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- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- 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.
- Trying to win the Three C's railroad line for his home town of Topaz, Colorado, Nicholas "Nick" Tarvin journeys to India to secure the famed jewel known as the Naulahka, which he plans to present to Mrs. Mutrie, the railroad president's wife. Nick's fiancée, Kate Sheriff, having graduated from medical school, also goes to India, but her aim is to provide the Indians with modern medical care. The Naulahka is possessed by the Maharajah, whose second wife, a dancer named Sitahbai, hopes to have her son, rather than the real prince, named as the heir to the Maharajah's throne. Sitahbai plans to kill the young prince, the son of the Maharajah's first wife, but Nick repeatedly saves him. After Sitahbai's plot to kill Nick fails, Nick threatens to hold the dancer captive until daybreak unless she gives him the Naulahka. Sitahbai reluctantly consents, but Kate, knowing that the loss of the jewel will mean Sitahbai's death, convinces Nick to return it to her. Kate and Nick return to Colorado without the Naulahka to find that the railroad tracks have already been laid through Topaz.
- After serving out their three-year sentence, Micky and his pal, Tom, are released from prison. Micky goes back to his former manner of living and tries to induce Tom to do likewise. Tom, however, is tired of an underworld existence and determines to be "straight." Hence he breaks with Micky and they both pursue different paths. Tom finds employment with good folks, and gets along nicely, until one day, while out walking with his sweetheart (the maid servant in the house where he is employed), he meets Micky. Anxious to forget his past and to avoid making explanations to his sweetheart, Tom snubs his former pal. Micky decides to fix him. He goes back to his hovel and writes an anonymous letter, informing Tom's employers that Tom is an ex-convict. Tom after his outing comes home feeling sorry that he had snubbed Micky. He writes him a letter apologizing and encloses some money. Tom's employers disregard the letter which Micky has written. However, their suspicions are aroused, and so they decide to test Tom's honesty. Before going to the opera, they place on a dresser within the sight of Tom an imitation pearl necklace worth 15 cents. Micky, who is "laying for" Tom, goes to the house that very night and steals the imitation pearl necklace. This happens about the time Tom's employers return from the opera. Tom is near their auto smoking a pipe. He is watching the car while the chauffeur is having a drink. Thus employed, Tom sights an object skulking in the backyard. He hides as the object approaches the car. Then when he recognizes Micky, he makes a spring for him and demands an explanation. Micky shows fight. During the struggle, Tom's pipe lands in the car and sets it on fire. Tom's employers confront him and although he explains they are not satisfied. His record is against him. They have him discharged. Micky returns home and finds Tom's letter of apology and the money enclosed. He is full of remorse and returns and straightens things out for Tom.
- Kitty, Detective Harper's 6-year-old daughter, finds a homeless dog. Her mother does not look with favor upon the animal, and is about to drive him away when Harper decides that they will keep the dog. A gang of counterfeiters victimize some storekeepers with bad bills. The storekeepers complain to Captain Matthews of the Police Department, and he in turn notifies Detective Harper by telephone. He traces the gang to their headquarters in the suburbs, and as he is about to enter the house, they discover the detective. The chief enters the house and notifies his accomplices who are at work printing bad money. They plan to capture the detective, and lay a trap for him. He falls into it and they bind him in a basement chamber on a slab with an automatic circular saw attachment. In the meantime, Mrs. Harper, on the second day of her husband's absence, worries, and Kitty suggests that the dog Jack be sent to search for him. Mrs. Harper is taken with the idea and gives the dog an old coat of the detective's to scent. The dog dashes off to find the detective, locating him finally in the underground chamber, and crawling through a grated window to reach him, gnaws the rope that binds the man. The detective telephones for the police and the criminals are arrested. The dog has proved his gratitude for the bind action, and earns the whole family's gratitude.
- Ranch foreman Kerry has boarded with Kitty Tynan and her mother for five years in western Canada, his past is a mystery to everyone. He is actually an English aristocrat who lost all his money gambling and left the country in search of work. Kerry and his friend Horan own an option on property which crooked lawyer Burlingame is trying to secure. Burlingame's cohort Logan murders Hogan, and is caught and arrested. In the trial, Burlingame forces Kerry to admit his past, and succeeds in preventing Kerry from receiving bank assistance. When Kerry is shot, Kitty opens a letter from Kerry's wife that he had been carrying for five years, and cables her. Kerry's wife arrives and informs him that his last bet in England had turned out to be a $20,000 winner. Kerry is able to use the money just in time to foil Burlingame and secure the property, thus winning prosperity and the affections of his wife.
- Lydie Martin has trouble with her ailing child. Dr. Mann, a friend of the East Side poor, does all he can to help Lydie and her sick child. Lydie plans to take her child and her husband to the country, a place in California where a neighbor has relations. But there is no prospect of going; they would need $300 and her husband is out of work. One day Dr. Mann, while making his rounds of the tenement, stops in to see the Martins. When Mrs. Martin's eyes light on the wealthy doctor's coat, a sudden impulse impels her to go through the doctor's pockets. She finds his wallet, from which she removes just enough that would take her and hers to California. Just as she takes the money, a jealous, evil-minded neighbor sees the act and immediately goes off to report to the police. In the meanwhile, Lydie Martin makes hasty preparations for a departure to California, explaining to her husband that the doctor loaned her the money. Just as she is leaving, the police break in and she is accused of theft. The doctor is brought in and he tells the police that he loaned the money to Mrs. Martin. She thanks him with grateful eyes and the little family starts for fresh air and happiness.