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- Mercedes Aloyez, the daughter of a wealthy Mexican rancher, is betrothed to Captain Montaya, however she is more interested in newcomer Jim Gregory. The feeling is reciprocate, and Gregory earns Montaya's hostility. The captain surprises Mercedes and Gregory in a tryst, threatens to loose a dangerous reptile on the cowboy, but instead finds himself wagering his life against Gregory's with jumping beans. A victorious Gregory spares Montaya but passes to Mercedes the choice of who will live. This situation is interrupted by a request for help from Mary, a waitress, who has been captured by night riders. Gregory leaves Mercedes and Montaya to rescue and find happiness with Mary.
- Circumstances over which he has no control force Larry Crawford to accept a job from Grace Miller, on whom he has previously cast eyes of affection. Grace is the young and beautiful owner of a ranch, Larry a cowpuncher by trade, and the latter is considerably puzzled by the situation into which Fate has thrust him. But eventually he wanders away into the desert and there discovers a lonesome baby which he takes in charge, and after numerous complications ensue, succeeds in procuring a mother and home for the child. He gets mixed up in a scrap over a gold mine and becomes the possessor of an important map. The result of his laudable exertions is that Larry finds himself in the unpleasant position of a perfectly innocent chap whom everyone looks on as a dastardly abductor and all-around scoundrel. But fickle fortune finally changes, his innocence is proved and he wins Grace's esteem and love.
- An idealistic milkman, Jimmy Burke, organizes the independents to combat the milk trust. Jimmy discovers that George Fairchild is conspiring to poison the independent milk supply.
- An auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before anyone can catch it.
- Jeff Hartman, society lap-dog, goes West to make a man of himself. En route aboard box-car, he captures two tramps who have stolen payroll. Hands them over to sheriff and gets himself in solid. Tenderfoot develops after much adversity into cowboy. At county fair Hartman wins raffle, the reward being a kiss from Marion Barrows, the sheriff's daughter. Hartman, fearful of taking the privilege, flees. Sheriff and daughter angered by insult. Fair receipts missing. Suspicion centers on Hartman. Marion discovers Jeff in shack and at point of gun leads him to her father. Revealed that sheriff's little nephew has taken bag holding Fair's receipts to play with them. Jeff and Marion reunited.
- Bill Hinchley, an outlaw since the coming of the railroad and the theft of his father's land, still has the faith and love of his wife, Mary, who prays for his reformation. He is sent to prison for something of which he is innocent, and Mary becomes a school-teacher, of necessity concealing from the school trustees that she is the wife of a convict. Sneaky Pete, Bill's cell-mate, steals a letter from Mary to Bill, and, his term expired, follows Mary and blackmails her, by threatening to cause her to lose her job by revealing her secret. Bill, attempting to escape, gives up his freedom to rescue the warden's children - and is later pardoned, coming home to wreak vengeance on Sneaky Pete, and justify Mary's faith in him.
- Mrs. Ann Barton, a former small-time criminal, has reformed in order to bring up her son as a fine, honest boy. Her husband, however, is persuaded by "The Weasel" to remain on the crooked path. The two men set off to rob slum doctor LeRoy Clifford's wife of her jewels, but at the doctor's home the two see Barton's boy critically injured after an automobile accident. Jim Barton decides then that he will go straight if the boy lives. His son recovers, and he and his wife reunite with the prospect of an honest life before them.
- A pickle salesman finds himself in the middle of a South American revolution, impersonating a rebel general and falling for the general's daughter.
- Gordon Gynn is a wayward son. Finally, when he proposes to three girls in one evening while "under the influence," his father sends him West to Colorado. Here the cowpunchers proceed to frame him up, but luck is with him and he triumphs over them. The foiled villain then kidnaps the "goil," and our hero goes to the rescue. He is thrown from the car, and in so doing strikes oil, and all ends as it should.
- Dedicated "to Mr. Douglas Fairbanks and his immortal classic 'Robin Hood,'" the story deals with two youngsters and their creation of an imaginary kingdom in which they and others in their environment are cast as the fabled characters.
- A young man in financial difficulties persuades his wife to help him blackmail a supposedly wealthy man. While waiting she reads a magazine story telling how Mr. and Mrs. Crafton - set out to extort money from DeCourcey. Mr. Crafton leaving the room, Mrs. Crafton saying she is in financial difficulties, tries to borrow money. DeCourcey refuses. Mrs. Crafton then makes a scene, her husband enters, she accuses DeCourcey of seeking to attack her. DeCourcey, who has remained smoking, shows the ashes remaining on his cigar, to the hotel detective, as evidence that there has been no struggle. The detective believes his accusation of blackmail against the pair and they are arrested. After reading the story the young wife leaves a note saying she has gone back to her home in the country. The intended victim arrives and turns out to be a detective. After reading the note, he takes the penitent young husband to the railroad station and sends him back to his wife.