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- With the two principals in a ballet of forty dancers that is a feast to the eye. Back of this novelty there is woven a simple tale of an old fashioned dancing master, in his little garret room, who still clings to the old fashioned dances of grace and movement. Over his bowl of milk and crackers his head sinks to the table and in dreamland he becomes the dancing master of renown once again. At a great banquet table he meets his old cronies who have come together to discuss the progress of their art and thus, before these gray-haired men, we are shown the Dances of the Ages. On the table before them appear dainty, tiny figures who flit before their gaze; a corps of wonderful miniature dancers. They dip back in the annals of time to the pre-historic dance of primitive man, who creeps from his cave and delights his mate with his barbaric movements to the sound of her tom-tom. Now we have the slow, crawling incense and weird, snakelike movements of the Dance of the Priest of Ra, before an Egyptian temple, 1200 B.C. This fades away and time creeps down to 400 B.C. to the Grecian Bacchanalia, where garland maidens give forth their joy in the abandonment of youth and gladness. Then the ancient Orient of 200 A.D. comes before us with all the voluptuousness of that period of veiled maidens and Oriental splendor. Then the stately Minuet of 1760 is shown, quickly followed with the wild frolic of the Carnival period of France; then the Cakewalk in America and back again to France, where we see the Apache Dance, and now the dreamy waltz of all nations and finally we step upon the ladder of today and see the modern Rag. This delightful picture closes showing the old broken down dancing master trying to keep pace with the times and squirming himself into the inartistic movements and hops of modem Ragtime dances.
- Will Harvey and Jack Fielding are roommates at college and in love with the same girl, Katherine. She is in doubt as to which one she prefers. Spending a day at the beach Jack refuses to go in bathing with the others, as he was nearly drowned when a boy and has dreaded the ocean ever since. Katherine while rowing in a boat alone is upset and nearly drowned. Harvey is the man who rushes to her assistance and because he came to the front when Jack held back. Katherine gives her love to him. Jack is considered a coward not only by his roommate and Katherine, but by the college boys as well. Ten years later Katherine and Harvey are married and have a little daughter. One night when the parents are spending the evening at the theater the little girl, who is not feeling well, is left in charge of the maid. The maid deserts the child in order to flirt with a policeman. Later in the night Fielding, who has become a physician and a specialist of note while going by the house hears the wailing of a child in apparent agony. He enters the house, finds no one at home, and tracing the source of the cries sees that the child is sick with smallpox. The health officers are telephoned for and the house put under quarantine. Only the frantic mother is permitted to enter the house. Dr. Fielding has had a struggle with himself when he has learned whose child it is, but he buries his personal feelings under the influence of duty. He brings the little girl through her illness, but falls a victim to the disease himself, and pays for his self-sacrifice with his life.
- Robert Harmon, returning from abroad, calls upon a family friend, Mr. Fisher, and while there sees a photograph of a beautiful girl who, he is informed, is Mr. Fisher's daughter. Later his housekeeper tells him that another maid is needed and they send to an employment agency for one. It so happens that Mr. Fisher's daughter, Lucille, is at the employment agency on a similar errand and learning that Harmon desires a maid determines for a lark to take the position. She is employed and Harmon is impressed with the fact that he has seen her before. After a day or two Lucille decides to return home secretly in the dead of night and for a souvenir takes Harmon's photograph to carry with her. But a burglar entering the house at this juncture causes her identity to become known and gives her a lover.
- Bill, who is with a bunch of cowboys on their way to town, picks up from the wreckage of a prairie schooner a little baby girl. Five years later the little girl, while running after butterflies, gets lost. Bill, waking up from his siesta, goes in search of her, but she cannot be found. The little girl, in the meantime, has climbed into a freighter's wagon. For twelve years she lives with him. One evening, while gambling with Mexican Pete, the freighter loses his money, and the girl, whom he had staked against the Mexican's winnings. But before the Mexican can take the girl away, Bill wins her from the Mexican, places her in the care of a woman neighbor and eventually marries her.
- During the launching of a large boat a dude flirts with a girl and makes her believe the ship belongs to him. He is proven to be a "four-flusher" and driven away in derision. Splendid scenes of a large boat being launched are shown.
- Oswald, a young farmer, becomes suspicious of the growing intimacy between Nellie and Arthur Conway, a city visitor in the neighborhood. Conway by playing upon Nellie's vanity persuades her that her voice and personality would make a hit upon the stage and so wins her over to run away with him. Oswald returns home one night to find that he and his little son have been deserted. Nellie goes to the city and hopes to find in wine, fine dresses and song an antidote to the longing for her little son, but in vain. She is haunted by the vision of her deserted family and stung by repentance returns home. Little Bud in the meantime has run away from home to find his mother and becomes lost in the woods. He is later found unconscious by his anxious father and contracts pneumonia. The mother returns in time to find the child convalescent and is forgiven through Bud's intercession.
- We have two men, who are the best of friends until a woman is the innocent cause of a rupture. Trouble begins when they both fall desperately in love with her. The rejected suitor conceives a plan that will present his rival in a most unfavorable light on his wedding day. While the prospective bridegroom sleeps contentedly in a chair, his friend makes use of a bottle of red ink to mark his face in a manner strongly suggestive of smallpox. Unaware of his altered appearance the victim of the red ink arrives at the home of the girl, where the guests are assembled in readiness for the wedding. One glimpse at the suspiciously marked face and they flee in a panic from the mystified cause of the disturbance. When the would-be bridegroom looks into a mirror the strange actions of his friends are accounted for, and he promptly prepares to get even, which he does in an amusing fashion.
- John Dudley leaves jail, where he has been serving a term for embezzlement, at the same time as Bill McCoy. Dudley, at heart a worthy man, determines to live down his past. He gets a position, but McCoy trails him and blackmails him for a portion of his earnings. Desperate at the turn of affairs, Dudley moves to another town. Here he finally secures another position, in which he makes good and is promoted. He becomes engaged to the daughter of the company's president, but his past will not down. McCoy again crosses his path and threatens to tell all if he is not given $5,000. Dudley determines to give up the unequal fight and goes to his fiancée, telling her of the blot on his past, and offers to release her from the engagement. She, however, refuses to do so, in which she is supported by her father, who tells Dudley that he trusts him in spite of all.
- Among a group of little girls dancing to a street piano, one attracts the attention of a sweet, old master of the art of dancing, and he gives her tickets to the theater and her first opportunity of seeing professional work in this line. When, after a lapse of some few years, he returns to the town, he finds that she has gone to work in the braid mill, but that her heart is still filled with the love of the poetry of motion and her work is a terrible drudgery in consequence. The old man's heart is touched and on talking with the girl he finds that her mother has convinced her that dancing is a sin, consequently he presents his side of the argument, telling her that the gift is not one to be despised, but to be cultivated, and going to her home he makes her dance before her aunt and finally her mother. The latter, who had known dancing only of the cruder sort, sees in her daughter's movement a beauty and simplicity, which opens her eyes to the possibilities of this art, and when the old man presents his plea for its cultivation. She gives her consent. Of course, the little girl with her heart in her work, becomes a the artist, and it is not difficult to see that the son of the old dancing master, himself a disciple of the art, will be likely to share her joy in her chosen work.
- Philip Norton's life is saddened by the homecoming of his daughter Laura, a vain widow who thinks more of dress and clothes than she does of her ten-year-old son, Frank. His anguish is quite apparent, as he observes his daughter openly make love to Richard Harding, his trusted secretary. Fortunately for the banker's peace of mind, Harding receives Laura coldly and expresses his preference for Helen, a poor seamstress. Laura finds a notebook that Harding dropped, and learns from it that he and Helen have secretly married. Taking the butler into her confidence, Laura outlines a plan for revenge that will put Harding behind prison bars. A few mornings later, Norton discovers his private safe open and the contents scattered about. Suspicion points to Harding and when a pencil inscribed with his initials is found in the room his doom is sealed. A few months later Helen dies as her baby daughter comes into the world. Fifteen years later a dramatic meeting occurs between Laura and the butler who was her accomplice in the safe robbery. The shock kills Laura who leaves a confession absolving Harding of the crime. Meantime Harding's daughter has grown up as a pickpocket, the tool of some clever crooks. The closing scenes of "The Path of Sorrow" picture the reunion of father and daughter, her welcome into the home of Laura's son, the butler's attempt to blow up the banker's home, and for a climax the butler's confession, clearing Harding's name.
- After a love triangle results death, St. Elmo falls from grace and is eventually redeemed in this now lost silent film based on the best selling novel by Augusta Jane Wilson.
- Judge Livingston, a wealthy jurist, lives happily in a mansion with his young wife, Josephine, and his daughter, Eleanor, child of the judge's first wife. Dick Winthrop, the judge's private secretary, is in love with Eleanor, and she returns his affection. They become betrothed, and the judge approves their engagement. Mrs. Livingston, Eleanor's step-mother, buys goods extravagantly at fashionable shopping places, and has the goods charged to her account. Dick receives a letter from a bank, saying that Mrs. Livingston has overdrawn her account $1,100, and requesting settlement without disturbing Judge Livingston. Dick tries to persuade Mrs. Livingston to attend to the overdrawn account, but she becomes angry and resolves to break Dick's engagement to Eleanor. Mrs. Livingston then tells the judge that Dick is not a proper fiancé for Eleanor. Eleanor finds recreation in doing settlement work, attracting the attention of several men engaged in white slavery acts. These evildoers forge a note purporting to be from a poor woman, asking Eleanor to come to her aid in the tenements. Leaving the note on a desk in her home, Eleanor goes to render the aid asked, and when she arrives at the address given, the white slavers seize her and make her a prisoner. Dick accidentally finds the note and rushes to rescue Eleanor, as he feels that the note was forged. Dick arrives at the house where Eleanor is held captive, and, after a desperate fight with the plotters, the men are taken prisoners. Eleanor and Dick manage to return home. The debts Mrs. Livingston owes become pressing; she tries at night to steal funds from her husband's safe, and Dick finds her near the safe. To escape accusation, Mrs. Livingston charges Dick with the theft, and he, to shield her, shoulders the blame in the presence of the judge and Eleanor. The judge believes his wife, and tells Dick he must leave the house forever. Mrs. Livingston then repents, tells her husband she alone is to blame, begs his forgiveness.
- Harry Wentworth, who is foreman of his father's ranch, is addicted to gambling and drinking. Harry, upon selling several head of cattle, uses the money for liquor. Upon returning to the ranch intoxicated, his father tells him that his services are no longer required, and that he shall leave his home and go out into the world and make a better man of himself. Harry's father establishes a Mexican as foreman of the ranch, who is "in clique" with Jim Martin, a lawyer and loan shark in town. Together they plan to rob the old man of his ranch, namely, in selling all of his cattle and advising him that they have been lost in a stampede. Ralph Crandall, a gambler about town, decides to send for his sister in the east. Before she arrives he tells the boys to keep his gambling life a secret from her. She arrives, and Jim Martin, infatuated with her, decides to expose Ralph to his sister unless he approves of his attentions to her. Harry Wentworth decides to ship on a coastwise vessel. On the first voyage out he incurs the wrath of the captain by interfering with him during a fight on board. Wentworth and his two pals, Beannie and Mac, have a fight with the crew, and after a hard tussle, escape by diving overboard. When the three swim safely to shore, Wentworth decides that he has had enough of sea life, and returns home, taking his two pals along with him to work on the ranch. He arrives home, learns of his father's business troubles and that the lawyer is about to foreclose the mortgage on the ranch. He meets Ethel Crandall and learns that she is the gambler's sister. He falls in love with her, and persuades Ralph Crandall to quit gambling. Jim Martin, infuriated over the love affair between Harry and Ethel, decides to have the girl abducted. Harry and Ralph conspire to get the mortgage back. In a game of cards Ralph plays the lawyer's hand and lets Harry take the winnings. The lawyer, angry at this, decides to take the girl away. His plot is overheard by Harry's pals, who notify him and her brother Ralph, who immediately start in pursuit. The end is a sensation.
- The Sunset Mining Company is in sore straits, when Porter and Morton, the heads of the concern, receive a letter written by "M.B. Parker," of Hynes' Station, offering them an option on a promising borax mine. Baxter, a real estate sharp, enters the office while the partners are in the next room. The man learns of the Parker offer and resolves to take it up himself. He dashes for the railroad station. The stenographer, however, has seen Baxter read the letter. She imparts her discovery to her employers. Fearing lest Baxter will snap up the option. Morton hastens to the station. He arrives a minute too late. Undaunted, he hires a racing automobile and races away for Hynes' Station. The real estate sharp arrives at Hynes' Station ahead of Morton. Hiring a rig, the man drives toward the Parker home. Morton is compelled to stop for gasoline, and is held up for ten minutes. A Mexican holds up Margaret. After felling the girl, he robs her. Margaret recovers consciousness just as Baxter approaches. Fearing lest his rival catch up with him, the scoundrel leaves the girl lying in the road. Morton drives up a few minutes later and learns of the robbery. He goes in pursuit of the thief and surprises him in the act of examining the proceeds of the holdup. A desperate battle ensues. Morton throws the bandit from a cliff, injuring him mortally. Returning to Margaret the boy restores the valuables the Mexican had stolen. Margaret then learns that the delay has probably cost Morton a chance for a fortune. Morton tells her of Baxter's villainy. With a mysterious smile, Margaret requests him to drive her to the Parker home. The two find Baxter trying to enter the house. Margaret leaps from the machine. Taking a key from her pocket, she opens the door of the house, after which she announces that she is "M.B. Parker." Baffled, Baxter slinks away. A few minutes later Morton has the coveted option in his possession.
- Arnold Truesdell, a rich invalid, requests his secretary, Robert Sheridan, to summon his lawyer. Truesdell is the foster father of Marion Robertson, the child of his bosom friend who died some time ago. His happiness with the little girl was soon dissipated, for she was kidnapped by a gypsy whose enmity he had aroused. Truesdell dictates his will, leaving the estate to the missing child, and in the event of her not being found within a year the property would revert to the secretary and Margaret Frazer, the housekeeper. After making the will Truesdell passes away. Through the years following her kidnapping Marion continues to live with the gypsies. Tiring of their tyranny she runs away. Hearing the sound of a church organ she timidly enters the sacred edifice. She is accorded a cordial welcome, and is adopted by one of the women of the congregation. Meantime, the required year having nearly elapsed, the secretary and housekeeper are confident that they will inherit the estate. The minister of the little church has in the meantime fallen a prey to Marlon's charms. Hoe, one of the gypsies, who is also in love with Marion, searches for her. Noticing in a newspaper that Marion has been discovered by the attorney of the estate, the secretary determines to have her put out of the way and hires two gangsters to kidnap her. They accomplish the deed. Bound and placed in a trunk she is thrown overboard. Her continued absence causes great alarm and the minister seeks her. His search leads him to the waterfront. He overhears the kidnapper and the secretary discussing her disposal and 'phones for the police, who soon get on the secretary's trail. The trunk is found by Gypsy Joe, who is horrified to discover its contents. Gypsy Joe takes Marion back to her home, where she arrives in time to see the arch-conspirators being led away by officers of the law. Realizing then the great love which has been awakened in the minister's heart, her happiness seems complete, the only shadow being the fact that she must discourage the love of the gypsy boy.
- Betty, an orphan girl of sixteen, is abused at an orphanage, and one evening after an unusually trying episode, she escapes. She rides a freight car to a distant city. There she wanders cold and hungry, and at last falls fainting in a park. Francis Seeman, a Raffles, driving by in his limousine, rescues her. He adopts and educates Betty. At the school she meets Gladys, the daughter of a wealthy man, and the girls become very good chums. At the end of the four years Betty returns to Seeman, and then he discloses his purpose in adopting her. She is horror-stricken, but forced by threats to follow instructions. He and Betty go to another city to begin their operations. Seeman forges a letter of introduction to one of the wealthiest men of the town, and thereby gains social recognition. He and Betty are invited to a fashionable function, Betty posing as Seeman's daughter. There she meets Gladys, her school chum and a niece of the hostess. Seeman forces Betty to steal the latter's diamond necklace. A few days later Gladys calls on Betty, and incidentally shows her a beautiful rope of pearls. Just as she is showing them to Betty, Seeman enters. After Gladys has gone, Seeman commands Betty to get the pearls. Betty refuses, and Seeman, enraged, tries to choke her. Betty, frightened, seizes a hat pin and stabs Seeman with it. He falls to the floor. She then goes to the safe and takes some money, and finds Mrs. Mills' necklace. Deliberately she takes the jewels and strews them across Seeman's body, so the public may know who stole them. Betty retires to the country, posing as a widow, and takes a little cottage, as it happens next to the young clergyman, Roger Neville. She and Roger become very good friends, but the villagers disapprove. One day a little boy comes for Roger to go to the bedside of a dying woman. Betty goes along. The woman they find already dead, leaving a boy of four. Roger suggests one of the villagers adopt the orphan, but all the women answer that they already have too many mouths of their own to feed, and to send the child to the orphanage. The picture of what she had suffered at the orphanage rises before Betty, and she begs to take the boy. The villagers sniff and turn up their noses, declaring Betty did this only to make an impression. In the meantime Seeman is taken to the hospital. He lies between life and death, held for the robberies. Seeman at last is on the road to recovery, and determined not to go to prison alone, he tells the detectives Betty is his accomplice, and gives them a picture of her. They begin their search. One day when the papers are delivered to the villagers, they see a picture of Betty on the front page, telling why she is wanted. The minister receives the paper, and reads the article. Upon his persuasion, Betty tells her story. In the meantime the detectives arrive, and the village people are only too eager to show them where Betty is. At the trial Betty tells her story to the judge and jury, and it wins her case, the judge giving Seeman a long term in the penitentiary. Gladys is at the trial, and shows her loyalty toward Betty.
- Herbert Randolph, son of a well-to-do country clergyman, becomes engaged to Matilda Rankin, prim, homely, prudish young woman of his home town. He has proposed to her more to gratify his parents than because of any real love for her. His ambition is to be an author. He finishes his first novel and carries the manuscript to the city to a publisher. The editor of the publishing house to which he first submits it turns it back, telling him that his characters lack reality and naturalness, and calling special attention to a passage in which he portrays the lover experiencing his first thrill of love by kissing the heroine on the forehead, which is the limit of Herbert's own experience. Jane Conway, a reader in the publisher's office, has seen Herbert and becomes interested in him, believing that he has talent. She takes it upon herself to call upon him and offers to assist him in revising his novel, and he very gratefully accepts her assistance. She learns of his engagement to Matilda, sees her picture, and realizes not only that Herbert does not love her, but that with such a woman for a wife he can never hope to succeed in a literary career. Matilda and her mother come to the city, and Jane determines for Herbert's sake to break the engagement. Jane has an apartment below that of Herbert's in the same house, and while he is out one evening with Matilda and her mother, she gets into his room and places cards, chips, wine bottles and a pair of her gloves and slippers about the room. Herbert brings Matilda and her mother back to his apartment for some refreshments, after their evening's outing, and the two woman discover the suspicious evidence of a gay life that Jane has placed in the room. The two prim women are shocked. Matilda, ignoring Herbert's protestations of innocence, gives him back his ring and she and her mother depart in great indignation. Jane, who has been watching the scene outside the French window, falls into the room. Herbert accuses her of the plot, and she admits it, much to Herbert's amazement. Later she comes back for her things, finds him on the couch, and kisses him, and runs out. Herbert has been sensibly falling in love with Jane and this kiss in his sleep awakens him to the full realization of his feelings, and under this inspiration he revises his story and does it so well that it is promptly accepted. Jane in the meantime, fearing that she has gone too far and that she has offended Herbert, makes it a point to avoid meeting him, not realizing that he has fallen in love with her as she has with him. When he receives the letter from the publisher telling him of his acceptance of his manuscript, he takes it to Jane to thank her for her share in the good luck. He finds her asleep in a chair, and kisses her, thus revealing to her his love for her.
- The president of an Australian detective agency offers the services of their best man Henry King to the southwest coast police of California, who have been baffled by the many daring crimes committed by a gang of the underworld. Mr. King arrives in America, and upon the day of his arrival the most daring crime ever heard of is committed. Miss Dorothy Stevens is kidnapped in broad daylight in her automobile. The chauffeur was found drugged in an alley. Mr. King decides not to report this crime to the police, as to be seen with them might hinder him in his work, so he starts on the case alone. He spots his man, "Smiley Randel," holds him up, and thereby gaining his confidence, joins the gang as a first-class hold-up man. When he has located Miss Stevens, and about to get her away, Madge Burke does a clever piece of work and upsets his plans. He is bound and thrown into a room but upon rolling toward the door overhears the plans of the gang, namely, to leave the port on the schooner Blanche that night. He finds a mirror, and by throwing a mirror into a policeman's eyes, attracts his attention and gets him to come to the window. Writes a note, drops it down to him, thereby telling him of their plans, and to have a police-boat at the end of pier 21 and to watch out for the Blanche. That night he succeeds in freeing himself out of the room. He swims across the bay, secrets himself on the Blanche before the gang arrive. As the Blanche is making her way out of the harbor the police boat starts in pursuit and a battle ensues. Detective King takes Miss Stevens in his arms and jumps overboard. They are in turn picked up by the police boat and capture the fugitives. Miss Stevens is greatly surprised the next day by receiving a call from Detective King, of Australia, who proves to be the man who aided her in her escape and whom she thought was a member of the gang. After a short conversation with Miss Stevens, Mr. King decides to cancel his passage back to Australia, and remains in America indefinitely.
- Jack Banks and Tex Reeves are friendly rivals for the hand of Bess Harper, daughter of a rancher and horse dealer. Jack is line rider on an outlying ranch. Tex is Harper's corral boss. Harper favors Tex's attentions to his daughter, regarding Jack a drunken loafer. Jack protects a half-breed from a severe beating at the hands of Tex, during a dispute over a poker hand. The same evening in a drunken stupor, he loans his new boots to Tex to attend a dance. Tex, while saddling his horse, accidentally steps in the mud by the water trough, leaving a distinct impression of Jack's boot heels, which later gets that gentleman in bad. The following morning Jack's horse, after an impatient night of pawing at the hitch rail, enters the saloon, and by pulling off Jack's hat, dumping his whiskey bottle over, coaxes his master out and kneels for him to mount. As he is about to ride away, the stage drives up. He waits for the mail, receives a letter from his mother, saying she is in poor health and in need of a little money. Ashamed of his prodigality and too proud to borrow from his friends, he sells his prize horse to Harper, and sends the proceeds home. That night the horse breaks out of Harper's corral and beats it for Jack's lonely cabin. Tex, aroused at the noise, rushes into the empty corral. The half-breed, who has been laying there for Tex, seeing an opportunity in the deserted corral for vengeance, takes a shot at Tex. Suspicion naturally points to Jack. Jack is captured and jailed. Tex slowly recovers, but the wound in his head has clouded his memory. The half-breed, hearing of Jack's capture, induces Bess to help plan his escape. They accomplish a clever stunt, and Jack stays hidden in the back country for a month. Bess, at her father's instigation, has become engaged to Tex. Jack, while rustling grub one day, wanders too far from his hiding place, and is recaptured after a running fight by one of the deputies. The same day the mail brings a letter from the half-breed in Australia, confessing to the shooting of Tex. Later Tex recovers his memory, and entirely clears Jack of the attempted murder and horse stealing. Later, seeing Bess' preference, he nobly gives up the girl to Jack, after exacting a promise from his rival to "cut out all booze." Harper relents and turns Jack's horse over to him, resplendent in a new lady's silver-mounted saddle, remarking, "Wedding present, Jack, but he's still in my family."
- Loco Juan, a peon wood chopper who is afflicted, is befriended by Carmencita, the flower girl, when he incurs the ill favor of Senor Dominguez at the Cantina El Toro. Juan, through his appreciation of his heroine, is inspired with the thought of love, and falling asleep in the wildwood, dreams that a kind fairy transforms him into a dashing hero. Juan, in his newly attained manhood, foils the attempt of Senor Dominguez to abduct Carmencita, who has in the meantime accepted him as her betrothed. And aided by the vision of the good fairy overpowers Dominguez and his accomplice Sanchez the bandit in a spectacular knife fight. He triumphantly carries Carmencita away. But when she, enthused by his description of the good fairy who floats in and out of his adventures at opportune moments, takes the magic bracelet from his arm, the spell is broken, and Juan awakes from his dream, still the half-witted wood chopper lying under the sun-flower in the wild-wood.
- An enactment of the moral that the way of the sinner is hard and the only hope for the wayward is complete and absolute repentance.
- A talkative parrot, whose language is more forceful than polite, creates complications galore. Sailor Slim, the owner of Polly, finds a ready purchaser in the person of a rejected suitor, who has a mission for the garrulous bird to perform. Polly is to make trouble between a happy pair of lovers that the disgruntled rival may profit by their disagreement. The new owner of the parrot places it in the room in which the girl is entertaining her lover. Soon the young woman hears language not customary in refined society, and her lover is suspected. Vainly he protests his innocence, but appearances are strongly against him and he is in disgrace. Thereafter Polly experiences a varied career, of which a bath in the ocean is a part. The vicissitudes of the lover are numerous before he regains the good graces of his sweetheart.
- The wife of Peter Conway died in giving birth to a baby girl. Babbie, the motherless child, grew up to be beautiful and vivacious, her liveliness and innocent pranks were the joy and despair of her rough-handed but tender-hearted father, while Hannah, her elder sister, mothered and idolized the impulsive girl. But Babbie became the wife of a drunken wretch. Her husband died and back she fled to her father's arms. Hannah learned to love Ned Higgins, a newcomer, who at first did not like Babbie, but later found himself captivated by her artless charms, but the gathering clouds of an impending strike brought Asa Robins, a reporter, to the coal fields. After saving Asa from a beating at the hands of the strikers, Babbie refused his offer of marriage and the newspaperman was compelled to flee the town. Ned's jealousy was aroused by this incident and he unwillingly realized that he loved Babbie. With faltering voice he told Hannah the truth. She was crushed by the blow, but calmly replied, "Then you shall marry Babbie." Babbie appreciating the sterling worth of Ned, loved him deeply, but for her sister's sake rebuffed his advances and admonished him to remain true to Hannah. At last the strike was declared and the company imported trainloads of heavily armed guards to protect the mine property. Egged on by Dominick Kenelly, a drunken miner, the strikers prepared to attack the newcomers, but Babbie foreseeing its fatal consequences, summoned the priest, who averted the clash and rebuked the intoxicated leader. Enraged because Babbie foiled his plan, Kenelly attacked her in a lonely glen, and if it had not been for the timely interference of Ned, the girl would have been severely beaten. Ned again uttered his pleas, but Babbie remained unmoved. While crossing a railroad trestle, they were overtaken by an onrushing train. Seizing Babbie, he leaped and was rendered unconscious while Babbie was unhurt. She looked into his face and murmured, "Oh, my love, say that you are not dead." Ned opened his eyes. "Babbie, I love you. I can't live without you. Give me your promise." She impulsively threw her arms about his neck in an ecstasy of joy, when suddenly her sister's face flashed across her mind. "God of Mercy," she cried in anguish, "Everything I touch withers and is snatched from me. I am ill-starred; take away the curse." Convulsed with tears she fled, and prepared to leave home to forget her unfortunate love, when she heard that her father had been captured by the authorities and was to be court-martialed and executed. Stealing through the lines she rescued her father, and mounted on a horse they fled under a hail of bullets from the guards. Babbie was hit and fell from weakness from the horse, and for the first time her father learned of her wound. Ned and Hannah soon discovered the two at the roadside. Babbie fast nearing death, smiled at them, and taking the weeping Hannah's hand, placed it in Ned's. "I am going," she said almost inaudibly, "my star is sinking, and soon all will be over, but for my sake. Ned, love and cherish Hannah, as I have loved and cherished you." Babbie's lips ceased to move, and the little group bowed their heads and wept.
- George Lloyd, land owner, orders the fishermen in a coast village to vacate the property. Lloyd quarrels with his son Fred, an art student, and the latter leaves home and embarks on a steamer, from which he falls and is rescued by a fisherman known as Captain Jack. Fred's memory is lost by the fall. In the village he woos Nan, a fisher girl, thereby incurring the enmity of Joe Porter. Nan accepts Fred's love. Fred's father wages war on the fisherman. A battle over possession of the land takes place, and in the fight Porter shoots Fred in the back. Nan nurses Fred to recovery, and they are married, Fred still unaware of his identity. Porter becomes a desperado, and joins a gang of smugglers. Fred paints a picture of Nan, and an artist takes the portrait to a city, where it wins high praise. The painting is purchased by Blanche Dexter a former fiancée of Fred, and she, with Fred's mother, visit the fishing village to see the man who painted the portrait. Blanche and Fred's mother see Fred, and the sight of his parent restores Fred's memory. Porter about this time abducts Nan in a boat but Fred rescues her. His mother pleads with him to return home. Fred learns that his father is dead and that he has inherited the estate. Blanche, meanwhile, falls under the wiles of Porter, and meets him secretly. Fred leaves his wife, Nan, their baby having died and goes home with his mother. Fred indulges himself at cafés and forgets Nan, who is pining away in the village. Porter follows Blanche to the city, but later he returns to Nan and asks her to accept his love. She spurns him and, believing Fred lost to her forever, she rows a boat far out to sea and fails to return. Fred sees a vision of Nan, and prepares to return to her. He goes to the village and learns that Nan's body was washed ashore. He finds her grave beside the place where their child was buried, the two crosses bearing silent witness to the entanglements in the web of fate.
- Carmencita, the flower-girl of the Cantina Del Toro, crouches, terrified, against a rock in a wild remote canyon in the Sierra Del Madre. Tauntingly, Don Raphael Dominguez gloats over the shrinking girl. In the background a wild-looking troop of brigands, vassals of the Don's, look on without a glance of pity for the girl, Don Dominguez is about to seize his helpless prey when all at once half a dozen figures appear behind the rocks. As many rifles are leveled at the heads of the outlaw band. The brigands have carelessly left their weapons where the newcomers can seize them. There is nothing but surrender for the rascals and they throw up their hands. The leader of the rescuers, Juan, takes Carmencita in his arms. Juan, a stalwart, the dashing and the accepted lover of Carmencita, is in reality the "dreamself" of Loco Juan, a deformed, despised, half-witted woodcutter, who secretly adores Carmencita, who has often protected him from brutal jests and cruel blows. After Carmencita has once again interposed between himself and the brutal Don, Loco Juan wanders forth on the mountainside and falls asleep under a bank of wild sun-flowers. He dreams that a kind fairy suddenly rises from the mist of a waterfall and transforms him into erect, good-looking Juan. As Juan he meets Carmencita and her brother Poncho. Carmencita returns the love he confesses. But Don Dominguez, by spying learns Juan's secret. He determines to abduct Carmencita. With this in view he journeys into the mountain fastness and retains Antonio Sanchez, the desperate leader of the banditti, to carry out his purposes. Carmencita is carried off. In the brigands' hiding place, Don Dominguez is gloating over his prize when Juan, Loco Juan, no longer, springs into view. In a desperate knife fight he beats Sanchez and, embracing Carmencita, carries her in his arms to safety. But Carmencita, in a fatal moment, takes from Juan's arm the silver talisman the good fairy who befriended him placed there. The spell is broken. Juan awakens. Once more, his cloud-palaces dissolved, he is the deformed, half-witted outcast.
- The president of an Australian detective agency offers the services of their best man Henry King to the southwest coast police of California, who have been baffled by the many daring crimes committed by a gang of the underworld. Mr. King arrives in America, and upon the day of his arrival the most daring crime ever heard of is committed. Miss Dorothy Stevens is kidnapped in broad daylight in her automobile. The chauffeur was found drugged in an alley. Mr. King decides not to report this crime to the police, as to be seen with them might hinder him in his work, so he starts on the case alone. He spots his man, "Smiley Randel," holds him up, and thereby gaining his confidence, joins the gang as a first-class hold-up man. When he has located Miss Stevens, and about to get her away, Madge Burke does a clever piece of work and upsets his plans. He is bound and thrown into a room but upon rolling toward the door overhears the plans of the gang, namely, to leave the port on the schooner Blanche that night. He finds a mirror, and by throwing a mirror into a policeman's eyes, attracts his attention and gets him to come to the window. Writes a note, drops it down to him, thereby telling him of their plans, and to have a police-boat at the end of pier 21 and to watch out for the Blanche. That night he succeeds in freeing himself out of the room. He swims across the bay secrets himself on the Blanche before the gang arrive. As the Blanche is making her way out of the harbor the police boat starts in pursuit and a battle ensues. Detective King takes Miss Stevens in his arms and jumps overboard. They are in turn picked up by the police boat and capture the fugitives. Miss Stevens is greatly surprised the next day by receiving a call from Detective King, of Australia, who proves to be the man who aided her in her escape and whom she thought was a member of the gang. After a short conversation with Miss Stevens, Mr. King decides to cancel his passage back to Australia, and remains in America indefinitely.
- Larry Thorn, a novelist and man of wealth, loves and is engaged to Miss Julie Rider. While at a fashionable ball, Larry discovers Julia encouraging the attention of Baron Von Keller. Some nights later at the club the Baron insults Larry and an arrangement to fight a duel is made between them. The Baron, really afraid of meeting Larry, sends word of the challenge, living time and place, anonymously to Julia. Julia arrives in time to stop the duel, returns the engagement ring to Larry, and shows her preference for the Baron. Larry becomes piqued and discouraged with women and society in general and decides to go away and forget. He takes up a sort of hermitage in a river bottom section of the country, where he builds a shelter in a tree. In this vicinity there lives a blind old miser with an only daughter, very pretty, but a wild, uneducated, impulsive creature who has never known a mother's love or care. In fact, has seen few people outside of her association with the blind father. Larry chances by the old man's house and sees this odd little creature, answering to the name of Hazel. He only gives her a passing thought, but later when alone in the forest the thought of her comes back and she becomes an inspiration to him for a great novel. Allen, a wealthy farmer in the vicinity, sees Hazel and because of her odd manner and wonderful beauty, desires her for himself. He calls on her father and with a big sum of gold and whiskey buys her from the old man. Hazel, from her attic room, overhears the bargain and that night escapes to the woods. After hours of flight she walks into a bed of quicksand. Larry is startled from his sleep by her cries for help and arrives in time to save the girl from a certain death. He carries her to his camp, recognizes her and offers to take her back home. She tells him why she ran away and begs him to help her. Larry finds a home for her with an old farmer's widow, who soon brings out the good qualities in the girl, dresses her neatly and when Larry calls to see her he can hardly believe Hazel the same girl. He continues his novel with Hazel as the central figure and unconsciously falls deeply in love with her. The heavy rains set in; the rivers break their banks and the entire country is flooded. Farmer Allen, unable to get his purse back from the old, blind father of Hazel, finds his chance for revenge when he sees the old man's little farm flooded. He calls at the house, tells the old miser of the rising waters and offers to lead him to safety. The old man gets his treasure box from its hiding place. Allen wrests it from him. locks the old man in the room to die like a rat in a trap, escapes with the treasure box and rows up the river, but meets with disaster and Allen and the miser's hoard are swallowed by the whirlpool of muddy waters. Hazel, hearing of the rising water, calls upon Larry to go to the rescue of her blind father. The old man's house has been washed into the river bed, but the old man has managed to get on the roof where Larry, after some daring feats, finally rescues him and brings him to Hazel. Larry takes Hazel and her father back to his home, marries Hazel and gets a specialist to restore the old man's sight. His novel, inspired by Hazel, becomes a big success and he takes Hazel to a ball given in his honor where, in a beautiful gown, she does honor and credit to his standing, and becomes the social favorite of the season.
- The Austins mourn the loss of their only child who has just died. At the same time. Brant, a young widower, comes to the city in which the Austins live. He brings with him his four-year-old son, Bob. The child wanders away from his father and later climbs into Mrs. Austin's automobile. He is discovered by the grief-stricken woman. In an insane moment, she determines to keep Bob. The protests of her husband are of no avail, Mrs. Austin finds a tintype of Bob and his father in the lad's pocket. This she carefully conceals. Brant distractedly searches for his boy, but in vain. Years later. Bob, grown to manhood, learns that the Austins are not his parents. His adopted mother shows him the tintype and tearfully tells why she was led to adopt him. Brant, meanwhile, has attained prominence as a lawyer. He falls in love with Jeannette, a society girl, and marries her. As time passes, Brant neglects his young wife for his business. Fate throws Jeannette and Bob together. The boy falls in love with Jeannette. He urges the woman to elope with him. Lonely, and believing that her husband no longer loves her, Jeannette consents. On the night of the elopement Jeannette writes Brant a note, telling of her step. An impulse causes her to take an old tintype from a drawer. Bob sees it. It is identical to the one in his possession. The realization that he was on the verge of betraying his own father dawns upon him with crushing force. After ordering Jeannette to remove her wraps, the boy hastens to his adopted parents and tells them he has found his father. Brant, in the meantime, returns and finds the note, which Jeannette has forgotten to destroy. In the midst of his agony Bob and the Austins enter. Jeannette tells the reason which caused her to contemplate eloping. His joy in finding his long-lost son is so great, that Brant nobly forgives the culprits and takes them in his arms.
- Deane Maxwell, the daughter of a wealthy banker, is much interested in charity work. She contributes to the maintenance of a small orphan asylum, where she finds a three-year-old blind child, Ruth, to whom she becomes greatly attached. In the meantime she and Philip Osborne, her father's secretary, have fallen in love, but for some reason which he will not disclose Philip tells her that he can never be more than a friend to her. One night during a severe storm, Deane is roused out of sleep, and a vision of a woman she has never seen appears before her and impresses her with the conviction that some danger threatens little Ruth. She rushes out into the storm to the orphan asylum, finds the building in flames, and arrives just in time to rescue Ruth. She carries the child to her own home. Philip discovers them in the library, and confesses to Deane that Ruth is his daughter. He then tells her of his past life; a life of sin and sorrow, involving the death of his young wife and the affliction of his child. It is because of his tainted past that he has felt himself unworthy of Deane's love, but the vision of the dead wife now appears to him, the same vision that came to Deane, and bids him accept her love, as he has redeemed his past through sorrow and repentance.
- Beatrice lives with her father and her brother, Bernard, in a fishing village in Sicily. Lorenzo, a neighbor, woos Beatrice, but is repulsed, and becomes a secret enemy of Bernard. Donald Hanford, an American author, his sister, Elsie, and their friend, Dexter Harrison, come to the village as tourists. Bernard and Hanford quarrel over Anonetta, a gay Sicilian woman, and the men agree to fight a duel with pistols. Bernard, not aware of Lorenzo's enmity, makes Lorenzo his second. Hanford, having no wish to kill Bernard, extracts the bullets from his pistol but Lorenzo changes the pistols, and in the duel Bernard is shot dead. Beatrice swears a vendetta against the slayer of her brother, but the identity of the Americans being unknown to either herself or Lorenzo, she tells Lorenzo she would wed him if he locates the Americans. Lorenzo remembers having seen one of the pistols marked "D.H." Lorenzo searches, finds the Americans, and sees Harrison and his betrothed, Elsie, chatting together. Learning Harrison's initials, Lorenzo and Beatrice believe Harrison to be the slayer of Bernard. Harrison and Elsie suddenly go to London, and Beatrice sends Lorenzo there to kill Harrison. Hanford goes boating, meets disaster, and is saved from drowning by Beatrice's father, and taken to their home and nursed by her. They fall in love, Hanford proposes marriage, but Beatrice says she is bound by a vow to Lorenzo. Beatrice prays, a vision of her dead brother appears, tells her not to be bound by the vow, and later she accepts Hanford's offer to wed. Lorenzo learns in London that Harrison is not the man who shot Bernard, and returns home, there learning that the man he is to kill is betrothed to Beatrice. Lorenzo goes to a cliff to slay the lovers, but Bernard's vision comes, accuses Lorenzo of the slaying, and Lorenzo falls to his death on the rocks below the cliff.
- Dick Mathews is left penniless through the death of his father and his friends shun him. He secures a position as representative of an American mercantile firm and goes to Japan. One day when calling on a Japanese of integrity to purchase some antique article, he meets the man's daughter, Cherryblossom. Dick is impressed by her beauty, and later asks the girl to marry him. She does so. Dick buys and furnishes a pretty little American house and instructs her in American ways. About six months after their marriage Dick receives a letter from his home in San Francisco, informing him an uncle has died, leaving him his entire fortune and that his presence is desired at once. He prepares to leave. He tells Cherryblossom he is called to America on business, but will return in a month or so. She asks to go along, but he refuses. She is dazed and heartbroken by his sudden departure. Months go by and his letters grow less fervent and less frequent and then they cease entirely. In the meantime Dick, back among his old friends, forgets his wife. He meets a beautiful American girl and falls in love with her, but his manhood keeps him from telling her of his love. Yet every time as he starts to write Cherryblossom something prevents him. Cherryblossom determines to go to America to find him. Arriving in San Francisco she discovers him in company with Helen Morrow and realizing the situation, returns to Japan without revealing her presence to Dick. She writes a cablegram the moment of her return to Japan. She takes off her American attire and puts on her Japanese kimono. She takes an American flag and wraps it about her body. Taking up a little jeweled dagger, she goes to the windows which open out on the sea. Dick becomes remorseful and, realizing his duty to Cherryblossom, writes her a letter, in which he tells her he will return to her. Just as he is about to mail it, a messenger delivers a cablegram which informs Dick that Cherrybloom died that morning. Dick slowly burns the letter he had written her, and, clasping the picture of Helen to his breast, buries his head in his arms.
- Professor Oldboy invents an electric device which restores youth. He tries it on his dog and sees the animal become a puppy. The professor objects to Dean, his daughter Anna's sweetheart, and orders him from the house. Oldboy later decides to try his invention upon himself. He orders Anna to turn the current off when he reaches the age of twenty-five. But Anna sees Dean and before she remembers her father's instructions, he has become a three-year-old infant. Struck by an idea. Dean asks the baby for permission to marry Anna. This secured, the machine is turned backward and Oldboy restored to his normal self.
- Edwin Tremayne and his brother Hal live with their widowed mother in a pretty home beside the seashore. The young men are in love with Neva, the daughter of a widow residing near the Tremayne home. Neva finally decides to become the betrothed of Edwin, and when she announces her decision, Hal becomes embittered and forsakes the village, going to a city where he obtains work in a fashionable hotel as bellboy. His youth and good looks win the admiration of one of the hotel guests, Miss Ruth Grant, a handsome young woman of wealth. Ruth professes love for Hal, and they marry. In the meantime, Edwin and Neva have been joined in marriage. Hal and Ruth send an invitation to Edwin and Neva to come to the city and visit them. When Edwin and Neva arrive at Hal's home they admire a $10,000 necklace worn by Ruth. Edwin and Neva then decide to make their home in the city and rent a house, which they occupy. Hal and Ruth give a masque ball, and Neva obtains from Ruth the loan of her necklace to wear at the ball. A gang of robbers read of the forthcoming ball and decide to attend in masquerade costumes. The gang leader manages to steal the necklace from Neva during the dancing. Edwin and Neva fear to tell Hall and Ruth of the theft, and fearing condemnation, they buy a similarly-appearing necklace worth $10,000 from a jeweler on credit, signing a contract to pay $1,000 a year. This substitute necklace is given to Hal and Ruth. For ten years Edwin and Neva toil from early until late to earn the money to pay the jeweler, undergoing great privations. When they make the final payment the truth of the substitution is revealed to Hal and Ruth, and the latter then tell Edwin and Neva that the original stolen necklace was only a string of paste imitation gems.
- Having long hidden his real motives toward Edwin Forbes behind the mask of friendship. Joel Lang at last gets his opportunity for revenge. Stella Le Roy has just returned from Europe and Lang determines to make use of the old affection which had existed between the girl and Edwin to excite Mrs. Forbes' jealousy and thus cause a separation. To aid him in this design, he has knowledge of a certain episode in Stella's past which was decidedly discreditable to her and which she is naturally most anxious not to have known. As a poor young girl, she was exposed to great temptation by having the opportunity to steal a valuable jewel. In a moment of weakness she fell, was afterwards detected and served a prison sentence. Though she has tried to live down the past and live a decent life, Lang threatens to expose her unless she aids him in his plots against Edwin. Edwin's brother, Billy, has been leading a rather fast life and has continually been receiving financial assistance from him. He makes another appeal for money to settle his gambling debts and is refused. Lang goes to Mrs. Forbes, tells her that her husband is untrue and offers to prove his accusations. She asserts that she will divorce Forbes if he proves faithless. Meeting Stella at a restaurant. Lang invites her to accompany him to a dance, knowing that Forbes and his wife will attend. At the dance, Lang contrives to leave Forbes alone with Stella by dancing with Mrs. Forbes. Thus Mrs. Forbes' jealousy is aroused. The next day Lang compels Stella to call Forbes on the telephone and request him to loan her a thousand dollars, asking him to send it by mail. Actuated by his old love, and believing her to be in distress, Forbes makes out a check, which he places in an envelope to be mailed to Stella. Billy, however, has seen the check and decides to purloin it for himself. In Forbes' absence, Billy extracts the check and substitutes a business prospectus instead. Lang learns that Forbes has mailed the check to Stella and bribes her maid to secure the envelope when it is delivered by the postman. With the envelope in his possession, he takes it to Mrs. Forbes and advises her of its contents. She is wrought up over this seeming proof of her husband's duplicity and determines to confront him with the evidence. Going to his office, she produces the envelope and asks him to explain its import. Realizing now his indiscretion, Forbes tears open the envelope and is surprised to find therein only his prospectus. Ashamed of her unjust suspicions, Mrs. Forbes begs forgiveness and returns to her home, where she is awaited by Lang. She replies by severely lashing him with a cow-hide whip and drives the schemer from her house. Meanwhile, Billy becomes conscience-stricken, confesses to his brother that he had intended to steal the check and returns it to him. Overjoyed at Billy's reform and grateful that he has been the means of saving him from disgrace. Forbes rewards him by taking him into partnership. Billy then tells his brother of his love for Stella and announces that she has consented to marry him.
- Paul, raised by gypsies, is sent to college and falls in love with the co-ed Daisy.
- Tom Wright, a young man, proposes to Dorothy Wilson before leaving to take up settlement work in New York. She accepts, but tells him he has to wait. Shortly after Tom leaves for New York, Jack Green secures work in Judge Wilson's law office. A short time afterwards Jack becomes heir to a fortune. He also falls in love with Dorothy. Dorothy finally decides that she cares more for Jack than she does for Tom. Jack goes to New York and receives his money. He starts to spend it, and after a short time finds that he is reduced to a state of want. In the meantime, Dorothy has come to New York to study music. She starts to lead a gay life with Jack. One night Jack assaults a man, and is sent to the hospital. Dorothy sinks lower and lower. She finally decides to end it all, as she is not fit for decent society. She jumps in the river, but is rescued by Tom Wright's co-workers in the slums. She is at once recognized by them as Tom Wright's former sweetheart. Jack, after he is released from the hospital, sees the error of his way, and Tom reunites the misguided pair.
- Little Sunbeam, an orphan, was adopted by her uncle at a very young age, and as he was a leader of a gang of thieves and outlaws, he kept her sex a secret from the gang, and dressed Sunbeam in boys' clothes and called her Jack. This story takes up "Jack" at the age of 14. Dan Morau, a wealthy lumberman, returning from a trip of inspection of his forest reserves, stops for shelter at Uncle Bill's. Little Jack makes things very comfortable for the handsome stranger. Little Jack climbs up the ladder to her attic bed. Moran decides to retire to his room for the night, but in the presence of the gang displays a priceless watch and chain. After Moran has retired to his room, the gang plans to rob Moran. Little Jack, from the attic above, hears their plans, climbs out of her window, and warns Moran. While he dresses, she goes to the barn and fetches his horse, and Moran makes his escape. Little Jack, knowing the fate she would suffer at the hands of Bill when the flight of Moran would be discovered, decides never to return to the house of crime, and strikes out for the unknown. In the morning she finds herself near a railroad track. At a watering tank nearby, she gets into a freight car and steals a ride. At the end of the trip she finds herself in a great city. Getting out of the car and out of the yards, she sees a couple of hobos camping, and goes up to them. They, of course, think her a boy. One night, one of these tramps proposes to rob a nearby lumber mill office. They make little Jack climb through a window to open the door for them, but is shot by the night watchman, and the gang make their getaway. Jack is taken to a hospital for treatment. The next morning, Dan Moran is told of the attempted robbery of his office, and goes to the hospital to see the little burglar. The nurse has discovered that Jack is a girl and curls her hair and fixes her up. Moran is surprised to find this beautiful girl and the little "Jack," who saved him from the thieves one and the same kid. Moran's mother adopts the child and educates her, and they make a happy family. Now Moran's elder partner. Fox, sees a chance of acquiring the entire business for himself. He goes to the office one night to carry out his ideas, and is surprised by the night watchman, and to protect his secret he shoots the watchman. Moran, passing by, has seen the light in his office and heard the shot, and rushes into the office, finds the dead man, and calls up the police. Fox fastens the crime onto Moran, and Moran is placed under arrest. Sunbeam calls on Moran at the jail, and he tells her his suspicion of Fox. Sunbeam remembers how she deceived people in her dress as a boy, so dressed as an office boy, she applies for and gets the position of office boy in the lumber office of Moran and Fox. She gets enough opportunity to see how Fox changed and juggled figures, experts are called and Fox is shown up, and later confesses. Moran is released, and Sunbeam becomes mistress of the Moran home and lifelong partner of Dan Moran.
- Dr. Rolla, an Italian revolutionist, misappropriates legacy funds belonging to his wards, Arthur Rice and his sister, Rosa. Fearing exposure, Rolla plots with Riccardo, an unsuccessful wooer of Rosa, and his companion, Petroff, to put Arthur in an asylum. As they are about to carry Arthur off from his room a fight results, Rosa meanwhile singing in another room of the house. A blind young man, Harry French, wanders into the hallway. Rosa hears the noise of the affray, sees her brother stabbed to death by Riccardo, and loses her memory. The conspirators hide; Harry wanders into the room and falls over the body of Arthur. The conspirators take Harry away and leave him in a deserted place. Harry, being blind, is unable to know where the tragedy happened. Two years later he regains his sight, sees the beautiful Rosa on the street, falls in love with her without knowing who she is, and seeks to wed her. Rolla, Riccardo and Petroff, to get Rosa out of the way, induce Harry to marry Rosa, which he does, only to discover his wife's mind is weak. One evening Harry plays the tune Rosa sang the night her brother was slain. It restores her memory. She and Harry go to the house of the tragedy; she sees a vision of the slaying as it happened two years before, screams and falls unconscious. Riccardo and the other conspirators are captured as revolutionists in Milan, and are shot by the soldiers. Rosa's mind and qualities as a woman of culture are, through Harry's tender nursing, fully restored to her, and he shows his joy over having become the possessor of a wife who is as accomplished as she is beautiful and lovable.
- The cruel skipper of the Hell Ship loses his crew and his sight.