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- Pauline, a young maiden, must protect herself from the treacherous "guardian" of her inheritance, who repeatedly plots to murder her and take the money for himself.
- With the help of a private detective, Elaine tries to catch the masked criminal mastermind The Clutching Hand, who has murdered her father.
- Jean Valjean, a good man convicted of a minor crime, escapes from imprisonment and spends the rest of his life running from the vindictive and implacable man of the law, Javert.
- Stevens, the bank clerk, is ambitious. His great desire is to become a lawyer. He stays at the bank at night to study, but is unable to take a course at college owing to his poverty. He handles immense sums of money every day and is strongly tempted to steal some, but fights off the desire till one evening when a belated customer comes late to the bank with a deposit of several thousand dollars. He sees a way for his ambition to be gratified and takes the money. His wife refuses to go with him, so he deserts her and his small daughter and goes away. Some time later we see him in a strange town living under an assumed name. His ambition has been gratified and through the good will of the political boss he has been made a judge. He falls in love with the daughter of his friend, the boss, but is deterred from marriage by the thought of his wife whom he had deserted. In the meantime Mrs. Stevens has become destitute and unable to support her daughter. She takes her daughter to an orphan asylum and releases all claim on her. Mrs. Stevens is unable to obtain work and at last is found unconscious and taken to a hospital. Her handbag, containing her identification papers, is lost and picked up by another woman who is in the last stages of exhaustion. The woman succumbs to the cold and on being found is thought to be Mrs. Stevens. Her death as Mrs. Stevens is reported to the papers. Judge Harding (formerly Stevens) sees the report of the death and marries the daughter of the boss. The boss decides to run Judge Harding for governor of the state, but his choice is attacked very strongly by a young lawyer, Norris. The boss and Harding try to buy Norris, but finding that he cannot be reached they decide to "frame up" his sweetheart in order to break his determination to prevent the election of Harding. They get her into trouble and Judge Harding is appointed to try the case. He is conducting the case in a very severe manner with a decided feeling against the prisoner. The superintendent of the orphan asylum has followed the course of the little girl's life and comes to the city to see her. She recognizes Mrs. Stevens as the woman who left the child at the orphanage and takes her to see the trial. As Mrs. Stevens enters she recognizes in Judge Harding the man who deserted her so many years ago. While the jury have retired to settle the case Mrs. Stevens accuses Judge Harding. The sudden excitement causes an attack of heart failure just as the jury return with a verdict of "Not Guilty."
- An army pilot is on a visit at the home of another army pilot in the neighboured country. He falls in love with his sister. After the outbreak of a war between the two countries, her brother is killed by her friend in a battle, he is killed by some friends of her brother. She engages her with her brother's friend who was there, but then she finds out about that battle.
- Fernande, the daughter of poor parents, is very much dissatisfied with her lot in life and wants to get out where she can have some pleasure. She is a great flirt and has several men on the string. When the doctor comes to the house she works her wiles on him to such an extent that he asks for her hand in marriage. She accepts him but in her mind has no intention of giving up her other sweethearts. After her marriage she continues to meet them with the result that he discovers her unfaithfulness. He looks in her private correspondence and finds proof that she has been utterly unfaithful. When he taxes her with it she does not deny it but tells him that she intends to continue the same way. He in a rage strikes her. Driven nearly insane he wanders round all night and on his return finds that she has gone away. He loses all trace of her and goes to a foreign country to try to forget her. In the meantime she goes to Paris, where she sets up a little court of her own. Her admirers are many, among them Count Adolphe. He is so much taken with her charms that he decides to marry her. He writes to his grandfather telling him of his decision. Then he goes to Fernande with his proposal. She is rather taken aback as she had not intended to let him get that far in the toils. To avoid his attentions she goes to a small town in Brittany where she finds life too slow for her temperament. Being one of that kind of women who must have an admirer she flirts with a young fisherman. The fisherman, Pierre, is however built of different stuff than the men she has met in Paris and will not be satisfied to merely admire her from a distance. In spite of his rough manners, or probably because of them and his immense size, he exerts a charm on Fernande that makes her lose her cool, calculating manner. She allows him to come to her home. Pierre's mother has suspected for some time that all is not well with him and follows to learn what is the cause of his desertion of his own wife. Through the good offices of an old friend she learns that Pierre is spending nearly all of his time at the home of Fernande. Going to the doctor she asks him to do what he can to get Pierre out of the clutches of the woman who is wrecking both their lives. The doctor goes to the villa and on entering finds that not only has Fernande been playing with Pierre, but that she has at the house Count Adolphe, who has followed her from Paris. He also is astounded to find the woman in the case is Fernande, his own wife who had left his house the night he had struck her. He had no idea that he had located in the same town that she had chosen for her home. He upbraids her but is met with a penitent air and an exhibition of those same charms that made him love her so long before. He falls a victim a second time only to be laughed at and told that he is an old fool. Enraged he tells Pierre and the count who she really is. Pierre, overcome, falls in a faint striking his head and badly hurting himself. He is taken home and orders are given that he is to be kept absolutely quiet if he is to recover. Fernande decides to see him and goes to his home. She is told that it is impossible to see him, but insists. Then Pierre's mother takes a hand and the Siren meets one on whom she cannot work her charms. She is forced to admit defeat and a career of wanton despoliation ends.
- A film about family secrets...and deathbed confessions.
- Jean Valjean, guilty of a minor theft of food, is pursued and hounded for years by a relentless lawman, Javert.
- An Indian rajah determines to give the prince, his son, the advantages of an American university education, and brings him to the United States. Arriving at the university town they stop at the hotel there and are immediately besieged by the reporters who scent a good story, especially as it is reported that the rajah brings with him one of the famous jewels of the world, a magnificent diamond. Among the reporters is a young man on his first assignment who at once makes friends with the prince. In the meantime Nell Reardon, the "badger queen," is approached by Moreland, a "gentleman" crook, and threatened with exposure if she does not aid him to obtain possession of the rajah's jewel. She promises her aid and as a first step registers at the same hotel as the rajah, under the alias of the "Countess Mirska." Billy is assigned to interview her. The prince is struck with the woman's charms and persuades Billy to introduce him. At the instigation of Moreland. the woman persuades the prince to show her the diamond. Fearing his father's displeasure the young man secretly takes the jewel from the strong box. Seeing their opportunity, Moreland and Harley, his "pal," invite the prince to have some refreshments at the hotel café and the prince asks to have Billy included in the party. The jewel is passed around and admired. By accident, and while no one is looking, it falls from the case and lodges in the cuff of the reporter's trousers. Later, while in his own room, he discovers it and immediately runs back to the hotel to return it to the prince. Unable to find him, he decides to stay at the hotel for the night, takes a room and throws himself upon the bed, fully clothed. The anxiety of his responsibility preys upon his mind so that his slumbers are disturbed and his rest is a nightmare. In the meantime the prince discovers the loss, tells the crooks of it and they search the café together. The crooks secretly believe each other guilty, but when they tax one another with the crime they mutually prove their innocence. Without saying anything to each other they visit the reporter's home and search his room. Finding one another in the room their mutual distrust deepens. Billy's distraught mind causes him to talk in his sleep and while doing so he drops the jewel over the hotel balcony. It falls at the feet of the prince, but he does not enjoy its possession long. Harley, who has been spying upon him, knocks him out and escapes with the diamond. The further vicissitudes of the diamond are intensely interesting and lead up to the superb climax where the prince recovers it and sees the baffled crook, Moreland, go over the bridge into the ravine below in the trolley car in which he has tried to escape.
- In 1572, young queen Marguerite de Valois is driven by her mother Catherine de Médicis to marry Henri de Navarre, a Protestant leader, so as to appease the tensions between Catholics and Huguenots. But the marriage of convenience proves a double failure because not only are the newlyweds ill-matched sexually but a horrible killing spree (the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre) ensues as well...
- Robert Macey perfects a telephone which enables the speaker to be seen as well as heard. His friend, Rifflord, advises him to interest Mr. Durling, a capitalist, and gives him a letter of introduction. Meeting the capitalist later, Macey succeeds in securing his financial assistance. About this time, Julian Delatour, a nephew of Durling, comes to visit his uncle and his cousin, Vera. Delatour has led a life of extravagance but hopes to replenish his coffers by a marriage with Vera. She, however, is greatly attracted by Macey and therefore gives her scheming cousin no encouragement in his suit. For revenge, Delatour manages to discredit Macey in the eyes of his uncle, and after a painful scene between the latter two, the inventor leaves the capitalist's house in anger. Not long after, Durling succumbs to heart failure and his nephew gains control of the manufacturing plant wherein Macey's telephones are being made. In order to spy on Delatour's plans, Macey's younger brother, Jean, obtains a position in the factory. He notifies Macey that there is to be a demonstration before Miss Durling, whose assistance is essential to the absolute success of the invention. Macey contrives to be present and causes the demonstration to be a failure. Realizing that he is likely to lose his rights in the apparatus, Macey bequeaths his invention to Vera and then advises her, through a fictitious letter, that he has died and that the sole control of the invention is hers. Macey, disguised, delivers the perfected machine to Vera, but she penetrates his disguise. She does not let him know, however, that she knows who he is. In a note, she is advised that she will be called on the new telephone at nine that night in order to make a trial of the apparatus. About a quarter of nine Delatour calls personally with Redfield, a friend, and they try to persuade Vera to invest in 10,000 shares in a company formed for the exploitation of the new phone. She is suspicious of them and will not accede to their wishes. The two schemers decide to kidnap the heiress and hold her until she agrees to finance them. At this moment, nine o'clock, Macey attempts to call Vera on the telephone and is horrified to see the plotters throw a cloth over her head and bear her away. He hastens to her home but arrives too late to be of assistance. His brother, Jean, however, is on the job and follows the kidnappers to the mountains, where they take Vera in a limousine. Jean manages to drop notes on the way which are found by Macey, who hastens over the trail in his own machine. Seeing that they are pursued, the kidnappers feign an accident. Macey leaps from his machine to go to their assistance and is at once overcome by the schemers. Unconscious, he is placed in the auto with Vera and the door is locked. Delatour then starts the machine and guides it to a steep path down the mountainside. Leaping from the moving machine, he allows it to run unpiloted, hoping that the inmates will be dashed to death below. Congratulating themselves on the success of their scheme, the plotters return to the city where they expect to hold a meeting for the purpose of interesting government officials in the telephone. But they have not reckoned on Jean, who had concealed himself on the top of the auto. Recognizing the danger which confronts the now swiftly moving machine, Jean drops to the driver's seat and succeeds in stopping the auto. He then helps Vera to restore Robert and they, also, return to the city. Hastening to the police, they explain the circumstances, and officers are detailed to return with them to arrest Delatour and Redfield. A messenger is sent in to call Redfield, who is immediately taken into custody. The officers then enter to arrest Delatour, but a sterner justice had claimed him first. In endeavoring to demonstrate the new telephone he accidentally comes in contact with a high power electric current which instantly electrocuted him, thereby bringing to an end an unworthy career.
- George Notman is engaged to Marjorle Vincent, and the young people, though the marriage was arranged by their parents, are thoroughly devoted to one another. George has a friend, Warner, who beneath a polished exterior hides a deceitful and treacherous character. This is plainly shown when he attempts to make love to Marjorie, the fiancée of his friend. His advances are indignantly repulsed and the girl then learns to thoroughly distrust the man and to endeavor to oppose his influence with George. George's father makes his son a present of a large sum of money with which to purchase a splendid pearl necklace for Marjorie. Warner basely suggests that with this money it would be possible to make large sums gaming at the table and persuades him to venture it. The inevitable happens; the money is lost and George is confronted with the necessity of securing funds in some way to purchase his sweetheart her necklace. Warner suggests visiting a certain woman, known to the police as a "fence," who makes a practice of loaning money at usurious rates of interest. At her store they are shown a fine necklace which she is willing to sell and accept George's notes in payment. The necklace is bought and the notes given. Not long afterward at the wedding reception detectives call and ask for George's father. To him they exhibit his son's notes, which they have found in a raid upon the "fence." They ask to see Marjorie's necklace. At once they are able to identify it as one stolen from a jeweler not long before. The heartbroken father writes a check for the value of the necklace to save it from confiscation. Angered beyond all control at this proof of his son's folly, he upbraids him before the whole assembly, then falls in an apoplectic fit which not long after is the cause of his death. After his marriage George falls more and more under the sinister influence of Warner. The combined fortunes of his wife and himself are insufficient to sustain the drains made upon them by his gambling losses. Warner suggests an evil plan and again George assents to it. Finding a man who is a typical "sucker," they work an old confidence game upon him and persuade him that they can give him the names of the winning horses before a race. He loses, of course, and later by plying him with drink they are able to steal the rest of his money. The victim learns the name and address of George and calls upon his wife. He tells her of her husband's crime and threatens him with immediate arrest if the money is not returned at once. When George comes home and learns that his guilt has been found out, he attempts suicide. Moved by the misery of the unhappy wife the victim of the theft relents and for her sake promises to push the case no further. The years pass. Compelled by her poverty Marjorie has placed her little son in her uncle's care, since she is not able to give the boy a proper bringing up. George and David have taken a little country inn, where they prey upon the rural gamblers. Old beyond her time, Marjorie, still faithful to her marriage vows, does the work of a menial around the house. Her uncle, feeling that she should see her son again, gives him a large sum of money and sends him to her. How Warner and George, ignorant of the young man's identity, plan to rob him; how they are thwarted and David suffers the penalty for his many misdeeds, and how the father, sobered by his narrow escape from killing his own son, resolves to live a better life, end a most dramatic film.
- In one of the Roman colonies in North Africa lives with her father a beautiful young Christian girl, Nydia. A high priest of Jupiter, one of the principal Roman gods, sees her and desires to have her for one of the vestal virgins. He sends his attendants to seize her but is prevented by the passing of Caius, the son of the Roman governor. Caius is very much impressed by the beauty of Nydia and after leaving her safely at her home rides on to the court. The high priest, angry at being so easily thwarted, takes some of his attendants and goes to the home of Nydia to seize her. They are not successful although in the struggle Nydia's father is killed and their home is burned. Nydia escapes to the desert and hides in a cave. A shepherd passes and one of his sheep is carried off and eaten by a lion. The cave where Nydia hides is the lair of the lion and she is terrified as he comes in and stands by a rock near her and roars at her. The shepherd goes to the city to get help to kill the wild beast and lands at the palace of Caius just as a large company are celebrating the arrival of the young woman whom Caius is to marry. He leaves the feast and goes to help the shepherd. They find the cave, capture the lion and at the same time discover Nydia. Caius takes Nydia to his father's house and declares his intention of keeping her under his care. His father objects, she being a Christian. In spite of protests Caius places Nydia in a home, where he goes to visit her. On one of his visits he is followed by the high priest and his father. The high priest enters the room and accuses Nydia of seducing Caius. In a struggle that follows Caius kills the high priest. His father has Caius carried off by two attendants. He accuses Nydia of the crime. In spite of her protests she is condemned to be thrown to the lions. Caius' betrothed tells him of the event and he rushes to the lions' den to help Nydia. His betrothed, who has been instrumental in stirring up trouble, opens the door of the den to watch with satisfaction the end of her rival. Caius sees the door open and seizing Nydia, makes his escape. They manage to escape to the desert, where Caius adopts Christianity.
- Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.
- About the daughter of the Borgia, a noble medieval house. From her numerous and unhappy weddings, to the forced monacation, to the will of her family.
- The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine. Lindey finds himself involved in the plot.
- The rebellion of 1832 is on. There is rioting and barricading in the streets. Marius in despair, and in the hope that a bullet will soon end his life, joins the mob and becomes a fighter in the ranks of the insurgents. Javert gets orders to investigate the extent of the insurrection. He assumes a disguise, and goes to a tavern, the headquarters of the rebellion, He is quickly recognized and seized. They search him and tie him to a wooden pillar. Documents on him reveal his identity, and the rioters condemn him to die if the barricade is taken. Martial law is proclaimed, and the people are ordered to disperse. They refuse, and a volley is fired. Eponine, in the mob, dies at the first fire. Marius thinking his death to be at hand, writes a note to Cosette, telling her where to find his body in case he is killed. Gavroche is sent with the note, but Valjean gets it at his home. He sees that this love affair is deeper than he bad supposed, and he goes to the scene of the rioting to find Marius. Gavroche is killed while trying to secure ammunition for the revolutionists in searching dead soldiers for cartridges. Fierce fighting follows and the rioters, realizing that they are losing ground, order the execution of Javert. Valjean interferes and tells them that Javert's life belongs to him. Taking Javert outside, Valjean frees his hands, fires a pistol in the air, and lets Javert go, thereby sparing his life. The military take the barricade by storm. Marius badly wounded, is picked up by Valjean, who disappears into a sewer opening and escapes with him underground. Javert, in the streets, comes upon Thenardier robbing the dead. In pursuit of this man, he comes upon Valjean emerging from another part of the sewer. Javert drops Thenardier and arrests Valjean. Valjean shows him the note of Marius to Cosette concerning the disposing of his body, and he begs permission to take Marius to the home of his grandfather before submitting to arrest. Javert consents, but accidentally drops upon the ground the order of arrest for Jean Valjean, which he has carried on his person, Thenardier pounces upon the order and keeps it for future blackmailing purposes. He also follows Valjean and Javert to the home of the grandfather of Marius. Javert observing the God-like character of Valjean, is overcome with remorse, and for the first time in his life departs from his path of duty and allows his prisoner to escape. He then writes his resignation to the police, and, as a public acknowledgment of his mortification and weakness, he ends his own life. The grandfather of Marius is deeply grateful for the boy's safe return. He sends for Valjean and asks the hand of Cosette for Marius. This Valjean grants, and transfers his property to Cosette. The lovers are married at the church, at which time Valjean shows the first signs of failing health. Thenardier thinks the time now ripe to commence blackmailing with the order of arrest. He negotiates with Marius, who buys it from him for a good sum. Marius goes to see Valjean to question him about the paper, but finds him low in health, and fondling Cosette's little dress of other days, the place lighted with the good priest's candlesticks. Marius hands him the order of arrest. Valjean feebly acknowledges it, and tells the story of his persecutions. Cosette arrives as Valjean is dreaming of the good priest who helped him to be a better man, and soon he expires peacefully in the arms of his two children. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- The Thenardiers and their small daughter, Eponine, and young son, Gavroche, are seen at their dingy country tavern. Here little Cosette, the daughter of Fantine, is seen performing drudgery and menial tasks. The Thenardiers are treating their own children kindly, but are cruel to Cosette. One day she is sent for water with a heavy pail. On the way she passes a toy store, and longingly admires a doll. On her way back she meets Jean Valjean, who asks her the way to the Thenardiers. Cosette leads him toward their place. On the way she looks longingly at the doll once more, and her action is observed by Valjean. He has learned by her talk that she is Fantine's child, whom he is seeking. Cosette runs ahead, and Valjean enters the tavern while Cosette is being scolded. He remonstrates with the Thenardiers, and goes out to the toy store and buys the doll for Cosette. Returning, he informs the Thenardiers that he has come to pay the child's board bill, and take her away. They gleefully accept the money and Valjean departs with the little girl. Thenardier, thinking he might have got more, follows him, but Valjean shows him the note that Fantine had written before she died, telling him to take care of the child. Valjean realizes a sum of money on securities, and decides to live in an obscure house in the poor quarter of Paris with little Cosette, away from the prying police. But the janitress of the house becomes suspicious of her new tenants and calls in the police after peeping and observing Valjean counting money, an unusual thing in that quarter of Paris. Javert by this time has been appointed to the detective force of Paris. He considers this case worthy of his personal inspection and goes to Valjean's lodgings and secrets himself in the garret above Valjean's room. Valjean takes alarm at Javert's boring through the ceiling. He leaves quickly, carrying Cosette, but is followed by Javert and his men. He is cornered in a blind alley, but makes his escape with a clothes line by the thrilling and dramatic feat of scaling an almost perpendicular wall. After a night of suspense he finds himself biding in the grounds of a convent. Here he meets the old gardener, Fauchelevent, whom he assisted from under the wagon and obtained for him his present position. The old man shows his gratitude by giving them asylum and getting Valjean a position as assistant gardener. The old man introduces him to the nuns as his brother, and thereafter Valjean is known as "Fauchelevent." Javert gives up the hope of capturing Valjean. Years after, Valjean still known as "Fauchelevent," is living in quiet ease with Cosette, now grown up, as his daughter. The Thenardiers have moved to Paris and are living in poverty, under an assumed name. In the next room to them dwells Marius, a student. Thenardier frequently appeals to him for money, and usually gets some. Eponine, Thenardiers daughter, also grown up, has fallen deeply in love with Marius, unbeknown to him. Marius walks and studies in the park, and there for the first time sees Cosette, sitting with her "father" Valjean. The two young people are attracted by each other at once. A little later Valjean is accosted by Eponine who is begging. She tells a pitiful story and Valjean and Cosette decide to go to her home and investigate the condition she has told concerning her family. Arriving there, Valjean leaves his coat and money, but neither he nor Cosette are recognized by any of the Thenardiers. As they leave the place, Marius is just returning home and he again comes face to face with Cosette, an incident which Valjean does not seem to like. Cosette accidentally drops a rose, Marius quickly picks it up and presses it to his lips. This action is observed by Eponine who becomes intensely jealous. Valjean has left his address with the Thenardiers in case they should need any further assistance. Marius demands of Eponine to give him the address, and this she does in a spirit of self-sacrifice. Marius starts at once to the house where Valjean and Cosette reside. He writes a note declaring his love, and puts it on a garden bench where Eponine has informed him Cosette lingers every evening. At this moment Cosette appears, reads the note and is surprised by Marius who has stepped behind the bushes at her approach. Valjean coming, suspects something, though Marius gets out of the way, and Cosette is taken to task by her foster father for the first time in his life. Marius has a wealthy grandfather who dotes on the lad provided his wishes are followed. The young man writes him of his love for Cosette and begs his sanction to an early marriage. The grandfather sends for Marius and tells him he cannot consent. .Marius repudiates him then and leaves in high anger. -- Moving Picture World synopsis
- The extraordinary intelligence of this particular police dog will "get the film over" with any audience to the accompaniment of roars of laughter. While the particular cop to whom he is attached is taking him, securely fastened by a leash, on his rounds the dog spies a suspicious character in the shape of a cat. At once there is a grand uproar and pursuit. The cat goes like a streak, and so does the dog, dragging with him the poor cop. Through a sewer pipe into a muddy pool, over the rocks, the strange procession dashes. After this unfortunate "faux pas," the dog wisely keeps at a distance from the cop. A little later, seeing a beggar seated on the sidewalk with a card saying, "help the blind," the dog sees his opportunity. Holding up the beggar's hat in his teeth, he "begs" the passersby for alms. The "fake" blind beggar sees the resulting harvest with joy. But vengeance is near. The cop approaches and confiscates the ill-gotten gains. There are other amusing experiences which the dog goes through. Mr. Bray certainly had a pleasing flight of fancy when he made these pictures.
- Edwin Drake meets, at a summer resort, Ruth Borden, a charming and heartless adventuress. Deceived as to her true character, he is cleverly ensnared by the designing woman, who intends to use his affection for her as a means to secure money from him. Their engagement is announced and too late the dupe finds out the woman's true character. At the cost of most of his money he buys freedom from her and goes to a little farm which he owns in the country, sick at heart and poor in pocket. Beth, the daughter of a wealthy neighbor, becomes acquainted with Drake by chance, and there springs up in them a mutual interest in one another. Mr. Andrews, seeing his daughter, for whom he has higher plans, in conversation with the roughly clad stranger, is surprised and annoyed. His annoyance is not lessened when his friend, Dr. Wilson, who is visiting him, tells him that the stranger is a dear friend of his and so introduces the young farmer, and the haughty man of wealth to one another. At her father's wish, Beth avoids, but cannot forget, the handsome young neighbor. In the meantime, Weston, the accomplice of Ruth, gambles away the money extorted from Drake by the girl, and makes free even with the woman's jewelry in order to get funds to satisfy his passion. Two weeks later Drake, while working in the fields, suffers a sun stroke and takes to his bed, seriously ill. His condition growing worse, his little sister goes to the nearest house for help. She finds Beth giving a lawn party, and telling her of her trouble and anxiety, easily persuades her to come home with her and give her the assistance she needs. When Drake, a few days later, is able to be up again, he writes Beth, tells her that he is poor, but that he loves her, and asks her to meet him that evening at the rustic bridge. Beth, feeling the call of her heart stronger than the admonitions of her father, responds to the note in person, and then and there promises to marry him, the wedding taking place a few days later. In the meanwhile, Weston's losses at the gambling table have made him desperate and it occurs to Beth and him that they may be able to get additional money from Drake. At once they start to plan with that end in view. Beth at first charmed with the novelty of her new home, soon finds the drudgery of her household tasks irksome, and when her society friends call upon her and find her in her gingham dress, she begins to be ashamed of her position. Finally she secretly leaves the house and returns to her old home, intending to remain, but Dr. Wilson tells her that she will soon become a mother and that her duty lies with her husband. Going back to the little home, she sees Drake talking with a strange woman, and jumping to the conclusion that he is unfaithful to her, and knowing that her father has practically disowned her because of her marriage, she leaves the village to hide in a distant town. Drake's visitor is Ruth, endeavoring to get more money from him. In the presence of the doctor, who knows all, Drake orders her from his house for all time. How Ruth meets Beth and repents of her ways, how Dr. Wilson brings husband and wife together again, and how the baby drives away all dislike of poverty from Beth's life, end a very interesting and appealing drama.
- The scene opens in a railway station in France. Henri Marteau, the station master, Marie, his wife, and his little daughter are living happily. War is declared with Prussia and Marteau is one of the conscripts called out. A message is received from the War Department appointing Marie as station mistress during his absence. When leaving, Marie gives him a small photo of herself and little daughter. In a battle Marteau is mortally wounded. When dying, he gives the photos to the Prussian officer, who gave him his wound, with the request that he forward them to his wife with news of his death. Before he has time to give the officer the address, he dies. Later the station house is attacked and the officer in charge of the attacking force is wounded and left in charge of Marie. One day he gives Marie the photos of the dead soldier's wife and daughter with the request that she forward them. She discovers she has been nursing the man who killed her husband. The station house is used as a divisional point by the Prussian invaders, from which they send orders and information to their troops. Marie, faithful to her own country, taps the wires and learns all the plans of the attacking forces. Owing to the message she carries to the French commander, one division of the Prussian army is cut to pieces. Suspecting that the wires have been tapped, the Prussians watch and discover Marie in the act of taking word of the plans to the French. Marie is tried by court-martial and sentenced to death. The little girl goes to the Crown Prince to plead for her mother's life. She finally persuades him to pardon her mother, but before the messenger arrives the firing squad have done their work. Completely prostrated by the loss of both her parents, the little girl collapses on the grave of her mother.
- The revenue men in New York are after the smugglers of opium and find that a certain Chinaman is in the habit of receiving a supply of the drug at stated periods. They follow him in the hope they will be led to the headquarters of the international band, who they feel sure are back of the traffic. The Chinaman fails to pay on time for the last supply he has received, and in turn the New York distributor is unable to send the money to the headquarters of the gang. This brings the chief to New York to investigate. While there he visits his broker, John Maxwell. He intends his visit to be secret, but is seen by one of the stenographers. This incenses him and angry words pass. In the meantime the Chinaman comes to the office and pays his bill. As the clerk is making out the receipt the detectives raid the place and find the dead body of the broker. All suspicion points to the clerk, who is accused of the murder of his employer. He is taken away by one of the detectives, but makes his escape. He goes to the North Country, makes application to join the Boundary Riders, and after a probation is accepted as an agent of law and order. On one of his patrols he finds a note that gives him a clue to the headquarters of the opium smugglers. The detective from the New York office of the Revenue Service comes to the camp of the riders to continue his investigations. There he recognizes the clerk. The clerk employs a clever woman investigator, who in guise of a Chinaman gets employment as a cook at the smugglers' headquarters. With the information she secures, he leads the revenue men to the headquarters of the gang. The raid is successful, but as all are congratulating the new member on his success the detective steps up and arrests him on the charge of murdering his employer. The investigator, however, has done her work well and produces a coat belonging to the head smuggler from which are torn two pieces which exactly match two pieces of cloth found in the hand of the dead man. This exonerates the clerk and puts added power in the hands of the government men.
- The Archduke Rodolphe d'Illyrie is secretly united to Countess Sarah Mac Gregor and they have a daughter together. The young woman learns that her father-in-law is potting to have the marriage annulled so she writes her brother to ask him to get rid of the old man. When her letter is intercepted, she leaves her child in the care of farmers near Paris and escapes to America. The Archduke finds the whereabouts of his daughter but he finds the house has been destroyed by a criminal fire and figures that she died. He sets out to find his daughter's murderers and meets the evil Schoolmaster and his friend la Chouette. They actually hide the child, that they call Fleur de Marie, and force her to beg for their profit.
- Ben Chambers is invited to a house party by Mrs. Chauncey, who has three daughters. Two of them are on the threshold of old maids and, fearing the attractions of their younger sister, with their mother try to keep her out of the way of Mr. Chambers. She is dressed as a girl of fifteen and confined to her room. Mr. Chambers arrives, finds himself the recipient of embarrassing attention from the two older sisters. Wearied, he seeks the gardener and learns from him that there is splendid trout fishing nearby. He leaves the party to go fishing. At the same time the young prisoner decides to go a-wading. As Chambers is casting his line the fly hook catches the damsel's tiny shoe. He draws it to him, seeks the owner, but catches a hasty glimpse of her retreating through the woods. The next day he renews his search after first satisfying himself that the shoe belongs to no one in the party. He finds the girl and the old story of the fairy prince and Cinderella is re-enacted.