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- Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a hideous, shriveled-up old man taps him upon the shoulder and whispers vaguely of a big inheritance for Prague's finest swordsman and wildest student if he will enter into a certain agreement. Balduin rebuffs him, satirically asking his weird companion to procure him "the luckiest ticket in a lottery or a doweried wife." The old man goes off chuckling and thence onward persistently shadows Balduin, exerting a sinister influence over him, while Balduin is still disconsolate under the frowns of fortune. The Countess Margit Schwarzenberg, hunting with her cousin, to whom her father has betrothed her, meets with an accident. She is thrown over her horse's head into a river, but Balduin, who has been directed to the spot by his evil genius, plunges in and rescues her. Subsequently Balduin calls to inquire as to her condition at the castle of her father, the count, but be makes a hurried departure when Baron Waldis arrives, the contrast in their appearance discrediting him. His desire to win the countess and to humiliate the baron becomes so pronounced that he readily accedes to the compact suggested by Scapinelli, the old man, who has so pertinaciously dogged his footsteps, particularly when he learns that untold wealth and power will be his when he assigns to the other the right to take from his room whatever he chooses for his own use as he desires. The agreement is signed. Balduin receives a shower of gold and notes as his portion; Scapinelli takes Balduin's soul exposed in concrete form by his shadow. Balduin prosecutes his love affair assiduously and with apparent success, till the baron is informed of it by a jealous gypsy girl. He challenges Balduin to a duel, and the latter, assured of his superiority as a fencer, readily agrees. Count Schwarzenberg learns of the impending duel and appeals to Balduin not to kill "my sister's child, my daughter's future husband, and my heir." Balduin gives his promise, but when he goes to the venue of the duel he meets, his own counterpart stalking away derisively wiping his gory sword on his cloak. Balduin turns and in the far distance sees the dying victim of the deed he swore he would not do. He rushes from the spot horror-stricken. When he regains sufficient composure he makes his way to the castle of the count, but is refused admission. Determined to explain that he had no complicity in the death of the baron, Balduin climbs into a room in which the countess is seated. She receives him coldly, but soon succumbs to his ardent wooing. Just as he seeks to leave her she notices he has no shadow and that the mirror gives no reflection of him; and she drops back affrighted, the ghastly apparition of himself which takes shape in the corner of the room sends Balduin scuttling away from the castle in a paroxysm of terror. He makes a frenzied flight through a woodland estate and the streets of Prague, but wherever he stops to recover his breath he is haunted by the counterpart of himself. He reaches his rooms and draws a murderous looking fire-arm from its case. As the phantasmagorical figure strides towards him with a sinister grin, he fires, and in a few minutes the blood gushes from his own side from a fatal wound.
- The gift of seeing into the hearts of others is given to a young artist by Brandis. He now looks at the people he comes into contact with and realizes they are not what they appear.
- Thomas Lehr keeps his pistol in a drawer at his office. When a young clerk Schimdt, dreaming of migrating to the USA, steals the weapon and uses it while plundering the company the owner of the gun, Lehr, becomes a suspect.
- Tim Nissen, whom everyone just calls "Evinrude", has made a fortune in the Wild West. In his private life as well as in his business policy, his approach is anything but sensitive, the powerful man of power takes what he wants. One day Evinrude smells big business when he learns that the engineer Addison has developed a revolutionary "dynamite engine" and steals it. Evinrude has big plans. To do this, he must first ditch his lover Margaret so that he can devote himself entirely to the young Ellen Wentheim, the daughter of the influential and powerful Colonel Wentheim.
- Documentary on the Second Balkan War of June-August 1913.
- Haskell Brown takes up the promotion of the "Golden Nugget" Mining Company, and staking his honor on the proposition advises all his friends to buy stock in it. One of them, Robert Truesdell, a wealthy manufacturer, not only invests heavily himself but recommends the purchase of the stock to his workmen. A flood of orders for the stock is the consequent result. No sooner is the company successfully launched than Brown gives a reception to his friends who have invested in it. At the reception are Truesdell and George Thurston, the latter being the fiancé of Marietta, Brown's daughter. At the height of the merriment Brown receives a cable from the manager of the mine to the effect that the mine shows a two million dollar deficit. Overwhelmed he retires to his room and kills himself. The next day Brown's house is mobbed by the angry workingmen who have lost their all. Truesdell stands by Marietta in her distress and promises to pay every cent the men have invested. Thurston deserts Marietta now penniless, and Truesdell takes the forlorn girl under his wing and later marries her. Five years later the Truesdells are happy in their little home with the daughter that has been born to them. By dint of hard labor Truesdell has paid back every cent to the persons who invested in the defunct mine at his advice. Like a serpent there re-enters into their Eden Thurston, now returned from the far east. Seeing Marietta's beauty his old infatuation returns and he treacherously revives the old love in the girl's heart. She confesses this to her husband, and obtains a separation from him. Finding out too late the fickle nature of Thurston, and the broken hearts he has caused, she visits upon him a terrible vengeance which she expiates by a term in prison. To her, sick and hopeless, comes Truesdell and in his arms she finds forgiveness.
- 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.
- In this early version the classic "Hound of the Baskervilles" mystery is not faithfully adapted, Watson's character is absent and there are two Holmes. Holmes' foe is called Stapleton and he menaces Holmes' client Lord Henry and his fiancée, Laura Lyons, masquerading himself as Holmes. Hidden passages, hand bombs and mechanical devices abound, reminding more of a serial than of a Conan Doyle story.
- Inge, an orphan, is employed by a well-to-do fisherman in a small village. As is customary, she is treated as one of the family. Jan, the son of the fisherman, falls in love with her and wins her. His mother has other aspirations for her boy. The girl's lover is approached by his neighbors, who engage in smuggling, and is told he can make money by joining them. He yields and casts his lot with theirs. Inge, seeing them leave in their motorboat to meet a smuggling vessel, requests to be taken along and is granted. The contraband goods are no sooner removed from the vessel to their motorboat than they are pursued by the revenue men. The young fisherman and his companions have barely landed when the revenue cutter overhauls them. The young men escape among the cliffs and are pursued. Meantime, Inge has escaped with the motorboat and signals the smugglers from the water. By her assistance the smugglers escape the revenue men and return. Jan is informed by his father of the receipt of a letter from the magistrate of the place, calling attention to Jan's engagement to his daughter and that it is only because of the engagement that he has refrained from foreclosing a mortgage on his home. Alarmed by the threat, Jan's father takes him to the magistrate's house and plans for a speedy marriage. Meantime, Inge informs Jan's mother he has promised to marry her, and she is an expectant mother. Infuriated, the old woman turns her out of the house. The poor girl seeks refuge with her aunt. Jan refuses to have anything to do with her, even when the baby is born. The day of the wedding arrives. Jan is driving his father and mother to the magistrate's house. Inge tries to stop him and listen to one last plea. He refuses and strikes her with his whip. Inge goes to the revenue inspectors and tells them of the cave where the smugglers store their goods, revealing the guilt of Jan. She soon repents this and informs one of Jan's friends that the revenue men are on his trail. Arriving a few minutes before the revenue men at the magistrate's house, the friend warns the bridegroom-to-be and the wedding guests see with consternation Jan leave in haste, while the final words of the ceremony are yet to be pronounced. Inge meets Jan, takes him to a sail boat, and together they escape. Pursued by the revenue cutter, they fail to stop and Jan is shot down. Left without anyone at the tiller, the little boat is capsized, and the girl and her betrayer drown in each other's arms.
- Theodore Reibeth, a medical student, is introduced to Mlle. Aut Nissen in a moving picture studio where she is taking one of the leading roles. He is attracted to her by her unusual beauty and charm. Circumstances later make it possible for him to see her frequently at her home, and he falls in love with her. Mlle. Nissen is very fond of animals and has in her apartments a private collection of lions which she shows to him. Reibeth's graduation is at hand when he receives a letter from his brother telling him that through unfortunate investments their fortune has been lost. In this predicament Mlle. Nissen comes to his aid and lends him enough money to finish his studies, which he accepts and graduates with high honors. Later at a reception Reibeth sees Mlle. Nissen flirting with another man. He protests very strongly and the controversy causes a rupture which separates them. Years pass and he almost forgets the celebrated actress. His wedding announcement in one of the papers, however, comes to the attention of Mlle. Nissen who asks him to call. He does so and the old love returns. His faith in his former love is still so great that he allows himself to be blindfolded by her and led into one of the lower portions of the house. When he tears the blindfold from his eyes he discovers he is in the den of lions. With death in a terrible form almost upon him he manages to escape. Mlle. Nissen seeing him free makes her own life a penance for the tragic deed she had planned.