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- Thornton Darcy, an idealistic poet, is at work upon an allegorical poem which he calls "Virtue." He devotes the first part of it to picturing the idyllic state of the earth prior to the advent of evil in which Virtue is the world's guiding spirit. Virtue is represented by a nude female figure, artlessly adorned with filmy drapery. In the second part he introduces the Greek myth of Pandora, who releases Evil on the world. Finishing his work for the day, Darcy falls into a light doze and upon awakening discovers that his dream girl, Virtue, has come to life in the person of a young woman clad in a simple homemade dress kneeling on the bank of the stream gathering flowers. They become acquainted and he learns that her name is Purity Worth, and that she lives near the woods in a humble secluded home. She makes an instant appeal to Darcy as he does to her and they repeat the meeting in the woods, with the result that they fall in love and are engaged, in spite of the fact that there is no immediate prospect of marriage, owing to Darcy'e reduced circumstances. Darcy is unable to sell his poems, and the publisher will not print them for less than five hundred dollars. Claude Lamarque, a painter, strolling in the woods, sees Purity bathing in a stream. He later succeeds in meeting Purity and makes her an offer to pose for him. She refuses, but accepts his card. Purity receives word from Darcy that he is ill in bed and begging her to come with him. His final effort to publish his book of poems has met with refusal. Unselfishly seeking t aid him, she goes to Lamarque, secures five hundred dollars in advance with a promise to repay him by posing for him, and earning money from other artists, and at once turns the money over to the publisher to bring out Darcy's book. She binds the publisher to secrecy. Darcy is confined to his bed with a siege of illness, and is only saved from death by the happy turn. Purity guards from him the secret of her share in it. In the meantime, she poses regularly for Lamarque. Through his interest in her he secures an engagement for her to pose in imitation of marble statuary at a fete given by a fashionable young widow, Judith Lure. No sooner is Darcy's book published than it excites instant attention and praise, and he becomes the lion of the hour. In the meantime, Luston Black, an acquaintance of Lamarque, having caught a glimpse of Purity posing for the artist, has become infatuated with her. He assumes that because of her position as a model he will have an easy conquest. But Purity, despite her innocence, sense his base motives and spurns him. Darcy, accepting an invitation to visit Lamarque, comes into the studio while Black is pressing his attentions upon Purity. He thrashes Black, who taunts the poet with the fact that his fiancée is posing in the nude. Darcy will not believe it. Purity acknowledges the truth. Darcy will not listen to Purity's explanations and casts her off. A short time later the poet sees Lamarque's finished picture of "Virtue." Darcy is quick to read the great truth that the picture is intended to convey and upon learning that Purity was the instrument through which his poems were published, hastens to her. They are happily reunited.
- You see the incidents that led to the Blackhawk War- the signing of the treaty of 1830, the first assault on settlers in 1831- how the news reached Springfield, where you see Abraham Lincoln, axe on shoulder, hearing the news, his volunteer company and what happened and when they reported to General Scott; how Blackhawk, after his peace messengers were shot, decided to fight. Also a glimpse of Mrs. Zachary Taylor and her two daughters, their determination to visit their father at Ft. Crawford, how Blackhawk captured Sarah Taylor and how Jefferson Davis recaptured her and fell in love with her, the famous attack on Ft. Crawford with burning fagots, battering rams, and finally the successful attack with flaming arrows. We see the suffering inside the fort and the marriage of Davis and Sarah, finally the ultimate capture of Blackhawk, after a blood-stirring battle.
- This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.
- "Damaged Goods" pictures the terrible consequences of vice and the physical ruin that follows the abuse of moral law. It is a stirring plea for a pure life before marriage, in order to make impossible the transmission of unhealthy hereditary traits to future generations.
- Ward Curtis, president of a development company, comes to the western town of Los Huesos with his daughter, Wynne, to investigate a report made by one of his field scouts that there is a gold stream on the land occupied by the Bar C outfit. The Bar C people have no legal title to the land, but they have terrorized the neighborhood, and intimidated the government officials. The land is used for grazing purposes, and the Bar C people know nothing about the gold stream. There has also come to Los Huesos a cowpuncher known only as "The Stranger," the only man who refuses to be intimidated by Bar C crowd. Curtis meets the Stranger, who consents to assist Curtis in his undertaking, hoping to win favor with Wynne. She is mildly interested in him, but is disappointed and bored by the town and its people, and after a week or so packs her bags and leaves for home, saying that the Stranger is the only picturesque thing she has seen in this land of lizards. Near the Bar C holdings is a small sheep ranch operated by Dave Moore and his daughter, Bobbie, as a blind to cover more important operations, by moonlight Moore secretly pans the gold stream on the Bar C ranch. Bobbie maintains a disguise as a boy for her own protection from the lawless cowpunchers, and to keep them from becoming interested in her father's affairs. The Stranger sets out to investigate the placer site, and stops at the Moore cabin to make inquiries about the Bar C crowd. He meets Bobbie without suspecting her disguise, and she manifests considerable interest in him. The Stranger locates the placer stream, but is observed by Moore, who hastens to the land office and files on the creek bed. By moonlight Moore builds on his claim, but is discovered by one of the Bar C outlaws and killed. The Stranger, who has set up his camp in a blind canyon known as the "Cow's Mouth" near the creek, hears the exchange of shots, gets into the scrap and drives away the outlaw, then brings Moore's body to Bobbie. The Bar C crowd, led by Moran, set out to "get" the Stranger. They come to Bobbie's cabin, but she directs them to town. They search the town, then decide that Bobbie has lied to them, and start again for her cabin. The Stranger discovers that Bobbie is a girl, and falls in love with her. He leaves the cabin and goes to the Cow's Mouth to "hide out" from the Bar C crowd. The Bar C boys come to Bobbie's cabin, and she is handled brutally by Moran to get her to tell what has become of the Stranger. Her hat falls off, and her secret is discovered. Moran claims her as his personal prize, and they set off to pursue the Stranger. They see him enter the narrow passage into the Cow's Mouth. Inside he starts a grass fire, then slips out with his horse through a secret passage which is unknown to the Bar C fellows. Leaving one of their number to guard Bobbie, the others go in after the Stranger, but are soon driven out by the fire. As they come single file through the passage the Stranger picks off the first two or three with his gun; the rest surrender. Moran is one of the men who was killed. Bobbie is taken to the Bar C ranch house by the outlaws. The Stranger rides into town and turns his captives over to the authorities, and enlists the men there to go to Bobbie's rescue. Later, as Bobbie and the Stranger are about to board a train for their honeymoon, Curtis rushes up to them and announces that, by the death of her father, Bobbie is now the owner of the gold stream claim.
- Lord Loveland in England is besieged by his creditors and consults his mother as to what he should do. He is advised to go to America and marry an heiress. He plans to sail on a certain ship, but at the eleventh hour changes his plans and departs on another vessel without informing his relatives of the change. Meanwhile, In England, his valet, annoyed at not having been paid a year's wages, impersonates Lord Loveland. At New York's most expensive hotel Lord Loveland discovers he has but forty cents in his pocket. He goes to bank and presents his letter of credit, but the bank determines that he is a bogus Lord and will not honor the draft. Disgusted, Lord Loveland returns to his hotel, where he finds he has no credit. He is ejected and his baggage is held in lieu of the bills he has already accumulated at the hostelry. Lord Loveland is alone in a strange world and with forty cents in his pocket. He applies to a friend for aid, but the friend, thinking the card presented is that of the bogus Lord Loveland. refuses to even see the visitor. Disheartened and disgusted, the nobleman betakes himself to Central Park, where through the thrilling rescue by Lord Loveland of a mongrel puppy, he forms a fast friendship with one Bill Willing, a likable old man out of work. Willing takes Lord Loveland to a cheap hotel where his forty cents is more than sufficient to procure two beds. In the morning he takes the English peer to a restaurant where in payment for meals, Willing draws artistic signs which advertise the day's tempting viands at Alex's restaurant. Lord Loveland, attired in evening clothes and monocle, has no trouble in getting employment as a waiter. He hopes thus to earn sufficient funds to pay his passage back to the dear old British Isles, but Tony Kidd, an enterprising New York reporter, learns of the monocled waiter and writes a story for his paper. Crowds come daily to Alex's restaurant to be waited on by this unique garcon. Among them is Leslie Dearmer, a woman playwright with whom Lord Loveland had become acquainted on shipboard. There is an explosion in the kitchen and the guests flee panic-stricken from Alex's restaurant. Lord Loveland becomes a hero when he extinguishes the blaze and causes the guests to return to their tables. Later, he loses his job through the apparent affection he has for Izzy, who is Alex's daughter. He takes up with a 10-20-30-cent troupe of theatrical players with whom he plays minor parts. Miss Dearmer seeks out the manager of Lord Loveland's troupe, intending to sue that individual for the use of one of her copyrighted plays. She calls and is surprised when her gaze meets that of the British nobleman. To her, the Lord relates his plight and she engages him as her chauffeur. The nobleman falls head over heels in love with his fair employer. The two are out for a spin when the Englishman summons up courage and declares his love. So ardent does he become in his proposal that he fails to heed the path his automobile is taking. The machine leaves the road, crashes into a tree and both occupants are thrown violently from their seats. When consciousness returns, Miss Dearmer is in Lord Loveland's arms, and the two plight their troth. The tide of Lord Loveland's fortunes have turned, By a combination of circumstances, he becomes recognized as the real Lord Loveland and he is restored to the position which is rightfully his. Henceforth, all is love and happiness and the nobleman has no desire again to see dear old Britain's shores.
- Johnny Madden travels to the city and falls in love with Capella. His mother is heartbroken that her son has flown the nest and that the woman he has flown to is a common actress. She had always intended that he would marry their neighbor, Daisy Brown. Mrs. Madden begins secretly putting the screws to Capella to make her abandon Johnny so that he will come back to the farm and Daisy.
- Billy and Jim are old friends, and rivals in love. Billy takes Marion Carroll to the theater and to supper afterwards. She orders and orders and keeps on ordering, until Billy finds that he hasn't enough money to foot the bill. Hearing his friend Jim's voice in the adjoining booth (which, however, Marion cannot hear from her side of the table), he excuses himself for a moment and goes to ask his rival for a loan. Jim is determined to drive a bargain instead. He says he'll pay for the supper if Billy will let him eat it and take Marion home. Reluctantly Billy consents. He fakes a phone call and hurries away. Jim takes Marion home in a taxi, and then is driven to his apartments. There he discovers that he cannot pay the driver. He is arrested and borne off to police headquarters, whence he phones Billy to come around and pay his fine. But Billy is sore. Instead, he calls up Marion and gives her the message. But little does he know the girl. She turns up at the station house just before him, drags poor dumbfounded Jim out before his eyes, bundles him into the taxi and whisks him off. Back in his rooms, Billy has a phone call, and Marion, in sweetest tones, announces, "So good of you to let me know. I got him, and we're engaged."
- Rocky bets on "everything, anything and nothing at all". On one occasion he wins a high bet including the saloon bully's gal, thanks to a cheat played by a girl competitor who wants the man for herself. When the bully finds out he believes Rocky has fooled him and goes furiously after him.
- Bill McCurdy, an outlaw, brings his second wife, a refined woman, to [his] ranch. Here, they meet Pat McCurdy, a brother of Bill, who reprimands Bill for his duplicity. The shock is too much for Bill's second wife and she collapses. Meanwhile, Pat has informed Bill's first wife of her husband's wrongdoing, and together they ride to Bill's ranch, where they are told that the doctor who attended her has escorted her to the home of her friend, the U. S. Marshal. A few minutes after the arrival of the doctor and Mrs. Mary McCurdy, Pat and Bill's first wife come upon the scene. Bill is about to shoot his lawful wife when the outlaws stop him and lead him away. The doctor and Mary plight their troth and soon are married.
- Luke Drummond, popularly known as "Unlucky Luke," and Seth Powers, his friend and chum, have a mock quarrel over a new school teacher as to who saw her first. They roll in the dirt to the disgust of the lady herself, who witnesses the bout, though she does not know the cause. Lucy, the new teacher, passes on, presents her papers to Ezra Smead, the School Supervisor, and in due time takes up her teaching. Luke and Seth, in common with many other citizens, are unsettled by the charm and grace of the new teacher. The two young men vie with each other as to which shall escort her home from school, leading to humorous situations. Luke is the ranch blacksmith. He trains and "Gentles" a horse, and shoes him carefully with the intention of presenting him to Lucy as a gift. She refuses for reasons of delicacy. The social season at Gopher Flats is inaugurated with a dance. Seth plays a practical joke on Luke, turning the laugh on him. Ezra Smead, the School Supervisor, also is enamored of Lucy. He calls at the school and proposes. Luke interrupts the scene and declares that if Smead does not vamoose at once he will tell all about his wife and their children. Though this is all a bluff, Smead takes the first train out. Seth is refused in due time by Lucy. Also Luke. They shake dice to see which will go away, and Unlucky Luke is forced to go. Lucy learns he is going, mounts Seth's horse, follows to the top of a hill near town. There is a pretty scene and Luke takes off his hat and scratches the "Un" out of his name.
- Prentiss, a retired literary man in ill health, has created a garden solitude for himself and his young wife down in a small lonely valley. Fate toward whom Prentiss harbors much bitterness since his health began to fail, now brings a heavier stroke in the form of young David Scott, who is in charge of the preliminary survey of a new railroad, the line of which follows the narrow valley. Just preceding the arrival of David and his crew comes Valdez, a Mexican renegade, with a band of his men. Their eyes fall upon Prentiss' fine pair of horses which are being harnessed in the yard for their master's afternoon drive. Laura's servants desert her and Valdez laughs at her own feeble strength. Prentiss staggers onto the scene and falls in a faint just as David rides into the yard. He holds up the raiders, but Prentiss must be looked after and in the excitement Valdez and his men make their escape. The subsequent appearance of more of the survey party reveal part of the circumstances to Prentiss and David tells him the rest. At once in the helpless invalid's mind hatred takes possession and an almost insane determination to thwart David's plan that means the destruction of this desert solitude. David leaves the place with his surveyors much disturbed by Prentiss' bitter opposition, but remembers the raid of the Mexicans and writes a note to Laura directing her to call for help to his camp if the outlaws return. Prentiss continues to brood morbidly over how he, with his physical weakness and his loneliness, can block the threatening invasion. Laura tries to conceal her apprehensions of the return of the outlaws from her husband, but is intercepted by him that evening when she goes out to post a messenger who is to ride to the camp on the firm alarm, and Prentiss sees the note and learns her plan. On her return to the house Laura is seized and bound by Valdez and his men, who proceed to the house and find Prentiss alone. The one idea in Prentiss' mind at present hits upon a desperate plan. He tells Valdez that a man is on his way to the camp. At first murderously angry, Valdez listens to the invalid and agrees to his proposition. Prentiss pours all his money and valuables into the outlaw's hands if the latter will ride by a roundabout route to the camp while the surveyors are on their way to the house and destroy their maps and instruments. Laura has got herself free and overhears the interview and as the outlaws return to their horses in the rear of the house she takes to the road and starts for the camp on foot. She intercepts David and his rescue party and they lay a trap for Valdez. The outlaws are defeated and the booty recovered. In the meantime Prentiss has recovered consciousness and undergoes a complete lapse of memory. He sees the signs of disorder and robbery and knows that something terrible has happened. Death hastens to claim him, but before he breathes his last, David enters with Laura. Prentiss sees his lost property recovered. But seeing David, the cause of his intense hatred and passion knows no bounds and he succumbs to meet its awful weight. David promises to remain near the house of mourning, and goes forth into the night to think of the future.
- The film starts with a view of Santa Catalina Island, "Magic Isle of the Pacific," whose wonderful mountain grandeur is far-famed, but seldom seen by the average American. Here is the clearest water in the world and many sights to amuse and interest even the most jaded traveler. An extraordinary view of seals basking on the rocks off the island is next seen. Then follows a visualization of more than fifty feet of the ocean's bed, showing the remarkable submarine growth, a kelp, octopus, many varieties of coral and fish. This scenic also contains an exceptionally fine view of the Pacific fleet in annual maneuvering off Los Angeles. The fleet contains the battle-scarred cruiser Raleigh, the cruiser Colorado, the flagship California, the South Dakota, the gunship Vicksburg, the Oregon, the cruiser Cincinnati, several war tugs, supply boats and finally the entire torpedo fleet.
- Phil Burton, a Harvard man of common parentage, returns to his western home the same loving and unassuming boy, for all his eastern experience, to gladden the hearts of his old-fashioned mother and Dad. Effie Marsh, Phil's childhood playmate, calls to tell them she is going to New York so that she may follow an art career. To better fit himself for the profession of mining engineer, Phil goes prospecting in the hills, where he finds a miner dying from smallpox, and regardless of personal danger, he cares for him. The miner assigns his claim to him, although Phil tries to find out if there are relatives, but before all his inquiries are answered, the miner dies leaving Phil a picture of himself and sister and the information that his dead sister is survived by a little daughter whose whereabouts he knew not. The claim proves valuable and Phil negotiates with a mining company for its development, the president of which is Count Nicasio, husband of Claudia Nicasio, a worshiper of social rank. Phil is invited to the Nicasio home and there meets Claudia's sister, Jean Bradford, who is expected to marry a title in the person of Lord Devlin, a profligate. Effie finds her dream of an art career empty and goes to work as a model. In this way she meets Devlin, who wins her affection, and after finding that she is the heir to Phil's mining claim and unwilling to assign her rights to him he casts her aside. Phil and Jean soon become attached to each other, which inflames Devlin. About this time, Phil's parents decide to surprise him by a visit. They arrive while Phil is at dinner with the Nicasios, and Devlin stopping in at Phil's apartment on his way to the dinner finds them and for the purpose of discrediting Phil with the Countess and her set, he suggests that the old people attend the dinner just as they are, assuring them of a welcome. Phil does welcome them, but they are treated contemptuously by the Countess and her guests and Phil takes them away indignantly. Jean, who has been disturbed by her sister's conduct and more than ever impressed with Phil's nobility, sends him a note the next morning, asking him to meet her in the garden, where they pledge their love. The Countess has a secret lover, and by accident mails a note intended for him to Devlin. This he uses as a lever to force his suit with Jean. Jean, engaged in charitable work, discovers Phil, comforting Effie, whom he saves from suicide and sends home, and misconstruing his action she listens to her sister's persuasion and consents to marry Lord Devlin. After an explanation, however, the lovers are reunited. Claudia confesses and begs Jean to save her from ruin, but Jean refuses. In desperation, Claudia goes to Devlin's apartment with a revolver, determined to get the incriminating letter. Jean follows her fearing trouble. In the meantime. Phil has learned from Effie that she is heir to the mine and of Devlin's attempt to gain control; he goes to call on Devlin in order to regain it and finds Jean alone with him, Claudia having hidden at Jean's approach. Phil gets possession of the two documents, gives Devlin a sound thrashing, and all ends happily for him and Jean.
- Bonnie is the daughter of Peter Watson, a fisherman, who derives a comfortable living for himself and family from the historic waters of old Monterey Bay, on the California coast. Watson has chosen as a husband for his daughter Tony Laredo, who, with no apparent vocation, lives a life of ease. Bonnie, however, is in love with Ned Raymond, a young fisherman, and this love is returned with interest. Ned is suspicious of Laredo, and discovers him at the illicit traffic of opium smuggling. While spying upon the smugglers at work in their den he is attacked from behind, falls from a cliff, is carried to the den and left still unconscious. He soon recovers, however, and surprising Laredo at work in the entrance to the den, takes him captive. Watson, who has gone out in his boat to fish, is delayed, far beyond his usual time of return, and his wife is greatly worried. Leaving Bonnie to guard the prisoner, Ned and Mrs. Watson go to the shore, and discover Watson, his boat capsized, battling with the waves. Two men have just landed on the beach, and Ned, jumping into the boat, commands them to make haste that they may save the drowning man. After a strenuous battle with the waves, Watson is rescued more dead than alive, rowed to the beach and carried to the cottage. With the application of restoratives he soon recovers, is told of the smuggling operations of Laredo, and in gratitude to Ned, who has rescued him from a watery grave, calls Bonnie, places her hand in that of Ned, and bids them be happy.
- When a young bride, newly entered into society, discovers she is pregnant, she consults an old friend on the most effective means of abortion. The friend gives her a potent drug, and that night the woman locks herself in her room, presses the potion bottle to her lips, falls across her bed and begins to dream. In her dream, her husband finds out about her abortion and demands a divorce. Years pass and the woman, now decrepit and alone, is visited by the ghost of her "Child-That-Might-Have-Been." The ghost takes her on a spiritual journey where she sees her husband, who is remarried and happy with his own family, hundreds of smiling babies wrapped in flowers in Babyland, and finally her own death and damnation. At her demise, she wakes from her nightmare, joyful to find the drug untouched, and rushes to tell her husband about her impending motherhood.
- Ralph Darcy, a young man of wealth, is in love with Tom Hall's daughter Bess, who is at school in a distant city. He is about to propose to her when he learns that he has contracted tuberculosis and must live in the open for a year, but he cannot bring himself to tell Bess. She, in the meantime, is preparing for her graduation and writes her father, who is foreman of Mammoth Mines, to be present when she graduates. Jack Tice controls the gambling in the rough mine and cattle town of Mammoth. He sees Bess's picture and falls in love with her. Hall, going to town to get the payroll money, is grazed by a bullet fired in cowboy fun. Whiskey is given to revive him which awakes a long suppressed desire for drink. This leads into gambling and by the time he is ready to return to the mines, he has lost the payroll money. Tice, pretending to be Hall's good friend, does not permit him to gamble or drink in his place, but so arranges that Hall does so at some other place and pockets half of the money Hall loses. Then, to further his ends, he loans Hall the money that belongs to the mining company's payroll. Pretending he has sold his gambling hall, he and Hall go to see Bess graduate. Ralph receives word that the trust company has failed and his fortune swept away. He then writes to Bess, telling her all, and asking that she wait a year for him. Hall, however, apprehends the letter and Bess, not hearing from Ralph, believes he has forgotten her and finally consents to marry Tice. After the marriage she discovers her husband's perfidy. She leaves him after getting word from Ralph that he is on his way to claim her. Fleeing, she knows not whither, Bess becomes caught in quicksand and Ralph, now a cowboy, hearing her cries, finds her and rescues her from certain death. In the meantime, Tice has been severely thrashed by Bess's father. Cowboys destroy the source of his ill-made profits, and in his endeavor to escape, Tice is killed. Bess and Ralph are now free to complete their romance.
- Hal, the rich and good-for-nothing son of a rich man, is thrown out by his father after another night out. He ends up in the West and living with a gold digger. He'll help him with his daughter and they all will become fond of each other.
- John Montgomery, young, rich and of fine family, is eagerly sought after by the elite of old San Francisco. He and Ellie Fenwick meet for a moment at a hall, and are mutually attracted. Montgomery's impulsiveness and generosity cause him to fall an easy prey to Willie Felton, leader of a fast set, who introduces the young man to Martin Rood's gambling house. Rood, seeing in Montgomery a lamb to be shorn, quickly fleeces him of a large part of his fortune and then persuades him to invest the rest in a bogus mining deal. The young San Franciscan finds himself penniless. Meanwhile, he has met Carlotta Valencia, mistress of Rood, who develops for Montgomery the first real affection she has ever felt for any man. He is infatuated with her beauty and cleverness, and when he begins to hear evil stories against her, he stoutly defends this Spanish woman of doubtful arts. Montgomery's own reputation is sullied because of his associates, and only Ellie Fenwick continues to have faith in his inherent nobility. She believes Montgomery more sinned against than sinning. Her father, however, will not permit her to have anything to do with the man she loves. Montgomery, denied the companionship of the one woman who might have redeemed him, turns for consolation to Carlotta. One morning early, Ellie is returning from the market to prepare a birthday breakfast for her father. Passing Rood's gambling house, she hears a pistol shot. Through the swinging doors of the bar-room, the proprietor of the resort falls out dead. Montgomery, with a smoking revolver in his hand, leaps out after him, and the next instant, flinging away the weapon, has fled. Ellie, panic-stricken, hurries home, where she tells her father and District Attorney Dingley what she has seen. Nobody else has witnessed the incident, and Ellie, violently against her own will, is obliged to serve as chief witness for the state. Carlotta lures the girl to her house and tries to bribe her into silence. When this fails, she attempts to induce her to drink a cup of poisoned wine. Ellie, however, is on her guard. Her father has made her feel that it is her duty to God and to society to testify against the man she loves. Montgomery is convicted of the murder. As he is leaving the courthouse a band of Mexican horsemen, hirelings of Carlotta, enact his rescue. He and the Spanish woman plot to flee the country together. A chance meeting with Ellie, however, causes Montgomery to resolve to leave the city alone and start life over again. He writes Carlotta his intention. Ellie is driving him in her carriage to the borders of the town when both are arrested by the sheriff's posse. The girl flees, taking refuge in Carlotta's house. She finds the beautiful Spaniard sitting erect in a chair, dead. A written confession in her own hand reveals that it was she who murdered Rood. Later, Perez, Carlotta's servant, corroborates the story, throwing light on Montgomery's heroism in shielding the guilty woman. Montgomery is exonerated. He begins life anew, with Ellie as his wife.
- Bill Brawley, a longshoreman represents the dockworkers in contract talks with their unscrupulous boss, Manson Kenwick, who tells his own sister, Norma, to take Bill's mind off negotiations. Meanwhile, the workers prepare for the waterfront boxing championships. They urge Bill to participate, but when he refuses because he promised Norma that he would not fight, they believe that he has sold out to management. Even Bill's sweetheart, Fen, now afraid of losing him to Norma, cannot convince him to box. On fight night, Bill attends a party at Kenwick's. He learns that Kenwick has persuaded the men to sign a pro-management agreement and also that the fighter for the Kenwick shipyard is injured. Bill rushes to the ring, wins the fight, forces Kenwick into a fairer agreement and tells Fen that he never stopped loving her.
- Philip Dean, a New York society youth, carries his gambling too far, and finds his father has refused any further loans to him, Philip is told he is a disgrace to his family and is advised to leave the city. He does. A few months later finds him m a small mining camp in the west. .Mary Martin is a student at the convent of San Rafael. At the Christmas holidays she leaves for her home. That night, just as she is about to get into her berth on the train, she decides to go out on the back platform of the observation car. The train stops. Mary seats herself on the steps of the care swinging her feet. Over her night dress she has a white dressing sack. Suddenly one of her slippers flies off and rolls down over the edge of an embankment. Mary goes after it and just as she obtains it the train pulls out. When she reaches the track, the train is disappearing in the distance. It is Christmas Eve. Nearby Philip and his companions are celebrating noisily. Mary finds her way to the cabin and opens the door. Some of the men, seeing her standing in the doorway, reel toward her drunkenly, but Philip, desiring to protect the girl, overthrows the lamp and in the darkness escapes with her. Some miles away Philip takes the blankets strapped on his burro and arranges a bed for Mary. Exhausted, she falls asleep. Nearby Philip sits and watched her. He bends down by the sleeping girl. She awakens with a start. Confused and ashamed, he tells her that he had only wanted to see that she was all right. Again she falls asleep, with Philip, now brought to his senses, watching over her. With the dawn Philip places her on his burro and starts for town. He stops in a cabin on the way, and there finds a woman of the dance hall. He begs some clothing from her for Mary. She offers him a gaudy dress, but he throws it on the floor angered at the thought of a woman like Mary wearing such a costume. Martha reads his thoughts and goes to a small trunk on one side of the room. From it she takes a simple white gown, which brings memories of happy days. With this dress and a pair of old shoes Philip starts back, when the woman stops him and pleads to accompany him. He agreeing, they come to Mary. The woman bathes the bruised feet of Mary, and then from a distance watches the couple disappear over the brow of the hill. Slowly she enters her cabin, picks up the gaudy dress, and then hurling it from her, kneels by her bed sobbing. The train comes and Philip tells Mary that someday, when he is a better man, they will meet again. Another Christmas comes. Mary recalls her adventure in the hills, and brings out the same dressing sack and nightgown she had worn on that occasion. She dons them and goes out into the garden, thinking of the man who had done so much and yet so little for her. And there in the garden he finds her.
- Hopelessly, Stanton works with compositions; returned manuscripts, with his sweetheart Ruth's ring which her aristocratic mother forced her to surrender, are crushing his ambition. An aged neighbor enters, seared with evidence of life's struggle and says "Tell me not in mournful numbers. Life is but an empty dream." The old man's tale of being saved by Stanton's music awakens Stanton to hope and courage and saves his life. Alone, Stanton gazes at the silent features in the bust of Mozart and recalls the tragedy of his world's master of 624 operas, Masses, etc. Mozart, in dying hours, writes the "Requiem" on special order, praying that it will bring money and fame. Mozart sings this "Requiem" with his dying breath, passes away, and is buried in an unknown grave in the Potter's Field. "Lives of great men all remind us/We can make our lives sublime." Stanton sees Mozart's feeble wife laying a tiny wreath at the foot of the cross and believes that heaven's choir is singing the "Gloria" chorus beside the brokenhearted wife. He gazes at the "Gloria" Chorus, recalls the choir which sang it as all choirs have done, takes courage, and with heart, opens his window as of old and plays his violin with all his soul. Outside the aged neighbor is waiting for these tones: "A stranger, passing, stops, is charmed; finds the originator of the marvelous music; discovers in the discarded mass that for which he seeks, and through him fortune smiles and Stanton looks up: 'With a heart for any fate.'" Ruth turns from her mother, declares she shall starve with Stanton rather than turn from him. She goes to him, declares her purpose. Stanton puts the half-eaten loaf of bread aside, shows Ruth money and his turning tide. Stanton clasps Ruth to his breast. The old man looks in and smiles his blessing as he sees Ruth take the tiny dried wreath of leaves from Mozart's picture and lay it on her lover's brow.
- Robert Newton, a young businessman, and his mother give a house party at his shooting lodge in the Adirondack Mountains. Among the invited guests are Vera Stanton, with whom Robert is in love, and Inez Tremain, who in her turn, loves Robert. To complicate matters, Inez is loved by Tom Nevins, a friend of Robert. Nevins proposes to Inez and is refused laughingly. While sitting on the veranda later on, Inez sees Robert and Vera start for a walk and follows them, over hearing Robert propose, and being rejected, because he was too practical. Trying then to win Robert by fair means, and failing because of his thoughts of Vera, Inez decides to remove Vera from his life, and to this end sends for Dick Graham, an adventurer friend of hers, to come and camp near them, thinking, because of his dashing ways and Vera's romantic turn of mind, he can win her, Graham is agreeable, as Vera is rich and he is looking for money. Seven days later he arrives and camps near the lodge. Inez then takes Vera walking, and steers her to Graham's camp. Appearing surprised at seeing an old friend she introduces Vera, whispering to Dick in the meantime, that this is the girl, Graham makes the girls comfortable and they spend the afternoon. Sometime later Robert, who has been hunting, happens upon the scene and being introduced to Graham invites him to call. Graham does so one evening and progresses far enough in his suit to arrange a meeting with Vera alone. Inez, in the meantime, is making her advances to Robert and to all outward appearances her plan is working. On the evening of his engagement with Vera, while waiting until it is time to meet her, Graham passes the time away smoking, and as he leaves his camp for the meeting place, throws his half-smoked cigarette in the dry leaves. Sometime later as he is waiting for her, he smells smoke and sees the fire caused by his carelessness. Becoming panic stricken he rushes for the shooting lodge, leaving Vera to her fate. In the meantime all is chaos at the lodge. Graham has alarmed everyone, the cars come on and loaded to capacity start for safety, Graham and Inez in the first car. Robert misses Vera; no one knows where she is but Graham, and he is too big a coward to tell. Failing to find her in the house, Robert, James Stanton, Vera's brother, and his friend, Tom Nevins, start out to find her, first knocking down the chauffeur of one car for trying to leave. Vera now is hemmed in by fire; every way she turns she is confronted by flames, and incoming exhausted faints away. The fire is raging on every side, great trees burning in a few seconds. But the boys after several narrow escapes, find her and in the last remaining car, carry her to safety. Several months later Nevins, who has become interested in a girl who really loves him, Sallie Weston, proposes and is accepted. Robert and Vera then one night after the opera have a little love scene and everything ends happily.
- Playwright James Devon takes a villa on the Mediterranean, where he can work in quiet and without interruption. His daughter May is terribly bored. She goes to the hotel where her friend Edna Lee, another American girl, is staying, and they discover Billy Green, a student of archaeology--who is so engrossed in his subjects that he is blind to the girls' attentions. This piques May, and she makes a vow that she will win his love. Armed with a statuette, she wanders with Edna to a seat in the hotel grounds near where Green is sitting. Then she tells her friend enthusiastically about this treasure which she has unearthed in her garden. Green becomes interested at once and asks to call the next day to investigate. The girls go to a curio shop and stock up with "antiquities." With the help of Snow Ball, the Black gardener, the girls bury these near the villa, and the next day Green digs them up. He is so excited over the possibility that they are living over a buried city that he cannot be prevailed upon to stay for luncheon, to the great disappointment of the girls. So they plant more bait. That night Mr. Devon takes a fancy to do some excavating on his own account. At breakfast he displays his finds, and the girls discover themselves undone. Then they invent a new scheme for entrapping the archaeological Billy. Edna sends him word that they have discovered a beautiful statue, and offers to lead him to it. He is overcome with admiration for the classic maiden, and when it comes to life, like Pygmalion's Galatea, he falls in love with the fair reality, who is May. Mr. Devon, when he hears how his very acceptable son-in-law has been won, pays the sizable bill, which the dealer in antiquities sends in without a murmur.
- The son of Thomas Gray, after his graduation, returns from college, becomes his father's partner, and later, when his parent's health begins to fail him, his successor. The income from a tonic, which, unknown to the rest of the family, contains morphine, then becomes the family's sole means of subsistence. The doctor's son is highly ambitious and through hard work achieves renown and success. He becomes interested in social reform and pays frequent visits to the slums, where on one occasion, he sees a victim of morphine in the throes of death. A bottle labeled "Gray's Tonic" strikes his eye, but of course, he knows nothing. A fellow physician, who has accompanied him, however, pockets the bottle. At the meeting of the Pure Foods and Drug Board, of which he is a member, the doctor's son delivers a lecture on the evils wrought through lax censorship of drugs. His fellow physician voices his suspicion of Gray's Tonic, and suggests that they analyze it. The son is given the commission and told to report the result at their next meeting. Then, while the aged parent awaits the result of the fateful analysis, the awful knowledge is revealed to the son. In an emotional scene the aged physician pleads with his son for the sake of the family honor and for their happiness, not to reveal the secret. Which shall it be? During a restless night he is tormented by visions: his parents reduced to poverty and shame, the scene in the slums, and finally that of the chairman handing him his commission. The next day the parent, awaiting in feverish anxiety, hears the final decision, and in horror and rage disowns him. Then the hand of misfortune falls on the erstwhile family. Dishonor, a heavy fine, and the revocation of his license are the penalties invoked by the court, and poverty and want follow in the steps of the decision. The son pleads in vain for the privilege of supporting the family. The father will have nothing of him. The hand of fate, however, brings about the long delayed reunion. When about to be evicted from their squalid lodgings, the landlord turns out to be none other than their son. The son takes them at once to his home and after his skillful treatment, soon restores his father to health.
- Justus McCanna, a popular young physician is rapidly falling in love with Bettina Purdy. Bettina is a girl in his own set, favored by his mother and sister, and much in love with Justus. A telegram from a friend injured in a wreck takes Justus into Kentucky. There Matt Sipe, a fiery young mountaineer, bearing of the doctor's skill, begs him to go with him to see his sick mother, but Justus refuses. As he starts for the station he is kidnapped by Matt and his father and carried to their cabin in the mountains. Once there he does his best for Mrs. Sipe. Going to the spring one day for a bucket of water, he encounters Cherry Blossom. He carries her bucket home for her. Matt loves Cherry with all his ardent nature. He finds evidence of her meeting the doctor, goes to the Blossom cabin, and creates a scene. With her ambition for an education as an excuse, Justus arranges frequent meetings to help her with her reading. They fall in love and Matt, spying on them, swears to break it up. Following the doctor until he locates him in the bottom of a gully, he rolls a rock down on him. Cherry hears the crash and runs to find Matt gloating over his insensible rival. She solemnly curses him, and Matt, with a mountaineer's superstition, feels terror grip him. Cherry supports her lover to her cabin. Justus believes that he is dying and insists on immediate marriage. Cherry's father brings the minister and the ceremony is performed. But Justus does not die. His wife nurses him back to health, and he settles down contentedly to their simple life. Then a letter comes from his mother concerning a property deal where his immediate presence is imperative. He assures his wife that he will return soon, but Cherry's heart is heavy with foreboding. Justus means to act honestly but a reluctance to disclose his marriage until Cherry is better fitted to occupy her position as a prominent physician's wife seals his lips. Bettina proceeds to reassert her former claim on his time and attention, and Justus now in a false position finds the return to the old life dulling his recollection of the mountains. A son is born to Cherry and people begin to sneer at her as a deserted woman. She loyally defends Justus, but her heart bleeds. Determined to know the best or the worst, she goes to Brooklyn with her baby and visits her husband's home. He is not there but his mother, sister and Bettina pity the frightened, ill-dressed mountain wife who refuses to tell the object of her visit. Cherry shrinks from them and goes. Matt takes advantage of the results of her trip to press his attentions on her. She drives him away with a shotgun. Justus' mother tells him of the visit of the strange woman, whom Justus recognizes as Cherry. He leaves to go to her, reaching her just as Matt has returned with a gun to kill the "brat" and take the woman. He and Matt fight it out. Cherry intercedes to save Matt's life, then lays her son in Justus' arms.
- Dr. Charles Matthews, professor of philosophy in a small New England college, is dismissed, and though heartbroken he and his daughter, Prudence, start in a prairie schooner for the west. At St. Jo, which in 1850 was the outfitting point for the great west, they meet Calliope, so maned because of the vast carrying quality of his lungs. He accompanies them on their journey. On the way west, it falls to Calliope's lot to do them many little services, which, on account of the native modesty of Pru and the innate manhood of Calliope, are necessarily surreptitious. They lose one horse and Calliope saves the other from the hands of a thievish outlaw, compelling the latter to give up his own for the use of the immigrants. Later Dr. Matthews, spent with the exactions of a trip for which nature never intended him, dies, and is buried by Pru, alone in the wastes of the desert. In her great loneliness she feels the protecting presence of Calliope, who is always a little behind, yet ever in sight, and at length, in a moment of dread, when she seems but a little speck in vast expanse of the world, a note reaches her by way of a limb stretched across the trail, offering her the heart and hand and home of Calliope. The love situations are purely psychological, as the characters barely meet face to face, yet a love interest pervades the entire story, culminating in the complete surrender of Pru, to the happiness of Calliope.
- A group of boys are playing baseball on a playground, and one of them hits the ball over the fence, breaking the window of a house belonging to a professor. He calls in a repairman, who arrives to fix the window and is admitted by the professor's pretty maid. Attracted to her and wanting to see her again, after he fixes the window he sneaks back to the house that night and breaks it again, hoping she'll call to have him come out and fix it. She does, but it doesn't turn out exactly the way he had hoped.
- Louie is the vendor of an article of diet known to the trade as "hot dog." Mike is a sandwich man, who carries the advertising legends of a tent and awning manufacturer. They observed a gang of urchins maltreating a little pup. In trying to assist the little dog Mike and Louie were treated to a bombardment of sundry loose building materials close to the hands of the small boys. But the dog was rescued and Mike and Louie were united in friendship through the common cause of the pup. Mike and Louie sought an adjacent drug store for first aid to the dog. The drug store was operated by an unprincipled person, whose chief trade was in "dope." Mike and Louie happened in just at the time the alleged druggist was apprised that a police raid impended. He was preparing for a hasty retreat. He seized the opportunity and presented Mike and Louie with the drug store until he should return if in return they would keep a little girl Mary, aged ten, who had been left to his care. Mike and Louie become owners of a drug store, guardians to the child, and masters of a pet dog. The police, not knowing that the place had changed hands, decided to raid it. Mike and Louie were dragged to court, where they had to prove that they had just come into possession of the drug store and assumed guardianship of the child. The judge commended them after a pathetic scene and Mike and Louie returned to the drug store. Eight years later the drug store is more dilapidated than ever. Mike and Louie were eking out a bare existence, giving all their money to the education and desires of Mary. Some time during the eight year lapse, Mike and Louie had acquired a clerk. Bob, who had graduated from a school of pharmacy and who had come to them to gather practical experience. Mary and Bob fell in love with each other. Things took a bad turn when the "Drug Trust" refused to grant Mike and Louie more credit. They were forced to make spurious drugs. Through an accident Mary learns of the trickery. The next day she imparted to Bob the details of her discovery. Contrary to her expectations, he laughed and told her that it was far more harmless to sell the stuff that Mike and Louie were making than the actual dope which was harmful to the customers. In the midst of the explanation Mike and Louie came in and saw the two youngsters in an embrace. They demanded that Bob stop his love making. He replied that he intended to marry Mary. He was told that if he had any business ability he would be working some place for a salary instead of with Mike and Louie for nothing, and to make the thing harder Mike suggested that before Bob marry Mary, he make a million to buy her all the little trinkets that she might want. Bob decided to make a million for Mary. Sitting in the park reading the paper, an article on the new "Science of Mind" caught his eye. He stopped to think and recalled his argument with Mary that it isn't what you take, but it is what you believe when you take it. So Bob got the great idea. Bob rushed back to the drug store and imparted his idea to Mike and Louie, who merely scoffed and asked him where he would get the money with which to advertise and distribute the wonderful pills. Bob had an idea and betook himself to the "Drug Trust" and impressed them with the fact that he had the greatest drug panacea ever discovered. They drew up a contract with him, and agreed to pay Mike and Louie one million dollars on date of distribution of the pills. An enormous system of advertising was instituted. All over the world appeared the legend, "Mike's and Louie's panacea for all ills, take a pill every hour, pray and have faith." Orders flocked in from every portion of the globe. The night before the day upon which the pills were to be released. Mike, Louie, Bob and Mary were so engrossed in their work that they forgot poor Fritz, the dog. who became hungry and ate a cake of soap. Finally he was discovered by Mike, who knew he was sick. They looked for remedies and could find none, when Louie had the great idea that if the pills could help people, they could help the dog. But Mike answered that the dog could not pray. However, they decided they would pray for him so Fritz was handed a bunch of pills. Unknown to Mike and Louie, the pills contained a light narcotic, so that when taken in large quantities they caused profound sleep. They thought that the pills had killed him. Immediately they had visions of thousands upon thousands of dead people, all of whom had taken the pills. After due consideration they made a suicide pact deciding to kill themselves with their own pills. Mike and Louie slept and dreamed that they had gone to Heaven. Here they met the druggist, Mike, certain that the druggist was in the wrong place, decided to throw him out This started the noise. Mike, Louie and the druggist were dragged before St. Peter. Mike woke up. Outside the drug store the crowd had gathered, led by officers of the "Drug Trust." They heard the noise and were certain that the relations of the dead people who had taken pills had come to wreak vengeance on them. Finally they were quieted and handed what was found to be a check for a million. Thus did Mary get her million, and Bob his Mary.
- Farmer Brown, a man who clings to old ideas, is so set against the wheels of progress and modern science, that his son John is compelled to steal away from home to complete his education in electricity. In contrast, Brown's neighbor, Farmer Miller, installs modern ideas and machinery. His farm products and stock thrive and bring great results, and his daughter Rita can attend boarding school. Rita and John are sweethearts and Rita applauds and encourages John in his struggle toward progression. John becomes a genius and invents many electrical meters and a powerful X-ray, but time nor success will soften his father's heart or reconcile them. Miller even lightens his wife's household burdens by installing electrical washing and ironing devices, while Brown's frail daughter, Mary, is a slave to the heat and drudgery of the old methods of housekeeping. One day Mary, while lifting a heavy wash boiler strains her back and falls to the floor. Brown finds her and for the first time fully realizes the necessity of a telephone. Rita just home on her vacation comes to his aid and rushing over home summons a doctor, then by long distance summons John to bring a surgeon and his new X-ray. The country doctor announces that Mary has suffered a paralytic stroke and will never recover. Brown's heart is crushed, but the next day John and the surgeon arrive. After an examination the surgeon declares to Brown that through the aid of the wonderful X-ray and modern science his daughter will be permanently restored to health. The wedding day of Rita and John arrives and Brown's gift to the couple is in the nature of a new home completely equipped electrically even to the stove and cooking utensils. He becomes a convert to progress and modern science, and declaring, "this is th' life," takes his neighbor Miller for a drive in his own electric car.
- The Sheriff of Kickup Gulch had long been enamored of the beautiful daughter of the hotel keeper and his suit was progressing favorably when an eastern drummer appeared in the Gulch and started paying marked attentions to the hotel-keeper's daughter. She was very favorably impressed and, finding it difficult to choose between the two after their simultaneous proposal, decided to give them a test of bravery in order to win her hand. The test consisted of thrusting an arm in a rattlesnake's hole and the drummer became panic stricken, for he knew that it meant almost certain death to obey the request. The Sheriff, however, knowing that rattlesnakes always avoid tobacco, sprinkled the hole with tobacco from his pouch and thrust in his arm with impunity. Of course the lady chose the sheriff and left the crestfallen drummer to think it over. Left to his own devices he discovers the trick played by the wily sheriff, and determines to even up the score. He effects an entrance to the general store and substitutes iron filings for the stock of giant powder. The next day he appears at the store and makes a purchase of several pounds of his substituted giant powder. Returning to the hotel he creates a panic by spreading his powder on a paper and sitting beside it with a lighted cigar in his mouth. The frightened spectators send for the sheriff to subdue the mad man, and he now appears with his fiancé, gun in hand, to arrest the drummer. The drummer calmly lights a match and orders, "Drop that gun or I'll drop this match," which he holds at close proximity to his fake powder. The sheriff is panic stricken and turns in ignominious flight, leaving his fiancé to her fate. The fate in store for her however, is a complete revulsion of feeling and she decides that eastern wit is better than cheap heroics.
- Ward and Clyde Kingsley are twin brothers whose resemblance is so much alike that even close friends find it hard to distinguish between then. Ward loved Agnes Pendelton, an heiress, but because he feared the world would say that he married her for her money, he gave her up and went away. His brother, Clyde, not burdened with such fine feelings, but a dissolute character at heart, eventually marries Agnes. As the story opens they are living in California and Agnes' fortune has been squandered by the irresponsible Clyde. With Steve Mercer, a disreputable friend of many years, Clyde plots to insure his life for $100,000 and after he has arranged for a corpse for the occasion, to disappear and have his wife, Agnes, collect the insurance, later dividing the ill-gotten gains with Mercer. Agnes revolts at the gruesome plan and denounces him as a scoundrel. Later on she pays her respects to Mercer, who has always looked upon her with lustful eyes. Just at this time Agnes receives a letter from Clyde's twin brother Ward, now in a New York hospital, that he is given up to die and informing them that this is his last message and blessing. Clyde immediately goes east, ostensibly to consult a specialist, and requests Agnes to give out the information that his heart is troubling him. Arriving in New York, he visits Ward, and much against the latter's finer feelings and on the plea that it is for the good of Agnes, he induces Ward to go west to die and be buried as Clyde. Under the ministrations of Agnes, Ward recovers eventually, and the anxious Clyde, waiting in New York, receives word to that effect. Later, Ward writes him that he may now return, as he, Ward, is leaving California. The old attachment between Ward and Agnes has grown up afresh, and they make ready to part, with breaking hearts. In the meantime, Steve Mercer and a female nemesis, who has been following Clyde for years, plot to put Ward out of the way. He is to be lured to a lonely spot and thrown over the cliff. Clyde, however, gains secret entrance to his own home, and witnessing an affectionate scene between Ward and Agnes and misinterpreting their relations, fells Ward with a blow and escapes thinking he has killed him. He rushes to the ambush to tell Steve and Beth that he has killed Ward. They mistake him for Ward and the fate intended for Ward is visited upon Clyde, Mercer shooting him. As he falls over the cliff he clutches Beth and drags her with him. Ward is slowly recovering when Mercer rushes to the house to tell Agnes that Ward has been killed and that Clyde is his murderer. Thinking that no further barrier can be imposed between him and the accomplishment of his desire, he seizes Agnes and rains kisses upon her unwilling lips. Weak as he is, Ward rises from the couch and attacks Mercer. The latter seizes the desk phone and is about to brain Ward when the butler fires, killing Mercer instantly. Agnes faints in the arms of Ward. A later scene shows the happy bride and groom at last.
- Jim and Nell are married, unhappily for her part. Jim spends most of his time drinking and gambling and the rest in abusing her. In a nearby town lives Tom, Nell's brother, whose best friend is Hal, a trapper. One day Tom comes to visit his sister and learns of her unhappiness. He tells her that she must come with him, and she does so. Jim is furious. Tom introduces Nell to Hal, and there is at once a mutual attraction between them. Later, after Nell has obtained a divorce from Him, she marries Hal. A year passes and a child is born to them. One day Hal finds a dog in one of his traps. Its leg is broken. He takes it to his cabin and nurses it back to health. Meanwhile, Jim is in serious difficulty in the town where he lives. The citizens there decide to get rid of him. Perched on a rail, he is escorted to the outskirts of the town, and there informed that if he ever comes back he will be shot. So Jim starts across the hills to another town. Night comes on, and seeing a cabin in the distance, he goes towards it. But before knocking he chances to look in a window, and there sees his former with Nell, with Hal and the baby. Returning to the room, the baby is missed and Hal and Nell become frantic. The dog takes up the trail and finally comes across Jim, just as he is crossing a stream. He sees the dog following and becomes frightened. Slipping on a rock, he falls into the stream and is being carried away. The dog sees the baby in the water, snatches it out, and takes it to a nearby deserted cabin. Under this cabin a mother dog is nursing a family of pups, and Hal's dog brings the baby in and leaves it, then returns to get Hal and Nell. Dripping wet, Jim comes to the same cabin, and finding no one at home, enters. Meanwhile, Hal and Nell are frantically scouring the country for their baby. While at their cabin the dog is awaiting their return. Jim endeavors to sleep, but always he hears the faint cries of the baby, and thinks that it is haunting him. Morning comes, with Nell and Hal still searching through the woods. The dog returns to the second cabin, just as Jim, now half maddened by the crying and moaning of the baby, is leaving. The dog pounces on him, and a furious fight follows. In the end Jim is killed. Again returning to Hal's cabin, the dog finds Hal and Nell just entering, having searched all night. He leads them of, bringing them to Jim's body. And then he leads them to the second cabin, where, in care of the mother dog, they find the baby.
- Jack is just a cowboy on the Gilman cattle ranch. Born and bred of the west, he is broad-mined and easy going. In direct contrast to him is Frances, a girl of the east, who comes to the west with Gilman's daughter. Frances has been born and brought up in wealth and culture and does not understand the cowboy who refuses to cater to her whim but who tries to dominate her. Later, when he proposes to her, she accepts him. She leaves for the east, promising to marry him when her course at school is finished. Jack sets about to build a cabin for their home. While at her home in the east, Frances is constantly being urged by Raymond Welton, a club man, to forget the rough cowboy, and to marry him. In the end she agrees. Jack's cabin has been completed, when one day he receives a letter from Frances, in which she tells him that she has made a great mistake, and asks that he release her from their engagement. Stunned, he goes to the cabin which he has so carefully finished, and pouring oil about it, sets it afire. Gilman, from his ranch, sees the flames. Jack is taken from the burning cabin. A doctor is hastily summoned, and pronounces the burns very serious. Too late Frances realizes that it is Jack she loves. Downstairs the guests are waiting for the bridal couple to appear. Then comes a telegram from Gilman's daughter stating that if Frances cares to see Jack alive, she must come at once. Quickly she tears off her trousseau, and donning a traveling suit, she rushes away from her hysterical mother, bursts through the astounded wedding guests, and reaches the railroad station. The doctor states that a man in Jack's condition, especially when he does not care to live, has no chance, but at this juncture Frances arrives, and when Jack realizes that she is with him his attitude changes and he survives.
- John Douglas, a high-society playboy, is a cynic concerning the women of his social set, and has a pictured ideal of the girl of his dreams. Wising to avoid the upcoming social season, he hops a freighter bound for the Orient. It sinks in mid-ocean and he, as the sole survivor, is washed upon a island, where he is rescued by Nia, daughter of the tribal chief, Neto.John is puzzled as all of the tribe are white people, but he learns from the tribal chief they are descendent's of English-origin who also are on the island because of a ship wreck a few hundred years ago. John soon arouses the jealousy of Kaura, the tribal sub-chief who wants Nia as his bride, but Nia wants nothing to do with Nia, and favors John. Kaura demand that Nia become his bride, but John Rescues her and they head for the jungle, with Kaura and his henchmen in hot pursuit. The pursuit only lasts until a storm comes up and Kuara is killed by a bolt of lightning, and his followers take that as a sign the Gods aren't in favor of the pursuit. John and Nia take up residence in the Tribal Priest's jungle cave, after the Tribal Chief performs a marriage ceremony. They are quite happy and content, especially Nia who likes to play the harp John made for her. But a yacht appears on the horizon, and John struggles with a decision as to light a signal fire and be taken back to civilization.
- When cowboy actor Buck Parvin gets his friends Ben and Tommy jobs on the set, all three run into trouble. Ben stealing a prop for the set, Tommy spoiling the seen with the heroine taming a lion, and Buck when he fights a kangaroo.
- Sandy, a cowboy, has saved up $2,000, and when he reads the alluring inducements of a mining company he exchanges his hard-earned money for worthless mining stock. He tells the other boys about it, and when it is finally impressed upon him that the stock is utterly worthless, the boys have the laugh on him, and when one night Sandy can stand their ridicule no longer he packs up and with his horse rides off into the night. Henry Botsford is a mining promoter, and the man who sold Sandy his stock. He has a daughter, Beth. Harvey Mortimer, a wealthy idler, has long been a suitor for Beth, but she despises him. Botsford gets into financial difficulties and knowing that if Beth will only agree to marry Mortimer, he will be able to obtain loans from him, he insists that Beth consent to an engagement. Beth refuses. Leaving his horse to obtain a drink of water, Sandy climbs down a small embankment and stumbles across a skeleton of a man. By it he discovers s small chamois bag, which contains some gold nuggets. Taking these to town, he finds that they are of considerable value. An idea of revenge comes to Sandy, and exchanging some of the nuggets for currency, he rides off to the town where Botsford lives. Meantime, Beth decides that she will never have any peace at home, since her father is always insisting that she marry Mortimer, and writing a note to her father to the effect that she is going out in the world to make her own living, she leaves. Back in the mining town Sandy meets Botsford and takes him out into a canyon some miles from town. There he brings him into an old cabin, and Sandy makes him a proposition. He tells Botsford that he has some mining stock for sale and shows him the same certificates that he bought from him. Botsford refuses to consider buying them back, and Sandy locks him in the cabin and tells him that he is going to give him plenty of time to think it over. At the restaurant Beth has obtained the position of waitress. Sandy enters, and recognizes her. He had never been much of a hand at making love, but he caught on quick, and the night told Beth that some day she was going to marry him. While out in the old cabin Botsford, terrified by strange noises, finally manages to fall asleep on the table. With the morning, Sandy again puts his proposition to Botsford, and this time Botsford agrees, and writes out his check for $2,000. But Sandy refuses to give him his freedom until he has obtained the money from the check. With the $2,000 in his pocket, he meets Beth, and tells her that if she won't marry him he is going to marry her anyhow. Picking her up he carries her to the Justice of Peace's office. Beth concludes that Sandy ought to make a good husband, and they are married. It suddenly occurs to Sandy that Botsford is still at the old cabin, and with Beth he goes out to give him his freedom. Opening the door, Botsford storms out, and discovers that the man who has held him captive is now his son-in-law.
- The theme of this story has to do with the trials and final success of two young people, a boy and a girl, who leave their homes to join in a stampede to a newly discovered mining district. Later they find themselves on the trail facing the necessity of doing for themselves things they have never done before. Next day affairs run no better with either of them, and the young man, in attempting to make a pie, burns it. As it was impossible to eat this, he nails it to a post in front of his tent and above is placed a sign, "Girl Wanted." The sign attracts the girl's attention, and, after a little maneuvering, it is agreed that she help him out in his cooking, while he makes himself of use to her in many other ways. Eventually they form a regular working partnership. The busy days roll by without much success. One day as he is resting on a hillside with a group of fellow prospectors, they slip a lot of loose rock into his pack, and upon arrival at camp he learns why his pack was so heavy. He is tired and out of humor, and it is the girl who first notices that the rock is really gold ore and very rich. They learn from the others where this rock was placed in the pack, and later find the original ledge and locate it. In working their find, and being unaccustomed to the use of dynamite, they have an accidental explosion in which the boy is injured and is obliged to remain in camp a week or more. Upon their return to the claim, they find two men in possession, who refuse to vacate, and as the explosion has destroyed their location notice, there is no proof of their property. They return to camp and call a miners' meeting and the entire party return to the claim and in the discussion that takes place, the girl finds a piece of the original notice blown into a crevice of the rocks and the jumpers are forced to relinquish their claim. The boy, in his enthusiasm, takes the girl into his arms, and in the confusion, a grizzly old miner, with a wink, slips a ring off his finger to the boy, who passes it on to the girl, who accepts it. They are married by a justice, move the two tents into one establishment and the final scene shows that evening, two silhouetted figures against the tent walls in fond embrace.
- Bill Hardy, fresh from the cow country with a load of steers, cashes in his six months' paycheck, and is drawn into a card game by a couple of sharks at a "club." He discovers he is being cheated and gets into a fight, from which he emerges by way of a secret chute, badly battered and minus his pile. Bill is rescued by Nell, a nurse in the Salvation Army Hospital, and cared for until he is able to go on. He is ashamed to face the boys with the story of his mishap, so he drops off at a strange pasture. By saving Mrs. Dennis from a runaway, Bill wins a place on the Flying U Ranch, owned by big hearted "Pop" Dennis. This is not to the liking of Jim, the foreman, who scents a rival. Mrs. Dennis is an invalid and Dennis decides to send for a nurse. Bill suggests the little nurse he left behind, with his heart, and she comes to make the cowboys of the Flying U take notice. Jim with some of the others is rustling Dennis' cattle. Jim falls for Nell, and exercises his authority to interfere with her companionship with Bill. Bill gets his further enmity by riding a bucker Jim could not manage and he knocks Bill down, for which he is discharged. Jim plans to get a big bunch of cattle before he goes and his plan is overheard by one of the boys, who notifies Dennis, and they take the trail. Nell and Bill, riding, are attacked by Jim and his gang. Bill is roped, but Nell escapes. As Jim is about to string Bill up, Nell rides through, cuts the rope and Bill, jumping on behind the cowboy who has come to warn them, they escape. In the end Bill is happily tethered with Nell and the baby.
- The Outcast and the Outlaw, common victims of the Man's duplicity, are thrown together at a frontier saloon, where the Outcast, sick and hungry, goes for help. The Outlaw, taking advantage of the Sheriff's absence, goes for provisions. The Outcast finds no sympathy and is ordered out. The Outlaw champions her and holds up the place until she is fed and the men are made to dig up for her benefit. She recognizes the Man, who has just arrived to inspect his mines. The Outlaw gets away with the Outcast, in the face of the Sheriff, and carries her to his cabin, where she tells him the story of the Man whose lying promise has made her what she is. Under the friendly Outlaw's care, the Outcast recovers her strength and goes to take her vengeance on the Man, refusing the Outlaw's offer to avenge her, because she feels the vengeance must be hers. The Man falls a willing victim to her lure and follows her. They leave the town as the Sheriff starts on another search for the Outlaw. A storm comes up. The Man is induced to seek shelter at the Outlaw's cabin. As the men face each other the Outlaw recognizes his enemy and exclaims, "The vengeance is mine. His lying testimony made me what I am." The Man is given ten minutes to live and make what reparation he can tor ruining two lives. His money is spurned. He writes a statement as the Outlaw's watch measures off his earthly moments, acknowledging that the sins of the Outlaw and the Outcast are on his own soul. Out in the rain, a shadowy figure rides ever nearer the object of its pursuit. The statement is finished. The Man awaits the inevitable moment. The Outlaw raises his gun to take his vengeance. Suddenly a bolt of lightning spits from the storm-swept sky and vengeance is removed from the hand of both Outcast and Outlaw. Awed by this stroke of fate, they stumble out into the night and the sheriff, reaching the cabin, finds only a dead man lying across the table alone with his confession. Dawn discovers the Outlaw and the Outcast, whose destinies a common wrong had so strangely drawn together, riding to freedom and a new life.
- Percival Cadwallader Perkins was so bashful that whenever a woman would look at him he would blush like a beet, and this brought the "Happy Family," the cowboys of the Flying U, to calling him "Pink." Seeking real atmosphere, the Climax Motion Picture Company comes to the west. In search of some strays, Pink from a distance sees a woman struggling fiercely with a man, and dashes to the rescue. He tears the man from the girl, and kicks him down a small bluff. And then he finds that he has interrupted the filming of a moving picture scene. Jackson, the director, calls Ruby, the leading woman aside, and tells her to make love to Pink and keep him hanging around, that it would be a good thing to have him working in the pictures. Ruby certainly succeeds so well that in a short time Pink proposes to her. She, too, has fallen in love, but she tells him that she is already married, but that her husband had treated her so brutally that she left him. A stagecoach hold-up is arranged. But two crooks overhear their plans and conclude to take a hand themselves. The stage is stopped, and the passengers get out and line up, all thinking it is but a movie stunt. From a distance Pink watches, his cue being to rush in when a shot is fired. But when he makes a run towards the scene, a bullet from one of the men clips his ear. He rides to them, and furiously upbraids them for using real cartridges when they are only supposed to use blanks. For reply, one of the crooks knocks him down, and grabbing Ruby, they throw her into the stage, and the driver is ordered to move along. Down the road a little farther the moving picture company is waiting. But the stage passes them on the run, and then it develops that a real hold-up has been perpetrated. Inside the stage Ruby is held by one of the crooks, who unmasks, and she recognizes her husband. While on the top of the stagecoach the other crook and the driver are in a fierce fight. Pink and the cowboys give chase to the stage, which is fast approaching a broken bridge. Pink manages to pull Ruby from the stage just as it goes over a cliff. The crooks are both killed, and now that she is free, Ruby gladly consents to marry Pink.
- Once known as a desperate safecracker, Jess Martin has spent twenty years of reformation in the west and has become the sheriff of Plumas. He has a son, Roy, and it is the ambition of Martin and his wife that their son obtain a college education. Later they place the proposition before Roy, he enthuses over the idea, especially as May agrees to wait for him until the four years of college are over. But at the college Roy falls in with a fast set, and due to poker games, is soon deeply in debt. While at home his father and mother undergo every sacrifice for him. Roy's roommate is a student of criminology, and from him Roy learns something of the methods of detection by thumb prints. His poker debts also increase, and he is forced to write home for money, stating that he finds it necessary to take up a special law course, which is very expensive. By this time Martin's resources are deeply drained, and he is at a loss to figure where he can get the money. Mrs. Martin pleads with him, and he agrees to get the necessary funds somewhere. The deputy sheriff brings in a tramp, and Martin recognizes the man to be a pal of his crook days. The tramp, Homes, forces Martin to release him. The night Martin enters the general merchandise store and has the safe opened when Homes, also out for robbing, enters. Homes forces Martin to divide the spoils with him, and more than ever Homes has a hold on him. At college Roy receives the money and also a letter from his mother stating how they are sacrificing for him. He is brought to his senses, and packing up, hurriedly leaves for home. To his father he tells his whole story of life at college, and Martin realizes that his son has dissipated away the money for which he committed the crime. A little later Roy obtains the position of deputy sheriff, acting under his father. While Homes tells Martin that he must aid him in one more robbery and that then he will leave the country. Martin is obliged to agree, and that night the express office is robbed. In the morning Roy is investigating the robbery when he finds a thumb print. This he takes a photograph of, and after it has been developed and printed he shows it to his father. His father takes it, and when Roy is handed the wet print back there appears an additional thumb print on it. A little study reveals to Roy that the two prints are similar, and he realizes that his own father must be the robber. Martin again meets Homes, and Roy, who has followed his father, secretly watches them. Homes states that they must do one more job, and in a fury Martin knocks him down. Roy hurries to the scene, but before he arrives both men have drawn guns and both are dead. Others appear. All the money taken from the express office is found on Homes, Martin having refused to take any of it, and later Roy shows his mother a copy of the Plumas newspaper, which gives a glowing tribute to Martin, stating that he met his death in the performance of his duty.
- Hugo, a poor artist, adopts his motherless child model who has been deserted by her father. He paints a picture of little Lycia and calls it "The Beggar Child." The canvas brings him fame and wealth. Eighteen years later, Lycia, as the daughter of the famous artist, is courted by Count Roberto, whose attentions she accepts until the appearance of Dan Street, a young art student who saves her from drowning. Rosa, a peasant girl the Count has betrayed, tells Lycia her story, and the Count is dismissed. Determined to win Lycia at any cost, he plots with the butler in Hugo's employ to kidnap her. Meanwhile, Rosa's brother, seeking to avenge his sister, has entered the Count's service. He discovers the conspiracy and substitutes Rosa for Lycia on the occasion of the secret marriage which the Count thinks he is forcing upon the artist's adopted daughter. Later, Marco, the butler, discovers that Lycia is his own child and proves this to Hugo. But Lycia, still believing that she's Hugo's child, finds happiness with Dan, to whom alone the artist relates the true story of her birth and upbringing.
- Judson Brand, a powder manufacturer, is approached by the envoys of two warring nations, but before entering into a contract with Baron Von Halstyn, envoy for Gravonia, he sends his son, Marshall, to investigate the country's financial condition. Burghoff, Sashofen's envoy, is advised of a blockade and instructed to halt shipments of munitions to the enemy. Both envoys try to enlist the help of Jan Bernheim, a clever political exile from Gravonia. Out of revenge, she promises to aid Burghoff, but patriotism prevails and she goes over to Von Halstyn, although pretending to remain in the employ of Burghoff. Elinor, Brand's daughter, is engaged to Fosdick, a humanitarian propagandist, who opposes Brand's mercenary attitude in furnishing munitions. Burghoff allies himself with Fosdick, and together they hope to control the vote of the congressional committee against furnishing munitions. The committee is divided in opinion and the deciding vote is with Hayes, the chairman who favors the non-participating policy. Brand quarrels with Fosdick about the issue and forces Elinor, in sympathy with Fosdick, to break her engagement, when Fosdick refuses to renounce his principle. Jan induces Burghoff to give Fosdick a check for a thousand dollars "for charitable purposes." Jan secures the canceled check which the unsuspecting Fosdick has accepted, for evidence against him, and when Von Halstyn urges her to win over Hayes to their side, she does so by showing him the check, which she makes him believe was accepted as a bribe from Burghoff. Burghoff refuses to accept defeat and proposes to Fosdick the blowing up of the powder mills, but Fosdick refuses to listen, so Burghoff undertakes it alone unknown even to Jan. Brand's son, traveling through the war zone, finds their Brandite shells being used by both sides, and is so absorbed in commercialism that he is untouched by the evidence of suffering about him. Fosdick saves the life of a child belonging to one o£ the men employed by Burghoff to blow up the mills. Brand receives a favorable report from his son and he and Von Halstyn ride over to the mill to sign up the contract, accompanied by Elinor and Jan. Fosdick, in Burghoff's office waiting for him, answers the telephone and learns of the plot to destroy the mills within an hour. He tries to reach Brand only to find that he and Elinor have gone to the mill. Fosdick drives to the mills, and through his efforts the plan only partially succeeds; no one is hurt but Mason, the man who was on the job. Fosdick is found trying to put out the fuse and is accused by Brand of attempting to blow up the mill. Mason, however, clears him when he recovers and Von Halstyn and Jan are arrested by a secret service man who has been trailing them. Brand stubbornly insists that Fosdick is to blame for it all and vows he will sign the contract away. Then the final argument presents itself, his beloved son has been killed by a Brandite shell. Later Von Halstyn and Jan are deported. Burghoff flees the country and Fosdick and Elinor are united. Brand turns from the manufacture of ammunition to Red Cross work.
- Jim, a cowboy, comes to town with the boys of the Lazy B, and stops at the Last Chance Saloon. One of the girls of the dancehall is Madge. Hardy, owner of a distant ranch, comes to her and offers her a position as housekeeper, which proposition she spurns. Jim has a flirtation with Madge, and she interests him. Late that night, Jim, well under the influence of liquor, chances to meet her again. On the impulse of the moment he asks her to marry him. Madge thinks back to Hardy's statement that, "No one would ever many a dance hall girl" and accepts his proposal. The foreman of the Lazy B is short of help for the spring round-up, and sends one of the boys to ask Jim if he is willing to join them. The cowboy eyes Madge laughingly, and this brings Jim to his senses He angrily tells the cowboy that Madge is his wife and that, as such, she must be respected. The cowboy apologizes. Jim consents to join the round-up, and leaving sufficient money for Madge, sets off. The weeks pass, and Hardy arrive in town again. He inquires at the dancehall and learns of Madge's marriage to Jim, and is furious. The round-up over, the boys start home. Hardy has heard of Jim's absence from town and goes to see Madge. Madge refuses to admit him, and finally breaking the door down, he enters Jim returns, and sees Hardy with Madge. But when Madge fights Hardy as he tries to embrace her, Jim sees the real nature of the affair, more so when he notices the shattered door, and entering, he forces Hardy to leave. Madge fears that Jim has gained a false impression of the incident, but he quickly reassures her, and in place of the old silver ring that had been used at the marriage, he slips on her finger a new and real one.
- Tom Burns, a broker's clerk, falls in love with his employer's daughter, Edith, but realizes their positions are too far apart to hope. Edith is beloved by Wilson, her father's private secretary. Although she likes him at first, her heart soon turns to Tom. She invites the young clerk to her birthday party. He sends her a bunch of violets, which she wears that night, disposing of Wilson's gift of a handsome bracelet, Wilson proposes and is refused. He becomes jealous of the preference shown Tom and vows vengeance. By ruining Edith's father he hopes to punish the girl and throw Tom out of a good position. But Tom receives an unexpected legacy and unknown to his employer, saves the day. Wilson is nonplussed at the failure of his plans. Edith becomes piqued at Tom's slowness and encourages his rival the hope of bringing him to a declaration. Tom misunderstands. Edith's father learns of Wilson's perfidy and Tom's noble sacrifice and divining the cause of Edith's unhappiness, hits upon a scheme. Feigning that he is near death as the result of an accident he sends for both Tom and Edith. Expressing a dying wish that they marry, Edith and Tom agree and the ceremony is just completed as Wilson enters. Surprise and chagrin show in his face, but he is quietly informed and his perfidy is known and given notice that his services are no longer required. Tom is then appointed Wilson's successor and the amount of his legacy restored. Then to cap the climax, papa reveals that his illness was all a ruse to bring about speedy termination of the unhappiness of the young couple.
- Episode 1: Dr. Ralph Burke, a scientist and inventor, perfects an apparatus enabling submarine craft to remain underwater indefinitely without relying wholly upon compressed air stored in the boat. The discovery is perfected at the opening of the story and has been offered to the United States government. Lieut. Jarvis Hope. U.S.N., is dispatched to witness a practical demonstration of the invention. Arriving in the city where Dr. Burke lives, Lieut. Hope meets an old acquaintance. Hook Barnacle, whose life he once saved. Hook had his right hand bitten off by a shark, and an iron hook being substituted gained for him the odd sobriquet. Hook escorts the lieutenant to the Burke home and relates to Cleo, the doctor's "daughter," how his life had been saved by the young naval officer. Cleo and Hope become mutually interested. Hook is much given to talking and it is not long before the entire village knows the reason for Lieut. Hope's visit. Among those who learn the news are Sextus, a Russian, and Satsuma, a Jap, working under the orders of one Mahlin. The following day is set for the demonstration. Satsuma watching his chance has secreted himself aboard the submarine. Olga Ivanoff, head of the Russian bureau in this country, receives a visit from Sextus, who is commanded by her to obtain the secret of the submarine. Meantime Calvin Montgomery, a wealthy lobbyist, upon advices from influential friends at Washington, sends his nephew, Gerald Morton, an unprincipled rounder, to obtain the secret. Gerald is suspicious of his uncle's interest in Cleo Burke, but fails to learn anything definite before he leaves to see the inventor. On board the submarine the apparatus is being manipulated satisfactorily and Lieut. Hope is much impressed. The party repairs to the salon for lunch, affording opportunity for Satsuma to crawl stealthily from his hiding place. The Jap is examining the mechanism of the invention when he is surprised by Dr. Burke, who gives the alarm. Sailors rush in to overpower the Jap but he is desperate. Shots are fired, one of which disables the Burke apparatus. Satsuma throws over the lever opening the conning tower trap, leaps up the ladder, gains the top and dives off into the sea as the boat quickly sinking is almost lost to view. The water pours down through the open trap. The air machine is broken and with the boat uncontrollable, the inventor and his party battle for life in the watery darkness.
- Curlew Corliss, one of the happy family of cowboys at Bar Ranch, falls in love with Tina, a schoolteacher, who comes to teach in that district. Curlew doesn't find the courage to propose, but he bought a ranch preliminary to getting "hitched." About this time a not-too-scrupulous individual drifted into town calling himself Frank Evans, whom Curlew discovers with Tina and is introduced to as an old friend of hers. Curlew has a terrible struggle trying to get the proposing point and finally decides to ask her or "bust in his boots," but just as he is warmed up to the occasion, the boys come along and break in with an impromptu serenade. Curlew sees a necklace advertised in a catalogue for $2.98 and thinks this would help his cause with the teacher, so he sends for one. Evans plays on hard luck and it occurs to him that there are other ways of getting money. Curlew waits anxiously for the stage on the day the necklace should arrive, but the stage is held up and the mail sack stolen. Curlew is one of the searching party for the robber, and finds the paper addressed to him in which the necklace, had been wrapped and the black mask which the robber had thrown away. Tina sees the mask sticking out of Curlew's pocket and remembers Tina hearing one of the boys kidding him about marrying her and that Curlew answered, if he could only get hold of some money. Her suspicions are aroused. When Curlew calls, determined to ask Tier, necklace or no necklace, he is told that she has left with Evans. So Curlew is left alone with his disappointment. In the course of time, a widow Mrs. Gregory, comes to Tower and starts a home restaurant, which is well patronized by the boys. Sanderson, a rancher, falls for the widow. Curlew lives alone on his place, but comes into town and takes a flier at the new restaurant and soon he and Sanderson are the widow's star eaters. Before the opening of school again, Tina returns, with Evans, and when Curlew angrily encounters Evans in the restaurant, the widow introduces him as her son. Sanderson doesn't like the idea of the widow's having a son and leaves, but Curlew, lonely and needing someone to take care of his home, begins to propose to her. She stops him, telling him that she is too old for him and wants someone like Sanderson who can take care of her in luxury. Curlew cannot eat and goes out into the saloon where he finds Sanderson telling the bartender that the widow is old enough to be his mother. Curlew persuades him with a gun to change his mind and propose to her. Curlew, waiting near the kitchen door while Sanderson gets through with his proposal, is confronted by Tina, who has been visiting with her mother, the widow. She is friendly to him and as they talk, he sees the necklace about her neck. She tells him that her brother gave it to her and Curlew has a clue to the robber. When Evans returns, Curlew suggests that they are still looking for the robber and that it might be healthier for him in another state, and he guiltily starts off. Tina overhears them and her doubts are removed. Their happiness is assured as she is taken in Curlew's arms.
- After inheriting his grandfather's estate, John Wright rides through a wooded area and sees Martha Hobbs struggling with Ralph, the man whom her heartless father wants her to marry. John beats Ralph and returns Martha to her shabby home. After Martha's mother dies, Martha goes to the city and is befriended by an aged woman. When Wright, investigating his inherited property, finds the women living in a squalid tenement, he builds the Wright Industrial Home, an ideal community-oriented workplace. After Wright hears Greta Carr lecture about ancient Greek life, he convinces Carr to create with him a modern Grecian colony on his estate. The villagers are shocked by the colony's scantily clad dancers. Learning that Martha lives there, Ralph leads a mob to destroy the house. John catches Ralph setting off dynamite and after knocking him out, warns everyone to leave. After the explosion, the mob sobers upon finding Ralph's body. Now tolerated, the colony constructs new buildings, and John and Martha marry.