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- A young man gives life to a statue with disastrous results.
- Rev. Bradford seeks the health resort conducted by William Muldoon. "Kid Garvey," who has known Mr. Muldoon for many years, calls on his old friend. Rev. Bradford arrives and he chooses the "Kid" as his trainer, believing him to be one of the regular trainers of the institution. Garvey seeks an opportunity of breaking into "swell society" and requests that he be introduced by his right name, Frank Sheldon. Besides Rev. Bradford, Mr. Thaddeus Fullon, his daughter Catherine and her chum Estelle are stopping with the Watermans and friends of the minister. The minister and the Kid are boxing on the front lawn. The children of the neighborhood learn of this and peek over the hedge at the combatants. There is one, however, the cook, who does not think that this is quite the proper conduct of a minister and plainly demonstrates it in her attitude toward the two pugilists. Catherine, not to be denied the acquaintance of the minister's new found friend, seeks an introduction. It is evident there is a mutual attraction. In the meantime, Reginald Lumley, a society fop, has told Judge Bates, an old friend of the Watermans, that he is engaged to Catherine Fulton. The Judge reminds him of Myrtle Morrison, a vaudeville headliner whom the Judge persuaded to give him up. "Kid Garvey" has known Myrtle for many years. He meets her to take her for an auto ride, when Rev. Bradford happens along. The minister is introduced to Myrtle under her right name, Miss McCarthy, and is invited to accompany them for a ride. Their drive takes them to a restaurant, where Taylor, a reporter on the Times, spies them. The next morning the family is shocked when they discover a news item telling of Rev. Bradford dining with a prize fighter and a vaudeville headliner. Mr. Waterman and Rev. Bradford explain things to Judge Bates and instruct him to demand a denial of the article or institute suit immediately. The reporter is sent to the Waterman home upon receipt of the letter to explain that the story is true and that the paper will not print a retraction. Frank Sheldon is announced and when he reads the articles he is annoyed that they stated Myrtle was at the Pleasure Palace, because she is playing at the Orpheum, a high-class house. A theater party is arranged, but Catherine slyly tells Garvey that she wants to see him and pleads a headache as an excuse not to join the party. Estelle, suspicious that the headache is feigned, volunteers to stay at home with her chum. All symptoms of a headache disappear when Catherine bears the honking of an automobile horn. She hurries down and admits Garvey. Estelle follows and secretes herself behind a screen. When Garvey asks Catherine to marry him she shows him the engagement ring she is already wearing. This does not deter him. He replaces it with a larger one. She, however, complains that he is a pugilist. He tells her of his home, how he was expelled from school for fighting, his elation when he won his first battle, and then his training for his title bout, explaining that he had lived a cleaner life than most society gentlemen. An elopement is planned. The plot is overheard by Estelle and she plans to outwit the lovers. When Catherine reaches the library prepared to go she pleads with her not to marry the pugilist, and at a moment when Catherine is not looking Estelle runs out a side door, locking it on the other side. With a veil over her face Garvey does not recognize her and speeds away with the other girl. In her frantic efforts to get out Catherine kicks a glass panel of the door, breaking it and arousing the whole household. In the meantime the theater party is enjoying the show. The headliner is the next attraction. The Judge, looking at his program, calls Lumley's attention to the fact that Myrtle is the next player to appear. He hastens from the theater and in crossing crowded Broadway is run down by the speeding elopers. They are arrested, but are released on the promise of Mr. Muldoon that they will appear in the morning. They, however, forgot their traveling bag and when Taylor, the reporter, enters the entry on the blotter of "Kid" Garvey and Myrtle Morrison does not fool him, as he connects the Initials, "C.F.," on the handbag with Catherine Fulton. When he calls at the house for the story, everyone is a bit surprised, as Catherine has not left the house. Garvey and Estelle enter and things are explained. Lumley staggers in and tells that he is the one who was run over. Garvey phones Myrtle to call in the morning to the police court, as he sees a possibility for some publicity for her. When morning breaks explanations are in order. Lumley gives Catherine up. The minister declares his affection for Estelle and Lumley discovers that Myrtle is really the girl lie loves. Catherine and Garvey plan for their wedding to take place immediately after Garvey's appearance at the police court.
- Helen Warner, courted by Lawrence Grove, the son of a wealthy contractor, agrees to secretly marry him and to that end goes to the city with him. Lawrence leaves her to meet his father, and while driving him in his racer, informs him of the proposed marriage to Helen. Grove, Sr., opposes the proposition and heated words follow. The automobile, suddenly stalled on a railroad track, is smashed by an oncoming train. Grove and his son are seriously injured, removed to a hospital, where both remain unconscious for two days. In the meantime, Helen, who has remained awake the entire night at the hotel waiting the return of Lawrence, believes he has deserted her, and ashamed to return to her home in the country, determines to find work in the city. Upon his recovery, Lawrence endeavors to locate Helen, but is unable to procure any word of her whereabouts. Grief-stricken at the turn of affairs, he accepts an engineering engagement in Canada, where he spends the succeeding two years. Meanwhile Helen has accepted one position after another, under an assumed name, finally she finds work as the stenographer of James Wayne, a prominent city lawyer. Helen's mother has died, and her sister, Alice, takes up her residence with her aunt in the city, and at a reception given in her honor, she meets Wayne, whom she later marries. Wayne becomes infatuated with Helen's beauty, proposes that she give up her job as his stenographer, and accept his offer to remain as his companion and pal. First rejecting his advances, Helen, in a moment of weakness, however, finally gives way. Lawrence Grove, upon his return from Canada, calls upon Wayne, who is his father's lawyer, and employs him to find Helen Warner, informing him of the details of their separation. Lawrence shows Wayne her photograph and Wayne realizes that the girl he has wronged is the object of Lawrence's quest. Wayne makes an excuse and leaves his office, telling Lawrence to dictate a description of the girl to his stenographer, and there Helen and Lawrence meet. Lawrence urges her to marry him immediately, but she answers that she is unworthy of him, that another man has already entered her life. Lawrence is beside himself with rage and urges her to reveal the man's name, vowing that he will kill him. Helen refuses. She leaves Wayne's employ and takes up her residence at the home of Wayne's managing clerk, Simpson. In the meantime, Helen has written Alice to the country, not knowing that her sister had returned to the city, and asking Alice to take her away. The letter is read to Alice in New York, and she calls for Helen at Simpson's home, at the same time that Wayne calls for the purpose of urging Helen to marry Lawrence. It is then that Helen learns that Wayne is her sister's husband. Alice takes Helen to their home, where she meets Lawrence, who again pleads with her to marry him. She still refuses him. Wayne also urges her to accept the boy and finally, in order to force her to consent, tells her in the presence of Lawrence that he knows the name of the other man, and that unless she marries Lawrence, he will name the man and at the same time places a gun on the table in front of Lawrence, knowing Lawrence will carry out his threat and kill him. Helen realizes how many lives are dependent on her decision, and what it would mean to her sister especially, finally consents to marry Lawrence, whom she still loves, but of whom she has not felt worthy.
- Young English boy Paul Kegsworthy lives with his brutal stepfather after his real father was thrown in jail. Paul eventually runs away and arrives in London, changing his name to Paul Savelli. Young Princess Sophie Zobraska takes Paul under her wing, sees that he's educated and, when she feels he's ready, grooms him to run for Parliament. His opponent, Silas Finn, is an older and more established politician, and one day he comes to Paul and demands that he bow out of the race, but Paul Refuses. Finn, however, has an ace up his sleeve that Paul hasn't counted on.