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- The story of the Titanic disaster based on the account of a survivor.
- Features a chronological parade of major events and battles of the American Revolution, with a side-plot emphasis on the emotional stress of a patriotic American girl, played by Dorothy Gibson) in love with an English army officer. She remains faithful to the cause of independence, and marries her sweetheart after the war.
- Two old businessmen quarrel over a deal, and when it is learned that their respective son and daughter are in love, there is strenuous objection on their part.
- Maid Marian is represented in the cast as the daughter of Old Merwyn and it is at his house that the action begins. He introduces a rich gentleman as her prospective husband after displaying jewelry which the formal suitor has sent ahead with his declaration of love. Friar Tuck appears under the pretense of asking for alms and warns Marian that Robin is waiting at their meeting place. She manages to escape during a parley between her father and her future husband, Guy de Gisbourne, and keeps her appointment. She is discovered, however, and her angry father, backed up by the unheroic Guy, protests valiantly against the clandestine love-making, but formidable Robin is only amused. The bold outlaw is so careless about his personal safety that he eventually falls into an ambush prepared by Guy de Gisbourne, is captured and is bound to a tree while they set off in search of the Sheriff of Nottingham to obtain a formal warrant for Robin Hood's arrest. Marian hurries to where Little John is repairing swords at his forge and finds besides the brawny blacksmith Will Scarlet and Alan-a-Dale. As soon as these members of Robin Hood's band hear of their leader's plight they go to his rescue, free him and organize for revenge. Guy, meanwhile, repairs to the Sheriff of Nottingham's house, where he obtains the warrant he desires. He next visits Marian's father and uses his legal instrument to such advantage that he is promised the hand of the maid as soon as he arrests the outlaw. Guy gets busy. He sets out with a body of armed men expecting to find his prey tied to the tree, but is drawn into an ambush like that he prepared for Robin Hood. Robin and his men fall upon the invaders of their natural domain, drag them from their horses and bind them to the trees in the same manner as their leader had been treated. They then decide to capture the Sheriff. This bold plan fails when it is on the verge of success. The old gentleman wakes just in time to sound an alarm, which summons the guards and the entire band of outlaws is captured. Maid Marian effects a second rescue with greater difficulty, as Robin and his men had been incarcerated in a prison. She and a bunch of her pretty girl friends flirt with the sentinels and lure them away from their posts, while the outlaws scale the wall and descend to the other side by means of a rope secretly furnished for that purpose. The Sheriff now puts a price on Robin's head, while the latter buries himself deeper in the forest and gathers a powerful band of recruits. The second part opens at a wayside tavern near Nottingham. The Sheriff of Nottingham, Guy de Gisbourne, and Old Merwyn are in conspiracy, Friar Tuck watching them closely from another table while pretending to be drunk, and into this plotting comes a new character, a majestic stranger of formidable aspect. The newcomer is none other than Richard Coeur de Leon, the King himself, whose adventures are so entrancingly told by Sir Walter Scott. For some reason or another, not satisfactorily explained, the three gentlemen engaged in conspiring propose to capture the mysterious stranger. Without suspecting their evil devices the mysterious unknown seats himself and calls for refreshment. Friar Tuck draws near and warns the stranger. The latter secretly draws his sword and laughs at the idea of danger. Presently the Sheriff signals soldiers who are awaiting his call and they pour into the tavern. Their attack is directed against the stranger and some lively sword play follows. He backs up to the wall, cuts and thrusts in magnificent style and is materially aided by the monk. They do effective work, accomplishing marvels with their weapons, but are about to be overcome when Tuck draws the stranger away through a secret hiding-place and they seek safety in flight. The belligerent Friar conducts his new friend through the forest to the secret camp of the outlaw and there a great feast is prepared of venison and other game. Robin Hood gives up his own tent to the accommodation of the stranger when the latter retires for the night. Next day Robin and the unknown have a friendly bout with swords in which the famous outlaw is disarmed. He exclaims in amazement, "Only one man in all England could disarm me." "Who may that be?" asked the stranger. "Our Most Gracious King," replied Robin. Then Richard Coeur de Leon drops his long coat and exclaims: "I am the King!" This is Robin's opportunity. He and his band acclaim the monarch, while Richard the Lion-Hearted seems to enter into the spirit of their calling. When they depart on a secret mission, attired as monks, he gives them his sanction and bids them godspeed. They are on their way to abduct the beautiful Marian. Some lively adventures follow, but they get the girl and carry her away to their forest retreat, where she is wedded to her true lover by Friar Tuck. He performs the ceremony beneath the tree on whose trunk has been fashioned a cross made of daisies. All is not over. The persecutors are still busy. The Sheriff and Guy and Merwyn with all their soldiers appear at the wedding of Maid Marian and lay violent hands upon Robin. Now does the King advance and say, "Hold, that lady is Robin's wife!" In vain Merwyn urges that Marian is his daughter and that the King shall be informed of this indignity practiced upon his family. The monarch reveals his identity and orders Robin's men to clear his forest of the intruders, Sheriff and all. They do this with no reluctance and the play is over; virtue triumphs in the person of the noble lawbreaker, while vice, typified then as now by those who make and interpret the laws, is punished as it deserves.
- The Cisco Kid, a young Mexican desperado, reigns supreme among the rough miners and rangers who fear his deadly aim. He is in love with Tonia, the daughter of an old sheep herder. She is a sly coquette and almost maddens Cisco by her changing moods and capricious pranks. Cisco visits the general store, takes what he wants, but pays for nothing. A crowd of rangers pursue him. One of them is shot. Later, Cisco shoots an American who has been too attentive to his girl. The sheriff, with a posse, starts in pursuit. Later, the sheriff is found stretched in the sand with a bullet hole directly in the center of his badge. Baffled and disgusted, the rangers ride away and a week later Captain Duval, Commander of the Army post, is notified that the Cisco Kid's career of crime must cease at once. The order is forwarded to Lieutenant Sundridge, a handsome young officer in command of the nearest post to the Kid's scene of crimes. In the course of his search for Cisco, Sandridge comes upon the house where Tonia lives. He is taken by the bright face and bewitching manner of the little Mexican girl and she, in turn, admires the lieutenant. After a time, she finds that a true love for the young American officer is slowly taking hold of her finer nature. Cisco has been hiding in the mountains. He comes to his sweetheart and suspects that she has ceased to love him for someone else. Then he intercepts a note that the girl is sending to the American. Cisco supplants it with one of his own writing, which reads, "He has come and suspects. To prove I am true I must ride to town in his clothes tomorrow. He will ride in mine. Come at sunrise. Kill this man that I may be thine alone." The lieutenant sets forth to kill the Kid. Nearing the house he perceives a figure emerging. He orders it to halt, and getting no answer, fires. The figure topples forward, and rushing up. Sandridge finds that he has killed his beloved Tonia. Too late, he sees through the trick of Cisco, but he swears to capture the outlaw and not to sleep or eat until he does. Then starts a chase which lasts for days. He brings Cisco back, cowed and submissive, to the sheriff, who waits with a rope. As the outlaw is being led away, Sandridge gently takes a flower Tonia had given him from his pocket and presses it gently to his lips.
- So then we shall have a portrait of boo'ful Snookums. Muvver says he's like dada. Dada says he's like muvver. Both agree he's the prettiest baby ever and should have a portrait painted. A famous painter is engaged. He is happy to paint their darling, but "Come, kitty, kitty, kitty." Snookums doesn't want a picture; he wants to pull its 'ittle tail. Snookums cries. They are distracted. A wild hunt for the elusive kitten takes place. The famous painter scrambles around under beds and bureaus and finally gets Snookums the kitten, but Snookums gets his goat. A battle royal between the most wonderful baby and its latest prize, and again a kitten hunt is in order. Another moment and the doting parents find themselves and their Snookums politely dismissed. Next moment the painter collapses in the arms of sympathetic friends and relates the indignities Snookums would heap on his exalted head.
- A young man learns that his betrothed is leaning toward the suffragette cause. He remonstrates with her father to be told "my butler and my bootblack may vote, why not my wife and daughter?" He cannot agree, however, and their quarrel brings about a broken engagement. Disappointed and unhappy, he seeks forgetfulness by going to a summer resort. There he succumbs to the wiles of a designing mother, and caught in an embarrassing position, her daughter "feinting a faint" in his arms; he permits their engagement to be announced. He learns, by an accidental eavesdropping, of the mother's trickery. He loses no time to denounce the deception and withdraw his offer of marriage. The mother and daughter promptly start suit tor breach of promise. In the meantime votes have been won for women. The trial of the suit comes up before a mixed jury, of men and women, with the old sweetheart as forewoman of the twelve peers. Their verdict is acquittal! And as might be expected, "suffrage wins Herbert" with a permanently happy result in his reconciliation and marriage.
- The Guardian Angel in this great drama of today proves to be a sweet-faced child who intervenes at just the critical moment to save a young wife from her thoughtless folly, and a fond husband from treading the downward path. No prettier scene could be imagined than that enacted by the trio when father and mother are again brought together through a child's influence.
- The Raven photo-poem tells the sad romance of Edgar Allan Poe, his beautiful, dying wife, and their bitter life of struggle for the recognition of genius. The poem is interpreted by the all-seeing eye of the camera and the success of the poet, in his great inspiration, is shown with beautiful scenic effects and a magnificently staged production exceeding our past successes.
- Clara, an extravagant young woman, sets her father crazy with her bills. She rejects her tango teacher and falls in love with a poor artist. They plan to elope, and as they are sneaking off, Aunty Matilda, the rich sister of her father, catches them. She leads Clara back to the house by the ear and chases the romantic artist. Aunt disinherits the young woman and thereby wins back her love and money. The canvass is finished and placed in the parlor. The aunt is summoned, but meanwhile The tango teacher defaces the picture and makes her homely. When aunty sees it she flies in a rage, and is about to cast Clara and the artist put when the maid, who has seen all, leads the culprit in and tells her story. Jasper erases the ugly features and presents to aunty a charming picture of her herself. All smiles, she gives Clara and the young painter her blessing and they both live happily ever after.
- Here is a mirth-provoking farce of mistaken identities, of the sorrows which overtake a romantic young gentleman in search of a romantic young lady who is to prove her identity by wearing a white rose. It happens that on this particular day, white roses are popular! And thereby hangs the trouble.
- Joe Selby, the handsome but shy young clerk of the village store in a little mining town, has never given a second's thought to any girl until one day he waits upon Ruth, the winsome daughter of an old prospector who has recently come to live in the mountains. In his shy and diffident manner, the young fellow pays ardent court to the girl and their romance grows. A band of moonshiners with a still far up in the mountains have been giving the revenue officers much concern. After serving a term in prison, Sid, nephew of Dan Clayton, leader of the illicit distillers, returns and in his evil way falls desperately in love with the pretty Ruth. The illegal whiskey trade goes on and, to the girl's sorrow, her father is initiated into the mysteries of moonshining. One day Sid asks Mason for the hand of his daughter, but the old man, cherishing her as his one and dearest possession, refuses to force Ruth into a marriage which he knows is distasteful to the innocent mountain lass. Beyond himself at the old miner's attitude, the degenerate Sid resolves to get even. He makes his way to the revenue officer's quarters and makes known the whereabouts of his uncle's still. It happens young Selby's duties take him to the house next door, and he overhears the betrayal. Determined his sweetheart's father and her happiness shall not be sacrificed, he runs to the moonshiner's "hideout," where he is captured by the revenue officers. After dark days in jail, his trial comes up and prominent in the courtroom is the traitor, drunk from whiskey made by his own hands. At the height of the trial Ruth leaves the room for air and overhears Sid bragging drunkenly of what he has done. After a struggle he is captured and, while Joe is freed, Clayton is led to a cell. Arm in arm, Joe and Ruth are seen crossing the mountain to a new happiness, while Ruth's father gives up his lawless occupation to live with his new son-in-law.
- Ellen's mother is dead and she becomes dad's housekeeper. She wants to marry Harry and succeeds in obtaining dad's consent by promising to stay with him until he secures another housekeeper. Applicants are tried, but they fail to please dad, and Ellen has about given up hope when she conceives the idea of getting dad married, so with Harry's help they advertise for a wife. Out of a mass of letters they select five and ask them to call on dad. Among the first four to call, there's a fat widow, a deaf widow and two impossible old maids. Dad's fortitude exhausts after the fourth one has nearly kidnapped him, but to the motive underlying all these visits, dad is both ignorant and unsuspecting. Finally the fifth one rings the bell and dad escapes. Ellen cautiously peeks out of the window before she asks this last one in. Dad in passing out the front way sees the one in question and he is impressed, for No. 5 is "some woman," a blonde widow, with "all the looks." Ellen admits her and dad slips back in the house. Dad "falls" for the widow and Ellen and Harry marry. Dad gets married also, so all's well that ends well.
- Jim Garrison lives with his wife on a western ranch. He is a great, hulking fellow, and has two sons. From their childhood Carson strives to make them men without fear. The elder is strong physically, and Carson takes pride in his strength. The younger is trail and delicate, a weakling. They grow to be young men. The elder is the bully of the Gulch. When he returns home, his clothes torn from a fight, and his face cut, his father watches him with fierce pride. The younger stands in mortal fear of his brother. The younger has spent long nights reading books of learning. There is a girl who to the younger lad seems the epitome of everything beautiful. They meet every day at the bend of the hill. The bully sees them and is jealous of his brother. Bad feeling is aroused between Carson and Danny Morgan, the girl's father, over the right to a strip of land. Trouble has been brewing for some time and things are ripe for a fight. Morgan has been drinking and forbids his girl to meet young Carson. There are words between the man and the boy. Later, as Morgan returns home, he meets the bully, Carson, who orders him to keep his sheep off Carson land. Morgan replies, and the bully, according to his code, "settles" the dispute with his fists. The fallen man does not rise and the bully discovers that old Danny Morgan is dead. Terror-stricken, bully Carson looks at the dead man and then turns to face the accusing eyes of his younger brother. In a moment the bully has the throat of his brother in a vise. "Keep your damn mouth shut," he hisses at him. The younger son gasps for breath, and then, with a deft twist, he frees himself from his brother's hold and runs to the hills. The body of Dan Morgan is found and the girl remembers the quarrel between her father and the boy. The sheriff sets out toward the hills and finds him there, half-witted by a dull apathy of fear. His guilt seems indicated by every movement. They decide to hang him in the morning, but that night the bully helps him to escape. The bully marries the girl and they have a son. The bully watches the child for signs of strength. At the other side of the desert the younger son gets a job as a doctor's assistant. "The Terror," a deadly plague, breaks out in several towns in the southwest. The doctor is stricken down and his young assistant takes his bag and goes forth alone among the sick to fight the terror. The fury of the plague abates and the other town sends a messenger to the young man to come to their aid. Across the desert he comes and they see the boy they would have hung. The bully crouches by the fire and is taunted by some of those he had fought and who now touch him with their plague-stricken bodies. He flees as the mob follows him. The younger lad is led back to his home by the crowd, by his side the girl holding the baby. From the window the girl sees the mob stoning her husband, the bully. The bully, already suspected of the crime, admits he killed Danny Morgan. In fear he runs toward the hill, the mob after him. In a wild dash for freedom he falls over the chasm to the rocks below and is killed. The young doctor cares for his brother's wife and later marries her.
- The housewife who becomes temporarily embarrassed in her domestic banking, gives a lot of entertainment by her subterfuges and efforts to escape from her troubles. How she finally does it and her bitter, yet comical adventures and predicaments, will make the exhibition theaters ring with laughter.
- The troubles of Kittie and "Kid" have not ended with their escape from the "Silk Mask Gang." The rascally nephew of the dead Uncle Bill steals a pearl necklace, and by a clever ruse turns suspicion on Kittie. She is arrested and saved from punishment through the brave detective work of "Kid" the western boy, who turns a neat and surprising trick upon the gangsters and sets things right again.
- The play does with little Willie's dream. He goes to Barbara's home, according to the dream, and carried her down to a waiting automobile. The elopers speed off at a mad dash to the minister. They experience difficulties in arriving, but are finally married with pomp and the lad kisses his bride with much unction. And then they go west and run into all sorts of wild and thrilling experiences. The action is rife with situations and climaxes.
- In the second-rate boarding house filled with down and out clerks and "small time" theatrical people, lives "The Failure," so called because he is an unsuccessful inventor. In spite of his lack of success, he is the patron saint of the other roomers because of his kindness. When his great invention is completed, he finds that "red tape" keeps him from giving it to humanity. Desperate at last, he surprises the successful man who has refused him admittance to his office in his own home, locks him, gagged and bound, in his garret, and goes forth, in the successful man's clothes. Success comes to the successful, so the failure finds that in the guise of a successful man he is accepted, and his invention is acclaimed to the world. But with wealth and fame lying at his feet, "The Failure" sends his money to his old friends at the boarding house, releases the successful man from the garret, takes off his wig and false whiskers which have given him the appearance of success, and goes out again into the world, asking that his invention be accredited only to "A Failure."
- Abigail is an old maid and a confirmed man-hater. She carries her hatred to the extent of turning the faces of all the portraits of her male relatives to the wall. She is informed that she has fallen heir to an immense fortune. In her joy she invites her old-maid, man-hating friends to share her home with her. They come, each one bringing her pet, a cat, a dog, a parrot, and some even mice. These pets become intolerable and her life is made miserable. In her despair she resolves to marry so as to get rid of the annoyance. She visits beauty parlors, arrays herself in gorgeous attire and has small photos of herself taken, six for 25 cents. At her first party she gets busy by putting a photo inside the watch of a married man, and one also in the watch of an engaged man. The discovery of these photos are productive of trouble to the respective victims. Abigail is found out and confesses that, being an heiress, she was desirous of getting married. After the ladies concerned have given her a piece of their minds she is left alone. Her maid brings her cat she has discarded, and she hogs it affectionately. And once more the portraits of her male relatives are turned to the wall.
- Sitting on the park bench beside the river with his revolver in his hand. Morton lives over again in memory the life of gaiety and wickedness which had brought him to his determination to end his life. The memory of his college days, the following days of wealth after his inheritance and the women of his life, the clever married woman and the little chorus girl, the sincere girl, whom he had betrayed, come to him. Life seems to hold nothing. He raises his revolver to his temple, but his hand is stayed by a slip of a girl, who darts from a nearby seat. Thinking that Morton is poor, she sympathizes with him. By the girl's innocence and joy in living, Morton gains a new grip on life, and starting by sending the child to a convent to be educated he leaves behind him his career of wickedness and begins anew.
- After the runaway marriage of Prudence and Elisha has been interrupted by Prudence's father, who wants his daughter to marry the young Justice who has money, Prudence leaves home. On finding her letter, her father dies in a fit of anger. In coming to a town where Lincoln's call to arms is being sounded, Prudence offers to sing for the cause. She is heard by a rich woman who realizes that the girl has a marvelous voice and adopts her, giving her a training which makes her later a world-renowned singer. In the meantime, Elisha has responded to his country's call, and Prudence receives a letter telling her that he is killed. It is a false report, however, and Elisha returns from the war, and marries another girl. When years have passed, after Prudence's farewell to the stage, she returns to her native village, arriving just as Elisha is being sent by his son and daughter-in-law to the soldiers' home. Prudence makes herself known to Elisha and the couple, with youth renewed, go to finish the wedding ceremony at the same Justice's office where it had been rudely interrupted years before. Ignoring the attempts of his son to interfere, Elisha forces the Justice to marry them and finds, when the ceremony is ended that he has married, not poor Prudence grown old, but a wealthy woman of power and influence.
- Dr. Alexander is devoted to his young wife, but she longs for excitement and the company of young people. He deems it necessary to reprove her because of her noisy friends. A breach is opened, which widens day after day. At a tango tea she is attracted by Welby, an artist. A brother physician of Alexander's borrows some serum for a case of croup. Meanwhile the wife draws farther apart from the doctor until she consents to a proposal of elopement by the artist. She writes Welby where to meet her. On the same evening a child, afflicted with croup, is brought to the doctor and he finds his serum exhausted. In order to save the patient's life he decides to apply his mouth to that of the boy and force a passage of air by respiration. He sends for his wife to help him, but she refuses. As she is packing her bag he enters and tells her that his work may cost him his life and she must be present. She obeys. As she sees the brave act of her doctor husband a swift revulsion of feeling comes and with it an overpowering love. Meanwhile, Welby is waiting impatiently. His life saved, the boy is carried home. Isabel renounces Welby. As he tries to commit suicide she seizes the gun. The cartridge explodes and wounds him. Isabel begs them not to send to Dr. Alexander and a messenger is sent to the drug store. Welby's cousin, making a purchase, suggests that the doctor be called, out of jealousy for Isabel. Astounded at finding his wife at the studio he hesitates but a moment and then turns to write a prescription. He picks up Isabel's letter to Welby. Silently handing her the letter he writes the prescription. With pardon in his eyes he leads her out and at last wife and husband have found themselves.
- Old Mother Rigby, the village witch of a quaint New England settlement in colonial days, makes for herself a scarecrow, to protect her garden. She is so pleased with her work that she brings it to life, by making it smoke her magic pipe, telling the newly created man (whom she names "Lord Feathertop"), that as long as he breathes the tobacco smoke he will remain handsome and living. She sends the fine new gentleman to woo the Squire's daughter. At the wedding feast the girl learns the real nature of her suitor, by seeing his reflection in a mirror of truth. Lord Feathertop is really in love and he has seen for himself that he is only a "contraption" of ragged old clothes with sticks for legs and pumpkin for a head. He rushes home to the witch's house and declares that he cannot live without love. Breaking the pipe which has kept him alive, the magic ended, he falls to the floor as a scarecrow. The witch philosophically plants him in her garden, declaring that he will do more work for a scarecrow than most of his living brothers.
- Rob Roy, who is one of the farmers on the estate of the Duke of Montrose, is called in by the duke to make an accounting. When the duke questions Rob's figures, that worthy resents it and takes one of the duke's flunkies, who tries to get him out of the room, and throws him out of the window. Rob then returns to the duke, but the duke has called in some soldiers and they overpower the Scot giant. While Rob lies in prison, the duke bums his home and then releases him so that he may see only the ashes. Bent on revenge, Rob Roy goes to Sir Frederick Vernon, who is secretly conspiring against the English, and offers his assistance. The plotters are interrupted in one of their meetings by the entrance of Rashleigh Osbaldistone, the nephew of the wealthy London banker (Sir Osbaldistone). Rashleigh offers to give the conspirators a sure means of freeing Scotland, providing Sir Frederick will promise him the hand of his daughter, Diana, who has just demonstrated her dislike for young Osbaldistone. Sir Frederick is so set upon his purpose of bringing freedom to his land that he forces his daughter to take an oath to marry Rashleigh. Rob Roy witnesses the taking of this oath, although he is not in favor of forcing the girl into such a marriage. In London, Francis Osbaldistone, a young man who prefers to write poetry and dream, rather than work in his father's bank, has given up his place in the bank and he leaves to visit at the Vernon Castle. Rashleigh, his cousin, hears of his leaving and takes the place made vacant in the bank. When Francis arrives at the Vernon Castle he is deeply in love with Diana. A few days later the news comes by Jarvie, Sir Osbaldistone's Glasgow representative, that Rashleigh has stolen some very valuable bonds from the bank, and Francis and Jarvie set out to hunt the thief. They meet Rashleigh in the mountains and Francis and his cousin fight a duel. They are interrupted by Rob Roy, who stops the fight and orders Rashleigh away. He thinks the thief is on an important mission to assist the Scots in their fight for freedom. After Rashleigh has departed, Francis explains the theft of the bonds in his father's bank and then Rob agrees to assist in the pursuit of the thief. Rashleigh, to revenge himself on Francis and place Sir Frederick in his power, turns traitor and goes to the English headquarters, where he tells of Sir Frederick's plot. The English start for the Vernon Castle and Sir Frederick and Diana escape through a secret passage. Francis and Jarvie, not knowing of Rashleigh's treachery, apply to the English for assistance in tracing the thief of the bonds, and they are also placed under arrest. A Scot, who attempts to assist them, is arrested and threatened with hanging if he does not disclose the cave where Rob Roy lives. He refuses and is about to be hung when Rob appears in the distance and signals him to tell. The prisoner then agrees to lead the men and they start with a detachment of troops, taking Francis and Jarvie along as prisoners. Rashleigh discovers Rob Roy, and pretending to be friendly with the Scot leader, he succeeds in securing his sword and then places him under arrest. The English place Rob in a boat and start across the river with him. The detachment of troops who had been following their guide found themselves in an ambush, which had been prepared by Rob's wife, and they were most ingloriously defeated in a great battle there in the hills. Rob escaped by jumping into the river from the boat and arrived just as the Scots, headed by his wife, had routed the English. Francis set out again in pursuit of Rashleigh and met Sir Frederick and Diana, who were fleeing from the pursuing English. The three went to Rob's cave to get Jarvie and here they were surprised by the English, headed by Rashleigh and captured. Rashleigh's triumph was short-lived, however, for Rob's men came in just in time to put an end to Rashleigh's insults to Diana. Rob fought a fair duel with Rashleigh after capturing him and killed him in fair fight, thus leaving Diana and Francis free to wed. The stolen bonds were found in Rashleigh's coat.
- At a Hallow's Eve party at Baron Von Landshort's, the young people are peeling apples. They throw a long peeling over their shoulders, and the initial of the thrower's sweetheart Hilda's peeling forms V.A. Her father, the baron, tells how his daughter was betrothed when a little tot to the son of his old friend Van Altenberg. Naturally Hilda would like to know her betrothed, and at the suggestion of one of the girls consults a witch, who tells her, "When midnight tolls, look in the old mirror and you will see the picture of a young Hessian officer." Highly pleased, she hugs the mirror to her heart. In the meantime, young Van Altenberg, a disbanded Hessian officer, on the way to meet his fiancée of his infant days, Hilda Von Landshort, meets brother officer Herman at the inn. Journeying together they are attacked by "Skinners." Van Altenberg is mortally wounded. Dying, he begs his comrade to announce his death to Hilda. The Baron Von Landshort and family, including Hilda are impatiently awaiting the arrival of the young fiancé (whom they've never seen since childhood), to attend the betrothal feast. Herman arrives to impart the sad news, is mistaken for Von Altenberg, and is not permitted to explain, but is seated at Hilda's side as her long-expected fiancé. As the feast progresses, he finds Hilda very sweet, and falls desperately in love with her, and dares not disclose his real identity. The fact that the guests are so impressed with the baron's ghost story, gives him an idea of how he can withdraw discreetly, so he tells the baron he is awaited at the cathedral. After he leaves, the guests, horror-stricken, think him a spectre. Poor Hilda is heartbroken. A few days later Hilda fails to appear at morning prayers. Her aunt goes to call her and finds that the bird has flown, carried away by the spectre, her relatives think, and a letter to the baron, announcing Van Altenberg's death, two days ago. The baron is then sure he has entertained a spectre, and if his daughter has married him, "My goodness, my grandchildren will be spectres." Obsessed with this idea he even has visions of the spectres dancing around him. In the meantime, the eloping couple have come to their senses, and Herman leaves his wife to be chaperoned by a witch until he can smooth matters. The baron and his sisters are still bewailing the loss of Hilda when the servant announces the return of the elopers. "What, the spectre coming here?" "No," replies the servant, "A flesh and blood man." Hilda craves forgiveness. Her husband, not being a spectre, is forgiven, especially as the old baron feels assured that his grandchildren will not be spectres.
- Webb Yeager was what the boys called "some" cowpuncher. He was McAllister's favorite foreman and the boys liked him as well as did the ranch owner. McAllister liked the way Webb gave orders and he also liked the way the boys obeyed his foreman. There was another admirer of Webb on the ranch and this McAllister did not like. When he learned that his daughter, Santa, was receiving attentions from Webb, he promptly told the foreman that he could either agree to stay away from the house, at least five miles out on the ranch, or quit the job. Following this, Webb and Santa arranged a code of signals by which the foreman could come to the house in McAllister's absence. Whenever Webb saw a heart with a cross inside, marked on anything from the ranch, he knew it to be a signal to meet Santa. One day Santa's father died suddenly and soon after Webb and Santa were married. But the new Mrs. Yeager had been in charge of the McAllister household so long that she couldn't get over being "boss," One day Webb ordered some cattle sold and Santa countermanded the order. Webb packed up and left. Months passed by until one day Webb, who was working as foreman on a neighboring ranch, sent to Santa to buy some steers. Before sending them, she marked a heart and cross on several. When the aggressive hubby saw that sign he thought it meant that Santa had given in and had decided to let him be boss. Webb galloped to the old home just as fast as his broncho would carry him. Leaping from his horse he ran up to Santa, who was in front of the house and asked if she was ready to admit that he was "boss." He received a real shock when Santa shook her head, "No." But then the little beauty took bold of the mystified Webb's arm and pulled him into the house. Here he found the new "boss" of the ranch. Can you guess who the new boss was?
- John, a young prospector, is dying in the desert having lost his way and run out of water. He is rescued by Father Francisco, who takes him to the Mission where he is cared for and nursed back to health. Later, John leaves the Mission and after a month's searching, strikes gold. Deeply grateful to the monks for their kindness, he desires to become one of them himself; he makes over all his property to the Mission. The monks try to shake this determination, but John, having suffered at the hands of Rita, a mean flirt, is steadfast. Alice Martens, discouraged at her supposed father's cruelty, goes through her dead mother's trunk and comes upon an old packet of letters. From one of them she learns that Martense is only her foster father and that the monks at the Xavier Mission had frequently befriended her dead father. Alice packs her few belongings, slips past her foster father, and starts out for the Mission to learn more, if possible, about her dead parents. Unaware of the hardship of the trip, she failed to provide herself with sufficient water and when she arrives she is in a critical condition. She is housed in old Maria's hut and here she makes an impassioned appeal to the Monks. They decided to keep her father, Father Francisco having recognized in Alice the image of her mother to whom he was devoted. When sickness breaks out among the Indians Alice nurses them. In turn she is stricken. John and old Maria nurse her back to health. Later, Alice and John grow to be fast friends. In a moment of passion John declares his love for her. Throwing off his robe he takes the girl to the Mission and implores Father Francisco to marry them. Taking the bag of gold which John had given the Mission, the Father returns it and, amid the bowed heads of his former brother monks, John is married.
- The powerful story of a wife's innocent mistake and its bitter punishment, the rancor of a jealous, misguided husband and the ultimate righting of a great wrong to his son. It will bring tears and teach a beautiful lesson to every beholder.
- The story of the play deals with the vain attempt of a very wealthy scientist to reform his worthless son. One day, after Roy's father had been particularly engrossed in his work, and had endeavored at dinner to interest Roy in a discussion of important points, the boy excused himself and made his way to his club, where he had the usual hilarious evening. At daybreak, he managed to get as far as his car, which had been waiting in front of the club, and when he reached home, his chauffeur helped him up to the steps and opened the door. Roy quietly crept to his room without disturbing anyone, but when he found his easy chair, the excessive dissipation made itself felt, and he dropped off into a deep sleep, which became troubled with most unusual dreams. In these dreams Roy saw the death of his father, due to an explosion in his laboratory, the reading of his will, which left his vast estate to the various members of the family, but with the stipulation in the son's case that he, Roy, should travel over the country and investigate conditions, so that he might know a little more about true life and find something more important to think of than wasting his time in idle dissipation. In the travels which followed, allegorical tableaux are brought out showing in a most forceful manner, the abuses of child labor, the underpaid women workers on finery for the rich, the deadly results of the speed mania, the abuses of the railroad monopolies, the curse of drink, the methods of the wire tappers, who prey on those who hope to win fortunes through race track gambling, etc. Finally Roy comes to a feeling of sincere sympathy with the poor, and when he attends a great banquet of the magnates, and this feast is interrupted by a shower of missiles through the windows, the party rushes to one large window, and there behold the great city of New York in flames. The mob then rushes in to demand a place at the table, and Roy takes his place with them, against the trusts. The magnates then open fire, and Roy wakes up. In the returning of consciousness, Roy comes to a realization of the sinful wasting of his intelligence and energy, and he goes to his father's laboratory to ask if he may assist him in his researches.
- Oh, dear, what can the matter be? Aline Myers and her husband rushed excitedly into the living-room and separated a melee consisting of six little girls and boys and as many Maltese kittens. Francis Myers gently cautioned the youngsters to be kind to animals. The youngsters were his sister Helen's kindergarten class, who were on a week-end visit in honor of the kittens' arrival. Little Bo-peep, Aline's favorite, clamored for a good-night story, so the elders settled themselves, and Francis began the tragic tale of his life. The children had fallen asleep. A bell rang, followed by the hurried entry of the butler with a visitor's card. Francis looked at it and smiled happily. A moment later Jack Mitchell came into the room. The reunion was very happy indeed. Jack looked intently at Helen's sweet face, opened Francis' worn purse, and tendered to him the locket framing Helen's picture. "You may have it back, Francis; I'll not need it any longer."
- Here is the heart-rending narrative of Ichabod Crane, the schoolmaster of Sleepy Hollow, and his strenuous courtship, the quilting bee, the village dance, the bragging of Ichabod and the true love of Katrina and Brown Bones, and finally the merry prank by which Ichabod is pursued by the Headless Horseman with a pumpkin lantern in his hand.
- When "Snookums" discovered this break in the pipe and the splashing water, he thought it was great fun to sit there and let the water spray over his nice clean clothes. His mother promptly got him out of the mess and summoned a plumber, but he almost lifted the roof with his explosive "wows." After a few strenuous hours, "da-da" came to the rescue, and going to the pipe, which our friend, Mr. Plumber, had just repaired, Papa Newlywed got busy with a hammer and spike and re-opened the pipe, so that "Snookums" might enjoy himself in the nice little lake. "Snookums" was shortly shouting "da-da," and all seemed well, until the neighbors on the floor below came up to complain about the water, which was damaging their apartment. So "da-da" had to pacify them with the assertion that they had just sent for the plumber and he would certainly be there soon. While waiting (?) for the plumber, "Snookums" was very happy.
- Howard Grayson, a retired chemist, lives happily with his ward, Edna. He receives a letter from his nephew, a wild young fellow, stating that he is returning to his uncle, empty in pocket. Shortly afterwards, Ralph Forbes, the scapegrace nephew, arrives and falls violently in love with Edna. She has given her heart to Jack Hall, Grayson's secretary. Ralph's bold advances are met coldly by the girl. Seeing the way things are going, the old chemist warns his nephew that unless he leads a better life he will cut him off without a penny. Fearing that the threat of his uncle will be made good, the evil-minded nephew decides to prevent it. Awaiting for an opportunity his criminal mind concocts a scheme whereby he will have his uncle die mysteriously. Shortly before his death, the chemist makes his will in favor of Edna, cutting off his nephew with a dollar. Foxhall Keene, a noted detective, is summoned to investigate the mystery. By wonderful powers of deduction Keene fastens the suspicion upon the nephew. Meanwhile, Ralph, while searching his uncle's possessions for his will, finds money enough for his flight and is almost to make his escape when the detective accuses him. In the presence of the lawyer, the chemist and Jack, Keene forces from the unfortunate Ralph a confession.
- Of an afternoon, Jack Bond, a young author and newspaper man, is handed by his editor a newspaper clipping which tells of the disappearance of the daughter of the Roumanian Ambassador, who has been recently murdered. Bond sees in the clipping the inspiration for a novel, dealing on international politics. That night while Bond is working in his room over his novel a girl suddenly enters. She is pretty and appeals, with tears in her eyes, for help and protection against pursuers. Bond succeeds in turning her pursuers aside and then asks for an explanation. She informs him that she is the daughter of the murdered Ambassador. It would appear that the Turkish League had been planning to acquire Roumania and, fearing the Ambassador's opposition, had threatened him with letters signed "Allah 3311." Defying them, the Ambassador had been kidnapped and his dead body was found later. Regina vowed to track the members of the league and avenge the death of her father. Her only clue was the "Allah 3311," which suggests Turks. Learning these details, the young author volunteers to help her. At Bond's suggestion, Regina frequents the cafés. One evening she observes the mysterious number on a cane and follows the owner. Later she secures employment with the stranger, who is a Turk, as a maid. She learns the secrets of the society. All that is needed for the conviction of its members is a certain book. Bond, in the meantime, has discovered that radium is used in the cane for a weapon. Bond is captured and imprisoned. Regina releases him and, by the aid of the radium cane, overpowers the leader and steals the book. Bond called the police, who arrive in time to save the girl and boy from death.
- John Boyed, a wealthy mine owner, gives a dinner in celebration of his tenth wedding anniversary. Called upon, he proceeds to tell the story of the first nugget he ever found and which led to his present wealth. "I was,"' says Boyed, "at that time in the Service. Returning home from a leave I stumbled on a curious skull. On examining it I was astonished to find a pure gold nugget embedded securely in the skull. Shortly after this my brother, the proverbial black sheep of the family, broke in on me demanding money. My sweetheart was present. Immediately after this, a pest broke out among the Indians and I was called back North. Constance begged to go with me, so we were married without delay and left. Arriving among the Indians we found the sick and dying were driven out by the well, to creep away and die. In my capacity of doctor I took immediate charge of the sufferers, but it was a terrible task." Continuing. Boyed tells of the fight he had made to save a brave; of the fight his wife had made to save an old squaw and the story this old squaw related of two brothers who many years previous had found gold on the very spot on which she lay: of their mistrust of each other and their final death. He relates how his wife paid little attention to the story at the time; how they continued the struggle among the sick Indians and the lasting gratitude they won from this same old squaw and the brave. The brother appeared again and abused the young wife and the Indian killed him. Through the many hardships, and thrilling escapades the Indians stood by them as guardian angels, the brave finally sacrificing his life for their safety in a spectacular river rescue. "When the spring came," continued he, "my wife, saddened at the events which had happened, begged me to leave the place. While strolling about one day we came to the place where the old 6quaw had told her story. Curiously prying about I unearthed the knife and pistol and digging further came upon a rough map showing where the rich vein of gold, which the two brothers had discovered, was. The next day I departed for the place and found the gold which made me a man of wealth and fortune, and returned home to civilization, filled with intermingled thoughts of pleasure and regrets of the cold North.
- John Morgan, a rich bachelor, has a negro valet called Sambo. In a fit of rage he strikes the darky and thinking he has killed him, he puts his body into a trunk and plans to bury it. But Sambo revives and hides through fright. Morgan waits till night and then takes the trunk to bury it and at every turn comes face to face with Sambo, whom he takes to be a haunting ghost. The movements of the doubly scared pair attract the police and both land in the station house.
- Judge Dikeman gives Mike and Jim a long sentence in jail. A short time later the judge's daughter leaves for a boarding school. Her father is an inveterate smoker, and is warned several times by his own physician that he must stop smoking. He cannot break the habit off, however, and just about this time Mike and Jim are released from jail. They decide to get even with the judge, and under cover of night make their way to the side entrance of his house. Just as the two jail-birds enter the judge is seized with an attack of heart failure. The two house breakers enter the room and find it in total darkness; they discover they have cut the electric light wire instead of the telephone wire. They make out the shadowy form of the judge lying in his chair, and as one of them is about to smash him on the head with the blackjack, he sees how lifeless his body looks. Believing the judge to be dead, in a panic they rush for the door, but hear the daughter coming up the path. Seizing the judge's body they drag it behind a curtain and as she enters they manage to glide through the door, locking it on the outside. The girl, astonished at the darkness and the strange atmosphere, gropes about until she finds an oil lamp. She lights it, and is looking about the room when the judge's body falls forward, knocks the lamp over, and sets the room on fire. She rushes for the door, but it is locked. Mike and Jim hear her screams. They hesitate a second, then dash back to the house. Opening the door, they carry first the girl and then the inanimate body of her father safely out. A doctor is summoned and after working over the apparently lifeless form of the judge finally brings him to life. Mike and Jim decide this is a good time to "beat it," and are about to leave when the door is thrown open and they walk into the arms of a policeman. He seizes them, but the judge says, "Don't lock them up; they saved my life." He tells his story and the two vagrants slink away.
- While making a clearance of trees, Dan McGwire's wife, Nellie, is felled. Dan, unable to secure a doctor, revives her only to find that the blow has destroyed her reason. A party of tourists one day hear the sad story and one of them insists that Nellie be placed in an asylum. The thought fills Dan with horror. They leave to notify the village authorities, and Dan, fearful of their return, departs with the childlike Nellie to a distant village. In a cave on the lonesome mountainside they make their home and Dan becomes a hermit. He becomes a trapper and while looked upon as peculiar by the village people, closely guards his secret and meanwhile piles up a sum of money. Christmas eve Dan makes purchase in the village store of dolls and feminine finery, and being taunted by one of the loafers, a fight is narrowly averted. Two of them follow the mountaineer, but engage in a drunken brawl and suspicion immediately points to Dan. Thinking they have discovered his secret Dan repels the sheriff with a fusillade of shots. In helping Nellie to escape, he miscalculates her distance and she falls to the ground unconscious. When the sheriff's posse enter they find Dan bending over the unconscious woman and he tells the skeptical officers his story. He is thrown in jail. After an operation in the village, Nellie's reason is restored. The day of the trial, while Nellie is hurrying down the mountainside to be present she trips over a bush and discovers the gun of the village loafer with his initials cut into it. Nellie rushes to the courtroom and after a dramatic scene is freed, while the guilty man is placed in jail and the happy couple take up their abode in the quiet village.
- A young wife, who is discontented with her husband, whiles away her time with a juvenile fop of a cousin. The husband's suspicions being confirmed by some slight evidence, he surprises them in a clandestine meeting. He is indignant, of course, and threatens to kill the cousin and punish the wife; but, on second thought, decides to pretend he shares his wife's discontent and further pretends to believe a faked up telegram which he, himself, has written and sent. In an exquisite scene, the husband coaxes a confession from his wife, in which she ingeniously tells him all her little peccadilloes. He then sends for the cousin and, with mock heroism, delivers his wife over to him. The pair, finding concealment no longer necessary, lose interest in each other; and she begins to realize the deficiencies of her admirer. The indifferent husband deliberately prepares to go out and enjoy himself, which arouses the latent love and jealousy of the now surprised and worried wife. She finally persuades him to take her along for the evening. They go to a fashionable café, where they have an enjoyable little supper in a private dining room. They are followed and disturbed by the bedraggled and disappointed cousin, who has followed them in a drizzling rain. The wife is indignant, but the husband's sense of humor saves the situation. He conceals her and sends the cousin off on a wild goose chase to various impossible addresses. A pleasant love scene follows between husband and wife, when the angry cousin again interrupts them and creates so much disturbance he is finally arrested. The husband, at last succeeding in making his wife's lover appear thoroughly ridiculous in her eyes, wins a lasting reconciliation.
- John Collingsby is a very wealthy broker. Having made a small fortune on a deal he buys his wife a wonderful string of pearls. She is exceedingly proud of them and causes an article to be put in the society columns of one of the local papers, describing the jewels. A sudden reverse comes to Mr. Collingsby and he is in immediate need of a large sum of money to save his business from ruin. In order to raise the money he pledges his wife's pearls unknown to her, and has a duplicate set of imitation pearls made. They substitute for the real ones. Dowling, a society thief, scrapes acquaintance with Mrs. Collingsby at a tango tea. He plans to steal her pearls. He has a disagreement with one of the gang, who thinks he is wasting too much time courting Mrs. Collingsby. Collingsby also is constantly finding the burglar in his home. A member of the underworld gang, in order to avenge himself on Dowling, steals the pearls, thinking they are the real ones. As it happens, both he and Dowling enter the house at the same time and have a terrific battle in the dark, fighting their way out of the room and down the stairs. The other man finally so injures Dowling that he falls unconscious. The burglar makes away with the jewel casket. The fight awakens Mrs. Collingsby and the servants. She goes to the assistance of Dowling. whom she does not suspect, especially when he explains to her that he was passing the house, saw the burglar and entered to stop the theft. Mrs. Collingsby sends the servant for a doctor and she is attending the society burglar when her husband returns home from the club. Seeing his wife nursing Dowling he denounces her for her supposed infidelity. She then tells him of the loss of the pearls. Meanwhile the underworld leader has been caught by the police a little distance from the house and brought back. He confronts Dowling and exposes him to the police. Mrs. Collingsby takes hack her pearls with a cry of joy. The men are taken to jail. Mrs. Collingsby opens the jewel casket to find it is empty, the burglars, before being arrested, having taken the pearls and passed them along to a confederate. Collingsby, however, brings out the real pearls and returns them to his wife with a well-deserved warning against making chance acquaintances.
- A young city fellow had been left, as part of his inheritance from a deceased uncle, a mine in the west. Arriving there, he is shown through by the old caretaker. As they pass through the tunnels they see in the distance the astral form of what appears to be an Indian maiden of rare beauty. The young owner is astonished and that evening, in the old caretaker's hut, he is told the story of the ghost of the mine. Years before the uncle, now dead, had come to those parts a prospector. He had fallen in love with the daughter of a hotelkeeper and this love had been returned. A beautiful Indian girl fell a victim to bis charms. While her love was of the humblest variety, she sought in many little ways to show her regard. A prowling Mexican, causing trouble around the camp had been warned off by the uncle. The Mexican swore revenge. He saw his chance when the Indian went into the mine to clean the uncle's gun. He tried to force his attentions on her. There was a struggle. The Mexican, with the uncle's gun, killed the girl. Evidence pointed to the uncle as the guilty man. The Mexican had escaped, leaving the prospector behind. According to western justice, the miners decided to string the prospector up. His fiancée was heartbroken. That night, while she was riding home, by the way of the mine, the spirit of the dead girl suddenly showed itself. It beckoned her. The fiancée followed over a precipitous path in the mountains where, in a hut, she found the Mexican with a broken leg. The Mexican confessed to her; the spirit faded away. In this way the uncle had been saved. The girl's spirit had always haunted the mine.
- On Decoration Day, the veterans are marching and the band is playing "The Star Spangled Banner." A crowd of girls hear the music and drop their work to see the passing parade. The parade passes by a home where two lovers are buried in thoughts of love, the strain reaches their ears, and they view the parade and pay their hearts' reverence to the passing heroes. It passes the home of a family in the throes of their own enjoyment, the faraway music grows louder, they recognize the air and they, as the rest, step out to see the parade. A schoolteacher tells her children of the truthfulness of George Washington as a boy and most beautifully does there appear a picture of Washington as a little fellow who chopped down his father's cherry tree and then told the truth when asked who did it. And last is seen two fine noble old soldiers at a garden table refreshing themselves with a mint julep. One was of the North in "65" and the other was true to his South, but today they clasp hands ,both true to their own grand old Red, White and Blue.
- Weary Willie, noting the ease of a crippled street beggar in obtaining alms of passersby, by the aid of a letter, decides that he too shall secure one of these "sesames" to fortune without work. He chances to pass an office window, where inside he sees a man busily writing. He enters the office and asks the man to write him a note, for Weary is what is called an illiterate. Now, the man at the desk is none other than the Health Officer of the town and a bit of an absent-minded man is he. When Weary makes his strange request, he laughs and proceeds with his work at hand. This finished, he in his absent-mindedness hands it to Weary, though he had meant it for another person. Weary reaches the street, and in keenest anticipation of a silver shower, he hands his letter to the first passer-by. The man reads it, fear flashes into his face as he shoves the letter back into Weary's hand and runs down the street yelling for the police. As the cry of "police" has ever been the cue for Weary to disappear, he does. Everyone he displays the letter to either runs from him or pounds him and chases him out of sight. All this is most mysterious to him till at last he is cornered by the village braves and driven ahead to the Village Pest House. The letter he had received read as follows: "Admit bearer to Pest House as smallpox suspect. Henry Saxe. M.D., Dept. of infectious Diseases."
- Two young Kentucky mountaineers are in love with Virginia Dare. One Sunday morning she meets them and allows Bob to accompany her home, which arouses Jim's jealousy, and he challenges the other to fight. They meet the next day, and Jim is soundly thrashed. A mutual friend compels them to make up. Some days later they go to the mountains on a hunting trip. That night, while examining a new gun, Bob accidentally kills Leonard. Jim sees an opportunity to rid himself of Bob and win Virginia. He tells Bob, '"if he does not leave Kentucky never to return, he will swear that Bob murdered Leonard in cold blood." Bob flies, making his way to New York, where he later marries. Jim marries Virginia and becomes a famous lawyer and moves to New York where he prospers. Bob has a hard struggle for existence. They meet, quite by accident. Jim denounces Bob to the police as a man wanted for murder and he is sent back to Kentucky for trial. He suffers deeply of remorse for his action later. One day at school Bob's boy meets Jim's child. The boy tells her of his father's being taken away. The little girl sympathizes with him and takes him to her home to seek aid from Jim. When Jim sees the boy he instantly sees Bob's face in that of the boy, and confesses to Virginia. She is horror-stricken, and instantly declares she will go to Kentucky and tell all. Bob is on trial for his life when Virginia, accompanied by her daughter and Bob's wife and boy rush in. Virginia tells her story. Just when all hope seems gone, Jim rushes in and confesses that he lied. Bob is acquitted. Virginia forgives Jim, and the two families are reunited.
- The Grays are called an ideal couple and while the husband is a salaried man, his wife has met socially Mrs. Ward, a leader of the smart set and by her is asked to join a bridge club. At first Mrs. Gray loses a few dollars at cards, and frightened she tells her husband, promising never to play again for money. But Mrs. Ward comes for her in an auto, and flattered by her attention, she goes with her to another bridge party. Here she loses so much money that she is afraid to tell her husband, and when the woman demands payment of the debt, Mrs. Gray turns to Hall, asking him to lend her the money, and compelling him to take a pearl necklace, an heirloom, to keep until the sum can be paid back. This Hall does because he is in love with Mrs. Gray, but when he tells her so she is indignant. Then Hall tells her the necklace is valueless, and merely an imitation, and that unless she will consent to elope with him he will tell her husband everything. Thereupon Mrs. Gray does the right thing herself; she tells her husband, and they start anew.
- Henry Van Zandt is in love with Betty Morrow. She repulses him. At a ball given in her honor, she is impressed by the playing of the young violinist and she asks him to call. The uncle, a hardhearted and domineering man, insists that Betty announce her engagement to Henry Van Zandt. She refuses and when the violinist calls, the uncle orders him from the house. Time progresses. The uncle tries bard to force the unpleasant marriage. Betty runs off with her musician and they are married. Furious and disappointed, the uncle disinherits his niece. Two years pass. The violinist and his wife eke out a living. Things go from bad to worse. At times, when all looks dark, he plays for her, "In a Persian Garden," which melody had first brought them together and won her love. A little baby has come to Betty. One day she receives a telegram from her uncle, saying if she will leave her husband he will take her back. For her sake the husband urges her to do it. She laughs at him. They return to Betty's home town finally, and the violinist searches in vain for work. The baby is taken ill. To save the baby's life a specialist is needed. While the husband is searching for work the uncle, who has learned of Betty's return, calls and pleads with her to leave her husband and save her child's life. She is between two fires, mother love and her affection for her husband. At last her love for the baby grows steadily stronger and Betty writes time and again to her husband, but receives no answer. The uncle has torn the letters up. One night a ball is given in Betty's honor. Van Zandt, strolling on the stoop, observes the young violinist, who is trudging past the house. Half drunk, the rejected suitor drags him in before the excited crowd. The violinist begins to play. Upstairs Betty, bending over her baby, is thinking of her husband. The familiar strains of "In a Persian Garden" float through the hall. She walks slowly down the stairs and into the arms of the player, while the astonished guests slowly realize what the tableau means.
- "Old Man" Morgan is dead. The children are too late to say a last good-bye. Janie, who works in a store in New York; Jim, a taxi driver in Chicago; and Budd, a telegraph operator in Pittsburgh, arrive at the ranch. At first they find the place "dead slow" and the old woman, their mother, who speaks of simple things as they sit over the fire at night rather tiresome. They gradually begin to enjoy the healthy pleasures of the open free life of the west and compare it with their former lives in the city. Janie has had an apartment on Riverside Drive; Jim is marker in a billiard saloon, while Budd lives by taking any odd job that comes along. The boys go out shooting and return to a hearty meal cooked by mother, who has been teaching Janie how to cook. Janie finds that making a cake can be mighty interesting. They return at last to their respective cities, but the lure of the west and its freedom is on them. Janie starts to bake a cake but the man enters her apartment and laughs at her. She packs her bag and returns to the west for good. The gang plan a burglary. Budd is in on it. There is a fight. Budd enters the house alone and is surprised by a master crook whom he thinks is the owner. After a short fight between the two Budd leaves the man for dead and makes for the west. At the saloon in Chicago, the dive where Jim is employed, gets on his nerves and he tells his boss he intends to quit. Once again mother's children are all back again with her. Budd tells her of the affair in shooting. But a local paper copies a story of the shooting, and they learn that Budd's victim is not dead but under arrest for a series of the most daring robberies in the police records. Around the ranch fire reunited wanderers realize that "Home Sweet Home" is best place of all.
- The story opens when a bogus count comes to America to make a rich marriage. He is introduced into society and. incidentally, to the family of a rich manufacturer. This manufacturer's wife is somewhat of a parvenu; she has ambitions for her daughter, the season's debutante. The girl, however, is courted by a young American lawyer and resists her mother's efforts to throw her into the arms of the pseudo nobleman. In order to impress the shallow mother, the nobleman enlists the aid of a spiritualist charlatan. This fellow invokes the spirit aid of a supposed ancestor, who is instructed to state that the girl is predestined to marry a nobleman of distinction. Shortly after this, the girl meets the count and, what with the aid of the mother, he leads her into the séance. The girl is impressed and when the supposed spirit delivers its message, she is about ready to give her consent to marry the nobleman. In the household of the manufacturer there is a little slavey, who is devoted to her mistress. This slavey is also engaged to the policeman on the beat. She overhears, of an evening, the plot which the bogus count is endeavoring to formulate with the medium. She informs both the young lawyer and her policeman lover. The two men see the necessity of acting quickly to defeat the count's bold scheme. They find out, through some unusually clever detective work just what the count is trying to "put over;" also they learn where the final séance is to be held. Accompanied by the little slavey, the policeman and the lawyer managed to make their way into the cellar and overpower the fellow, who is to masquerade as the spirit, without arousing the rest of the household. The little slavey, under the instructions of the men, disguises herself as the spirit and prepares to play the role herself. In the room above, the victims are gathered strangely together, waiting for the "appearance." The charlatan gives the command; the spirit comes forth. But instead of delivering its message, as previously instructed, it denounces the schemers, the bogus count included. Immediately following, the lawyer and the policeman, assisted by other policemen, break into the house and round up the criminals. The parvenu mother and the father, after they have been returned home safely, are thoroughly disillusioned, and, of course, the young lawyer wins his bride, while the little slavey is properly taken care of.
- Lord Primton, an honest landowner of the village, who lives with his widowed sister and her fascinating niece, Lady Babbie, resents the exorbitant tax placed upon the people by Governor Dunmore. Under the guise of a lawn party he invites his friends to meet and formulate a plan of opposition. Lieut. Byron, a dashing young officer, is dared by his Colonel to attend this party. He does and falls violently in love with Primton's niece. His attentions to the girl are resented by her fiancé and a duel is arranged to take place at midnight at the crossing. Hearing of this and determined to prevent bloodshed, she disguises in male attire and hastens to Byron's room to plead with him not to fight. Here the fiancé finds them; the lights are turned out and a terrific sword fight ensues. Byron runs his opponent through. Lady Babbie escapes, but her handkerchief is picked up by a sycophantic suitor. Meanwhile Primton has dispatched his son to the King seeking assistance. Governor Dunmore plans Primton's destruction. Byron is arrested and sentenced to be banned. The Governor gives him a chance for his life on the condition that he brings Primton to him alive. Unaware that Primton is the uncle of the girl he loves, he starts in pursuit. After months of weary searching Byron comes to the deserted estate and is entertained by Lady Babbie. She finds him searching the room and accused him of being a spy. It is here that the duel between the man and woman takes place. Byron escapes without doing injury to the girl. Primton's son returns and the Governor admits his defeat. Byron, who has failed, decides to return, being a man of honor.in the end it is Lady Babbie who saves Byron from death. While in his prison she comes to him with a commission. Astonished and amazed, he tears the folds from her face. She tells him laughingly that tomorrow they are to be married and the story closes with the two wrapped in love's embrace.