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- The father is busy with his business. The little child is neglected as the mother is occupied in romantic speculations. And then enters the "friend," who sees his opportunity. One evening when the father is detained on business the wife accepts the "friend's" invitation to the theatre. The father returns and finds his wife gone. When the child tells where the mother is, he realizes that her love has flown, and the next morning he arranges for a separation. A year passes and the mother and child are living together, lonely. The "friend" sends her roses and says he is coming that night to claim his love. While dressing, the mother accidentally finds a white rose that her husband gave her a year before on their wedding anniversary. Memories come back to her, but she disregards them and rushes into the garden to meet her friend. The child, alone and frightened, goes to find its mother in the garden. The child picks a white rose and approaches with it. This brings the mother to her senses and she rushes back to the house with her baby. The baby then takes sick from exposure. The father is sent for, but before he arrives the baby dies. The mother and father are reconciled by their common grief. In the garden the mother sees a vision of her child, which she follows to the house. Here they find that the child is still alive, so the family is happily reunited.
- Mr. and Mrs. Carter have a quarrel. She tries to make him sign the "demands" of the Wives' Club to which she belongs, and leaves him when he refuses. He telephones to the Strike-Breaking Bureau, and the manager gets a girl from the burlesque troupe to act as strike-breaker till Wifie gives in. Dolly Dimples fits wonderfully well into the Carter household, and all goes merrily till Wifie telephones to ask Hubby if he is ready to accede to her demands. Dolly's voice over the phone and the reply of Carter that her place is satisfactorily filled by the strike- breaker makes her furious and she sets out in hot haste for the house. Hubby has telephoned that he needs police protection, and when the cop appears he gives Carter a whistle, saying that he is to blow it if help is needed. When Wifie sees the blonde beauty she rushes at her to scratch out her eyes. Hubby calls the cop and threatens to have her arrested. She succumbs, and he makes her tear up the "demands" before his eyes. She consents, so that she may have the pleasure of dismissing the blonde strike-breaker.
- A young seminary girl finds romance.
- Billy and the wife, stranded in Thinville, decide to open a beauty parlor for thin women. He poses Sylvia as a wonderful example of before and after taking. He learns through a beauty column in the newspaper that watermelon seeds are a great fattener. He buys a large supply of melons and tacks up his beauty doctor sign. A husband and wife in Thinville get notice that an eccentric uncle in his will has left orders to give the couple the wife's weight in gold. She decides to take the treatment of Billy. A young girl is engaged to a Turkish Prince, but when he sees how thin she is he refuses. She also takes the treatment. After a few weeks both the thin women are thinner and poor Sylvia is fatter than ever. The husband of the thin woman, the father of the thin girl and the Turkish Prince all go to bring vengeance on Billy. A battle with the watermelons ensues and results in Billy and Sylvia taking passage for other parts.
- Mabel Jones returns home from boarding-school, filled with the idea that she is a born novelist and with a partially written manuscript upon a sociological subject, in which the hero is a burglar. Mabel's father is a sergeant of police and having heard in his past experience about all the dealings with burglars he cares for, he turns a deaf ear to her pleadings. Mabel persists in her determination and the sergeant is about to grow real angry when he sees a chance to cure her of her mad infatuation for underworld subjects. Among the sergeant's acquaintances is a young novelist named Jefferson Lang, who is also writing a novel and in which the heroine is a sneak thief. By clever planning and aided by the rest of the police boys, Mabel and Jeff are brought together, he believing her to be "Shifty Sadie," the sneak thief, and she knowing him as "Baffles," the gentleman burglar. Then follows a game of cross purposes and misunderstandings between the young couple, which culminates in them both being arrested by a strange policeman. Unfortunately for the sergeant, his "fine station hand" in the matter is discovered by the pair at the eleventh hour and through the kindly aid of a prison chaplain they turn the tables on the sergeant and the station house in general by getting married.
- Dave and Phillip Hull, twins, are totally different in character. Dave is steady, slow to hate and true in love. Phillip, the gay and popular gambler, is perhaps more lovable on the surface, but shifty and flare-tempered underneath. Dave loves little Meg, daughter of Hardy, a cattle rustler. Dave does not know that the father is a cattle rustler, however. Phillip shoots a gambler in a quarrel and makes his escape to his brother's ranch. Here, he meets Meg and immediately begins courting her. She yields to him and he promises to marry her. Meanwhile the gambler dies and the sheriff and posse search for Phillip. Dave has learned of his brother's refusal to marry Meg. Determined that right shall be done, Dave goes for the minister. The father too has learned of the case, but thinks Dave the man. He decides to kill him and starts for the ranch. Dave returns to his home, only to find the posse on his brother's trail. He offers to exchange clothes with Phillip and submit to arrest in his brother's place, providing the guilty man will marry the girl. Phillip agrees. Dave, dressed as his brother, slips from the window to draw pursuit. Meg's father approaches and shoots to kill through the open window at Phillip, whom he supposes is Dave. Dave is brought back and the tangle is straightened out with the sad wedding of Meg and the true-hearted Dave.
- It is dull days in Hades. The only enjoyment of an imaginative imp is to interview the newest arrivals from Earth. Finally, one poor soul who arrives to taste of damnation brings with him a newspaper from Earth. The imp reads the latest Earth news: wars, scandals, divorce, and white-slave traffic. The imp longs to visit the planet where something is always doing. On Earth the imp comes into contact with a ne'er-do-well barber who is impersonating a Bourbon count to win an heiress' hand; the imp takes an informal interest in the business. The heiress and her parents are vain and care only for titles. After the heiress accepts the barber-count, the imp introduces himself as a real duke of the realm with unlimited estates and vassals. He makes love to the heiress and shows her that he is a greater aristocrat than the count. They elope, and after a sensational chase they are overtaken by the girl's parents and the count. The imp then resumes his devilish form, and has his laugh at the expense of the vain heiress.
- Madeline Albright left the city to take up her life on the plains as the wife of cattleman Jeff Albright. The time came when the loneliness of the vast plains palled upon Madeline; she could not resist longing to return to the life and amusements and action, and when she left she took her baby boy Jack with her. Jack grew up and went West, and finally went to work as a cowboy on his father's cattle ranch; neither realized their relationship. Here he met and fell in love with Anita Carew, the foreman's daughter. One day he received a letter from his mother: she was sick and needed to undergo a major operation. A good position as a sheepherder offered itself and, throwing aside his pride, he took it. He became hated and shunned by all but Anita, who still believed in him. But Jack rebelled at the cattlemen's taunts and soundly thrashed one of them. With this Jeff Albright, his father, decided to drive him from the range. In the meantime Jack's mother arrived at his cabin, and was there when Jeff and his men rode up and delivered the ultimatum. She heard a familiar voice and stepped out. Jeff recognized the woman he had yearned for so many years and cattle feuds were forgotten. And there was the boy, his own son, whom he had come to "clean out." And from there on, well, another story commences there, but it is left to the imagination of the spectator.
- Fred Brandon and Eileen Northcote are the two heirs of a million-dollar fortune, on the condition that they are united in marriage within twenty-four hours. Both are indignant over the will. Mr. and Mrs. Hardman, being friends of both, persuade them to submit to the marriage. This they do. Eileen standing on one side of a curtain and Brandon on the other. The next day Eileen and Brandon are house guests of the Hardman's. When Eileen has finished dressing for dinner she locks her bedroom door, and turning quickly collides with Brandon, whose room is adjoining hers. The two have seen each other on different occasions and there has been mutual admiration. Eileen threatens to tell her husband if Brandon doesn't immediately leave this room, so near to hers. Hardman and his wife, listening at the keyhole, shout to Brandon not to be afraid, for Eileen is his own wife, whereupon Eileen faints in her husband's arms.
- Joe, Jack, Pedro, Tommy, Bud and Neal have just arrived from the cowlands with a load of steers. When Pete, the owner of the steers comes out to pay them, Neal takes all the money, explaining that the boys figured to stampede the town and that he had been elected guardian. They rush to a Ford and hire it to take them to a hotel. Meanwhile two crooks enter the lobby, and force the people to hold up their hands. They hear a great deal of noise and dash up the stairs to hide. The cowboys have arrived, but the people think it is some more thieves and put up their arms again. The boys think they have gone crazy. While Neal is playing with the cash register, thinking it a piano, the clerk phones the police. The policemen arrive and the boys are glad to fight, although they are ignorant of the cause. Neal and Bud run up the stairs and into an old woman's room. She climbs into bed and covers herself with the blankets. The cops follow the boys into the woman's room and think they have caught the crooks, but she utters a piercing scream. Neal and Bud are in the lobby, when the crooks sneak upon them and are just about to relieve Neal of the roll of bills, when the cops appear. Neal says, "Me and the boys were just looking for excitement and we reckon we got it."
- A young wife's cooking is not appreciated by her husband, who seeks a decent meal at his mother's house, arousing his wife's suspicion.
- A maid discards her beau in favor of a musician whom she idolizes; when reality sets in, she takes her old beau back.
- Jack Farrell, rich dilettante and dreamer, is in love with Penelope Summers, an athletic young girl who longs for an ideal man. Jack courts Penelope in the most approved manner, but she rejects him. Following the refusal, Jack throws himself into the pursuit of one of his favorite hobbies, genealogy. Employing an expert to aid him, he traces back certain branches of his family. Arriving at a remote age in the annals of the Farrell family, the genealogist makes a startling discovery. He finds that Jack's forefather was hanged for piracy. Jack dismisses the genealogist. His family pride is severely wounded. He thinks of himself as the offspring of the desperate buccaneer, and then the big idea that changes his whole outlook on life begins to take shape. That morning he stocks his racing, he gets a plan of the best road to the mountains and then he calls upon Penelope and invites her for a ride. She is loath to go. Jack insists. She finally consents and despite Penelope's protests they drive far into the hills. When night falls they are in a little town. There the village minister performs the ceremony. Jack vouchsafes an explanation, describing the terrible ancestor from whom he descended and whose blood forced him to take by force that which he could not otherwise gain. Penelope is thrilled and forgives. They return home. Back in Jack's room the butler enters with a letter from the genealogist telling Jack that his discovery was all wrong; the pirate belonged to another family of the same name and in no way connected with his ancestors.
- Night Wind, so named by the Indians, has been brought up by a Siwash and is considered as a half-breed. She is taken in by the mother of the foreman of a big lumber camp and assists the old lady in housework. The foreman, John Daly, is in love with her, but keeps this a secret. Walter Sandry, a new owner of the lumber camp, appears unexpectedly to run things himself. The rough men of the camp look upon him as an eastern tenderfoot. He does this by licking the camp bully. But he had plenty of grit and makes up his mind to win their respect. He wins the love of Night Wind by giving her his beautiful horse to ride. One day, in a tempestuous fit of emotion, he kisses her. This is constituted among the Indians equivalent to a betrothal of marriage. From then on Night Wind looks upon him as "her man." A New York society girl, Dolly Ordway, an artist, comes to the lumber camp in search of local color. She is given quarters by Walter Sandry. Dolly also falls in love with Walter. Night Wind suspects this and her semi-savage jealousy is difficult to restrain. Dolly tries to win Walter to a declaration of marriage. Several times he is on the point of succumbing when the thought of the simple but beautiful child of nature obtrudes itself. There is a rival lumber company in the neighborhood. The owner falls violently in love with Dolly. He discovers that she is in love with Walter, although she has likewise been flirting with him. He is furiously jealous and determines to ruin his rival. He blows up a raft of lumber with dynamite. Walter is on the raft; he is seriously injured. He is carried to the camp unconscious and both Night Wind and Dolly vie with each other to nurse him. Dolly takes a mean advantage of the situation by declaring that Walter is her affianced husband. This enrages Night Wind. However, the foreman's mother decides that Dolly is entitled to nurse him. Walter recovers and is angry at hearing that he is supposed to be engaged to Dolly. He denies that it is so. This so enrages Dolly that she determines to ruin him. About this time Walter has taken an order for a large shipment of logs. To fail to fulfill this order means the loss of a large guarantee which he has put up, in other words, ruin. Knowing this, the jealous rival visits the men working for Walter and prevails upon them to strike. Walter is in a desperate position. Night Wind appreciates the situation and without saying anything to her "man," she travels through the forest on foot to the Indians' camp. They know and love her as one of their own and have a great deal of respect for what she says. To the chief Night Wind puts her case; she tells him of the strike and asks him to send his braves to handle the logs and thereby save her lover. The chief consents; he calls his braves together and leads them over the hills to the lumber camp. They are working the logs when Walter discovers their presence. The rival lumber man tries to bribe the Indians to quit with money and whiskey. The chief is about to give way to the temptation of whiskey when Night Wind appears beside him. The work is continued. The great dam is lifted and the logs, sufficient to fill the order, rush down the flume. Night Wind finds her reward in the faithful love of Walter.
- A woman adopts the guise of a spy when she uncovers an arms plot concerning a country in Central America.
- A mother, grieving over the loss of her child, finds contentment in loving a lame orphan.
- Billy first sells a sandlot to an unsuspecting female buyer, then abducts his girl in caveman fashion.
- Bud Osborne, sheriff, is brutal by nature and as a result of his associations with criminals his outlook is sordid; he has no ideals or faith in man. The only thing good that he owns is a wife and baby. Jack Lacy is wanted for the killing of a gambler at Cripple Creek. He shot the man in self-defense and escaped because the case against him looked bad. Lacy is now waiting for the arrival of his wife, who is coming west with an emigrant train. Osborne is offered a reward of $1,000 if he will capture Lacy. He needs the money and so arrests Lacy. While the sheriff and his prisoner are returning to town they are attacked by Indians. Osborne is wounded. Lacy saves him. The Indian uprising is general and the emigrant train in which Mrs. Lacy is traveling is likewise attacked. However, the emigrants successfully repel the Indians. While Lacy is helping the wounded Osborne alone meets the emigrant train. Lacy's first thought is of his wife and he leaves the sheriff to find her. When Osborne recovers his strength he thinks of his prisoner and of the handsome reward for his capture. He inquires after Lacy and goes to arrest him. Pushing back the flap of the wagon Osborne looks inside. He sets a young woman on a straw mattress with a baby on her breast and over the woman and baby is bending Lacy the outlaw. Osborne mounts his horse and rides home to his own family.
- Bill and Pen Points arrive in a new town being thrown from a boxcar. Bill leaves Pen to go to the ball game. A lunatic comes up and hands him money, which Bill decides to use for clothes. Pen Points finds a detective badge and decides to become a detective. Bill goes to the ball game, meets an heiress is accused of theft and taken to jail. It was a mistake, for the girl finds her purse. She withdraws her charge and asks Bill to see her home. Bill meets her father and mother. Pen Points decides to get revenge. Bill leaves the home of the girl, watched by Pen Points, who decides to tell the girl he is crazy. The girl faints at the news. Bill gets a contract from the manager of the ball team. Pen Points arrests Bill, takes him to the lunatic asylum and they put Bill in a padded cell.
- Off they go over field and dale, the fox in the lead, the hounds on the scent, and up in the front ranks, first over the hedges riding like the men in the party, comes Lady Mary, the daughter of the Earl of Dreadwood. Poor Sir Harvey proposes to her almost daily, but despite his excellent social position and vast estate, Lady Mary gives him but scant encouragement. Lady Mary has been reading modern novels and tells Sir Harvey that what she wants is a man who will not fawn at her feet but will command her in cave-man fashion. Saddened by her persistent refusals of his offer of marriage. Sir Harvey goes to an island near his estate, where he camps out with his dogs, trying to forget his troubles. Meanwhile an aged old usurer has proposed to Lady Mary. He likes her untamed ways and threatens to oust the Earl of Dreadwood if that gentleman will not consent to his marriage to the Earl's daughter. The Earl, hard pressed for money, unwillingly gives his consent to the marriage. He has not reckoned with his daughter, Lady Mary, however. When the old usurer proposes to her, Mary throws a hot cup of tea in his haggard face and flees from her father's estate to the island where Sir Harvey is camping out in solitary gloom. Sir Harvey sees her coming across the sands and determines to play cave man, now that he has the opportunity. Accordingly he seizes her roughly, much to Lady Mary's surprise, forces her to wash his linen, to cook and to clean out his dugout in the hillside. Then he compels her to wash his dogs and to split wood. At the end of her hard day's work he seizes her by the hair and, in true cave-man fashion, throws her in a corner of the cave and goes to sleep himself in the opposite corner. Lady Mary, who has been petted and spoiled all her life, rather likes the treatment. Just for a change, however, she hopes that Sir Harvey will wake up in the morning more kindly disposed than he had been the day before. Meanwhile the old Earl is in a towering rage. He discovers from the butler that Lady Mary has gone to the island and he comes upon them just at break of day. He is about to murder Sir Harvey in his wrath until Lady Mary interposes and displays a wedding ring, her mother's, which she had brought to the island. Mollified, the Earl consents to an immediate marriage, and that night in the castle hall Sir Harvey signs the papers which frees the Dreadwood estates of debt. Lady Mary's proud spirit has been quite conquered by her experience on the island and she is quite willing to obey, thereafter, her "lord and master."
- A Boston girl, Clairbel Sudds, laments that she has no talents and goes to Dr. Daws, something of a wizard, for help. He gives her five magic bon bons, each a different flavor for a different talent. They are accidentally sold to a 12 year old girl named Bessie Bostwick, whose family eats them with bizarre results. By L Frank Baum
- Stanley Claverton, son of the secretary of the interior, is given a dinner by his father in honor of his entrance into diplomatic circles. At the dinner he hears of a famous Egyptian woman named Anainoe, who is better known as "The Sphinx," and he longs to meet her. She recently arrived from Egypt. Of the large number of prominent men at the capitol who have fallen for her charms. Troubetskoi, the Russian Ambassador, seems to be deepest in love with her and has become her favorite. The next day Stanley sees her riding by in her carriage and is more deeply affected by her beauty. Madga, the sister of his chum, Sherborne, is getting more attached to Stanley and invites him to an impromptu dinner that evening. He is about to accept her offer when her brother informs him that he has secured two invitations to "The Sphinx." He decides to go with Sherborne but promises Madga that he will write and explain. His visit to "The Sphinx" only adds to his growing love for her. The following day he receives a commission from the secretary of state to represent this country in Egypt. He is handed important papers to deliver to the Khedive. On his way to Madga's home to keep the promised call he sees "The Sphinx" in a passing auto. He hails a taxi and gives instructions to the driver to follow the car ahead of him. He forgets about Madga and when he arrives at the home of "The Sphinx" he hands his card to the servant who informs him that the madame is not at home. Greatly depressed he leaves, but meets on the steps the Russian Ambassador who enters the house with a latch key. Gradually the Russian Ambassador is being forgotten by "The Sphinx" in her newfound love for Stanley. In order to forget his sorrow, Stanley prepares to go on his journey but before he leaves his friends take him to dinner at a restaurant where he again meets "The Sphinx" and Troubetskoi. The Russian Ambassador becomes very angry, and after dinner Stanley, under the pretext of going home, hides outside. "The Sphinx" observes him, and leaving Troubetskoi, goes to Stanley asking him to accompany her home and to protect her from the Ambassador. Stanley acquiesces. Troubetskoi writes to the father of Stanley and tells him that his son is consorting with "The Sphinx." The father orders his son to cease his association with "The Sphinx," but he disobeys, and accompanies "The Sphinx" to a Charity Fete which she promised to attend, and it is here that "The Sphinx" learns that Stanley is casting aside a girl for her. "The Sphinx," feeling sorry for the girl, is already beginning to act strangely to Stanley, and his father urges the secretary of state to have his son sent on the commission at once. Stanley receives word that he must leave inside of twenty-four hours. Being passionately in love with "The Sphinx," he decides to give up his commission, and with this end in view he goes to the diplomatic club to seek the secretary and resign his commission. Here he meets the wily Troubetskoi who after having drank to the success of Stanley in winning the hand of "The Sphinx," drugs him and steals the important papers he has on his person. Troubetskoi informs the club attendant that the youth is drunk, and to have him sent home in a taxicab. On the way home he regains consciousness, and later he appeals to "The Sphinx" who tells Stanley to hide behind the portieres when the Russian Ambassador, whom she knows will come to her and use the papers as a means of getting her back to him, appears. It is not long before Troubetskoi arrives, and at the right moment, Stanley springs upon the Ambassador. Seeing that the youth is being bested, "The Sphinx" stabs the Ambassador with a jeweled knife. In answer to Stanley's pleas to flee with him, "The Sphinx" tells him that she never cared for him, and convinced that she is truthful, he leaves on the train the next morning he reads of the death of "The Sphinx."
- One afternoon in summer the Widow Ranee, alone in her garden, saw what she thought was a ghost coming down the path to her home. It proved to be John Forrest, a millionaire, and with him was Rose Day, a summer girl, and so closely did Mr. Forrest resemble Jack, the widow's late husband, that it was with difficulty she answered his question concerning the location of a hotel. That night memory carried the widow back twenty-five years. She saw herself as a bride of Jack Ranee, trapper and woodsman; she saw the little home where their baby was born; she remembered the day when Jack was brought home to her mortally wounded. Dick Harding, his friend, had promised to protect the widow and child, but he had failed in his trust. And then, one day little Jack, the baby, was lost and Mrs. Ranee lived on alone. To John Forrest, smoking alone in the garden, came other memories. He saw himself as a little child, lost in the woods and found by a kindly old shepherd; he saw himself raised to manhood by the shepherd, who, on his deathbed, gave the lad his savings and sent him out into the world. The shepherd's waif had been successful and John Forrest, as he called himself, was now a millionaire. Rose Day knew of his wealth, and prompted by her mother, deliberately angled for his heart, and they became engaged. Visiting at the same hotel was Richard Harding, who loved Rose, and hated Forrest because of his resemblance to Jack Ranee, whom Harding had betrayed. Upon a hunting trip Harding caused Forrest to be wounded. Friends carried him to the nearest house, the widow's cottage, and there the birthmark on his shoulder confirmed her suspicions that John Forrest was her lost son. Mrs. Ranee, seeing Jack's love for Rose Day and realizing that it would spoil his chances for happiness, kept her secret, but Harding, overcome by remorse, told the story and Jack found his mother. Rose, though she scorned the widow, was forced to accept her as Jack's mother, and then one day Jack lost his fortune. Rose broke the engagement and Jack was left, but not alone, for with him was his mother who had always been true.
- Terence O'Rourke, gentleman adventurer, is in love with the Princess Beatrix de Grandlieu and is heading a party for the relief of her brother who is in peril in the desert of Sahara. With the party are also Adolph Chambret, legal adviser to and in love with the Princess. The Prince de Grandlieu, Beatrix's husband, some time before the action of this story, has spent most of his wife's money and has conceived a plan for getting rid of her brother, whose money reverts to the Princess at his death. The boy, although a spendthrift, has great ambitions. The Prince, playing on these ambitions, has persuaded him to establish an empire upon the desert of Sahara and make himself Emperor. After arriving there, the boy overhears two of the Prince's followers plotting his death. The plan is to have Arabs attack the oasis where they are in camp and exterminate the entire party. The boy sends for help from his sister. She, having just met O'Rourke and knowing him to be a brave man, has him take charge of the relief party. They arrive on the desert just in time to save the oasis being captured by Arabs. Once there, the Prince persuades the boy that he had nothing to do with the plot and he believes him. The Arabs demand tribute and O'Rourke advises paying them. The Prince, through one of his confederates, bribes the Arab to abduct the boy Emperor, and through the same man he plans to assassinate O'Rourke. That night the man makes the attempt, but fails. He is captured by Danny O'Rourke's servant. Chambret, thoroughly aroused, taunts the Prince into fighting a duel, and kills him. The Arab, at the time the tribute was paid, saw the Princess and fell in love with her. He arrives at the oasis to carry out a plan of abduction. Failing to find the Prince's confederate, who has been put in the guard house, he abducts the Princess instead. O'Rourke hears of this and at the risk of his life rescues her and kills the Arab chief. In revenge for the death of their chieftain the Arabs gather reinforcements from a neighboring tribe and attack the oasis. O'Rourke and his party are forced to retreat. Before reaching the boats, O'Rourke sends the non-combatants to the rear and he and his men check the oncoming attack. At the boats the party endeavors to launch them and leave O'Rourke to his fate, but the Princess forces them to wait for him, at the point of a gun. O'Rourke and his men finally arrive at the boats and they put to sea. The Princess and O'Rourke, now that the Prince is dead, are free to love as they will. The fall of the Empire marks the beginning of the romance of Terence O'Rourke.
- A moving picture actress is mistaken for an escaped asylum patient; the insane girl then steps into the actress's life.
- Bailey Dryden, a young millionaire, collects together his chums for a last voyage on his yacht before becoming a Benedict, the yacht is anchored near Mermaid Rock. There is a legend about the rock of a young mermaid who lives there and can assume human form every hundred years if she desires. The young men are delighted with the tale, and as Bailey stares at the rock the mermaid rises out of the water and beckons to him to come. Bailey, dumbfounded, calls his chums, but when they have reached his side the mermaid disappeared. The next day Bailey visits the rock himself and finds the mermaid asleep with her arm about a baby seal. As the young millionaire approaches the sea myth, she throws her arms around him, and then suddenly disappears. He returns to the boat, but will not explain his strange actions to his friends, and fearing he is unbalanced, they send word to his fiancée to come at once. Next day by means of a fish the mermaid sends him a message asking him to meet her at full moon on the rocks. His friends, sure that his mind is affected keep close watch upon him, and when he steals out that night to keep the engagement, his chum, Taber, tries to stop him. A struggle ensues and he is forced to gag and tie Taber to keep him quiet. Bailey and the little mermaid meet, and she tells him that she can assume human form and live with him always until he tires of her. She then, assumes the shape of a human being, and Bailey carries her back to the yacht. He tells Taber and the captain he found her on the rocks. There are no feminine costumes on the yacht so Bailey borrows a loose suit from the Chinese butler and she dresses in the Chinese costume. Next morning the mermaid is introduced to the young men, who are enchanted with her. She refuses to wear shoes of any kind, and she is happy in the new mode of living. In the midst of her joy Dora and her mother arrive. In a panic the men try to hide Algae, but when she sees Bailey kiss his fiancée she is filled with jealousy and throws herself past the men into Bailey's arms. Bailey explains matters to the mother and daughter, and asks Dora to lend the girl a few of her gowns. The Dryden fortune is too large to risk losing, so Dora, at her mother's mention, agrees to Bailey's request. Algae does not understand why Dora is permitted to go about in a diminutive bathing suit, while Bailey covers her up hurriedly when she appears in a bodice and short skirt. Her last escapade brings down Bailey's wrath upon her. She has refused to wear shoes and stockings that evening although dressed in an evening gown, and when pursued by the irritated Bailey, she dives overboard, ball gown and all. Bailey punishes her by refusing to speak to her, and sends her to her room to change her gown. To punish her further he purposely makes love to Dora just outside the porthole of Algae's room. Algae hears him, believes he has tired of her, and without stopping to question, the little mermaid casts off the dresses she wears and dives back into the sea nevermore to assume human form. Too late, Bailey discovers he loves her. She is gone. He is forced to set sail without her. On the rocks the little mermaid sobs her heart out while he stands gazing out at sea. Taber lays a hand on his shoulder, and with a start he awakens; it has all been a dream. With a sigh at the charm of his dream he finished the letter to his fiancée, and then thinks once more of the little mermaid whom he loved and lost.
- David Kelly, known as "Cricket," is bell hop at one of the large metropolitan hotels. Selden is the head clerk and the bane of "Cricket's" life. Mary McFee, the cigar counter girl, is the idol of the bell hop's heart. Jack Hewlitt, a drummer, arrives at the hotel, and arouses the ire of "Cricket" because of his attentions to Mary. General Grouch, an old veteran, arrives and angrily orders the bell boys away when they try to take his luggage, but "Cricket" outwits him and takes charge of his baggage by force. In the days that pass "Cricket" does many kind services for the old man. He notes the growing interest between Mary and Jack with dismay and resolves to break off their interest in each other. The General's nephew is staying at the hotel and is quite a "rounder." The old man finally takes sick. He refuses to have a doctor and gets worse. "Cricket" sees the old man is in bad shape and one day he stops a doctor who is calling, and asks him what he charges for a visit. The medical man tells him two dollars, and after a search, "Cricket" digs up the amount in nickels and dimes and pays him for a visit to the old grouch. The old man is touched by the boy's thoughtfulness for him. The doctor tells the General that his condition is serious and orders him sent to a hospital. Before leaving, however, he writes out a legal paper, which the doctor witnesses, and presents it to "Cricket." "Cricket" learns that Mary and Jack are going out to supper and resolves to follow them. Jack sends him to his room for a box, containing a present for Mary, and the boy opens the box and substitutes a photo of Jack's wife and child for the present, then ties the box up. "Cricket" learns that Grouch has died, but does not think of the paper he has. Jack has taken Mary to a cheap restaurant, where he tries to caress her. She repulses him, and thinking to placate her he opens the box supposed to contain a present for her. When Mary sees the photo she rushes out to "Cricket," who takes her home. While "Cricket" is waiting on his bench he takes out the paper. It is the will of old Grouch giving him his entire estate, which is worth millions. He goes to Mary, who has taken a great liking to him since he has rescued her, and asks her to marry him. At first she agrees but then tells him that she cannot marry a millionaire. "Cricket" pleads with her. In his pleading he drops his cigarette and the will catches fire. Mary then agrees to marry him. He hurries to the phone and getting Bliss on the line tells him to hold the job of assistant clerk for him, he having previously resigned his job. Bliss agrees, and Mary will soon be Mrs. "Cricket."
- Cal, with his mother lives on a small sheep ranch, and is by no means wealthy. Cal is known as a dreamer throughout the countryside. His mother is a pathetic little thing who it would seem harbored some secret sorrow. Cal is sent one evening by his mother for coffee. Cal rides to the village store, arriving just in time to interfere with a crowd of drunken cowboys having sport at the expense of an old, well-known Indian who has been wounded by the cowboys. Cal takes him home. The Indian is attended to and fed. That evening Cal becomes sufficiently impressed with his mother's moroseness that he inquires relative to her past life. Incidentally he has seen her gazing upon an old photograph. The inscription on the photograph tells him that it is his father. Quite reluctantly his mother tells him her story. Twenty years previously she married the boy's father. He was a westerner and wealthy but was unsatisfied with the west. Soon after the marriage he sold out and went east. It was not long before he was a power in the business world. Then came society and his wife failed to accustom herself to the city. Her husband grew ashamed of her. Shortly after the baby was born life became unbearable. Taking her baby, she decided to leave for the west. She first wrote a note saying if he ever desired her, he might find her waiting. This note he never answered. With what money she had the mother bought the ranch which she now has. At the conclusion of the story Cal swears vengeance on his father. The old Indian dies, leaving Cal a piece of parchment describing the location of a valuable vein of gold. This vein makes Cal a rich man. Next we find him with his mother in the east. He has searched out his father's presence and acquaints himself with his business methods. Cal goes into the market and in a scene that is rife with excitement, forces his father to the wall. This done, Cal confronts his father with his mother and explains. The father denies having received the mother's note. They return to the home of the father and discover the note where it had been placed years before. Reconciliation follows and Cal has the satisfaction of seeing his mother happy.
- A hypnotist puts a young girl in a trance, then gets her to steal for him.
- John M. Truxton, City Attorney, has gathered evidence to prosecute the men higher up. The newspaper publishes a warning of what is to happen at the next session of the grand jury. Mayor Dave Harris, the political boss, reads the account. He immediately goes to Truxton's office to find out whether the story is true. Upon being assured that it is, he tries to stop Truxton from presenting his evidence, first by bribery and then by threats. Truxton refuses all offers and finally kicks Harris out of his office. Kitty Donely, through certain circumstances, is in the power of the mayor. She is approached and told to get something on Truxton. Kitty refuses at first. The mayor tells her to get Truxton and he will give her five thousand dollars, and if she doesn't he will surely get her. Kitty agrees and discovers the next day that Truxton is in the habit of going almost every day for a motor trip and stopping for a drink of water at an old farm house. The next day she persuades the old farmer to take her in as a summer boarder, changing her finery for a simple gingham dress, she meets Truxton as he comes and Truxton falls in love with her and proposes marriage to Kitty. She then discovers that she loves him. Truxton by accident overhears some of her conversation. Fighting a battle with himself, he decides that Kitty is worth more than anything else. He calls on her again that night. Kitty, going for his cigarette case, discovers a letter written by Truxton to his mother which he has forgotten to mail. Kitty thinks it is to his wife. In revenge for what she thinks is his perfidy, she pulls the badger game on him. Truxton, thinking she has fallen for the mayor's offer of bribery, is more hurt than frightened. The next day the papers come out with scare heads, announcing the arrest and release on bond of the City Attorney, charged with a statutory offense. The mayor sends Kitty her promised check. She drops both the letter she has taken from Truxton and the check, into the library table drawer. Truxton gets a letter from his mother, asking why he does not write. Truxton, thinking matters over, decides to unravel things and that night enters the mayor's home with the aid of a jimmy, searching for evidence. He finds the mayor's checkbook and on one of the stubs, "K.D. - $5,000." Putting two and two together, he enters Kitty's apartment in the same way he did the mayor's. He finds his missing letter and a check for five thousand dollars, signed by the mayor. Kitty appears upon the scene. Explanations and forgiveness follow. A month later the scales are balanced. The mayor is indicted through evidence furnished by Truxton, and Truxton and Kitty drink once more in happiness at the old well.
- An unattractive girl endeavors to make herself attractive to an artist, but he sees only the artificial beauty of a model.
- Under the stress of certain circumstances which will be explained in this story, Jack Edmond is a vagabond, tramping his way through the cattle country, looking for work. By removing a thorn from the foot of a shepherd dog which belongs to Eleanor, the daughter of John Hess, he gains her friendship and she secures him a position on her father's ranch. Ned Emmet, sheriff, sees Jack at work and recognizes him. He hastens to inform John Hess that Jack is an ex-convict. Jack is discharged. Eleanor sees Jack leaving the ranch and asks him to explain. He tells her the truth, And she demands that he tell her all about it. Jack tells her the cause of his imprisonment, as follows: Jack and his brother, Wess, were very fond of each other, and they were both working on a ranch owned by George Hutton. Wess was in love with Hutton's wife, and was in the habit of meeting her in secret. Jack, of course, knew nothing of this. Mr. Hutton discovered the relationship between Wess and his wife and a quarrel followed. Wess gets away from the ranch house, and is followed to his bunk house by the angry Hutton. Jack, knowing nothing of what has happened, sees Hutton leveling his revolver at Wess and he (Jack) shoots Hutton down. Wess, not stopping to explain, makes an escape, and Jack is sent up for the crime. Later, Mrs. Hutton, recovering from the prostrating shock of the whole affair, explains things and Jack is released from prison. Eleanor, having heard Jack's story, believes it, and makes him return with her to her father. News comes at this time that Ned Emmet, the sheriff, has been killed by a dangerous outlaw, whom the sheriff has been trying to capture for some time. Jack is anxious to make good with Helen and her father, so he volunteers to go out and bring back the bad man or not return at all. He leaves, and after several days of scouting, comes upon his man. Helen, being fond of hunting, has gone on a day's journey of her own into the mountains. She comes upon Jack and the bandit at the moment of capture. She remains in concealment and is ready to use her rifle if necessary. Jack knows nothing of her presence, a struggle takes place between the two men, but does not last long; there is a recognition between them. Jack discovers that the bandit is his brother. Jack realizes that his errand is a failure, and with a promise from his brother that will change his ways, he lets him go free. Jack realizes that his hopes in regard to Eleanor and her father are dead ones, and he wearily turns in a different direction from that taken by his brother.
- Anne Harris, confidence worker, goes to a first class jewelry store and selects several pearl necklaces. She requests Mr. Goldsmith, the jeweler, to bring these jewels to Dr. Johnson, of whom she pretends to be the wife, so that he may choose among the quantity, as he wishes to make her a present. She then goes to Dr. Johnson, an alienist, and tells him, with tears in her eyes, that her husband has had dangerous symptoms of lunacy, and that it is necessary that he should be put under the care of a specialist. "To induce him to come here," she says, "I had to tell him that you wished to see some jewels. He is on his way now, bringing the jewels with him." Mr. Goldsmith, the jeweler, is announced. Dr. Johnson shows the would-be Mrs. Goldsmith into an adjoining room. Goldsmith enters with a casket under his arm. Two attendants seize him, put him into a straitjacket and drag him away. Dr. Johnson then comes back with the casket. The pretended Mrs. Goldsmith comes out. She thanks the doctor and is about to leave when the doctor calls her back and gives the casket which she was pretending to forget. She takes it and departs. Her car is waiting outside, with her husband, an accomplice. Concerned about his long absence, the real Mrs. Goldsmith visits Dr. Johnson. He has his new patient brought in. The doctor realizes that he has been duped and when he tries to explain the jeweler accuses him of being an accomplice. Dr. Johnson is arrested. Detective Dungan, on his way to the doctor's home, gets a glimpse of Anne Harris, who is driving by. He recognizes her as an old offender and has her followed by another detective, who jumps on the back of her cab. When the pair stop in front of an inn to repair a tire, the detective jumps off, and going into the inn, phones headquarters. Emerging from the inn, he is just in time to see the Harrises driving off. Dungan arrives in his machine. There is a chase, matching of wits, and one detective nearly loses his life in attempting to bring the thieves to bay. But the law triumphs in the end; the thieves are captured and Dr. Johnson is cleared of suspicion.
- Jim Lewis, an honest young police officer, comes home of an evening with money that he has borrowed from a friend to send his sick sister away to a different climate. Before, however, he reaches his apartment, the pursuit of an escaping culprit attracts his attention. He joins in. He runs his man over buildings and finally corners him. It is his brother. After dropping what little money he did have on the gambling table, the brother had taken to theft to secure the money for his sister. Jim lets him go, telling his seniors that the man escaped. This is his first lie and he is dismissed from the service by the very friend who had loaned him the money. Thinking to retrieve his honor, Jim goes, with his brother and sister, to the Northwest, and Jim joins the mounted police. McNulty, the plain-clothes friend who loaned Jim the money, suspects that something is wrong and follows. When the brother catches sight of him he is staggered with fear and steals a horse and escapes into the hills. Jim, unaware that his brother is the one who has stolen the horse, asks the officer for a chance to make good. The alarm is given and Jim is told to get his man. Jim accompanies the mounted and the U.S. officer into the hills and the thief is cornered in a hut. Jim approaches, and is shot. He closes in and then discovers that it is again his brother. "I've lost my reputation through you, but you will not take my chance to retrieve it," Jim cries. However, the brother pleads that he be spared for his sister's sake, and Jim gives in. The brother is seen to leave the house and all give chase except Jim. The brother escapes. The officers, returning, find Jim upon the ground, dead of his wounds. The brother returns to his sister and, anyway he was always her favorite of the two.
- Bertie Bellew, a leading man, is apprised by his manager that the company is almost bankrupt and that means must be devised to raise funds. George and Joe, two of the actors in the troupe, are sent out to solicit funds for old soldiers, but their real intention is to abscond with the money. Bertie has been carrying on a mild flirtation with Casaga, who lives with a wealthy aunt. George and Joe call at her home and the aunt tearfully tells them of her only son who was a soldier. In the photo they see a strong resemblance to Bertie and persuade him to impersonate the lost son. He visits a dentist and has his teeth removed; he has his body tattooed only to be revealed as a fraud.
- The curtain falls as Cleo finishes her remarkable portrayal of a woman dying after having taken poison, and she is enthusiastically applauded. Gordon, the debonair lover of Cleo, leaves his box and goes to her dressing room. He is making love to her when Harry Parker, her husband, enters and reproaches her for her unfaithfulness. The husband, picking up a revolver, is prevented from shooting his wife by Gordon, who struggles with him. The noise attracts the attention of Jack Stanley, who has just answered a telephone call at the back of the stage, and who rushes into the actress' room immediately after Gordon has killed Harry. Taking the pistol from Gordon, Jack asks for an explanation, and is bending over the body as Cleo hides Gordon and as the stage manager and stagehands rush in Jack is accused of the murder and sentenced to fifteen years in prison, and Helen Forde, fiancée of the imprisoned man, is convinced from a newspaper story that he must have had an association with the actress. Despite the fact that Gordon is in love with Cleo, he tries to get Helen to marry him. Cleo also urges the marriage, as Gordon has promised to spend a good part of Helen's wealth on her. Finally, Helen consents, and they are married. Three years have passed, and Gordon tires of Cleo. Helen is brutally treated by her husband, and she realizes that she has made a mistake in marrying him. Cleo, to get revenge on Gordon, informs Helen that it was not Jack who had committed the murder, but Gordon. Through the pleadings of Beatty, the little daughter of Helen, as to the reason why her mother is crying, Cleo, who has been, touched by the child's pathetic appeal, becomes deeply attached to the mother, and the two, women plan to right the wrong. Helen, determining that she will not live with a murderer any longer, leaves with Cleo for the west, and everything goes along smoothly until their funds run low. Cleo, unknown to Helen, obtains a position as a dancer in a café in order to raise a little money to maintain their home. Here she meets Jack, who had escaped from prison. After the performance. Cleo takes him to Helen's cottage, where a happy reconciliation is effected between the estranged couple. Meanwhile, Gordon, who has returned from his business trip, during which time Helen left him, finds the note his wife wrote him before she left. Learning of the whereabouts of Helen, with the aid of detectives, he goes to the town, in which they live, and accidentally sees Jack. Gordon spreads the news that Jack is a jailbird, and a posse is formed and sent in search of him. Gordon calls upon Helen and encounters Jack, who, inflamed at the malicious work of Gordon, springs upon the culprit just as Cleo spies the posse surrounding the house. Holding a pistol at Gordon, she tells him to stand while Jack seeks refuge in a secret cellar, entered through a trap door under the carpet. After abstracting a full written confession from Gordon she permits him to escape. As he is making a getaway, the posse spy him, and taking him for Jack, he is shot. The posse discover their mistake and bring the dead man back to the cottage, but the situation is cleared by the written confession which Cleo produces.
- Helga Moran, a young violinist, desiring to play before a great manager, sends in her card only to be rebuffed by the office brat. She returns to the studio of her friends and plays for them. They are fascinated, so much so that they forget the supper cooking on the stove. After the meal Helga returns to the office. The manager is looking for a man to play a lead in one of his productions. He is pestered by all sorts of types: song and dance men, an old opera singer, an old tragedian who still thinks he can play a juvenile, when the manager is almost mad with the pests. There comes into his office a beautiful girl with her violin; he would drive her out as he has the others, but she will not go; instead she plays to him. He is enchanted by her music; they fade from the office into a wonderful glade; he is sleeping at the base of a grand oak tree. Suddenly the tree opens and out dances a nymph; she inhales the fresh air, dusts off the flowers and plays with the rabbits, awakens the sleeping knights, then runs away. With Sir Knight she is persuaded across field and dale, up deep slopes, and romps with him in hot chase. Then back to the office. She finishes her selection; he falls to his knees enchanted. He offers her his all, his heart and his hand, but she is enraged to think her music could affect a man so. She breaks her violin over his head and leaves.
- A rich young man is attached to his father's stenographer. Knowing her character the father objects, disowning his son when he persists in big attentions to the girl. In the grip of poverty, the girl's true nature is disclosed, and the gentleness and goodness of her sister is revealed. The insincere girl finally rejects her lover, who is aided by the good sister. Father and son are reconciled, the latter realizing that he had chosen the wrong sister. An embezzling clerk in the father's employ finds favor with the fickle girl, and an elopement is arranged. Through an error, the elopers carry away a suitcase containing embroidering. The other case, containing the embezzled funds, is knowingly restored to the rightful owner by the sincere sister.
- Colonel Morgan, the last of the Morgans, has finally come to the end of his resources and is compelled to sell his old homestead. On the day before the sale he visits the grave of his wife and before his vision past the many happy events of their married life. While he is dreaming the real estate man brings some prospective purchasers to see the place. Morgan cannot stand this invasion of the spot so sacred to him and orders them from the premises. The next day the place is sold and Morgan is forced to leave. His colored servants feel this keenly, and old Peter tells Morgan that if only he could find the jewels which Mrs Morgan had hidden when the northern army invaded the town it would enable him to repurchase the old plantation. Meantime, with the money obtained from the sale, Morgan goes to the city. "Smooth" McGuire, a confidence man, notices the roll of money and with a confederate of his frames up a deal to sell Morgan a street car. They showed the old man many passengers riding on the cars and point out that it would be a lucrative investment. Old Morgan buys the car, but soon learns that he had simply given his money to the stranger. A kindly policeman gives him sufficient money to return to the old homestead. Old Peter, while plowing the fields, has discovered the jewels and with the money obtained from the sale of them Colonel Morgan is enabled to buy back the old plantation, although the present owners are loathe to part with it and only do so when Peter threatens to establish a colored church on the adjoining Plantation.
- Fred Rayo returning from England strikes up a flirtation with Mary West, who is endeavoring to smuggle some small articles, and who suspects Rayo of being a smuggler also. Both are searched, but nothing is found. They have seen in a magazine a picture of a famous judge who has convicted a gang of smugglers. Fred arrives home and meets the judge, and is much alarmed. Mary West spends the week with Mrs. Rayo, and she also meets the judge. Fred has invited six of his college chums, also suspected of being smugglers, to spend the week with him. While at dinner Inspector McCrowan is announced. Mary discovers in her grip a ruby necklace which she cannot account for and which she leaves on the piano. It is found by Fred, who leaves with it. Fred throws the necklace away and it is discovered by the butler, who starts to wrap it up in a sheet of music. In the meantime Mary runs away, losing her shoe, which is found by Fred. The butler has the necklace wrapped up in the music. Fred wraps the shoe, and calls the butler, who in the meantime has hidden the necklace in back of the piano. Fred sends him to Mary with the shoe, but before he has a chance to obey he is sent out of the room by Mrs. Rayo. A sneak thief finds the necklace back of the piano. Fred discovers him, takes the package and sends the necklace (thinking it is Mary's shoe) to Mary's room. The thief meets the butler outside, and thinking he has the package which contains the necklace, takes it away from him. Mary again receives the necklace. The thief discovers that it contains only a shoe and throws it away. Mary, finding no place to hide the necklace, places it in Fred's hands. Fred lays it on the table and sits on it. His friends are very much worried about the inspector, and tell Fred they are going to beat it. Fred jumps up from the table, but cannot find the necklace, as it is stuck to his coat. He leaves the room, not knowing it is there. As they are running for a car they hear a cry from Mrs. Rayo, saying she has lost her necklace. They all run back and help her search. Fred's coat has been torn and he gives it to Mary to mend. She discovers the necklace and throws it out of the window, where it is discovered by a servant, who in turn hands it over to another servant, until it reaches the hands of a maid, and she puts it on a dog. The Inspector accuses Mrs. Rayo of smuggling a valuable necklace, but she clears herself. They discover the man who placed it on the dog, and peace is once more restored to the house.
- Vera Ronceval has been brought up in seclusion by her father, Amos Ronceval, a recluse. One day she meets Orthen Owen, an artist, and they fall in love. When Amos learns of this, he forbids Arthen to see his daughter, and in his rage suffers an attack of heart disease. Dying, he commits Vera to the care of her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, a lawyer. Mr. Ronceval takes Vera away with him to his city home. Arthen, unable to find further trace of Vera, falls upon evil ways, neglecting his art and finding forgetfulness in dissipation. Reduced to poverty, he makes a contract with Lee Varick, famous as an artist, whereby Arthen is to paint pictures, signing Varick's name to them. Varick has acquired his reputation by this traffic in the work of others. In the meantime, Vera has been living with her cousin, Mr. Ronceval, who is a friend of Varick's, and who greatly desires a match between Varick and Vera, Although Vera has never forgotten Arthen, she has, to please her cousin, conditionally consented to an engagement with Varick. One day Vera meets Arthen in his fallen condition, and learning the story of his fall, she tells him that she still loves him, and that she will break off her engagement with Varick. At the same time Arthen, obtaining a new lease upon his manhood, seeks Varick out to return the check just given him for the sale of his name and work to Varick. Vera calls upon Varick, tells him that she knows of his mode of obtaining fame and that she will not marry him. Varick, believing that he has her in his power, attempts to commit an assault upon her. Just then, Arthen, on his way to return Varick's check, hears Vera's cries for help and breaks into Varick's studio. He knocks Varick down and rescues Vera. He then takes her to her cousin, who, upon learning the whole story, gives his consent to the marriage of Vera and Arthen.
- Headmistress Flo disciplines unruly boys at her father's school. Her innovative methods include hosing the boys down and locking them inside an ice house. Nothing like stranding the assistant principal on a hoist to make love bloom.
- Brooke Garriot, a young man of education, is interested in the development of certain mechanical appliances. Natalie Judson, whom he has never met, is young and pretty and highly interested in society. A wealthy old man, related distantly to both of them, dies, leaving a will that gives his fortune to these young people on condition that they marry. The condition is not to their liking, but, through a mutual girlfriend, they are brought together and finally persuaded to marry. After marriage each continues life independent of the other. But as time passes, a feeling akin to love springs up between them. However, both are stubborn and self-willed. Ren De Land is a friend of Natalie's. Natalie receives attention from him; this is the first thing that stirs Garriot to action. However, the girlfriend scents the trouble and proceeds to pay attention to Garriot with the hope of stirring Natalie's jealousy. After a series of dramatic, and at times amusing, incidents, she succeeds. Natalie finally decides that she has no mind for losing her husband when her friend tells her to take him or she will. The young couple awaken to a realization of love only to have it shattered and a tragedy threaten through a minor incident. How this is finally corrected, the thrilling climax aboard a private yacht wherein Garriot teaches Ren De Land that it is best to leave other men's wives alone, completes the play.
- Bill is a lunatic in an asylum. His friend, Penpoints, happens along and Bill pleads so that his friend decides to use his strength. He spreads the iron bars and Bill escapes. The guards chase them until Bill and Penpoints find a raft on the beach. They remain on the raft for one week, when they drift on an island, inhabited by cannibals. The cannibals decide to have a feast. As they are about to put their visitors in the boiling water, they discover a ring around the moon, which is a sign that no one should be killed that day. Bill tells them that he is the moon god. They all see his baseball and believe him. They make Bill the new king and he has the time of his life with the cannibal girls. Bill suggests a game of ball, which he tries to teach the cannibals, but it ends in a fight. Penpoints tells the cannibals that Bill is a baseball player and not a god, and they decide to kill him. But Bill's wonderful pitching saves his life. Just as the cannibals are about to attack him he finds cocoanuts on the tree near him and starts throwing. He then awakens and finds himself in a padded cell in the lunatic asylum.
- Robert Insley, a rising young lawyer, is engaged to marry Edna Markham, the daughter of a well-to-do widow. One day Harry Blount, a wealthy middle-aged speculator, drives out to the Markham farm in his automobile in order to offer the widow a price for it. While there he meets Edna and falls in love with her. He buys the farm at a good price, Insley acting for the widow in closing the deal. Then Blount flatters the widow, takes Edna automobiling and otherwise makes himself generally agreeable. He finally obtains the widow's consent to his marrying Edna, and between them they force her to dismiss Insley. Two years elapse, during which time Insley has risen in his profession and Edna has had every luxury. In a café Insley and Edna meet, she being accompanied by her husband and mother. At Insley's invitation they join him at luncheon. While they are seated at the table a French count, a friend of Blount's, comes over to them, and he also becomes a member of the party. As they are about to leave, Blount invites the Count and Insley to become members of a house party he is going to give the following week. The Count accepts instantly, but Insley hesitatingly accepts. The house party proves a big success. The Count has admired Edna for a long time, and now seeks to pay his advances to her. Edna forbids his ever speaking to her again. That night, as she is going to her room, she meets Insley coming in. He requests an interview with her, and they go outside to a rustic summer house, where he tells her he must go away at once and never see her again. As he stoops to kiss her hands in farewell the Count, who has been following them, comes upon them and, noticing the action, hurries away to inform Blount. Blount insists upon knowing the trouble, and upon the Count informing him that his wife is faithless to him, Blount calls him a liar. The Count draws a revolver and attempts to shoot Blount, but the latter succeeds in wrenching it from him and, being closely pressed, he shoots the Count. In the meantime Insley and Edna have entered the hallway, heard the quarrel and the shot fired. Insley urges her to retire and, taking her almost up in his arms, he carries her across the hall, just as Blount enters and sees them. Believing now the truth of the Count's accusation, Blount goes out. Insley then rushes into the room, picks up the revolver and tells the Count, who is still alive, that he deserves what he received for trying to ruin a woman's name. At this point the guests all rush in, as do Blount and Edna. The Count is asked who shot him, and he points at Insley and dies. Insley starts to defend himself, but stops, for only by accusing Edna's husband and proving that he himself was outside alone with her at midnight can he do it. Edna starts to exonerate him, when she catches Blount's eye, who by the force of his glance compels her to keep silent. Through bribery Edna finally obtains Insley's release. Years later Blount, accompanied by Edna and her mother, lies dying in a hotel in a distant land and, being a Roman Catholic, sends for a priest. When he comes it is no other than Robert Insley. Blount, at sight of the man whose whole life he has ruined, is seized with mad terror and dies. Insley performs what office he can for the dead man, and leading Edna to the bedside, he kneels with her, praying for the soul of the departed.
- Jack comes into the cattle town broke, looking for work. This he secures with a ranchman and in that this ranchman has a pretty daughter. Vera, the position particularly appeals to the young cowboy. As the days pass, Jack and Vera become attached to each other much to the disgust and anger of the foreman, George, who seeks Vera for himself. This foreman is the secret head of a gang of cattle thieves, and he has been planning raids on his own boss's ranch. Jack, in the course of his work, comes to suspect the foreman, but can find nothing on him. The foreman, on the other hand, schemes to compromise Jack in the cattle raids with the assistance of a Mexican. They plant on Jack's saddle an iron used in making over the brand on the horses that have been stolen. Vera has purchased a small camera, the only one to be had in the town. Of an afternoon she rides into the hills with Jack to take some pictures. They forget the camera on starting back home, and Jack returns to get it. Before joining Vera again, Jack runs into the cattle rustlers, and he snaps a picture of them from behind bushes, with the foreman in the foreground. Soon after the rustlers are attacked by the cowboys. But the foreman escapes without being detected. Once back at the ranch the foreman accuses Jack of being the leader of the gang and produces the iron concealed in Jack's saddle. In the meantime, Vera is in the dark room developing her pictures. Among them she finds one of the cattle rustlers. As Jack is about to be led off with a rope around his neck by the furious cowboys, she rushes out and displays the incriminating picture. The Mexican is captured and the two culprits are led off to jail. Jack and Vera, later, find many happy days together with Jack, promoted to the position of foreman.
- Perfect angel Willie declines to accompany his doting wife Dolly to a mask ball, but instead of a quiet evening at home among his books, Willie spends the night at an underground casino, and instead of being chaperoned at the party, Dolly is out flirting with another man.