- Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula. Mole kills the chemist, and he and Grinde frame an explosion to conceal the crime. After David refuses to sell the formula, Grinde and Mole lock him and his sweetheart in a vault with poisonous gas. Grinde then tries to kill Mole, who knows too much, and take over the firm from his elderly partner at a directors' meeting.—Jolo
- Benjamin Lord, an old chemist, after many years of investigation and experimenting, involves a new glaze for pottery, which promises to revolutionize the industry and bring a fortune to him. Hilbert Grinde, head of the nation's largest pottery, is given a sample and, realizing the fortune it means, commands Timothey Mole, the company's chemist, whom he holds in his power, to secure the formula. Mole goes to Lord's home and secures part of the formula. He manages to make a glaze almost perfect, but not to Grinde's satisfaction. Returning again, Mole encounters the old chemist and in a struggle for the formula, kills him. Grinde enters and assures Mole of his protection if he will get the formula for him. In an effort to hide the crime, Mole prepares a chemical solution which explodes, destroying the laboratory. David Lord, the dead chemist's grandson, who is also a chemist, and his sweetheart, Mary Field, determine to complete the task begun by the murdered chemist. David, after much work, completes the formula and offers to sell it to Grinde. That night Grinde and Mole steal into the house, lock David and Mary in a windowless room, steal the formula book and flood the room where the two young lovers are imprisoned, with the fumes of chlorine gas. Then Grinde attacks Mole and leaves him, supposedly dead, on the floor. While Grinde is informing the directors of the pottery works of his wonderful discovery, by means of which he hopes to oust the president and assume the controlling interest of the concern, Mole, his head cut and bruised, staggers into the room and makes a complete confession, implicating Grinde. He tries to escape, but is captured. Then Mole leads the police to the house and David and Mary are rescued just in the nick of time. Later Grinde is sent to prison for a long term. David and Mary marry and the former, by means of the glaze invented by his grandfather and perfected by himself, is elected president of the pottery concern. The glaze not only revolutionizes the industry, but makes David one of the country's wealthiest men.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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