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- Gordon, the only son of a smuggler chief, is sent with a companion from his father's stronghold to travel so that he may learn the ways of the world. At their first stopping place he falls in love with a young woman, Marion Williams, and marries her against his father's orders, keeping her in ignorance of who he is and what his past has been. Shortly after his marriage he receives a message that his father is dying, and in his attempt to visit his parent secretly is seriously injured. His wife nurses him back to health, and then demands an explanation. He confessed all, and because of the great love she bears him and their child she forgives and even consents to accompany him on a visit to his father. While there the band, including Gordon, is captured by the customs police, but Marion escapes, becomes lost in the wilderness and is found almost drowned in a mountain stream by Jim Bartlett, the paymaster of a lumber camp. As a result of her privations her memory of the past is a blank. She marries Jim. After several years Gordon and his companion are released from prison and return to the mountains. They apply to Bartlett for work, but he has no places for them. Continuing on their way they reach Jim's cabin, and Gordon, leaving his companion on the outside as a lookout, enters to rob it. Inside he sees a woman and attempts to overpower her. In the struggle he meets her face to face; it is his wife. The shock restores her memory. At this moment Jim enters the cabin and in astonishment beholds his wife in another man's arms. Not receiving an explanation, he turns to Gordon and says, "I will give you one hour to explain or fight." For Marion's sake he leaves in silence, removes the bullets from the cartridges in his revolver, and in the duel which follows is mortally wounded. His foe, learning of his act, removes him to the cabin where Gordon, with his last breath, whispers, "I married her years ago; she thought me dead."
- Twenty-five years ago, a frivolous, beautiful girl, Violet Dare, created havoc among the summer boarders at an Adirondack hotel. Two young chaps, Joe Brill and Jim Kent, were the favored ones, but Joe finally married her. Later Violet travels the "Path Forbidden," carousing with male friends, and is finally driven out by the husband, Joe Brill. She wishes to take one of the twin children, but the husband forbids. So she steals one little girl and takes her away. Years later we see the twins grown to womanhood. Neither know of the existence of the other. Pearl, the stolen one, is leading the life her mother led when alive. Lucy is the aid and comfort of the father, who, through unwise investments, loses his money, the shock of which causes a stroke and is removed to an asylum. Lucy then runs a country hotel. Pearl, the evil sister, has gained the love of an honorable young lawyer, Curtis Holmes, who will not marry her unless she gives up her forbidden life. She promises, and the wedding is announced. At the last moment, a dope and race track tout persuades her to go away with him. Traveling by auto, they have an accident, Pearl is carried to the hotel run by Lucy. The sisters notice the marked resemblance but think it merely a co-incidence. Curtis, missing Pearl, follows to the hotel, where he mistakes Lucy for Pearl, but soon finds out his error. He later finds in Lucy all that he had wished for in Pearl, so he transfers his affections. The father recovers and is brought home by Lucy. Shortly after the barn dance, Pearl disguises as Lucy and in lighting a cigarette sets fire to the place and in trying to escape sprains her ankle and faints from pain. The father, Joe Brill, taking his first stroll in the evening, notices the blaze and is told by the farmers that Lucy is in there. Without thought for himself, he carries Pearl out and takes her to the hotel. There he sees it is not Lucy and memory goes back to two small cradles. Asking her name and her mother's he finds his other daughter, Pearl, discovering a father, something she had never known, resolves to leave the "Path Forbidden" and be the comfort of her father who needs her now that Lucy has married Curtis.
- Dr. John Wright is a young, rising physician. His wife, who was raised in luxury, rebels at their present poverty. Having received an invitation to a great social event, she pleads with her husband to devise some means for obtaining finery, so as to be able to accept the invitation. He borrows two sets of jewels, one of which she loses at the ball. Both are panic stricken. He gives his note for $5,000 to cover the loss. Later he makes a great surgical discovery and becomes famous. Four crooked promoters seek his endorsement to lend legitimacy to their fake tuberculosis cure and promise him $50,000. He refuses. Later the conspirators secure the promissory note and threaten foreclosure. This, and his wife's entreaties to accept the money, influence him to do so. The promoters build a sanatorium and use their dangerous "Alligator Serum." Dr. Wright's little daughter contracts tuberculosis while her father is away at the sanatorium looking over the records. The number of deaths here astound him. Realizing the "Cure" to be a fake, he demands the elimination of his name. They refuse and a struggle ensues. The doctor is wounded and they, fearing exposure, imprison him in the sanatorium. Meanwhile the chief promoter makes advances to the shallow wife and claims the doctor has deserted her, but she repulses him and rushes into another room into the arms of her husband, who has escaped. After hearing her story, the doctor throttles the promoter and ejects him from their home. He then finds his child has been given the fatal serum. Dr. Wright hears that a warrant is out for his arrest, on account of his connection with the sanatorium. Grieving over his threatened arrest, the possible death of his only child and his future ruin, he seizes his revolver, contemplating suicide. The three promoters rush in to buy his silence, but all are filled with fear as the police approach. The doctor, followed by the fear-crazed promoters, rushes out and jumps into a launch. They are pursued by another boat containing the police, who open fire. One of the police bullets strikes the gasoline on board the doctor's boat, which explodes, blowing boat and occupants high in the air. Dr. Wright, the survivor, is only slightly injured, and being caught, he is sentenced to "Thirty Years at Hard Labor," for manslaughter. Broken and dejected from the fate which has followed her foolish vanity and her insistence upon her husband accepting the $50,000, and remorse over her fast-failing child, the doctor's wife sits and watches her baby die of tuberculosis. She earns her living by sewing, and meets him after some years of privation at the prison gate, when he has been pardoned after contracting the dread disease. She accompanies him to the famous Adirondack Sanatorium, where he is cured within one year amidst characteristic scenes in and about the sanatorium. The two, now thoroughly restored to health and sanity through their terrible experiences, find much to live for in their mutual, understanding love, though without riches.
- Tom Ward visits his college chum, Bob Bell, and while hunting, is wounded by his friend by mistake. During his convalescence he falls in love with Bob's sister, Grace. The two young men leave tor college. Bob is a model student and the leader in the college athletics, while Tom neglects his studies, spending most of his time in idleness and over the gambling table. The college authorities object to his wild ways, and he is summoned to the Dean's office, where he is severely reprimanded. An altercation follows, and the Dean orders the hotheaded student from the office. In the meanwhile, Bob, knowing of Tom's financial difficulties, posts a challenge on the board in the name of the Masked Wonder, to meet all comers, "winner take all." The notice attracts Tom's attention, and he accepts in the name of the Masked Unknown. An unfortunate blow knocks out Bob, and Tom is horror-stricken when he finds that his masked opponent is his dearest friend, and learns that the blow will probably prove fatal. To make matters worse, while the boxing match is in progress, the Dean has been attacked and robbed, and Tom is accused of this by the Dean's housekeeper. Tom's first impulse is to stand and face the music, but the students prevail upon him to hide and then flee. Tom is pursued by the police, but makes his escape, first by rail and then by hydroplane motorboat, closely followed by his pursuers. He finally shakes them off. In an exhausted condition, Tom is fed and cared for by the fisher girl whom he chances to meet. Mr. Bell, investigating an abandoned mine, takes his daughter Grace with him. While admiring the beauties of the scenery, Grace is approached by a snake, and it viciously buries its fangs in her foot. Grace's outcry brings Nellie, the fisher girl, to her aid. Grace assures her deliverer of her profound gratitude. Bob recovers from the blow received in the fight, and starts out to find Tom, of whom all traces have been lost. He is unsuccessful in this, but during his search happens upon Nellie, the fisher girl, who tells him that Tom, fearing pursuit, has wandered on. Bob falls in love with Nellie and takes her home to introduce her to his father and sister, and makes new plans to find Tom. On reaching his home, Bob finds the entire household much excited over the nocturnal visits of a mysterious "Shadow." Nellie is taken into the conference, and Grace immediately recognizes her as the girl who saved her life. Bob suspects that her "Shadow" evidently is not bent on theft, and lays a trap to ascertain why the "Shadow" prowls around the house, and distributing the members of the family in advantageous positions, turns out the lights and awaits the coming of the mysterious visitor. In due time the "Shadow" arrives. Bob springs upon him, the lights are turned on, and all present are overjoyed to find that the "Shadow" is none other than the long-sought Tom. Tom is happy to find that Bob is alive, and when Bob tells him that he is no longer under the suspicion of the assault of the Dean, Tom turns to Grace, and Bob turns to Nellie. You know the rest.
- An old lady, surrounded by her pretty granddaughters, tells them of the yesterdays of her life when she, too, stood on the threshold of youth. She lived down south and her sweetheart was a young engineer, Bob Grey. His rival, Arthur Deacon, a rich planter, hated the favored suitor and tried in many ways to win the girl himself. Finding this of no avail, he planned with the help of his brutal overseer, to get rid of Bob. As the young man was coming across the fields, all unconscious of any foul play, Deacon and the overseer jumped out and knocked him senseless. This was overseen by a little colored boy who rushed to the girl's cottage and told her. Deacon had Bob carried to a sawmill and tied to a log which, within a second, would be drawn under the great sharp whirring wheel. But the girl and her father arrived in time to save Bob who denounces Deacon and his accomplice and they are arrested. Later Bob and his sweetheart are married. But within a few years the young father dies, leaving the widow to care for her fatherless little ones. This brings grandmother's recollections to a close.
- Peggy was hired, ruined and then cast aside by a man of wealth. She wanders to the seashore and attempts to drown herself. She is seen by a fisher boy who rescues her from drowning. He falls in love with her. After a year's marriage Peggy becomes tired of being the wife of a fisher boy. One day while he is out on a fishing trip. Peggy strolls along the beach and by accident meets the other man who, with his friend, were out motoring. He pleads with her to give up her life of poverty and return to him. She yields and leaves for the hut to make preparations to leave. The fisher boy enters just as Peggy is about to start. Peggy tells him the truth and it arouses his anger to such a pitch that he tries to kill her. At that moment the other man appears in the doorway and Peggy leaves with him. On board the man's private yacht bound for New York, he attempts to make love to her. Peggy, knowing his love to be false, realizes her mistake and cries for help. He assures her that her cries will not be heard as he is master here. The fisher boy wanders to the beach. He gets into his fishing boat and drifts with the tide out to sea. He, hearing cries from the yacht approaching him, makes for it. Discovering that it is Peggy, he climbs up the side of the yacht, throws the man to one side as the crew rush in on him. He holds them at bay, giving Peggy time to jump overboard. He, too, dives overboard. He swims with Peggy to his fishing boat drifting nearby and rows to shore, where she pleads forgiveness, which is granted.
- A slapstick comedy where Hank Mann plays a Junk Dealer's Helper who falls in love with a Society bud.
- Virginia Lewis receives word from her relations in the city that her grandfather has left his entire estate to her, providing she claims it within a certain date. She prepares to go to town at once and, in a letter to her aunt, states that she should have her cousin meet her at the depot, wearing a white carnation. Ralph, her grandfather's disinherited ward, hears of this and sets about to find some way in which he can hold her until it will be too late to claim the estate which will then revert to him. The cousin's motorcar, on the way to the depot, suffers a breakdown and in consequence, is much delayed. Ralph arrives first wearing the white flower and the girl willingly goes with him. Once in his home she realizes the trap. She tries to escape, but Ralph and his wife prevent this. One day she writes a note and throws it out of the window. It is found by John Davis, a city fellow, who knew Virginia in her country home. He rushes for assistance, but Ralph has seen him and takes Virginia away in a motorcar. John's car is soon flying after them and there is an exciting chase through the town. The girl is finally rescued and enabled to claim her estate in time. Willie, Ralph and his wife are arrested. And the man from the city resumes his romance with the girl from the country.
- Virginia, an actress, marries the son of a very wealthy Southerner. A year later after a child is born, the girl deserts her husband, taking her child with her. The young man goes south and thinking his wife is dead, after some years marries again. The daughter grows up and becomes the star of a moving picture company. Soon after, the mother dies and the girl goes south with another moving picture company. The leading man, also the heavy of the company, falls in love with her. The heavy plots to do away with the leading man in a railway scene which they are taking but which is prevented by the girl. While out taking some scenes in front of a beautiful mansion, the girl is hurt by an explosion. The owner of the house turns out to be her father. He recognizes her by a birth mark and they all live happily ever afterwards.
- Dick passes the entrance examinations to a big military academy, and very much pleased, he calls upon his sweetheart to tell her of his good fortune. She promises to wait for him and be faithful to him. He leaves his home town, assuring Alice that he will never forget her and will return after graduation to claim her as his wife. He enters school. In the company of his fellow students he visits different girls known as the belles of the college town. He meets Helen Jackson, the college widow, who is being "rushed" by Dale. She likes Dick and they are soon going to parties and dances together, much to Dale's disgust. Still under Helen's fascination, the boy does not write to Alice who is heartbroken at his neglect. Dale, of a jealous disposition, looks about for some way to become revenged on the chap who has taken his girl away. One of the students receives a five hundred dollar bill which he places in an envelope and leaves in his room. Dale steals this and hides it in Dick's desk. It is found there by the officer in charge of the barracks who is searching the entire building. Dick is branded as a thief and is expelled in dishonor. He goes to Helen to assure her of his innocence, but she does not believe him and refuses to have anything to do with him. Returning home, his parents comfort him and Alice forgives him and believes in his innocence. At the academy, the envelope in which the five hundred dollar bill came is found in Dale's coat and he is accused and forced to admit his guilt. He is expelled and Dick is recalled and honorably installed among his fellow students. He has learned a lesson, however, for when Helen meets him and tries to make up with him, he puts her out of his life and remains faithful to the girl who has been faithful to him.
- Alice's father, a rather lonely invalid, advertises for a companion and secretary. Young Ralph Finn answers the ad in person and gets the position. Alice tries to break the new secretary's heart, but it is no use. She is angered at this unusual treatment and one day while caught outdoors in a shower, she stays there to make Ralph call for her with umbrella and raincoat. But Ralph merely sends the gardener for her. This time she makes up her mind that she will get even. Seeing her father give some money to Ralph, she manages to get it and hide it. Ralph is horrified at the disappearance of the money, but he is not believed and Alice's father discharges him at once. A few days later as he is wheeling his mother along the street in her invalid chair, Alice's motor car crashes into them. The mother is hurt but recovers. Alice tells her father the truth and Ralph is reinstalled in his old position. The girl's devotion to his mother wins Ralph's heart and before long the past is entirely forgotten and a bright future looms before them.