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- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- About 1722, Spain, in her command of Texas (named from a confederation of Indians, who called themselves Tejas), established the Franciscan mission of San Antonio de Valero (The Alamo). Around this mission was built the pueblo (village) and presidio (barracks), which formed the nucleus of the present city of San Antonio. In 1824 Texas withdrew from Mexico and formed a separate republic, and the Mexican general Santa Anna, the self-styled Napoleon of the West, was sent to force her back into allegiance. At San Antonio in 1836 Col William B. Travis was in command of the fort. With him was Col. William Bowie, David Crockett, Lieut. Dickenson and a small force. He received word that Santa Anna, at the head of a Mexican army of several thousand, was advancing to take the city. Travis dispatched a message to Gen. Sam Houston for aid, sending Lieut. Dickenson and taking his force of 140 men and women of the city, among whom was Dickenson's wife, Lucy; he retired to the Alamo. On February 23, Santa Anna sent a message to surrender, and upon the brave refusal of Travis, he attacked the place. Travis held the Alamo until March 6, 1836, his little force constantly diminishing. On that day, when all seemed lost, Travis drew a line with his sword down the center of the room and asked all who would die with him to cross to his side. All crossed save one, Rose, who announced his determination to try to escape. He succeeded in leaving the building but was never heard from again. A breach was made in the wall by the cannon of Santa Anna, and the Mexicans entered to find all the men dead except Travis and four companions. These were immediately slaughtered on the spot, and Lucy Dickenson, with two other women and three children, were all to leave the Alamo alive.
- A mother with two young children survives the San Francisco earthquake disaster.
- "Wild Bill" Gray is a renegade and a wife-beater. He is about to start on some expedition of crime and his wife implores him to stay at home. She receives a beating for her trouble. Jim, a cowboy, rides past the shack, hears Mrs. Gray's screams and interferes, and takes Mrs. Gray over to his friend, the postmaster, so that she may have a good home. "Wild Bill" plans vengeance. Paxton, the postmaster, starts for the station with money and gold, and is accompanied a short way by Jim. Gray sneaks after them. After going with Paxton a short distance, Jim takes a turn in the road and Paxton rides on alone. Gray closes up on the postmaster, gets the drop on him, but Paxton is quick and there's a hand-to-hand struggle. Bill, however, worsts Paxton, and finally sends him over a precipice. But in falling, Paxton falls into a tree and thus is saved from sure death. In the meanwhile Paxton's horse comes back to his general store. When the riderless horse arrives there is naturally considerable excitement. Gray arrives on the scene and he makes things look pretty black for Jim, the man who was last seen with the postmaster. Jim is placed under arrest, but the boys, as well as the postmaster's young daughters, May and Gladys, do not believe Jim to be guilty. May and Gladys ride the trail and finally find their father after he calls to them. Gray stoutly asserts his innocence and manufactures evidence incriminating Jim. May and Gladys, the "two little rangers," however, untangle the evidence and their father's story cinches things. When things begin to look pretty black for Gray he retreats to his shack. The girls, however, are determined to get him and, after seeing their volleys of bullets have no effect, discharge a firebrand from a bow. The firebrand sets the shack on fire and Gray perishes in his own tomb.
- John Henson and his sister Mary are surprised one morning in learning that they have new neighbors in Mr. Gray and his son, Danny. Danny is taught to say the Lord's Prayer every night and to practice its principles in his daily life. In his play one day, Danny is hurt and the father, in distraction, calls upon Mary for aid. She gives the care that only woman can give to a sick person, and the acquaintance commences, so that later, when Mr. Gray is seriously injured at the stone works, she nurses him back to health. It is plain to be seen that Mr. Gray is beginning to evince more than admiration for his pretty neighbor. Mary takes Danny to town on the day that a theatrical troupe arrives and one of the actresses recognizes in the lad her little son. She tells Mary and is taken to Mr. Gray's house, but he will not receive her, because shortly after Danny's birth she left his home and went astray. Danny is soon taught by Mary to love his mother, but the kind neighbor is not equally successful with the father. Finally Danny brings about an unexpected meeting between father and mother, and, on bended knee repeats the prayer his daddy had so often taught him: "Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive . . ." The father touched by these words from his son, repents his sternness and receives his wife once more unto their home.
- Captain Dixon, receiving a message from the custom office that there is a band of smugglers operating on the islands off the coast, bids his wife good-bye and goes on the assignment. At the island wharf he inquires of an old sailor for the most quiet lodgings in the place and is led to a hut where lives an elderly man, supposedly s fisherman, and his pretty daughter, Bess. The old man does not at first want to admit the stranger, but the sight of handsome board money quickly changes his mind. Bess leads him to his room. That night Dixon is still unpacking when a noise downstairs arouses his suspicions. He goes down and discovers the old man leaving the house stealthily with several rough-looking strangers. He follows them and learns that they are the smugglers for whom be was sent in quest, and Bess' father the leader of them. Hurrying back to the house, the captain discovers Bess waving a red lantern in the window (the secret danger signal), for she had heard him depart and suspected his mission. She had also learned through a photograph in his room that he was married. Dixon attempts to remove the light, but is forced by Bess at the point of a revolver to wave it. The smuggler and Bess' lover, heed the signal, and, returning, put Dixon out of the house. The latter, however has formed a wild desire for Bess and, meeting her on the beach, attempts to force his love on her. Failing in this he sends her a note to the purport that if she does not meet him on the pier at once he will expose her father. Bess' love for her aged father is stronger than anything else, so she sadly decides to sacrifice herself to save his life. She had not left the house long, however, when her father and Ned find Dixon's vile note. They hurry to the pier in time to frustrate the captain's designs, but in the melee, the officer falls into the sea.
- Danny, the little eight-year-old cowboy, while amusing the boys with his lariat, is interrupted by the arrival of Dick, the artist, to whom Mr. Wilson introduces his daughter, Bee. The artist falling in love with her, wins Bee away from Jake, her fiancé. Jake seeks revenge and with Slim, steals the proceeds of a sale of cattle made by Bee's father, and kidnapping Dick, forces him to sign a note, saying that he stole the money, after which Jake's gang intend to compel him to quit the country. Bee's father suspects Dick, owing to his disappearance, and Danny, sent to get Jake's help to capture the thief, discovers the plight of the artist and tells Bee. The two ride to the rescue and with their pistols drawn compel a surrender. Releasing the artist who, with Bee's assistance, binds Jake and Slim, Danny rides for help. The cowboys, led to the appointed meeting-place, capture the whole gang and Danny receives the congratulations of the ranchers for ridding them of the band of horse thieves who had so long remained undetected.
- In the days when Indian uprisings in the west were common, there took place a massacre near an old California Mission, in which all were killed save a tiny girl, who slept safely in her dead mother's arms. Mission Fathers, on their way to vespers, heard the child's cries, rescued it and adopted it. For seventeen years she waited upon the aged fathers faithfully, at the end of which period, a tragedy occurred that broadened her life considerably. Captain Courtesy, a bandit, had held up some cowboys, who when free, gathered a posse and followed him. The captain held them all at bay, and by a clever ruse, escaped and sought refuge in the Mission. The Mission fathers received him graciously, and the girl admiringly. He hid his identity, and soon became a favorite at the Mission, especially with Mary, the one-time waif. It was her first love. One day, while walking, Mary read a sign, offering a reward for the person dead or alive, of Captain Courtesy, distinguishable by a crescent-shaped scar on his forehead. She took no notice at the time, but upon arriving at the Mission, Courtesy declared his love to the girl, and she, in response, placed her hands upon his head to imprint a kiss. Her fingers slightly disarranged the hair, and there was exposed to view the crescent-shaped scar. The truth of the situation came to her and she ordered Courtesy from the room, but by no means dispelling the affection from her heart. Courtesy had not proceeded far when he discovered another and still greater Indian uprising than had caused the extermination of Mary's family. His first thought was of the Mission and the girl it harbored. He reached the old structure just in time to warn Mary and the fathers, who escaped into an underground passage. Courtesy remained to defend the Mission. From the subterranean passage Mary gained access to a camp of cowboys and called them to action. After a fierce conflict, the Indians were put to rout. Mary and the fathers emerge from the cellar and begin the search for Courtesy. He had been killed defending the girl he loved.
- In a western saloon, Pedro and the boys are playing cards and drinking, when one cheats and there is a gunfight. It all happens so quickly that no one knows who to blame until Pedro, knowing that he shot at least one man, steals quickly from the place and rides furiously off. The others see him go and at once decide he started the fight and is responsible for the probable loss of life. They mount their horses and pursue him. Meanwhile Pedro has succeeded in reaching a spot not far distant. Here he meets his sweetheart, Melita. They both hear the approaching pursuers, and Melita, fearful for her lover, jumps on the same horse and they ride away. Reaching a barn, Melita changes clothes with Pedro, and after telling him to hide in the barn she rides away to mislead the pursuers. They follow her, thinking her Pedro, but at last find out their mistake when they overtake her. Forcing her to go with them, they search farther and find Pedro in the barn just after he has subdued a young girl and her mother who had entered to collect eggs. Pedro is imprisoned in the sheriff's house as there is no jail in town. Melita frees him in a novel way and bids him fly to Mexico. The sheriff suspects Melita knows Pedro's whereabouts, and she, offering to show them where Pedro lives, leads them there, knowing he is even now on his way to Mexico. Returning to town in disgust with Melita accompanying them, they are just in time to see, with the aid of a field glass, Pedro crossing the boundary in the valley below. A week later Melita receives a letter from Pedro asking her to join him that the Padre may make them one.
- John Stuart, the young Londoner, who received a monthly remittance from the estate of his late uncle, found life rather boresome, now that all his whims were satisfied by the aid of plenty of spending money, and as a last recourse, decided to go to America and buy a mine. In a lonely spot in Colorado, far from the usual path of any "pale face," sat Starlight, only daughter of White Buffalo, the dead chief, mourning his death. At his resting place she remained until bodily wants overcame her and she sank in a faint. Stuart, the miner, in search of a suitable location, found the girl exhausted and carried her to his cabin. In a week or so Starlight became better and Stuart thought it time she return to her camp. The Indian girl was surprised. Was she not by every Indian right bound to marry Stuart? Could an Indian maiden return to her camp alone? With the fervor of her youth, she clasped Stuart about the neck and begged him. The marriage over, the little cabin soon gave evidence of her housewifely skill. All was happiness and bliss until one day Stuart received word from his London solicitors that, his aunt was now dead, he sole heir to his uncle's estate and to come to London at once. Stuart left Colorado hurriedly and secretly, lacking courage to bid Starlight farewell. In England a grand reception awaited the heir. Ambitious mothers with marriageable daughters flocked about him galore. They bored him with their attentions. They asked him about his life in America, which suddenly brought back to his mind visions of his little cabin in the woods, and of his little Indian bride. He realized he never should have left her, that she might now be dying, waiting for him. It was the call of the wilderness. He returned with all speed to the little Colorado town, hastened to his cabin, but it was empty, and devoid of all evidence of recent habitation. He roamed the woods, calling: "Star-light. Star-light," but there came no answer. Suddenly he thought of the dead chief's grave. He rode like mad to the spot, and there lay Starlight, almost gone. He clasped her to his breast, gave her drink and warmed her hands. Finally she opened her eyes and recognized her husband. With a last feeble effort she once again clasped her arms around his neck and drew his face close to hers for a kiss. And then, with a contented smile, she sank back in his arms. A broken heart had been given eternal rest.
- The laborers employed in a large factory are disgruntled with the treatment accorded them and decide to go on strike. Their employer receives their manifest with indifference; in fact he ignores their unreasonable demands. A mass meeting is held after the factory is stoned. The mob is considerably agitated by a labor union orator. He arouses them to such an extent that they vote to blow up the plant. One of the young factory workers is selected for the placing of the bomb. The men are desperate and are prepared to do anything. The night before the bomb is placed a meeting is held. Before the meeting proceedings are discussed in private at the home of Jack, the bomb placer. After the discussion, he and the agitators leave to attend the meeting. In going out, the agitator drops a lighted stub of a cigarette. About midnight Jack's house is in flames. His wife and child are caught in a trap. She telephones him and gets him in the midst of a tumultuous session. Jack drops everything and runs to rescue his loved ones from sure destruction. He knows that if the bomb, which is hidden in his house should explode his wife and child would stand no chance of being rescued. He hurries along. It is three miles to his house and not a conveyance in sight. Suddenly two big auto lamps show up in the distance. Jack motions wildly. The car glides up. To his surprise Jack sees his employer. The employer inquires of Jack the cause of his excitement. Jack explains, and soon they are away breaking speed laws, They arrive to see the house encircle in flames. The employer valiantly assists in the rescue work, while Jack dashes into a room full of smoke, gets the bomb and throws it out of the window into the street, where it explodes and fortunately does no harm. The employer wins Jack to his support and in winning Jack he also wins back the rest of his erstwhile dissatisfied men.
- The old widower stricken ill, his daughter Ynez takes his place in the orange grove. The rich owner of the grove while making his rounds, sees Ynez and is attracted by her beauty. A man of whims, he is in a measure infatuated with her. Being in poor health, owing to heart trouble, he is cautioned by his physician against undue excitement, hence none of his own household try to thwart him when he proceeds to fascinate the girl. Of course, his nature being capricious, he soon tires of the pretty senorita and the pledge he bestowed proves worthless. Fearing the scorn of her father, she leaves his house. Her former sweetheart tells her father of his suspicion and the old man goes to the orange grower, but he pleads in vain. It is then that both the boy and her father vow vengeance. Fate intervenes, however, for the man dies, a victim of heart failure. Later the poor girl is drawn back home where she finds a father's heart yearning for her return.
- Grace and her lover, Graham, being caught in the rain while riding, Graham begs her wait beneath a tree while he searches for a place of shelter. When, however, he does not return in due time she becomes alarmed and follows the path he took. Peering in the window of a house she discovers a man dead and her lover embracing a prostrate woman. Her conclusions are that her lover has committed murder, and in a fit of jealousy, she informs the authorities. Graham is captured and about to be lynched when remorse fills the heart of Grace. Perhaps he has some explanation. She pleads with the lynchers and obtains a hearing for her lover. Graham explains that the woman he embraced was his sister; that he had arrived at the hut just after she had been choked to death by her husband, a gambler, who had forced her to marry him to pay a gambling debt of Graham's; that in a conflict that followed between himself and the gambler-husband, the latter was killed. The lynchers are convinced by this story and Grace reconciled.
- Robert Burton was an only son and his indulgent mother had spoiled him. Bob was not all bad, but he was woefully weak and could not stick long at any one task. Also he paid more attention to rolling cigarettes than he did to his work. One day he was discharged by the foreman of the crockery store where he worked and appeared at home disgusted and sullen. His mother tried to comfort him, but the boy was anxious to have his way and announced his intention of going west, where he thought there would be better opportunities for him. Poor Mrs. Burton, who was a widow, was horror-struck at the idea of letting her only child away from her, but habit was too strong and so she gave in to Bobby in this as in other things. She supplied him with money from their meager store, and he arrived in the west and was fortunate enough to secure work on a ranch. His idea of his own important did not appeal to the cowboys, however, and they hazed him in a pretty rough manner. Bob left that job and a number of others, and since he was unpopular, he took to drink. One day, when all his money was gone and he was desperate, as he had received no reply to the letter he had written his mother for aid, he held up the mail carrier and escaped with the mailbag. The sheriff was soon on his trail, but Bob eluded him and sought refuge in a dilapidated cabin where he had a chance to open the letters he had stolen. From one there fell a ten dollar bill, and the boy's amazed eyes caught his own name and his mother's familiar handwriting. He suddenly realized how no-account he was, and how little he deserved the mother he had. Seized with a sudden determination, he gave himself up and served hi term in prison, after which he returned to his aged mother, who had never failed to ask each day for "the letter that never came."
- Papa Foy is in love with Mrs. Grant, a charming widow, who doesn't need to be held from jumping into matrimony, but Nell and her brother, Jim, his two children, think he needs to be held, and when they conceive that he is going to marry the widow they don't know want to do to save him. Dick Hardy, Nell's sweetheart, sees father and Mrs. Grant on the beach, sitting under an umbrella. They run to get some shells to throw at them, but when they return, father and Mrs. Grant leave and two colored lovers are sitting in the shade of the umbrella. Nell and Dick throw the shells; they see Rastus and Mandy and beat it. In the afternoon, when father and Mrs. Grant are bathing, Jim, Dick and Nell conceive the brilliant idea of stealing father's clothes and leaving him in the bath house until he will capitulate and promise never to marry. He will not promise, and they leave him without even his bathing suit, telling him they will be back in one hour. Father's cries are beard by Mrs. Grant. She comes to the rescue. She buys him a pair of overalls and jumper. In this father and Mrs. Grant go right off and get married.
- The last guardian of the wealth of the aristocratic Gresham family dies, leaving no one but his granddaughter Ruth and faithful family servant Wicks to remain in the isolated old mansion. The family's immense wealth lies concealed in a secret treasure room, reached by a hidden stairway. Gresham's will appoints John and Henry Collins, brothers of a law firm, to be the trustees and guardians of Ruth, who is to inherit the fortune when she comes of age. When the brothers have secured a glimpse of the treasure, its fascination overpowers them. They secretly plot to obtain possession of it. In their avarice, they neglect their business, which goes to ruin. Both move to the mansion to be near the wealth. Ruth, neglected and mistreated, is cared for only by the kind old butler, who has always looked upon the brothers with suspicion. Finally the brothers begin to suspect each other of appropriating the treasure. Mutual distrust soon breeds enmity. There is a quarrel and Henry leaves the mansion. He leaves behind a note on the mansion gate reading: "Beware, I shall return." This is found by John, who henceforth lives in constant terror lest the brother appear and kill him. Years later John a crabbed, miserly wretch; he refuses to allow either Ruth or Wicks near the treasure chamber. Ruth has blossomed into young womanhood, but through the stern decree of her irascible guardian seldom ventures beyond the confines of the estate. Finally John is stricken with heart trouble. Philip D'Arcy, a young physician, is called. Much against John's will, Philip decides to stay in the mansion until his patient has passed the danger mark. Gradually Philip begins to love Ruth. At the same time he is trying to solve the mystery surrounding the hidden wealth. Henry, the other brother, now a ragged wanderer, puts in an appearance. During Ruth and Philip's absence, Henry gains entrance into the mansion after struggling with Wicks and knocking him unconscious. A moment later John, in bed, sees Henry bending over him. Henry secures the keys to the treasure room and creeps down the stairway. John follows. A fierce fight between the gold-crazed brothers takes place. John presses a concealed button and precipitates Henry into a dungeon. Then John discovers the mansion has been set afire by a lantern which Henry had hurled at him. Philip, Ruth, and the villagers have now discovered the fire. Philip enters the mansion to try to rescue John. Ruth follows. Meanwhile John, groping in the smoke-filled treasure room, has fallen into the dungeon and lies dead, with Henry at the bottom of it. Philip is unable to find John and fights his way back through the flames to find that both Ruth and himself are trapped. After a struggle he carries Ruth to safety just as the mansion walls collapse. Wicks, the butler, is been resuscitated by villagers. Ruth, now convinced of Philip's bravery and love, consents to be his wife.
- Jean Dyer, an old one-legged hermit who lives in a mean abode on Lonely Mountain, has the villagers all guessing as to where he gets his gold, for whenever he comes to town he spends freely. The villagers appoint Jimmie, a genial cowboy, to visit the old man, get him "full," and pump him as to the location of the mine. Jimmie wins the old man's confidence and liking, but in a terrific storm that comes up, a tree crashes through the roof and mortally wounds Dyer. His last words are an endeavor to locate the mine so that Jim might have the benefit. He dies before he finishes. The news of the death stirs all the villagers to an organized hunt for the gold mine, but their efforts are in vain. Jim buries the old man respectably, and when a few days later he visits the grave, finds there Dyer's old burro which had been his only chum. An idea comes to Jim. He puts on the old hermit's wooden leg, mounts the burro in the old man's way, kicks him with the wooden leg, as was Dyer's wont, and is led to the very entrance of the mine. The villagers would share it with him, but "Findings is keepings" is the unwritten law of the west.
- Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One Christmas morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The butler and housekeeper (in the secret), carry the hamper to the library and present it to Neal. He is greatly puzzled and finding a card attached inscribed "To Major Neal," he opens the hamper, only to slam it hastily shut with a startled and angry expression: The hamper contains a baby girl. The old man orders the child taken from his presence, and advertises for the one who presumed to leave it to take it off. But no one claims the child, whose sweetness and innocent joys soon begin to move the old fellow's heart. The baby constantly makes advances, in spite of rebuffs, until the old man succumbs and worships the child, calling her "Little Sunbeam." Sunbeam is stricken with fever. Now is the mother's chance. She comes (the old family doctor aiding and abetting her), disguised as a nurse, and with a mother's untiring love and care nurses Sunbeam back from the shadowy brink. Old Major Neal and his disowned daughter meet at the bedside of the child, and through their great and mutual love for Sunbeam become forever reconciled.
- Mary Jane had nursed Black Bill's wife through a spell of fever and Bill was grateful with all the fullness of his rough nature. He sent Mary Jane a necklace and a note in which he promised on his honor to someday discharge his debt. It happened later, that one of Bill's horses was stolen. Bill and his friends found the thief, and were bringing him into town to a handy tree, when they passed Mary Jane, drawing water from the old well. Bill had a drink and Mary, in pity, raised the cup to the lips of Bob Ford, the horse thief, whom she had never seen before. He was in the stupor of despair and drank greedily, but with no sign of intelligence. Moved by a sudden womanly feeling which she could not classify, Mary Jane leaned forward, and in a great wave of sympathy, she pressed a kiss full upon the lips of the thief. The effect was like an electric shock to him. He raised his eyes and looked upon a girl who was fair and sweet. He, who had been about to die, felt the warm blood of energy and ambition coursing through his veins. Watching his chance, he slipped his bonds, felled one of his captors with a blow, ducked the shots of the others, and putting spurs to his horse, dashed madly to the cabin of Mary Jane for one more look before he died. She found him and secreted him in her bedroom just before the lynchers arrived. Her furious anger at their intrusion drove them out, but Ford had heard their conversation and knew that his presence there had endangered the good name of the girl he had come to love, so he quietly stole from the window and allowed himself to be captured in the timber. Mary Jane saw him being led to the nearest tree. She suddenly thought of the necklace and Bill's promise and dashed after him. Thus importuned, Bill lived up to his obligations like a man. He not only forced the boys to give up their "lynching bee," but he paved the way for Ford to leave the country with Mary Jane, knowing that she would make a man of him.
- Mrs. Casey plans a surprise party for her husband. He comes home drunk and starts a fight with the party guests.
- Lily Adair is forced by her society-struck mother to live far beyond their means. Her mother hopes that Lily will eventually make a good match, and to this end encourages the advances of Stephen Peters, a multi-millionaire, seventy years old. On a day when the bills have come in thick and fast, when the servants have been asking for wages overdue, and the girl feels at the end of her resources, old Peters proposes. The girl is horrified at first, but feeling it is the only way out, she accepts him. But later the girl realizes the immensity of her act and sends back his ring. As he walks up and down the room in anger he hears a noise against the window. He opens it to disclose a man in convict garb cowering on the ledge. There is no fight left in the hunted starving man, and he pleads for shelter. Peters gets an idea. He will dress this ex-convict as a gentleman, introduce him to society, force him to pay attention to Lily Adair and when they become engaged, humble her pride by a disclosure of facts. A month later the convict, as Sir John Clyde, meets Lily Adair at a ball. They fall in love and before long become engaged. On the day the engagement is to be announced Peters calls up the warden of the jail and tells him where an escaped convict is to be found that evening. As John rises to toast his bride- to-be, the warden and the police enter. As John is about to be lead away two gentlemen enter. One announces himself as the British Consul and tells them his companion is the Earl of Clyde, John's brother. Proceedings are stopped as the Earl tells that years before John and the present Earl (Seymour), brothers, came to America to work in a large bank. They were of good family, but poor. Seymour was addicted to gambling and lost all his money at cards. One day he borrowed some funds from the bank, hoping to recoup his losses, but he lost that also. Desperate, he returned to his rooms to find a letter from an English law firm, stating that his cousin had died, leaving him next in kin to his uncle, the Earl's title. He does not know what to do and confesses his crime to John, who feels that, as younger brother, it is his duty to protect the name. He shoulders his brother's crime and sends Seymour back to England. When John realizes his love for Lily he wrote his brother, asking for the truth at last, and in response to his letter, the Earl came to America. All are convinced of John's innocence. Peters, his plan of vengeance frustrated, leaves the house angrily. The Earl enters into conversation with the warden, while Lily goes into John's outstretched arms.
- John Burton met Bessie Fields on her way home one day, and was for making love to her right then and there, but for the interruption of Crazy Joe, a half-witted boy, who always seemed to get in wrong. Burton was incensed, and, although Bessie protested, applied his whip to the demented boy, when Steve Ross, Bessie's sweetheart, happened along and rushed to the boy's rescue. Steve saw that Burton's attentions were not welcomed and ordered him off the scene. Next day, both went to Mr. Fields, and proposed for Bessie's hand. When Burton learned that Steve had been accepted, he rushed from the house, fired back upon it, and fled. Of two shots spent, one hit and killed Mr. Fields. Steve, who was nearby, shot at the fugitive, but missed him. Burton hastened to a saloon, but missed him, were gathered, and hatched a plot to accuse Steve of the crime on circumstantial evidence. The sheriff was called and decided that Steve was guilty. But Burton was not satisfied. With his friends, he raided the jail, and made away with Steve, with the intention of hanging him. Meanwhile, Crazy Joe, in his ramblings, discovered a bullet lodged in the casing of the door, which had not penetrated the house. With this bit of evidence, Bessie, to whom he imparted this news, rode like mad to free her lover, as only one shot had escaped from Steve's revolver. The sheriff joined in the ride to save a life. Steve was already roped about the neck when they arrived. Happiness was his, indeed. But who was the guilty one? A hasty examination of the guns on those present, disclosed the fact that the bullet corresponded with those used by Burton. He shrunk beneath their gaze, which was evidence enough for cowboys. Steve was given freedom, Bessie happiness, and Burton jail.
- The story opens with the wedding of Laura Mills to Jim Farley. Jim had a story that he had tried to bury. He had done things in the past that were against the law. The young couple made haste to the depot. They had scarcely left the door-step when two detectives presented themselves at the Mills home and informed the family that they wanted Jim. The bridal couple had just been shown to their room at the big city hotel when the officers entered. Jim was arraigned for a "confidence job" pulled off six months before. Laura bad to return to her parents' home and was there confronted with the newspaper account of the crime. The parents renounced Farley, and Laura, refusing to hear a word against her husband, left the house and sought employment. She found a position in the office of Richard Starley. The work was enjoyable and Laura paid weekly visits to her husband in the jail. One evening, as she was about to leave the office, Starley attempted to embrace her. She recoiled with horror, but the next day reported as usual. Starley declared his love for her, and proposed to secure a divorce for her if she would marry him. For reply Laura produced a locket containing Jim's picture and her own and reiterated her love for her unfortunate husband. From that moment Starley became her friend. It was visiting day at the prison and Laura was there; a fire broke out in the jail and a panic ensued. Convicts, guards and visitors were rushing for safety. Among those in danger was the warden's son. Jim seized the boy, and trying to battle with the flames, was overcome. The guards rescued them both unconscious and they were taken to the hospital, where they lay in twin beds until convalescent. The warden and Starley interested themselves in Jim and for his bravery secured his release. Laura took her husband back to the family and all was forgiven,
- When Bob Stanley from New York arrives in Sulphur Mountain he gets mixed up in a fight with Jose, a Mexican, and is injured. Joe, a miner, takes Bob home where his wife dresses the wound, and offers him shelter until he shall become well. Joe mistakes Mary's sympathy for Bob for love and decides to put himself out of their way. He causes an explosion, at the mine, leaves his hat and coat and makes it appear as though he has been killed. But Mary loves Joe, and her grief at his apparent loss is great. Six months later Joe, in rags and with beard, comes back to the scene of the explosion. But his mind does not recall everything perfectly, for in his brooding he has become mentally deranged. Miners see him, and believing him a ghost, flee in fear. Bob heads a party to investigate the place of the reported apparition and in a most unexpected manner comes face to face with his old benefactor. The man's mind slowly regains balance and he remembers that he has a wife. Bob persuades him to come back, but as they approach the house they discover a doctor just leaving. Joe enters to find his wife still longing for him, and to share with her the joy that has just come to them both, an offspring.