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- When Violet Kingston is attacked by tramps, wealthy socialite Mark Cameron comes to her rescue. Sylvester Hatch, the Kingstons' social-climbing landlord, does everything in his power to further a romance between them, hoping to gain acceptance in high society. Mark eventually asks Violet to marry him but she refuses. Sylvester then proposes to Violet, and her avaricious mother insists that she accept. On the day of the wedding, Mark learns of Violet's plight and takes her to a justice of the peace to be married. Soon after, Sylvester is found dead and Mark is arrested for murder. However, the real criminal is quickly discovered and Mark is set free to begin a belated honeymoon.
- Young Julia Merritt runs away with an actor, who dies shortly afterwards, leaving her with a young daughter. She leaves the girl with Arlene, the Merritt family housekeeper, swearing her to silence. The local church deacon thinks that Arline is the unwed mother and tries to get her to leave town. Complications ensue.
- Philanthropical druggist Daniel Abbott, occasionally robs the rich to take care of the poor, goes to court with his young ward, Jimmy Nolan. In the courtroom Daniel meets Mrs. Warren, who, despondent over her inability to care for a newborn baby, has been charged with attempted suicide. Daniel takes mother and daughter under his wing, watching with pride as the girl, Helen, and his ward, Jimmy, grow to a tender adolescence. Sylvester Doane, a tenement owner, falls in love with Helen, and Daniel makes plans to rob him. Jimmy learns with shock of the plans and goes to Doane's apartment to prevent the robbery. Jimmy takes the gems to forestall his father, but he is found with them in his possession and put in jail. Daniel kills Doane and is himself shot. Jimmy is released from jail, and he and Helen are married.
- James Mason Ardsley, a young lawyer of good family, is retained by wealthy Julia Kingsley to go to the exclusive Cranston School for Girls and investigate the conduct of Mary Sargent, the daughter of Mrs. Kingsley's deceased half sister. Ardsley gets a job as the Cranston chauffeur and falls in love with Mary, who is a housekeeper at the school. Willis Herbert, a bounder, arrives at the school and persuades Mary to go to the city with him, falsely promising her a good job. Ardsley goes after them. Herbert attacks Mary in his apartment, and she hits him with a bronze bookend. Herbert is found stabbed to death, and Ardsley is accused of the crime on circumstantial evidence. He is sentenced to be executed, but at the last moment, Norma (a woman badly wronged by Herbert) comes forward and confesses that, finding Herbert unconscious from the blow struck by Mary, she finished him off with a knife. Ardsley and Mary make plans to wed.
- Wishing to make contact with his deceased first wife, Henry Latimer permits the frequent visits of a bogus medium.
- Disappointed by the refusal of his son, Carl, to join him in his shipbuilding business, Colonel Burgess seeks the help of his friend Judge Langhorne in diverting Carl from his hobby--criminology. Langhorne engages reformed crook Spike Hennessey to stage sufficient criminal activity to satisfy Carl's curiosity, and Spike further plans with Ben Felton and Kerrigan to plant Elaine Mackay in Carl's apartment. However, Ben and Red decide to play their blackmail threat for real; Carl marries Elaine, who, reforming, declines further connection with the conspiracy. Finally, coerced by Ben and Red, Elaine leaves Carl, who follows her and discovers the truth of the situation. Rescuing Elaine, Carl declares his intention to keep her as his wife; he receives his family's approval when it is learned that Elaine is the granddaughter of Langhorne's sister, and Burgess happily welcomes Carl into his business.