- Young English boy Paul Kegsworthy lives with his brutal stepfather after his real father was thrown in jail. Paul eventually runs away and arrives in London, changing his name to Paul Savelli. Young Princess Sophie Zobraska takes Paul under her wing, sees that he's educated and, when she feels he's ready, grooms him to run for Parliament. His opponent, Silas Finn, is an older and more established politician, and one day he comes to Paul and demands that he bow out of the race, but Paul Refuses. Finn, however, has an ace up his sleeve that Paul hasn't counted on.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Silas Kegsworthy, arrested for assaulting his wife, is sent to prison. The wife, together with her baby boy, Paul, is under the protection of Barney Bill, a friend of her husband. Silas, injured in prison in an attempt to stop an explosion, is reported to have died. Mrs. Kegsworthy marries Mr. Buttons, and Paul, the drudge of the household, is abused by his stepfather. The lad leaves home, assumes the name of Paul Savelli and travels about the country with Barney Bill, who is an itinerant hardware dealer, and meets Jane at the home where Barney Bill places him. The lad grows to be physically a perfect specimen of manhood and is sought after by artists to pose. He leaves this profession and becomes an actor in a traveling repertoire troupe. The company is stranded and the young man, penniless, trudging along the highway faints in front of the residence of Colonel James Winwood. He is brought into the home and receives medical attention. Impressed with the wonderful classic features of the man, and his evident distress and refinement, upon his recovery he is appointed by Colonel Winwood, his secretary. His rise thereafter. in the face of strong trials and hardships is rapid, until finally he becomes a candidate for a seat in Parliament. In the intervening years, his father Silas Kegsworthy, having been released from prison and assuming the name of Silas Finn, has become a religious fanatic and a wealthy fish dealer. In the borough where "Paul Savelli, the Fortunate Youth" is running for Parliament, his father is his opponent. Barney Bill and Jane are aware of the relationship and acquaint Finn with the fact. Finn determines that his son shall not oppose him, and telling the lad that he, Silas Finn was chosen by God, he urges the boy to decline the nomination, which he refuses to do. It is then that Silas reveals to the lad that he is the father. Stunned with this intelligence, Paul Savelli, acquaints Princess Zobraska, who is devoted to the boy, with the fact, and realizing the lowly source from which Paul had sprung, she spurns him. Paul is successful in the election, and his father, overcome with heart disease, occasioned by the shock that his past prison record is revealed, is dying the night of the election. Paul goes to his father and to ease his last moments tells him that the cheers of the multitude are because of his father's success at the polls, and his father dies in that belief. Princess Bobraska, unable to subdue her real love for Paul, goes to him, and the story is concluded with their betrothal.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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