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- Dakota Wilson escapes from the Deer Lodge Penitentiary, and, after a period of quietness, secures a position on the Diamond S ranch, owned by Buffalo Watson. Ruth, the daughter of the ranch owner, one day sees Dakota's display of horsemanship, and the admiration thus aroused soon ripens into love, much against the protest of the family. Ruth's love for Dakota is increased by his heroic deed when he rescues her from the malignant attentions of a rushing steer whose anger is aroused by the flowing red handkerchief about her neck. Dakota, who is riding ahead of the cowboys on a round-up expedition, catches sight of the steer heading for Ruth, and, spurring his broncho into a break-neck speed, reaches the side of the steer, leaps upon its hack, and, fastening his muscular arms on the frenzied beast's horns, brings him to the ground. In the midst of the ovation given him by the cowboys, Dakota is nabbed by Sheriff Mathers, who begins to march him back to the Deer Lodge Penitentiary. As the sheriff, his deputies and his captive are riding along a narrow mountain roadway, Dakota makes a daring leap down the precipitous incline, rolling down until he reaches the bottom, where he hides behind a projecting rock. The sheriff, in the meantime, has taken the long way down and follows for a distance, until he discovers the still form of Dakota behind the sheltering rock, and, thinking him dead, rides away. Though free, Dakota is handicapped by the manacles. He manages to steal the gun and horse belonging to a sleeping shepherd, and by holding the gun between his knees, and placing the connecting chain of the manacles in front of the gun, he pulls with his teeth the strap which he has fastened to the trigger of the gun, thereby severing the connecting links. As he starts to ride away he is observed by a distant rifleman, who, by the aid of binoculars, sees the dangling steel wristlets, proving that he is an outlaw. He fires and Dakota tails from his horse with a head wound. But his left foot gets caught in the stirrup and he is dragged for a long distance with bullets flying around him. His foot eventually gets loose and he is left unconscious on the ground. When he regains consciousness, he finds himself again in the hands of the law, and just before he is about to be incarcerated he marries Ruth Watson, who bravely sobs as he is led away: "Good bye, my man, when you come back, I'll be waiting."
- Colonel William Ryan, a ranch owner, in the Lone Star State, has named his only daughter Texas. Jack Parker, a devil-may-care cowpuncher, loves only two things, one is his horse and the other a photograph of Texas Ryan, whom he has never seen. He has named his horse "Dream Girl" after the girl of the photograph. After several years in an eastern college, Texas return home. Her father is happy and she is idolized by the cowboys of the ranch. Antonio Moreno is the head of a band of cattle rustlers. His lieutenant, "Dice" McAllister, a former road agent, uses his office as marshal as a cloak for unlawful deeds. Moreno and McAllister have long plotted to secure Ryan's wealth, and Moreno resolves to pay court to the girl. In the "Last Chance" saloon and dance hall a shooting scrape occurs. Jack Parker, enemy of McAllister, is charged as being an accessory. Harsh words are exchanged and Parker overcomes McAllister in a desperate conflict, and then crosses the border until the disturbance blows over. He returns on the Fourth of July and proceeds to celebrate. Colonel Ryan and Texas meet him and Parker learns she is the girl of the photograph. Moreno and his gang, under pretense of friendship, visit the Ryan ranch during the round-up, and when Texas spurns the Mexican's offer of marriage, he threatens her, and is driven from the ranch. When Texas and her girlfriend, Marion Smith, are riding in the hills, they are seen by Moreno's men. Texas is pursued and made prisoner. Marion brings the news to Colonel Ryan. Jack Parker resolves to free the girl. By an offer of money, he persuades the bandits to free her. Moreno and McAllister rustle the Ryan cattle and are discovered by Parker. During a night of rain and wind he slips into the camp of the outlaws, takes Moreno a prisoner, and leaves a note telling McAllister of what he has done. When McAllister finds the note in the morning, he decides to leave the country. Moreno later makes his escape. Parker decides to go on the trail. He bids Texas farewell, telling her he is not worthy of her. As time passes Texas comes to understand that she loves the cowpuncher. Moreno continues his lawlessness. After a desperate conflict Parker is taken prisoner. Word is brought to Texas Ryan that he is to be shot that evening. The girl tells her father she believes the cattle thieves will spare Jack's life for money and starts in an automobile on her race with death. Moreno gloats over the revenge. The executioner awaits the order to fire. Just as Moreno is about to give the order, Texas arrives. The cupidity of the Mexican bandits is aroused by the gold, and the cowpuncher is freed and takes Texas into his arms.
- Luke Fisher, a rascally sheriff, and Brad Foster, his deputy, are in reality cattle rustlers. To protect themselves, they endeavor to fasten the guilt on Tom Snow, foreman of the Three "A" ranch. When they come to arrest Tom, he drives them off at the muzzle of a gun and makes his escape. After a daring ride horse and rider dash across a narrow foot-log which bridges a chasm. Should the horse make a misstep, the rider would have been plunged to a horrible death on the rocks hundreds of feet below. West, proprietor of the Haven Delight saloon, has adopted a pretty girl, whom he calls Sunshine. Craig Keyes, a gambler at the Haven Delight saloon, resolves to marry the girl, but when she refuses him, he endeavors to overpower her. Finally, after a sensational struggle, she escapes into a driving storm. As Sunshine wanders in the rain, she encounters Tom Snow. He cares for her and thus it is that the two come to love each other. The sheriff and his deputy, fearful of detection, Ieave the country, and Tom is again free. Then it is that be marries Sunshine. After the wedding, by means of old tin-types, the two are led to believe that they are brother and sister. As they sit horror-stricken. Martha, the housekeeper, who has seen the tin-types, tells them that their belief is a wrong one. Martha tells them that twenty years ago while she was a nurse in a hospital, she changed the real infant brother and sister, and that Sunshine is in reality the sister of Craig Keyes and that she, Martha, is Tom's mother. In the meantime, Craig Keyes, the gambler, has followed Sunshine to her home, and outside he overhears Martha's story. Conscience-stricken, he resolves to renounce all relationships, and leave the country.
- Tom and Jerry join a traveling circus as rough riders. After a few months of circus life Tom becomes dissatisfied and longs for the west At this juncture the circus is unable to meet expenses and is attached by the sheriff. Tom and Jerry, out of employment, sell their saddles and plan to leave at once for the west. A chance acquaintance springs up m the town between Tom, Jerry and two girls. Jerry carries his own and Tom's money from the sale of the saddles, and one of the girls unsuspectingly gets the money from Jerry's pocket. Tom and Jerry are unable to pay when the waiter of the café presents the bill. An argument results, and Tom shoots up the place. They are arrested and sentenced to fifteen days in jail. Upon their release Tom and Jerry join the U.S. Army and are sent with a detachment of recruits to do duty at Fort Apache, Ariz. Jessie, the wife of Lieut. Manning, arrives from the east simultaneously with the appearance of Torn and Jerry. Captain Shiers, the commanding officer, drills Tom and Jerry with other recruits. Captain Shiers becomes infatuated with Lieutenant Manning's wife, but the lieutenant overhears it all and encounters the captain, who leaves the house. Captain Shiers is informed that the paymaster will arrive at the depot, several miles away with money for the troops. The captain plots to get rid of the lieutenant and win his wife. He sends Lieutenant Manning with a small escort of troops to meet the paymaster. The captain then sends a half-breed Indian to notify some hostile Indians, whom Lieutenant Manning has kept subdued in the past, that they can avenge themselves on the lieutenant by attacking the stage. The half breed delivers the message to the Indians, who open fire on the stagecoach and surround it. The Indians also surround the station which has been fortified by the troopers. Captain Shiers at the fort has been trying to force his attentions again on Lieutenant Manning's wife, but with no success. The fight between the soldiers and Indians continues unabated. Tom and Jerry volunteer to go to the fort for help. There is another running fight, in which Tom falls from his horse, his foot catches in the stirrup and he is dragged. The horse falls; Tom gets free as Jerry rides up, and Tom jumps up behind Jerry, and they make another effort to reach the fort. Jerry is shot from his horse by pursuing Indians, and Tom, after seeing Jerry is lifeless, shoots and kills one of the Indians and rides onward. Tom arrives at Fort Apache and a detachment of troopers is dispatched immediately to the station. The Indians decide to burn up the station by another method. They take the wheels from the overturned stagecoach, tie rags on them and roll them downhill. This method is successful and the station soon becomes a mass of flames. The troopers still hold out. Mrs. Manning, at the fort, cares for Tom in the hospital. She goes to her home for medicine when she is again accosted by Captain Shiers. She repulses his actions; he becomes angry and tells her of his plan for revenge. He embraces her and she screams and there is a struggle. Tom, lying in the hospital, hears Mrs. Manning's screams. He slowly rises, takes his six-shooter and staggers to the home of Lieutenant Manning. He sees the struggle inside and shoots and kills Captain Shiers. The troopers sent from the fort now arrive and the Indians are defeated. The troopers in the burning station are rescued. Upon entering his home on arrival at the fort, Lieutenant Manning finds his wife nursing Tom. Mrs. Manning explains all to her husband, who shows his gratitude to Tom. Jerry is laid to rest with honors due a brave soldier.
- Robert Wayne, felled by a blow, loses his identity and becomes a wild man in the African jungle. His wife and daughter seventeen years later in England think frequently of the husband and father, whose life they believe was taken by savage natives in South Africa. Wayne, wandering in the jungle, becomes possessed of a strange power over wild animals. Captain Jones, a British sportsman, encounters the wild man and the photograph Jones took is recognized in England by Edith Wayne as that of her father. A rescue party is formed. Savages capture both Wayne and his daughter, Edith, who has returned to Africa. Knowing of Wayne's influence over beasts, the Chief determines to throw him into the wild animal pit. The girl is marked for a like fate. Captain Jones, who has led the party into Africa in search of Robert Wayne, discovers that Edith has been taken prisoner by the savages. With a party of English hunters he rushes to her rescue. They defeat the savages and arrive at the African village in time to witness the domination of Robert Wayne over jungle beasts. Wayne recovers his intellect when he sees Edith and recognizes her as his own beloved daughter.
- Penelope Brantford, the woman, is the only daughter of a wealthy father, and was left motherless at an early age. The idol of a devoted father's heart, she is at the time we make her acquaintance, a very unsophisticated young lady who has been shielded from contact with the world and is ill-prepared to cope, not with society in its entirety, but with individuals of certain inclinations always to be found there. Langdon Grier, the man, is not the worst man in the world; there are plenty of Griers, but as this particular Grier is endowed with good looks and wealth, he possesses a sort of wicked fascination. Chance or fate, call it what you will, it might be called Cupid, brings Penelope and Grier together. Penelope, impressionable as she is, falls in love. Grier, conscious of his conquest and eager for such a quarry, presses his attentions. Delightful drives through the capital city, beautiful flowers sent daily, an evening spent together at the Army and Navy Ball held at the White House, together with all the little attentions dear to any woman's heart, are among the effective means used by Grier to increase the first love fires ever kindled in Penelope's young heart. Then comes the Bohemian dinner held at Grier's apartments, which Penelope attends without the knowledge or sanction of her father. This dinner is marked by wit, beauty, good wine and subdued excitement, and is the climax of Grier's artful designs. Such are the fundamentals on which the Victory of Virtue have been built, but nothing can prepare you for the panorama which now hurries on through a series of incomparably beautiful scenes which charm, fascinate, bewilder and amaze. The lesson that this play teaches is as old as the hills, as profound as nature itself. Right wins because that is the nature of right; pain and suffering must be gone through that we may properly appreciate victory. Victory is always sweet, but it is far sweeter when gained for such a cause as Virtue.
- After Mary Willis leaves her husband, Fred, for life in the city, their daughter, Dolly, is placed in a convent school. Several years pass and Mary is now working in an underworld roadhouse, financed by a suspicious Italian named Tony Leonardo. Mary seeks Dolly out at the convent and induces her to work at the roadhouse. When Leonardo falls in love with Dolly, Mary coerces her into marrying him. The girl's life is wretched until one night, Leonardo is killed during a raid and Dolly is freed to return to her father. She pleads with him to forgive Mary, and the three are reunited.
- Pamela Congreve, the daughter of an old fisherman, is a carefree child of nature, whose heart has been won by Lord Charteris, a treacherous noble, who is the secret leader of a band of smugglers. Charteris tells Pamela's father of the wealth he will win if he joins the smugglers, and the deluded old man finally consents. The smugglers land a cargo on the sea coast, but the suspicions of the revenue officers are aroused and they pursue the smugglers. Lord Charteris and the old fisherman are overtaken, and, to save himself from capture, Charteris tells the coast guards of his rank and claims that he captured his companion, whom he denounces as a smuggler. In spite of Pamela's pleas, Charteris refuses to aid him, and the old man is put to death. Vowing to be revenged upon the treacherous Charteris, Pamela goes out into the world. She obtains employment at a wayside inn, and there once more meets Charteris. She stabs him, and believes that she has killed him, but it is merely a ruse of the wily noble. Pamela joins a troupe of traveling actors, and goes to London, where she soon becomes one of the reigning favorites. Pamela's chief admirer is the Duke of Harlow. He asks her to marry him, but she refuses, and struggles vainly to conceal her deep love for him, feeling that her past makes her unfit to be his wife. The Duke of Harlow's wealth has made Lord and Lady Trevor consider him as a desirable husband for Kitty, their daughter, but that strong-willed person has already selected a future husband who boasts neither wealth nor title. So Kitty and her beloved go to Pamela, whom they know the Duke adores, and beg her to accept him. Then Kitty will not have to wed him. Pamela promises to aid the young couple, and in order to do so, manages to win an invitation to Lord Trevor's ball. At the grand ball at Trevor House the load of guilt is lifted from Pamela's heart for she meets Lord Charteris again, and realizes that he still lives. Charteris is as unscrupulous as ever, and determines to steal the Trevor jewels. An opportunity presents itself when Trevor shows his guests the famous gems, and after they are replaced in the strong box the key falls to the floor, and is found by Charteris. Pamela, however, suspicious of the man she hates, keeps watch during the night and discovers him in the act of stealing the gems, but Charteris adroitly directs the suspicion upon Pamela, playing upon the prejudice of the others for "the stage-woman." Harlow takes her part. The Duke threatens to prove Charteris to be a scoundrel, and the latter, fearing that he will be exposed, plans to silence Harlow forever. The cowardly plot does not succeed, for word is brought to Pamela and she reaches Harlow in time to warn him. Charteris later succeeds in kidnapping Pamela, but they are overtaken by Harlow, and Charteris is killed, while Pamela, now convinced that her "past" is buried, promises to marry the man she loves.
- The story deals with a young boy who is born of rich parents, but who becomes incorrigible through his associates in school. During school recess there is a fistfight for leadership of the band of schoolboys. Tom defeats the bully and becomes the idol of all the boys. The fact that he is idolized by all leads him into the ways of the underworld. During a sight-seeing trip through the dives, he sees a tough about to strike a girl and goes to her aid, only to find that his interference is not wanted. He is struck in the face by the one he is about to protect. In the fight which ensues, Tom is arrested. In the meantime Tom's mother receives a letter from her husband, who is in Europe on a pleasure trip, stating that it would be advisable to send Tom to college. The letter arrived too late, however, as Tom is about to be sentenced for his infractions of the law. Tom's associates go to a ward heeler, one who defends on the gang at election time, asking him to assist Tom from going to jail. The ward heeler visits the judge, who drives the politician out of his chambers. Tom serves his sentence. On his release he is met by "Agnes," who has taken a liking to him and who thinks that she can reform him through marriage. But Tom's liking for the underworld life leads him back to the dives which he frequented before his term in prison. He finds that there is another leader who has taken his place and who has become jealous of Tom on account of the love that Agnes shows towards him. A fight starts, and Tom and Agnes make their escape when the police break into the place. Agnes' entreaties finally win Tom over to get him away from the crowd and to lead a better and nobler life. Tom finally consents to marry Agnes and to give up his low life. He gets employment in a factory. Meantime Agnes goes to Tom's folks and asks for forgiveness, but the father is obdurate and cannot forget the disgrace his son has brought on the family name. After three years Tom, Jr., is brought to his grandfather and grandmother, who see the likeness in the child to their own son. They finally consent to give their forgiveness to their son.