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- Society girl Sybil Lawton is left penniless by her father's death, and though her mother wishes her to marry into wealth, her sole ambition is to achieve fame in the theater. Her youthful charm and talent interest producer Stewart Thrall, who finds her a position with an Omaha stock company. Under Sybil's encouragement, fellow actor Jim Roberts, disillusioned by an unhappy marriage, improves and becomes her self-appointed guardian. Sybil returns to New York and begins rehearsals for "Romeo and Juliet" with Thrall as her costar and Roberts as stage manager. Meanwhile, Thrall's unhappy wife obtains a divorce, and Roberts, recognizing her as the woman who ruined his life, blames Thrall and shoots him at a performance as he bends over "Juliet" on her bier. Thrall recovers, however, declares his love for Sybil, and looks forward to happiness with her.
- Bob Wellington, distressed by his mother's infatuation for Mr. Dalton, whom he distrusts, seeks the help of Father Tom, adored by the villagers for his acts of kindness, and Father Tom agrees to help. Margie, orphaned and with only a horse for companionship, comes to town; Father Tom finds a home for her, and soon she and Tom fall in love. Mrs. Wellington, however, disapproves, and blames Father Tom, at the same time refusing to renew the mortgage she holds on his church. To obtain the church money, Bob and Margie plan to enter the horse in a race, and though Colby, the owner of a notorious roadhouse, steals the horse, Father Tom retrieves it in time for the race. When Dalton is unmasked as a masher, Mrs. Wellington forgives Bob and accepts Margie.
- A 'what if' story promises suspense and intrigue when Jim Allen manages to discover a so-called family friend's underhanded schemes that ruined Jim's father and plummeted Jim into a lowly social and financial state of affairs.
- A millionaire is robbed, mistaken for a crook, and forced to work for a living.
- Mary Shelly, the sole support for her invalid brother and sister, is courted by a mysterious stranger who offers to solve her financial problems. Her brother produces a large amount of money, which Mary applies to the mortgage on their home before she realizes it is counterfeit. She bets the remaining cash on a horse race, only to lose it all. Although she is in love with Richard Wayne, the desperate young woman agrees to marry the stranger. Richard reveals himself to be an agent of the U.S. Secret Service and the mystery man to be the leader of the counterfeiters. After bringing his rival to justice, Richard takes Mary as his wife.
- A student makes a fortune in Mexico, is blinded in a war, becomes a teacher, and weds a reformed flirt.
- In San Juan, Puerto Rico, The Drifter, young and educated, and The Seeker, old and feeble-minded, meet and form a partnership. The Seeker meets Rosario, unaware that she is his daughter, left there 20 years previously when his mind was affected by a tropical storm that killed his wife and wrecked his home. Rosario is deeded land belonging to her father and is about to sell it to Clifford Fayne when The Seeker discovers gold there and urges her to desist. Fayne lures her to a cabin and tries to force her to sign the bill of sale; The Drifter and her father rescue her; the father is mortally wounded but lives long enough to learn that Rosario is his daughter and that she will be happy with The Drifter.
- Nell Bradley, the daughter of a prosperous bootlegger, is encouraged by Rev. Charles Alden to change her way of life and improve herself with some education. She is finally convinced; saves Amy Robinson from the designs of a New York bootlegger; eventually wins the goodwill of the previously hostile community, which sends her to college; and takes her place as Mrs. Charles Alden.
- Just as John Weston is committing suicide, a would-be burglar, Bert Manners, is startled by and shoots at his own reflection in a mirror. Bert is caught with the gun and is accused of murder. Helen, a school chum of Weston's daughter, finds the evidence that acquits Bert and causes Hartley to confess his keeping the suicide secret in order to hide his theft of Weston's bonds.
- Frank Magee teams up with Sandy, his father's ex-partner, and falls in love with June Rance, daughter of his father's murderer. Sánchez and Black Pete learn from Sandy the whereabouts of his mine, kill Rance, and attempt to file a claim on the mine. When Frank tries to overtake them, he is too late but finds that June has filed ahead of the Mexicans.
- Identical orphaned twins Rosalie (Mollie King) and Susan (Mollie King), are adopted by two aunts and live in separate households. Susan develops as a poor, wholesome farm girl, and Rosalie becomes a wealthy snob. Susan's beau, Ted Harper (Creighton Hale), confuses the girls' identities, but Susan wins his love after preventing Rosalie from eloping with scoundrel "Slick" Harry Ives (Jerome Lawler).
- Betty Hopkins, a hoydenish daughter of a southern eye specialist, refuses to marry Graves, her father's choice, and goes motor-boating with Billy Saunders, a city newspaper reporter; when the engine fails, they are forced to spend the night on the lake, and her indignant father assumes that the worst has occurred. Betty runs away to New York. There she achieves fame as a news writer, but while covering a spectacular chemical fire she is blinded by an explosion. Billy Saunders, returning from Havana, finds her in the hospital and proposes, but Betty declines because of her blindness; her father, however, performs a successful operation to restore her sight. Following a reconciliation between father and daughter, Hopkins consents to her marriage to Saunders.
- Diver Robert Colton is imprisoned for 10 years when found guilty, on circumstantial evidence, of causing the death of his employer; and his motherless daughter, Mary, is brought up by Squire Tead and his stern wife. When freed, Colton obtains work in Tead's creamery. There he discovers that Tead is bribing the cow inspector to condemn his best cattle so that a local plan for a cooperative creamery will be defeated. Colton discovers also that Tead is misappropriating school funds. In spite of Tead's threat to reveal his past, Colton defeats Tead in the local election by uncovering his dealings. When Colton saves Tead from drowning in a milk vat, the squire has a change of heart. Robert's name is cleared, and he is free to court and marry Laurel Stewart, the schoolmistress, thus giving a home to his daughter.
- Jerry Burke is engaged to marry Mary Manning, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy old Irishman, but his father opposes the match and disowns him. Meanwhile, James Lacey, a successful but crooked politician, returns to Ireland and persuades the elder Manning to emigrate with Mary to the U.S. Jerry follows and finds work at a newspaper, but he is disheartened upon hearing that Mary plans to marry Lacey. While Mary prepares for the ceremony, her veil catches fire. A doctor claims that the accident has left Mary permanently deformed, whereupon Lacey cancels the wedding. Afterward, she reveals to Jerry that the fire was a pretext to prevent her marriage to Lacey, and the lovers are reunited.
- An affianced duke causes an infatuated heiress to return to her soldier sweetheart.
- Despite his timid streak, John Ramsey joins the Royal Northwest Mounted Police, and shows such promise during training that his commander does not mind his budding romance with his daughter, Margo. The commander sends him out to track down a gang of smugglers responsible for the death of a guard. However, his courage fails him on his first assignment. He returns claiming he narrowly escaped an ambush, but the commander dismisses his excuse as cowardice. John overcomes his fears and brings back both the leader and the killer, regaining the respect of his colleagues and the love of Margo.
- Harold and Peter Van Zandt, sons of New England fisherman John Van Zandt, are in love with Eileen Arden, who favors Harold, the younger and gentler brother. The jealous Peter convinces Eileen that Harold is circulating false rumors about her, then convinces his younger brother to move to Boston, Massachusetts. Six years later, John is unable to work so Harold returns to help support the family, finding employment as a lighthouse keeper. Peter becomes jealous once again, and his drunken rage results in the death of his child, Anne, whose weak heart is unable to withstand the excitement. After realizing that Eileen knows of his deceit years earlier, Peter attempts to kill Harold in the lighthouse, but instead falls to his own death during the ensuing struggle.
- Henry Warburton, who is compelled to wait 9 years before coming into a willed inheritance, retires to the backwoods and marries Nola, a girl with no refinement or social graces. At length, his friend Grant Hamilton visits him, sees in Nola possibilities to which Warburton is blind, and "kidnaps" her. Hiding in a cottage, Nola is educated by Hamilton and a governess while Warburton searches in vain for her, mystified by frequent notes advising him of her progress, the last of which tells him of a daughter's birth. A year later, Warburton returns to New York where he meets Hamilton and Nola; amazed at the transformation, he is happily reunited with his wife.
- Eleanor Warburton, the daughter of a penniless father and a socially ambitious mother, is loved by wealthy Dean Deland but is interested only in Gerry Patten. A plan is conceived whereby Eleanor will marry Dean and, with Gerry's help, will make his life so miserable that he will divorce her and give her a considerable sum of money. But Dean discovers the plan and retaliates by taking Eleanor and Gerry to a South Sea island. Gerry is exposed as worthless, and the sullen Eleanor is forced to cook or starve. Not until Gerry tries to kill Dean, however, is Eleanor reconciled with her husband.
- Margaret Seldon's father, who has been victimized by three business associates and sent to prison, calls his daughter to him in his dying moments and asks her to avenge him. Through a detective agency she locates Amos Colby and Courtland Wells; and learning that the third man is dead, she adds his son, Allan Forbes, to the list. She foils Colby's attempt to ruin two financiers by gaining a position aboard his yacht. Disguised as a Spanish dancer, she appears at a reception given by Wells's fiancée, traps him into making love to her, and then exposes him. But she meets Forbes, Greenwich Village architect, and falls in love with him before learning his identity; stifling her feelings, she leaves him, but finding no satisfaction in pursuing her revenge, she returns.
- As she lay dying, Wallace Layson's mother leaves him in the care of Buck, a halfbreed. Buck raises him as his own son, not telling him of his real identity. As Wallace approaches the age of 21, his real father shows up in order to cheat him out of a ranch he will inherit when he reaches that age. Buck, however, is determined to foil the father's plans to cheat Wallace out of his inheritance.
- Terry Nolan, stationmaster of a railway station that is robbed of metal ore, is suspected and arrested, but he escapes from the sheriff. While making his getaway he meets Nora, daughter of railroad superintendent Dan Murphy, whose car has collided with a wagon; and she drives him back to town. Assuming the name of "Tim McCloskey," he obtains a position as yard foreman and risks being jailed to be near her, though Dan objects to his daughter's marrying a trainman. Terry marries her aboard a flat car, however, in the presence of her father and Harry Allen, a disappointed suitor, who pursue them on the fender of a locomotive. It is revealed that "Tim" is actually an escaped thief, but Nora accidentally learns that Allen is behind the thefts. Nora is captured by the gang, but Terry follows to their hideout, rounds up the bandits, and rescues Nora.
- Thurlow Michael Barclay Jr., a bookish mathematics professor, is asked by his father to inspect his mine in Kentucky to determine why it's failing. He discovers love with a local girl named Sally and a plot to destroy the mine by local villains.
- During a violent thunderstorm Helen Stone takes refuge in a building with her traveling companion, who is killed when lightning strikes the building. Helen, a forger's daughter who has never been able to find her way in the world, then assumes the dead girl's identity and goes to the home of the girl's aunt, where she is accepted as one of the family. Her true identity is later discovered by an architect, who attempts to force her into marriage and causes the aunt to have a paralytic stroke. Overcome by remorse, Helen confesses her deception and is forgiven everything by one and all; and she soon finds herself making preparations to marry Ernest Bruce, a young surgeon with whom she is in love.
- When the government turns the Little Smoky region into a forest and game preserve, the Brocktons challenge their rights to use the area as they please. Forest ranger Bob Hayne , falls in love with Anne, daughter of the Brockton clan leader; but Anne is jealous when Bob defends Gita, a Gypsy princess, from unwelcome attentions and when the Gypsy later saves his life. Bob arrests Anne's father for breaking the game laws, but Brockton is acquitted when Anne steals the evidence. In a row following the trial, Bob is trailed by hounds when he is believed to have killed Ed Brockton. Anne dresses in Bob's clothes to mislead the hounds, and during a storm she finds Ed alive in Bob's cabin. Tom, Anne's brother who was shell-shocked in France, saves the Gypsy, whom he loves, from a renegade Indian, and both couples are happily united.
- Wealthy Edith Folsom greatest ambition is to have a score of admirers at her feet, leaves her local boyfriend, Ned Lorimer, for the city. On the train she encounters a schoolmate, Lorna Lear, and Lorna's cousin, John Blaine, who promptly falls for her. On the night of Lorna's ball, Edith meets H. H. Van Horn, an elderly banker who brings her home in his car. Scolded by Lorna, she runs off to a hotel; then, when her money is depleted, she takes a position as Van Horn's secretary. Two days later she meets John, and they are married. When Van Horn declares his love for her and is overheard by his wife, Edith resolves to reform and take an interest in Mrs. Van Horn's social work.
- When Alfred Dinsmore refuses to withdraw his libel suit against "The Leader," editor Charles Purcell hires McMurty to obtain evidence against his opponent. A man recognizes Dinsmore as one Tom Wilson, who took part in a bank robbery and was known to have a scar on his chin: although Dinsmore wears a beard, the resemblance is exact. Dinsmore agrees to withdraw his suit, but Purcell demands blackmail; Purcell is forced to relent when Dinsmore establishes his innocence by removing his beard. The opponents decide to overlook their political differences when their children, who are in love, are reunited despite parental objections.
- Henry Morgan advances the money to defend Bud Sanderson who is arrested for stealing cattle, in return for securing an option on the Sanderson ranch. Morgan hires "The Rattler" to evict the Sandersons from their ranch, but when he meets Helen Sanderson and discovers the injustice of Morgan's demands, he refuses to carry out his orders. Helen, suspecting Morgan of shady dealing, follows Bud, who has escaped from jail, to a desperadoes' hangout. The Rattler holds up the gang and forcibly carries Bud off to jail, where he will be safe. Misunderstanding The Rattler's motives, Helen sells the ranch to Morgan, who delivers false money to Helen. The Rattler pursues, and both are caught in a train wreck. Morgan, mortally injured, clears Bud, and The Rattler, though wounded, is urged to recovery by Helen's love.
- Norman Draper, a Texas Ranger sent to round up a band of cattle rustlers, finds Phillip Carlson at the deathbed of his wife and assists him in burying her. Meanwhile, cow thieves are plaguing Marcos Valverde and his daughter Elicia; and Leon Serrano, the local deputy sheriff (actually the leader of the rustlers), realizing the community will demand a victim, arrests Carlson, who has innocently bought a stolen horse from the thieves. Draper rescues him from a lynching party and learns the whereabouts of the rustlers. Leon Serrano is unmasked as the culprit and then is arrested by Draper, who gives his reward to Carlson and is himself rewarded by the love of Elicia.
- A US Army officer is sent undercover into the hills of Mexico's Baja California region to find and bring down the madman Crando and his group of crazed followers, who are setting up their own criminal empire spreading from Mexico into the United States.
- Mildred Garson, secretary and fiancée of playwright Anthony Moore, would like to play the leading role in his new play, a crook drama. Her brother Jim and sister Rita arrange to stage a fake robbery at Moore's home so that Mildred can demonstrate her ability. However, real thieves led by Dan "The Fox" Grogan appear, shoot Moore's butler, and kidnap Mildred. She manages to escape and find refuge with Chong Wo, a Chinese philosopher. In a fight to the finish, Wong arranges for Grogan to be captured, leaving Anthony and Milfred to get married.
- Ruth Gaylord gives up her home in New York to marry John Gaylord but grows discontented with the loneliness and desolation of life in the West and leaves her husband. After returning home, she hears that he has struck one of the richest gold veins in California. A letter surrendering her interests in the mine falls into the hand of Kirk Harding, an eastern capitalist; and John, tricked into surrendering his rights and discovering the truth, struggles with Harding. Ruth awakens, discovering it was all a dream, and decides not to leave her dedicated husband after all.