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- The Princess of Monte Cabello is divorced and is granted custody of her beloved daughter. Her ex-husband's mistress hires private detectives who take seemingly incriminating photographs of the Princess with the actor Jacques Wilson. The Princess is devastated when these cause her daughter to be taken from her, and the Princess then falls into the clutches of Wilson. In order to pay his gambling debts, Wilson forces her to humiliate herself by appearing in a play. The Princess sends a note to the Prince of Monte Cabello saying that after the first performance she will not compromise his name again.
- Count Bertrand is an army officer who enjoys the utmost confidence of the military leaders of his country but who nevertheless finds time to devote himself also to the interests of several charitable institutions. He and his wife are always among the first to offer their services when some charity fete is planned, and both being splendid riders, are chosen to take charge of a pretentious society circus designed to raise money for an orphanage. In order to stage the production in professional style, they hire Ivanoff, a circus manager, to assist them. Ivanoff gladly accepts their offer of the commission, not only because of the liberal payment promised, but also because of the fact that he is in reality a spy in the pay of a neighboring power and thinks that through association with the count, he will be able to gain possession of some valuable government secrets. He bides his time and finally, by drugging the count, succeeds in getting into his own hands some maneuver plans which had been entrusted to Bertrand. These he delivers to the prime minister of the hostile power, and Bertrand is arrested on a charge of having sold the information to the enemy. He is convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Countess Bertrand is prostrated by her husband's disgrace, but confident of his innocence, sets herself to find evidence which will set him free. Certain clews lead her to suspect that Ivanoff is the real thief of the plans. To find him is in itself a difficult task, for he has disappeared and left no inkling of his whereabouts behind him. Finally the countess hits upon a plan. She will disguise herself, join a circus and seek for Ivanoff among the haunts of circus people. This she does, and it is not long before the famous "Lady of the Mask," a superb equestrienne who never allows her features to be seen, even by her colleagues, is one of the best known performers in the circus world. The masked rider, of course, is none other than the countess herself. The time the circus with which she is connected plays a long engagement in the hippodrome at the capitol of Rugaria, the country which Ivanoff serves. Alexis, the countess's servant, locates Ivanoff's divorced wife, Nadia, and from her they learn that the spy is in the city, living luxuriously on a large sum of money paid him for the stolen plans, and several days later they see him occupying a box at the hippodrome. Ivanoff is struck with the grace of the masked rider and asks for an introduction, which is granted. The countess, never taking off her mask, leads him on until he invites her to take dinner in his rooms. She accepts, and as they are dining suddenly removes her mask and covers him with a revolver. She forces him to give her the plans and his correspondence with the Rugarian officials and is delighted to find that the papers prove conclusively her husband's innocence. Still covering Ivanoff with the pistol, she makes her escape from the house. In her haste she drops one of the documents, but Alexis, the servant, whom she has left on guard at the door, picks it up and jams it into his pocket. Now that she has the precious proofs, the countess loses no time in leaving the Rugarian capital. Ivanoff, however, has not lost his presence of mind and succeeds in getting a warrant for her arrest. He charters a high-powered motor car and starts for the border at top speed. There is an exciting race between his machine and the train which bears the countess. The auto wins, and when the daring woman reaches the frontier, Ivanoff and a squad of military police are waiting for her at the border station. The papers are taken from her and she is hustled across the border into her own country. She returns heartbroken to her home. Several days later, Alexis, who has follower on another train, arrives and gives her the paper which she dropped in fleeing from Ivanoff's house. It proves to be a letter from the prime minister of Rugaria to the spy and conclusively proves the innocence of the count. This letter, turned over to the military authorities, wins a pardon for Bertrand and brings back happiness to the woman who dared.
- The young and naive Pierrot is led astray by the evil wine merchant Pochinet. He hopes to distract Pierrot with drinking and gambling while he tries to seduce Louisette.
- Ruth Benton, accompanist for the musical director of a big theater, is the sole support of her invalid grandmother, who is suddenly taken ill. The girl is forced to be with the aged sufferer constantly, and as the result of this enforced neglect of her duties at the theater, loses her position. The cutting off of her income just at the time when her grandmother's condition makes necessary the purchase of expensive medicines, nearly drives her to despair. She is forced to pawn the family jewels in order to meet the situation. Then Ruth meets Robert Sheldon, a poor but promising musician, and the two young people fall in love. One night, while the invalid slumbers in an adjoining room. Bob composes a love song by the light of the moon. When he submits his composition to the manager of the local opera company, it is recognized as a work of great possibilities, and a public performance is promised. Ruth accompanies Bob when he goes to hear his song sung by one of the leading opera stars of the day, and is happy to share his triumph. When they return home they find Ruth's grandmother dead in her chair by the side of the grate fire. After several years of happy married life, Bob and Ruth become prosperous and well known in the most exclusive social circles. He thoroughly enjoys the distinction of being considered a social lion, but Ruth prefers the quiet of their own home. Gradually they begin to drift apart, until at last Bob shamefully neglects his wife. One night while making merry with a party of gay companions, he is seriously injured in an auto accident. The doctor orders him to be taken to the seashore. Ruth accompanies him, and away from the lure of the city's gay life, finds him the same ardent lover that he was of old. Her happiness is complete until the appearance of Kathryn Windell, an adventuress, who uses all her practiced powers of fascination to win the love of the young composer. Ruth recognizes her inability to hold her husband's heart. He is daily more and more in the company of the beautiful Kathryn, and at last, in an unguarded moment, openly makes love to her upon the beach. From the hotel balcony Ruth is sweeping the beach with her field glasses. Just as Bob folds Kitty in his arms, she turns her glasses on the pair. Then, hopeless and desperate, she seeks forgetfulness in the warm water of the Southern Sea.
- Charles Raleigh is a cousin of Miss Clara Burton, and is secretly in love with her. She returns his affection in secret also. Time parses and George Conway makes love to Clara. She considers his proposal of marriage long and seriously and makes entry of it in her diary. About this time Charles is called to America to look after his mining interests. He arrives in time to find himself a pauper as the result of a terrific conflagration that has swept his property. He decides to make a new start, but finds the battle difficult. Meanwhile, believing Charles indifferent towards her. Clara marries George and is very happy. George receives a letter from Charles, saying that he has about given up the battle in America, and is willing to accept any position that George might offer. Despite the remonstrances of Clara, George invites Charles to come and live with him. His arrival, two weeks later, is fraught with much embarrassment by him and Clara. Living in the same house, they are naturally thrown much together, and soon gossiping; tongues spread scandal of the young couple. For the sake of her own peace of mind, as well as to stop the scandal, Clara beseeches Charles to leave. This he promises to do and takes up lodging in another part of the town. One day a gossiping neighbor calls and deeply wounds Clara by referring to the old love affair, Clara is found in tears by her husband, George, and confesses to him all that she has heard of the despicable gossip, George flies into a towering rage, hurries to his club, where he finds the husband of the woman who offended Clara and challenges him to a duel. In the meantime, Clara is panic-stricken, and, believing that George is about to light a duel with Charles, rushes to his rooms to notify him. From the club George goes straight to his old friend Charles to ask him to be second and to borrow his dueling pistols. He reaches Charles' rooms just as the latter secretes Clara behind a curtain. In the conversation that follows, George suddenly spies his wife's pocketbook on a chair. In an instant he seizes one of the dueling pistols, throws the curtain back and fatally shoots his wife. He then rushes from the house in the hope of obtaining evidence to justify himself in the murder. At home he finds Clara's diary, and as the innocence of her relations with Charles is made plain to him through the sacred confidences of the diary, his mind gives way and he falls across the table senseless.
- The Count of Castelnuovo (Emilio Ghione) (In Lying Lips: Claude Oldcastle), Emeritus Viveur, loses the last thousands of Lire loaned to him by a loan shark, who reproaches him for not following the advice to marry a rich wife. But this time the Count will put it into action, and courts a young widow, the Countess Della Spina, whom he believes to be very rich. The Countess has a daughter engaged to the Marquis of Montesilveo (Alberto Collo). Everything is going well, when the loan shark warns Castelnuovo that the Countess has nothing on her own, but her luxury rests solely on the usufruct of her daughter's showy assets. Castelnuovo does not lose heart: near defeat he acquires audacity and wickedness: he thinks of blackmailing the relatives of the Countess by circulating the letters she received from woman and to make her relationship public, unless her daughter leaves Montesilveo. The poor mother succeeds with the courage of desperation to take possession of the compromising papers, placing the Count of Castelnuovo in the need to end his life, born and raised in the light of infamy.
- Count Albert has taken the gypsy Sonia into his house. Olga, Albert's girlfriend, meets Sonia. She doesn't like the situation and writes to Albert that Sonia has to go to a boarding school. Sonia is sent to a nun's school. She doesn't like it and flees back to Albert. She declares her love for him but is rejected and returns to the gypsies. Albert becomes blind in an accident. After a while, Olga gets tired of nursing Albert and goes on holiday with her lover. Albert places an advertisement for a nurse and Sonia is hired. When her lover has left her, Olga returns home. Albert shows her the door, he loves Sonia now.
- The young teacher Noemi , only support for her sick mother, is the object of the attention of the school inspector Speri. Upon her refusal, the young girl is transferred to the small village of Rocca, where Count Marni asks her to be his son's governess. Slowly the young girl and the Count fall in love. But the inspector, jealous, instills in the Count the seed of doubt.
- A watchmaker discovers his wife's secret regarding the paternity of their son, keeps silent for fifteen years, until her objection to the marriage of their daughter to a man of similarly clouded paternity forces him to speak.
- The beautiful young Princess Louise of Duxbaria. one of the principalities of southern Europe, loses her father and comes to live with her uncle, the ruler of the country, in his medieval castle of Sonnenschloss. There she meets Conrad Werner, a young composer, who has been the college chum of her cousin, Prince Henry, and a romantic love affair follows. Soon afterward, however, Countess de Berne, a fascinating Parisienne. visits the Duxbarian court and Werner falls victim to her siren charms. He follows her to Paris, leaving Louise heartbroken, and it is not long until the engagement of the composer and the countess is announced. To please her uncle the princess consents to become the bride of Prince Henry and thus heiress to the throne, but at the state dinner given in connection with the betrothal ceremony, she collapses and the marriage is of necessity postponed. Meanwhile Werner has been driven to desperation by the flirtations of the countess and one of them finally involves him in an affair of honor with one of the most expert swordsmen un the continent. He is seriously wounded, but with recovery from the wound comes also recovery from the effects of the countess' wiles. He then realizes that he loves only the pretty princess of the south. And he makes the journey back to his native land. The old ruler of Duxbaria has died and Henry is now seated upon the throne. Realizing that his beautiful cousin can never bring herself to return his love, he releases her from her promise. One evening she is sitting at the piano thrumming the strains of Werner's most beautiful symphony. In the mirror opposite she suddenly sees his face, and turning about finds him kneeling at her feet. And a moment later she is in his arms.