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- With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
- At a tramcar in Copenhagen the piano teacher Magda Vang meets the young man Knud Svane, who falls in love with her. She is invited to spend the summer with him and his parents at the vicarage in Gjerslev. Outside the vicarage a circus troupe passes by, and Magda is saluted by the performer Rudolph Stern. In the night Rudolph climbs a ladder to Magda's bedroom. She tries to flee his advances, but after a hot kiss she surrenders, and runs away with him. Magda is hired as a dancer with Rudolph at the Empire Varieté. When Rudolph fondles a ballet dancer Magda gets furious, and starts a fight in front of the audience. Magda and Rudolph are fired. To earn some money Rudolph forces Magda to play the piano in a band at a garden restaurant. Knud turns up and recognizes her. Incognito he asks her for a private meeting. Magda thinks she is asked to sell her body and refuses, but Rudolph forces her to go. When Rudloph after a while interrupts and finds Magda with Knud, he gets furious and starts to beat her. During the turmoil she grabs a knife and stabs Rudolph in his chest. In her despair she clings to his dead body, and has to be taken away by force.
- Back from a crusade, the hero of Sir Walter Scott's novel fights for courtly love and Saxon honor.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- Terence Tightwad does not approve of the attentions paid to his daughter Marion by Harry Lightfoot; neither does family dog Murphy. Murphy and old Tightwad show their displeasure at Harry's insistence on visiting the Tightwad home by combining in a "free-for-all" fight with him, from which Harry emerges "third best." When old Tightwad spirits Marion away to a nearby resort hotel, Harry picks up the love trail, follows, and finds employment at the hotel as a bellboy. Overcoming all the hazards of the militant father's objections, Harry finally escapes in a spectacular manner with Marion, leaving father and the dog to fight it out.
- Episode 1: "The Last Cigarette" In the Bergenschloss the heads of Saxonia's secret service are in consultation over the fate of one of their men who has failed in his mission to a South American republic on account of the watchfulness of Yorke Norroy, a diplomatic agent and the cleverest man in the American secret service, who poses as a man of fashion. The Saxonian chiefs lay plans for his destruction. Minna Ober, whose father has been sentenced to death for murder, comes to plead for clemency. The chief offers the man a chance for his life if he will dispose of Yorke Norroy. Ober accepts. The papers have given publicity to the escape of Max Ober, and Huntley Carson, the confidant of Yorke Norroy, warns Norroy that Ober is after him. They attend the reception at the Saxonian embassy in Washington some time later and recognize Ober. Norroy is apparently absorbed in a flirtation with a stranger, who in reality is Minna Ober. Her father is counting upon her to lure Norroy to an empty house. Minna is successful. Norroy is roughly pushed into a room and falls. He rises, brushes his clothes, annoyed by the dust and Ober informs him that unless he discloses the history of his defeat of their plans he will be put to death. He insists upon Norroy's writing the story in detail. Norroy complies, but asks permission to smoke a cigarette. He takes out his case and sees in its polished surface that Ober gives directions to shoot him when he has finished writing. He lights a cigarette, and smokes it in the intervals of writing the story. Then he lays the cigarette on the table and proceeds. The cigarette explodes, and Norroy makes his escape. When the smoke has cleared away, Ober and his daughter read on the paper, "Tell your chief that Yorke Norroy sends Max Ober back to the Bergenschloss to pay the penalty."
- The IMP star King Baggot plays 10 different characters. Cut off from the world, with their comfortable home buried in a picturesque garden of trees and flowers, William Clark and his wife live the lonely life of a couple who has known deep sorrow. Their only servant is an Asian man. Years before, their only son, a wayward, fun-loving boy, left them. As the story opens, this boy returns like the Prodigal Son to enjoy the fatted calf, but in this case the father finds it wise to send him on his way with enough money to start life afresh. The evening following the son's second departure from his father's house, a thief breaks in. He encounters the Chinese servant and assaults and robs him of his savings. Among the coins obtained are a few Chinese coppers. The old father, hearing the scuffle, starts for the kitchen. He is intercepted by the crook, who accidentally kills him. Shortly after Mrs. Clark discovers the awful tragedy and immediately notifies the police. King Baggott, the famous detective, is put on the case. In search for a clue, King visits a tavern. He overhears a quarrel between the crook and his sweetheart; the latter throws the money he has given her in the crook's face. One of the coins rolls to where King is seated. Examination discloses it to be a Chinese coin. In the meantime the son had been arrested and accused of the crime. Circumstantial evidence points strongly to him as the perpetrator. However, King believes the boy innocent. He visits the servant who identifies the coins, but is unable to give a description of the thief. King hurries back to the tavern in time to take up the trail of the crook. He follows to a lodging house. The crook's strange actions convince King of his guilt. From a nearby telephone he calls the police station and gives instruction to have plain clothes men sent to assist in the arrest of Clark's murderer. On the arrival of the detectives. King breaks in the door. A terrific fight ensues; King pursues the crook up the stairs and onto the roof. Then follows a thrilling pistol duel. The crook is finally "winged" with a well-directed shot and falls over the roof casing to the ground, several stories below. He lives long enough to clear the son of suspicion. The story closes with the son leaving the jail in the arms of his aged mother and King showing the satisfaction of a deed well done. As a closing feature to the play, one intended to convince the spectator of the fact that Mr. Baggott enacts every role, we have various short scenes showing the artist in the make-up of each character and removing the make-up as each scene fades into another.
- The young American lieutenant is deeply in love with the handsome Spanish-Filipino girl, and one day, as he is visiting her in the little bamboo cottage, their love-making is interrupted by the appearance of a corporal who bears a note that tells the young officer to report at headquarters at once, and that the next transport is to take him home. The girl cannot read but sees that his expression has changed, and asks him why. He cannot tell her, but caressing her fondly, leaves her. To headquarters he goes, and the commanding officer hands him a letter in which his father says that he has provided for his future at Washington; that he should come home at once and marry the girl to whom he is engaged. The realization of the great bearing this has on his love for the Filipino girl overwhelms him, and he sinks into a chair, dropping the letter to the floor. In this be has not been unobserved, for the girl has been peering in through the lattice, and now, stealthily, she picks up the letter. Meanwhile, the lieutenant, pacing the room, is suffering untold tortures. Thrice he resolves to leave and thrice be resolves to stay. Finally, as the time for departure draws near, he follows the call of his love and cables home that he will come, but with another bride! Handing the cable to the corporal, be sets out to tell the dusky beauty the news. And none too soon does he arrive, for, her heart strings torn asunder by the prospects of the bitter disappointment, she is about to end it all with one thrust from the keen blade she holds in her hand. And the rose is saved for both of them.
- A girl saves her sweetheart from the dealings of a deceitful gang that he has fallen in with.
- Shamus O'Brien was a patriot and in fighting for his country places himself in the position of a rebel with a price on his head. He is hiding in the hills, but anxious to attend a dance, at which his friends and sweetheart will be present, sends word that he will be there. Arrangements are made for the dance, and Shamus surprises the guests by appearing in a surprising manner. Michael O'Farrell, who has not met with success in his suit for the hand of Aileen Brennan, the sweetheart of Shamus, learns of his whereabouts and notifies the Redcoats. They reach the barn, where the dance is taking place, too late to capture the patriot, who escapes to the loft, only to return as the girl of his heart is being insulted by Captain McDonald. O'Brien floors the officer and makes a thrilling escape, only to be again given up by O'Farrell, when he is visiting his mother. He is then taken to prison and stands trial. He is convicted and the day of the execution set. As this draws near, his mother makes a plea to the parish priest for help which is readily given and through a ruse Shamas is saved, and the picture closes as the mother, son and sweetheart sail for America.
- Things go too far for a group of bullies, when Raymond, a 12-year old boy with a troubled life, who they make fun of and tease for their amusement is hit by a car.
- Mrs. Harry Hawkins has the ill fortune to drop her chain purse on the street and the still greater misfortune to have it picked up by Cyril Percy, who returns it to her in a most gushing manner. After she has thanked him and turned to walk away, he gazes at her receding form, enraptured by her appearance and straight-way follows her. When she reaches her home, he again accosts her, but she escapes him by running into the house and slamming the door in his face. Cyril, however, belongs to the persistent and irrepressible order of mashers, and so running around the house and climbing up onto a snowbank, he peers into a window, and seeing her inside telling her trouble to Molly, the maid, he raises the window and entering the room, rushes to her side and declares his undying affection for her. She beats a hasty retreat, ordering Molly to show him the door. He is not at all discouraged by his reception, but handing Molly a liberal tip, begs her to secrete him somewhere until he has the opportunity of meeting his inamorata again. Molly puts him in a large closet and then, looking out of the window, sees her sweetheart, Mike Dugan, a second-rate heavyweight prize fighter. She invites him in and explains the situation to him and asks him to throw the unwelcome visitor out of the house. Before, however, she can tell him where Cyril is concealed, she is called from the room. Then Harry Hawkins, the husband, who has been away on a trip, arrives home and as he answers to the description of Cyril, Mike "gets busy" and with a mighty lift, shoots Hawkins through the window onto the snowbank. Mrs. Hawkins and Molly then enter and Mike tells them that he has done what he was requested to do. Mrs. Hawking is delighted and thanking him heartily, she rewards him by giving him a bill of a large denomination. The three of them leave the room. Poor Hawkins has by this time gathered himself together and returned to the house, where he meets Cyril, who has come from the closet. Cyril is busy explaining that he has called on business, when Mike re-enters the room, and while Cyril again returns to his closet, seizes Hawkins and once more fires him from the window. Hawkins is again entering the front door when he meets the expressman with his trunk and quickly unpacking it, he gets into it and orders the man to deliver him inside. His orders are obeyed and he once more finds himself back in the room. As he starts to raise the lid, he hears someone coming and lets it fall back into place. Mrs. Hawkins, Molly and Mike are entering the room just as the lid falls and thinking the ubiquitous Cyril is concealed in the trunk, Mike picks it up and hurls it from the window and Hawkins again lands on the snowbank. Then Mike recalls the expressman and orders him to take the trunk away. Hawkins falls through the bottom of the trunk and again braves the front door. No sooner does Mike see him than he seizes him and is proceeding to shake the life out of him, when Mrs. Hawkins rushes to the rescue and explains matters. Then Cyril, the unsuppressible, peers curiously and cautiously from his hiding place and, well, he also goes flying through the window, propelled by the united efforts of Mike and Hawkins, and peace at last spreads her wings over the home of the Hawkinses.
- Barnard Powers, with two servants, enters his library after being aroused by a noise, to find his safe rifled. He sees a figure disappear through the window. Powers' revolver shots evidently have no effect. Powers advises the Absolute Protection Company in the morning that his golden statue of Buddha, which he insured with them for $100,000, has been stolen. Duval, the company's investigator, is mystified by seeing a number of Hindoos lurking about Powers' house, and also by the actions of Powers and his wife, who signal to each other when talking to him. Duval discovers that the revolver which Powers had used in shooting at the burglars contained blank cartridges. Powers, while reading in his library, is spirited away by Duval and his men. Duval locks himself in Powers' bedroom. In the night, the leader of the Hindoos enters through the window. A fight takes place and the Hindoo escapes. Mrs. Powers, alarmed by the noise of the struggles, is told by Duval, who imitates Powers' voice, to see if the Buddha is safe. Duval, tracking her through the house, is astonished to see her fishing in the conservatory pool for the Buddha. Powers is returned to his seat in the library by the detectives and gradually recovers consciousness. He is told by his wife that the Buddha is still safe. After going to bed, Mrs. Powers, nervous and restless, cannot sleep. To reassure herself, she goes to her husband's room. The room is a wreck. Powers is gone. In the hands of the Hindoos, Powers tells them that the Buddha has been stolen. At the pistol point they force him to telephone to his wife, and tell her to come to their rooms. Mrs. Powers arrives and also is made a prisoner. Failing to force either prisoner to tell where they have hidden the Buddha. Powers is tortured. Mrs. Powers collapses under the racking strain of seeing a red hot iron about to burn out her husband's eyes, and confesses. Powers leads the Hindoos to his home and into the conservatory. Powers and his wife, grimly watched by the Hindoos, fish for the Buddha buried in the sand of the fountain. It is not there. Then the fountain figure jumps into life. Duval's wet hands slips manacles on the husband and wife's wrists, while from the adjoining rooms rush policemen who give savage battle to the Hindoos and finally beat them into submission. Then it comes to light that the Buddha, hidden by Mrs. Powers to effect the insurance swindle, had in turn been stolen from the Hindoos, who were wanted by the Bombay police for stealing it from the Scientific Institute in that city.
- Jake's wife fears he has made good his suicide threat after he has caught her making love to the Dude in his own home. During the last minute preparations for Jake's funeral, the mourners are suddenly surprised to find him sitting upright in their midst.
- Actress Violet Marcell holds her fatherless babe in her arms as a messenger boy brings her a telegram: "Join the show at Conness, N.H., Tickets await you at station." While she packs her trunk, Violet wonders what she will do with her babe. As a washerwoman with her basket full of clean linen enters the house Violet hastily tucks her child in the basket while the washerwoman is engaged elsewhere, and leaves. The washerwoman, ignorant of the infant in the basket, leaves it with Mrs. Evans, who later opens the basket and finds the baby, to whose dress is pinned the following note: "Kind neighbor, I trust you will care for my little Violet. A poor unfortunate mother." Evans is angered that his wife should be imposed upon by an actress who has erred and brusquely declares his intention of sending "the brat" to the poorhouse. Mrs. Evans pleads with her husband to permit the baby to stay and finally Evans consents. Years pass. "Little Bill" Evans, Violet's childhood playmate, has become "Big Bill," one of the best halfbacks ever turned out at his college. He returns from school at the end of the semester and is met at the railroad station by Violet, his father and mother. Bill is a little embarrassed in Violet's presence and finds it difficult to take up his friendship where he left off. In the days that follow, however, their friendship is renewed and gradually ripens into love. While Violet was a little girl not yet in her teens there came to the Evans home one day a trunk marked "Violet Marcell, Theatrical." A letter followed from the manager of the show with which little Violet's mother had been playing, which told of the death of Violet Marcel, and who, before her death, requested the manager of the show to send her trunk to the guardian of her child, stipulating that the trunk must not be opened until her daughter reached her maturity. Upon Bill's return from college he and Violet come across the trunk. Violet remembers the letter sent years before and feels that she is now old enough to open the old trunk. They find a box of grease paints and have a lively time making up and "playing theater" as they did years before as youngsters. Evans sees the growing friendship between his son and Violet and does his best to discourage it. Evans finally accuses Violet with trying to bewitch his son and the next morning she carries out her resolution to leave for the city. She secures a position in a garment making shop, where she is promptly invited out to dinner by the manager. When she refuses she is discharged. Florence, a dance hall artist, who boards in the same house with Violet, helps her to secure a position in a cabaret and music hall, where she "makes good." She writes a letter home to 'Mother" Evans. Bill gets the letter and determines to follow her. Bill meets two friends in the city and drops into the cabaret where Violet is playing. At the moment he enters, Violet is insulted by two strangers who sit down at the table where she and Florence are resting. Billie takes Violet home and the next day they are married. The same day Billie meets his mother's old beau, Jim Ridgway. He tells Ridgway of his marriage, and upon arriving home Ridgway tells Mrs. Evans. Mrs. Evans is overjoyed and in her excitement consents to go to the city with Ridgway to meet Violet and her son. Evans sees his wife leave with his old rival and is infuriated. He trails them to the city, where he and the policeman break into the boarding house, only to find a happy little reunion between Violet. "Mother" Evans and her son. Evans forgives his son and takes Violet into his arms.
- Jimmie Keene is an ardent devotee of the manly art of self-defense and never misses a boxing match when he can help it. Jimmie's father, however, being a deacon in the church naturally frowns upon such affairs, regarding them as brutal and demoralizing. Jimmie buys a ticket for an exhibition of this nature, but in rushing out of the house to attend it, he drops his ticket and leaves without it. The ticket is picked up by the maid, who hands it to Deacon Keene, who regards it with horror. Jimmie returns in search of the lost pasteboard and finds that his father has it. The deacon starts to reprove Jimmie, but the latter turns defeat into victory, by persuading his father to accompany him and judge with his own eyes whether or not boxing exhibitions are a pernicious form of amusement. At the height of the "star bout," when everyone is yelling at the top of his lungs, even including Deacon Keene, who is thoroughly enjoying himself, the place is raided by the police. Jimmie and his father make a tolerable "getaway" down the fire escape, but are closely pursued by a persistent officer, who would certainly have "landed" the deacon had not Jimmie displayed some of his science and "handed" him and uppercut, which sent the policeman "to the mat," where he "took the count." Father and son arrive at their own garden wall and are just clearing it, when the officer overtakes them and making a grab at Jimmie, tears off a piece of his coat. When the policeman tries to follow them, he is stopped by the large and healthy family watchdog, and remains to argue the matter with him. When the fugitive arrives in the house, Elsie, Jimmie's sister, who is "wise" to the whole thing, assists Jimmie in disguising himself in the maid's clothes. The policeman, having pacified "Hector," enters and demands the surrender of the individual who has resisted arrest by knocking him down. Deacon Keene, who is found busily reading a deeply religious book and nursing a black eye, is surprised at the intrusion and denies knowledge of anything. The officer searches the house and finds the torn coat, which matches the piece of goods he still holds and insists upon an explanation. Then Jimmie appears as the maid, and by his coquettish arts wins the attention of the representative of the law to such an extent that he completely forgets his mission and being escorted to the kitchen, divides his time between drinking a bottle of beer and making love to the attractive domestic. He finally leaves, escorted to the back gate by Jimmie. When Jimmie returns to the library, he falls into his father's arms, who embraces him warmly. Jimmie's mother then appears, and is horrified at seeing her staid old husband in such a familiar attitude with a strange maid-servant. But the deacon laughs and says, as his son removes his false hair and cap, "Why, it's only Jimmie, having a little fun."
- Walter Stoddard, a wealthy broker, believes firmly in social caste. When he discovers that his son Jack is interested in his stenographer, Jane Godfrey, he tells the young man that he will not countenance love-making between the two. To be certain that nothing comes of their growing friendship, he discharges Jane. Jack, incensed, feels that his father has no right to control his friendships, and while in this mood, he chances to meet Steve Rowe, who is a thief. Rowe intimates that if ever the time comes when it is necessary to make some easy money, he will help him. As a birthday present for his wife, Walter Stoddard buys a valuable jewel. Jack, estranged from his father, has been unable to secure work, and is discouraged, especially when he discovered that Jane has been discharged. One night he happens to see Jane on the street and finds that the girl is suffering from want of food. He remembers Steve's suggestion, and tells the girl that he will soon have plenty of money, and that they will marry that night. Leaving her for a short time, he steals home and secures the jewel his father bought. He hunts up Steve, and the latter takes him to the place where he can dispose of the jewel, but lets Jack go in alone. Jack enters the place and approaches the counter where two gloved hands take the jewel and give him the money. Suddenly the hands flash a light on Jack's face. Jack tries to throw the light upon the old man. In the struggle, Jack hits the old man, and, thinking he has killed him, rushes from the place. He finally confesses to Jane what he fears he has done. The girl tells him that she will not marry him, and begs him to go home and tell his people what he has done, while she waits outside. Stoddard, coming home, discovers the girl and takes her inside. In the library, he has a talk with his son and shows him the jewel. It turns out that Stoddard himself is the fence through which the crooks dispose of their ill-gotten goods. The old man now awakens to the fact that he is a thief maker. He consents to the marriage of Jane and Jack.
- Hester Prynne has left Holland in advance of her husband, Roger, to join the colonists in Salem, Maxx. Roger follows her to the new world but upon landing in New England is captured by Indians and Hester waits for him in vain. There has never been much love in their marriage, Roger being an old man and she a comely young woman. Rev. Arthur Dimmesdale, the handsome Young minister of the Salem community, is revered and beloved by his parishioners. He meets Hester clandestinely and an unlawful love is the result. When Hester is discovered with a baby, a mother but not a wife, she is arrested, tried and condemned to stand upon the public pillory with her child and for the remainder of her life to wear conspicuously on her breast the letter "A." As she stands on the raised platform, the governor of the colony commands her to divulge the name of the father of the child. She refuses. The Rev. Master Dimmesdale is asked to persuade her to reveal her secret. He addresses her, and tells her if she thinks it for the best, to do so. She again refuses. Roger, her husband, has been released by the red men and he appears in Salem on the day of her public disgrace and recognizes her. He signals for her to be silent as the recognition is mutual. A silence for a silence is agreed upon. He takes the name of Roger Chillingworth and, being a physician, is called to prescribe for the suffering minister, knowing him to be the father of Hester's child. The child, Pearl, grows into a beautiful girl and the governor decides that Hester is not the proper person to rear her. Hester in her grief, appeals to the minister and he in turn prevails on the governor to allow her the custody of the child. As time passes the minister is growing weaker and weaker in bodily strength and the guilty secret gives him no peace of mind. Meeting Hester and Little Pearl by accident, he tells the woman of his terrible punishment. She, in love and pity, tears the letter from her breast and proposes that they leave the country together to begin life anew. Little Pearl finds the letter and restores it to Hester and they realize they cannot escape the consequences of their sinning. On a holiday the minister preaches a powerful sermon in the church on the sins of the flesh and the penalty for evil doing. As he appears in the market place, he is cheered by the members of his congregation. He is overcome by emotion as the awful truth is brought home to him that he is a hypocrite. Seeing Hester and Little Pearl standing near, he pulls himself together by a mighty effort and resolves to confess his sins publicly. Taking them by the hands, he slowly and deliberately mounts the pillory, with Hester amazed, and then, to the astonishment of his flock and the loungers standing near, proclaims Pearl as his child and arraigns himself as a sinful teacher. The members of the church are appalled and dumb with astonishment. They cannot comprehend it. Hester smiles through her tears. She will no longer bear the burden of shame alone. The moment has arrived when she is partially vindicated by the self-sacrifice of the sharer of her degradation. The final effort, coupled with years of intense suffering, proves too great a tax on the strength of the minister and he falls dead at the foot of the pillory. Hester supports his head, with tears coursing down her cheeks. The vindication has come, but with it has gone the man she has loved in secret while being subjected to the jeers of her fellows.
- Captain Gant is a hard man. The closest he had ever come to having a friend was in the person of his mate, Warren Gillcrest. The captain was hated by his men. A few hours out of port, the men's dissatisfaction over their treatment comes to a head and they are on the point of attacking the captain when the leader counsels the men to wait until the ship is further away from land. The captain sees the signs of dissatisfaction among his men and returns to his cabin to prepare for it. As he starts down the gangway his attention is suddenly attracted to one of the hatchways, and watching unobserved, he sees a slight figure, dressed as a boy, emerge. When the captain confronts the stowaway the shock causes the stranger to stagger backward. Gant, seeing that it is a girl, takes her into his cabin and then attacks her. Gillcrest has overheard the scuffle and realizes what is going on. He is unable to stand the thought of the girl being in the captain's power, and in spite of consequences, goes to her assistance. He and Gant have a fight, in which the captain is knocked out. Gillcrest takes the girl to the deck, and is on the point of lowering her to one of the boats when he looks back and sees the crew sneaking towards the captain's cabin. The captain, meanwhile, has rushed on deck and finds himself in the midst of the men. They have a fierce fight and the captain is about overpowered from numbers when the leader is knocked out. The others hesitate, and at this moment Gillcrest rushes in and the crew all quit fighting. Gant is down. The girl rushes up and they find that he is seriously hurt. Gillcrest and the girl take him to his cabin and try to ease the last moments, but it is all in vain and the captain slowly sinks. He gradually loses his strength and begs forgiveness of both Gillcrest and the girl and tells them that he has always been among hard people and that is what had caused him to become so hard. As they forgive him the captain sinks back and his life slowly leaves.
- Silas and Maggie reside in the country and are sweethearts. Silas comes courting, bringing his violin. Silas and Maggie marry and go to the city. The story is carried forward ten years and they have a child eight years old, Dora. Silas has become a successful business man and Maggie and he have drifted apart. At a ball at his home Silas shows a partiality for a society woman. Maggie is piqued and in a spirit of revenge allows Hamilton to pay her marked attentions. The next day Maggie becomes desperate in her loneliness and telephones Hamilton to come and take her out for an auto ride. He takes her to a roadhouse of somewhat shady repute. Silas and the society woman come to the same place and are ushered into an adjoining room. In the meantime little Dora finds her father's violin, which has been stored away for years. Silas hears Maggie's voice and she recognizes his and leaves the room, leaving Hamilton there. Silas creates a scene by breaking in the door and attacking Hamilton. Maggie hurries home and is met by Dora, who has her father's violin; they pack and go back to the farm. Silas returns home, sees the violin which has been left behind; it awakens tender memories and he hurries after his wife and child. They are reunited and once more happy.
- Gilder, a clerk, is charged with embezzlement, and put in jail. He manages to escape and returns to see his wife and child. He finds a note from her saying that she has gone with another man. He is leaving with vengeance in his heart, when stopped by the detective. He tells him that he can go free, if he will reveal the hiding place of the money. He does so. His wife then rushes into the room, telling Gilder that it is all a trick, and that the detectives have forced her to write the note. He goes into the bedroom with her, and breaks down beside the child's crib. The phone rings, and the detective learns that they have found the money and with it the president of the bank, who has used Gilder as his tool. The detective informs Gilder, and advises him to tell the State all he knows, and that he will probably be freed.
- Sloane, a retired multimillionaire, disputed the contentions of Van Dyke that clothes and money makes the man, and upheld his views that any man with ordinary intelligence can be made a man of culture and education. To prove his argument, he takes a man from one of the mills of his friends. Larry O'Neill, tall and powerful and young, swung his heavy sledge with powerful blows. Sloane guessed he would do. And so, after a little parley, Larry sat on the edge of a chair in Sloane's mansion that evening while Sloane explained the proposition. And so it came about that Larry was dressed in the latest cut of clothes of the best materials and became Mr. Lawrence O'Neill, with iron and steel interests. He made a hit at the club at the start. Larry made a greater hit at Mildred Harmon's reception, putting Van Dyke and one or two others of the club to rout in the race for Mildred's favors. But he kept his head, and conducted himself altogether in such a way that old man Sloane was proud of him and bore him away to the regret of everybody but Van Dyke. But Larry had started something. It grew and ripened until it was an everyday sight to see Mildred and Mr. O'Neill in the park on their horses. One day while aeroplaning, Larry had a chance to protect Mildred, and under these romantic circumstances before he thought, grabbed and kissed her. Panic-stricken at the enormity of his offense, Larry fled as fast as possible, but Mildred didn't seem to think it was such a terrible thing and from the way she smiled, the coward might have had another, if he hadn't run away. Larry sat in his room thinking hard and lecturing himself. "A conscience is a terrible thing to have to live with sometimes," he said, "I am a blackguard and a four-flusher. It was fun while it lasted, but the masquerade has gone far enough. I will go and tell her who I am and then go back to the anvil." Larry went back to the rolling mills, but one o'clock in the morning used to find him poring over a book on the manufacture of iron, though at times Mildred's face would appear on the page and blot out the words. And one o'clock often found old man Sloane thinking of Larry as he sat in his big, dim library, just as it found Mildred curled up in her big armchair in the firelight, looking with wide eyes into the dying embers. But on her face there was a smile. The hard study began to tell. Pretty soon Larry was telling the foreman how to do some things, and then he invented a process that made the grayheads in the carpeted office sit up and take notice. Within a year it was "Supt. O'Neill." Then followed a note from Mildred. And Larry made a bold stroke for an interest in the firm, and got it. With it all he got the girl of his heart by proving himself a gentleman.
- The actors arrive in a motor car, and are welcomed to the hotel by the boniface and his assistants. The Americans admire the surroundings, and are agreeably surprised at what they see, and the cordial welcome extended to them. All the well-known "Imp" stars appear in traveling costume, which is their first formal introduction in proper personae, an innovation which will be welcomed by their many admirers. In the next scene they sally forth to engage in the work of producing a picture. The producer heads the force, with the camera men in evidence, a jolly party of folks who depict "Imp" pictures in pantomime. Then comes the story, a beautiful Cuban romance. Pablo, of humble origin, loves Rosita, a beautiful maiden, and is apparently prospering in his love affair, when a stranger appears on the scene, Wallace Crawford, an American tourist, who evidently finds time hanging heavily on his hands. Crawford rides up to the home of Rosita and asks for a drink. He is quick to note the lovely face and graceful curves of the Cuban girl, and resolves to meet her again. He rides away and Rosita, forgetting Pablo, looks with altogether too much concern after the visitor. Pablo call with his guitar and, as is his wont, played to the girl, who, seated beside him, allowed her thoughts to wander from the scene and dwell on the tourist. Lulled to sleep by the soft tones of the instrument Rosita dreams, and her dream is depicted on the screen. In her dreams she meets Crawford, who is an adept in the art of charming unsophisticated women. He attempts to caress her, but is repulsed. Knowing the longing of women for finery, he produces rare jewels and adorns the girl with a rich necklace, which she admires. She is won, and is in his arms. The pair move away, Crawford leading his horse. They are detected in their clandestine love-making by Pablo, who summons her parents. Rosita, in her innocence, thinks Crawford means honorably by her, and she directs his steps to the church and asks the priest to unite them in marriage. Crawford had not reckoned on this phase of his, to him, harmless love affair, and he declines. He is attacked by Pablo, and only the intervention of the Holy Father saves the life of the faithless American. During the struggle Rosita awakens to find it all a dream. She is contrite, and the drama closes with the venerable Father uniting Rosita and Pablo in marriage. The actors are then seen returning to the hostelry, where they reappear clad in their street habiliments, only to leave in a motorcar; their work of producing the picture being finished. The film closes with a rare tropical scene peculiar to Cuba.
- Jack Howard, a typical American boy, is addicted to reading literature of the yellow-backed variety, despite the admonitions of his father. One day he dozes off to sleep, after devouring a thrilling story of the sea. The story of his dream is told in detail. While walking on the dock he is seized upon by some sailors and shanghaied in the most approved manner, being taken aboard a ship bound on a long cruise. He is secreted and overhears a plot of the sailors to mutiny, seize the ship and sail to a desert island in search of a treasure. One of the sailors produces a chart of the island and the tars leave the forecastle. Jack comes on, takes possession of the paper and is joined by the winsome daughter of the captain. It is a case of love at first sight. He shows her the chart and she takes him to her father, where he discloses the plot of the mutineers. The desperate men attack the captain and the loyal members of the crew and there is a fierce fight. Jack saves the captain's daughter, who escapes with him in the garb of a boy. They take possession of a small boat and put to sea, where they are captured by pirates. The sex of the girl is discovered, but Jack secures immunity for himself and fair companion by showing the pirates the chart of the treasure island. The pirates go to the island, taking Jack and the girl with them, unearth the treasure and are jubilant, but their joy is short-lived, as they are in turn set upon by another gang of pirates and the struggle is a bloody one. Jack and the girl are subsequently rescued from the pirates by the father of the girl and his gallant crew and taken aboard his ship together with the treasure, which is Jack's by right of having the chart. Jack asks the captain for the hand of the daughter and the mariner is only too pleased at the prospect of the union. They are wed and Jack awakens to find it all a dream and he is in despair. His reflections are rudely broken into by his father, who hauls him out of the garret and sets him at the irksome task of sawing wood.