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- Shakespeare's tragedy of the Scots nobleman whose ambition leads him to betrayal, murder, and damnation.
- John Howard Payne at his most miserable point in life, writes a song which becomes popular and inspires other people at some point in their lives.
- An old man, alone in his mansion, decides to give a dinner to the memories of the girls he loved and lost. He has the table decked with garlands and at each place he puts a bouquet of the flowers most representative of the girl who would occupy that place if she herself were there instead of his memory of her. There is a bunch of violets at the first plate. As he stoops over the fragrant blossoms, he lives again the first romance of his life when he met and fell in love with pretty Betty, a country lass. This was in the first days of his youth and her refusal of him almost broke his heart. Seeing her in the arms of his more fortunate rival, he left the village, and there the memory of the violets ends. There is a bunch of lilies of the valley at the next plate. They bring back a girl just as white and cold as the flower. She was a society belle and he met her when he first visited the big city. She said she loved him and he believed her, but when a richer man proposed, she cast him aside for wealth. Her wedding was the talk of the town, but the boy did not wait for it. He never saw her again. Orchids at the next plate, their purple depths held sweet memories of a bewitching face, the face of the lovely Countess, whose most ardent admirer he was when he first went up to Washington, a young attaché in the diplomatic service. She pretended that she loved him and he was very happy. But, into the midst of his joy came the shock of discovering that his sweet Countess was a foreign spy, who intended to use him to gain information she could not get any other way. He left Washington at once to forget her. Red roses. What memories their perfume held. That night in Paris when he first met the dark-eyed Spanish dancer, Carmencita. How he loved her, and how she loved him, until her lover, the Count, challenged him to a duel on her account. Then Carmencita realized that it was not the American to whom her heart was given, after all. She rushed to the dueling ground to prevent bloodshed, but wholly for the Count's sake. Returning to America, an older, wiser man, he finds his ideal in the charming daughter of some old friends. Realizing that he is very rich, this girl's parents insist upon her accepting him. But he discovers in time that her heart is given to his secretary and for her sake he gives her up. The sweet peas at this last plate are perhaps the dearest flower of all to him. As he rises to toast these ladies of his past, the stem of his wine glass snaps and he falls across the table, dead. An overturned candle sets fire to the draperies and before many minutes each flower is reduced to a small heap of ashes.
- Charles Belmont, a quiet and industrious young man, works in the office of John Burton, a wealthy broker. A fellow clerk, Henry Holloway, like Charles, is enamored of his employer's pretty daughter, Bess. Henry is flashy in his dress and manner, a clever talker and a fine bluffer, and while their employer likes both young men very well, it is apparent that his daughter favors the suit of Henry. Old Burton invites both boys out to his suburban home. The young men arrive at the handsome residence of their host. Henry is all smiles and tries to increase his popularity with the girl and her father. After dinner Henry, Bess, her father and Charles step out of the house to look at the vista of the harbor. They see an aviator, who is known to the old man, getting his aeroplane ready for a trial flight across the bay. He invites them to take a ride. The old man shakes his head, hut the young girl, fond of excitement, gleefully accepts and steps into the machine in spite of her parents' remonstrances. The machine whizzes away and she is seen taking a roundabout ride, while Henry flatters the old man about his daughter's bravery. When they return from the aerial flight, the girl jumps out and offers the others her seat. Charles stoutly refuses saying he is afraid of the trip. Henry roasts him sarcastically, while he himself steps into the machine and asks for a ride. While the others are looking away, he slips a bill to the aviator, urging him not to stay up long, but to come right down. The machine takes a little trip through the air and then returns. Henry stumbles out very much relieved to get to the ground again, but still keeping up the bluff as he teases Charles. The latter finally becomes furious and embarrassed, seeing that the girl is making fun of him as well. Henry asks Bess to elope with him. She laughs and shakes her head, saying there is no way by which they can do so. Finally she spies a launch and she suggests that they use this. She jumps into it. She says they can go straight across the harbor to the city. Henry prepares to start it and unloosens the rope. The girl touches off the engine wrong and the boat whizzes forth without the young man in it. She gives a scream, but loses her presence of mind and is unable to steer the boat. The launch lurches into the direction of the harbor while Henry stands wringing his hands at the wharf. Charles and the girl's father and mother rush down to the shore near the aeroplane. They see the launch going out from shore with the unhappy girl in it. The old man wrings his hands and his wife sobs. They are all at a loss for a means to rescue her, when suddenly Charles conceives the idea of utilizing the aeroplane. He rushes to the aviator and asks him if he will help him. The aviator says it will be impossible to do anything with the flying machine, but Charles insists, preparing to dive. He kicks off his shoes, flings off his coat and jumps into the machine with the aviator. He throws on speed, and the machine whizzes off over the bay toward the boat. The watchers on shore scream with fright when the launch explodes and the girl is thrown into the water unconscious. The launch is seen at a close view with the girl struggling as best she can, and the smoke coming from the boat. The aeroplane is close at hand and Charles is preparing to drop from it into the water. At last they are seen lowering down toward the drowning girl and calculating his position to a nicety, he lowers himself from the framework of the aeroplane and drops into the water. Charles rescues the girl and keeps her afloat until she is taken ashore by some boatmen who have come forth to render assistance. On shore the gallant Henry is sobbing like a baby. The girl is brought in safe and sound and is clasped in her father's and mother's arms. The father kisses the girl and the young clerk is certain of the father's favor as well as the girl's.
- 'Our Mutual Girl' was unique. Not quite a serial, not quite a newsreel, and not strictly an advertisement, it combined elements of all three. In 52 weekly one-reel episodes, running from January 19, 1914 to January 11, 1915, the Mutual Girl outwitted villains, saw the sights of New York, met with theatrical and political celebrities (who frequently helped her out of trouble), and tried on fashionable outfits in chic stores. The fashions were an early example of product placement--although, apparently, not paid placement.
- When Boston Blackie, a tramp, arrives in a little town, the station agent refuses him food, but the man's daughter interferes and persuades her father to feed him. Later he is joined by Red and Slim, a couple of his crook pals, who plan a holdup of the station agent and ask him to join the plan, but just as the robbery is about to be pulled off, he discovers that the agent is Anna's father and refuses. Afraid he will interfere, Red and Slim tie him up and set off, but find Anna tending the station in place of her father, who is ill. The robbers think they have a cinch; they terrify Anna and proceed to help themselves, getting very drunk. They insult Anna, whom they have frightened but have not tied up, leaving her free, though unable to get out or to reach the telegraph key. Blackie rolls over to the track and lies in such a position that a passing train cuts his bonds. He hastens to the rescue, and after a big fight captures the crooks and turns them over to the constable. Next day he is rewarded by the agent, who secures him a place as a student freight "brakie" running out of town. Later Blackie is successful and in love with the agent's daughter. The two crooks have sworn vengeance against Blackie and while the latter is '"braking" the two crooks board his train at a lonely water tank and are discovered by Blackie, who fights them and cleans them up. Even thirstier for vengeance after being thrown off the train, they return to town and lay for him, finally planning to avenge themselves on him through Anna. The plan is to put her on a car on a grade and send her flying down grade to her death at a curve by the river. The two crooks lure her into the yards by a fake note purporting to come from Blackie, but Blackie returns in time to warn the girl. Dressed up in sunbonnet, Blackie goes to the car but is overpowered and the crooks start the car rolling down the grade, first setting the switch to throw the car over an embankment into the river. Blackie loosens his hands but the car is going too fast for him to escape, and he goes into the river with the car, but he crawls out unhurt and meets the girl, who has forced the two crooks at the point of a gun to ride her on a handcar in pursuit of the runaway cars. The two crooks are caught and Anna helps rescue Blackie.
- David, a fisherman, is happily married to Joan. His partner, Galeb, is envious of David and covets Joan. David and Galeb leave for a fishing cruise and Joan prepares for the great event which is her one great secret. That night a storm arises suddenly and after a long night of watching and praying, Joan sees several fishermen bringing a body toward her house. She rushes to meet them and discovers that it is Galeb. When Galeb becomes conscious, he tells her that everybody has been lost at sea and that he was the only one saved. After the little stranger arrives, Galeb pleads with Joan to become his wife. She refuses, but finally consents to marry him. for the sake of her child's future, provided David does not return within a year. Three years later, Galeb and Joan are married. Galeb is seated near the window reading, when he hears a knock. Looking out, he sees a stranger who resembles David, who beckons to him. He goes out to meet the stranger and discovers that he is David. Fearful that Joan will see David, Galeb leads him to the beach where David explains that he was rescued by a whaling vessel and could not return home earlier. Galeb tells David that Joan thinks him dead and that they are married. He demands that David go away. They argue and start a fight. Galeb attempts to stab David. David disarms him and is about to kill him when the child, who has been looking for her "Daddy," rushes in, calling to David not to "hurt her Daddy." David is stunned and Galeb taking advantage of the child's remark, asks David to go away for the sake of his child and Joan's. David consents to go. Joan, who has been looking for the child, overhears the lie and rushes toward Galeb, demanding to know whom he has been talking to. She forces Galeb to admit that it was David and taking the child from him, she runs after David, calling to him that Galeb has lied. David hears her and stops. She tells David that the child is his and asks him to return. Galeb sees that he has lost Joan and leaves, as David takes her and the child in his arms.
- While out hunting Wheeler and his daughter rescue a prospector, Tom Andrews, from a ledge where he has fallen. They take the wounded man home and nurse him back to health. Wheeler, needing a partner, offers him an interest in his project and soon after they strike a rich vein. Wheeler is caught by a cave-in and mortally wounded. He confides his daughter to the care of his partner, Andrews, before he dies. Angry because she will not marry him. Andrews undertakes to freeze Leota out from the mine by making returns showing that the property no longer pays. By chance Leota is rescued from drowning by a young down-at-heels mining engineer named Dick Raleigh, She confides in him. He has found work at the mine and knows from the character of the ore that Andrews is putting up a job on her. In order to prove this, he becomes a highgrader (steals highgrade ore from the mine), intending to have it assayed when he gets a sackful. A mine detective suspects Raleigh of highgrading and shadows him. Raleigh sees that he is concerned. With the help of an Oriental laundryman when he has befriended Raleigh gets the ore from his room wrapped up as laundry, and then screws his empty trunk to the floor so that Andrew's spy may think it is still heavy with highgrade ore. Having safely disposed of the ore, Raleigh returns to his room and is arrested, but an examination shows that the trunk contains no ore. The assayer finds the samples submitted to him run high, whereupon Leota, as a majority stockholder, fires Andrews and makes Raleigh superintendent. To revenge himself Andrews hires two thugs to beat up Raleigh, but they make a mistake and do him up instead. Raleigh and Leota find that to each other they must look for their happiness and the play ends with a love scene.
- Miner Jim Mann is indifferent to the new baby and looks upon it merely as an added burden. His wife Lucy is taking care of the baby and is unable to help much with the work, and often Jim's dinner is late. He grows to dislike the child and refuses to hold or caress it. Dawson, another miner, and his wife and small baby occupy the cabin on the adjoining claim. Dawson is very fond of his baby and when he becomes acquainted with Jim he learns of his aversion for babies and tries secretly to assist Lucy in making Jim care. The Dawsons call at their neighbors' cabin and Jim becomes jealous at seeing Dawson holding and admiring the baby. Finally Jim gets to feeling a secret regard for the child but is ashamed to let Lucy know. Dawson's baby falls sick and dies and his wife, grieving for the child becomes very ill. A couple of tramps stop at Jim's cabin demanding food, but on account of the supplies being low their request is refused and they are offered a meal instead. They refuse this and threaten trouble, but Jim drives them off. Lucy, starting for the stage line to send an order for provisions to the settlement, leaves the baby under a tree near where Jim is at work for him to care for while she is gone. In passing the Dawson cabin she learns from the doctor that the crisis of Mrs. Dawson's illness is at hand. She enters the cabin and finds the woman delirious, calling for her baby. Running back to the tree, Lucy takes the baby without telling Jim and hurries back to the cabin, where she places it in the bed beside the sick woman, who thinking the child is her own becomes better. The tramps loot the house of supplies and in passing the trees find the baby's blanket and take it. Jim coming to see about the baby, finds it gone and sees the tramps running away. He gives chase and they hide the supplies in a shed and give battle to him. Jim wounded, and believing the baby in the shed, makes his way back to the house to secure his gun and rescue the child, for whom his love has now awakened. Lucy returns to the claim with the baby but unable to find Jim goes on to the house. As Jim is preparing to leave she enters. For the first time Jim takes the baby in his arms.
- Dad Holton and his little girl Leota live and mine near Stormy Creek. Dick Raleigh, a young thrifty fellow, loves Leota, but Dad objects to his attentions. Tom Andrews, a prospector, while inspecting some likely looking ore on Bear Mountain, while testing it with the hammer is struck in the face and falls to the canyon below. He is nursed back to health by Leota and Dad, who give him work in their little mine. During Leota's absence to town, a cave-in occurs at the mine, almost killing Dad. Andrews sees a chance to get some good-paying ore, together with their little savings. Leota on her return from the store with supplies, is met by Moriette, a renegade Mexican, who drags her from the saddle. Her horse returns back along the road she came and is met by Dick Raleigh, who gallops back in time to save Leota. They return to the camp just as Andrews is leaving with his booty. A fight occurs and Dick takes him back to the sheriff, leaving Leota to nurse her injured father. Later on we see Dick and Leota living happy with Dad and the baby in their new home.
- The owner of the Pitchfork Ranch of which Thorne is manager finds that many of his cattle are disappearing. He orders Thorne to get the cattle back or lose his job. Thorne employs Bass, a gunman, to get the thief, whom he hints is Tom Farrell, his sister Mattie's sweetheart. Bass finds Farrell to be a square young fellow and Mattie, despite her rebuffs, an "up and up little gal." Incidentally Bass discovers that Thorne himself, has been stealing his boss's cattle and threatens to expose the rancher unless he makes good the stolen cattle and gives Mattie a piece of property for a wedding present. Thorne complies reluctantly and the gunman acts as best man at the wedding.
- Mary Lee breaks her engagement with Jim, her penniless suitor, to marry Carroll, a wealthy miner. Later Carroll loses his fortune and abuses Mary. While prospecting, he meets Jim, who is returning across the desert to civilization with a burro laden with gold. Carroll shoots Jim and leaves him for dead. Carroll returns home and packs up, telling Mary that he is going to leave her now that he has gold enough to have a good time in town. Mary shoots after him as he leaves and punctures his water can. Carroll, when far in the desert, discovers that his water is gone. Later his burro, frightened by a rattlesnake, bolts and returns across the desert to Carroll's cabin. Carroll succumbs to thirst in the desert. Meanwhile Jim, badly wounded, drags himself to Carroll's cabin, where Mary nurses him back to health.
- An Indian warrior is revived from a spell cast upon him by a medicine man, and he takes his revenge on other Indians who thought he was dead.
- Forsythe, a young military student of good family and independent means, marries Maisie, the daughter of a hotel keeper, while at school but shortly after graduation heeds the pleas of his parents and family who deprecate his union with one who in their opinion is beneath him in social station. Forsythe deserts his wife and renounces her. A child is born of the union. The boy grows to be a man but is not very successful at his work and finally, so that he may not be a burden upon his mother who has reared him as best she can on her limited means, he enters the army. The son spends several years in the ranks and finally is appointed a corporal. War breaks out and he is delegated to guard a certain post in order to prevent one o£ the enemy's spies from breaking through the cordon. While on duty the young man hears of his mother's fatal illness and leaves his post without permission. The son learns his father's name at his mother's deathbed, and is astounded when he remembers that the commander of his regiment bears the same name and initials and undoubtedly is his parent. Upon his return the young soldier is called before Forsythe and sentenced to death for having deserted in time of war. When Forsythe asks the young man why he committed such a breach of honor, his son tells of his mother's death and Forsythe realizes that he has sentenced his own son to execution. That night he aids his son to escape by exchanging his cape for the corporal's uniform worn by the young soldier but is shot himself when he attempts to leave the guard house.
- English sleuths Grace Burton and Stephen Pryde are in love, but when Stephen inherits wealth and a title, he does not tell Grace, fearing that she will stop loving him. Grace provides support for her sister Stella Ford, whose husband is frequently away on business trips, so Stephen, hoping to alleviate Grace's financial burden, pays all of Stella's debts and provides her with an allowance. When Grace learns of the arrangement, she is hurt that he did not confide in her. Stella lives in a building occupied by a wild crowd. In the flat above her lives Netta, who has numerous boyfriends, including older man Jerome and young fop Bartlett. One evening, the rivals mistakenly enter Stella's apartment and Jerome kills Bartlett in the ensuing fight. Grace and Stephen discover the body, but following a series of incidents, they become convinced of Stella's innocence. In the end, matured by the tragedy, Stella is tearfully reunited with her newly-returned husband.
- Bailey, a crook, has his nose broken by Burton, the detective, in a street fight, and is a marked man thereafter, easy for the police to capture. He pulls off a job and is traced easily and captured by Burton because of his broken nose. Bailey now naturally nurses revenge against Burton. Bailey is sent away but escapes from prison and has his nose straightened by a benevolent doctor. He is now able to pass by Burton unrecognized and feels safe in working out his revenge, which he plans against Burton and his sweetheart. He has the girl lured away, but Burton rescues her and Bailey goes back to prison.
- Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, David, takes a sample of the new process to Grinde, who says he will give it consideration. He delegates his foreman, Mole, to steal the formula. Mole kills the chemist, and he and Grinde frame an explosion to conceal the crime. After David refuses to sell the formula, Grinde and Mole lock him and his sweetheart in a vault with poisonous gas. Grinde then tries to kill Mole, who knows too much, and take over the firm from his elderly partner at a directors' meeting.
- An American officer quartered in Mexico saves a young Mexican dancing girl from insult and rough treatment at the hands of Pablo and Marto, two roughneck Mexicans. In revenge the two Mexicans plan to kill the American officer, and the dancer, in gratitude (now grown into love through constant association), plans to save him. Going to the officer's room in the barracks, getting there only a shade ahead of the assassins, she finds the room empty, and hides behind a curtain, immediately after which the officer comes in and sits at his desk. At the same moment the hand of one of the Mexicans appears on the sill ready to fire at the officer, but before his finger can press the trigger the dancer plunges her knife into his hand, pinioning it to the window. His cries of pain and the report of the gun going off bring the officer and his men to the window and the attempt on his life is discovered and the assassins taken away to a cell. The fainting of the dancer behind the curtain brings the realization to the officer of her work in his behalf and they find happiness in each other's arms.
- In Mexico, a humble peon has great difficulty retaining his small farm because of the greediness of those controlling the government. While he is in another town, two federal officials search for loot in his cottage and attack his two sisters. The elder, lame from birth, shoots herself rather than succumb to their lust. Her 14-year-old sister loses her mind and dies after telling her brother what occurred. The peon vows vengeance and is branded an outlaw by the frightened officials. After he escapes from jail with help from an old family servant, he is aided in eluding his pursuers by Americans traveling in a covered wagon. Years later, the outlaw, now the commander-in-chief of the Constitutionalist Army, wins many victories and kills one of the officials who attacked his sisters. When he learns that the Americans who helped him are in trouble, he leads a cavalry charge to rescue their wagon train from being attacked by revolutionists. He recognizes one of the attackers as the other official and is about to exact vengeance as the film ends.
- Elaine, a well-known lecturer, hates men. John, who has written a book called, "Women, the Silly Sex," cannot bear the sight of a woman, and to avoid them all in general, he arranges for the purchase of a deserted island where he will be able to write in peace. Elaine goes to the home of a friend in the country, near John's island. One day, out on the lake, she starts to rehearse her speech with such feeling that she falls overboard. She swims ashore and there finds John's clothes, he having gone in for a swim. She hurriedly changes her dripping riding habit for his things. Seeing him coming out of the water, she runs up the path. He finds the wet suit and thinks some boy took his clothes. He races after Elaine, and catching up with her grabs her by the collar and announces his intention of thrashing "the boy." But luckily her cap comes off and he sees that it is a woman who has invaded his island. She calls him a brute and tells him she wants to get back to the mainland. He suggests she wait in his cabin until a boat passes. An hour goes by and Elaine commences to feel hungry. She summons John and tells him that she is hungry. He points to the icebox and bids her cook what she wishes. She is furious at the idea, but later hunger gets the better of her pride and she manages to prepare lunch. Five o'clock arrives. She tells John that he will have to swim to the mainland for a boat. He cannot swim well and is not anxious to take a chance. She insists. He finally goes, and as she sees him dive into the sea she gets frightened and begs him to come back. But he does not listen. He encounters a rowboat with Elaine's friend and a couple of fishermen looking for the missing girl. He takes them to the island and Elaine is taken aboard, but not before she has shaken hands cordially with the woman hater, who finds himself wishing that he might see her again. In the pocket of her riding suit he later finds her card and calls upon her. They become great friends and a double conversion is affected when he persuades her to burn her lecture with a copy of his book.
- Jimson, a mine foreman, discharges Pedro and Madro for trying to steal ore and when they attack him. He is forced to beat them up. They swear vengeance. Their enmity is intensified when Jimson rescues Nina, a Mexican girl, from the unwelcome attentions of Pedro. Nina and Jimson fall in love, and after the marriage, Pedro and his pal follow them as they ride away over the hills. Near the shack holding the windlass which supports the cable drum for the big ore bucket, they capture both Jimson and the girl. Nina is bound in a corner of the shack, while Pedro and Madro put Jimson, tied hand and foot in the ore bucket, suspended several hundred feet above the rocks below. Then they place a long candle upon a table beneath the rope holding the bucket and light it. It is evident that when the candle burns down to the rope Jimson will drop with the bucket to his death. Then, leaving their victim to his fate, the Mexicans hurry away. Nina struggles in vain. The candle is almost down to the rope. Near to where she is tied, is a long plank, propped against the wall. She can just reach it with her foot. She pushes it, and it falls outward across the table on top of the candle, extinguishing the flame. Nina and Jimson are rescued by the morning shift of workmen.
- Young murderer Jacques Delur, after depositing the body of his victim, a young girl, on the bed in one of the rooms of the rectory, goes to Father Beauclaire and confesses his crime. While he is on his knees confessing, he sticks a dagger into the cowl of the priest's garb. After receiving absolution, he leaves the room; on reaching the exterior of the rectory, he calls two gendarmes to whom he hastily explains that a murder has bee committed. He accuses the priest of the murder, giving as evidence the bloody dagger in the cowl of the priest's garb, and leading the gendarmes and the priest to the room where the body of the dead girl lies. The priest is tried, sentenced to death, and excommunicated, and rather than betray the confessional, he goes to his death on the guillotine. A year later, in a dilapidated house, Jacques is found surrounded only by the empty brandy and absinthe bottles, and a French woman with him, whom he has requested to send for a priest, so that on his deathbed he may confess the crime for which an innocent man went to his death. The priest comes, receives his confession, and gives him absolution, and the murderer dies.
- Buck Nome, one of the Northwest Mounted Police, steals the wife of Janette, a French Canadian. Losing the only thing that life held for him. Janette commits suicide. Buck Nome soon tires of the woman and casts her off. Sometime later, Philip Steel, another of the Mounted Police, enters the deserted cabin and finds Janette's bleached skull, and also a note stating why he committed suicide. Steele swears to have a reckoning with Buckeye Nome. At this time a certain Colonel Beecker and his wife are expected at the Hudson Bay Company's house. Steele is commissioned to meet them. He does so and soon falls under the spell of the girl introduced as the colonel's wife, but realizing that she is married he is too honorable to display his admiration for her. Not so Buck Nome. He tries to win the girl and to Steele's horror and surprise, she encourages him. Seeing the expression in Steele's eyes she draws away from Nome and the colonel takes her indoors. Steele forces Nome to return to his cabin with him, where he shows him the skull of Janette. To prevent him from paying attention to the colonel's wife, Steele forces him to desert. Then Steele wraps up the skull and sends it to the girl with a letter telling her of Nome's villainy. Later he learns that the girl received the skull and it had the desired effect, that of thoroughly disgusting her with Nome. But he also learns that she was not the colonel's wife, but his daughter, who assumed her mother's place as a joke. The train that the colonel and his daughter left on is held up and the girl and the money taken by Buck Nome and a band of his men. Steele is sent after them, and with the help of a telegrapher he trails the men. Tired of carrying the half conscious girl, Nome drops her in the road, where she is found by Steele. He opens fire on the bandits, who return his shots. One by one the men with Nome are shot until the leader stands alone. The telegrapher receives a bullet in his shoulder, and Steele and Nome are now alone. Steele receives Nome's bullet in his arm, and Nome opens fire on him again, but before he shoots, the girl picks up the telegrapher's gun and, leveling it at Nome, she shoots. Steele turns in surprise to find that the girl has saved him. She comes to him and binds up his wounded arm and they confess their love.
- Mrs. Clemens, blind, hires Garda Willis, a girl of questionable character, as her companion. Ralph Clemens, on his return from college, falls under the spell of the fascinating beauty and she leads him on to spend every cent he gets on her. Mrs. Clemens, not dreaming of this state of affairs, is very kind to her companion, who softens to the old lady under this better influence. But she does not let up on the boy. Coveting a diamond star, worn by one of Mrs. Clemens's friends, she makes this known to Ralph and hints that if he gets it for her she will accept his proposal and elope with him. The boy manages to get the jewel and gives it to Garda, who foolishly displays it on her gown. She is arrested. Mrs. Clemens is heart-broken over the girl's predicament. Garda is given the third degree and refuses to confess. Later, realizing that the mother's heart will break when she knows her boy committed the crime, the woman takes the full blame on her shoulders and confesses to the theft. That night, the boy, at his mother's side, realizes Garda is paying the penalty for his foolish act, and that his mother will never know the truth.