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- Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- Belle Gordon, an orphan, finds an advertisement in the papers for a governess to apply to the Rev. Strong, at Cripple Creek, Col. She writes and has her fare advanced. Upon arriving there she finds the place consists of a crowd of disreputable miners and dance-hall girls. She learns that the advertisement was merely a trap to lure her out into the dance-hall of Martin Mason. She tries to get away but cannot. Dynamite Ann, one of the worst women of the place, remembering the time that she first came to Cripple Creek through the same sort of an advertisement, wishes to help the girl. Joe Mayfield, the United States Deputy Marshal enters, and, seeing Belle's plight, rescues her. He takes her away with him, and also Maggie, Mason's young daughter. He asks Dynamite Ann to go to his cabin to look after the girls. She accepts, grateful for the trust reposed in her. Reginald, a young dude from the east, dances attention on Maggie, while Joe Mayfield loses his heart to Belle. Joe is interested in a mine called the "Last Dollar" which is reputed to be worthless. Mason and his partner, Alvarez, discover gold in the mine and try to bargain with Joe for its possession. Joe refuses to relinquish it, and for revenge the Mexican takes up Joe's adopted child who is walking on the rocks and throws her down. As he goes up again Wahketa swings out on a grape vine and catches the child in midair. The next day Mason and Alvarez go down into the mine. Joe and Belle, coming down later, are surprised by them and tied hand and foot. Wahketa, who is also tied, manages to burn the cords off his hands and releases Belle and Joe. The three make their escape. A short time later, on the wedding day of Joe and Belle and Maggie and Reginald, Mason and Alvarez come and look in at the festivities. The wedding takes place and just as the guests are leaving the room, the Mexican shoots through the window at Joe, but Ann jumps forward and receives the bullet in her own heart. She dies in Joe's arms.
- Asa Hatch, multi-millionaire, receives a telegram from Anson Slade, supervisor of a natural forest in Wyoming, accepting a bribe Hatch has offered in order to secure Slade's services in stealing timber land from the government. The plan is to locate large holdings as homesteads, prior to the addition of adjoining public lands to the national forest. Hatch goes to Bisonville to meet Slade. By mistake he introduces himself to Troublesome McWhorter, a forest ranger in uniform, and shows McWhorter Slade's telegram. McWhorter's suspicions against the superior officer and Hatch are aroused. Meantime, Slade attempts to make love to the Bisonville Postmistress, Anne Keith, and McWhorter knocks him down. Slade and Hatch start out to survey false agricultural claims, and are followed by McWhorter. They go to Slade's cabin, after completing the surveys, and make out a list of "Dummy" entries, which must be filed at the land office prior to the setting aside of the land as part of the national forest. This list is put in an envelope and sealed and left on a table. McWhorter comes in, addresses a similar envelope on the typewriter, stamps it, and leaves it in place of the original document. Slade mails McWhorter's substitute, thinking it is the original list. A week later he and Hatch, who have been carousing, hear that the list has not arrived. They accuse the postmistress of holding back the envelope. They catch her on the trail and take her to their cabin, where they attempt to force a confession from her. On the way she breaks off twigs and drops her handkerchief and glove. McWhorter had taught her that breaking twigs is signal for help. He rides along the trail, finds twigs broken, picks up her handkerchief and glove and follows to the cabin, where he arrives in time to rescue Anne. He shows Slade a telegram from Washington, announcing that the public lands have been added to the reserve a week ahead of time on account of McWhorter's exposure of contemplated fraud. The telegram also says McWhorter will get the supervisor's place. Ranger and Anne on their wedding trip is the final scene.
- Mr. Fairley, a rancher, strongly objects when he finds his daughter, May, and young Jack Holt making love. Threatening to shoot Jack, he orders him from the house. May, fearing for Jack's safety, hides her father's gun. Mr. Fairley goes to the bank to draw money to pay for stock. While he is away Jack returns and persuades May to elope with him that night. Mr. Fairley returns from the bank and is busy far into the night. May manages to slip out of the window when the time arrives. She meets Jack and they speed off in a waiting buggy. Two traveling tinkers, who had become aware that there was a lot of money in the house, make use of the ladder, which May used to get out of her window, to effect an entrance. The tinkers surprise Mr. Fairley just as he has replaced the money in the safe. They bind, gag and threaten to torture him unless he tells the combination. Jack and May arrive at the parson's and discover the parson has gone out of town and won't be back till next day. They decide to postpone the ceremony and hurry home. Unaware of what is happening in Mr. Fairley's office, Jack advises May to go quietly up the ladder so that she won't disturb her father. When May gets to her room she hears some strange noise and goes down the stairs to investigate. As she enters the office, she is seized by the tinkers, who try to make her open the safe for them. She refuses until the tinkers threaten to torture her father with hot irons. Jack is about to ride off when he hears May scream. He runs up the ladder and then finds his way downstairs to the office. May is about to open the safe when Jack enters. Jack is no match for the two burly tinkers and they soon overpower him. May looks on with terror, then remembering where she hid her father's gun she gets it and orders the tinkers to hold up their hands. Then giving the gun to Jack, who covers the crooks, she releases her father and gives the alarm. The crooks are given into the custody of some ranch hands. Jack returns the gun to Mr. Fairley, and is about to embrace May, when Mr. Fairley covers him with the gun and reminds Jack that he must first ask his consent. Jack puts his hands up but Mr. Fairley's face softens as he pulls Jack's hand down and places it in that of May.
- The story depicts a youth at the crossroads of life, listening to the call of the church, renouncing love and worldly pleasure which beckon him and consecrating himself to the priesthood. It shows a woman of the world with ideal, pure-hearted love within her grasp, surrendering her lover to a sanctified existence.
- 'Our Mutual Girl' was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel, and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble), and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement--although, apparently, not paid placement.
- May gets a job on a paper through the friendly help of Jason Hunter, son of a newspaper owner, who is inclined to be somewhat wild. A public outcry against lottery schemes is on, and May is sent to locate the shop where the lottery is conducted. She discovers the plant in the rear of a Chinese laundry, and notifies the police. But she makes them promise not to raid it until ten o'clock the following night, so that she may have time to get the story for her paper, and also because at that time the owner of the place may be found on the premises. The next night when she goes to the shop, she is dismayed to discover that the owner is Jason Hunter. She has no way of heading off the police at that hour, though she resolves to "throw" her paper for Hunter's sake. She hurriedly runs out, takes down the laundry sign and puts it upon a shack two doors away. The police raid an innocent place, and May returns to the office and is dismissed for failing to get the story. Next day Jason learns of this. He confesses to his father, May is restored to her job and Jason gives up his foolish ways.
- Romeo and Juliet type story loosely based upon the famed Hatfield/McCoy feud.
- Gapado. an old shoe cobbler, has a pretty daughter, Bella. She is in love with a young American, Conners, a reporter, but her old father doesn't like foreigners, and forbids her to have anything to do with him. Conners has met Bella while taking a pair of his shoes to be repaired. Luigi, a flashy Italian, has met her in the same way and is attracted by her, but she spurns him. He gets fresh and Conners whips him. Luigi plans to abduct her and when Bella delivers shoes to his place she is captured and held prisoner. He tells her he will keep her there until she agrees to marry him. Fearful of being caught, he writes a note to a pal, telling him to meet him and they will take the girl to a certain spot in the suburbs and keep her there. In writing the note, he spills ink on it, and crumpling it up, throws it into the wastebasket. However, the crumpled-up note hits the edge of the basket, bounces off and lands in an old shoe lying on the floor beside the table. The girl is taken away and the landlady, having been told previously to send the shoes to the cobbler, finds them and takes them to Gapado. The latter finds the note, shows it to Conners, who is inquiring for Bella, and the latter goes to the rescue of Bella. That finished he finds Gapado more willing to accede to his suit for Bella's hand.
- Elaine, a well-known lecturer, hates men. John, who has written a book called, "Women, the Silly Sex," cannot bear the sight of a woman, and to avoid them all in general, he arranges for the purchase of a deserted island where he will be able to write in peace. Elaine goes to the home of a friend in the country, near John's island. One day, out on the lake, she starts to rehearse her speech with such feeling that she falls overboard. She swims ashore and there finds John's clothes, he having gone in for a swim. She hurriedly changes her dripping riding habit for his things. Seeing him coming out of the water, she runs up the path. He finds the wet suit and thinks some boy took his clothes. He races after Elaine, and catching up with her grabs her by the collar and announces his intention of thrashing "the boy." But luckily her cap comes off and he sees that it is a woman who has invaded his island. She calls him a brute and tells him she wants to get back to the mainland. He suggests she wait in his cabin until a boat passes. An hour goes by and Elaine commences to feel hungry. She summons John and tells him that she is hungry. He points to the icebox and bids her cook what she wishes. She is furious at the idea, but later hunger gets the better of her pride and she manages to prepare lunch. Five o'clock arrives. She tells John that he will have to swim to the mainland for a boat. He cannot swim well and is not anxious to take a chance. She insists. He finally goes, and as she sees him dive into the sea she gets frightened and begs him to come back. But he does not listen. He encounters a rowboat with Elaine's friend and a couple of fishermen looking for the missing girl. He takes them to the island and Elaine is taken aboard, but not before she has shaken hands cordially with the woman hater, who finds himself wishing that he might see her again. In the pocket of her riding suit he later finds her card and calls upon her. They become great friends and a double conversion is affected when he persuades her to burn her lecture with a copy of his book.
- Clark, a young shipping clerk, goes west, discouraged at loss of his job and failure to get another. He promises his mother he will help her and send for her when he strikes a good job. He falls among bad companions and is desperately hard up for money. He works at prospecting unsuccessfully and finally gets a job at a mine. Later he receives word of his mother's illness and needs money badly. He is sent later on a trip across the mountains with a lot of money and he determines to risk all, steal the money and get away. But an outlaw sees him start and follows, planning to fire from ambush and take his money from him. He follows through the hills for a long distance and when the young man sits down to eat his lunch, the outlaw fires at him from behind. The boy, however, in sitting down to eat has placed his hat on a bit of rock above his head. The outlaw, from the rear, hits only the hat, which, disappearing from view, causes him to believe he has killed the boy. He takes so much time to cross the gully across which he shot that the boy has gone and has hid himself. The outlaw flees and the boy, looking closer, sees where the shot has chipped off a bit of the rock, disclosing to view a rich vein of gold. The boy locates a claim and sells out to advantage. His meditated but unsuccessful crime brings him luck at last and teaches him a lesson as well.
- Dog-Who-Never-Leaves-the-Scent, for his bravery in helping the government in an Indian uprising, is bidden name his reward. He asks that his little son be taken and educated as a white man. This is done. John Graham becomes a football star at Carlisle, and later wins a medical degree. He marries Mary Penton, and obtains the position of post surgeon on the Indian reservation. At John's request, the colonel tells the Dog that he is not to disclose his identity as the boy's father to John's white wife. The Indian promises. However, he assures himself that Mary is worthy of his son. And for a moment he holds his grandson against his breast. Later, the child wanders away, and the colonel sends for the Dog to trail him. He finds little John just about to spring a bear trap with his hand. At last, the son acknowledges his father. The picture closes as the old Indian is folding one end of his blanket about Mary and the child, and the other end about his son.
- Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula. Mole kills the chemist, and he and Grinde frame an explosion to conceal the crime. After David refuses to sell the formula, Grinde and Mole lock him and his sweetheart in a vault with poisonous gas. Grinde then tries to kill Mole, who knows too much, and take over the firm from his elderly partner at a directors' meeting.
- Widow Kelton lives on her tiny ranch with her three children. She works from sun-up till sundown every day except Sunday to eke out an existence for her little family. The Mountain Water Company is building a fence line which brings them through the widow's property. They discover on her land a barn which blocks their line, and unable to convince her that it must be moved, the surveyor sets fire to the building. One of the children, a tot of four years, sees the barn burning, and runs in among the flames and falling timbers "to save the poor horses." She is rescued by the superintendent of the fence gang and restored to her distracted mother. The incident serves to waken the sympathetic interest of the superintendent in Mrs. Kelton and her brood. Eventually the widow and the kindly superintendent marry.
- Mrs. Neville is the neglected wife of a rich old man. Things come to a climax at a reception given by them, and she yields to the pleadings of an impassioned admirer and decides to elope with him. Twelve o'clock is the appointed hour. In packing up her clothes she finds a bundle of old love letters, and looking them over revives tender memories of her courtship. Weeping bitterly, the appointed hour is forgotten. Her husband gets wind of the contemplated elopement, and armed with a pistol he cautiously enters her room. The pathetic figure of his sobbing wife brings to him a realization of his neglect, and when she confesses and pleads for forgiveness he takes her tenderly in his arms and tells her that it is he who should ask her pardon, and with a full understanding and renewed love, the two look brightly forward to the future.
- In Mexico, a humble peon has great difficulty retaining his small farm because of the greediness of those controlling the government. While he is in another town, two federal officials search for loot in his cottage and attack his two sisters. The elder, lame from birth, shoots herself rather than succumb to their lust. Her 14-year-old sister loses her mind and dies after telling her brother what occurred. The peon vows vengeance and is branded an outlaw by the frightened officials. After he escapes from jail with help from an old family servant, he is aided in eluding his pursuers by Americans traveling in a covered wagon. Years later, the outlaw, now the commander-in-chief of the Constitutionalist Army, wins many victories and kills one of the officials who attacked his sisters. When he learns that the Americans who helped him are in trouble, he leads a cavalry charge to rescue their wagon train from being attacked by revolutionists. He recognizes one of the attackers as the other official and is about to exact vengeance as the film ends.
- A western Sheriff has a young son who breaks his father's heart by his actions in gambling, drinking, etc. The father tries every means to make his boy reform and lead a decent life but all in vain, and after the boy has assaulted a barkeep, stolen a horse, and fled the town, the father leaves too, unable to bear the disgrace among his friends. In another town he settles and is made sheriff. The boy has degenerated into an outlaw and bears a bad record, culminating in the murder of a rancher in the hills. News is brought to the new sheriff and he sets out to find and capture the outlaw. He does so but finds it is his own son. He is torn between his duty and his love for his erring boy, but finally decides to let fate decide. He knows that, close by, one trail leads over a dangerous cliff, and that the others leads across the hills and to safety. He tells the boy to go and he will not follow for five minutes. The boy goes, takes the path to the cliff, while the father watches him go. He struggles with a desire to stop him but lets him go. Following in a few minutes he finds the boy has fallen over and later finds his body, and realizes that his boy is beyond all further crime and safe from himself forever.
- Jack Adams, spokesman for workmen in a factory, pleads with the owner, Griscom, against a twenty percent cut in wages. Griscom refuses to consider the men's side, so the men walk out. Jack, seeking work at another factory, is "black-listed." He leaves in an ugly mood. Unable to find work anywhere, he is reduced to starvation. His wife needs a doctor. Jack sends a note to Griscom pleading to be taken back. Griscom answers, "Glad to see you so humble, but you can't work for me." Jack, irate, determines on vengeance. Outside Griscom's mansion Jack is overcome by weakness. Elsie, Griscom's favorite child, finds Jack, and has him taken into the house. Griscom comes in, suspects Jack's intentions, and accuses him. Jack tells of his terrible suffering. Elsie tries to console him. Jack is overcome. Griscom relents and offers food. Jack refuses. Elsie puts her arms around Jack, and he accepts the food. The touching scene penetrates the armor of Griscom's selfishness, and he offers his hand to Jack, who accepts it.
- To prove his argument that any child reared in the right atmosphere will turn out well, young millionaire John Dean adopts a child from the slums and has her raised with little Edith, the child of his friend Mr. Ellis. The children are the same age and grow up together as sisters. When they are 18, Dean returns from abroad and his pride in his young ward turns to love. They are very happy together. Edith has become infatuated with the good-looking chauffeur and Mary tries in every way to take her thoughts from him. One day she drops a letter from him in the library. Dean and her father find it, and as they are puzzling over it, Mary enters, looking for something, and to save Edith, claims the note as hers. Dean is heartbroken and Mr. Ellis says, '"I told you so." Mrs. Ellis agrees. Edith, impatient at Mary's long absence, rushes down, and seeing Mary's plight, confesses. Mary is about to go away forever when Dean rushes after her and blames himself for doubting her. He offers her his name and his heart. And as she has learned to love him, she accepts both.
- Robert Warren has been married just six years to Alice Blake when the story opens; they are rich but not happy. Mrs. Warren, an ardent worshiper at society's throne, cannot miss a party or gathering, and being a wonderful dancer, will sacrifice husband, home, and child, rather than miss a ball. Virginia, the child, is ill. Mrs. Warren is at the ball, and the doctor advises sending for her. She refuses to leave her dances and returns home in the small hours of the morning. Robert is waiting for her and upbraids her for her lack of heart. They quarrel. Losing his temper, he tells her to make her choice for all time between her home, husband and child, and her dances. She chooses her dances. Robert writes to his lawyer about the settlement for his wife. They part. Robert takes the child and starts for his western ranch. During the trip the child strolls away looking for her mamma. Robert is nearly insane at the loss and places his own life in danger, when after a thorough search through the train, he leaves the train while in motion and is found by the side of the track. A telegram is sent to his home, which brings his wife to Squaw Valley, near where they found him. She takes him back east, but nothing is heard of the child. Dad Bartlett, an old recluse lives all alone in his little shack. The good minister tries to turn his thoughts to the hereafter, but only gets curses for his pains. He places a sign on his premises reading, "God is No Where. Ministers and Church People Keep Away." To this shack in the mountains Virginia wanders, telling the old man she is looking for her mamma. The old man keeps her and by the aid of the sign no one knows the child is there. Time passes. The old man loves the child devotedly, and the child loves her foster father. He has taught her to read and write and the sign now reads, "God Is Now Here." Robert and his wife are traveling to his western ranch, with Robert's young brother, an artist. They stop off at Crawley Junction, now the home of Virginia. Arthur sees the child and makes a pencil drawing of her, intending to paint it when he returns east. At the hotel he shows it to Warren and his wife; they recognize the child. Dad Bartlett gives her up, but spurns their gold. He begs the pencil drawing of Virginia. The Warrens return east with Virginia. The next day Dad is found by the minister dead on the floor, the penciled drawing with these words in chalk underneath it, clasped in his arms, "God Is Love."
- Ada Prentice, a knitting mill girl, is forbidden by her parents to marry John Horrocks. She confides in her Aunt Sarah, the oldest employee in the mill. Aunt Sarah tells Ada that she has a perfect right to live her own life and to marry a mate of her own choosing. The old lady knows whereof she is talking, for in her youth she had given up her chance of happiness by refusing the one man whom she ever was able to love. That evening John comes around to Ada's house, and is sent about his business by her angry father and brother. John is willing to leave, but he is determined to take Ada with him. They escape to Aunt Sarah's. The old lady faces Ada's father and brother from the doorway, gun in hand. As Aunt Sarah is the crack shot of the region, she easily wins the father's consent to Ada's marriage and extracts from him a promise to attend the wedding.
- A murderer is haunted by the spirit of his victim.
- Carter has inherited a taste for drink. His wife is the only influence which keeps him straight. He accuses her unjustly of meeting another man, really her outcast brother, whom she is ashamed to acknowledge, and they separate. Then Carter becomes a dipsomaniac. Steve, Mrs. Carter's brother, is also a victim of drink. It happens that at the same time the two men are suffering from the effects of a long spree. Steve, on the street, is listening to an evangelist, who hands him a tract. He shoves the paper into his pocket and wanders off in search of alcohol to satisfy his craving. He chances to come by Charter's house just as his brother-in-law is kicking his valet out of the door, for keeping the whiskey bottle away from him. Seeing Carter help himself to the liquor, and unable to stand it, Steve enters the house, snatches the bottle from his hand, and drains down all but a few drops. These last crumbs of comfort he returns to Carter, and the two men, recognizing in each other victims of the same weakness, become sympathetic. Steve pulls the tract out of his pocket, and in his soothed state, the words take hold on his emotions. He shares the message with Carter who is similarly affected. Later, the derelict persuades his sister to return with him to her husband, and is about to slip away without revealing his identity, when Carter insists upon his remaining. He then learns their relationship and how he has misjudged his wife. In making Steve a member of the family he ensures his own salvation and that of his delinquent brother-in-law.
- Belle is engages as governess for little Marjorie, by the wealthy Lorimers. George Lorimer comes home from college and the young people fall in love and are secretly married. He goes back to his studies, and finally, unable to conceal her marriage any longer, Belle implores him to come home. Mrs. Lorimer surprises Belle in her room sewing on baby clothes and sends her away, and the girl goes back to her old mother, where a pathetic scene takes place. George comes home, but is forbidden to see his wife on pain of being disowned. Little Marjorie dies and Mrs. Larimer is on the verge of insanity. George decides on a bold stroke, and goes to his wife, and persuades her to come to his home. Her tiny baby is placed in Mrs. Lorimer's arms, and as the baby fingers twine about her George's mother impulsively strains it to her breast and kisses her daughter-in-law. Mr. Lorimer, taking in the scene, repents his stern action and forgives his son with a glad heart.
- Biff Dugan, the eldest son of a poor family living in a tenement on the squalid East Side of New York, leads a gang of hoodlums, among whose members is his brother Porky. Their sister Jess is a consumptive whose health was ruined in a sweatshop. During a melee in a mission run by reformer Henry Davis, the Dugan gang encounters Billy Drew and his sister Cora, newcomers to the city. Porky saves Cora from the unwelcome attentions of Biff's rival, Spike Golden, and the two fall in love. Later, when Spike is killed in a gang war, Biff is wrongfully convicted of the murder and executed in the electric chair. Porky, who served a short term in prison for his part in the crime, comes back to the city to find that Jess has died and Cora has returned to the country. When his gang delivers the man who betrayed Biff, Porky, whose heart has been softened by Cora and Billy, lets the man go. Finally, Porky retires to the country to lead the quiet life of a farmer with Cora as his wife.
- Before they reach their journey's end, homeseeker Bob West and his little daughter Ida are attacked by Indians who kill West, take Ida captive, and keep a letter West had written to his sister in the East--which incidentally bears the imprint of a smudgy little finger. Ida is rescued from the Indians by Morgan, a slave trader who takes her and the letter home to his plantation, where he substitutes the little white girl for a mulatto slave child who has recently died. Ida is put in charge of Sally, a yellow girl, and brutally treated. Some time later Mr. and Mrs. Marks pity Ida and buy her from Morgan. She lives happily with them for 12 years. Fred Gilbert, the Marks' nephew, pays them a visit and falls in love with Ida. His uncle and aunt are horrified, believing that the girl has Negro blood, and the young people are about to part forever when Sally, who has become inflamed by jealousy against Morgan, produces the letter written by West just before his death. By a fingerprint test Ida's identity is confirmed, and her white blood proved. The young people marry. Morgan is hunted down by a posse and is shot dead.
- Carter, an old bachelor, pretends to hate children, but while he chases them out of his country store he slips them candy on the sly. Johnny and Sadie are the worst pests and bother the old man to death. The kids are orphans and brought up by an aunt who later dies. The kids are reared by Carter, who pretends great begrudgement at having to take them in, but when they are with him, he gives up his rooms to them and sleeps in the store. They continue to pester the life out of him and one day beg him for some pennies, which he refuses. They are peeved and lie in hiding. They see the old man counting his money and also see where he hides it. After he has gone to bed, they sneak into the store and take the bag of coin, swipe a handful and hide the bag again, as a joke. The next night tramps break in and torture the old man in order to make him tell the hiding place of his treasure. He refuses and the kids hear the noise, see what is going on and run to the sheriff for aid. In the meantime the old man tells the hiding place for his money, but much to his surprise and the tramps' anger, it is not found. The old man is just about to be tortured when the sheriff arrives, and the tramps are captured. The kids show the old man where they hid the money, and are received with open arms.
- Roger Blake's chief interest in life is the bag of money he has hidden behind a loose brick in the fireplace. Although his son, Joe, works on his farm more faithfully than any hired man would, Blake refuses to pay him for his services, pointing out that he is given everything he needs. Joe, ashamed of his lack of pocket-money, determines to steal the money he feels is rightfully his. His father catches him in the act and turns him out of the house, in spite of the pleadings of his wife and daughter. Joe finds work with a neighbor, but though he is now paid for his services, he is so homesick and wretched that he would gladly go back on the old basis if his father would forgive. Joe's sister promises to beg their father to let Joe return and to place a light in the window should he relent. The homesick boy creeps up to the gate of his home, but the light is never there. One night two rowdies from the village plan to rob Blake. They enter the house after the family has retired. Blake is aroused, hurries to the sitting-room, but is quickly overcome by the thieves. In the struggle the bag falls and the money spills. One of the thieves places the lamp on the window sill to get light on the floor where the coins have been lost. Seeing the light in the window, Joe thinks it is the signal he has been waiting for and he hurries joyfully toward the house. After a desperate struggle, he gets the better of the thieves and has them locked up. Blake, who has long realized he was wrong, but has been too stubborn to give in, capitulates, owns that Joe was right and the prodigal is taken back to the bosom of the family.
- Walter Earl and Elmer Hay are two young farmers who are suitors for Dot Maynard's hand. Her father favors Walter while she herself favors Elmer. Walter is a clean cut young chap, but is inclined to be rather wayward and it is just those shortcomings that cause Dot to think that her sympathy and pity for him amount to real love. The rivalry comes to a climax shortly before the party at Dot's house. Elmer finds Walter trying to kiss Dot as she is returning from school after having a show fight with him. Taking Elmer's proffered arm she leaves Walter laughing at her and goes home with Elmer. The night of the country dance and candy pull when all the country side is on hand the two young men almost come to blows. In fact after Elmer has been cautioned by Dot's father not to show her too much attention he finds the hard cider much to his liking and when the two are about to come to an ugly fight it is only averted by the father's anger and the breaking up of the party. Maynard has Walter wait and tells Dot that it is his wish that she marry him and his command that she have nothing further to do with Elmer. Elmer has waited outside for Walter to leave and then throws a snowball to Dot's bedroom window. She sees him and comes down to meet him by stealth. They arrange to elope the next day. On the way to meet her the next day, Elmer somewhat under the influence of drink, curses and beats his horse unmercifully when the sleigh overturns. Dot, coming along with her bundle of clothing, oversees his brutality and her seeming love at once turns to hate. Walter happens by when Elmer tries to force her into the sleigh and takes her home with him. She tells her father everything and he leaves her with Walter. She asks Walter's forgiveness and discovers that she has really loved him all along.
- From his private room in an expensive hospital, young John Gilbert, through a pair of opera glasses, sees a little crippled dancer in the window of a theatrical boarding house opposite. He becomes so interested in this girl that he sends his own doctor over to attend her. He learns that she has had an accident and will never be able to dance again. Daily he sends her gifts, flowers, books, etc. She receives them gladly, as they contain no card from the mysterious donor. Gilbert, on the way to recovery, meets a great surgeon from abroad. His first thought is, could he cure that girl across the way? After consulting with the doctor, the surgeon accepts commission from Gilbert to visit the girl. When she learns what he has done for her, she refuses to accept the assistance of a man she does not know, much as she would like to get well. But Gilbert sends her a letter stating that she has brought a new interest into his life and helped him recover and asks that he be allowed to do the same for her. She finally consents. The operation is performed successfully and the girl returns to the stage. Gilbert watches her and later meets her. After a long acquaintance, during which he never betrays the fact that he was the man who had helped her, he asks her to become his wife. She refuses him and tells the story of her unknown friend to whom her heart is given. Then Gilbert tells her the truth, and she, surprised, but very pleased, willingly accepts his ring.
- Mary Lang, daughter of a rich broker, is bored by the banal society existence she leads. Her father has arranged a match between Mary and his young business partner, John Barrick, who deeply loves the girl, but cannot seem to satisfy her romantic nature. Mary destroys all the photographs she has of herself and runs away in disguise to find adventure. Hugh Grey, a smart young reporter, while calling on Lang, chances to see a picture of Mary on his desk. On impulse he pockets it. Next day when the story of her disappearance is all over the city, Grey recognizes in a girl who the evening before had arrived at his boarding-house, the lost heiress. He immediately lays siege to Mary's affections, and believing that at last she has found her true romance, she promises to become his wife. On the day before that set for the wedding Mary finds the photograph in Grey's possession, and realizes that she has fallen into the clutches of a fortune hunter. She denounces him. Determined at least to win the reward of $10,000 which Lang has offered for his daughter's safe return, the reporter locks the girl in her room and sends for Lang and Barrick. Grey takes the check for the reward and also a trouncing for Barrick for refusing to give up Mary's photograph. Her eyes are opened to the genuineness of Barrick. and she becomes his wife.
- Douglas Kent sends his secretary, Arnold Morrison, to Iviswold, the Kent country home, as the bearer of a valuable necklace, his wedding present to his niece, Dora Kent, engaged to Count Luigi. Dora does not love the Count and does not wish to marry him, but her mother desires her to have the title and insists on the match taking place. Dora, in order to avoid the loveless union, decides to run away. Morrison arrives at Elmville, the nearest railroad stop to Iviswold. and starts out for Iviswold on horseback. Night approaching and a storm coming up, he stops at the Mountain Inn for the night. It is at this inn that Count Luigi has planned and executed many crimes with the assistance of Smiley, the rascally innkeeper. Morrison, in ignorance of the true character of the place, gets a room, and prepares for dinner. Dora, in escaping from her home, is thrown from her horse and is forced to stay for the night at the Mountain Inn. Dora and Morrison are in the dining room together at dinner. The Count, who is watching from a corner, comes to Dora and tries to force her to return. She breaks off the match and when he persists in his attitude Morrison steps in. A fight follows, in which the Count is beaten. During the struggle the necklace falls to the floor and Smiley sees it. Later he tells the Count. Morrison, fearing for the safety of the necklace turns it over to Dora, unaware of her identity, and asks her to keep it for him until morning. In the night Morrison is attacked by Smiley and the Count and is thrown cellar. Failing to find the necklace in his possession they try to gain entrance to Dora's room, for they suspect her of having it. In the meantime Dora's mother has discovered her daughter's absence and telephones Douglas Kent, who starts out at once for Iviswold. While the conspirators try to get in her door, which is barricaded, Dora rushes to the window and cries for help. Kent in his auto, on the way to Iviswold, hears the cry and he and the chauffeur rush into the hotel in time to overcome Smiley and the Count as they are breaking into Dora's room. Morrison is released from the cellar and he and Dora discover each other's identity. Kent thinks the necklace may be a wedding present after all and gives it to Dora.
- The suffrage workers are vainly endeavoring to win over Senator Herman to their cause as his vote on a certain bill they favor means its passage. May Fillmore, one of the most ardent of the workers, discovers that the father of a little motherless tenement brood has died of tuberculosis, after having vainly importuned the owner. Senator Herman, to make building alterations that will remedy unsatisfactory conditions. She goes to the Senator's fiancée, Jane Wadsworth, and succeeds in securing her help. Jane accompanies May to the poor bereaved family, and she is shocked at the terrible lack of sanitation. They find three little girls and a baby left to fight the world alone. Elsie, the eldest, is doing embroidery sweat-shop work at home, and minding the baby, while Hester works in a department store. The other tot is a half-time scholar, and in the afternoons assists her sister working on corset covers for another shop. All these fearful conditions are pointed out by May and have their desired effect upon Jane. She is further shocked upon learning that her fiancé is the negligent owner. Jane goes to him and pleads that he do something in the matter. He waves her away and treats her like a child. Angered, she joins the suffragists and assists in bringing both her father and the Senator to terms. Hester is insulted by a floorwalker in her father's shop, which proves another shock to Jane, when her father does nothing in the matter. Later she is stricken with scarlet fever, which she contracted from the embroidery on one of her trousseau gowns, which came from her father's store. The father and Senator, upon learning that they were in part guilty, as the embroidery was made in the Senator's unsanitary tenement, gives in and most enthusiastically joins the suffrage movement. They are seen with the girls at suffrage headquarters, at the Men's League, and finally in the parade.
- Bailey, a crook, has his nose broken by Burton, the detective, in a street fight, and is a marked man thereafter, easy for the police to capture. He pulls off a job and is traced easily and captured by Burton because of his broken nose. Bailey now naturally nurses revenge against Burton. Bailey is sent away but escapes from prison and has his nose straightened by a benevolent doctor. He is now able to pass by Burton unrecognized and feels safe in working out his revenge, which he plans against Burton and his sweetheart. He has the girl lured away, but Burton rescues her and Bailey goes back to prison.
- John Ward, a young workman, loves Mary Durland, daughter of a rich politician, who installs prison contract labor in the prisons of his city. The other knitting mills in the town cannot compete with cheap prison labor and are forced to close down. John and his brother, Joe, are thrown out of work and with others of the men, go to see Durland, who refuses to listen to them. John and Joe vainly look for work. Their mother is ill and needs nourishing food and medicine, and they have no money. Joe, an impulsive, warm-hearted lad, decides that as Durland took their living away, he shall pay, and he goes to his office intending to rob it of enough to carry his mother through her illness. Durland returns for some papers and the boy is caught. He is sent to prison and works on the knitting machines. He breaks down under the strain, is brutally treated by the guards and is later transferred to the road making gang. Unaccustomed to this he faints continually, but never meets the slightest kindness or consideration. Mary Durland returns home from boarding school and meets John, who is now a mechanic. She sees the difference in him and asks what is wrong. He does not tell her the truth, not wishing her to know her father is the cause of his trouble. John becomes a labor leader and makes up his mind to fight the prison contract labor system. Mary, who has become interested in sociological work, discovers the truth about the prisons when she finds Joe, physically and almost mentally a wreck. To convince herself further she goes through the prisons as well as the hospitals. She goes up North and studies prison conditions there. She finds men learning trades and working for the state, not in competition with labor. Returning home she calls on John to come and see her, and to him she tells what she saw while away, announcing her intention of fighting the prison contract system. John, then tells her she will be fighting her own father, but nothing daunted, she goes right ahead. Mary and John appear before the legislature just as a bill is about to be refused prohibiting prison labor. They have Joe with them, helpless and almost a cripple, and Mary makes an impassioned speech recommending the bill. She so interests the men that they rise and one and all vote for the bill. Durland, feeling himself beaten, consents to his daughter's marriage with John.
- Madame Albany, a beautiful and petted opera singer, contracts to sing the old ballad, "Twickenham Ferry," for a phonograph company for $1,000. The old song awakens memories of her youth and she decides to run away from the city and spend a few peaceful weeks in the country. She arrives at a little wayside station, and as she stands irresolute, not knowing which way to turn, a handsome country lad passes. She asks him if he can tell her where to board. He offers to take her across the river in his boat. She accepts his offer. In the drifting boat she sings a verse from "Twickenham Ferry," and the beauty of her voice, as well as her lovely face, causes the boy to fall in love with her. He deserts his pretty country sweetheart and spends most of his time rowing with the singer. She thinks him different from the other men she has known, and before long she returns his love. His little sweetheart learns who the singer is, and going to her, pleads with her to give her back the boy. Madame laughs, until she notices a little ring the girl wears. Then her heart softens and she promises to do what is right. She returns to the city, leaving only a card of goodbye to the boy. He is heartbroken. One day he hears "Twickenham Ferry" on a phonograph, and recognizes his beloved's voice. He learns that she is Madame Albany. He hurries to the city to find her in her dressing room. When he professes his love for her, she realizes that to love her will be his ruin. She pretends to love her manager, smokes a cigarette, and so disgusts the boy that he leaves her, to return to the girl who is waiting for him.
- Grant, the grazer, who sells hides to the sheriff, a dealer in pelts, is jealous of Horace Dunn, the sheriff's assistant. Both young men are in love with Celia, Sheriff Groton's daughter. Grant informs Celia's father that Dunn is an ex-jailbird. The sheriff orders his assistant to leave the district. The girl, however, disbelieves Grant. She elopes with Dunn. Grant, in a fury, follows them. In Celia's absence he assaults Dunn. Thinking that he has killed his man, Grant starts a forest fire to cover his guilt. But Celia is convinced of the grazer's criminal liability. She gets help from an unexpected quarter, aid when her lover, who has only been badly injured by his enemy, is carried before Grant, the latter breaks down and confesses. Grant himself is the ex-jail-bird. The name of the young assistant is cleared, and he and Celia are happily married.
- Episode 1: "The Runaway Bride" It is June Moore's wedding day, and the entire household is all confusion, excitement, and bustle, from June's pet collie Donnie to her father, uncomfortable and perspiring in his Prince Albert. Her bosom friend Iris Blethering, accompanied by her husband Bobbie, arrives to help June with her toilette, and a few moments later Ned Warner, the happy bridegroom, arrives. There is a short duration of nervous expectancy as Ned awaits the bride in the parlor, then June enters at the head of the bridal procession, and the ceremony commences. Just at the finish, Donnie, the collie, escaping from confinement in the woodshed, races into the parlor and June, regardless of her spotless white wedding gown, throws her arms about him. After the wedding June's wedding garment is hastily put aside and she dons a traveling suit, while Ned. seeking to avoid the pranks of the guests, steals out onto the porch to await her. Upstairs, Mrs. Moore tearfully embraces June, in the last sacred moment of parting, then presses a purse filled with money into her hands. June, surprised, pouts, "Why do I have to think of money on my wedding day?" but hurries out to Ned, who has been discovered by the guests and is being teased unmercifully. June and Ned make a dash for their limousine and escape amid a shower of rice. In a drawing room on the train rapidly bearing the happy bride and groom off on their honeymoon, June contentedly nestles in Ned's arms. By accident, June discovers that she has lost her purse, and when Ned hears her exclamation of dismay he laughingly produces his bulky "roll" with bluff heartiness, and quiets her fears. The porter, catching sight of Ned's roll, almost loses his eyes staring at it, and Ned, smiling, tips him a dollar bill. Ned tries to force some money into June's hand, but she draws away. In fancy she sees herself a beggar, helpless, dependent upon Ned's generosity to supply her every want and necessity, and the thought is repugnant to her. Ned leaves the drawing room to dress as June falls asleep. Her dreams are troubled, and continually picture the woman absolutely dependent for money upon the man. She wakes as the train jars to a stop at Tarnville, and in a daze rushes from the train, pausing long enough just to take her coat and hat, and stands trembling and confused on the platform as the train rushes away. Gilbert Blye was about to board the train when he saw June get off. He immediately drew back, and now, as June stands afraid, he stands aside, watching her sharply. June decides to return to New York, and finds the time of the next train on the bulletin board. Blye attempts to engage June in conversation, but is repulsed. Meanwhile, Ned discovers June's absence, and learns from a passenger that she left the train at Tarnville. Distracted, he gets off at the next station and takes an express back to New York, first learning over the telephone from the operator at Tarnville that June was seen to board the New York local, followed by a man with a black Vandyke. The operator tells Ned that the express sometimes passes the local just outside of New York. On the local, June finds she has no money, and sells her watch to an elderly couple. With this money, June pays her fare. The mysterious man with the black Vandyke buys the watch from the couple, and tenders it to June as a gift. She refuses to accept it, and he tells her that she may purchase it back when she is able. She takes the card he hands her, pockets it, and then refuses to notice him further. Smiling mysteriously, he takes the seat behind her and watches her. Just outside New York the express catches the local and they race along, side by side. Through a window, Ned sees the figure of June. Over her bends the black Vandyked man, assisting her on with her coat. In the station Ned frantically runs out to the street, just in time to have the door of Blye's taxi slammed in his face, and see June's taxi disappearing up the street. He jumps into a third taxi, and frantically orders his driver, "Follow them!" Episode 2: "The Man with the Black Vandyke" Through the busy streets of New York, Gilbert Blye, the mysterious man with the black Vandyke, pursues June, and in pursuit of both races the taxi of Ned Warner, June's distracted husband. In the maze of traffic, Blye loses track of June's taxi, and Ned, getting caught in a congestion of traffic, also loses the trail. To the home of Iris Blethering, her bosom friend, goes June for safety. Iris and her husband, Bobbie, cannot understand June's reason for leaving Ned, just because he offered her money, and poor June looks at Iris with a helpless gesture and half sobs, "I can't explain, it made me feel like a beggar taking alms." Still Iris does not appreciate June's viewpoint. At the club lives Cunningham, a comrade of Blye's, and, like him, a man of mystery. To Cunningham Blye goes and relates the account of his meeting with June, and shows the watch which June sold on the train. Ned Warner goes to the apartment that was to have been the home of his bride and himself. Meanwhile, Iris Blethering offers June some money, but June refuses it, and tells Iris that her purse is at home. Iris and Bobbie go to the Moore home to get June's purse, telling Mrs. Moore that June wired them to get her purse and forward it. Soon after the Bletherings leave, Ned calls at the Moore home, and June's parents are surprised to learn that June is not with him. They tell him of the Blethering's visit, and all hurry there, seeking a solution of the mystery. They arrive at the Blethering home, but Bobbie and Iris deny the presence of June. Ned, however, finds one of Blye's cards, and June's gloves, and furiously accuses the Bletherings of hiding both June and Blye. At Rectors Blye, Cunningham, Tommy Thomas, a girl companion of Blye, and several others form a merry party, drinking and dancing. The diners seek to arouse Tommy Thomas' jealousy by describing June's watch, which Blye has in his possession. Meantime, at the Blethering home, events have followed rapidly. While Ned and Bobbie are arguing in the hall downstairs, June escapes through a window. A few moments later Ned and the rest break into the room. There is no trace of June, so the next move is a visit to the Blye home, where Mrs. Blye is questioned. Mr. Moore indignantly demands, "I want my daughter." This arouses Mrs. Blye's suspicion. She calls up Cunningham's club and learns that she is with Blye at Rectors. Thereupon the party rushes to Rectors. Mrs. Blye bursts in, followed by the others, and catches her husband dancing with Tommy Thomas. She furiously demands, "Who is that woman?" but Blye flares up and refuses to answer her. Blye makes his way to the street and escapes in Cunningham's car, giving the chauffeur a mysterious address. June, meanwhile, has made her way to the Moore home and after petting her pet collie for a few moments, awakens Marie, her maid, collects her wardrobe together, and steals away with Marie. June and Marie get into a taxi at the Moore gate, and just drive away as Blye, in Cunningham's car, drives up, then follows in hot pursuit. A moment later Ned, and the rest, in two autos, drive up and are directed after Blye's car by Aunt Debby, the Moore's old colored servant. Through the darkness the pursued and pursuing autos race. Episode 3: "Discharged" In the preceding Installment, June, the runaway bride, escaped from her parents' home with Marie, her maid, and some of her wardrobe. Close in pursuit of June's taxi came Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke, and away in the rear followed Ned Warner, June's deserted husband, and several others. Speeding at a breakneck pace, Blye, in the Cunningham limousine, passes June's taxi, and then breaks up a bottle which he has in the car and drops the bits of broken glass to the roadway. The ruse works; the taxi has a blowout. Blye's car backs to the scene, and Blye gallantly offers June the use of his machine. After some hesitation, June accepts the offer, and has Marie take the clothes from the taxi and put them into the other car. The taxi is wheeled to the side of the road, to be out of the way, then the limousine drives off. Blye, in the car, pretends to just recognize June as the little girl he met on the train, and he feigns pleasant surprise. June, doubtful, wishes to buy her watch back immediately, but Blye tells her that he left it home. At his club, Blye alights and puts the car at June's service, but mysteriously whispers instructions to Scatti, the driver. Scatti nods, and in answer to June's orders to drive her to a boarding house, takes her to Mother Russell's, a mysterious house of gaiety and bright lights. But June decides that the place is too conspicuous, and gives Scatti the address of an obscure boarding house which she is familiar with. There they go, and June engages a room for herself and Marie. Scatti, grinning slyly, takes note of the place and drives away. Meanwhile, the cars containing Ned and his party pursuing June and Blye, encounter the glass-strewn section of the roadway and are delayed by blowouts, and hopelessly lose the trail. They finally come to the city and disperse to their various homes, Ned summoning private detectives to put on the case. Mrs. Blye reaches her home in time to see her husband going away with his effects, and, realizing that she is deserted, summons private detectives to watch her husband. Blye and Cunningham go to Mother Russell's, and there hold a conference with Tommy Thomas, showing her June's watch with her picture and name, Tommy sulks, but finally agrees to do their bidding. Tommy Thomas calls at June's boarding house on the following morning, tells that a friend of June's sent her to June about a position, and takes June to a department store and introduces her to the manageress of the gown department, whispering to her, "This is the girl Mr. Blye spoke about for the model." The woman smiles in approval as she looks at June, and immediately employs her. June grows interested in her work, parading before the wealthy customers, but through a prearranged plan of Cunningham, Blye and Tommy Thomas, she is discharged, charged with neglecting her duty, for, interested in an argument over money matters between a man and his wife, the eternal "money question" which was the cause of her running away from Ned, she neglects to heed Cunningham's request to be shown a gown. Dejected, she returns to her boarding house. Meanwhile, the private detectives of Ned and Mrs. Blye have been sadly mixing things up, and Ned, disgusted, goes for a walk. He sees Marie and tracks her to the boarding house. Blye has preceded him there and is in the hall. Marie, conscious that Ned is following her, rushes into the house. Ned is admitted in time to see Blye rushing up the stairway, but the man of mystery eludes Ned and leaves the house, close on June's trail, leaving Ned frantic and heartbroken. Episode 4 "The New Governess" June's headquarters at Mrs. Beales' boarding-house became known to both Ned Warner and Gilbert BIye. Fortunately June realizes this. Leaving Marie to gather up their belongings, the runaway bride hurries to a nearby hotel, telling her maid to follow. She is pursued at a safe distance by Blye. As June enters the Hotel Daniel "Shanks" McGee, the newsboy in the lobby, scents "detecatiff" stuff. Later, when both Blye and Ned in turn appear, the latter demanding to see her, the boy decides to use his wits in the game at the first opportunity. Meanwhile, the bell-boy also has been catching on to things. So he goes up to June's room and suggests his mother's home as a safe retreat. June gladly accepts the plan, and with the bell-boy's help she escapes through the servants' entrance. Below stairs Ned's and Mrs. Blye's detectives have insulted a Frenchman with a black Vandyke, whom they mistake for Gilbert Blye. After they are gone "Shanks" McGee, seeing Blye himself enter the hotel with "Tommy" Thomas on his arm, puts two and two together, tears after the detectives and tells them that the man they are seeking is now in the lobby. But Blye, though taken by surprise, is more than a match for the detectives. With three well-directed piston-like blows he sends them sprawling, and then he and "Tommy" Thomas, having learned of June's escape, leave the place. June, meanwhile, through an employment agency has found a position as governess to little Dolly Wiles. She is very happily occupied until Mr. Wiles, through the extravagance of Mrs. Wiles, who is a pretty, vapid, money-loving sort of wife, goes bankrupt. Then she returns to the employment agency. Entering, she does not see Gilbert Blye, who quickly steps behind a screen. The address given her by the manageress is one which the man with the black Vandyke has handed to the woman with explicit instructions only five minutes previously. Episode 5: "A Woman in Trouble" In the preceding installment June, the runaway bride, was sent to a mysterious house by an employment agency, and followed by Gilbert Blye, the man with the black Vandyke. June is shown into what was apparently once the parlor of a gambling house, but is now fitted up as an office. Blye and the keeper of the house peer smilingly at her through the hall door. Then the keeper enters, and after a short chat with June, hires her. Aunt Debby, the Moore's cook, goes marketing, and meets Marie, June's maid, who is also marketing. There is a scene in the market, Marie denying that she knows Aunt Debby. But the old servant will not easily be put off, and she wrestles with Marie, knocks her down, and sits on her. Several policemen, hearing the commotion, enter, and arrest Aunt Debby. The patrol is summoned, but the policemen, to their great chagrin, find that the door of the wagon is not of ample size to permit of the free passage of Aunt Debby's corpulent frame. Marie does not like to see Aunt Debby arrested, and when Officer Dowd. Marie's friend, appears, she whispers to him, and he gets the other officers to let Aunt Debby go free. Aunt Debby hurries to Ned, the deserted husband of June, and he, summoning his detectives, rushes to the market to endeavor to take up Marie's trial, but to no avail. June is instructed in her duties by the keeper, and is horrified when it dawns upon her that the place is a gambling establishment. Mrs. Gwen Perry, a patron of the place, finds herself hopelessly in debt, and her husband will not give her any money over her allowance. The keeper duns her for her debt, but Mrs. Perry cannot pay. The keeper then calls up Mr. Perry, but he, furious, threatens to raid the place. The keeper informs Blye of the threat, and one of the girl employees is sent to the basement to be in readiness to start a fire, if a raid takes place. Mr. Perry enters, and has an argument with the keeper, at length telling him to call Mrs. Perry. It is evident that he is through with his wife, but June, summoning her courage, takes an active interest in this new phase of the eternal money question which caused her to leave Ned, and pleads with Mr. Perry. He at length relents, but Mrs. Perry, entering the room and seeing him, is seized with sudden panic, flees, and is about to shoot herself, when June intervenes. Mr. Perry takes her into his arms, and there is a happy reconciliation. At this moment some policemen appear at the door, and the fire is started. A mad rush from the house follows, June escaping with the rest in the confusion. But Blye picks up her trail, and follows her through the streets. Ned, on a streetcar, sees June running along, and Blye pursuing her, and he hastily alights from the car and pursues. Episode 6: "The Siege of the House of O'Keefe" As June is fleeing from the gambling house, she is glimpsed by Ned from a streetcar. But the conductor refuses to stop in the middle of the block, and by the time Warner has alighted and rushed back, the runaway bride is nowhere to be seen. Meanwhile she has reached in safety the home of Mrs. O'Keefe, the hotel bellboy's mother, and her protector. Mrs. O'Keefe, being the widow of the most popular patrolman on New York's police force, instructs some of her departed husband's friends, whose beats are in that neighborhood, that Marie and June are good friends of hers, who do not wish to be found. When Blye and Warner appear in the vicinity and question the policemen about a young girl, they are deliberately sent on a wild goose chase. But, as so often before, Blye at length calls upon Tommy Thomas. She drives around to the neighborhood, in which the man with the black Vandyke has reason to believe his quarry is in hiding, and is lucky enough to see June coming out of Mrs. O'Keefe's. Already Tommy Thomas has arranged with a Mrs. Villard, who wants a companion, to let her bring June to her. She invites the runaway bride into her car, and they drive to an employment agency with which Tommy Thomas has had an understanding. The farce is put through, and June is taken to the magnificent estate of Mrs. Villard, a young and handsome woman of clearly good intentions. That same evening June has an adventure. She overhears some tenants of Mrs. Villard's quarreling, and hurries over to the squalid home of the Groggs. She finds Groggs in a drunken frenzy, his wife beside herself, hurling pots and pans. And then June lets herself go and her fiery denunciation of the drunkard soon sobers Groggs. He promises to reform, and the runaway bride realizes that there was but another symptom of the man-wife-money problem, which so besets her. Returning to Mr. Villard's house to dinner, June meets Charles Cunningham. Tommy Thomas also is one of the guests. Once, she fancies, she sees through the velvet curtains of the room the somber visage of the man with black Vandyke. Episode 7: "The Tormentors" June returns to Mrs. O'Keefe's for her clothing and Marie. Scarcely have they taken their farewells of the widow when Ned Warner, the Moores and the Bletherings arrive to find the detectives and the policemen battling on the stoop, and no sign of the runaway bride. Meanwhile the two girls have driven to Mrs. Villard's. Unknown to them, Gilbert Blye is in the house. He observes their arrival with satisfaction, and as soon as the girls have gone upstairs he instructs their hostess and leaves. That afternoon Mrs. Villard tells June that they are going downtown. She takes her unsuspecting companion to Garrigue and Co., marine brokers. There she explains to her that Mr. Blye is planning a yachting trip to southern waters and that he has invited them to join the party. This announcement throws June into a panic. She refuses to go. Presently Blye, Cunningham and Edwards reach the office, Tommy Thomas with them. All their efforts to persuade June, however, are vain. Across the court, Bobby Blethering from his office window sees June arguing with the man with the black Vandyke. He phones Ned. Before the distraught bridegroom can get there, June and Mrs. Villard are fleeing in a taxi, pursued by Blye and his companions in Cunningham's limousine. Episode 8: "Her Enemies" The taxi, in which June and Mrs. Villard were escaping kept steadily ahead of Cunningham's car. Suddenly the conspirators saw it plunge across a sidewalk and down a steep embankment. They sped to overtake the demolished machine. Blye and Cunningham went to the rescue of June. Edwards and Tommy Thomas helped Mrs. Villard. Both women were unconscious and were carried to a sanitarium, where a Dr. Remert took them in charge. When June recovered she found a confidante in Mary, the head nurse. Finding that she was suffering mainly from shock, her spirits revived, began to talk with the nurse about the possibility of her entering Mary's vocation. Dr. Remert approved and promised to speak to the chief about June. It developed that "the chief" was none other than Gilbert Blye. June refused to have anything to do with the hospital and was persuaded to return home with Mrs. Villard, as her companion. Meanwhile, Ned's detective, Burton, had been putting in some good work. He had traced Blve to his club, seen him in conference with Mr. Villard, who suddenly returned to New York, and the result was that on the evening the Villard party was motoring home Ned Warner lay in wait near the estate. Just as he would have intercepted the automobile in which rode Blye, June, Mrs. Villard and the others, two pairs of strong arms reached out and seized him. The motor rushed past. Episode 9: "Kidnapped" Concealed in the shrubbery outside of the Villard home, Ned rises to snatch his bride from the man with the black Van Dyke when he is seized by the Villard chauffeur and the gardener and Marie, June's maid. He is quickly bound and gagged and thrown into the Villard garage. He struggles to free himself as he sees June chatting sociably with Gilbert Blye and Orin Cunningham. Bert Villard, husband of June's employer, arrives unexpectedly from abroad. Ned's captors indulge in a card game and drinking bout which enables him to wriggle free from his bonds and escape when they sink into a drunken stupor. Meanwhile June has finally consented to go on the proposed yachting trip. Marie, stricken with remorse over Ned's fate, tries to tell June of his capture, but cannot. Mrs. Villard's husband, finding June alone, seizes her in a wild embrace and covers her face with kisses. "Bouncer," June's faithful collie, comes to the rescue, fells Villard, bites him and would kill him but for June's interference. She makes Villard promise not to go on the yachting trip, the price of her silence to his wife. Ned escapes just in time to see June driving away with the gay yachting party, tracing them to a restaurant, where June is forced from the room, while she is trying to go to Ned, afterward being rapidly conveyed on a motorboat to a large yacht lying in the river. Episode 10: "Trapped on a Liner" Gilbert Blye and his party go aboard the steamer which they have chartered for the trip to Bermuda. Ned Warner and Burton, his detective, also board the boat. They practice the policy of watchful waiting. Soon Ned is informed by Burton that June is sitting alone on the lower deck. He hurries below. Suddenly Blye, from where he is sitting, sees the runaway bride in her husband's arms. He goes to the captain and tells him that a crazy man has attacked one of the ladies of his party. The next thing Ned knows he is struggling in the grasp of two husky sailors. June is in hysterics. Ned, locked in his stateroom, is unable to escape until just before the landing in Hamilton Harbor, Bermuda. Here he is seized by two sailors. The three men fight furiously. Finally Warner is backed up against the rail. and then, by accident, pushed overboard. A practiced swimmer, he strikes out toward a small fishing craft, calling for help. The fishermen take him aboard. When first they hear that Ned is over the side of the ship, June and Blye are about equally horror-stricken. The news of his rescue, however, calms them both. June is inspired to refuse to land, but Blye compels her to do so. Burton, following them, learns the name of their yacht and their route. This he confides to Ned as soon as that unfortunate young man sets foot on the pier. But how are they to board the yacht? Episode 11: "In the Clutch of the River Thieves" On arriving at Bermuda, June and Blye's party leave the steamer for Blye's yacht, but Blye, the man with the black Van Dyke, returns to the dock, where he encounters Ned, the deserted husband, who was rescued by fishermen after jumping off the steamer to avoid capture. Ned violently attacks him and is getting the better of him when the local police arrest Ned on Blye's statement that he is a dangerous maniac and place him in a small jail near the water. June escapes from the yacht at night in a tender and rows for the shore, but is discovered and pursued by the yachting party. Fearful of capture, June signals a sailboat, which is manned by an old Italian, Giovanni, who takes her aboard. He points out an old wreck and says he was wrecked there twenty years ago. She reminds him of Marietta, back in Italy. He tells her the story of Marietta and her two lovers, how she favored Tony, the one who spent the most money on her. Tony quarreled with Beppo, another of Marietta's admirers, and in a duel with knives succeeded in killing him, after which he ran away with Marietta. Blye's yacht gives chase under full sail, and Ned, who has escaped from jail, hires a motorboat and also gives chase. Giovanni steers his boat through a narrow opening into an inlet, where Blye's yacht cannot follow, whereupon Blye produces a pistol and shoots Giovanni. June grasps the helm and runs the boat into the inlet with the aid of Giovanni's negro assistant and lands near a house where some river pirates live. Among them are Tony and Marietta. They quarrel over a division of their spoils, in which one of the pirates stabs Tony and escapes. As June rushes up, she, Marietta and the wounded Tony are all struck with the resemblance between the two women. Before he dies Tony tells June where to find his buried treasure for Marietta and she undertakes to do so. The other pirates pursue her. Marietta follows June to help her and as they get the treasure, the two pirates attack them. Ned rescues the two girls and Marietta starts after them, knife in hand, on vengeance bent. As they turn on her, Blye and his party interfere and save her, and learning from her of June's whereabouts, Blye arrives just in time to snatch June away from Ned and make a prisoner of him. Episode 12: "The Spirit of the Marsh" Ned, after a sharp, heroic struggle with Blye's hirelings, was borne off to one of the strongly barred cabins of the yacht. The next day he was brought, like a prisoner before a judge, into the presence of the man with the black Vandyke, who promised the unhappy young husband that if he would leave June unmolested for five days, at the end of that time he should have her back safe and sound. Ned gulped and pledged his word. Then he was set free, to go and come as he pleased. Meanwhile, June had made the acquaintance of Durban, the artist, who, with his rich wife, had taken a handsome villa in Bermuda for the winter. He made no secret of the fact that he had married this woman for her money. Also, in a cottage apart, he supported a pretty little model, Mimi, upon whom, for the time being, he had settled his changeable affections. The day before, Durban had had a rather upsetting scene with Amy, a girl of the neighborhood, whom he had engaged to pose for a picture that was not in Mimi's line. Because of this he was all the more willing to allow himself to be attracted to June; in her he could forget his recent chagrin. One morning early he chanced to come upon June as she stood drinking in the sun and air on the beach, and induced her to pose. Suddenly she found herself struggling in his close embrace. She fought herself free and fled. Realizing presently that he no longer was following her, she turned and saw that he had been caught in the quicksands. Nothing more awful than the end of this self-indulgent man ever was witnessed by the runaway bride. Episode 13: "Trapped" June, returning to the hotel with Gilbert Blye, immediately after witnessing the tragic end of Durban, the artist, is conscious that the man with the black Vandyke has become suddenly a dangerous companion. She flees from the protecting arm with which he has encircled her all too tightly, and running down to the shore, takes refuge under a net in a fishing boat. Blye loses track of her. But, from a distance, Ned Warner witnesses the incident, also the arrival of a strange fellow, long-haired and in rags, who jumps into June's boat and pushes off with her to sea. Hiring two sailors to go with him, he gets a small craft and gives pursuit. Blye also is soon scouring the bay. Meanwhile, June struggles with her boatman, who turns out to be a half-witted barbarian, and the boat is capsized. She is rescued by a girl, attired like a dryad, who takes her to an island, where Hierophant, a charlatan mystic, celebrates mild orgies. June joins the dance of his captive maidens. Some time later Hierophant attempts to put the newcomer through an initiation dance of a kind which outrages her modesty, and with the help of one of the other girls, she flees the island. She succeeds in rejoining Ned on the bay and he boards her raft. But the man with the black Vandyke also comes alongside. He fells Ned unconscious, and dragging the fainting June into his boat, heads his rapidly moving craft for shore. Episode 14: "In the Grip of Poverty" June is taken from her husband on the raft and carried away in a boat by Gilbert Blye. On the mainland, however, they are met by Gascon, the leader of a band of Apaches. On seeing the runaway bride, Gascon signals to his confederates, two men and two women, whom he instructs to follow and capture June. The thing is accomplished and June is compelled to put on the Apache dress and perfect herself in their famous dance. Meanwhile, Marie, the sweetheart of Pierre, one of the band, is driven by jealousy of the pretty newcomer to betray the Apache quarter to the commandant of the military guard. A fierce fight ensues between the Parisian thieves and the local soldiery in which the former are killed and routed. Pierre pursues Marie to the top of a cliff. He realizes that she has turned traitor. In a frenzy of rage he flings the girl over the crag into the sea. June is found, hiding among the rocks, by Gilbert Blye. He leads her safely away. Episode 15: "At Last, My Love" June leaves Bermuda with Blye and his associates. She is followed by Ned, who boards the same boat, unobserved. Once at sea, Ned tries to devise some plan for rescuing June from Blye. But in the end he realizes that he is powerless against Blye. He remembers his previous experience when he was held a prisoner on the boat as a maniac and determines to use cunning. He is certain that Blye knows he is aboard, and so hides in the hold. Blye discovers his presence on the steamer and bribes sailors to close the hatch. Ned is thus imprisoned and is unable to interfere for the remainder of the voyage. The steamer reaches New York and Blye gives instructions for the release of Ned. Then with June and the rest of the party, Blye goes ashore. As June, Blye and the others of the Blye party leave the pier and are about to enter their autos, Bill Wolf, Mrs. BIye's detective, rushes up. Blye knocks Wolf down and drives away. Wolf follows in a taxicab. He trails the entire party to a large building whose roof and some of whose sides are of glass. He then hurries to report to Mrs. Blye. When Ned comes out of the hold he is able to find no trace of June or Blye. Thinking that he may gain some information at Mrs. BIye's house he hurries there. He arrives in time to hear Bill Wolf tell Mrs. Blye of the large glass building and BIye's presence there. Mrs. Blye and Wolf start for the large building while Ned follows in another machine. On the way Ned sends a telegram to Mr. and Mrs. Moore, June's parents, explaining the situation. The Moores start at once to assist Ned in his rescue of June. Ned finds a sturdy doorkeeper at the large glass building and fights with him to get in. Detective Wolf, who arrives on the scene with Mrs. Blye, assists Ned in his struggle with the doorkeeper. The two overpower the guardian of the entrance and force their way into the hallway of the building. Ned finds a locked door at the end of the hallway barring further progress. Peering through an opening of the door Ned sees that June, Blye and others are in the room. As Ned watches, June, Blye and his associates go into another room. Ned breaks down the door, but finds that the only egress, however, is through another barred door. The Moores arrive on the scene in time to see Ned breaking down the second door. Ned, the Moores, Mrs. Blye and Bill Wolf force their way into the presence of Blye, June and the others. The Blye party is grouped about Edwards, who is seated at a small table and is handling money to the various members of the group, in turn. As Edwards hands some money to June, Ned seizes Blye. Cunningham and the other men of the party separate the two and then explain the situation to Ned. The building in which they are, Blye tells Ned, is a moving picture studio. When June left her husband in order not to be financially dependent upon him she joined the motion picture company of Blye. The many strange adventures through which she passes and which mystifies the Moores and Ned, Blye explains, were scenes in various motion picture dramas in which June was leading woman. June has now won her independence and her contract with Blye has been fulfilled. Edwards is paymaster and was paying salaries. Ned is at last convinced and makes very humble apology to June. June forgives him and introduces him formally to Blye and the other members of the company. Everybody joins in a big farewell dinner to June and Ned. The situation has been explained to Mrs. Blye and she forgives her husband for his seeming disloyalty. June and Ned are toasted at the dinner and at its end resume their, interrupted honeymoon. END
- Agnes, a garment maker in a factory which manufactures khaki outing suits, is tortured by the oppressive heat in a great eastern metropolis. She toils for a small wage, which goes for the support of an old mother. The doctor informs Agnes that if she does not arrange to remove the mother to some cool place she will succumb to the heat. As a desperate resort, Agnes writes a pitiful appeal for aid in getting her mother away from the city to some cool resort. She sews a number of copies of the appeal in the outing shirts at the factory. A wealthy bachelor who is a philanthropist buys one of the shirts and departs on a fishing trip in the mountains. Agnes' mother grows weaker and the girl anxiously inquires at the office for mail, hoping to receive some answer from the appeals sewed in the shirts. The only replies are a vulgarly-written scrawl trying to date her, and a suggestion from a "charitably inclined" person that she place her old mother in a certain well-appointed poorhouse. In despair, Agnes steals money from the factory cash drawer, but in doing so, drops her handkerchief, which is initialed. The factory manager accompanies the police to her tenement that night, and they find part of the money, the rest having been spent to get things for her mother. Meanwhile the wealthy philanthropist is on his fishing trip when he discovers Agnes' appeal sewed in the shirt. At first he does not give it serious thought, but that night his imagination pictures to him the old woman suffocating in the garret, and he cannot sleep. The next morning he leaves for the city to find the girl and save her mother. At the store they give him Agnes' address, and he arrives at the tenement just as she is pleading with the police not to take her to jail, as she is her mother's sole support. She tells them that she stole the money to save her mother's life, but they do not believe her. The philanthropist stops the police and reimburses the manager. He displays Agnes' letter as a proof of her statement that she stole for her mother's sake. The philanthropist takes Agnes and her mother to the cool mountain resort where he was fishing, and the old lady's life is saved. Stimulated by the refreshing out-of-doors, Agnes is transformed from sullen factory slave to joyous, carefree girl. The bachelor's tender affection toward Agnes is suggested in the concluding scene.
- Senator Dunn is ambitions regarding his daughter's future and looks with disfavor upon the suit of Bob Norton, a reporter, who aspires to the hand of Alice. The young people do not agree with the Senator's expressed doctrine that "love is not everything," and continue to indulge in the dreams of youth. Henry Marshall, a wealthy middle-aged railroad president, is another suitor favored by the Senator, but refused by Alice. Misfortune blights the dreams of the young people when adversity overtakes the Senator and he accepts financial aid from Marshall. The day for payment arrives and the Senator's affairs are in no better shape. Marshall tells Dunn that he wants Alice, and offers to cancel the obligation if Dunn will induce Alice to become his wife. With ruin and disgrace staring him in the face, the Senator agrees. He tells Alice of his difficulties, and in order to save her father from ruin, she promises to marry Marshall. Bob learns of the match and in a stormy scene with the Senator, accuses him of pretending, "that love is not everything," and yet he is relying on his daughter's love to save him from ruin. Bob is ordered from the house. In the meantime, the government has ordered an investigation of the charges of rebating that have been preferred against Marshall's road, and Bob is assigned by his paper to get an interview from Marshall on the subject. Bob, calling at Marshall's office for the interview, overhears the Senator tell Marshall that he has reconsidered his proposal and that he has come to a realization of what he, as a father, should do and that he cannot sacrifice his daughter's happiness save himself. Marshall swears she will ruin Dunn. A little later, Bob is an unseen witness of a transaction involving the influencing of the verdict of the Senate Investigating Committee by bribery, attempted by Marshall and aided by one of the Senators. Bob confronts them and forces them to forego their attempted bribery, and also secures an extension of time for Senator Dunn to pay his indebtedness. In return, he sacrifices his "scoop" on a good story, but a little later lands another, but different kind of "scoop." when the Senator unexpectedly gives Alice into his keeping.
- Young Grace Harkaway, by her uncle's order, is commanded to marry Sir Harcourt Courtly, an elderly fop. She meets and falls in love with this gentleman's son, Charles, who has been posing as a student, but is in reality a roysterer and one of the gayest young bloods in town. Young Courtly and his friend, Dazzle, plan with Lady Gay Spanker, a belle and noted huntsman, to draw out old Sir Harcourt, who has fallen in love with her, so that Grace may be freed to marry the man she loves. Sir Harcourt, believing that Lady Gay reciprocates the affection, plans to elope with her. Grace's uncle overhears their conversation and indignantly changes his plans regarding Grace who is permitted to marry Charles. Sir Harcourt discovers that he has been made a fool of by Lady Gay Spanker, who returns to her husband with the combined thanks of the happy pair.
- The spoiled son of an indulgent father gives up his home and career after a quarrel and leaves home. He drifts down the path of life with vice and degradation as his companions. He meets a girl in a saloon whose life has always been in the depths and falls in love with her. This girl meets a sister of charity, who tells her of "The Light About the Throne," and urges her to reform, giving her a card and telling her to call on her at any time she needs help. One day the rival of the prodigal son taunts him with the fact that he had the girl before he did and they fight, the rival being worsted and swears revenge. The girl is now repentant of her past and sets out to seek the Sister of Mercy, who secures her a position as maid in the house of the prodigal's father who, since his son left home, has been helping charitable organizations. The son follows the girl and finds out she has gone to the sister and has left her old life, and he gives her up, although he still loves her. The girl is at his father's home and the father of the prodigal, lonely for his son, falls in love with her. The rival of the prodigal follows the girl to the father's home and tells the father of the girl's past, which she admits. Despite her past the father still loves her and takes her in his arms. The prodigal returns just in time to see his girl in his father's arms and realizing that he has caused the old man enough trouble in the past and not wishing to spoil his new found happiness nor that of the girl, he turns away and goes back to the world as a real man.
- Dr. Watson, on his way east, gets off the train to stretch his legs at a way station, and being called to the aid of a section boss, who has broken his arm, he finds there is no other train east till morning. He gets a room at the Red Horse Hotel and to while away the time joins in a faro game, winning all the money in sight. Bland, the gambler, and his assistants, Jack and Bill, hate to think of the doctor getting away with so much cash, so they conspire with the hotel keeper to drug Watson's drink, intending to rob him later. The doctor, however, only pretends to drink the doped liquor, and when the gambler attacks him in his room he overpowers him with his hypodermic needle and succeeds in escaping from the hotel, pursued by Jack and Bill. Watson finds refuge in the cottage of Granby, the section boss whom he has doctored. Already he has become much interested in his patient's pretty daughter, May. That night, in an attack upon the cottage by Watson's enemies, the gambler's accomplices, May is instrumental in saving the doctor's life. The rest of the story is eloquently implied.
- Bronson, a wealthy rancher, is hated by some Mexicans who, in revenge, kidnap his daughter, May, and hold her for ransom. They force May to write her father at their dictation that she will be killed unless he meets the abductors at a certain place by midnight and hands over to them a considerable sum of money. In a moment when her captors happen to be off guard May manages to write in very small, faint letters the address of the house where she is held, and the word, "Help!" in one corner of the envelope. Over this they carelessly stick the stamp, and Bronson on receiving the letter, tears off the envelope and lets it slip to the floor while he devours its appalling contents. He is at the home of the sheriff at the time, and the sheriff's child, playing on the floor, gets hold of the envelope and drops it into a pail of water. The stamp soaks off and the sheriff finds May's message. He heads a run to the rescue, prevents Bronson from paying the bribe, delivers the girl and arrests the Mexicans.
- Ben Wilson takes a vacation on his father's farm and again meets Rose Meadows, the sweetheart of his boyhood. Prospects of an early marriage are bright till a family quarrel parts the lovers and Ben returns to the city to seek solace in wild conduct. One night he visits a roadhouse to which Rose has been lured by Carrol Walker, a rake of the worst type. After a stirring fist fight Ben rescues the girl from a trying situation and starts to escort her safely back to the farm. As they near home the next morning she remembers the note she left behind to the effect that she had gone to marry the man she loved, and, ashamed to face her parents, refuses to go farther. Ben, however, convinces her that he is that very person and no time is lost in reaching the nearest parsonage. Not having known of Carrol, Rose's father and mother gather from the note that she has gone to Ben. In consequence the two families are reconciled. From the returning couple their parents learn of the marriage. Of the other unfortunate affair they never knew.
- Isabel Bradford, an orphan, keeps house for her grandfather, her sisters Ina and Marie, 18 and 10 years old, respectively, and her brother Harry, aged 16. Harry and his grandfather answer the call to arms. Ina meets a wounded volunteer carrying a message to the American general that the British are preparing to attack. She undertakes to carry the message and after a trying experience reaches the American camp and the soldiers advance to meet the enemy. In the meantime the British have attacked the settlement and a pair of drunken soldiers enter the Bradford cabin and attempt to force caresses upon Isabel. Capt. Burton, a British officer, arrives and hurls them aside. Isabel's heart flutters with emotion as she thanks the dashing officer, and he in turn is smitten with her charms. Later another detachment of soldiers make an attack and Isabel barricades the heavy door and fired the guns which her tiny sister loads. A log is used as a battering ram and the door torn down. At that instant Capt. Burton arrives, and, pistol in hand, holds them at bay and upbraids them for their attack upon a woman. The American soldiers come up on the run and the British are defeated. Capt. Burton's escape being cut off, he offers his sword to Isabel in token of surrender, but she declines it. He then asks her to marry him, but she refuses because he is fighting against her flag. He will not turn against his country, so a compromise is effected by which he agrees to fight neither for nor against the American flag, and he breaks his sword across his knee, winning Isabel's hand as a civilian.