- Andrea Jennessen, an explorer, is in love with Nadina Rolph. Pride prevents him from asking her hand, however, until he has won fame and fortune. Bannington Wells also covets the girl and just prior to the departure of Jennessen's expedition to find the North Pole he makes a pact with Mike Kerrigan, a sailor aboard the exploration ship, to prevent Jennessen's return alive. Jennessen sets sail. Weeks pass and the ship reaches the Arctic Circle. Kerrigan, to carry out his compact with Wells, stirs the sailors to mutiny, and Jennessen is thrown overboard. Instinctively he begins to swim as he strikes water and just as he is about exhausted he manages to reach an iceberg floating in the sea on which four polar bears make their home. The following morning Capt. Stephassen discovers the loss of the explorer and after a vain attempt to find him turns his ship homeward. Meanwhile the ice on which Jennessen has taken refuge floats with the current to an island, whore the explorer builds an igloo of moss and stone, and by catching fish is able to subsist. Kerrigan reports the loss of Jennessen to Wells, who breaks the news to Nadina. She refuses to believe it, however, having a premonition that her lover is alive. Wells attempts to dissuade her in this belief, but having little success he acquiesces to her request that a rescue expedition be organized on condition that if Jennessen is not found she will become his wife. To this condition she consents and the ship sails. After a tempestuous voyage the ship arrives the barren island upon which Jennessen is living. Wells and Kerrigan see the igloo in the distance and hurriedly call a council in which Wells plausibly suggests that the Captain and Nadina search the island in one direction while he and Kerrigan and the rest of the crew search it in the other direction. Nadina and the Captain fall into the trap and set forth in the wrong direction while Wells and Kerrigan hurry toward the hut. They find Andrea almost exhausted. They pounce upon him and a fight follows, the hears coming to the aid of the explorer just as Nadina and the Captain arrive. The bears are beaten off, Jennessen cared for and the two conspirators made prisoners. The return trip marks a happy reunion.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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