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- To keep the old homestead from being foreclosed, a mother agrees to have her daughter marry the deep-dyed villain who hold the mortgage. However, the daughter has a race-car-driving fiancée who objects, and sets about getting a patent on his new-and-improved automobile valve.
- Young New Yorker Mason (Frank Merrill), who loves a good fight, runs for public office. As part of his election campaign he agrees to not get involved in any fights and refuses to respond with violence to even the most heavy provocation. All this disappoints his wealthy uncle, who erroneously believes Mason is a weak coward.
- Vacationing in the Canadian Northwest, a playwright and a songwriter both fall in love with Marie Cleste and take her back with them to New York when her father and her sweetheart apparently die in a forest fire. (The father did perish; the sweetheart escaped, crippled, with his blinded Indian guide into the forest to hide his infirmities.) Marie becomes a Broadway star, only to find it necessary to leave New York hurriedly under suspicion of the murder of one of her "angels." (The real murderer escapes, but is later captured in the Northwest.) Returning to her hometown, Marie finds considerable local opposition to her presence; but she finally finds happiness in the arms of her sweetheart, who has returned also, inherited a fortune, and recovered the use of his legs.
- Hugh Drummond is sent by his father to negotiate a deal with banker Benjamin Way, but upon his arrival, discovers that Way has disappeared. Townsman Steve Rutland, secretly hoping to gain control of the bank's wealth, stirs up trouble until a run on the bank is threatened. With Way's daughter's help, Hugh follows clues to Way's location and is able to rescue him. Hugh then manages to stop of group of construction-camp men from causing a run on the bank. Afterward, Hugh returns to town in time to stop a panic there, and to get Rutland arrested.
- Police officer Frank Brady is sent on an undercover operation to apprehend a gang of drug traffickers. After he becomes part of the gang, he falls in love with Helen Matthews, a young woman whose uncle is implicated and subsequently murdered. When Frank learns that the secret head of the gang is prominent banker John Kingsley, and that there is a plot to abduct Helen, he warns her by means of a wireless device. She makes her escape in time, Frank has Kingsley arrested, and the two sweethearts are reunited.
- A seaman on board a sailing ship battles mutinous crew members, a corrupt millionaire trying to take over the ship and falls in love with a girl who turns out to be his adopted sister.
- Jack Melford, the prize hurdler at a small college, wins a big race and learns immediately afterward that his father is near death. He returns home to find his father dead and himself penniless, his father having left everything to Dr. Dehli, the foreign specialist who treated him. Jack later discovers that the same Dr. Dehli is caring for Julia Cunningham, the aunt of his orphaned sweetheart, Rae Davis. Jack eventually exposes the doctor as a charlatan, revealing Dehli's plans to hypnotize Rae's aunt and force her to disinherit the girl. Jack also rounds up the crooks who worked with Dehli, winning for himself the love of Rae and the gratitude of her aunt.
- Dr. Frank Martin, just as he is opening office for the day, meets "Chug" Wilson, owner of the local gymnasium, and George Stafford, who demands that the doctor make a call at the Sanders house. There he finds Malcolm Sanders and his daughter, Susie, caring for Jimmy, a cripple suffering from measles. Stafford resents the fact that Susie and Frank are attracted to each other; and as the two men are coming to blows, Wilson invites them to the gym to fight it out. Jimmy's measles are cured, and with exercise in the gym, his leg begins to mend under Frank's care. Stafford schemes with "Scissors" Lomski, a professional wrestler, to stage a match, designates Sanders as trustee of the prize money, but substitutes old paper for the money. Frank learns of the swindle and proceeds to thrash the culprits but is downed by foul play. At the wrestling contest, while Lomski is being beaten, Stafford abducts Susie, and Frank pursues in a car, then in a speedboat, to rescue her.
- Speed Creswell, whose father is an oil magnate, learns that David Brierly, the trusted foreman of the senior Creswell's business, secretly is working for a rival company. The rivals want to acquire some valuable oil leases currently owned by Creswell before oil is discovered on the property. When reporter Vera Wray hears about Brierly's treachery, she tries to confirm the story, but is kidnapped by oilfield hands who are working with him. Speed eventually rescues Vera and forces Brierly to find the oil before Creswell's rivals can usurp the lease from him.
- Dave Melford, the crooked boss of the Leadingham lumber interests, with the aid of Miles Barnes, an "oily bookkeeper," attempts to freeze out the smaller lumber camps. Baxter, one of Melford's victims, complains to Leadingham, but Melford shows up and an argument ensues. Later, Leadingham is killed, and Baxter flees when he is caught with the murder weapon by Leadingham's son, Frank. In the guise of a detective, Frank follows, accompanied by his college chum, Manning Duff. Frank falls in love with Baxter's daughter, Maxine. Melford, learning that Frank suspects Baxter, tries to scare Maxine into marriage. Baxter is arrested and jailed. Frank finds that the murder weapon really belongs to Melford, and after Frank and Manning defeat Melford and Barnes in a fight, Melford confesses. The elder Leadingham arrives, alive and well, and reveals that the murder was a ruse to trap Melford.
- Wealthy town "boss" David Manning has everything he desires except Sally Hibbard, and he plots to "rescue" Sally and her parents from a situation and thus put her under an obligation to him. Sally, however, meets Frank Gibson when they find themselves photographed together by a "picture machine." Later, Manning's henchmen attack Frank and his pal, "Rubber Chin" Smith, but the gang gets the worst of it. While on his milk delivery route, Frank overhears Manning's plotting and by accident finds himself at the Hibbard home, where Sally invites him to join a party. The party is invited to a tavern, where Frank follows and frustrates Manning's scheme to stage a police raid by substituting milk for the liquor on the guests' tables. Frank turns out to be the governor's son and is betrothed to Sally.