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- Eleanor Leavenworth (Seena Owen) is about to be arrested for the murder of her rich bachelor uncle, and suspicion is cast on each member of the Leavenworth household until Raymond (Bradley Barker), an attorney in love with Eleanor, solves the mystery and produces the culprit, who confesses and falls to his death while trying to escape.
- To help her husband keep his job, a woman gives in to her employer's advances. When the husband finds out, he kills his rival.
- An artist pretends to be a valet to escape a woman's advances. He marries another woman but must keep painting in secret to make enough money.
- Larry Brainerd is let out of Sing Sing on parole and wants to leave his life of crime behind, but his old gang plots to "get" him.
- Socialite Leslie Brown, little more than an innocent schoolgirl, becomes engaged to wealthy playboy Dustan Renshaw who has broken his engagement with Janet Preece in order to marry a woman of breeding. After they are married, the Renshaws live abroad where one day, in her husband's absence, Leslie welcomes her friends the Stonehays as her guests, accompanied by their private secretary, Janet Preece. Janet's sudden illness compels her to remain with Leslie after her employers have departed, and the two women become fast friends. Leslie learns the story of Janet's betrayal by a man known to her only as "D. R.," and is shocked to learn upon Dustan's return that Janet's betrayer was none other than her own husband. Leslie leaves Dustan, but, with the passage of time, husband and wife are reunited at Janet's deathbed when Leslie learns to forgive her husband's past.
- The defense attorney who was unable to obtain the acquittal of an innocent young man concocts a complicated and diabolical scheme to revenge himself upon the prosecutor.
- Seven rising young men - The Seven as they are to be known later - enter into an agreement: Each of them is to put up $5000 for twenty-five years and at the end of forty years the money is to be divided among the survivor., share and share alike. Forty years pass, of the seven but three remain. One is Benjamin Maynard, who has prospered exceedingly but who wishes, naturally, to obtain his share of the huge fund to turn it over as wedding gift to his granddaughter, Marcia Maynard and her fiance, Titus Jones, who is Marcia's cousin. The match has been encouraged by Benjamin Maynard but it doesn't at all fit in with the plans of the young people. Marcia has a sincere liking tor Titus but she is till heart-whole and fancy free. His attractions, however, have been given to Beverly Carroll, a charming little society bud and Marcia determines to do everything in her power to aid him in his wooing. The day for the settlement draws near. Benjamin Maynard departs for the house in in which, forty years before, had been designated as the meeting place for the survivors and Marcia goes to New York to attend to some business for her grandfather. At the Hotel she receives a a mysterious telegram him in which he hints at danger and instructs her to come at once with Titus. Marcia is panic-stricken. She telephones Titus. Her fears are doubled when she finds that it will be impossible for him to accompany her a he is to be married in fifteen minutes. A mysterious stranger endeavors to read Marcia's letter over her shoulder. Later he enters her room the hotel apparently in search of documents. His attempts to bind and gag her when she screams. The first to come in response to her frightened shriek, is young Sam Jefford, former ace in the American Flying Corps. Instantly a fondness springs up between these two. Marcia explains her predicament to and asks him to accompany her to Maine in place of Titus. He gladly accepts. Arriving there, Marcia is disconcerted by the fact that her grandfather is not present to meet her. Nor, when they reach the mansion house, is there any explanation to be found there. Joseph Le Blanc, custodian of the fund created by the Seven, says that the only ones present are Mark Opie who is confined to his bed, a victim of typhoid, and Amos Buckner, also suffering from some mysterious ailment. There are two other men there whose presence need an explanation. One is introduced as "the Doctor." The other, lurking in the shadows of the mysterious mansion, Marcia identifies as her New York assailant. Suspicion points to Le Blanc as the sinister mind behind these mysterious happenings. That night Mark Opie dies, but before he passes, he tells Marcia that her grandfather is actually there and that her search for him must be unrelenting. That night there is frenzied detective work by Maria and Sam. The latter, by following the mysterious man, locates Benjamin Maynard bound hand and foot in a lonesome cabin. He releases him but is worsted in a fight with the stranger. Early the next morning, he comes to, to find that he and Maynard have been tied during the night to two trees that stand on the rim of a sheer precipice. The stranger tells Sam he will release him if he will promise to do away with the old man. Sam spurns his offer and finally manages to free himself. There is another stirring fight in which the mysterious man goes over the cliff to his justly-deserved fate. Sam cuts Benjamin Maynard's fetters and half drags, half carries him to the meeting place of the survivors where the nefarious plot which has been conceived, is exposed. Maynard is actually the only survivor. The so-called Buckner is an impostor who has done away with the real Buckner. He has been aided in his evil designs by his two sons; one "the Doctor;" the other, the man who, after his struggle with Jefford, has gone to answer for his wrongdoings at a higher court. All the plotters are taken in charge by the authorities, brought in and held in readiness, Le Blanc on account of his suspicion of their actions. And so Maynard comes into what is rightfully his. As the sole survivor, his share is a tremendous fortune, one third of which he sets aside for the families of the men who entered the pact, one third for charity. The remaining monies are to be turned over to Marcia and the gallant cavalier who has served her so faithfully and well, and who receives a his reward the heart and hand of the lovely lady.
- Philip Durban, a wealthy iron manufacturer, marries Claire Bowdoin, the young daughter of a family of impoverished blue-bloods. Claire, who enters into matrimony only to provide for her mother's welfare, remains at first coldly indifferent to Philip, and he, in turn, remains aloof. Claire eventually comes to love Philip, but he fails to respond to any of her advances. She eventually goes abroad, where she encounters Prince Novakian, an Italian, who becomes infatuated with her. Philip learns of Novakian's amorous advances and goes to Italy, where he is challenged to a duel for taking a punch at the prince. Philip is wounded in the duel, and Novakian is slain. Under the stress and excitement of the moment, Claire casts aside her pose of indifference and rushes to her husband, tending his wounds and at long last convincing him of her love.
- Young Nell loses her job and home and her father is sent to prison. She joins the Salvation Army and tries to redeem him when he comes out bent on continuing his life of crime.
- Driven by a careless act in his youth, King Rudolph dons a disguise and exacts his own idea of justice in the slums of Paris.
- Paul Ellison, who falls in love with Elsa, exchanges identities with his twin, Arthur, because he feels himself responsible for his brother's downfall, and assumes guilt for a murder. Five years later Elsa meets Arthur, whom she believes to be Paul, and they become engaged. In Rangoon, Paul is recognized by Elsa and Craig, a gambler. Though Paul confesses to the crime, Craig, in his dying moments, admits he is the real murderer. Elsa and the two brothers are then reconciled.
- Stannard Dole, an American sculptor, falls in love with model Gabrielle Gautier while vacationing in Paris, France, and leaves before completing the statue for which she modeled. Later, Gabrielle arrives in New York City, where she discovers that Stannard is married and his wife refuses to divorce him. Stannard persuades Gabrielle to remain until he can finish the statue, and places her in the care of a friend, Dr. Ethan Bristol. The sculptor falls ill and dies, though not before triumphantly completing his work and learning that Ethan plans to marry Gabrielle. Mrs. Dole is given a position in the Bristol's home and tries to separate the couple by exposing Gabrielle's former liaison, but their child holds them together.
- Ralph Hartsook becomes a schoolmaster of the Indiana Flat Creek district. He stays at the home of Old Jack Means, a wealthy citizen who wants Ralph to marry his daughter Mirandy. Instead, Ralph falls in love with Hannah Thompson, a 20-year-old orphan who works at the Means home. Political boss Pete Jones and local physician Dr. Small, to divert suspicion from themselves, accuse war veteran John Pearson of looting the house of toll-taker Dutchy Snyder. Hannah's brother Shocky and Ralph save Pearson from being lynched by a mob. Then Ralph is accused of the crime because he was seen in the vicinity of Snyder's house the night of the robbery. In the ensuing trial, Ralph successfully defends himself, while Bud Means exposes Pete Jones and Dr. Small as leaders of a gang of robbers. Ralph and Hannah marry after she is released from her bondage at the Means home.
- A bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
- A high-society woman, mingling with the artistic set in Nrw York City, gets snared in a tangle of lies, and is forced to fight against overwhelming odds to care for her beloved child.