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- Jeanne La Roche lives alone with her brother in the great northwestern country. Jacques is a ne'er-do-well and has fallen under the suspicion of the mounted police, two of whom are dispatched to arrest him for robbery. The stolen goods are found in his home. Jeanne is too young to be left in their lonely cabin, so she is taken to the post, where the wife of the proprietor welcomes her and gives her a home. Several years later, Donald McLean wins her for his wife. Meantime Jacques escapes from prison, eludes his pursuers and takes refuge in McLean's home. Recognizing him, Jeanne hides him until she has dispensed with the police, then carries food and drink and an exchange of clothes to him and bids him an affectionate farewell. McLean, upon returning, sees his wife in another man's arms. He shoots the stranger, leaving him for dead; locks his wife in the cabin and proceeds to the tavern to drown jealousy in drink. Meantime, Jacques, recovering consciousness, staggers off. Jeanne, angered by the unreasoning anger of her husband, disguises herself in an old suit of his, steals out through the window, discovers her brother has gone and follows his footprints. McLean, returning, finds both gone, apparently together, and starts after them. Jacques is taken care of by a friendly Indian and Jeanne finds refuge in the home of Cox. Mrs. Cox is touched by her story and has Jeanne in her arms when Cox enters. Cox, seeing the affection displayed by his wife toward a strange "man," shoots and wounds the girl. Explanations follow and Jeanne is given a home with them. Fully recovered, Jacques, with much money from a trapping trip, through the northern woods, grows reckless and returns to see his sister, only to find her gone. He makes his way to the tavern, where a poker game is in progress. He flashes his money and is followed and murdered by a half-breed. Suspicion falls on McLean. He is arrested and taken to police headquarters. Meantime the half-breed, sorely wounded in the encounter which proves fatal to Jacques, staggers to the home of Cox, confesses his crime, and tells of the arrest of McLean. She arrives in time to save him and all ends happily.
- White Elk, a Sioux brave, visits a friendly tribe, and when landing at the river bank sees a young squaw, Arrow Head, for whom he immediately conceives an infatuation. He helps her fill a jug, which she carries away with her, while he stands looking after her in rapt admiration. Her lover, Spotted Tail, greets her upon her return, but when White Elk enters and constantly glances tenderly toward Arrow Head, Spotted Tail shows anger. The Sioux brave gives the squaw a necklace, which Spotted Tall takes from her neck and stamps on when his rival departs. He follows White Elk and is about to stab him when a shot is fired by Arrow Head, who has followed both. At this White Elk turns and struggles with Spotted Tail. The Sioux brave succeeds in forcing down the arm of his victim until the knife enters his breast, and then he and Arrow Head go away. With his last breath Spotted Tail calls his friends to him and tells of events. They swear to be revenged and trace White Elk. Next follows a canoe chase in which White Elk wins out, but an arrow hits him and he is captured. They torture him to reveal where Arrow Head is, but to no avail. They tie him to stakes in the water and leave him to death when the tide rises, but Arrow Head comes to his rescue and with him in a canoe paddles away.
- The Apache Chiefs and Sub-Chiefs, Naitche, Ketena, Tahchilsa and others, come to the reservation barracks and demand liquor. They are very angry at the refusal given, and Lieutenant Davis, in charge, is apprehensive of trouble. The Apaches return to camp and make the squaws brew tizwin, their native liquor. A scout sees the effects of the brew and notes the braves in full war paint dancing. The scout reports to Lieut. Davis, who sends Second Lieut. Clark, with a troop of cavalry, to stop the warlike preparations. The troopers go to the Indian camp and the chief is informed that his tribe will be punished if he is not careful. The Indians show their resentment plainly and Chief Mangus's squaw would shoot Clark but for the interference of Mangus. After their departure, the squaw fires the braves on to action, and they start out to exterminate the Pale Face upstarts. They fire a pioneer cabin, kill the man and take the woman off. Clark reports to Davis, who leads a troop to the Indian camp and confiscates the tepees and takes the squaws prisoners. Mangus's squaw, Huera, being amongst the number. The Indians swear a terrible oath of vengeance. From their mountain retreat they descend cautiously to the reservation barracks and Chief Mangus climbs the brush stockade and rescues his squaw, Huera. An Indian climbs a telegraph pole and cuts the wires to destroy communication. Davis deems it advisable to call for reinforcements. He finds the wires are cut. He determines upon an immediate attack and rides after the redskins. The Indians see them and plan an ambush. They see the troopers enter a pass, which leads to a sandy plain. The Indians race across the mountain path, enter the plain and bury themselves in the sand. The Cavalry comes along and falls into the trap. The Indians rise from the sand on every side and annihilate them, and all that is left the next day are the naked bodies of the dead troopers.
- An old Indian legend tells of the supposed ability of persons who have been turned into wolves through magic power to assume human form at will for purposes of vengeance.
- Revised version of His Majesty, Dick Turpin (1916), released two months earlier.
- All the men in the neighborhood love Bess, the daughter of the Mayor of Rockville, but she treats them coldly. Among this number is Jack Dayton, a son of Old Ireland known as the "No-Gun-Man" and Lesparre, leader of the Coyote gang. Lesparre brings his gang to town, holds up the bartender, secures all the whiskey they want, then robs the bank belonging to the Mayor, who offers $5,000 reward for the return of the stolen property. Jack's great desire is to get enough money to send to his mother in Ireland, to pay for the cottage in which she lives; so he starts after the bandits unarmed, although he is urged to take a gun. In the meantime, Lesparre has also kidnapped Bess and taken her to a place in the hills known as Coyote Hole. When Jack learns of this, he redoubles his efforts. He allows himself to be captured by the bandits, and on being taken before the chief, tells him he wishes to join the gang, and the chief finally consents. As soon as everyone is asleep, Jack enters the room in which Bess is imprisoned, and helps her to escape. He then wraps his blanket about him again and goes to sleep. In the morning the loss of the girl is discovered and Jack is suspected, and is locked in the room in which Bess was imprisoned. He finds the money and papers hidden in the bed, watches his chance, attacks the two men who are guarding him, defeats them after a desperate fight and escapes with the money. He reaches the railroad and climbs on a passing freight train. The gang follows closely, and after a fight, Jack throws Lesparre off the train, He finally reaches Rock River, is acclaimed a hero, returns the money and papers to the Mayor, and receives the girl in exchange.
- Bored with the ranch, Buck's girl goes off to the city and gets involved in a brothel. When Buck brings a herd of cattle to town, a streetwalker lures him to the house just in time for him to save his girl from Martin.
- Francis Benedict is called away on a business trip to Chicago, leaving his young wife in New York. His friend, Norman Reynolds, offers to look after her and entertain her during his absence. After his departure we see the Benedict library about midnight. Dugan, a burglar, enters through a bay window and floors the butler with a blackjack. Dugan ties and gags the butler and then carries him into a closet. He is about to begin operations on the wall safe when he hears an auto horn and conceals himself again behind the window curtain. Mrs. Benedict and Reynold return to her home from the opera and Reynolds, intent on winning her love, extracts the cartridges from a revolver in a drawer in Mrs. Benedict's library table and puts them in his pocket. Then he puts the revolver back and shuts the drawer. Meanwhile, Dugan, having seen Norman extract the cartridges from the revolver, decides to queer his game. So he removes the revolver from the library drawer and substitutes his own loaded weapon, putting the unloaded pistol in his pocket. Mrs. Benedict returns to the parlor with Norman, who now begins to make love in earnest. Mrs. Benedict fights him off and runs to the desk and pulls out the loaded revolver. When she points the revolver at Norman, he, believing it to be unloaded, only laughs at her. To save her honor, she pulls the trigger. Norman drops to the floor mortally wounded. Dugan opens the window and disappears. The butler believes the burglar shot Reynolds and tells the police of the assault. Mrs. Benedict is thus saved from dishonor and the public disgrace of a murder trial.
- Upon a strongly fortified island dwells the Seigneur D'Yvry, commonly known as Monsieur Bluebeard. This man openly defies God, King Louis and the world in general. Aside from this, Bluebeard preys upon the maidens of his small domain, especially such as leave the altar as newly wedded wives. Louis XI has been patient with the vagaries of Bluebeard, hoping that someday he may win him over to better ways. To this end Louis sends Oliver le Dain to Bluebeard. Oliver's reception is anything but flattering. He returns to Louis, having barely escaped with his life. Whereon, Louis goes into a violent rage. Deep in thought, his mind reverts to Francois Villon as the instrument whereby Bluebeard may be humbled. Villon is summoned before the irate king, who orders him to proceed to the D'Yvry stronghold and cut Bluebeard's claws. Before starting for Castle D'Yvry, however, the crafty Villon takes into his confidence one Petrara, a magician of the period. It is well known that Bluebeard is a devotee to the practice of "black art." Working in the mines of Bluebeard are many men of a peculiar race, the Lhetta. The local priest has succeeded in converting these monsters to a belief in a Higher Being, the good man ruling them with kindness instead of fear. Villon and Petrara arrive at Castle D'Yvry at a time when the community is greatly wrought up over the action of Bluebeard's elder son, Tankred, who has bidden the newly wedded wife of young Carca present herself at the castle. Villon is quick to seize upon this incident. He interviews the priest. Between them they hatch a plot whereby the Lhetta will be permitted to wreak their vengeance upon Bluebeard and his two sons. At a barbecue which is held in the castle courtyard, and to which the villagers and the Lhetta are bidden, the signal being the ringing of the castle bell, the rebellion takes place. Bluebeard, trapped in a tower room by Villon and Petrara hears the battle raging below. Wrenching loose the bars of the window, he climbs out upon a narrow cornice. Here he is seen by the maddened Carca, who lets fly a bolt from the cross. The Seigneur's death follows his two sons meeting a similar fate. The wily Villon then determines to play a joke upon Louis XI. He dresses himself in the clothing of Bluebeard and returns to court. Here he is seen by the nerve-shaken Oliver Le Dainthat they are besieged by Bluebeard. Villon is shown into the presence of the king, who quickly orders the arrest of the visitor. Whereupon Villon discloses his identity, much to the annoyance of the frightened Oliver. Louis XI appreciates the poet's joke and the incident ends happily.
- A woman is in love with a dashing Army lieutenant, but her father refuses to consent to give him her hand. The daughter appeals to her father's patriotism, but when he fails to relent, declares her own independence.
- Judson Bigelow is the venerable founder and builder of Bigelow City, which lies in a valley at the foot of the mountains. Bigelow presides at the municipal dedication ceremonies and makes a speech of thanks, after which his son, David, addresses the celebrators. Several citizens of Dunsmore, the rival town, witness the merrymaking and return to Dunsmore and consult with Jacob Dunsmore, the wealthy owner of nearly all the land in that town. They tell Dunsmore that something must be done to head off the fast-growing population of Bigelow City, or its success will cause many of the Dunsmore people to move to Bigelow City and thus depreciate Dunsmore land values. Dunsmore bestows gifts on his only child, Mary, a beautiful maiden, and she curbs his bitter words against his enemy, John Bigelow. Mary is secretly in love with David Bigelow. They meet clandestinely. Judson visits his municipal water dam, surprises the constructing engineer, Sam Sargent, and finding him drinking whiskey, dismisses him. The latter departs threatening "to get even." Sargent goes to Dunsmore, unfolds a plot to dynamite the water dam when the winter rain sets in, and thus cause a flood that would ruin Bigelow City. Dunsmore agrees to the scheme and pays him for his nefarious work. When winter sets in, Sargent goes to the water dam and blows it up with dynamite, thus releasing a lake of water made by the heavy rains. A passerby, a man on horseback, sees the dam in ruins and hurries to warn the people of Bigelow City. His horse falls, and he meets David and Mary in an auto, who take him to Bigelow. The flood outraces them, and when they arrive they find the people in water waist deep, placing bags of earth to divert the stream from the town, and the channel runs to Dunsmore, whereupon the Dunsmore people protest and a free fight results between the rival townsmen. Sargent and his evil friend, Charley Stoneman, lead the Dunsmore citizens in their fight against the diversion of the flood waters. Then Sargent rushes to Dunsmore and tells him that the Bigelow people are bent on destroying the town of Dunsmore. Mary and her father are caught in the flood but manage to clamber onto a floating house. Sargent and Charley, on horses, try to make the steeds carry them across the river, but the horses founder and throw the two men off, and they float down the rushing waters. David saves his father from drowning and then hastens in search of Mary, having sighted her and her father on the house floating. After thrilling attempts to rescue, David succeeds in rescuing Mary, but her father is carried away. They go in search of him and find him lodged against some debris, in a dying condition. Mary asks her father to bless her and David, which he does, exhorting them to lead righteous lives. Dunsmore dies. David and Mary also find the bodies of Charley and Sargent. On their way back to Bigelow City they meet a party of men, led by Bigelow, out searching for David and Mary. They inform the young hero and his sweetheart that Bigelow City is safe, while the town of Dunsmore has been entirely destroyed.
- A pioneer family, consisting of father, mother, son, young daughter and child are making their way across the plains in a prairie schooner. They come to a pretty spot where they decide to camp and are busy at their work when a guest rides in. He is offered food and made welcome. Each member of the family goes about his work, when the ungrateful visitor attempts to make off with their guns. The child warns them and he is held until the father gently kicks him out of camp, when they prepare to be on their way. Not satisfied with the treatment he received, the vagabond goes to an Indian camp and tells them of the pioneers. There is great excitement and they all make haste to depart. The prairie schooner is again on its way when a western scout warns the family of the approach of the red men. They make every effort to out-ride their pursuers, who steadily gain on them. The scout has, meanwhile, dashed off to get the help of soldiers, who mount their steeds and go to the prisoners' assistance. It is decided best to alight from the schooner and fight the renegade and his followers. The soldiers and scout make a timely entrance, forcing the Indians away. The scout is rewarded for his aid by a kiss from the daughter, which likewise pleases and embarrasses him.
- Christy Mathewson is engaged to Lillian Terry, daughter of Edward Terry, a rich merchant. The father favors the match, but dislikes the way Christie fools away his time playing baseball. Jack Prescott, the rejected suitor, tells Terry that if ever he lets Christy marry his daughter he will regret. At the instigation of his daughter, Terry makes Christy an offer to come into his office to work for the sum of $25 per week. Christy, against his own inclination, accepts the offer. This does not suit Prescott, who does all in his power to have Christy fired. In the office we are introduced to Otto, a baseball fiend, who is never happier than when arguing with his fellow clerks or in demonstrating to them the way in which various players pitch the ball. He and Christy soon become fast friends. Christy still continues playing baseball with an amateur team. On one occasion he leaves his sweetheart, telling her he has a business engagement. Prescott, meantime, meets Lillian on her way home. Christy is caught in the lie. Christy gives his word he will not play again. Otto, one day, is having a heated argument with his pals, and is trying to show them how a certain pitcher won his game. Christy is asked for his decision. He gets a baseball and as he throws it the door opens and Terry, with a rich client, enters. The ball strikes the rich client. Terry fires Christy. Christy, that evening, writes to Lil to the effect that he never was cut out for office work, and that he was going out into the world to find a career himself. He asks her to wait for him, which she promises to do. Later he is discovered by Jack North and the scout. North is the manager of a big league team. He makes him an offer, which Christy accepts. A year passes. The boys at the office learn that their old pal, Christy, may get a chance to show his worth that day at the ball grounds. They all fake telegrams saying that their grandmothers are dead. Terry, who knows himself what is in the wind, sympathizes and gives them the day off. He then 'phones Lillian. On the way to the game they meet Prescott, who accompanies them. At the Polo Grounds we have the regulation scenes of the different players warming up; this includes Tesreau, Marquard, Mathewson, etc. Later, end of eighth inning, score tied, four to four. The manager of the team decides to give Christy his chance. He takes out the man who has been pitching and sends Christy in. Christy is so nervous that he can scarcely hold the ball, but as he looks toward the grandstand, he sees Lil watching him eagerly. His nerve returns, and pitching a wonderful game, he shuts out the opposing team. Lillian sends a note to him to call at the house that evening. When he arrives there he finds that Lil's father has become a baseball enthusiast. Lil finds it difficult to get Christy alone, as Terry wants him to demonstrate the game and how he won it. Prescott has to sit and listen to all this, and to his disgust, Terry tells Christy that he can marry Lil whenever he likes.
- So great is the friendship of two men that each goes to great lengths to free the other from suspicion of a crime which neither committed.
- Jack and Frank, both captains, love Jane, the daughter of an American general. Jane favors Jack. Jack is a dissolute character, who has compromised Mollie, the sister of a sergeant in the regiment. She firmly believes that Frank will wed her. Her brother discovers Frank's perfidy and would kill him, but is prevented by Jack, who persuades all parties to keep silence for the honor of the regiment. The contretemps are responsible for Jack's missing an appointment with Jane. She is very angry at his tardiness, and going out, passes near the spot where Jack is comforting the miserable Mollie. Frank takes advantage to point out the compromising scene to Jane, who is convinced that Jack is false, and refuses to even say good-bye. Mollie accompanies her brother to the islands as a nurse. Jack believes Frank's assertion that he is engaged to Mollie. Nita, a native girl, is rescued from insults by Mollie and Jack. The American soldiers are ambushed by Filipinos. Jack prevents Frank from running away and is hit on the head by the coward. Frank commands the troops to retreat in disorder. He escapes the general slaughter. He is court-martialed, but says that Jack gave the order and is exonerated, while Jack's name is dishonored. Jack is found by Mollie, and later Nita saves them. Jack is taken to their cabin and tenderly nursed by Mollie. His mind is a blank. Her pity turns to love. Jane hears of Jack's disappearance and, heartbroken, goes to the Philippines to act as nurse. She is told that Jack is dead, and will have nothing to do with Frank, who tries to court her. The sergeant, Mollie's brother, escapes, and knowing that he will inform American headquarters of their whereabouts, the Filipinos surround the Americans. Jack wanders off, and seeing a cave enters it. It leads him through the hill to the basin beyond. The excitement clears his brain and memory returns. He reaches the troops, and leading them through the secret passage, they turn defeat into victory. Jack, wounded, is found unconscious by Jane. Mollie finds them and overhearing Jane's impassioned words, knows the truth. The sergeant finds them all there and Frank, knowing his end is near, shoots at Jack, the bullet killing poor Mollie instead.
- Reed and Rosson are owners of the Yellow Aster mine. They have taken out enough gold to make the final payment, which is due. Both brothers love the same girl, Pauline, but she prefers Reed. Reed saves an Indian, Eagle Eye, from the drunken taunts of a half-breed, and the latter swears vengeance. The half-breed knows that the gold is ready for the final payment and decides to steal it. With the aid of his pal, a rustler, he kills the watchman and escapes with the gold. Then he kills Eagle Eye and puts the gold sacks near him. The Indians, thinking the white men have murdered their brother, plan an attack on the mine. Pauline's faithful Indian girl servant learns of the proposed attack and warns the miner. The attack is made and Rosson rides for help. He returns with the cavalry as the miners are making their last stand, and, after a hot fight, the Indians are driven away. The half-breed and his pal in the meantime, have camped in the desert. When the half-breed is asleep his pal steals the gold and rides away. He is bitten by a rattlesnake and decides to risk discovery as a thief and rides to town for aid. A miner meets him and the rustler, now delirious from the poison, confesses the murder of the watchman and the theft of the gold. The miner is honest, and, after the rustler dies of the bite, carries the gold back to the mine just in time for the final payment to be made.
- Hamilton, a victim of paralysis and owner of a menagerie where animals can be bought, sold and exchanged, has a superintendent under his employ who is in love with his elder daughter, Grace. She loves him, too, but unknown to her father. One day while putting an animal through some stunts the trainer is caught and Hamilton is taken with a stroke at the sight, this being his second attack. He realizes that the next attack will probably mean his end, and he thinks, too, that by selling he will rid his daughter of the superintendent. He sells the menagerie, but keeps his pet animal, a wild and vicious lion, which he takes to his private residence and places in a barn. Some time later his little daughter, Blanche, is playing around the grounds of his home when young George, the superintendent, happens to spy her and asks her to take a note to her sister unknown to her father. Blanche consents, but in trying to deliver the message, she is stopped by her father, who takes it from her. The father is very angry. He locks Grace in her room and the mother, going on a visit, takes Blanche with her, leaving her with her aunt, who lives a short distance away. The father then decides that he will have the animal meet George that night, instead of his daughter, thinking that that will keep the superintendent away for good. He then turns the animal loose and waits for the arrival of George, but in the meantime Blanche runs away from the aunt's and arrives home and is confronted by he animal. Father, seeing this from the window, is attacked with the third stroke of paralysis. George arrives in time to save little Blanche's life. Grace breaks away from her room, helps rescue her little sister, while her mother tends to her father. Between George and Grace they manage to fight the animal back into the barn. They return to the house and all are reconciled.
- The "Quarter Breed," known as "Wolf," was an outcast from civilization. In the last town he was in the sheriff issued a warning to his brother sheriffs in adjoining counties telling them to beware of the "Quarter Breed," as he was a thieving no-account. He wanders into the town of Sparks Canyon and enters a saloon. He is seen by the sheriff, who recognizes him. The sheriff orders his deputies to watch the Breed. The sheriff receives a letter from his sister Flossy, stating that she is on the way to visit him. The Breed joins a game of cards and is caught cheating. The men threaten to lynch him, but the sheriff's cooler judgment prevails, and the Breed is driven out. The sheriff's sister arrives at the railway station and boards a stage for Sparks Canyon. The driver has been indulging in drink and on the way becomes jolted from his seat. The horses run away. The Creed sees the runaway stage and stops the horses. The girl is very grateful for this brave deed and persuades him to drive the stage to its destination. Upon his arrival the Breed is greeted suspiciously, having been run out of town, but when the girl explains, everyone greets him with cheers. The girl has made a strong impression upon the Breed and his habits change from that time on. He is given a position as stage driver through the sheriff's influence. In the days that follow the Breed loves the girl more and more, but keeps this from her. Jim Glass, a stranger, arrives in town, and presents a letter to the sheriff proving him to be a brother of an old-time friend of the sheriff. The sheriff takes the boy in and treats him as one of the family. Jim and Flossy become very much attached to each other. A short time later the Breed gets an opportunity to propose to the girl. She rejects him when she tells him that as he is only a half-breed, she can never marry him. The Breed's manner changes. He takes to drink and loses his position as stage driver. A new driver is assigned to the stage, and is told by the superintendent that on his next trip he will have charge of the pay money for the mines. Flossy goes to the railroad station to do some shopping. The new stage driver is too weak to overcome the temptation and tells a pal about the gold shipment. He and his pal persuade the Breed to participate with them in the hold-up. When the stage leaves the station, the Breed gets inside. The other partner drives ahead of the stage to prepare for the hold-up. Just as the stage leaves, Flossy enters. The Breed is very much surprised to see her. In the girl's presence the Breed's manner changes again and better qualities prevail, and instead of joining in the hold-up, he prevents it. He knocks the driver from the stage and takes his place himself. Arriving at the point where he is to meet the other member of the party, he shoots him, and the money is delivered safely at Snarks Canyon. Everyone is surprised to see the Breed in charge of the stage, and when the girl tells of his bravery in bringing the money through, everyone greets him enthusiastically. In recognition of his brave service the Breed is assigned the regular night run on the stage. The sheriff takes him in his home and on their arrival Flossy and Jim are discovered in a love scene. The Breed's real noble character comes forward and with great emotion he tells him to take the girl as she is too good for him and his only place is to drive the stage, that in the future he will be friends to them and watch over their happiness.
- Marion Summers, in love with Curlew, comes to the notice of Gordon Barnes, who is much impressed with her. Curlew is intimate with Mamie We Voux. a demimondaine. When he informs her of his engagement to Marion, Mamie is very angry at being thus cast aside, and determines to make trouble. She, accordingly, brings Curlew's true character to the knowledge of Marion, who orders him out of the house. Marion, to get away from it all, accepts a friend's invitation to join a party on a yachting cruise. Barnes happens also to be one of the party. Marion thinks continually of Curlew and for that reason has no more than a passing interest in the gentlemanly Barnes. A storm arises and the yacht is wrecked. The only survivors are Marion and Barnes. They are cast upon a desert island and Barnes constitutes himself a guardian of Marion in the barren wilderness. He constructs a rude shelter, which they occupy, and both daily scan the horizon for a ship to take them back to civilization. Curlew hears of the loss of the yacht with all on board and is much affected by the news, for he really loves Marion Summers. The lonely pair remain upon the island for two months without a sign of an approaching sail. Barnes learns to love Marion, but she will have nothing to do with him. Finally one evening, being unable to control his passion for his beautiful companion, Barnes seizes Marion and covers her face with feverish kisses, against which she is unable to defend herself. When he again approaches her she seizes his knife and threatens to do him injury if he repeats his actions. Marion from that time on develops an intense hatred for Barnes. Months roll by and finally Marion informs Barnes of a life that is to come. Marion's hate continues to grow after the child is born. Barnes begs to be allowed to hold and fondle the baby, but Marion repulses his every advance with scorn. Curlew, meanwhile, leaves on an exploring expedition and by chance they land on the island of which Marion, Barnes and the baby are the only inhabitants. Marion is planning to kill Barnes, but at the last moment realizes she will be afraid to be alone, and controls her hatred. Curlew discovers Marion and tries to question her, but she is silent. She makes an appointment to meet him that night, however, and leaves him mystified. Curlew keeps the appointment, but Marion does not come. At last she sees Barnes holding their baby in his arms and is torn with conflicting emotion; whether to flee with the man she believes she loves, and to tell him of the child, or to turn to the man who has forcibly made her his wife. Marion keeps her appointment later and Curlew finally begs her to come with him. She tells him that if her campfire is left burning it shall be the sign to him that she will leave the island with him. Curlew accepts the ultimatum and watches for the appointed signal. Marion, returning to their little camp, has a struggle with herself. After waiting for some time, Curlew seeks her out and tries to force her to come with him. Barnes appears and the two have a hand-to-hand struggle. Curlew's companions join in the fight and Marion, desperate and realizing that, after all, it is Barnes she loves for the man that he is, runs into the hut and returns with their baby. Curlew, at sight of it, leaves abashed. Later, Curlew sends Marion a note, promising to care for her and the child if she will keep the appointed signal and leave with him. She hands it to Barnes. He expects that she will accept, but she only smiles, then deliberately picks up the loose earth and smothers the camp fire. Then, turning to him she gives herself into his arms.
- At the time the play opens the .Southern army is harassing the Unionists. The Northern spy force is augmented and Grace, whose brother, Harry, is already in the secret service, joins it. She meets Harry and together they take a coach to the Southern town they have selected to spy upon. A prominent colonel in the Southern army deals with dispatches, and it is this man that Grace investigates while Harry awaits events. The colonel has a sweetheart, May, and Grace manages to got an introduction to her at a ball by purposely tearing her dress and appealing to May for help. This leads to an acquaintance with the Colonel, and she practices all her woman's wiles and fascinations upon him and he is impressed with her. Grace learns that important dispatches are to be forwarded and plots to get into the colonel's house. She manages matters cleverly, and contrives to have her carriage break down before his residence. The colonel endeavors to get rid of her, but she stalls him off until the arrival of May, when he has to hide her in the next room. May comes to warn him about Grace, for she is suspicious and her woman's intuition tells her that Grace is there for no good. The colonel tries to defend Grace, who gets a chance to change the dispatches for false ones, but drops a letter by mistake, and escapes by way of the window, giving the dispatches to her brother. May sees the letter of commendation from the North. A servant has seen Harry. The colonel rides off after him. He catches up with him as they ride into the battlefield, and in a hand-to-hand duel Harry is killed by the colonel, who is himself mortally wounded by a stray bullet. Grace returns to Washington and receives compliments and rewards. She returns to her home with a clouded conscience, and while sitting looking at her reward, the specters of Harry and the colonel appear and beckon her. She is forced to go with them, and together they appear on the battlefield and they show her their own bodies, and slowly they fade away and their specters enter their dead bodies. She comes to and staggers to the stairs to get assistance. She faints and falls down the stairway and dies.
- Interesting scenes are shown of the parade grounds and of Bob Evans, one of the post telegraphers, at work. The following message comes over the wire: "Sioux Indians holding war dance. Fear outbreak. Protect wagon trains and settlements. White, Indiana commissioner." A scouting party is immediately sent out, Evans being detailed therewith. The Indians, however, have already started on a mission of death and destruction. Settlers are wiped out and their cabins burned. They meet a Tartar in old man Hart, who barricades the doors and sells the lives of himself and his family at great cost to the redskins. The approach of the soldiers is reported by means of smoke signals by Indians hidden on hilltops, and the savages lay a clever ambush into which the soldiers fall. At the first volley Evans is tumbled from his saddle. The soldiers wheel round and dash back, but they are surrounded by "the circle of death," which narrows down like the coil of a python, until the few survivors, making the last desperate stand, are dispatched. Meantime, Evans has regained consciousness. He makes for the telegraph line, and stumbling and falling, reaches his goal. Racked with pain, and weak from loss of blood, he manages to reach the top of the pole, and taps the wire, connecting his pocket instrument. His sweetheart, Eva Reynolds, the daughter of an officer is talking to the fort operator when this message clicks in: "Ambushed in Rocky Gulch. Many killed. Cannot bold out longer. Rush help. Evans." Sharply the Colonel gives his commands. The bugler calls "Boots and Saddles," and in a few moments the troopers are rushing at break-neck speed to the aid of their comrades. Anguished for the safety of her lover. Eva cannot bear the suspense, and, donning a soldier's uniform she mounts a horse and follows the troop. When they reach the battle ground they find the ground strewn with dead horses and men, but evidence of the terrific struggle which took place. Without stopping to bury the dead the soldiers follow the trail of the Indians, bent on vengeance. Eva dismounts and looks for Bob. Not finding him, she remounts and circles around. Lying senseless at the telegraph post she discovers Bob, and reviving him, she lifts him to her horse's back, and, mounting behind him, gallops back to the fort. The Indians have reached their camp, and the sentinels report the coming of the troops. A council of war is held, and a bold strategic plan decided upon. Head-dresses and blankets are mounted on sticks, which are thrust into the ground about the tepees. Making a detour, the Indians gallop madly toward the stockade, where the emigrants and settlers have taken refuge, under the protection of the small garrison left there. The soldiers fall into the trap. With a telescope, the Colonel sees the dummies and, believing them to be Indians holding a council, advances upon the camp. The chagrin of the soldiers increases their anger, as they realize they have been tricked, after making a fruitless charge into the deserted camp, and, suspecting the plan of the Indians they start back on the long ride to the fort. Knowing that the time to accomplish their purpose is limited, the Indians hurl themselves at the stockade with indescribable fury. Inside, every hand that can hold a gun is sending leaden messengers of death into the Indian ranks. Getting up from the hospital cot, Bob joins the defenders, and, forgetful of his painful wounds, plunges into the fray. Soon the Indians begin jumping over the top of the stockade, and terrific hand to hand combats take place. Bob grapples with a huge buck, but in his weakened state is overpowered, and as the Indian, throttling him with his left hand, raises his right with a deadly tomahawk in it, Eva leaps upon him and plunges a knife into his heart. As the tired horses thunder along, the troopers hear the shots and savage yells, and, conjecturing what is occurring at the stockade their mounts are not spared, but plunging the spurs into their flanks the soldiers swoop down on the Indians. With rage and resentment in their hearts they fight like demons, and the flashing sabers soon mark the end of the contest. The end of the film shows a sunset scene, with the lowering of the flag, with Bob and Eva thanking Providence for their deliverance.
- The story is a repetition of history, of the Indians and whites living in peace until one of the whites commits an overt act, which arouses the redmen. In this case Johnson, the trapper, finds Peach Blossom out in the fields gathering herbs and kidnaps her. The girl sees the Indians, out on a hunt, calls to them, the trapper throws her to the ground, and then escapes. Eagle Eye, in revenge, goes to Johnson's cabin and takes his boy, who is carried to the Indian camp and turned over to Mona. She becomes a little mother to the child, refusing to permit others to touch him. Mrs. Johnson, discovering the loss of the boy, rides to the fort and informs the commander. He orders out a troop. When the Indians hear of the approach of the soldiers they break camp and take up a position in what seems a very poor tactical position in a hollow, where the soldiers can not only shoot down into them, but roll rocks among them. The Indians are captured and lodged in the stockade. Big Rock and Dark Feather scale the fence. Big Rock steals up behind the sentry, throws him to the ground and with Mona gets away. The soldiers pursue. The chief, exhausted, is overtaken and shot. The Indian woman draws a knife and plunges it into her own breast.
- Dr. Reid, a young American physician in the Philippines, risks his life in the cause of patriotism, and eventually wins the love of the girl of his choice. With the idea of developing in the natives in his community the spirit of manly citizenship, Dr. Reid requests the War Department to furnish him with a number of discarded Winchesters with which to drill the natives. His request is granted and he succeeds in getting together quite an enthusiastic company. Dr, Reid is not the only instructor in patriotism. Young Pauline Bush, a teacher in the Islands, has for some time been instructing her pupils in all that the American flag means to her. When she finds that Dr, Reid is also patriotically inclined, a bond of friendship is cemented between the two Americans. Bonita, one of Pauline's pupils, has for some time been deeply but hopelessly in love with the young doctor, and is very despondent when she sees the growing attraction between the young Americans. Her father wishes to join Dr. Reid's company, but because of his age is not allowed to do so. Dr. Reid, however, gives him a gun, which the old man becomes very fond of. Camped close to the settlement is a company of Spaniards, one of whom, through disorderly conduct, is stripped of his uniform and driven from camp. This renegade makes his way to the settlement and there encounters Bonita, the young native girl. Bonita's beauty attracts the renegade, who makes insulting advances to her. Doctor Reid witnesses the encounter and after a short, sharp fight with the renegade, he is sent about his business. The renegade, smarting under the drubbing he has received, vows revenge on the American, and when he discovers him drilling the natives, he hastens to the Spanish camp and informs the officer in charge that the American doctor is teaching the Filippinos war. The Spaniards hasten to the settlement and finding Bonita's father fondling the gun given him by the doctor; they decide to make an example of him. They seize the old man and drag him to a nearby wall, where they proceed to execute him, Bonita, who witnesses the shooting of her father, is wild with grief, and runs to her beloved teacher and tells her what has occurred. Pauline fearlessly rushes to the place of the execution, and furiously reprimands the two Spaniards who are standing by the body. They debate for a moment, then grab the teacher and attempt to drag her away. Dr. Reid, who is hunting nearby, sees the struggle and swiftly dispatches both soldiers. He hastens to Pauline's side and leads both girls away. Dr. Reid realizes the significance of the shooting of the old man and quickly gathers his little company together. They are not a moment too soon, for the Spaniards charge the settlement. The women and children hide at the school house, where they are at last joined by the men, fighting each inch of the way. A desperate battle is waged around the tiny school house and the doctor and his little band are more than outnumbered. Bonita sees the battle from a distance and hastens swiftly to the American camp and informs the officer what she has seen. The American troops hurry to the scene of the conflict and reach the schoolhouse just as the doctor, who has fired his last round of ammunition, is about to surrender. The Americans quickly drive the Spaniards from the field, but Bonita, who has followed, is shot. She falls, clutching the American flag which she has learned to love. Dr. Reid and Pauline find the young native girl and feelingly drape her remains with the silken folds of "Old Glory."
- Lucile Ames is engaged to an English Lord. Capt. Jack Harding, an English Army Officer, recently returned from Africa, visits the Zoo the same afternoon that Lucile and her friends are there, to look after a lioness and two cubs he presented the Zoo. Lucile ventures too near the lioness' cage, and is saved from injury by Harding. He receives a serious wound in the arm. He conceals the fact from Lucile, and is not able to reach a physician for several hours. The physician tells him that only the best of care can save the arm from becoming useless. Calling on Lucile the next day, and not wishing to arouse sympathy for himself, he removes his arm from the sling. Several meetings follow and Harding asks her to marry him. But while she loves him she announces her intention to marry the Lord. Harding later learns that his pride has cost him dearly; in removing his arm from the sling he has caused complications to set in which render the arm useless. Unfit for service, he is forced to send in his papers, and accepting a commission from the Zoological Society to secure wild animals for the Zoo, he leaves for Africa. Lucile persuades her father to allow her to accompany him on a trip to Africa to inspect some mines. Arriving there, Mr. Ames finds that trouble with the natives demands a perilous trip through the wilderness. The Ames party is attacked by the natives, and Lucile is captured. Her refusal to become queen of the tribe so angers the chief that she is condemned to death. Placing her in a native hut, they steal the cubs from a lioness and tie them in her arms. Harding and his men have been trying to capture these same cubs and trace the lioness to the hut, arriving in time to save Lucile from a horrible death. Their gunshots arouse the natives, and a battle follows. A runner sent by Ames' party notifies the army post of their peril, and a detachment of cavalry arrive in time to rescue them. When questioned by his old associates of the army post, Harding is forced to tell them why he sent in his papers. In this way Lucile learns of his sacrifice for her, and love triumphs in the end.