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- Reluctant to believe that his brother has committed suicide, Gerhard Bern travels to Rotterdam with a detective, and helped by the consul and his charming daughter Ilse he'll try to find the truth about a secret society his brother was connected with. When another member is found dead his suspicions grow even stronger. Both men had insurance policies.
- Paul, the son of an innocent man convicted of murder, has found a job as secretary to the owner of a major American publishing house. Nevertheless, although the tycoon has adopted Paul as if he was his own son, he refuses him the hand of his biological daughter in marriage, since he believes that Paul may have inherited the traits of his father, the alleged murderer. When it comes to a theft, the tycoon sees his worst fears confirmed and throws his adoptive son out of his villa. Paul breaks all bridges behind him and travels the world as a newspaper correspondent. This takes him to primeval forests and steppes. In one of the distant regions, he can also immediately investigate the evidence of his innocence. The happy ending finally becomes perfect as the tycoon's brother turns out to be a true murderer and Paul's father is finally released. The motive then: jealousy. The rogue takes his life, and Paul gets the tycoon's daughter to be his wife.
- An ex-convict is believed guilty of having attacked a woman, when in fact he tried to help her. Escaping the police he ends in a physician's practice where they meet again, only she became amnesic and cannot recognize him.
- Poor fisherman Dirk is in love with Sijtje, but her father wants her to marry a rich fisherman who plots against Dirk to be lost in sea. Instead, he arrives at an island where finds a best friend in a dog. Time goes by and rescue arrives.
- On the Eastern front at the beginning of WW I. Zofia's father leaves the estate shortly before the enemy invades. Since the servants also are fleeing, Zofia is now all alone in the castle.
- Representatives of the big European nations meet and draw up a secret treaty affecting the Far Eastern countries. In order to safeguard the document, the Minister of Foreign Affairs places it in a safe guarded by ten automatic pistols, so arranged that anyone tampering with the combination will receive the full discharge of the pistols. If this secret treaty is adopted it will seriously interfere with the careers of the Mongolian residents of the capital city. Accordingly, Prince Frederick poses as a nobleman in order to steal the treaty and destroy it. At a reception, the spy meets Banker Newell's daughter, whom he learns is engaged to Minister Carr, the custodian of the treaty. While at the card table, Banker Newell receives a letter of blackmail, which he drops in his excitement. The spy secures this letter and finds evidence of a crime committed by Banker Newell years before. With this proof, he forces the banker's daughter to pledge her aid to his cause, and arranges with her to enter Minister Can's home and inveigle him into opening the safe. That night the spy struggles with Carr's fiancée, who has repented of her promise to betray her intended husband, in Minister Carr's room. As be tampers with the combination of the safe, the door swings open, the ten automatic pistols discharge their contents. Although fatally wounded, the spy seizes the treaty, and dying, reaches the Mongolic Club, where his death occurs. In Minister Carr's home, the banker's daughter is dead, a victim of political intrigues.