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- Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
- Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantomas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Two crimes committed in France suggest to inspector Juve that the Fantomas gang is still at work. He conceives the idea that if Fantomas is set free it will be possible to follow him and capture him and the remaining members of the gang. The villain escapes from prison and makes his way to the railroad station and boards a train where he is tracked by private detectives. When the train stops at a country station, Fantomas alights with the intention of making good his escape, but he finds that he is being followed by two detectives, whom he recognizes. He goes back to his carriage, which leads the detectives to think he is quite safe, but he crosses the train and leaves by the opposite door, jumping into the baggage wagon of the train on the opposite rail. Just at that moment the train moves and a magistrate who happens to have nearly missed the train also jumps into the baggage wagon. Fantomas was who hiding, attacks the magistrate, and after a severe struggle in which he is victorious assumes the disguise of the magistrate and takes his clothes and papers. He continues the journey as the magistrate, successfully rescues certain criminals, who are brought before him to be tried, and manages to blackmail several members of society, with whom he is brought in contact. While here he is recognized by Fandor, the young and clever journalist who happens to come into the district and who has suspicions as to the authenticity of the magistrate. He decides to keep watch upon him. His suspicions are well founded and he identifies the magistrate as none other than Fantomas. After much trouble, he is able to get papers committing Fantomas to prison, but Fantomas' suspecting his immediate arrest, issues an order to the head warden, and tells him that it is Detective Juve's intention to be arrested disguised as Fantomas. The warden is not to tell a soul of the detective's intentional disguise, but is to let him remain in prison until 12 o'clock midnight, when the head warden is to personally release him. The police, not suspecting anything of this, feel quite safe when Fantomas is put in the cell and securely barred and locked. His scheme works favorably and once more Fantomas is at large.
- Little does Rev. Martin Preston know when he falls in love with pretty Helen Claude that he must ask her hand of her uncle, Francis Claude, the candidate for congress. Preston is a foundling, and upon that fact Claude bases his refusal when he visits the village where Helen has been visiting. The whole village is talking of the affair, as it even divides attention with the great murder mystery. Judge Green has been murdered. Joe Trimmer, the miller, has been accused and convicted on circumstantial evidence. Mrs. Royal, keeper of the village inn, is extremely friendly with the young minister, and tells him that she will see that Francis Claude gives his consent. She reveals herself to the politician as Grace Goodman, the girl he had deserted in his youth. Mrs. Royal has a daughter about to marry Tom Carroll, a quick tempered young man of the village. To secure Claude's consent, Mrs. Royal reveals to him that Martin Preston is their child, born after he had left her promising to return and marry her. Claude is overcome by this confession. Not only does he write a note to his niece, who has returned to the city, giving his consent, but he also indicates in it that he wishes Preston to inherit his property. He also secretly gives a sum of money to Tom Carroll, since he is about to marry Mrs. Royal's daughter. That very night Claude is murdered in the same manner that Judge Green met his death, being stabbed by an assailant with his face hidden who reaches through the curtains at the window. Mrs. Royal enters the room at this moment, rushes to the window, and sees the minister on the lawn. Immediately she thinks of him as the murderer, seeking vengeance upon his recreant father. She determines to keep the secret, but the struggle is doubly hard since the man her daughter is to marry is accused. The circumstantial evidence is the money Claude gave him secretly just before his death. Even the new residents in the village are wrought up over the affair. Led by Jerry Drake a pleasing fellow who spends his time at the inn, indignation runs high. Finally suspicion even points toward the minister as a party to the crime. Preston is arrested. His mother watches the detectives who have invaded Preston's home. While doing so she sees a muffled figure visiting a dry well and concealing a package. The man is extremely like her son, whom she thinks guilty of murder. She man accosts him, and the grapples with her. Screaming for help, detectives run from the minister's home upon hearing her cries. They seize the man whom they find is Jerry Drake. Evidence of the several murders is found upon him. He is led off to prison. The innocent men are released, and soon wedding bells ring for the two happy pairs.
- A stolen mummy's ring brings death to all who acquire it until it is returned to its owner.
- Saunders, Siskiyou's leading Citizen, miner, gentleman and all-around favorite, has Mary Brandon, the daughter of Mathew Brandon, ever since he had come to Siskiyou as a child. And it is not strange that he has, for Mary is a sweet, gentle-mannered girl of nineteen. Together with her younger sister, she keeps house for her father, and furnishes the only spot of light and joy to the hearts of many of the rough, kind-hearted men of the town. Mary knows of Joe's devotion, and loves him too, in her simple, girlish way, until one day Ned Singleton, a young stranger, comes to town. He is a handsome, enthusiastic chap, and he soon wins the love and respect of the entire community. He gains the unbounded admiration of Joe Saunders by catching a Mexican who cheated at cards, and Joe asked him to become his partner. In the meantime, Mary, too, has become interested in the fascinating young stranger. On a prospecting expedition, Joe and Ned find gold, but the younger man falls from a cliff and is carried back to the little mining town unconscious. Due to the tender care of Joe and Mary he recovers his health, but seriously loses his heart to the girl. Mary has grown to care more for Ned than for Joe. On the night of Mary's twentieth birthday, Joe follows her when she leaves the happy party given in her honor, into the woods. He tells her of his great love for her, and asks her to marry him. Mary is forced, for the first time, to confess to Joe her love for his partner. She leaves him, heartbroken and sad, and goes on to keep her tryst with Ned at lover's rock. Joe comes upon them just as Mary pleads with her lover to marry her at once, as he had promised. The big, kind-hearted miner steps in and forces Ned to promise he will marry her at once. In the meantime, Scraggs, the villain, who loved Mary's mother and now loves her, has tried to force his suit. He goes to Ned's cabin, bent upon stirring up trouble, and sees Joe as he rides away after trying to divide up and split partnership with the boy. When Scraggs accuses Mary of being Joe's mistress, Ned jumps at his throat, and in the tussle which follows, he is killed. The villain tears one bloody cuff from his shirt and hides it in the holes of the hearth from which Joe had taken out their strong box before leaving, and runs to the village to say that Ned Singleton has been murdered and that he had seen Joe Saunders leave the cabin. Whrn the men arrive at Ned's shack they find Joe bending over the dead body of his partner. He had returned too late to proffer the hand which he had refused before. At the trial Joe is acquitted. Scraggs is accused, and in the face of everyone Joe marries Mary because he loves her, and to preserve her good name.
- Despite the fact that Harold Derwent is a senior at a Divinity School and in love with Faith Willis, a co-ed, he cannot overcome his passion for gambling. He is a fortunate racetrack gambler and pretends to himself that when he becomes a minister he will justify his conduct by giving part of his earnings to the poor. The gambling phase of his character is betrayed to the college authorities by a fellow student, and Harold is forced to leave college. Despite Faith's hope that he will redeem himself, he believes that he is unworthy of her, and goes out into the world alone. Several years later Harold's success in "beating the bookies" has made him one of the spectacular figures of the American turf. He is found at all the race meets, accompanied by Madge a scheming woman, who pretends love for him while he is on the crest of his gambling wave. However, fortune turns against Harold, now known as "Pittsburgh Pa.," and his fortune ebbs away. Madge leaves him. Harold gives the last horse in his string to his faithful jockey and announces that he is through with gambling. At the railroad station he hands all his money in at the window, asking for a ticket for as far as his money will take him. Securing a ticket for Royalton, on the train he meets William Ashton, who is just going to take charge of the "Church of Our Faith" at Royalton. The men are struck by their remarkable resemblance to each. When the train is wrecked the minister is killed. Tempted by the opportunity to get back into the ministry Harold takes the name of William Ashton and becomes pastor of the Royalton church. He receives a letter from Ashton's wife, who had hurried to the bedside of her dying father. Later Faith, who had married Ashton, comes to join her husband, and of course recognizes Harold. For his sake she remains silent, seeming his wife in the eyes of the parishioners. A thief confesses to the minister that he has committed a burglary. Harold goes with him to the hiding place of the jewels and finds them strangely familiar. When he returns the plunder he discovers that the jewels are Madge's. Madge immediately recognizes her former lover. Proceeding to blackmail him, she secures all the money he possesses. Finally she persuades him to bet $15,000 held as a trust fund on a race at the Royalton meet. Harold turns the money over to the jockey, not recognizing his old boy, Eddie. Madge produces a child, which she claims is the son of Harold. The minister does not know what to do, but hones that he will be able finally to purchase Madge's silence by his winnings from the race. His horse loses, the jockey being injured and taken to a hospital. A minister is sent for and Harold responds. He now recognizes Eddie, who tells him that he did not bet the money, but hid it in a stall. Harold recovers the money, and at the same time Eddie's mother comes to ask for the baby which she had lent Madge, the child being Eddie's little brother. Thus Madge is foiled just when she saw her scheme successful. She plays her final card, declaring that the minister and the notorious "Pittsburgh Hal" are one and the same. Faith stands by the man whom the church knows only as her husband, and her word is believed against that of Madge. Faith and Harold go to a distant city and are quietly married. Then they return to the Church of Our Faith at Royalton and continue their good work. Harold having been forever cured of his passion for gambling.
- Millicent, the daughter of a wealthy father and mother, breaks her engagement with Deyne through foolish jealousy. In pique, she becomes the fiancée of young Linton, a serious minded fellow who sincerely loves her. Preparations for the marriage culminate in a prenuptial reception. Deyne is present, having been invited to be an usher at the wedding. The sight of her former sweetheart reawakens Millicent's love for him, and Linton, coming upon them unawares, discovers her in Deyne's arms. He leaves the house, incensed, after telling Millicent's parents of her unworthiness. Her father turns her from her home in his anger. Twenty years elapse. Millicent's husband has died and she is left in straitened circumstances with her daughter Ethel, a girl of nineteen. Linton has been highly successful and is the owner of a big mill. He is a confirmed woman-hater. Trouble arises at the factory over improvements, and Linton takes a firm stand against his employees. Ethel answers an advertisement from the office of the factory for a new stenographer and is accepted. Linton, not knowing who she is, becomes strongly attracted to her, and in time, proposes marriage. Affairs at the mill come to a climax when Dora, the daughter of McClure, suffers a breakdown, following an accident. She finally dies. Her father, feeling that Linton is responsible for the girl's death, vows vengeance. With other conspirators, he abducts Linton. Ethel learns of the plot and is carried to the secluded place chosen for his imprisonment, riding on top the limousine. Discovered by the conspirators, she is locked in an old barn with Linton, and the place is set on fire. The pair make a spectacular escape from the building. The final reconciliation of Linton, Ethel and Millicent is the climax to the story.
- Colonel Seldon loved Belle, his adopted daughter, much more than he loved his worldly sister, Mrs. Preston. Belle was the ray of sunshine who was brightening his declining years. Mrs. Preston made much of him, but the old gentleman was far too wise to be unaware that her interest was more in the wealth he would leave than in his own comfort and happiness. He had a genuine affection, however, for his nephew, Montague Preston, and his greatest wish was to see Belle and Montague man and wife. Preston had more ambitious plans for her son. Yet with all his love for Belle, Col. Seldon did not make his will in her favor. It was always something he planned to do the next day. When death found him, Belle had not been protected. Reared in a life of luxury, Belle found herself in a single day swept from her proud position as mistress of Col. Seldon's household, and made to feel the humiliation that only the pride and arrogance of such a woman as Mrs. Preston could heap upon her. Col. Seldon's sister became head of the house. She knew her son's fondness for Belle, and manifested her displeasure. She wished him to marry money. Her own daughter, Anna, she was willing to sacrifice by marrying her to Ashley Callum, a social waster. Social position could be gained thereby, but her daughter loved Phillip Morris. In seeking to thwart her son's love for Belle, Mrs. Preston found an unexpected ally in Belle herself. Both Belle and Montague had been reared in luxury. Belle saw that a union which brought only poverty, since Montague was entirely dependent upon his mother, could bring no happiness. So she decided upon revenge. Learning of Anna's love, Belle aided the girl to elope with Philip Morris. The news of Anna's elopement rendered Mrs. Preston seriously ill. Urged by Callum, Belle agrees to steal the box of stocks and securities Mrs. Preston has locked in her bedroom. Callum has promised to marry her as soon as they are safe from pursuit. He tells the distraught girl that the fortune is really hers by rights, since her foster father had planned to leave his wealth to her. Belle obtains the box, takes it to her room, and prepares to escape with Callum. Wishing to take something as a remembrance of Col. Seldon she goes to the library for a book he had giver her, "The New Adam and Eve," by Nathaniel Hawthorne. While waiting in her room Belle falls asleep. And then begin her experiences as the new Eve. Her astral body deserts its human envelope and wanders through the world with the astral body of Montague. They have loved in the flesh, but the conventions and limitations of civilization have prevented their union. Now as hindered spirits they see the true relations of life. Hand in hand they wander in happy companionship through a deserted city and comment on the uselessness of many things which civilization has taught us are essential. What holds Belle-Eve longest is the statue of a little child. Without knowing what influences her, her awakening maternal instinct makes her exclaim, "I wonder if we are alone in the world. This lovely little form, did it ever breathe? Or is it a shadow of something real?" Not as Eve is Belle destined to know the answer. Her time in spiritland is up. Her lesson has been learned. At dawn the first thing Belle sees is the box of securities. Transformed by her journey into the world where values have their true appraisal, Belle sees the enormity of the offense she has been saved from committing. Quickly she restores the valuable papers to their proper place. Montague also has learned his lesson. In the astral body he has found that happiness does not depend upon wealth, position or power. Waking, he determines that Belle must be his wife, no matter how much she fears poverty. To his great joy he finds her ready to listen to his suit. Yet poverty is not their lot, for Mrs. Preston never recovers from the shock occasioned by Anna's elopement. At her death they receive the fortune Col. Seldon had meant should be theirs.
- Elsie Green cannot decide which of her two suitors to marry. When she reads Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story "Feathertop", she dreams that she is its heroine Polly Goodkin, and this leads to her final decision.
- Robert Gray, a brilliant young lawyer, who has just been elevated to the bench, is greatly in love with Eloise, daughter of Reverend Morgan Landman, rector of the village church. Though well beloved by his flock, the rector has one failing, an ungovernable temper, which is evidenced when he discharges his coachman for a trivial offense. Unknown to anybody excepting the rector, Abel Harrison has a mortgage on the rector's home. James Harrison, the son is also in love with Eloise. When James proposes to Eloise she refuses him, and he taunts her with loving the judge, who has never asked for her love. The rector, coming on the scene, canes James. James induces his good-for-nothing brother Luke to take a job at the rector's left open by the discharge of the coachman. Emboldened by his successful career, the judge proposes to Eloise and is accepted. They are about to be married when James Harrison comes to the judge and demands the arrest of the rector on a charge of murder. James says that the rector murdered his brother Luke, and produces numerous witnesses with seemingly conclusive proof. Much against his will, the judge is forced to issue the warrant and hear the case. The rector is found guilty of manslaughter and given a long term by the judge. Meanwhile, in order not to hinder his career, Eloise refuses to marry the judge until her father is vindicated. James finds that he holds a mortgage on the Landman home, and turns Eloise and her brother Harold out of the house. Judge Gray tries to raise a loan to help Eloise, but the banker to whom he applies is the father of the girl. Alice Ward, whose advances the Judge had received coldly. She blocks the loan. Five years later, James Harrison, now a church warden, is haunted by memories of the rector. Thinking he sees the rector in his old pulpit he drops the collection plates and falls unconscious to the floor. The ordeal affects his mind and body. Meanwhile Luke, the good-for-nothing brother, is discharged from prison, where he has been serving a term for a minor offense. Luke is in the power of an evil man who demands money. Luke tries to raise money from his brother at whose house he is staying, concealing his identity from everybody, but his brother, James. Refused by James, Luke puts his room in disorder, leaving bloodstains everywhere, thus manufacturing evidence of a probable murder. The old servants take the story to Judge Gray, who orders the arrest of James Harrison, At the trial the jury failed to agree. The old servants came and asked the judge to go to the home where they were haunted by strange noises. The judge finds Luke Harrison there hiding in a closet. "It is Luke Harrison," cries the judge to Harold Landman, "Then your father and James Harrison are innocent men." The appearance of Luke in the flesh automatically brings about the release of the rector. His story causes the conviction of James Harrison. The rector is reinstated in his position in the church and in the hearts of his parishioners. Eloise and Judge Gray are married by the rector a few days later.
- Nancy and Juanita, mountain girls of Tennessee, are in love with Fletch Bird, a young mountaineer. He marries Nancy, and twin daughters are born to them. Juanita puts a curse upon the mother and the babies. The curse is fulfilled when, a few months later, Fletch deserts Nancy, and flees the country with Juanita, taking the baby Phoebe with him. Later he abandons Juanita also, and buries himself in the city. There he plunges into a life of dissipation, and is killed in a drunken brawl. His baby girl is adopted by Major Slater. To support herself and Carol, Nancy operates an illicit whiskey still. Later, the girl and her lover, Dave Talbert, manage the still together. Carol is visited by visions of another girl, very like herself, living in an unknown city, and Phoebe, simultaneously, receives intimations of her country sister. Meanwhile, Juanita dies. Bitter to the end, she pledges her son, Spivey, to keep alive her hatred for Nancy. He betrays to Major Slater the location of Nancy's still. Dave Talbert is caught, but Phoebe intercedes for him, and he is given a light sentence. The city twin's visions urge her into the mountains, where she takes a country school. She discovers Nancy and Carol. Phoebe falls in love with Spivey, who repents under her influence, and Janita's curse is broken. Dave and Carol are reunited. The twin sisters and their sweethearts celebrate a double wedding.
- An absorbing and beautifully illustrated story of man's progress and civilization up to the present time in spite of Satan's efforts.
- Mayor of Lynboro, Loren Hayward is so dedicated to his work, he soon neglects Milly his young wife. In order to rekindle his affections, she engages in a flirtation with ladies' man Robert Chapman, an all too willing suitor who forces her to kiss him. As Robert embraces Milly, Loren appears and angrily orders them both from the house. After abducting her son Bobby, Milly flees to another city, but Loren follows them and takes the boy back home. Learning afterwards that Loren and Bobby have contracted scarlet fever, Milly breaks into the house and nurses them back to health, and husband and wife are reconciled. During a party, however, Robert mistakenly enters Milly's room, but she is saved from a compromising situation when burglars break in through the window. As the terrified Milly faints, Robert escapes in the confusion.
- Fields, a remittance man, with tears in his eyes, informs his valet, Bud, that he is broke and that they must both look for jobs. Unknown to each other, they obtain work carrying advertising signs. Fields stalks the streets under an immense restaurant placard, while Bud staggers along announcing a new brand of indigestion tablets. One day they meet. Fields, having been paid a dollar in advance for his services, invites Bud to have a drink. While Fields engages the bartender in conversation, Bud fills his pockets with free lunch. Fields manages to pour down three drinks for the price of one, and sticking a piece of chewing gum on the end of his cane, he succeeds in hooking up again the dollar with which he had paid for the Scotch. Last, but not least, the big-hearted bartender blows them each to a good cigar. Fields and Bud, blessing their luck, retire to the park to enjoy the spoils. Finding a newspaper handy, they read that Lord Swan has won a Fifth Avenue heiress, Dolla Bills, by his wonderful golf playing. Fields lies down on a bench to take his afternoon nap, and is visited by a beautiful dream. He does not win his heiress by golf playing, exactly, but by his skill and bravery in using one of the clubs to whack a bomb planted by two black-handers on the steps of Mr. Moneybags' palatial home. He wakes embracing Bud, who cannot control his laughter. In disappointed rage. Fields pushes his ex-valet off the bench into the lake. As the latter fails to rise to the surface. Fields wanders away, realizing that now he must fight his battles single-handed.
- Joan, a peasantess, is left in miserable poverty with a six-month-old child, the very heart of her life, upon an attack of a lingering malady to her husband. Circumstances compel her separation from the child she so cherishes and idolizes. She becomes a nurse to the young baby of a fashionable couple. The comparison of her own child to the ward, palls her more and more as time goes on, and causes her deepest melancholy. So indifferent is her mistress, that she even uses an intercepted letter of Joan's as curling papers. Quite by accident, Joan discovers the crumpled letter, advising her of her own child's sinking health. With a heart overflowing with anguish, she upbraids her cruel mistress for her heartlessness and hastens home to tend to her own dear little babe. At the end of the film a contrast of the two mothers is presented in unique form, at opposite sides of the picture.
- Seeing that her employer is falling in love with her, Claire Kenwood, a stenographer in the law office of John Denham, resigns. She is in love with Robert Royce, a rather weak young man who works for David Reed. Unfortunately for Claire, Royce is under the influence of Kara Dalton, an adventuress who is a cabaret singer. Kara finds it profitable to stand in with Tom Carroll, a gambler who wields some power in the underworld. Carroll has a spatulate thumb on one hand, differing from that on the other. This is recognized by criminologists as the "murderer's thumb." Medical authorities estimate that only one person in one hundred thousand has such a thumb. The bearer is a marked man. Things go from bad to worse with Royce. Kara is getting all his money and continually demanding more. While with her one day, he drops a letter announcing that a wealthy customer, John Brewster, is coming to meet Mr. Reed. Kara turns the letter over to Carroll. As it says Brewster has never met Reed, Carroll decides that he will impersonate the customer in the hope that he can profit by the deception. Just before Carroll appears at Reed's office, Royce robs the safe. The door of the safe happens to be open when Carroll calls after office hours. Reed catches him at it, and is astonished that his customer, Mr. Brewster, should be going through his strong box. Seeing that he has been detected, the gambler grapples with the aged merchant. The shock is too much for Mr. Reed. He succumbs to heart disease. Carroll takes what little money is left in the safe and gets safely away. Royce is suspected. Despite the fact that Denham believes Royce had a hand in what the police believe to be a murder, the lawyer looks after the case for him because of his love for Claire. He even gets the money Royce had taken, and places it where there can be no suspicion of Royce's theft. The clerk, however, is arrested. Denham is able to show that the thumb marks on the lawyer's collar are not those of his client. It is then that suspicion points toward the owner of the spatulate thumb. Through Denham's efforts Royce is acquitted at the trial, and Carroll is brought to justice. During all the trouble which the weak youth had brought upon himself, Claire has been drawing closer and closer to Denham. At last she must choose between the two. Her first love has been weak, yet she feels that his experience and her love has now given him strength. She sorrowfully refuses the lawyer, to marry the man she can help.
- In this particular episode in the life of the McGinnises a pet parrot works havoc in the domestic machinery of the household.
- Helen Arthur, petted, spoiled and successful prima donna of the light opera stage, goes to a fishing village to gain color and atmosphere for a new operatic role. She boards at the cottage of a fisher maiden, Nettie Lea. Nettie is in love with a young sea captain, Rex Bristol. Rex falls in love with the prima donna, and rescues her from drowning. Rex's infatuation increasing, Nettie becomes jealous. Helen has come to the village incognita, and when Nettie learns that she is an actress, she turns her out of her cottage. Securing lodging at a nearby hotel, Helen, out of revenge, plans to complete her conquest of Rex. One day while out sailing with him, Helen sings the popular ballad, "The Isle of Love." Her conquest is complete. Rex seizes her in his arms and kisses her. Helen is indignant, then taunts Rex by saying she has been playing with him, acting, all the time. She returns to New York, leaving him a victim of despair. After a successful season in New York, Helen is preparing to start west on a tour. Among her admirers coming to her last performance in New York is John Leonard, a wealthy clubman and yachtsman. Rex is now captain of the yacht owned by Leonard, and goes with him to the theater. He is persuaded to bid Helen good-bye. Hurt at Helen's cruelty when they meet, he leaves her in highest indignation. The following day, as a farewell entertainment to the star, Leonard makes up a cruising party in Helen's honor. Because of an automobile accident, other members of the party fail to reach the boat. Leonard determines to run away with Helen, and orders Rex to take the yacht to sea. When Helen screams, Rex rescues her, but still cannot be convinced of the girl's innocence in her relations with Leonard. Rex is discharged, and is unable to get another ship. Following a nervous breakdown, Helen abandons her theatrical trip and a month or two later boards an ocean liner for a vacation in the Orient. On this same ship Rex is serving as wireless operator. When the vessel is burned, Rex rescues Helen. They reach an uninhabited island, and here again the flirt in Helen asserts herself. Rex, goaded on by her witchery, takes possession of the girl. He uses the authority vested in him as a sea captain, and performs his own marriage ceremony. Helen rebels against her husband's authority, and thinks she hates him. A child is born to them. When a schooner, stopping for Water at the island, offers to take her and her child back to civilization. Helen tells the captain that there is no one else on the island, and she and her baby leave for civilization. Rex is left alone, not knowing what became of his wife and child. Helen goes back to the stage. However, she comes to realize gradually that there is no sweetness in triumph now. The need of a father for her child also drags on her heart. Finally she makes a big resolve and returns to "The Isle of Love,'' where her husband welcomes both wife and child.
- New York City: Old Dominion Line steamer "Hamilton" severely damaged by a collision with a stone pier at Sandy Hook during a terrific storm. New York City: Girls in the white goods trade joining the great garment workers' strike. Philadelphia, Pa: The annual New Year's Mummers' Parade. Pittsburgh, Pa: The Ohio River sweeps through the city. The railroad yards and business section inundated. New York City: J. Pierpont Morgan, and the heads of the Stock Exchange at the funeral of James R. Keene, the well-known financier and sportsman. New York City: M. Andre de Fouquieres, the French nobleman, who is now giving lectures at Maxine Elliott's Theater on "Heroism" and "Dandyism." San Francisco, Cal: Olympic Club's Swimming Contest in mid-winter. A dip in the sea at the Golden Gate. Baltimore, Md: Governor Goldsborough, of Maryland, receiving the National Guard officers of his state. Salem, Ore: Trusted convicts prove worthy. Governor West, of Oregon, as an experiment, allows penitentiary prisoners to work outside the walls, without guards. It is a success. Ellis Island: Castro, the stormy Petrel of the South and the Northern Broom. The Fashion in Paris and New York. France: The Greyhound Club of France. Powerful coursers with the hares in speed. Constantinople, Turkey: Funeral of the patriarch, Joachin III. Paris, France: Four-footed police. Useful auxiliaries against the Apaches. Nuremberg, Germany: The flames destroying the Art Gallery. A great loss financially and artistically. The Balkan War: The embarking of the Greek troops. The disembarking of the Bulgarian artillery. The triumphant entrance of the Greeks into Salonchi. Princes Boris and Constantin. The spoils of the war. The cruisers of the Great Powers watching in the bay. Valley of Strouma. In flight before the Bulgarian Invasion. The Servian Infantry advancing on the conquered countries.
- Robert Trent is engaged to Mary Vail. Robert's friend, Hal Murray, is also in love with Mary, but because of his friendship for Robert conceals his affection. A political boss named Forbes is also enamored of the girl, and seeks to make her his own. When he finds that she is engaged to Robert he plots to lure him from the straight and narrow path. Forbes has an adventuress named Vera Deamond snare Robert. She leads him into extravagant follies, and his indiscretions cause Mary to break her engagement. Robert loses his position, and Vera promptly throws him over. He chokes her and leaves her dead, fleeing to a better life in the west with the thought that he is a murderer. Later, Hal and Mary become engaged. Forbes tells Mary that he has proof Hal killed Vera. Unless she breaks her engagement and marries him (Forbes), he will see that Hal is convicted of murder. In the west Robert hears that Forbes is planning to have his friend accused of murder. He hastens cast to clear Hal. Upon arrival he finds in Hal's room a note in Mary's handwriting telling him that she is going to marry the boss. Robert starts to find Mary, not knowing that Hal and the police are also searching for her. Just before the ceremony Robert comes upon the pair. Telling Forbes that in the west men kill coyotes with knives. He fights a knife duel with the boss. Forbes is killed, just as Hal and the police break in. The girl is thus free to choose for herself, and the end brings her happiness.
- Tobias Capwell, the curator of arms and armor at The Wallace Collection in London, reacts to seven memorable scenes featuring medieval weapons and armor and rates them based on their historical accuracy.
- New York City: "Leak" investigators to question Wall Street. Congressional committee here to trace report that advance information caused stock slump. Subtitle: Sherman L. Whipple, noted Boston lawyer, counselor for the committee. Eureka, Cal: Rescuing vessel is stranded. U.S.S. "Milwaukee" goes ashore trying to save Submarine H-3. Subtitle: Group from ill-fated ship, with Lieut. W. F. Newton, her commander, in center. Washington, D.C: Noted labor leader celebrates Golden Wedding. Mr. and Mrs. Gompers on fiftieth anniversary of their marriage. New York City: Big fire endangers Bellevue Hospital. Firemen fight stubborn four alarm blaze that threatens city institution, New York City. What the men are wearing. (Courtesy of Nat Lewis, haberdasher, New York.) Subtitles: Business suits; Shepherd plaid, overcoat to match. Black beaver hat. Brown homespun Norfolk Togo French coat. Shepherd plaid; box pleat back; side pockets; storm cuffs. Togo French coat, adjustable collar; gun metal buckles on belt and cuffs. St. Louis, Mo: Free bridge over Mississippi opened. Mayor Kiel clears way for the first foot passengers across $6,000,000 structure that took nine years to build. New York City: Pleasure craft suitable for war. Uncle Sam shows type of small vessel at Motor Boat Show which can be converted into submarine chaser in time of war. The Serbs Are Going Back to Serbia: Savage patriotism impels men in war to regain their native land. Subtitles: With the Serbian army in the Balkans. This is what remains of an army of strong, tough enduring peasants. In their retreat the Bulgars blew up the only two bridges in Brod. The battle of Ozerna Reka. The wounded are carried to the rear on mule back. The ground is covered with the bodies of the Bulgars. The little Serbian graveyard. Many Bulgarian prisoners were taken. New York City: Wear black at wedding. Unconventional pair startle friends at ceremony by black costumes unrelieved by touch of color.
- When neglected wife Blanche Probert reminds her husband Fred of their theater engagement one evening, he insists that he must work, and she invites his friend Edward Martindale to take his place. Later that night, Edward tries to kiss Blanche just as Fred returns home, and although she is innocent of any wrongdoing, her outraged husband divorces her. Fred rears his son Fred, Jr. while Blanche takes custody of little Edith, and there is no contact between them for 14 years. Having run out of money, Blanche is forced to become the proprietor of an elegant gambling establishment, "The House of Mirrors," which is frequented by Fred, Jr. as well as Edward's son, Tom Martindale. The young men are introduced to Edith as "Mr. Brown and Mr. Jones," and soon, both are in love with her. When Fred asks Blanche for Edith's hand, she recognizes his ring as the one she had given her husband years before. Fred visits Blanche, who still maintains her innocence, and after Edward confirms her story, the Probert family is reconciled and Edith becomes engaged to Tom.
- John Carstairs was much agitated when he read of a "society burglar" who had been making wholesale inroads upon the rich homes in the vicinity. When he showed the article to his daughter, Diana, and his son, Jack, Diana proposed that they give a house party and hold a burglar hunt. Two of the guests at the house party were Larry Hunter and Cyril Cadwalader, rivals for Diana's hand. Jack Carstairs, on mischief bent, sent notes, purporting to come from Diana, saying to each that she feared the other was the "gentleman burglar." So each was eager to catch the other red-handed. Jack left a note on the door saying, "I am going to rob this house tonight." Its discovery caused great confusion. That night John Carstairs locked up all the jewels of the guests in the family safe and mounted guard himself, armed with everything from a gun to a watchman's rattle. But Jack, while his father slept, rifled the safe and concealed half the jewels in Hunter's pocket and the rest in Cadwalader's clothes. When the robbery was discovered both Larry and Cyril were bent on fastening the crime on each other. But both were discomfited when jewels were found in their pockets. The crowning discomfiture came when they found that a third suitor for Diana's hand was the favored one. Jack had his fun all right, but he got a whipping.
- This is a picture of the humorous adventures of a string of sausages which are stolen from a butcher shop by a dog, purloined from the canine by a cat, and eventually turned into pigs in a miraculous fashion.
- Isabel Bland is a fun lover and does not want children, but her wealthy, reclusive husband Robert desires some. They drift apart, and after Isabel learns of Robert's involvement with another woman, she divorces him and goes to their Florida island summer home, while Robert retires to the Everglades, leaving his business with his roguish brother John. When Robert learns that Isabel's old sweetheart, William Proctor, is coming to visit their island home, his love for Isabel returns. He goes there and during a storm, sees Isabel passionately embracing Proctor. A flash of lightning illuminating Robert's face on the window pane strengthens Isabel's resolve to resist Proctor. She reconciles with Robert and after a year, dies giving birth to their daughter Bella. Twenty years later, when Bella rejects her cousin Ralph's proposal, Ralph's father John proclaims that because Bella's parents never remarried, she is illegitimate and not Robert's lawful heir. Judge Randolph, the father of her sweetheart, Sidney Austin, learns that because the court fees were never paid, the divorce decree is invalid. With her legitimacy proven, Bella marries Austin.
- The story opens with Alan Armadale, Sr., on his deathbed. With him are his wife, his infant son and family physician. They have been traveling but are forced to stop through the serious condition of the senior Armadale. Calling for a lawyer, that his confession may be legal, Armadale tells the following story: At the age of twenty-one he had taken the name and become sole heir to the Armadale fortune. The legal son of the house had been cast out because of disgrace he brought upon the family name. The adopted son falls in love with a Miss Blanchard through her photograph. At the same time he meets a young chap called Inglesby, who in reality is the blood son of the house of Armadale. The two men become friendly, and Armadale, in a burst of confidence, tells Inglesby of his infatuation for Miss Blanchard. Shortly afterwards Armadale is stricken with fever. Upon Armadale's recovery he learns that his friend Inglesby has gone away. The young lover leaves shortly for Madeira, to meet and woo the unknown Miss Blanchard. He arrives at the home of the girl only to learn that Inglesby had been there before, and that the two were now husband and wife. The outlawed son, Inglesby, had recognized the foster son, Armadale, and had, through stealing from him the girl of his choice, repaid in full measure the loss of his own fortune and name. Meeting Inglesby, Armadale learns that he has married the former Miss Blanchard under the name of Armadale, the girl thinking him to be the foster son and heir. The two men exchange cards and a duel is arranged. In the meantime, Inglesby confesses to his wife the truth of his assumed inheritance. The wife accompanies him in quick flight aboard ship. When Armadale arrives at the beach chosen for the duel he learns that Inglesby has taken flight. Quickly pursuing him, in a swift yacht, he arrives to find the ship carrying the fleeing Inglesby, his wife and her young maid, a victim of a big storm at sea. Armadale, in the pursuing boat, gives quick aid to the passengers, rescuing Mrs. Inglesby and maid among the first. Inglesby returned to the cabin to find his wife's jewels. Armadale followed him there, and locked him in the stateroom. Inglesby thus perished. His wife and her maid escape and drop out of the life of Armadale, who marries later and has a son. This is the confession of Armadale. It is followed by his dramatic death. The story then deals with the fortunes of the son of the adopted Armadale, known as Midwinter, and the son of the disinherited Armadale of the earlier story who now enjoys the name of his forefathers as well as Armadale fortune. Legally, Midwinter should have the position. Mrs. Armadale, née Blanchard, has been a party to the crime of her drowned husband in failing to disclose the proper heir to the millions. She is devoted to her son, but endures a fearful menace in the person of a mysterious veiled woman who pays her visits frequently to collect hush money. The veiled visitor is the erstwhile maid who had been Mrs. Armadale's companion on the fateful sea flight when the husband was drowned. Armadale, the son, is out riding one day when he chances upon a stranger, hungry and exhausted. The former takes the stranger into a nearby inn and cares for him. Upon the latter's recovery he tells his benefactor that his name is Midwinter. Armadale gives his name. Midwinter recognizes in his friend the man who is keeping him out of his rightful inheritance, but because he knows, too, of his own father's share in the death of Armadale's father, Midwinter decides to allow his friend uninterrupted enjoyment of his wealth and position. Midwinter becomes a guest in the Armadale home. Mrs. Armadale recognizes him, but fears to make her discovery known. One night, from his room, Armadale sees the figure of a woman dancing gaily and with abandon on the moonlit lawn of a neighbor's home. He is vastly attracted to the girl and makes an effort to meet her. She vanishes however, leaving a gauzy veil in her trail. The following day Armadale calls upon his neighbor in the hope that the fair dancer may have been the daughter of the house. Instead, she is the governess, known as Miss Gwilt. Armadale is deeply infatuated. In the meantime his mother has died, and with her one link that might bind the boy to the secret of his false position. Midwinter in the meantime has discovered that Miss Gwilt is no other than the young girl who acted as maid to Mrs. Armadale on the sea voyage when the deception as to legal rights was practiced. That she is a schemer is plain to Midwinter but Armadale will hear nothing against his promised wife. It is at this point that Midwinter finds his big opportunity to repay to the son the debt he owes him. Midwinter captures the fancy of Miss Gwilt and is caught by Armadale leaving her bed chamber late at night. Armadale is prostrated by the shock. He has recently drawn up his will, preparatory to his marriage, naming Miss Gwilt as his heiress. The woman knows this, and, in one last attempt to gain the wealth she has struggled so hard to win, attempts to poison the sleeping Armadale. Midwinter frustrates her plan and at the same time unveils to the eyes of the believing Armadale the duplicity of his former fiancée. The sound, lasting friendship that springs up between the sons of the two men who had fought and struggled to injure each other, comes as a pleasant climax to the story.
- An American adventuress is loved by an Indian rajah and she happily lives at his court. When a young American artist competes for her affection, the rajah is enraged.
- Johnny's stepmother goes uptown and leaves him to mind the cat. The cat gets frightened and breaks up the china and Johnny is locked in the closet in punishment for same.
- Old Jim loses his money in the gambling house of "Doc" Ardini, an international crook. Feeling sorry for the old man, Ardini gives him a job. He will not write his motherless twin daughters that he is down and out. They come to the city to earn their living. Jessie secures a position in a department store, and Mary gets a place in the chorus of a musical comedy. They keep house for their father, who pretends he has honest employment. At her place of business. Jessie is seen and admired by William Stuyvesant, a young millionaire. After meeting her and impressing her with the honesty of his intentions, Stuyvesant asks Jessie to marry him. Before she can reply, word comes that her father has killed a man when the police raid Ardini's resort. Learning of her father's calling and his arrest for murder, Jessie feels she cannot marry Stuyvesant. Without telling him why, she declines his offer and moves to escape his attentions. She merely writes that there is a terrible secret in her life that makes her marriage impossible. She has also kept from him that she has a twin sister who is on the stage. However, Stuyvesant learns her new address. He visits her and persuades her to marry him. Old Jim will not give his right name, and after a trial is sent to prison for ten years under the name of Jim O'Connor. Ardini is imprisoned three months for keeping a gambling house. On leaving prison, Ardini is in need of money. He learns of Jessie's marriage and also that Stuyvesant does not know of old Jim's disgrace and Mary's stage career. Getting Mary under his hypnotic power, he sends her to Jessie for money to keep from revealing the family secrets. Jessie is killed in an automobile accident and her husband is inconsolable. Ardini, under an assumed name, wins Stuyvesant's friendship. He claims spiritualistic powers, persuading Stuyvesant that through him he can see his late wife, Ardini forces Mary to pose at a distance as Jessie. One of the demands he makes, saying it is necessary for the spiritual manifestation, is that all the servants leave the country place the evening Stuyvesant is to be shown his wife's spirit. Ardini then plans to rob the safe in the millionaire's room. Mary rebels against tricking her late sister's husband, and gets word to him of the imposition. The safe is protected by an automatic device that fires a revolver when the combination is tampered with. Unaware of this, Ardini decrees his own death. Mary tells the family secrets to Stuyvesant, who marries her just as soon as he can secure her father's pardon.
- Galveston, Tex: Field Artillery off to Panama. Transport "Kilpatrick" takes troopers to Canal Zone. Washington, D.C: Federal "Safety First" train to tour country. President Wilson inspects exhibits. Hewlett, L.I: Society folk see opening of 1916 racing season. Rockaway Hunt Club holds annual spring meet. Sub-title: An envious position. Bath, Me: Torpedo boat-like yacht may be converted to navy use in time of war. Is 225 feet long, burns oil and can make 30 knots an hour. Sunnyvale, Cal: Monster aircraft is success. Largest aeroplane ever built in United States has first test. Somewhere-in-Mexico: First pictures from the interior of Mexico. Released by special permission of the U.S. War Department. Subtitle: General Pershing and staff lead the American Punitive Expedition across the International border. Cincinnati, Ohio: The steamer "Indiana" burns at pier. New York City: The National Guard of New York opens campaign for 3,000 new recruits. Playing the war game in Van Courtlandt Park. Oakland, Cal: Stanford wins from University of California. Annual varsity race on Oakland Estuary course. Boston, Mass: Submarine chaser PS-1 cruises in harbor during freak snowstorm. Washington, D.C: Women "rookies" study war game. President Wilson opens society girls' camp at Chevy Chase. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Preparedness Squad have first public drill. Lexington, Ky: "They're off." Racing season opens at Blue Grass track. Columbus, Ohio: Old veterans remove battle flags from relic room. Patriotic scenes at Capitol. Fort Sam Houston, Tex: High army officers confer here on Mexican situation. General Scott and General Funston, with staffs, entering headquarters. Hamilton, Ohio: Boys beautify river banks. Five hundred strong, they yield rakes, shovels and picks in "clean-up" crusade. San Antonio, Tex: Annual battle of roses celebration.
- "Bring the rice, girls. Who's got the old shoes?" Here they are at last: demure little Edna in her traveling suit, and resolute young Wilton, with his hair plastered down and a smile that he's trying to swallow. Down the steps they come, followed by Mammy, the jolly old negro maid, who has just earned the easiest five dollars she ever made. Edna has bribed her not to tell that she is a bride. Mammy promised. Through a shower of rice and old shoes, the happy pair escape to their automobile and the honeymoon begins. Mammy's first duty as protector of the secret of "de young miss" is to deny that Edna is a bride when the Pullman porter laughs. The argument with the porter grows hotter and hotter. Mammy not only tells him where he gets off, but she puts him off. In her indignation she gives him a punch and he topples from the swiftly moving train. Mammy thought she had sent the porter to his death, but she had only sent him to a lawyer. As soon as he dusts himself off he gives his case to the first lawyer he meets. This happens to be the husband of a renowned reformer, Mrs. Baggs. On the train with Edna and Wilton it happens that Mrs. Baggs is traveling. She is to deliver a lecture in the very town where the honeymooners make their first stay. Mrs. Baggs is famous for her lectures on the subject of how innocent girls are lured away from home. She stays at the same hotel. She watches the happy bride and groom depart for a view of the city in an automobile, and says to Mammy: "Just married?" "No, indeed, dey ain't married," replies Mammy loyally, "dey's jest good friends." That settles it. Mrs. Baggs has found a flagrant case that will make her lecture more spicy, and give her more newspaper space. There is just one thing for her to do. Soon the police are after Edna and Wilton, but they manage to get back to the hotel. Here Wilton is attacked by Mrs. Baggs and her reformer friends and allies. When Edna faints, Mrs. Baggs sees her wedding ring and is soon persuaded that she has been following a false trail. Wilton is so indignant, however, that he threatens to sue Mrs. Baggs for defamation of character. Wilton goes to the police station to enter his complaint against Mrs. Baggs. In the meanwhile the porter and Mr. Baggs have arrived, and cause Mammy's arrest for assault and battery. Mammy was glad to find she had not murdered the porter, but she didn't enjoy going to jail. While Wilton is at the station, poor Mammy is brought in. Baggs takes charge of the scene, secured damages for the porter and also the release of his wife. Mr. Baggs has been a much henpecked individual, but his success on the present occasion makes his wife recognize that he is the head of the family. The porter and Mammy patch up their feud and go off arm in arm. Mr. Baggs returns home with the lady who had been his better half, but is now his lesser half. Edna and Wilton look on the matter finally as just a laughable episode. So the honeymooners go on mooning.
- The escapades of a parrot which creates havoc by answering the telephone and making itself an interloper in other directions with dire results.
- Since tobacco plays such a large part in solacing mankind and pays such a large part of the taxes, any picture of any stage of its travels from the field to the smoker are interesting to everyone. Through Mutual Gaumont will release in this number of "Reel Life" a picture called "Marketing Raw Tobacco." How the tobacco leaves are cured in barns, graded and carried to market are pictured. Then come views of the auction of the tobacco to the representatives of the manufacturers. A lot shown brought 90 cents a pound while the cameraman was grinding out the film. A second section of this reel is devoted to "The Life of the Bee." It is particularly informative, holding the interest continuously. The life of the queen is followed, the workers and drones are pointed out, and the construction of a cell for the queen is shown. While a worker lives only three months in the summer, the queen lives from five to seven years. "As They Looked in the Beginning" is a section comparing the first machines with the developed products of the present day. This will be followed through several issues of "Reel Life." The present one shows the first typewriter, comparing it with a modern one, a locomotive built in 1825, and a model of Fulton's "Clermont," the first steam vessel. On the same reel are pictures of jewelry in which the brilliant wings of butterflies have been incorporated, and "Launching a Lifeboat." a subject held over from an earlier issue.
- When Deacon Crabapple introduced his young wife at the candy-pull, there was much agitation in the little village, Cissy's way of winking at all the men within range especially set the women agog with jealousy. An anonymous note notified the deacon that his wife was carrying on something scandalous with one of the staunchest members of the flock. So, at the holiday exercises of the public school, the deacon asked the women to step outside. Then he told the men of the note and said that unless the guilty party made amends that night, dire results would follow. The announcement created great consternation, as each man present believed himself guilty. That night the delinquents came from near and far. Their number was so great that the irate deacon chased them out of the house with a shot gun. The next day he imprisoned his wife in a cage and sent for the doctor. "All that ails your wife is a nervous affliction of the eye which makes her wink freely," was the doctor's diagnosis. So the deacon apologized for his misconstruction of Cissy's innocent wink.
- The Prince of Balanza is the young ruler of a principality of contented subjects. Since the Prince is now twenty years of age, his councilors wish him to marry. A Princess of a neighboring realm is suggested, but the Prince will not consider a young woman whom he has never seen. Not even yet in love with love, the Prince persuades his friend and adviser, the Duke of Perrettino, to take him in search of adventure to foreign lands. The Duke lays his plans to bring about the marriage on which the councilors have set their hearts. The Prince in his travels comes at last to the walls of the Convent of Palladio. Gazing upon a casement, he sees framed there, the most beautiful young woman he has ever beheld in all his life. The Prince of Ballanza breaks a red rose from a bush and throws it to the divinity. He is further encouraged to see that she hides the flower next her heart. Little does the youth know that the lady is the Princess of Cellini, the one whom his state councilors wish him to marry. The crafty Duke persuades the convent gardener to take the young Prince, who remains incognito, as his assistant. This brings him into his lady's presence. She does not spurn the admiration of the gardener's handsome assistant, since she does not know of her own high station in life. Notes pass between the two. When at last the Princess brings herself to confess that she loves him, she learns immediately after leaving the note at the accustomed hiding place, that she is a lady of high degree. At the same time the Mother Superior tells her that affairs of state require her immediate presence at Cellini. Knowing something of royal customs, the Princess recognizes sadly that she must give up the youth who has won her heart. Accordingly she leaves a second note for him, saying that they will never meet again, as she is going into a far country. The Duke follows to Cellini with the Prince. The lady has already refused the Duke of Florenze, who has asked her hand in marriage, and is overjoyed to find her friend of the convent garden has followed her to Cellini. Willing to abjure her rank for love, the Princess listens to his story, still unconscious of the fact that he is the Prince of Ballanza. Prompted by the Duke, the Prince elopes with the Princess, and all ends happily.
- The stubborn warlike Sitting-Bear disproves of his daughter Fire-FIy's match with a young brave, by the name of Ardent-Heart, with whom she is in love. He refuses her the pleasure of the latter's company, until he realizes that her passion is too strong, whereupon he seeks to profit by it. He demands a herd of cattle from Ardent-Heart for the hand of his daughter and the lover starts immediately to procure the necessary dower. To do this he raids a herd of Hassapaws' cattle. This furious tribe resents the theft and captures the plunderer. They decide to torture him in the form of running the gauntlet, and he is to be granted his liberty if he succeeds in escaping their bullets. While being forced through their lineup, the valiant red-man plunges through their column amidst the continuous fire from their guns, he is wounded, but succeeds in making his escape across a broad lake. Fire-Fly has heard the discharge of the weapons and fearful for her lover, has hurried to the shore. Here she meets the valiant warrior and takes him to her father Sitting-Bear. The latter is pleased at the courage of his warrior and therefore consents to his union with the pretty Fire-Fly.
- Mrs. Vanderlind, a wealthy American widow residing in Paris, bought some unusually fine diamonds for a necklace. News of this reached the Paris branch of the American secret service through the regular channels, the sale being reported by the jeweler. Meanwhile Wilbur Clark, a secret service agent, had met Alicia Carlton, Mrs. Vanderlind's niece, when he saved her from a panicky horse and had felt himself attracted to the beautiful girl. James Tawney, a crook whose gentlemanly appearance serves to give him entree to the best circles, had made Mrs. Vanderlind's acquaintance through Harold French, a society man, and had designs on the diamonds. So when Mrs. Vanderlind announced to her jeweler, in the presence of Tawney, that she intended to send the diamonds to America by her niece. Alicia Carlton, it was natural that the westbound vessel should bear Alicia. Tawney and Wilbur Clark. Tawney had seen Mrs. Vanderlind concealing the diamonds in a peculiar smelling-salts bottle, which Alicia often wore on a neck chain. Clark and his assistant, when entering Alicia's stateroom to search it in her absence, surprised Tawney there. But Tawney produced secret service credentials and warned Clark not to interfere in the case. Clark, however, sent a wireless message to Washington, D.C., asking if Tawney's secret service credentials were genuine. Meanwhile Clark hated himself for pursuing the girl he loved. But, believing her a lawbreaker, he saw no other course open to him. That night he resolved to open the question with her about its contents. When Alicia professed ignorance of the bottle's contents. Clark felt irritated. For his reply he opened the bottle. It was empty. "Your diamonds; you've been robbed, and I know who did it," cried Clark who suspected Tawney. Alicia's peal of laughter interrupted him. "Why the stones I am carrying to America are imitations," she said, "from which a design for a necklace will be made. Then when auntie arrives the real stones can be slipped in their settings." When word arrived that Tawney's credentials were false. Clark and Alicia were so happy in their love for each other that they only smiled when he learned that the man who had brought them together had escaped by tug.