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- Mona Lisa loves Piero, who is badly in debt. A wealthy man assists him and threatens to withhold his money if Piero does not marry his daughter. Piero marries the latter, telling Mona his marriage will not interfere with their love. Seven years pass - Mona is married to a man much older than she. She discusses her love and marriage with her cousin, and claims that married love can not endure unless it is founded on respect, and the cousin doubts if marriage can be successful if founded only on respect. Piero calls and says he has always regretted, and she claims she has never ceased to regret. They plan to elope. The cousin overhears the conversation and runs to tell Piero's wife. At midnight, Piero enters and finds a muffled figure awaiting him. As he is about to leave with this woman, he is confronted by his wife. He explains he loves Mona, and tears off the cloak. It is not Mona Lisa but her cousin. In the corner they see Mona. She asks Piero if he thinks she planned this for revenge or that her cousin tried to save her from herself. She tells him he will always wonder. When her husband returns with Da Vinci, they find Mona Lisa seated with an enigmatic expression on her face. Da Vinci decides to sketch her portrait saying that generations will wonder what that smile means.
- Two Boy Scouts win an around-the-world trip with a crack aviator, and find themselves crash-landed in the South American jungles after the ace forgets to refuel in Ecuador.
- When a son is born to Sir Harry Lonsdale and Lady Lonsdale, their happiness is complete. One afternoon Sir Harry is wheeling the baby but leaves the babe alone to romp with the lady in a childish game. A lone gypsy kidnaps the child. The shock turns to grief as weeks pass by and no trace is found of the stolen baby. Eight years later a gypsy band camps at the rear of the castle. They decide to rob the place. The little lad with the band detests such a life, but is forced to enter the castle, only to be captured. Sir Harry goes to the camp to punish members of the band. The leader's daughter offers to tell the history of the lad if he will permit her father to go free. Sir Harry learns the boy is his son. The lad is handsomely arrayed in blue court costume and formally admitted to the house as he descends the stairs into the great drawing room. And so the artist obtains his inspiration for the painting of the "blue boy" as he is welcomed back into the Lonsdale home.
- The story, credited to Arthur Maude, and suggested to him by Sir John Millais' painting, "Speak. Speak!" lends itself particularly well to the remarkable color effects produced by the Technicolor process. As to the story itself, it concerns a vision which appears to Edgar Graythorpe, sick and confined to his home at Roxton Castle; and alone with the exception of one servant. Graythorpe's queer actions - his conversations with someone unseen - have led the other servants to leave. Millais visits him and while there, the "Vision" again appears to Graythorpe. And then - the story unfolds - telling of a thwarted romance between Lucy Cludde and Charles de Lacey, and de Lacey's subsequent assassination at the hands of another suitor favored by Lucy's father. Pursued by the rival suitor, Lucy takes her life by leaping over a high cliff. Her spirit is the vision which appears to Graythorpe at intervals - and will continue to appear - until Graythorpe, who along with Roxton Castle has inherited the spirit of de Lacey - joins her. This is all revealed to Graythorpe by an old diary. Graythorpe dies and the two spirits meet.