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- Rinaldo Raynaldi, a business man, is unable to pay a note of $150,000. He tries to win the shortage at a game. He takes with him all the money that his safe contains and goes to a gambling house, where he loses his last penny. In order to save himself from ruin and dishonor he feigns a theft, and to make the scheme more realistic, hides some valuable titles in the house of his manager, Valeri. The theft is discovered. After an investigation by the police, the hidden titles are found in Valeri's house. Valeri cannot understand the plot, and in front of that terrible accusation loses his mind. Twelve years have elapsed. The poor Valeri is still in the insane asylum. His wife, reduced to poverty, is sick in the country, and Lydia, their only daughter, is in the city working. One day Lydia receives a letter in which her mother, before dying, reveals to her daughter that Raynaldi has been the cause of their misfortune. Lydia goes to Raynaldi for a job and is accepted as a typewriter. Raynaldi and his son Emilo fall in love with the girl, who, in order to get revenge, does not reject Raynaldi's courting. One day Raynaldi, in exchange of Lydia's love, offers her a rich apartment in an elegant villa. Emilo goes often to see her. He knows that he is his father's rival, but he has seen that Lydia is not indifferent to his love, and indeed, Lydia loves him. One day Lydia thinks of putting Raynaldi in front of her insane father, Valeri. She asks permission from the director of the asylum to have her father in her house for a few hours. She then invites Raynaldi to see her. When Raynaldi arrives, the insane Valeri appears before him. He believes this to be a horrible dream, and Lydia, who is present at the scene, accuses him of the theft, at the same time revealing herself to him as the daughter of his victim. The shock kills Raynaldi. Lydia has avenged her father. The insane was taken back to the asylum, and Lydia decides to leave the city forever. She goes to bid Emilo her last good-bye, and ask forgiveness for the pain she caused him. But Emilo's love for Lydia is too strong. He asks her to be his wife, and is accepted.
- For a crime of which he was falsely accused Peter Neillson was condemned to life imprisonment. The fight against poverty was too much for his poor wife. On her deathbed she implored an old friend, Antonio, to take her infant daughter, Marie, and bring her up. For twenty long years the convict plotted to burst his dungeon bars, to fly to his child and devote the remnant of his life to her. The moment at last arrived. He escaped and again entered the world. With all speed he sought Antonio, only to be told that his daughter had run away years ago with a stranger. Antonio, however, introduced as his own daughter a young woman whose name was also Marie, and who was engaged to a worthy young man. The outcast looked with envious eyes upon the happy Antonio. After vainly seeking employment, he at last applied at the castle of the young and dissolute Duke of Belnord. To him Peter confided all, his past, his escape and his present condition, and begged for a chance to redeem himself. The duke saw his opportunity. He had been attracted by Marie's beauty and longed to possess her. He accordingly took the convict into his confidence, and offered employment and safety in return for the trapping of Marie, Peter agreed to the Duke's terms. A few days later he proceeded to carry out his part of the bargain. He told Marie that her fiancé had been injured and taken to the castle, thus luring the unsuspecting girl into the Duke's power. When Peter left the castle he met Antonio, who had missed Marie and was anxious about her. The moment of Peter's revenge had come. "Your daughter," he said, "was not better than mine. She has suffered the same fate." He knew what Peter meant. "What have you done?" cried Antonio, "I loved Marie too much to give her up. I lied to you. She is your daughter." Peter turned and dashed off toward the castle. He gained admittance, and asked for the duke. In frenzy, he explained his relationship to the girl, and demanded that she be liberated. The duke, with a shrug, ordered his lackeys to throw the convict out. Returning to the castle, he climbed the wall by means of jutting rocks and reached the parapet. He heard cries for help coming from the window of a room far below. Securing a coil of rope he lowered himself down the side of the castle. He reached the window. Through the bars he beheld his child unconscious in the duke's power. The latter rushed to the window and attacked the rescuer with a knife. Peter lost his hold of the rope and fell backward, but he had looped the rope around his foot and was saved. A moment he hung head downward. Then slowly he regained his hold and climbed back to the window. He aroused the girl from her stupor. "I am your father, Marie," he cried. "Come away, hurry." They hastened to the window. Marie, when she beheld the great distance to the ground, shrank back in fear. Her father forced her through the bars, and together they made their way down to safety. When the duke returned and found the girl had gone, he resolved to deliver her convict father back to the law, and with a party of retainers started from the castle in quest of his man. In the meantime Peter had taken the girl to Antonio's house. Then, receiving word of the duke's intention to betray him, he fled. At the edge of a high precipice he found himself in a trap. Looking back he saw his enemy approaching. Before he could escape Belnord was upon him. There, with the abyss yawning beside them, they fought. Suddenly, with a harrowing cry, the duke fell backward. As he fell he clutched Peter, and together they went over the precipice. Antonio, Marie and her lover, who had seen the struggle from a distance, rushed to where the men fell. The Duke of Belnord lay motionless in death. Peter was gasping pitifully for breath when Marie knelt beside him. With a last effort the dying man placed Marie's hand in her lover's.
- Nancy, a girl employed on Madame Rosa's farm, is pestered by the attentions of Carmelo, the younger son of Madame Rosa. The elder son, Thomas. tries to protect the girl from his brother's pursuit, and almost forces him to go away on a long journey to free Nancy from annoyance. Jean, a wagoner on the farm. is also in love with Nancy, but is too poor to marry her Thomas induces Jean to accept a present of money to start them in housekeeping. Nancy and Jean have been happily married for a year when Carmelo returns, and in spite of Nancy now being a wife and a mother he secretly visits her at her cottage, where he is surprised by Jean making love to his wife, and is ordered off the premises. Carmelo determines to get rid of Jean, so he promises a ruffian a large sum of money to shoot Jean, giving him a written promise to pay on Jean being removed from his path. Jean is shot, and carried to his cottage, where he dies in his wife's arms. The ruffian who shot Jean, being pursued, takes refuge on the farm, where Thomas learns, through seeing the written promise of Carmelo, of his brother's baseness. He, to save the family name, buys the document and burns it, and turns the assassin out Madame Rosa, pitying the poor, disconsolate young widow, Nancy, invites her to come and live on the farm. Even Nancy's sad state does not protect her from Carmelo's pursuit, and Thomas resolves to marry Nancy, and so put her beyond Carmelo's power. Nancy is touched by Thomas's respect and love, and agrees to marry him. Being now secure from Carmelo, she agrees to forgive him for the sake of Madame Rosa and her future husband.