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- After Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.
- Epic, melodramatic and rather risque adaptation of the British novel about ancient Roman decadence, culminates in the eruption of a nearby volcano.
- Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer is in a relationship with a married woman when he meets Christine and both fall in love.
- The Princess Lestorys, beautiful and brilliant, is much sought by London's men of affairs. Arthur Gerald, wealthy oil operator, casually remarks that he would give $100,000 for an introduction to the princess. This remark is repeated to the princess, who writes to Gerald, and suggests that in return for an invitation to her reception he forward a donation for a philanthropic institution in which she is interested. Gerald assents and sends his check for the amount. At the reception is also John Holton, a young civil engineer, deeply enamored of the princess. She declines his proposal of marriage, saying that his financial inability to provide the luxuries she demands outweighs her regard for him. Holton leaves for America, swearing to return with the necessary money. Gerald falls desperately in love with the princess. His daughter, Lena, who distrusts the adventuress, learns of her father's danger upon reading through the society columns of a newspaper. Suspicious, she obtains information from a detective agency, which brands the princess unmistakably as a peculiarly dangerous woman. Convinced by his daughter of the princess's sinister character, Gerald leaves with Lena for his oil wells in America. Meeting Holton he engages him as manager. The princess, foiled, determines upon revenge. Following Gerald to his oil lands, she hires several desperadoes to aid her in her diabolical doings. John and Lena are ambushed, the former shot and severely wounded, and the girl kidnapped. Writing to Gerald, Madam Satan, the princess, threatens dire happenings to Lena if Gerald does not fulfill his promise of marriage. Holton, revived, springs from a rock as Madam Satan's messenger passes and falls with him to the rocky ground. The messenger is subdued. The two hours elapse. No answer from Gerald. Madam Satan with her accomplices drag a cannon into the fields some distance from the petroleum tanks. The first shot penetrates the main reservoir, the fluid pouring outward upon the surface of the nearby river. A second shell explodes the works. The fire spreads to the oily fluid. In an instant the stream is ablaze from bank to bank. Her revenge incomplete, Madam Satan returns to her cabin and prepares for flight. Lashing Lena against the upright post, she ignites the cabin. In dashes Holton, weak from his wound. He moves toward releasing Lena. Madam Satan's pointed revolver halts him. Then within her stirs the old affection for the only man she had ever loved, from whom she was separated only because of his lack of money. Her revolver drops. Holton creeps forward and cuts Lena's bonds. Out from the stifling smoke and the stabbing flames he darts, carrying the insensible Lena. Madam Satan, saddened, sickened by the cumulative remorse of her wickedness, sinks upon the burning pyre.
- Fougeray, a railroad employee and his wife, are celebrating on the same day the engagements of their two children, their son, Peter, and their daughter, Louise. Louise is engaged to Jean Leroy, who is also employed by the same railroad, and in his leisure hours gives much time to inventions. One day when Louise is carrying breakfast to her father she walks along the tracks and is at the point of being run over by the express train when she is saved by Henry de Lachesnayes. With intrigue, vain promises and a mock marriage, Henry succeeds in making her forget her fiancé. One day she is obliged to confess to her parents that she is unable to marry Jean Leroy because she is to become a mother. A few days later, Louise learns that Henry is going to marry a rich American girl, Miss Simpson. She is stunned, leaves the home of her parents, and goes to the church, where she comes face to face with Jean Leroy, who has been following her for many days. He now learns why Louise refused to become his wife. Jean goes to the house of the Countess Marsanges, and seeks an interview with Henry de Lachesnayes, whom he reproaches for his conduct. As Jean does not want to leave the house without a reply, Henry threatens him with his revolver. The Countess in trying to disarm her brother, accidentally kills him and then accuses Jean of having committed the murder, who. in spite of his denials, is condemned to ten years' imprisonment. Five years elapse. Louise has a son, but she and her parents struggle on. There is scarcely any bread in the house. The three of them decide to die and take advantage of the occasion when their son, Peter, his wife and children, take out little Albert to put their plan into execution. The unhappy ones are about to succumb when Louise's son returns and saves his mother and grandparents. The Countess Marsanges is on the point of being arrested for having taken a large amount of money from the treasury of the home, when under the weight of threatening danger and remorse over the committed crime, she informs the commissioner of police that she is the real murderer of her brother. Jean Leroy is set free and awaits his rehabilitation. The young man goes again to the house of the Fougerays and will marry Louise, whom he has never ceased to love, in spite of her error, and is willing to recognize little Albert as his son. As good fortune usually reigns on all sides, Jean Leroy receives the following letter: "Dear Sir, From the papers I have learned that you are innocent man and will soon be rehabilitated. I hasten to inform you that your invention of which I have the drawings has been patented and offer you 100,000 francs for same. Signed. G. Arnel, Chief Engineer."
- Dorothy Warner, a ten-dollar-a-week shop girl, is saved from arrest by Congressman George Graham, who spots her in a store stealing a doll for her sick sister. Afterwards, Graham takes Dorothy home, where her sister has just died, and later hires her as his secretary. The dandy-ish Graham then invites Dorothy for a drive, and when a storm blows in the couple is forced to spend the night together in a country inn. With her honor compromised, Dorothy suggests marriage, but Graham informs her that he has a wife already. Deeply in love, Dorothy accepts an extramarital arrangement and soon discovers she is pregnant. Taken with Dorothy's beauty, Steve McNott, a political boss, resolves to win her and writes to Graham's wife, telling her of her husband's affair. At first unbelieving, Mrs. Graham eventually sees Dorothy and demands that she terminate the relationship. Despite protests from Graham, Dorothy agrees never to see the Congressman again and goes off.