and his friends shanghai Dan on one of the whalers which belong to Mike's father. The widow does not miss Dan, as she advised him after the fight to leave the country until the Dooleys cooled off. The whaler is wrecked and Dan in cast on a desert island, where he finds a large lump of ambergris. He is finally rescued by a passing ship. To obtain money he sells the ambergris to a firm of perfumers and receives a large sum. In the meantime the Dooleys demand the rent from Widow Maloney, and she not being able to pay, there is an auction. Dan arrives home in time to buy, through a lawyer, his mother's goods at the auction. One night Dan and his sailor friends seize Dooley and Dougherty and shanghai them on a boat which Dan has bought. Dan now makes himself known to his mother and Mary O'Connor.
- Freckles, a little crippled newsboy, is devoted to his big brother, Chuck, who loses his job. A tough gang learning that Chuck has lost his job, try to persuade him to join them. Freckles' friend, Captain Arling, the harbor police, warns Chuck that his association with the gang is liable to get him into trouble, but as he is unable to secure work, reluctantly promises to join them. They plan to rob an old sailing ship in the harbor of a chest of pearls, in the captain's cabin. Brady, leader of the gang, writes Chuck a note, telling him where to meet them. Freckles finds the pieces of the note and leaves to try to intercept his brother. While crossing the street he is run down by an automobile and taken to the receiving hospital. In the meantime Chuck has a change of heart and decides not to go with the gang, so goes back home, where he finds his mother grief-stricken, because Freckles has been gone so long. Freckles' mother and Chuck are notified of his whereabouts and they are overjoyed on going at once to the hospital, to learn that he is not seriously injured.
- Tom and Sid Hart are brothers. Sid marries a wealthy woman who starts him in the real estate business. He aims to rise in society. Tom remains home and supports his aged mother. Sid Hart is ashamed of his poor relations. He grudgingly allows his mother five dollars a week. The mother falls sick through the heat of the great city. Tom makes a plea to his brother, asking him to raise the allowance as he is out of work and they need the money. Sid's wife answers the letter, refusing the request. Tom desperately raises his brother's check from five to five hundred dollars. He sends his mother away to the country under the doctor's advice and then calls upon his brother, telling him what he has done. The brother angrily telephones to the police and has Tom arrested. The argument is heard by Edna Poxley, Sid Heart's stenographer. The girl and Tom Hart are sweethearts, but have hidden the fact from Sid, who does not know they are even acquainted. Sid Hart is a roué. He has a private apartment where he entertains his lady friends, unknown to his wife. He has hinted at various times that Edna, who is poor, might share these apartments if she so wishes. He shows her the key to the apartment, which he has placed in Edna's desk so that his wife will not find it. Edna plans to trick Sid. She leaves the office. Sid finds a note from her stating that she has accepted his proposition and has gone to the flat to look over it, requesting him to meet her there. Edna goes to the apartments and phones Sid's wife to come there at once. Sid, in the meantime, is following her. Edna forces Sid to telephone the police exonerating his brother. She informs him that his wife is on her way to the flat and that if he does not do as she commands she will expose his double life to his wife. Sid Hart telephones the police that he has made a mistake about the check. The wife arrives while Edna is secreted behind some curtains. The wife goes to examine the rooms and Edna leaves to join Tom, while Sid is forced to explain to his wife that he has furnished the flat as a present to her on her forthcoming birthday.
- Mallard, a crooked mining stock promoter, swindles Silas Clayton, a farmer, out of $3,500. Clayton has mortgaged his property to buy Mallard's worthless stock, and later finds himself and his family dispossessed and almost penniless. The Claytons go west to take up a homestead claim. Jim Howard, an Arizona ranchman, falls in love with Ellen Clayton. She shows him a snap-shot which she happens to have of Mallard, and tells him that he is the man who ruined her father. Howard runs across the original of the kodak picture in a Tucson hotel. He decoys Mallard to an abandoned mine and holds him prisoner while he goes for Ellen and her father. They return with Howard and identify the swindler. Howard tells Mallard that unless he puts down $5,000 for Gold Mining stock he will never get out of the mine. Mallard comes across with the check on a Tucson bank. Clayton cashes it. Mallard is set free. The promoter is then presented with the worthless stock which he formerly had sold Clayton. Mallard starts back across the desert, on foot, eighty miles to Tucson.
- Baron Yoshoto, an old Samurai of Japan, is loath to have his son Koto go to the States to finish his education, but is finally persuaded. Koto bids his sweetheart goodbye and vows to his father that he will not be influenced by American customs, but will return a Samurai. A year later at a college club, Koto meets Jim Wendell, a crook and schemer. Wendell introduces Koto to a chorus girl, Annette Walsh, who ensnares him into a marriage. When Baron Yoshoto hears of Koto's marriage he disinherits him, and Annette, who only married Koto for his money, deserts him and goes with Jim Wendell. Koto trails them and strangles Annette. He then goes to the police and gives himself up, writing a note of farewell to his father and sweetheart in old Japan.
- Gordon Elliott, a student at a large university, is unable to make the football team until his senior year. He is then awarded a center position because of his superior method of passing the ball, though his lightness is against him. He overhears the head coach say that Dick Blackwood would make a better center if only he could master the pass. In his loyalty to the college Elliott teaches Blackwood the pass, thereby eliminating himself, not merely from the team, but also, as he supposes, from the possibility of winning Marjorie Burgess, who has commanded him to return for his answer after he has played his first big game. The game is played and won, largely through Blackwood's efforts, and he is a hero. At the banquet, where the letters are awarded, the victorious center tells the whole story of Elliott's sacrifice. Elliott wins one of the letters--and Marjorie's promise.
- Nasso Nakado, a high-born Japanese man, is living in Magdalena Bay, Mexico, disguised as a fisherman. Taro Kamura, another distinguished subject of the Mikado, is sent as special envoy to arrange with General Gomez for land concessions. He and Nakado work together on the proposition and succeed in securing the promise of the land in return for arms and ammunition. Meanwhile, San Toy, Nakado's beautiful daughter, has been posing secretly for American artist Tom Wright and fallen in love with him. He learns through her the secrets of the Japanese. Taro Kamura meets San Toy and wishes to marry her, but she rejects him, and one day he follows her to the American's tent. Wright sees the Mikado's envoys at night unloading a ship filled with ammunition and rifles, which they store in the Japanese Christian mission. He enlists the help of Bill Davis, another American, and with the co-operation of some miners they blow up the mission. Kamura tells Nakado and the Mexican general to look for the spy in Wright's tent. Meanwhile the young American has made his escape. But San Toy, returning to warn him is shot and killed by Gomez who mistakes her for Wright. Kamura displays to Nakado the artist's painting of San Toy and says, "It is just. Your daughter was a traitor to her country."
- Rod Rawley, a saloonkeeper, who has been driven out of the village, sets up a roadhouse outside the town where he lives with his daughter Leone. David Boylan, the new minister of the village, accidentally meets Leone, and, much attracted by her personality, seeks to win her away from the life she is leading. He invites her to a church social. She gladly accepts. At the social, however, she is cruelly snubbed, particularly by Edith Ainsworth, the daughter of the village banker, with whom Boylan half believes himself in love. The incident, however, opens his eyes and he breaks with her. Leone returns home, brokenhearted, and is about to throw herself away when her better judgment asserts itself. A little later Edith is enticed to the roadhouse by a suave city man, and here Leone discovers her in a helpless condition. Her feeling of pity overcomes her desire for revenge and she locks Edith in her room. Her father breaks down the door, but Boylan arrives in time to save the two girls. Leone, believing Boylan to be in love with Edith, leaves them together, but Boylan soon overtakes her and gains her consent to be his wife.
- Will Holt, an old miner, lives alone in a small western town, with his little granddaughter, Mildred. Two outlaws, in search of shelter for the night, approach Holt's cabin. Looking in at a window, they see Bill weighing his gold dust, and the bandits scheme together to return next day, while he is out working the claim, and steal the treasure. When Holt goes out the next morning he warns Mildred to keep the door locked and admit no one. He calls the dog in to guard her during his absence, and kissing her good-bye, shoulders his pick and departs. As soon as the outlaws are satisfied that Holt is absorbed in his work, they draw near the cabin. Their stealthy footsteps catch the keen ear of the dog, Spot, who warns his young mistress by barking frantically. Mildred fears for the safety of her grandfather's gold. She does not think at all of her own danger in the exciting problem of how to conceal the precious hoard. Then an idea flashes over her. She has a beautiful, big doll with a head that screws on and off. Removing the doll's head, she empties the gold into the hollow body of her plaything. The bandits come to the door calling for a drink of water. But the little girl refuses to admit them. In no time at all they have hammered down the door. They seize Mildred, gag and bind her, who, in terror, drops the doll. Spot meanwhile has escaped. He rushes to the creek and Holt knows at once something is wrong. The miner returns, kills one of the bandits, and is in danger of being worsted by the other, when Mildred, who has struggled free from her bonds, shoots him. After all is over, Mildred brings the gold-stuffed doll to her amazed grandfather.
- John Steele, a New York stockbroker, is happy with his beautiful wife, Marion, until the advent into their circle of Alexander Hanlon. Hanlon covets Marion. She is fascinated by him. Hanlon deliberately ruins Steele in the exchange and runs off with his wife to Europe. Steele pretends suicide and goes to Alaska under an assumed name. There he strikes it rich and returns to New York, resolved to avenge himself on Hanlon. He is wearing a heavy beard and his former rival fails to recognize him. In a fierce battle on the floor of the exchange Steele sends Hanlon to the wall. Hanlon goes home to his apartments a crushed and broken man. There, later Steele, shorn of his disguise, confronts his old enemy. They fight like wild beasts. A lamp is upset and the house catches fire. Steele escapes, but Hanlon perishes in the flames.