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- Emma Vallona, an oriental dancer, is suffocated by the debts of her wasteful life; in order to appease her creditors, she does not hesitate to have a promissory note endorsed by the minister d'Angy, who is thus swept up in the scandal and sees his political career destroyed. In the meantime, Emma has moved to Spain under the false name of Madame d'Ambois: she continues to frequent the high society, where her attractiveness puts her at the center of the attention.
- In Bombay, Count Adolphe elopes with Vasca, although engaged to a lady in Rome. In that city two years later the Roman lady's father hears of Adolphe's wife and child. He sets the Black League to work. As a result, the young wife is met by death. The baby daughter is abandoned. The deed is committed by Michael, a confidential servant of the Roman lady. Adolphe eventually marries the Roman lady and Michael becomes their butler. Twenty years later Adolphe, now the Duke of Torini, for the first time receives news of his daughter. He sends his secretary to Bombay to fetch her. The young couple falls in love. The mind of Michael is unhinged by the sight of the young lady, and in his temporary insanity he tells the Duke where the proofs of his crime are to be found. The Duke finds the papers, sends them to his secretary, Genovo, makes his will in favor of his daughter, Zania, and dies of heart disease. Michael, having no knowledge of what he said or did in his delirium, thinks the proofs have been taken by Zania. The father of the duchess is compromised by the missing papers, so Michael confides in her. They seek the help of the Black League. Zania cannot give up the papers she has not got. She is kidnapped and taken to the Tower of Terror. Then next morning Genovo, her lover, sets out to rescue her. He discovers where she is and has a terrific fight with her jailer. In the struggle a lantern is upset, and the place set on fire, and the jailer meets his death. Genovo reaches his sweetheart, but escape is cut off by the fire. They get free by climbing down a tower over 200 feet high, the most sensational feat ever shown in a film. The Duchess and Michael arrive at the Tower of Terror just as the fire reaches some powder barrels, and the guilty couple are blown to bits.
- Judith, daughter of a criminal, has been placed by her grandmother, a nurse, in the cradle of Edna, the little Duchess of Burville. The real heiress is brought up as a singing girl at a rough inn, kept by the old evil-faced nurse, Roxana. In the twenty-five years that pass, the false Duchess manifests the strength of heredity, her father's evil tendencies coming to the front. Judith falls in love with Lord Norman, a poet, and in his honor gives a ball at the magnificent Burville Castle. The poet, however, does not reciprocate her affections. Later he bears Edna, the singing girl, on the street. He is startled at the resemblance between Edna and the Duchess of Burville. Enchanted by her singing, he trails Edna to her home and then starts wooing, which is even carried to the point where the poet dons the clothes of a workman in order to be near his sweet singing girl. Roxana is pressed for money by a confederate, and Roxana in desperation goes to the false Duchess and explains to her the secret of her birth, and demands money as a price of silence. Judith tells her to come later. In the evening the confederate grows more furious in his demands, and not trusting Roxana out of his sight, he insists upon Edna being sent to the castle for the hush money. Edna received by the false Duchess, who decoys her which she falls into the absence, the grandmother into an altercation. There is a fight and the lamp is upset, and the house is set on fire. Lord Norman, seeking Edna, comes in and finds the café smothered in smoke. Going upstairs into the flames he encounters a form upon the floor, and thinking it to be Edna, he struggle down the stairs with it. It is Roxana, who, dying, confesses that Edna is the real Duchess, and that she had been sent to the castle. Hurrying away to the castle, Lord Norman demands to see Edna. Judith's actions convinces him that she has been put out of the way. He accuses her of the crime. Under his fiery denunciations, Judith shows him where Edna had been dropped into the sewers underneath the house, and down into their murky depths goes the lover. He finds Edna stunned, but otherwise unhurt by the fall. They make their way to freedom. Meanwhile, in the castle, Judith, overcome by remorse, has ended her wicked life. Edna is restored to her rightful position, there to enjoy the love of he who had loved her as a humble street singer.
- The opening scene is laid outside an humble cottage in the Balkans and shows a father and daughter bidding good bye to the son, who has been called to defend the fatherland. Other peasant soldiers and their sweethearts take leave of one another. The soldiers are then seen about to depart for the frontier-the seat of war-taking oath of allegiance before a priest of the Greek church. The soldiers arrive at the boundary line-a splendid pictorial scene, with distant panoramic view of the snow capped Alps. The pickets are posted and the brother is placed to guard the approach to a bridge. The scene shifts back to the old homestead. The father lies dying, and expresses a last wish to see his son. The sister starts off in search of him, finds him and offers to substitute for him while he returns home. The change of costume is quickly made. The brother hurries across the country and arrives in time to bid his father a last good bye. Meanwhile, a scouting party of the enemy gives chase to a woman and her child. They arrive at the bridge where the sister stands guard. She is quick with her rifle and shoots down the scouting party, but in so doing, is wounded. She is carried into camp where, someone seeing her long hair accuses her of being a woman and the truth is told. The arrest of the brother, for deserting, next follows. He is tried before a military court, but when the full story is told, the brother is forgiven and the sister is awarded a medal of honor.