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- Mrs. Van gives a grand ball for the coming out of her daughter Ethel. Coombs becomes enamored with her beauty and youth, which infatuation is incompatible with his dissipated self. Coombs is under the care of Holt, a specialist for an incurable disease, but utterly heartless he calls on Mrs. Van and seeks an alliance with Ethel. Mrs. Van is delighted, and bids him call the next afternoon. The mother and daughter have a stormy conversation in which Ethel is forced to submit to her wishes. Coombs calls, has a scene with Ethel, and leaves the house engaged to her. The papers announce the engagement, and Coombs' and Ethel's pictures are printed side by side in terrible contrast, a man prematurely aged by every folly, a girl in beautiful young-womanhood. Holt sees the announcement and is horrified. He hurries to Mrs. Van and tells her as much as a man can tell a woman, but she tells him the marriage must take place. Still determined to prevent the alliance Dr. Holt sends for Coombs. Dr. Holt tells Coombs the absolute truth concerning his condition, but Coombs laughs. David Howard, Dr. Holt's assistant, finds the doctor raging and inquires the trouble. Dr. Holt shows him the newspaper, saying, "I would to God that I were young, like you. I'd save that girl." The doctor's words have their effect upon David. Visions of Ethel rise before him; he sees her at his own fireside. The vision fades and David despairs. Ethel, as the time draws near for her marriage, falls ill. Mrs. Van sends for Dr. Holt. Dr. Holt sends for David. Two weeks pass and a love interest springs up between David and Ethel. Now it is Ethel who sees visions of life with David in contrast to visions of life with Coombs. Her visions end in despair. Helen Grayson, whom Coombs divorced, is living in a miserable room on the east side. In his rounds among the poor, David is told that she is ill, and enters her room, where he sees on her bedside table a picture of Coombs. David learns her story and tells her of his love for Ethel. She promises to help him, but when David leaves her face lights up with a devilish purpose. The wedding day comes. Ethel is being arrayed in her wedding finery. Helen Grayson in her poor little room reads a newspaper item: "after the ceremony at the bride's home the bridal couple will journey by motor to Heather Downs, the groom's country home, where they will spend their honeymoon." Helen prepares herself for a journey. The wedding takes place and David sees the girl he loves married to the roué. The bridal couple enter the car and drive away. Helen Grayson leaves the train at a small country station and walks rapidly away. We see her heavily veiled at the gate of Heather Downs as the motor enters containing Ethel and Coombs. It is night; a light coming from the fireplace lights up the evil face of Coombs and the sad young face of Ethel. Leaning close to her and leering into her face, stroking her hand and arms with all the pleasure of the sensualist, he whispers to her. Her face shows the horror she feels as she rises, bows and exits. Alone in her bedroom, a vision of David comes to her and fades away. Sitting by the fire where she left him sits Coombs. Smilingly he rises and turns, but his smile changes to a look of horror as he stares into the face of the woman he has wronged. Coombs springs for her, but sees the gun in her hands. She motions him into his chair and he sinks down weakly. Helen speaks and a vision of a simple wedding appears and fades quickly away. She speaks again, and a vision of his awful self is staring at him, followed by a vision of Ethel in bridal dress. The visions fade, and holding out the gun, Helen speaks, "Use it first on yourself, then I will use it." Trembling and afraid, he reaches out and takes the gun from her hand. Ethel in her chamber is startled by the sounds of shots. Before the fire lie the bodies of Helen and Coombs. Two years later, a hallway in David's home, David is pacing up and down when Dr. Holt enters from Ethel's room and speaks. "It's a boy and a healthy little rascal." The last scene shows David kneeling beside the bed containing his wife and child.
- John Whitney, broker for Robert Courtleigh, is invited to dine at the Courtleigh home. By a subterfuge he manages to secure an audience with Ethel. Courtleigh, knowing Whitney's reputation and careful of Ethel's happiness, deliberately interrupts the tête-à-tête just as Whitney is about to propose to Ethel. Courtleigh tells Whitney that as a man of business he admires him, not as a prospective son-in-law. Whitney leaves and plans to "get even" with Courtleigh. He purposely double-crosses Courtleigh in a stock deal and practically ruins him. Courtleigh goes to Whitney's office and begs Whitney to make amends. Whitney is willing if Courtleigh will withdraw his sentiment of the night previous. Courtleigh refuses and denounces Whitney. Mrs. Courtleigh tries to induce her daughter to marry Whitney. Ethel shows her mother an engagement ring that Dick Carrol has given her that afternoon while riding in the park. She is horrified at her mother's willingness to sacrifice her and after a stormy scene leaves. She finds her father in the library. Seeing his great distress. Ethel thinks that it is she who is selfish and offers to marry Whitney. Courtleigh refuses. Ethel shows her ring that Carrol has given her and Courtleigh shows pleasure. Mrs. Courtleigh, desperate at the thought of living in poverty, is determined to break the match between Ethel and Carrol. She instructs the butler to refuse Carrol admittance when he calls that night. Carrol calls and the door is shut in his face. Dumbfounded, he returns to his club where he phones Courtleigh, who promises to join him and explain matters. Ethel, alone in her room, decides upon a plan to save her father. She herself will go to Whitney and plead with him. She calls him up on the phone and tells him she is coming to his apartments. Whitney, dressed in evening clothes and about to leave, is overjoyed at the prospect of seeing her, dismisses his valet tor the evening and sits down with a bottle to await Ethel's coming. Courtleigh and Carrol meet at the club and Carrol is told of Whitney's treachery. Ethel arrives and Whitney welcomes her. He shows signs of drink; she pleads with him. Carrol leaves Courtleigh, telling him that he (Carrol) will try and settle with him and save Courtleigh's home. He arrives just at the time Whitney is embracing Ethel. Ethel is terrified at the prospect of being found in Whitney's room. The bell continues ringing and Carrol is shown in the hallway. Whitney points to his bedroom door. Ethel in her terror enters it and Whitney locks the door. Carrol is admitted and pleads with Whitney. Ethel hears her lover's voice. Whitney laughs at Carrol when Carrol, taking his check-book from his pocket, offers to pay Courtleigh's debt. Enraged by Whitney's offensive manner, Carrol slaps Whitney in the face with his gloves. Whitney leaps to a table and seizes a gun. Carrol, anticipating Whitney's move, closes with him before he can shoot and the struggle starts. Ethel pounds upon the door in frenzy but cannot make herself heard. The gun is discharged and Whitney falls in a chair at the side of the table, dead. The gun drops from his hand to the floor. Carrol exits. Ethel listens too terrified to cry out, then throws herself against the door in a vain endeavor to break it down. Courtleigh, at the club, is anxiously awaiting Carrol's return. Carrol is seen getting by the sleepy elevator boy. Back in Whitney's bedroom Ethel is at the window. She opens it, crawls out upon the ledge to the next window. She discovers Whitney dead. Courtleigh at the club is joined by Carrol, who tells him what has happened. Back in Whitney's apartment, Ethel is seen placing a pin in the table at Whitney's side. To the pin she attaches a string. She places the gun on the floor directly under Whitney's right hand. She again starts for the door with the string when she sees Carrol's cane on the table. She takes it with her. She takes the key from the door, throws the string over the transom, exits into the hall, locks the door from the outside, gets a settee, stands on it, takes the key, places it on the string and allows it to trail down to the table. It stops at the side of the dead man, the string is pulled and Ethel replaces the settee and exits. Both doors are locked, the gun is under the dead man's hand and the key on the table beside him. Ethel goes home. The valet returns, finds the door locked, looks through the transom and sees his master. The police come, discover the key and the gun and declare that it was a case of suicide. Carrol enters his apartment. His valet asks for his cane. Carrol realizes he has left it in Whitney's apartment and shows horror. Carrol has passed a sleepless night. He is pacing up and down in his room when his valet enters with the morning papers. He eagerly reads: "The verdict is suicide. The key of Whitney's apartment lay upon the table beside him and the door was locked. The gun was lying on the floor directly under the dead man's hand." Carrol is mystified. No mention of the cane. The valet enters and announces Ethel. Ethel enters, hiding the cane behind her. She slowly takes from behind her back and hands it to the utterly astounded Carrol. A short explanation and a clinch.
- Ethel Mason and her husband, Ralph, find themselves in the midst of domestic strife over Ethel's poodle "Cutey." After several unsuccessful attempts to get rid of the dog, Ralph takes it back to the store where it was purchased. His act leads to a grand quarrel which sends them both "home to mother." Ethel's friend, Flora, persuades the young wife before she has gone very far to return home, but Ralph stays away, and the breach remains unhealed. At last Flora suggests that Ethel write Ralph to come home, pretending that he is the father of a son. At the same time Ralph decides to capitulate and wires that he is coming home with "Cutey." The girls find the telegram when they arrive home from a search for a baby, which they had stolen from a nursemaid. A scramble follows. The messenger boy unconsciously aids their cause by arriving to tell them that he has lost their telegram. They manage to keep the baby from Ralph's sight and return it to its nurse after a near arrest. After Ralph's surrender, he and Ethel settle down to domestic felicity with "Cutey."
- Mrs. Van De Water gives a coming-out ball for her daughter, at which Crayton Coombs, a millionaire roué with an incurable disease, meets and falls in love with the girl. The mother is flattered at the match with the millionaire, and though both Ethel and Dr. Holt, Coombs' physician, beseech the mother to break off the engagement, she insists that the wedding take place. One day, Holt's assistant, Dr. Howard, is summoned to take care of Ethel, who is ill, and the two are mutually attracted. Later Howard is called to a tenement district where he cares for Helen Grayson, Coombes' ex-wife, and tells her of his approaching marriage and she promises to help him win Ethel. After she marries Coombes, he takes her to his country home,and that night when he is sitting alone in front of the fireplace, his former wife appears, and after recalling their wedding and telling him what a beast he has grown to be, advises double suicide. The frightened man consents, and soon after, Ethel discovers the two dead bodies before the fireplace. She is then free to marry Dr. Howard.
- Ethel, a little flower girl, is saved from the assaults of two thugs by a gentleman in high hat and top coat, who recognizes in the face of the child the features of the wife who left him years before. He takes the child home with him, after learning she is an orphan. Later, when Ethel has fallen in love with her gentleman friend, her adopted father's lawyer, who loves her, steals her father's will and puts in its place several empty sheets of paper. After her father's sudden death on the eve of her marriage, Ethel is left destitute when the lawyer proclaims that no will was left and Ethel cannot prove her blood relationship to her father. She becomes a governess. She is airing her charge in the park one day when the child discovers a revolver--and a piece of paper that proves to be Ethel's father's will. The lawyer had been robbed of his papers by a thief who dropped the will and the revolver in getting away from the police. Ethel and her fiancé now live happily ever after.
- Reading in the same paper of a girl who got a great deal of fun out of playing pranks in boys' clothes and of a society "Raffles," who left a card with the picture of a spider on it after every big haul, Ethel decides to play "Spider" herself, just to fool her friends. At a ball that night, she steals a rope of pearls from the neck of her friend, Miss Ames, and when the loss is discovered, a card with a spider on it is found in her hair. Ethel's sweetheart, a young budding detective, is given the commission to capture "The Spider." That night he finds his silver piled in the middle of the table with "The Spider's" card beside it, as if the thief would mock him. Ethel is invited to spend the weekend at Miss Ames' house. Mr. Ames, the father, advertises a reward of $1,000 for the return of the necklace. He receives word that "The Spider" will come to claim his reward at 12 o clock that night. Ethel waits till all are asleep but the three men, her lover, Miss Ames' sweetheart and Mr. Ames, who are sitting beside the safe in which the money has been deposited, Then she steals down, blows the fumes of a sleeping gas in through a keyhole, and captures the reward, leaving the pearls and spider card in the hand of every man. Waiting to see the consternation when the men awake, Ethel is caught in the hall. Though her little joke is rather bitter for her young detective, he is made happy when Ethel tells him she had told him she would marry him if he caught "The Spider."
- Ethel Lake is thwarted by her father in her desire to marry Jack Burton. One day she finds a letter addressed to her father, in which he is asked to meet a friend at a gambling resort. Ethel's adventurous blood is aroused and she decides to follow her father. Disguised in her brother's clothes and a mustache, she too goes to the gambling house, after telling her mother she is going on a visit. The place is raided, and Ethel and her father are caught and sentenced to 10 days' hard labor. She is placed in the same cell as her father, but he does not recognize her. One day Jack Burton is passing the prison grounds and recognizes Mr. Lake. When the 10 days are up and Ethel has returned from her "visit" and Mr. Lake from his "business trip," Jack calls at the house, asks to speak to Mr. Lake privately, and demands the right to marry Ethel; on the old gentleman's refusal he tells him that he saw him at the prison and threatens to expose him if he doesn't give his consent. Father acquiesces, but when the changes in his attitude towards Ethel's lover arouses the comment of his wife. Ethel at last comes forth with an explanation of what has transpired, and matters are settled satisfactorily for the entire family.