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Learn more- Professor Milton Hayes visits the interior of a temple in Egypt, steals a sacred idol and knocks down a native who tries to prevent the theft, the professor making his escape on the run. A caliph and several girls enter the temple, discover the robbery and the caliph denounces the native for his carelessness in allowing the American to steal the holy relic. The native trails Hayes to his hotel, climbs the fire escape outside Hayes room and peers in through the window, seeing Hayes entertaining several friends with the story of his trip. Hayes sends a letter to a fellow American in the town, a Professor Westerly, asking him to come to the hotel and try to decipher the hieroglyphics on the idol. Having located Hayes room, the native goes to Shedah, a beautiful Egyptian worshipper of the idol, and tells her of the theft. They plan to recover the idol and Shedah dresses herself as an American man. They also put a secret substance in a vase, place the vase in a satchel, and Shedah takes the satchel, goes to Hayes hotel and rents a room, she being neatly garbed as a male American tourist. Professor Westerly visits Hayes and discovers that the figures on the idol read: If vandal hand ever removed. Death awaits be who disturbs my sacred resting. It is written.KISMET. While Hayes is absent from his room, Shedah gains an entrance to the apartment, removes the idol from its place in a box, puts the vase in its place, and passes the idol out through the window to the native on the fire escape, after which she leaves the hotel. On Professor Hayes return, be finds the vase and an overpowering smoke issuing from it, causing Hayes to fall dead. Professor Westerly then engages detectives to investigate the tragedy while he alone visits Shedahs home and enters an office downstairs where Egyptian herbs are sold. Here Westerly finds a trap door which he opens. Whereupon a native appears and stoically conducts Westerly to Shedahs room beneath. She pretends sleep, but Westerly covers the native with a revolver, handcuffs Shedah and she gets his permission to get a shawl. She does so and touches a secret spring, opening another trap door and causing Westerly to fall through the floor into the water beneath. Westerly swims some distance and Shedah becomes furious at the prospect of Westerly making his escape. She has the native dive down into the water and he and Westerly fight, the American beating the native in the natatorial battle. Seeing that Westerly will escape. Shedah sets fire to the room above him. The smoke issuing from the house alarms the detectives waiting across the street and they run into the place. One of the officers, despite the smoke and flames, lowers a rope to Westerly and hauls him up, the two escaping from the building amid fire. During the excitement, Shedah and the native manage to make good their escape from the burning structure. The last scene shows Shedah and the native on board a ship, bearing away with them the sacred idol to preserve it from any theft by seekers after Egyptian idols. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
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