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- Conjoined twins have their relationship tested when a woman takes interest in one of them.
- Fred Martin is a Southern spy. A northern dispatch bearer is captured, and the signature to his messages is forged and Martin is sent on the dangerous mission of luring the Northern troops into an ambush. He accomplishes this, and a terrible battle results, in which the Federals are driven back. The work of Martin is so damaging to the North that plans are laid for his capture, and John Bruce, a secret service man, is assigned to the task. He goes to Martin's home town and presents a forged letter of introduction to the Martins, purporting to be signed by Fred Martin. He is welcomed into the home and to further his ends makes love to Anna Martin. While in the Martin home the Northern troops surround the house and Bruce, fearing that his plans to capture Martin will fall if the field is not left clear for him to return, is compelled to make himself known to the Northern officer. Fred Martin is expected on a visit that night, so Bruce shows his credentials as a secret service man and instructs the soldiers to secrete themselves about the house. In bidding good-bye to Anna he drops the passport, and she learns the awful truth. Anna has been expecting her brother, and has given the signal, a candle in the window, that the coast was clear. Gun in hand, Bruce awaits Fred, and the anguished girl sees the spy in the moonlight, crouching behind a bush. Galloping towards home, Fred is surprised on a bridge by two northern sentries. Dismounting, he hands them a pass hoping they will be deceived by the northern uniform he is wearing. In swift succession he delivers crushing blows upon the faces of the sentries, and they tumble off the bridge into the water, and leaping on his horse he gallops away. With swift strokes one of the sentries gets to shore, and leveling his rifle takes a quick shot at Fred as he goes around a bend in the road, little thinking it will hit the mark. Fred's horse is struck, and leaping into the air it turns a complete somersault backwards and falls on Fred, Crushed and hurt, Fred extricates himself from the dying animal, and crawls away. The delay has saved him, for the northern soldiers awaiting him give him up in the early hours of the morning, and when Fred drags himself to the door he is unobserved. Anna and her mother put Fred to bed. In his wounded condition he is helpless, and Anna realizes that he must be captured unless she saves him. Attempting to leave the house, her way is barred by a northern sentry. Donning her brother's clothes she manages to affect her escape, and leaping on a horse gallops swiftly away. Bruce has determined upon a bold stroke, and impersonating Fred he goes to the union colonel and tells him a detachment of southern soldiers is nearby, and attempts to lead the northern soldiers into an ambush. In the meantime Anna is making a wild ride, sparing neither the horse nor herself, and she arrives in time to bare Bruce's plot, and accuse him. On her part, Anna has fallen desperately in love with Bruce, and he has lost his heart to the brave girl, but each buries personal feeling for the sake of their respective countries. Bruce is arrested and quickly tried and convicted of being a spy. He is led out in the field, and a dozen soldiers face him with leveled rifles. Anna sees the impending execution and with an agonized scream darts across the field, but the rifles thunder a volley and the man she loves falls dead. The picture ends with Anna sobbing over the dead secret service man.
- Set in Sicily in 1860, Massimo Serato, a patriot in disguise complete with tights, mask and trimmings and known as the Count of St. Elmo, is fighting an oppressive government. He holds up a stagecoach in order to obtain money to fund his quest and among his captives is Bianca, a famous opera singer, whom he releases after she sings for the bandits and she, naturally, loses her heart to him. Later, he attempts to rob the home of the Police Minister and is detected by a servant. He finds refuge in the room of the Minister's daughter, Anna Marie Ferrero, tells her of his mission and she also finds herself a victim of his charms. Like that.
- Howard Spurlock, wrongfully accused of theft, believes police are seeking his arrest. On "the ragged edge," he takes refuge in China, where he meets and is nursed back to health by Ruth Endicott, daughter of a missionary. They marry and go to an island in the South Seas where, later, his innocence is proved.
- A confederate soldier gives up his life in order to save his rival.
- A Londoner's country wife leaves him to become a singer, but returns when he saves her from a cad.
- A jealous girl changes a new baby for a puppy.
- A boy fills scent-spray with a professor's 'laughter liquid'.
- A man tears his boot and must hop to the cobblers.
- There is a fierce battle raging between the Union and Confederate soldiers outside of Nellie Morton's home, and when the Southern boys show signs of weakening, her Southern heart is stirred by the sight. Captain Blake of the Union forces, is wounded by a bursting shell, but he manages to crawl to the Morton lawn, where he falls exhausted. He is found by Nellie, who at first levels a pistol at his head, commanding him to move on. He painfully rises, and the suppressed look of pain, and the wound in his forehead have such an effect upon Nellie's heart that she brings him into the house, where he is nursed. With the setting sun a cessation of the hostilities between the two armies are brought, and the Confederate soldiers camp near the Morton home. The Confederate officers are seen approaching and Blake is told to hide upstairs. But the officers find the Yankee's coat and Nellie is forced to admit to having Blake in hiding. In the meantime, however, Blake, who has heard the conversation, escapes by an open window. Outside he knocks the sentry senseless and dons his gray uniform. His escape is discovered, and the Confederate officers rush outside and past him, not recognizing him in his Southern uniform. The next day Blake's coat is found by a company of Union officers, and old Morton is accused of having killed a Yankee officer. He is thrown into prison. In the meantime, Blake manages to reach his company, and encounters the Confederates at a bridge, where a fierce conflict takes place, the Union men being victorious in the end. As Blake is returning to the colonel to report the victory, he meets Nellie at the door, who had come to plead for her father's life. She tells him the story and he secures her father's pardon. Blake asks Nellie to marry him and she says, "When Lee surrenders." After the war, at his mother's home, he receives a letter from Nellie, saying, "Lee has surrendered." And we all know what that means.
- A cleaner looks through the windows of a hotel.
- A girl robs a colonel and eludes a detective by posing as a curio dealer.
- A girl helps her rejected suitor pose as a maid to win her father's consent.
- A drunk tries to emulate a juggler.
- In Ireland, an outlaw thwarts an informer and escapes capture.
- Children play with their toys while Grandpa dozes. he dreams that the doll's house catches fire and the toys rush to put out the flames. he awakens to find the children squirting him with water.
- A dog saves a farmer's baby from kidnap by a gypsy.
- A workless man turns poacher and saves the squire's daughter from a runaway horse.
- A boy cyclist rides into people and is pelted with eggs.
- Nobby damages furniture looking for his collar stud.
- A detective tracks a girl through fingerprints on a forged note.
- Foreign agents kidnap the lieutenant for plans of secret gun trials.
- A man poses as a boy to sell broken chine to Jews.
- Their eyes heavy with grief, Edith and Violet, dancers, return from the funeral of their sister, Grace. They find a letter marked, "To be opened after my burial," which encloses a photograph. This, the dead sister identifies as the man who has wronged her and through his falseness has brought her to her death. Her request is that her sisters seek him out and avenge her. Strangely enough, she omits to mention his name and address. Conjuring before them the image of the beloved departed, Edith and Violet swear to find the unknown and wreak their worst upon him. Assuming new names to aid their search, the sisters are engaged to dance in a music hall. Here comes Viscount Henry, and a party of friends. This count is peculiarly attracted by the mysterious masked sisters. He asks the manager to introduce him. Violet's beauty is the source of particular attraction. The other sister fears danger and recalls to her her sister's fate. This count persists, although a likeness to the dead Grace, to whom he once promised marriage, causes him uneasiness. Edith, calling upon the viscount to learn the purpose of his attentions, accidentally finds her late sister's portrait. Returning with the portrait of the viscount the sisters compare the one which the sister had enclosed in her last letter. They are identical. Edith reminds Violet of their oath of vengeance. It falls to Edith's lot to execute the oath. She goes to the viscount's house and confronts him with his guilt. He orders his servants to arrest her. She escapes. Keenly anxious, the other sister, Violet, comes to the house about this time. She is daunted by the onrush of the pursuers who are chasing her sister. Mistaking Violet for Edith, they pursue the former, and a stern and exciting chase it is. Edith, in the meantime, returns to the house, where she meets the Viscount, now unprotected by his servants. A shot from Edith's revolver, and a long fall down a secret passage ends his evil life.
- A drunkard returns home late and has a friend pose as a burglar.
- A butcher running with a knife is actually seeking a grinder.
- Parents try to keep their baby clean for a photographer.
- A muscular woman throws out a persistent bailiff.
- A city man's wife is suspicious when he refuses to answer the phone.
- An heir tries to stop his cousin from marrying in order to inherit a fortune.
- A man dressed as a cave man for a pageant is mistaken for a real one.
- A man makes a mess of a new job.
- Pimple finds money and buys a motor-bicycle.
- Father cannot kill a pet rooster so he buys a bird, which is tough.
- Tramps steal a conjurer's equipment and rob a blindfolded countryman.
- In Ireland, rivals duel for a girl. She accepts the loser.
- An army lieutenant is loved by an Indian girl, who gives her life in order to save the fort.
- A legatee's search for a parrot he gave away.
- A man rigs an affair between his wife and a doctor to cause a divorce and marry the doctor's wife.
- A man fools his rich aunt by miming to a concealed violinist.
- An eloping couple 'change partners' with a squire and his ward.
- A doctor's clumsy deputy makes mistakes in a hospital.
- Pimple emulates dancers, is arrested, and slips out of his coat.
- The victim of a blindfold trick fails to trick others.
- Buskers play popular tunes and everybody dances.