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- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
- While with the French Foreign Legion in Algeria, Lt. Dubois seduces the lovely Zora, leaving her with a child and his medal for bravery. Sheik Achmed generously befriends Zora, and when she is killed in an accident he raises her son, El Rabb, as his own, and soon El Rabb and Achmed's biological son Bel Khan become best friends. Years later Lt. Dubois, now a general, is dispatched to Algeria to crush a revolt led by El Rabb and Bel Khan--and he doesn't know that El Rabb is his son--who wears his father's medal around his neck.
- The suffrage workers are vainly endeavoring to win over Senator Herman to their cause as his vote on a certain bill they favor means its passage. May Fillmore, one of the most ardent of the workers, discovers that the father of a little motherless tenement brood has died of tuberculosis, after having vainly importuned the owner. Senator Herman, to make building alterations that will remedy unsatisfactory conditions. She goes to the Senator's fiancée, Jane Wadsworth, and succeeds in securing her help. Jane accompanies May to the poor bereaved family, and she is shocked at the terrible lack of sanitation. They find three little girls and a baby left to fight the world alone. Elsie, the eldest, is doing embroidery sweat-shop work at home, and minding the baby, while Hester works in a department store. The other tot is a half-time scholar, and in the afternoons assists her sister working on corset covers for another shop. All these fearful conditions are pointed out by May and have their desired effect upon Jane. She is further shocked upon learning that her fiancé is the negligent owner. Jane goes to him and pleads that he do something in the matter. He waves her away and treats her like a child. Angered, she joins the suffragists and assists in bringing both her father and the Senator to terms. Hester is insulted by a floorwalker in her father's shop, which proves another shock to Jane, when her father does nothing in the matter. Later she is stricken with scarlet fever, which she contracted from the embroidery on one of her trousseau gowns, which came from her father's store. The father and Senator, upon learning that they were in part guilty, as the embroidery was made in the Senator's unsanitary tenement, gives in and most enthusiastically joins the suffrage movement. They are seen with the girls at suffrage headquarters, at the Men's League, and finally in the parade.
- Jim Jones, a good-for-nothing, loses his job, and beats his way west, looking for work. He lies to his mother, however, telling her that he has a good position offered him and must go at once. In the west, he goes from bad to worse, and finally joins a band of horse thieves. In his letters he keeps his mother deceived. He writes her that he is doing well, and that he has just been elected Sheriff of the county. Meanwhile, the real Sheriff has secured evidence against Jim and his pals. Jim is wounded by the posse, and while he is lying in the Sheriff's office his mother arrives in town. She has received a small legacy and has come west looking for the son she adores. His last letter, telling of his supposed election as Sheriff, she shows to the real Sheriff, who, in pity, first pins his own badge on the young scoundrel, and then admits his mother to see him. The sheriff tells her that her boy was hurt while bravely performing his duty. The mother is made happy, and goes away rejoicing in her son's success.
- Widow Kelton lives on her tiny ranch with her three children. She works from sun-up till sundown every day except Sunday to eke out an existence for her little family. The Mountain Water Company is building a fence line which brings them through the widow's property. They discover on her land a barn which blocks their line, and unable to convince her that it must be moved, the surveyor sets fire to the building. One of the children, a tot of four years, sees the barn burning, and runs in among the flames and falling timbers "to save the poor horses." She is rescued by the superintendent of the fence gang and restored to her distracted mother. The incident serves to waken the sympathetic interest of the superintendent in Mrs. Kelton and her brood. Eventually the widow and the kindly superintendent marry.
- A murderer is haunted by the spirit of his victim.
- Young Grace Harkaway, by her uncle's order, is commanded to marry Sir Harcourt Courtly, an elderly fop. She meets and falls in love with this gentleman's son, Charles, who has been posing as a student, but is in reality a roysterer and one of the gayest young bloods in town. Young Courtly and his friend, Dazzle, plan with Lady Gay Spanker, a belle and noted huntsman, to draw out old Sir Harcourt, who has fallen in love with her, so that Grace may be freed to marry the man she loves. Sir Harcourt, believing that Lady Gay reciprocates the affection, plans to elope with her. Grace's uncle overhears their conversation and indignantly changes his plans regarding Grace who is permitted to marry Charles. Sir Harcourt discovers that he has been made a fool of by Lady Gay Spanker, who returns to her husband with the combined thanks of the happy pair.
- Biff Dugan, the eldest son of a poor family living in a tenement on the squalid East Side of New York, leads a gang of hoodlums, among whose members is his brother Porky. Their sister Jess is a consumptive whose health was ruined in a sweatshop. During a melee in a mission run by reformer Henry Davis, the Dugan gang encounters Billy Drew and his sister Cora, newcomers to the city. Porky saves Cora from the unwelcome attentions of Biff's rival, Spike Golden, and the two fall in love. Later, when Spike is killed in a gang war, Biff is wrongfully convicted of the murder and executed in the electric chair. Porky, who served a short term in prison for his part in the crime, comes back to the city to find that Jess has died and Cora has returned to the country. When his gang delivers the man who betrayed Biff, Porky, whose heart has been softened by Cora and Billy, lets the man go. Finally, Porky retires to the country to lead the quiet life of a farmer with Cora as his wife.
- Episode 1: "The Runaway Bride" It is June Moore's wedding day, and the entire household is all confusion, excitement, and bustle, from June's pet collie Donnie to her father, uncomfortable and perspiring in his Prince Albert. Her bosom friend Iris Blethering, accompanied by her husband Bobbie, arrives to help June with her toilette, and a few moments later Ned Warner, the happy bridegroom, arrives. There is a short duration of nervous expectancy as Ned awaits the bride in the parlor, then June enters at the head of the bridal procession, and the ceremony commences. Just at the finish, Donnie, the collie, escaping from confinement in the woodshed, races into the parlor and June, regardless of her spotless white wedding gown, throws her arms about him. After the wedding June's wedding garment is hastily put aside and she dons a traveling suit, while Ned. seeking to avoid the pranks of the guests, steals out onto the porch to await her. Upstairs, Mrs. Moore tearfully embraces June, in the last sacred moment of parting, then presses a purse filled with money into her hands. June, surprised, pouts, "Why do I have to think of money on my wedding day?" but hurries out to Ned, who has been discovered by the guests and is being teased unmercifully. June and Ned make a dash for their limousine and escape amid a shower of rice. In a drawing room on the train rapidly bearing the happy bride and groom off on their honeymoon, June contentedly nestles in Ned's arms. By accident, June discovers that she has lost her purse, and when Ned hears her exclamation of dismay he laughingly produces his bulky "roll" with bluff heartiness, and quiets her fears. The porter, catching sight of Ned's roll, almost loses his eyes staring at it, and Ned, smiling, tips him a dollar bill. Ned tries to force some money into June's hand, but she draws away. In fancy she sees herself a beggar, helpless, dependent upon Ned's generosity to supply her every want and necessity, and the thought is repugnant to her. Ned leaves the drawing room to dress as June falls asleep. Her dreams are troubled, and continually picture the woman absolutely dependent for money upon the man. She wakes as the train jars to a stop at Tarnville, and in a daze rushes from the train, pausing long enough just to take her coat and hat, and stands trembling and confused on the platform as the train rushes away. Gilbert Blye was about to board the train when he saw June get off. He immediately drew back, and now, as June stands afraid, he stands aside, watching her sharply. June decides to return to New York, and finds the time of the next train on the bulletin board. Blye attempts to engage June in conversation, but is repulsed. Meanwhile, Ned discovers June's absence, and learns from a passenger that she left the train at Tarnville. Distracted, he gets off at the next station and takes an express back to New York, first learning over the telephone from the operator at Tarnville that June was seen to board the New York local, followed by a man with a black Vandyke. The operator tells Ned that the express sometimes passes the local just outside of New York. On the local, June finds she has no money, and sells her watch to an elderly couple. With this money, June pays her fare. The mysterious man with the black Vandyke buys the watch from the couple, and tenders it to June as a gift. She refuses to accept it, and he tells her that she may purchase it back when she is able. She takes the card he hands her, pockets it, and then refuses to notice him further. Smiling mysteriously, he takes the seat behind her and watches her. Just outside New York the express catches the local and they race along, side by side. Through a window, Ned sees the figure of June. Over her bends the black Vandyked man, assisting her on with her coat. In the station Ned frantically runs out to the street, just in time to have the door of Blye's taxi slammed in his face, and see June's taxi disappearing up the street. He jumps into a third taxi, and frantically orders his driver, "Follow them!" Episode 2: "The Man with the Black Vandyke" Through the busy streets of New York, Gilbert Blye, the mysterious man with the black Vandyke, pursues June, and in pursuit of both races the taxi of Ned Warner, June's distracted husband. In the maze of traffic, Blye loses track of June's taxi, and Ned, getting caught in a congestion of traffic, also loses the trail. To the home of Iris Blethering, her bosom friend, goes June for safety. Iris and her husband, Bobbie, cannot understand June's reason for leaving Ned, just because he offered her money, and poor June looks at Iris with a helpless gesture and half sobs, "I can't explain, it made me feel like a beggar taking alms." Still Iris does not appreciate June's viewpoint. At the club lives Cunningham, a comrade of Blye's, and, like him, a man of mystery. To Cunningham Blye goes and relates the account of his meeting with June, and shows the watch which June sold on the train. Ned Warner goes to the apartment that was to have been the home of his bride and himself. Meanwhile, Iris Blethering offers June some money, but June refuses it, and tells Iris that her purse is at home. Iris and Bobbie go to the Moore home to get June's purse, telling Mrs. Moore that June wired them to get her purse and forward it. Soon after the Bletherings leave, Ned calls at the Moore home, and June's parents are surprised to learn that June is not with him. They tell him of the Blethering's visit, and all hurry there, seeking a solution of the mystery. They arrive at the Blethering home, but Bobbie and Iris deny the presence of June. Ned, however, finds one of Blye's cards, and June's gloves, and furiously accuses the Bletherings of hiding both June and Blye. At Rectors Blye, Cunningham, Tommy Thomas, a girl companion of Blye, and several others form a merry party, drinking and dancing. The diners seek to arouse Tommy Thomas' jealousy by describing June's watch, which Blye has in his possession. Meantime, at the Blethering home, events have followed rapidly. While Ned and Bobbie are arguing in the hall downstairs, June escapes through a window. A few moments later Ned and the rest break into the room. There is no trace of June, so the next move is a visit to the Blye home, where Mrs. Blye is questioned. Mr. Moore indignantly demands, "I want my daughter." This arouses Mrs. Blye's suspicion. She calls up Cunningham's club and learns that she is with Blye at Rectors. Thereupon the party rushes to Rectors. Mrs. Blye bursts in, followed by the others, and catches her husband dancing with Tommy Thomas. She furiously demands, "Who is that woman?" but Blye flares up and refuses to answer her. Blye makes his way to the street and escapes in Cunningham's car, giving the chauffeur a mysterious address. June, meanwhile, has made her way to the Moore home and after petting her pet collie for a few moments, awakens Marie, her maid, collects her wardrobe together, and steals away with Marie. June and Marie get into a taxi at the Moore gate, and just drive away as Blye, in Cunningham's car, drives up, then follows in hot pursuit. A moment later Ned, and the rest, in two autos, drive up and are directed after Blye's car by Aunt Debby, the Moore's old colored servant. Through the darkness the pursued and pursuing autos race. Episode 3: "Discharged" In the preceding Installment, June, the runaway bride, escaped from her parents' home with Marie, her maid, and some of her wardrobe. Close in pursuit of June's taxi came Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke, and away in the rear followed Ned Warner, June's deserted husband, and several others. Speeding at a breakneck pace, Blye, in the Cunningham limousine, passes June's taxi, and then breaks up a bottle which he has in the car and drops the bits of broken glass to the roadway. The ruse works; the taxi has a blowout. Blye's car backs to the scene, and Blye gallantly offers June the use of his machine. After some hesitation, June accepts the offer, and has Marie take the clothes from the taxi and put them into the other car. The taxi is wheeled to the side of the road, to be out of the way, then the limousine drives off. Blye, in the car, pretends to just recognize June as the little girl he met on the train, and he feigns pleasant surprise. June, doubtful, wishes to buy her watch back immediately, but Blye tells her that he left it home. At his club, Blye alights and puts the car at June's service, but mysteriously whispers instructions to Scatti, the driver. Scatti nods, and in answer to June's orders to drive her to a boarding house, takes her to Mother Russell's, a mysterious house of gaiety and bright lights. But June decides that the place is too conspicuous, and gives Scatti the address of an obscure boarding house which she is familiar with. There they go, and June engages a room for herself and Marie. Scatti, grinning slyly, takes note of the place and drives away. Meanwhile, the cars containing Ned and his party pursuing June and Blye, encounter the glass-strewn section of the roadway and are delayed by blowouts, and hopelessly lose the trail. They finally come to the city and disperse to their various homes, Ned summoning private detectives to put on the case. Mrs. Blye reaches her home in time to see her husband going away with his effects, and, realizing that she is deserted, summons private detectives to watch her husband. Blye and Cunningham go to Mother Russell's, and there hold a conference with Tommy Thomas, showing her June's watch with her picture and name, Tommy sulks, but finally agrees to do their bidding. Tommy Thomas calls at June's boarding house on the following morning, tells that a friend of June's sent her to June about a position, and takes June to a department store and introduces her to the manageress of the gown department, whispering to her, "This is the girl Mr. Blye spoke about for the model." The woman smiles in approval as she looks at June, and immediately employs her. June grows interested in her work, parading before the wealthy customers, but through a prearranged plan of Cunningham, Blye and Tommy Thomas, she is discharged, charged with neglecting her duty, for, interested in an argument over money matters between a man and his wife, the eternal "money question" which was the cause of her running away from Ned, she neglects to heed Cunningham's request to be shown a gown. Dejected, she returns to her boarding house. Meanwhile, the private detectives of Ned and Mrs. Blye have been sadly mixing things up, and Ned, disgusted, goes for a walk. He sees Marie and tracks her to the boarding house. Blye has preceded him there and is in the hall. Marie, conscious that Ned is following her, rushes into the house. Ned is admitted in time to see Blye rushing up the stairway, but the man of mystery eludes Ned and leaves the house, close on June's trail, leaving Ned frantic and heartbroken. Episode 4 "The New Governess" June's headquarters at Mrs. Beales' boarding-house became known to both Ned Warner and Gilbert BIye. Fortunately June realizes this. Leaving Marie to gather up their belongings, the runaway bride hurries to a nearby hotel, telling her maid to follow. She is pursued at a safe distance by Blye. As June enters the Hotel Daniel "Shanks" McGee, the newsboy in the lobby, scents "detecatiff" stuff. Later, when both Blye and Ned in turn appear, the latter demanding to see her, the boy decides to use his wits in the game at the first opportunity. Meanwhile, the bell-boy also has been catching on to things. So he goes up to June's room and suggests his mother's home as a safe retreat. June gladly accepts the plan, and with the bell-boy's help she escapes through the servants' entrance. Below stairs Ned's and Mrs. Blye's detectives have insulted a Frenchman with a black Vandyke, whom they mistake for Gilbert Blye. After they are gone "Shanks" McGee, seeing Blye himself enter the hotel with "Tommy" Thomas on his arm, puts two and two together, tears after the detectives and tells them that the man they are seeking is now in the lobby. But Blye, though taken by surprise, is more than a match for the detectives. With three well-directed piston-like blows he sends them sprawling, and then he and "Tommy" Thomas, having learned of June's escape, leave the place. June, meanwhile, through an employment agency has found a position as governess to little Dolly Wiles. She is very happily occupied until Mr. Wiles, through the extravagance of Mrs. Wiles, who is a pretty, vapid, money-loving sort of wife, goes bankrupt. Then she returns to the employment agency. Entering, she does not see Gilbert Blye, who quickly steps behind a screen. The address given her by the manageress is one which the man with the black Vandyke has handed to the woman with explicit instructions only five minutes previously. Episode 5: "A Woman in Trouble" In the preceding installment June, the runaway bride, was sent to a mysterious house by an employment agency, and followed by Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke. June is shown into what was apparently once the parlor of a gambling house, but is now fitted up as an office. Blye and the keeper of the house peer smilingly at her through the hall door. Then the keeper enters, and after a short chat with June, hires her. Aunt Debby, the Moore's cook, goes marketing, and meets Marie, June's maid, who is also marketing. There is a scene in the market, Marie denying that she knows Aunt Debby. But the old servant will not easily be put off, and she wrestles with Marie, knocks her down, and sits on her. Several policemen, hearing the commotion, enter, and arrest Aunt Debby. The patrol is summoned, but the policemen, to their great chagrin, find that the door of the wagon is not of ample size to permit of the free passage of Aunt Debby's corpulent frame. Marie does not like to see Aunt Debby arrested, and when Officer Dowd. Marie's friend, appears, she whispers to him, and he gets the other officers to let Aunt Debby go free. Aunt Debby hurries to Ned, the deserted husband of June, and he, summoning his detectives, rushes to the market to endeavor to take up Marie's trial, but to no avail. June is instructed in her duties by the keeper, and is horrified when it dawns upon her that the place is a gambling establishment. Mrs. Gwen Perry, a patron of the place, finds herself hopelessly in debt, and her husband will not give her any money over her allowance. The keeper duns her for her debt, but Mrs. Perry cannot pay. The keeper then calls up Mr. Perry, but he, furious, threatens to raid the place. The keeper informs Blye of the threat, and one of the girl employees is sent to the basement to be in readiness to start a fire, if a raid takes place. Mr. Perry enters, and has an argument with the keeper, at length telling him to call Mrs. Perry. It is evident that he is through with his wife, but June, summoning her courage, takes an active interest in this new phase of the eternal money question which caused her to leave Ned, and pleads with Mr. Perry. He at length relents, but Mrs. Perry, entering the room and seeing him, is seized with sudden panic, flees, and is about to shoot herself, when June intervenes. Mr. Perry takes her into his arms, and there is a happy reconciliation. At this moment some policemen appear at the door, and the fire is started. A mad rush from the house follows, June escaping with the rest in the confusion. But Blye picks up her trail, and follows her through the streets. Ned, on a streetcar, sees June running along, and Blye pursuing her, and he hastily alights from the car and pursues. Episode 6: "The Siege of the House of O'Keefe" As June is fleeing from the gambling house, she is glimpsed by Ned from a streetcar. But the conductor refuses to stop in the middle of the block, and by the time Warner has alighted and rushed back, the runaway bride is nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile she has reached in safety the home of Mrs. O'Keefe, the hotel bellboy's mother, and her protector. Mrs. O'Keefe, being the widow of the most popular patrolman on New York's police force, instructs some of her departed husband's friends, whose beats are in that neighborhood, that Marie and June are good friends of hers, who do not wish to be found. When Blye and Warner appear in the vicinity and question the policemen about a young girl, they are deliberately sent on a wild goose chase. But, as so often before, Blye at length calls upon Tommy Thomas. She drives around to the neighborhood, in which the man with the black Vandyke has reason to believe his quarry is in hiding, and is lucky enough to see June coming out of Mrs. O'Keefe's. Already Tommy Thomas has arranged with a Mrs. Villard, who wants a companion, to let her bring June to her. She invites the runaway bride into her car, and they drive to an employment agency with which Tommy Thomas has had an understanding. The farce is put through, and June is taken to the magnificent estate of Mrs. Villard, a young and handsome woman of clearly good intentions. That same evening June has an adventure. She overhears some tenants of Mrs. Villard's quarreling, and hurries over to the squalid home of the Groggs. She finds Groggs in a drunken frenzy, his wife beside herself, hurling pots and pans. And then June lets herself go and her fiery denunciation of the drunkard soon sobers Groggs. He promises to reform, and the runaway bride realizes that there was but another symptom of the man-wife-money problem, which so besets her. Returning to Mr. Villard's house to dinner, June meets Charles Cunningham. Tommy Thomas also is one of the guests. Once, she fancies, she sees through the velvet curtains of the room the somber visage of the man with black Vandyke. Episode 7: "The Tormentors" June returns to Mrs. O'Keefe's for her clothing and Marie. Scarcely have they taken their farewells of the widow when Ned Warner, the Moores and the Bletherings arrive to find the detectives and the policemen battling on the stoop, and no sign of the runaway bride. Meanwhile the two girls have driven to Mrs. Villard's. Unknown to them, Gilbert Blye is in the house. He observes their arrival with satisfaction, and as soon as the girls have gone upstairs he instructs their hostess and leaves. That afternoon Mrs. Villard tells June that they are going downtown. She takes her unsuspecting companion to Garrigue and Co., marine brokers. There she explains to her that Mr. Blye is planning a yachting trip to southern waters and that he has invited them to join the party. This announcement throws June into a panic. She refuses to go. Presently Blye, Cunningham and Edwards reach the office, Tommy Thomas with them. All their efforts to persuade June, however, are vain. Across the court, Bobby Blethering from his office window sees June arguing with the man with the black Vandyke. He phones Ned. Before the distraught bridegroom can get there, June and Mrs. Villard are fleeing in a taxi, pursued by Blye and his companions in Cunningham's limousine. Episode 8: "Her Enemies" The taxi, in which June and Mrs. Villard were escaping kept steadily ahead of Cunningham's car. Suddenly the conspirators saw it plunge across a sidewalk and down a steep embankment. They sped to overtake the demolished machine. Blye and Cunningham went to the rescue of June. Edwards and Tommy Thomas helped Mrs. Villard. Both women were unconscious and were carried to a sanitarium, where a Dr. Remert took them in charge. When June recovered she found a confidante in Mary, the head nurse. Finding that she was suffering mainly from shock, her spirits revived, began to talk with the nurse about the possibility of her entering Mary's vocation. Dr. Remert approved and promised to speak to the chief about June. It developed that "the chief" was none other than Gilbert Blye. June refused to have anything to do with the hospital and was persuaded to return home with Mrs. Villard, as her companion. Meanwhile, Ned's detective, Burton, had been putting in some good work. He had traced Blve to his club, seen him in conference with Mr. Villard, who suddenly returned to New York, and the result was that on the evening the Villard party was motoring home Ned Warner lay in wait near the estate. Just as he would have intercepted the automobile in which rode Blye, June, Mrs. Villard and the others, two pairs of strong arms reached out and seized him. The motor rushed past. Episode 9: "Kidnapped" Concealed in the shrubbery outside of the Villard home, Ned rises to snatch his bride from the man with the black Van Dyke when he is seized by the Villard chauffeur and the gardener and Marie, June's maid. He is quickly bound and gagged and thrown into the Villard garage. He struggles to free himself as he sees June chatting sociably with Gilbert Blye and Orin Cunningham. Bert Villard, husband of June's employer, arrives unexpectedly from abroad. Ned's captors indulge in a card game and drinking bout which enables him to wriggle free from his bonds and escape when they sink into a drunken stupor. Meanwhile June has finally consented to go on the proposed yachting trip. Marie, stricken with remorse over Ned's fate, tries to tell June of his capture, but cannot. Mrs. Villard's husband, finding June alone, seizes her in a wild embrace and covers her face with kisses. "Bouncer," June's faithful collie, comes to the rescue, fells Villard, bites him and would kill him but for June's interference. She makes Villard promise not to go on the yachting trip, the price of her silence to his wife. Ned escapes just in time to see June driving away with the gay yachting party, tracing them to a restaurant, where June is forced from the room, while she is trying to go to Ned, afterward being rapidly conveyed on a motorboat to a large yacht lying in the river. Episode 10: "Trapped on a Liner" Gilbert Blye and his party go aboard the steamer which they have chartered for the trip to Bermuda. Ned Warner and Burton, his detective, also board the boat. They practice the policy of watchful waiting. Soon Ned is informed by Burton that June is sitting alone on the lower deck. He hurries below. Suddenly Blye, from where he is sitting, sees the runaway bride in her husband's arms. He goes to the captain and tells him that a crazy man has attacked one of the ladies of his party. The next thing Ned knows he is struggling in the grasp of two husky sailors. June is in hysterics. Ned, locked in his stateroom, is unable to escape until just before the landing in Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda. Here he is seized by two sailors. The three men fight furiously. Finally Warner is backed up against the rail. and then, by accident, pushed overboard. A practiced swimmer, he strikes out toward a small fishing craft, calling for help. The fishermen take him aboard. When first they hear that Ned is over the side of the ship, June and Blye are about equally horror-stricken. The news of his rescue, however, calms them both. June is inspired to refuse to land, but Blye compels her to do so. Burton, following them, learns the name of their yacht and their route. This he confides to Ned as soon as that unfortunate young man sets foot on the pier. But how are they to board the yacht? Episode 11: "In the Clutch of the River Thieves" On arriving at Bermuda, June and Blye's party leave the steamer for Blye's yacht, but Blye, the man with the black Van Dyke, returns to the dock, where he encounters Ned, the deserted husband, who was rescued by fishermen after jumping off the steamer to avoid capture. Ned violently attacks him and is getting the better of him when the local police arrest Ned on Blye's statement that he is a dangerous maniac and place him in a small jail near the water. June escapes from the yacht at night in a tender and rows for the shore, but is discovered and pursued by the yachting party. Fearful of capture, June signals a sailboat, which is manned by an old Italian, Giovanni, who takes her aboard. He points out an old wreck and says he was wrecked there twenty years ago. She reminds him of Marietta, back in Italy. He tells her the story of Marietta and her two lovers, how she favored Tony, the one who spent the most money on her. Tony quarreled with Beppo, another of Marietta's admirers, and in a duel with knives succeeded in killing him, after which he ran away with Marietta. Blye's yacht gives chase under full sail, and Ned, who has escaped from jail, hires a motorboat and also gives chase. Giovanni steers his boat through a narrow opening into an inlet, where Blye's yacht cannot follow, whereupon Blye produces a pistol and shoots Giovanni. June grasps the helm and runs the boat into the inlet with the aid of Giovanni's negro assistant and lands near a house where some river pirates live. Among them are Tony and Marietta. They quarrel over a division of their spoils, in which one of the pirates stabs Tony and escapes. As June rushes up, she, Marietta and the wounded Tony are all struck with the resemblance between the two women. Before he dies Tony tells June where to find his buried treasure for Marietta and she undertakes to do so. The other pirates pursue her. Marietta follows June to help her and as they get the treasure, the two pirates attack them. Ned rescues the two girls and Marietta starts after them, knife in hand, on vengeance bent. As they turn on her, Blye and his party interfere and save her, and learning from her of June's whereabouts, Blye arrives just in time to snatch June away from Ned and make a prisoner of him. Episode 12: "The Spirit of the Marsh" Ned, after a sharp, heroic struggle with Blye's hirelings, was borne off to one of the strongly barred cabins of the yacht. The next day he was brought, like a prisoner before a judge, into the presence of the man with the black Vandyke, who promised the unhappy young husband that if he would leave June unmolested for five days, at the end of that time he should have her back safe and sound. Ned gulped and pledged his word. Then he was set free, to go and come as he pleased. Meanwhile, June had made the acquaintance of Durban, the artist, who, with his rich wife, had taken a handsome villa in Bermuda for the winter. He made no secret of the fact that he had married this woman for her money. Also, in a cottage apart, he supported a pretty little model, Mimi, upon whom, for the time being, he had settled his changeable affections. The day before, Durban had had a rather upsetting scene with Amy, a girl of the neighborhood, whom he had engaged to pose for a picture that was not in Mimi's line. Because of this he was all the more willing to allow himself to be attracted to June; in her he could forget his recent chagrin. One morning early he chanced to come upon June as she stood drinking in the sun and air on the beach, and induced her to pose. Suddenly she found herself struggling in his close embrace. She fought herself free and fled. Realizing presently that he no longer was following her, she turned and saw that he had been caught in the quicksands. Nothing more awful than the end of this self-indulgent man ever was witnessed by the runaway bride. Episode 13: "Trapped" June, returning to the hotel with Gilbert Blye, immediately after witnessing the tragic end of Durban, the artist, is conscious that the man with the black Vandyke has become suddenly a dangerous companion. She flees from the protecting arm with which he has encircled her all too tightly, and running down to the shore, takes refuge under a net in a fishing boat. Blye loses track of her. But, from a distance, Ned Warner witnesses the incident, also the arrival of a strange fellow, long-haired and in rags, who jumps into June's boat and pushes off with her to sea. Hiring two sailors to go with him, he gets a small craft and gives pursuit. Blye also is soon scouring the bay. Meanwhile, June struggles with her boatman, who turns out to be a half-witted barbarian, and the boat is capsized. She is rescued by a girl, attired like a dryad, who takes her to an island, where Hierophant, a charlatan mystic, celebrates mild orgies. June joins the dance of his captive maidens. Some time later Hierophant attempts to put the newcomer through an initiation dance of a kind which outrages her modesty, and with the help of one of the other girls, she flees the island. She succeeds in rejoining Ned on the bay and he boards her raft. But the man with the black Vandyke also comes alongside. He fells Ned unconscious, and dragging the fainting June into his boat, heads his rapidly moving craft for shore. Episode 14: "In the Grip of Poverty" June is taken from her husband on the raft and carried away in a boat by Gilbert Blye. On the mainland, however, they are met by Gascon, the leader of a band of Apaches. On seeing the runaway bride, Gascon signals to his confederates, two men and two women, whom he instructs to follow and capture June. The thing is accomplished and June is compelled to put on the Apache dress and perfect herself in their famous dance. Meanwhile, Marie, the sweetheart of Pierre, one of the band, is driven by jealousy of the pretty newcomer to betray the Apache quarter to the commandant of the military guard. A fierce fight ensues between the Parisian thieves and the local soldiery in which the former are killed and routed. Pierre pursues Marie to the top of a cliff. He realizes that she has turned traitor. In a frenzy of rage he flings the girl over the crag into the sea. June is found, hiding among the rocks, by Gilbert Blye. He leads her safely away. Episode 15: "At Last, My Love" June leaves Bermuda with Blye and his associates. She is followed by Ned, who boards the same boat, unobserved. Once at sea, Ned tries to devise some plan for rescuing June from Blye. But in the end he realizes that he is powerless against Blye. He remembers his previous experience when he was held a prisoner on the boat as a maniac and determines to use cunning. He is certain that Blye knows he is aboard, and so hides in the hold. Blye discovers his presence on the steamer and bribes sailors to close the hatch. Ned is thus imprisoned and is unable to interfere for the remainder of the voyage. The steamer reaches New York and Blye gives instructions for the release of Ned. Then with June and the rest of the party, Blye goes ashore. As June, Blye and the others of the Blye party leave the pier and are about to enter their autos, Bill Wolf, Mrs. BIye's detective, rushes up. Blye knocks Wolf down and drives away. Wolf follows in a taxicab. He trails the entire party to a large building whose roof and some of whose sides are of glass. He then hurries to report to Mrs. Blye. When Ned comes out of the hold he is able to find no trace of June or Blye. Thinking that he may gain some information at Mrs. BIye's house he hurries there. He arrives in time to hear Bill Wolf tell Mrs. Blye of the large glass building and BIye's presence there. Mrs. Blye and Wolf start for the large building while Ned follows in another machine. On the way Ned sends a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Moore, June's parents, explaining the situation. The Moores start at once to assist Ned in his rescue of June. Ned finds a sturdy doorkeeper at the large glass building and fights with him to get in. Detective Wolf, who arrives on the scene with Mrs. Blye, assists Ned in his struggle with the doorkeeper. The two overpower the guardian of the entrance and force their way into the hallway of the building. Ned finds a locked door at the end of the hallway barring further progress. Peering through an opening of the door Ned sees that June, Blye and others are in the room. As Ned watches, June, Blye and his associates go into another room. Ned breaks down the door, but finds that the only egress, however, is through another barred door. The Moores arrive on the scene in time to see Ned breaking down the second door. Ned, the Moores, Mrs. Blye and Bill Wolf force their way into the presence of Blye, June and the others. The Blye party is grouped about Edwards, who is seated at a small table and is handling money to the various members of the group, in turn. As Edwards hands some money to June, Ned seizes Blye. Cunningham and the other men of the party separate the two and then explain the situation to Ned. The building in which they are, Blye tells Ned, is a moving picture studio. When June left her husband in order not to be financially dependent upon him she joined the motion picture company of Blye. The many strange adventures through which she passes and which mystifies the Moores and Ned, Blye explains, were scenes in various motion picture dramas in which June was leading woman. June has now won her independence and her contract with Blye has been fulfilled. Edwards is paymaster and was paying salaries. Ned is at last convinced and makes very humble apology to June. June forgives him and introduces him formally to Blye and the other members of the company. Everybody joins in a big farewell dinner to June and Ned. The situation has been explained to Mrs. Blye and she forgives her husband for his seeming disloyalty. June and Ned are toasted at the dinner and at its end resume their, interrupted honeymoon. END
- Mary Lee breaks her engagement with Jim, her penniless suitor, to marry Carroll, a wealthy miner. Later Carroll loses his fortune and abuses Mary. While prospecting, he meets Jim, who is returning across the desert to civilization with a burro laden with gold. Carroll shoots Jim and leaves him for dead. Carroll returns home and packs up, telling Mary that he is going to leave her now that he has gold enough to have a good time in town. Mary shoots after him as he leaves and punctures his water can. Carroll, when far in the desert, discovers that his water is gone. Later his burro, frightened by a rattlesnake, bolts and returns across the desert to Carroll's cabin. Carroll succumbs to thirst in the desert. Meanwhile Jim, badly wounded, drags himself to Carroll's cabin, where Mary nurses him back to health.
- Theatrical manager Isaac Shuman has a reputation for "taking advantage" of young girls who want to become stars on Broadway. Reporter Tom Warder investigates these stories and exposes Shuman in his newspaper. Shuman threatens to kill Warder, then leaves town. He returns several years later, and hatches a scheme to frame Tom and have him sent to prison. He succeeds, but Tom hatches his own plan to get his revenge.
- Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula. Mole kills the chemist, and he and Grinde frame an explosion to conceal the crime. After David refuses to sell the formula, Grinde and Mole lock him and his sweetheart in a vault with poisonous gas. Grinde then tries to kill Mole, who knows too much, and take over the firm from his elderly partner at a directors' meeting.
- Dr. Watson, on his way east, gets off the train to stretch his legs at a way station, and being called to the aid of a section boss, who has broken his arm, he finds there is no other train east till morning. He gets a room at the Red Horse Hotel and to while away the time joins in a faro game, winning all the money in sight. Bland, the gambler, and his assistants, Jack and Bill, hate to think of the doctor getting away with so much cash, so they conspire with the hotel keeper to drug Watson's drink, intending to rob him later. The doctor, however, only pretends to drink the doped liquor, and when the gambler attacks him in his room he overpowers him with his hypodermic needle and succeeds in escaping from the hotel, pursued by Jack and Bill. Watson finds refuge in the cottage of Granby, the section boss whom he has doctored. Already he has become much interested in his patient's pretty daughter, May. That night, in an attack upon the cottage by Watson's enemies, the gambler's accomplices, May is instrumental in saving the doctor's life. The rest of the story is eloquently implied.
- Jim Dodson, a poor workman, has been in the habit of begging a streetcar transfer in town, in order to ride home each night from work. Ford and Ransom, a couple of crooks, rob a store and among the things taken are a quantity of stamped envelopes with the name and address of the firm printed thereon. Helen, of the "Herald," tries to ferret out the robbery, but is unsuccessful, until one day Ford writes a letter and gives it to a passing little girl to mail, first scratching out the name on the stamped envelope. Helen bumps into the little girl, knocking the letter to the ground. Picking it up for her, Helen notes the scratched-out name and address, and follows the child to the crook's shack. There she discovers part of the loot, but is captured and tied up by one of them. Leaving her securely tied, Ford goes downtown to meet his pal, and on a streetcar they plan their getaway. Ford gives Ransom the address of the shack, and the hiding place of the loot, and writes it on a transfer slip, to be sure he doesn't forget it. Getting off the car at the transfer point, he drops the transfer and Jim hurriedly picks it up and gets on the car. The conductor is talking to Fields, a detective, also working on the case, and shows the transfer with its message to Fields. The latter, reading the message on it, leads a run to the rendezvous, rescues Helen and captures the crooks and the loot.
- Young Gordon Grant, swindled out of his fortune by Cyrus Brooks, a wealthy financier, vows to get even. Gordon goes home to Virginia, takes his few belongings to a high mountain hut, and becomes a hermit. One day an auto is stalled on the mountain. In it are Brooks and his daughter, while Brooks and the chauffeur go for assistance Gordon carries the girl to his hut. There he tells her of her father's deeds, and notifies Brooks that his daughter is held for ransom. The girl rather enjoys the situation. One day on the mountain she and Gordon see a legendary apparition formed by mist. Gordon takes this as an omen that he has done wrong and sets the girl free. She goes and pleads with her father to make restitution and threatens to return to Gordon if he does not. The old man relents and gives her the amount, which she takes to Gordon. She and Gordon have learned to love each other and they return to the world together.
- 'Our Mutual Girl' was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel, and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble), and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement--although, apparently, not paid placement.
- Before they reach their journey's end, homeseeker Bob West and his little daughter Ida are attacked by Indians who kill West, take Ida captive, and keep a letter West had written to his sister in the East--which incidentally bears the imprint of a smudgy little finger. Ida is rescued from the Indians by Morgan, a slave trader who takes her and the letter home to his plantation, where he substitutes the little white girl for a mulatto slave child who has recently died. Ida is put in charge of Sally, a yellow girl, and brutally treated. Some time later Mr. and Mrs. Marks pity Ida and buy her from Morgan. She lives happily with them for 12 years. Fred Gilbert, the Marks' nephew, pays them a visit and falls in love with Ida. His uncle and aunt are horrified, believing that the girl has Negro blood, and the young people are about to part forever when Sally, who has become inflamed by jealousy against Morgan, produces the letter written by West just before his death. By a fingerprint test Ida's identity is confirmed, and her white blood proved. The young people marry. Morgan is hunted down by a posse and is shot dead.
- Forsythe, a young military student of good family and independent means, marries Maisie, the daughter of a hotel keeper, while at school but shortly after graduation heeds the pleas of his parents and family who deprecate his union with one who in their opinion is beneath him in social station. Forsythe deserts his wife and renounces her. A child is born of the union. The boy grows to be a man but is not very successful at his work and finally, so that he may not be a burden upon his mother who has reared him as best she can on her limited means, he enters the army. The son spends several years in the ranks and finally is appointed a corporal. War breaks out and he is delegated to guard a certain post in order to prevent one o£ the enemy's spies from breaking through the cordon. While on duty the young man hears of his mother's fatal illness and leaves his post without permission. The son learns his father's name at his mother's deathbed, and is astounded when he remembers that the commander of his regiment bears the same name and initials and undoubtedly is his parent. Upon his return the young soldier is called before Forsythe and sentenced to death for having deserted in time of war. When Forsythe asks the young man why he committed such a breach of honor, his son tells of his mother's death and Forsythe realizes that he has sentenced his own son to execution. That night he aids his son to escape by exchanging his cape for the corporal's uniform worn by the young soldier but is shot himself when he attempts to leave the guard house.
- Davenport, a youthful member of a yegg gang, is a fugitive from justice with a price on his head. Exhausted and fainting from hunger, he enters a lonely railway station only to discover another poster facing him, detailing his being wanted by the sheriff. He starts to leave, but drops from weakness. Belle Heddon, the telegraph operator, revives him with a glass of water and shares her lunch with him. When he is in good-enough condition to leave, he takes her outside and shows her the poster, asking her if she realizes that she has befriended a criminal with a price on his head. She is startled for a moment then holds out her hand; he takes it and leaves. At the gang's meeting-place he is told that a large amount of money for the mines will arrive at that same lonely station that afternoon and that they have planned to steal it when it arrives. Realizing that the girl that assisted him would he in danger of being killed he refuses to be a party to the crime. The leader of the gang fells him with a blow and they leave him there stunned. When he becomes conscious again his only thought is of the girl. He staggers away and to the railway track where a limited is taking on water. At gunpoint he forces the engineer and fireman to bring the train at full speed to the station. In the meantime the yeggmen have arrived at the station and are trying to break their way in. The girl is without gun protection and has barricaded all the means of entrance. As the yeggmen finally burst in the door she sees the train backing in and smashing the window of her little office with a chair she grabs the money box and jumps through to the platform. Davenport rushes to her as one of the yeggmen fires through the window, and the bullet intended for Belle lodges in his heart. In that way he pays with his life her service to him given just hours earlier.
- A young westerner, known as the shrimp, is in love with a pretty western girl. They are engaged to be married. A big burly eastern bully arrives in town and becomes enamored of the girl. He deliberately acts the bully and shows up the shrimp as a coward because of his weakness, and sets about to win the girl. She, believing his courage to be of the right sort, throws over the shrimp and marries the bully. After they have been married some time, the bully is injured and unable to get around. While the bully is laid up, the doctor finds that worry and care the wife has gone through has incapacitated her to such an extent that she is unable to give her baby proper nourishment. The only way to save the baby's life is to furnish it with a proper amount of baby food. The doctor discovers that there is none in town. He goes to the saloon where the men are congregated and tells them that someone will have to cross the desert to a certain town where the food needed can be obtained. The men, knowing that few have ever returned after crossing the desert, back down. The man who shows supreme courage turns out to be the shrimp. He volunteers and we see him on the desert enduring every hardship. He enters the western town on the opposite side and secures a number of packages of the food. On the way back he loses his way; his horse dies, but he staggers on through the desert, still holding on to the precious food. One by one the packages slip away from his fingers until when he arrives in his home town he staggers up the main street and surrenders just two packages to the men in the saloon. The shrimp dies from exhaustion, the child lives, and the bully is regenerated.
- Walter Earl and Elmer Hay are two young farmers who are suitors for Dot Maynard's hand. Her father favors Walter while she herself favors Elmer. Walter is a clean cut young chap, but is inclined to be rather wayward and it is just those shortcomings that cause Dot to think that her sympathy and pity for him amount to real love. The rivalry comes to a climax shortly before the party at Dot's house. Elmer finds Walter trying to kiss Dot as she is returning from school after having a show fight with him. Taking Elmer's proffered arm she leaves Walter laughing at her and goes home with Elmer. The night of the country dance and candy pull when all the country side is on hand the two young men almost come to blows. In fact after Elmer has been cautioned by Dot's father not to show her too much attention he finds the hard cider much to his liking and when the two are about to come to an ugly fight it is only averted by the father's anger and the breaking up of the party. Maynard has Walter wait and tells Dot that it is his wish that she marry him and his command that she have nothing further to do with Elmer. Elmer has waited outside for Walter to leave and then throws a snowball to Dot's bedroom window. She sees him and comes down to meet him by stealth. They arrange to elope the next day. On the way to meet her the next day, Elmer somewhat under the influence of drink, curses and beats his horse unmercifully when the sleigh overturns. Dot, coming along with her bundle of clothing, oversees his brutality and her seeming love at once turns to hate. Walter happens by when Elmer tries to force her into the sleigh and takes her home with him. She tells her father everything and he leaves her with Walter. She asks Walter's forgiveness and discovers that she has really loved him all along.
- Grace Harrow is the parents. her father being an invalid, and is overjoyed to receive an appointment as school teacher. When she takes charge of the class, however, she is driven frantic by the antics of the big bully, who disrupts order and defies her. She appeals to the boy for his friendship, taking him to her home and badly her parents needs the money and he promises to reform. The very next day he breaks his word and Grace is driven to tears. Unless she can control her pupils she will lose her position. With courage and strength born of despair she determines to conquer this terrible boy with physical violence. Before the startled bully realizes her intentions, her heavy ruler has descended on his obstinate head and his mischievous hands, and when she gets through with him he is a cowed and blubbering boy, who runs home. His father-a grim old farmer repeats the dose, and leading him back by the ear, commends the teacher for her action. Grace is later shown, happy and contented, having paid off her parents' debts, and receiving the loving homage of her pupils--foremost among them the ex-bully.
- A dead child's broken doll reunites an estranged husband and wife.
- Jim Rose, fond of drink, falls into bad company and is involved in a robbery. He serves his term in state prison, and then, returning to his native town, determines to do right for the rest of his life. A detective, who has no faith in the reformation of crooks, betrays Jim to his employer, but Tom Bailey, also a detective, who is in love with Mamie, Jim's sister, honestly believing in Jim, wins his job back for him. Spike Hennessey and another former pal of the ex-convict try to blow the safe of the firm where Jim is employed. They are discovered by Jim, who refuses all their inducements to remain silent, causes their arrest and saves the company's property. Tom Bailey's and Mamie's faith in Jim is vindicated, and the head of the firm honors his heroic employee.
- Jimson, a mine foreman, discharges Pedro and Madro for trying to steal ore and when they attack him. He is forced to beat them up. They swear vengeance. Their enmity is intensified when Jimson rescues Nina, a Mexican girl, from the unwelcome attentions of Pedro. Nina and Jimson fall in love, and after the marriage, Pedro and his pal follow them as they ride away over the hills. Near the shack holding the windlass which supports the cable drum for the big ore bucket, they capture both Jimson and the girl. Nina is bound in a corner of the shack, while Pedro and Madro put Jimson, tied hand and foot in the ore bucket, suspended several hundred feet above the rocks below. Then they place a long candle upon a table beneath the rope holding the bucket and light it. It is evident that when the candle burns down to the rope Jimson will drop with the bucket to his death. Then, leaving their victim to his fate, the Mexicans hurry away. Nina struggles in vain. The candle is almost down to the rope. Near to where she is tied, is a long plank, propped against the wall. She can just reach it with her foot. She pushes it, and it falls outward across the table on top of the candle, extinguishing the flame. Nina and Jimson are rescued by the morning shift of workmen.
- Bailey, a crook, has his nose broken by Burton, the detective, in a street fight, and is a marked man thereafter, easy for the police to capture. He pulls off a job and is traced easily and captured by Burton because of his broken nose. Bailey now naturally nurses revenge against Burton. Bailey is sent away but escapes from prison and has his nose straightened by a benevolent doctor. He is now able to pass by Burton unrecognized and feels safe in working out his revenge, which he plans against Burton and his sweetheart. He has the girl lured away, but Burton rescues her and Bailey goes back to prison.
- Widow Morgan lives with her only child, Mary, 18 years old, who works in a store. She has formed the acquaintance of George Shields, a drummer, who visits the store to sell goods. He is infatuated with Mary and visits her at her home. The widow does not like Shields and so informs her daughter. The widow, unable to hold her dislike for Shields, tells him not to come to see Mary any more. The next day Shields meets Mary and, showing her a marriage license, persuades her to marry him. Under the pretense of having the minister come to his rooms at the hotel, Mary goes with him. He registers "George Shields and Wife." The next morning a telegram comes from his wife in St. Louis, telling him she is joining him. Mary reads the telegram and charges Shields with his perfidy. He acknowledges the truth of the telegram and tries to square Mary with money. She returns home and her mother learns the truth. In her anger, the mother grabs a revolver and rushes off to the hotel, where she confronts Shields in his rooms and shoots him. Mary follows her mother to prevent murder. Meantime the real wife has arrived at the hotel. Shields is placed in bed and the doctor sent for while the mother is taken to jail. At the trial the mother refuses to tell why she shot Shields, wishing to protect her daughter's reputation. She is about to be ordered taken back for trial when a confession comes from Shields, telling his guilt. Shields dies. The mother is set free and returns home with Mary.
- Documentary on the students and teachers of the Los Angeles Unified School District with a special emphasis on the students at Manual Arts High School.
- English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a title, he does not tell Grace, fearing that she will stop loving him. Grace provides support for her sister Stella Ford, whose husband is frequently away on business trips, so Stephen, hoping to alleviate Grace's financial burden, pays all of Stella's debts and provides her with an allowance. When Grace learns of the arrangement, she is hurt that he did not confide in her. Stella lives in a building occupied by a wild crowd. In the flat above her lives Netta, who has numerous boyfriends, including older man Jerome and young fop Bartlett. One evening, the rivals mistakenly enter Stella's apartment and Jerome kills Bartlett in the ensuing fight. Grace and Stephen discover the body, but following a series of incidents, they become convinced of Stella's innocence. In the end, matured by the tragedy, Stella is tearfully reunited with her newly-returned husband.
- Stock broker Albert Lowden is in danger of losing his business if he can't soon pay his creditors. His wife throws a party for her socialite friends, where a greedy maid steals a guest's necklace and hides it in a tin of soft soap on her mistress's vanity desk.The mistress herself, now aware of the missing jewelry, suspects her husband took it when she finds a letter dunning him.
- Bud Tilden, a mountaineer, is in love with Jeannette. Hank Holliday, his rival, tries to win the girl away from Bud. Finding this useless, he resorts to mean methods. He places an improper book in Bud's pocket and then, before all the men, he takes it out and shows them the sort of literature Bud reads. He decides that Jeannette must know of it, so wrapping up the book, he addresses it to Jeannette and drops it in the mall. Determined that his sweetheart shall not see the volume, Bud holds up the carrier and secures the book. He is apprehended and arrested. But at his trial, when the judge hears the whole story, Bud is freed and Hank is taken into custody.
- James Morrison, an old man living alone with his daughter, loses his position because he wishes to remain an honest man, and after vain searching for employment, is almost starving, along with his daughter, Bess. He frequents saloons and gets food for free lunches and even tries to get food from the garbage palls in the hall of the tenement where he lives. A thief living in the house steals a wallet from the man who discharged Morrison, and Morrison, having been seen about the halls acting suspiciously, is suspected. His daughter is ill and the old man feels ashamed and would rather be accused of theft than acknowledge that he had been reduced to rummaging garbage to live. An old woman neighbor has seen him though. She tells his former boss and the real thief, who is seen throwing the pocketbook away, is caught. The old man is given his job back by his former boss and he and Bess are assured of a happy future.
- Inspector MacGregor is in love with Jess, who is engaged to Jim Hackett, a quarryman. Knowing his case is hopeless, the inspector wishes her happiness, and at her wedding writes the following inscription in her autograph album: "Follow your conscience, whatever you do; both God and man will reward you in the end." Another admirer of Jess, a rich man named Hodges, shows in many ways that he also loves the pretty bride, who shrinks from his insinuating admiration. About a year later inspector MacGregor receives word that Jim Hackett made an attempt to kill his employer, Hodges. Jess comes to MacGregor and pleads with him to release her husband. Despite this, MacGregor sends Philip Steele, a young officer, to bring Jim to jail. Jess sees Philip Steele leave, and suddenly conceives an idea whereby she may be able to save her husband. She attracts Steele's attention by pretending her horse is lame, and as she leads him on he finds himself caught by three men, who gag and bind him. He is carried into a cabin and placed in a large box, which has holes cut out for him to look through. While in this box he is taken to Hodges' home, where he hears the men explaining that the box contains maps. Jess soon enters the room. Philip, from inside the box, can see her plainly. He sees Hodges trying to make love to her, and hears Jess furiously denouncing him. He listens, and for his benefit Jess tells the story of why her husband attacked Hodges. She explains how Hodges gave her husband work in his quarry, and then came to her cabin to make love to her, knowing her husband to be away; how Jim came home one day to see her struggling in Hodges' arms and, unable to restrain himself, he rushed upon Hodges injuring him. For this he was put into prison. As she finishes her story Hodges laughs and tries to take her into his arms. In the struggle his gun goes off and he is killed. Jess releases Philip Steele, who finds Hodges dead. Steele does not know what to do, and while undecided an orderly rides up to him and hands him the "Follow your conscience" slip torn from Jess' album. He sees that this was signed by MacGregor and thinks it came from him. Following his conscience, he decides to help Jim and Jess escape over the boundary line. Taking off his uniform, he dons an old suit. With his gun he holds up the guard at the station in which Jim is held. He gets Jim out and, taking off his mask, discloses his identity. He gives the young couple money and sees them safely on their way. Next day he returns to MacGregor. When the inspector asks, "Did you bring back your man?" he shows him the "Follow your conscience" slip, and MacGregor understands the brave fight Jess made for her husband's freedom.
- Old Dan Holton, who has been sheriff of Wolf County for years, is defeated at election by Young Jim Harper. Old Dan is chagrined and Young Jim thoughtlessly tells him it is time someone else had the job, Old Dan having held it long enough. Old Dan is angry at the young sheriff, and tells him he'll have the time of his life handling the local bad men. The young sheriff is engaged to marry Mary Snively, a daughter of a ranchman. Jim tells her the good news of his election, and says they shall now be married in a month. Three weeks later the stage, carrying $20,000 of Wells Fargo's money, is held up and robbed by three masked highwaymen. The young sheriff starts out on their trail. Mary cries, knowing Jim's dangerous mission, but he reassures her. Old Dan, the former sheriff, warns him that the men are reckless, and offers to go along as deputy, but young Jim rejects the offer. Mary forgets the bad feeling she knows exists between Old Dan and her lover, and rides to his cabin two hours after young Jim started. Meeting Old Dan, Mary shows her fears for Jim. Old Dan at first is grim enough, but her youth and beauty and her love for the young sheriff melt the old man's anger. He reassures her, but says he can do nothing, not being a deputy. Back at his cabin, Old Dan reviews the situation, and goes down to the saloon, and tells the men there they ought to go out as backers for young Jim. Old Dan warns them further that rumor says, "The Lone Highwayman had been seen in the neighborhood and might have been after the Wells Fargo's money himself." They tell him that it isn't their business, that Jim is sheriff, and if he wanted a posse, he could have raised one easily. Old Dan, back in his cabin, pictures young Jim trying to round up the three highwaymen, and Mary's broken heart if anything happens to the young sheriff. An hour later than that the highwaymen who have captured the young sheriff, and are now cooking their dinner at their fire, bind their captive still more tightly, and sit down to eat. Suddenly a voice cries, "Hands up," and the masked figure, who has approached them stealthily on horseback has them covered with his two guns. They are not fast enough in obeying and he shows them his skill with the pistol. Then they throw up their hands. He makes them drop their guns, collects them, then edges towards the bound sheriff whispering, "Give me your star, make me your deputy." Young Jim starts, then works his hands loose with the help of the other's knife, gives up the star, which the other puts with one hand to his breast. Then, with a grim laugh, the masked man throws off his mask. It is Old Dan, and he and the young sheriff, who is remorseful for his cruel jests at the old ex-sheriff, take the highwaymen to the town and the jail. Mary meets them. Young Jim explains matters to her. She throws her arms around Old Dan, and young Jim appoints the old man his perpetual deputy, telling him to keep the star.
- Simpson, a bug, who has been in jail all his life, is a victim of wonderful dreams. One day he escapes prison. In the meantime Count Derinsky, who it traveling in America incognito, takes a taxi in which the bug had secreted himself. The count has several letters of introduction to different clubs which the bug relieves him of; also changes clothes with him. The count is arrested as an escaped convict, while the bug takes advantage of the count's cards and letters and proceeds to enjoy himself until caught cheating at cards. He is thrown out the window. He wanders down the street and some mischievous boys place roller skates on his feet. The bug finds that he cannot control the skates, and the skates take him back to jail. He awakes to find it all was a dream.
- Walter secretly marries a sweet little girl beneath his station in life, against his father's commands. Walter is injured in his father's factory, and his pleadings to have his wife brought to him discloses the secret. The father finds an envelope addressed to the girl in his son's handwriting, and schemes to break the attachment. He writes a check for $5,000, which he seals in the envelope and delivers to the girl with the statement that his son does not wish to see her anymore and wants to make a cash settlement. The girl indignantly throws the check on the floor and declines to accept the proposition. Walter is told that his wife has refused to come to him, and in his helpless condition is unable to find out the truth. The boy's health does not improve, and the doctor tells the father that it is owing to his having lost all interest in life. The check comes back, having been cashed, and the father believes the girl is really mercenary and has accepted the settlement. However, to save his son's life he seeks her out. He finds that her father has compelled her to endorse the check and has taken the money, and recognizing her true worth he humbly apologizes for his deception and brings her to his home, to minister to her husband.
- Roger Blake's chief interest in life is the bag of money he has hidden behind a loose brick in the fireplace. Although his son, Joe, works on his farm more faithfully than any hired man would, Blake refuses to pay him for his services, pointing out that he is given everything he needs. Joe, ashamed of his lack of pocket-money, determines to steal the money he feels is rightfully his. His father catches him in the act and turns him out of the house, in spite of the pleadings of his wife and daughter. Joe finds work with a neighbor, but though he is now paid for his services, he is so homesick and wretched that he would gladly go back on the old basis if his father would forgive. Joe's sister promises to beg their father to let Joe return and to place a light in the window should he relent. The homesick boy creeps up to the gate of his home, but the light is never there. One night two rowdies from the village plan to rob Blake. They enter the house after the family has retired. Blake is aroused, hurries to the sitting-room, but is quickly overcome by the thieves. In the struggle the bag falls and the money spills. One of the thieves places the lamp on the window sill to get light on the floor where the coins have been lost. Seeing the light in the window, Joe thinks it is the signal he has been waiting for and he hurries joyfully toward the house. After a desperate struggle, he gets the better of the thieves and has them locked up. Blake, who has long realized he was wrong, but has been too stubborn to give in, capitulates, owns that Joe was right and the prodigal is taken back to the bosom of the family.
- Jack Adams, spokesman for workmen in a factory, pleads with the owner, Griscom, against a twenty percent cut in wages. Griscom refuses to consider the men's side, so the men walk out. Jack, seeking work at another factory, is "black-listed." He leaves in an ugly mood. Unable to find work anywhere, he is reduced to starvation. His wife needs a doctor. Jack sends a note to Griscom pleading to be taken back. Griscom answers, "Glad to see you so humble, but you can't work for me." Jack, irate, determines on vengeance. Outside Griscom's mansion Jack is overcome by weakness. Elsie, Griscom's favorite child, finds Jack, and has him taken into the house. Griscom comes in, suspects Jack's intentions, and accuses him. Jack tells of his terrible suffering. Elsie tries to console him. Jack is overcome. Griscom relents and offers food. Jack refuses. Elsie puts her arms around Jack, and he accepts the food. The touching scene penetrates the armor of Griscom's selfishness, and he offers his hand to Jack, who accepts it.
- Izzy loves Mae, the village belle. A yegg, posing as a canvasser, comes to town and nearly steals Mae away from Izzy. Izzy varnishes a chair with quick-drying glue. In his absence Mae and the yegg enter the store. Izzy returns and sits down in the chair. Mae asks Izzy to take her home, but Izzy is compelled to refuse. Mae leaves with the yegg. Izzy frees himself, but his trousers and part of his person are left on the chair. Afraid to pass through the streets. Izzy spends the night in the store. He is awakened shortly after midnight by the yegg trying to break open the safe. Izzy captures the yegg, thereby becoming the town hero, and cementing himself even more strongly in Mae's regard.
- Strathmore, a woman hater, falls in love with "Lady" Vavasour after having reproached his friend, Bertie Errol, for his attentions to Lucille, the little farm girl. Errol, too, has trifled with the Vavasour woman and warns Strathmore that she is thoroughly bad and not really Vavasour's wife at all. They quarrel and fight a duel in which Erroll is killed. He has left a letter to Strathmore, explaining that Lucille, the daughter of exiled but noble Russians, is really his wife though he has kept the marriage secret for fear of offending his family and wealthy uncle. When the news of Errol's death is brought to her, Mrs. Errol dies of shock and Strathmore adopts and rears the daughter of this match who has been named Lucille for her mother. Lord Strathmore drives "Lady" Vavasour from society and completely exposes her, for he holds her responsible for the trouble between himself and Errol. As the years pass, Lucille grows into a beautiful girl, and when the Comte de Valdor proposes for her hand she refuses him, revealing that she loves Strathmore. Because he has killed her father, he hesitates, but in the end he marries her. "Lady" Vavasour, affected by the girl's happiness, foregoes exposing the truth of her father's death.
- A man and his wife living on the lowlands. She is a consumptive and he is out of work. A stranger comes with a sprained ankle, and the husband takes him in and gives him a bed. Later the wife's condition growing worse, the stranger now well, about to bid adieu, the husband proposes a holdup to raise the necessary funds to take the wife out of the country. The stranger, being a fugitive from justice, readily consents. The two go to town. The husband leaves a note for his wife, telling her to be ready when they return. They rob the express office, and escape to the hills. The posse go in pursuit of the men. They elude the posse. The stranger being struck by the woman's beauty strikes the husband a blow on the head with his pistol, goes back and gets the wife, lies to her and tells her he is taking her to her husband. They start across the desert. The husband gains consciousness, finds the wife gone and thinks her untrue to him, and starts in pursuit of them. The girth from the woman's saddle breaks, giving the husband a chance to gain on them, having seen them .from the top of a mountain upon which he climbed. After repairing the saddle girth, the stranger takes the woman further into the desert. Lust overcomes him. He dismounts, trying to find a secluded spot. In looking for this they pass a grave. The stranger attacks the woman. She repulses him. The effort being too much for her, she faints. The stranger sees the husband, runs on and hides behind the grave and takes deliberate aim at the unsuspecting husband. The revolver refuses to fire. A bad cartridge causes a click, which is heard by the husband. A duel follows. The woman regains consciousness, sees her husband, runs to him smilingly. He sees her, takes deliberate aim, mortally wounding an innocent woman. The stranger seeing the wife fall at the husband's feet, shoots him. The stranger clears the wife, remorse getting the better of him. He sees the posse, tries to escape, but he is captured, however, and the sheriff asks him where the other man is. Then remembering that he himself had caused all of the trouble, takes the posse and shows them the grave, telling them that he killed the other man, allowing the husband freedom. But alas, too late, the woman's wound proves fatal and she dies in her husband's arms, after forgiving her husband, and he, poor fellow, is left with the body of the one he loved.
- Tom Evans, his wife and child live happily on their little place in Arizona, until the craze to see a big city and the thirst for gold get hold of Tom. He reads of the great "strike" at Cripple Creek. He goes there, strikes it rich, and makes his way to Chicago. There he forgets the wife and boy in Arizona in another existence. Twenty years pass, and at last comes a longing for his old home. He returns. The child he left is now a man, who tells his father that there is no place with him and his deserted mother for him. In the saloon the boy threatens his father before onlookers. Later, when the latter is found lying unconscious at the bottom of the arroyo, the son is accused and taken into custody. But Tom has only been stunned by his fall. He testifies that it was an accident, and a reconciliation is effected between him and his long lost family.
- Ralph Cummings is engaged to Hilda Hawthorne until George Blake, a wealthy banker, comes along and she marries him. Cummings, who is a writer and poor, takes it much to heart, and vows always to remain true to his ideal, although she has disappointed him sorely. He is in the habit of browsing over books at an old book store where he meets Mary Sharp, the daughter of the proprietor. She falls in love with Cummings, who does not realize it. He finds an old school book of Hilda's among the books on sale and buys it as it has her name in it. He hears later that she is a widow. He calls, but she laughs at him and sneers at his poverty. He goes away and once more goes back to the book store to find the real girl.