- The Pasha's servant Mohamed, is entrusted to guard the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad with his life. In New York, after banker Arthur Wadsworth forces his brother Horace to give up his inheritance, Horace joins a band of crooks and plans to rob the Wadsworth Bank by tunneling from the adjacent home of antique dealer George P. A. Jones. The gang follows Jones to Egypt and Bagdad, where Horace steals the carpet and sells it to Jones. Fortune Chedsoye, the innocent daughter of a gang member, falls in love with Jones. When Fortune discovers that Mohamed plans to kill Jones to retrieve the rug, she hides it with her mother's belongings. Mohamed forces Jones, Wadsworth, and Fortune into the desert, but they escape his torture during a sandstorm. Wadsworth then rejoins the gang at Jones' home in New York. When Fortune and Jones catch the crooks tunneling, Jones, sympathetically, gives them a two hour head-start before informing the police. Fortune and Jones keep the carpet, while in the East, Mohamed bows in resignation to Allah's will.—Pamela Short
- Mohomed is the guardian of the Sacred Carpet of Bagdad which was placed in the innermost recesses of the mosque, and the story opens at the evening hour of prayer when the Pasha tells Mohomed to guard the Sacred Carpet with his lite. Arthur Wadsworth a New York banker, makes the discovery that his younger brother has defaulted to the extent of a small sum. Given his choice by the grasping elder brother of either imprisonment or disinheritance, Horace Wadsworth chooses the latter and loses a million dollars which accrues to the advantage of the grasping brother. A year later George A.P. Jones, of the firm of Mortimer and Jones, dealers in antique rugs, sails for Cairo, Egypt, on his annual purchasing trip. He leaves his palatial dwelling in the hands of his agent and butler, Horace Wadsworth, now known as "Ryanne," returns from abroad "broke," is refused assistance by his brother, Arthur. The outcast plans revenge. The close proximity of the Wadsworth bank and the Jones home suggests a medium for his vengeance. Horace has become a member of an international gang of crooks, and follows the trail of Jones. Horace learns from some wine-befuddled camel man the whereabouts of the Sacred Hordes, known as the Carpet of Bagdad. He persuades Mohomed, guardian of the Sacred Carpet, to permit him to join his caravan to Bagdad. In the meantime, Horace has cabled to Callahan, a confederate, who promises to keep Horace advised as to Jones' whereabouts. Mrs. Chedsoye, her daughter. Fortune, and Major Callahan, arrive in Egypt. Mrs. Chedsoye and Callahan are also members of the band of criminals with which Horace is affiliated. Fortune knows nothing of her mother's secret machinations. It is plotted that Horace steal the Sacred Carpet, sell it to Jones for a large sum, and then the party will utilize Jones' home in New York in order to rob the Wadsworth bank adjacent. Horace is taken by Mohomed to the recesses where the carpet is hanging. That night Horace overcomes the guardians of the precious tapestry, after a fierce struggle, seizes the rug and decamps. Mohomed vows by the Beard of the Prophet that he will return the Sacred Rug to the temple. Jones meets Callahan, Mrs. Chedsoye and her daughter, and immediately becomes interested in Fortune. Mohomed assumes a disguise and watches Horace, who has Jones visit his room in the hotel and shows him the stolen Prayer Rug. Jones' enthusiasm gets the better of his judgment and he buys the tapestry. He then tells Fortune of his purchase. Suspicious of her mother and apprehensive of some crookedness. Fortune is greatly worried. Fortune questions her mother and Major Callahan concerning the rug and of their designs on Jones. Fortune steals the key to Jones' hotel room, enters during his absence and takes the rug from his trunk and hides it in her own room with a roll of steamer rugs. Mohomed has Horace's name forged to a note to Fortune. He receives no satisfaction from Jones or Horace regarding the Prayer Rug, and plans a wholesale kidnapping to the desert. With his companions, Mohomed kidnaps Jones, Horace and Fortune and takes them, bound and gagged, into the great Sahara. Wallace, another of the conspirators, in the meantime, has started to New York City with forged letters to Jones' agent, so that entrance to Jones' home can be made during his absence and from there a tunnel can be cut into the Wadsworth Bank. Giving Fortune up for lost, her mother and Major Callahan also leave for New York without her and unconsciously take the precious rug with them. In New York, Wallace presents his forged credentials and is given access to Jones' home. In the meantime, in the desert, Jones tells Mohomed that he has not the rug. Fortune overhears the statement and says to Mohomed: "I have the rug. I stole it; if I produce it will you let us all go?" Mohomed agrees to this and sends a messenger on his swiftest camel to the hotel. Upon arriving there the messenger bearing a note from Fortune to her mother, learns that the woman has left for New York City. Mohomed resolves to torture Jones, Horace and Fortune to death for apparently lying to him. As Mohomed approaches the cowering prisoners prepared to wreak vengeance a sandstorm arises. Following the storm, the prisoners attract the attention of another caravan which is led by Englishmen and they are saved from death and Mohomed strides away. In Damascus, Jones gives Horace money, and Horace leaves at once for New York, where Fortune's mother, Major Callahan and Wallace have preceded him. Fortune and Jones lost in love, follow on another steamer. In the Jones dwelling, Horace is enthusiastically greeted by Mrs. Chedsoye, Callahan and Wallace. Money is brought into the room where they meet. Jones, upon arriving in New York, goes immediately to his agent, where he learns of the forgery that gave a band of crooks access to his home. With Horace's brother, he rushes to the dwelling and, through a window sees the conspirators handling ill-gotten gold and viewing the Prayer Rug. Jones accosts the crooks with a drawn revolver. Horace tells him that he wants his million dollar inheritance. "I will give you all two hours before I notify the police," Jones informs the band, while Horace's brother fondles the money that has been taken from his bank. As the picture closes, with the love light shining in the eyes of Fortune and Jones, away across the seas and into the Orient, Mohomed, former guardian of the Sacred Carpet, stands at the seashore, his eyes strained westward. With true Oriental fatalism, he bows in resignation to the will of Allah. The precious Prayer Rug is gone, never to return. Mohomed did his best. He dare not return to his beloved Bagdad, but he raises his eyes and mutters, "What is to be, will be; Allah be praised."—Moving Picture World synopsis
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