- Jim Morrison, an English army officer who comes from a very old and prominent family, marries the ravishingly beautiful but unscrupulous Cleo, who has no qualms about using her sexual allure to get the luxuries she wants but that her husband can't provide. When Jim is sent off to war, Cleo embarks on a series of affairs, one of which results in her becoming the love slave of a German spy--the very spy that her husband has been assigned to track down.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Jim Murison, an English army officer, and a man of ancient lineage, marries Cleo, a woman of doubtful parentage. Cleo is a woman of startling beauty and strange fascination, utterly unscrupulous, devoid of conscience, and uses her charms recklessly to secure luxuries that her husband, a poor man, cannot provide. Murison is infatuated with his wife, believing her to be all that is beautiful, pure and noble. The European war breaks on the world like a thunderbolt from a clear sky, and Jim is ordered to the front with his regiment. Before leaving he places his wife in the custody of his kinsfolk, Sir John and Lady Constable, who live in an old family manor house, and are the great people in their own county. They live quiet lives, saddened by the memory of two sons who have given their lives for their country in earlier wars. One son is left to them, Cedric, their youngest, and Lady Mary is loath to let him enter the army. Jim leaves his wife amid these placid surroundings, and joins his regiment in France. Cleo, quickly tiring of the quiet country life, for sheer deviltry makes a play for Cedric, who is an unsophisticated youth and quickly falls for her lures. The call of king and country sounding through the land, however, proves irresistible, and Cedric, tearing himself from the embraces of his charmer, enlists in the army. Before leaving, Cleo gives him a note of passionate declaration that he, only, has her love, and then forgets all about him and her passing diversion. She, at the same time, sends an identical note to her husband, now in the trenches. Shortly after Cedric's departure, the manor house is visited by a great art connoisseur, who wishes to see the far-famed contents of the Constable gallery. This man, Carlos Costa, occupies a commanding place in the art world. His judgment on pictures is infallible, and a certain mystery about the man adds piquancy to his criticisms. Posing as a Spaniard, and moving in the highest social circles, by means of forged credentials, he is really the illegitimate son of a great Teuton prince and a Moorish woman, and he is also one of the most powerful agents in the German secret service. On his visit to the Constables', Cleo, who is bored to extinction, uses all her arts to entrap Costa. This time, however, she is dealing with no callow youth, but with a dominant personality, who soon makes the enchantress his fascinated slave. Costa and Cleo leave the country house at different dates and on divers excuses, and meet in London, where Costa establishes his mistress in a luxurious apartment, and Cleo, madly in love, throws discretion to the winds, and braves the opinion of the world. A letter from her husband in Prance gives, under secrecy, the movements of the British troops, and is taken from her by Costa and forwarded by him to the German authorities. During the fighting in Prance, Murison meets his cousin, Cedric. Cedric is killed by a chance bullet, and Jim, in going over his effects, finds Cleo's letter, and, for the first time, becomes aware of her intrigues. At this time a surprise attack is made on the outpost commanded by Jim, and when the German troops are repulsed, a note is found on a captured Prussian colonel. It is Jim's letter to his wife, giving her the information of the intended movement of the British troops. Summoned by his colonel to explain the matter, Jim is given an opportunity to go to London and track down Costa, whose name has been revealed in the transaction. Jim hurries to London, and, with the aid of detectives, breaks into Costa's apartment, to find his wife in the spy's arms. Costa is lead away to face a firing squad, in the Tower, and Jim faces his wife alone. A long struggle ends in the death of Cleo, but Jim, disillusioned and weary of life, throws himself from the window of the room, his mangled corpse being the third and last tribute to a soulless siren.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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