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- The landlord of poor tenements rents rooms to three Italians. Not being impressed with their looks he spies upon them and discovers that they are making bombs. Securing a pistol he rushes into the room and chases them out. He then runs to the police station, but is kicked out by the cops who resent leaving their game of pinochle interfered with. The revengeful Italians enter the landlord's home while his wife has gone to the store and place their baby in a basket, which they attach to the end of a long spring, taken from an exerciser, and fasten the other end of the spring under the window so that when the window is raised it will permit the basket to fall four stories. The landlord is waylaid and tied to a fence, his gloating captors telling him of what they have done. He is in agony and tugs at his bonds, and manages to get the rope in his mouth, which he vainly tries to chew in two. His wife returns home and missing the baby, thinks he has taken it out. Alternate flashes are shown of the woman In the house and the baby dangling at the end of the spring, and the audience is kept in an expectant frame by the wife going to the window to open it and having her attention distracted by various incidents in time to prevent her from raising the window. A boy finally releases the frantic landlord, who rushes home just in time to save his child.
- David Belkov, a newsboy born of foreign parents who live in "New York's crucible," the East Side, admires the late Theodore Roosevelt, but when he sees a poor family being evicted, he joins the Hogan Street anarchist group, of which his father's friends and his sweetheart Yolanda Kosloff, are members. The group plans to assassinate Judge Norton, who earlier condemned one of their comrades to the electric chair. After David witnesses the bravery of twelve-year-old Mary Hogan, who sings patriotic ditties to drown out the soap box orations of the anarchists, he prints leaflets to combat the anarchist views. Mary is killed trying to thwart the anarchists' plot, and David is caught and badly beaten. After government agents, thought to be converts, break up the gang, David arrives just in time to stop Yolanda, who is dancing at a celebration at Norton's home, from dropping a bomb. David is shot by the anarchist leader, but Yolanda, realizing her error, nurses him to health.
- Yvonne Dupré, the sole survivor of a once-noble French family, makes a modest living selling her paintings to Leon Naisson, who resells them for exorbitant prices as the work of a famous artist. Leon confides to Yvonne's gypsy model, Romildo, that he is sexually attracted to the artist. Romildo drugs his lover, the fiery apache dancer, Juliette, who closely resembles Yvonne, then invites Leon to rape her for one thousand francs. Leon discovers that she is not Yvonne, but convinces the artist's sweetheart, Dick Gray, that she has been unfaithful. As police close in on Leon, he frames Yvonne by planting forged paintings in her studio. Following Yvonne's arrest, Juliette is informed by her foster sister that she was stolen by gypsies as a child and is actually Yvonne's twin sister. Juliette exposes Leon's operation to the police, reuniting Yvonne and Dick.
- Alerted to his wife's infidelity by his closest friend, Duncan Shields, Texas rancher Frank Warren shoots the lover and leaves. Sixteen years later, Warren, living in an old castle in Cuba, sends his secretary Fernwald to take his daughter Lola from his wife's influence. Lola and Shield's son, Duncan, Jr., have fallen in love, but when Fernwald arrives, Duncan mistakenly believes that Lola's warm greeting is symptomatic of a promiscuity that characterized her mother. He is saved from suicide by sailors and becomes a member of their crew. Aboard the ship to Cuba, Duncan rescues Lola from Fernwald's attempted rape. After Fernwald steals her papers, goes ashore, and watches as the boat bursts into flames and sinks, Lola and Duncan drift to an island. Meanwhile, Fernwald has his old sweetheart impersonate Lola to gain her inheritance. After Lola and Duncan are rescued and survive a wash-out on a mountain road, they are taken to the castle, where Fernwald attempts to poison Duncan. They struggle, Duncan pushes Fernwald over a ledge, Lola and her father are reunited, and Lola and Duncan embrace.
- A young gypsy girl, who dances in a traveling circus, resists the advances of a man who later abducts her and brings her to his home. He attempts to rape her, but she stabs and kills him and then escapes back to the gypsy troupe. She is arrested and jailed in an old fortress but escapes with the help of a gypsy friend and flees to Paris, where she marries a young artist and has a child. Her love of the stage eventually returns, however, and she takes a job in a dance hall. She encounters the gypsies, who have fled to Paris, and sells her jewelry to finance a play which they have written and in which she stars. The play's success leads to an invitation for her to appear at the largest theater in France; she dances there, masked, with her husband and child in the audience. The theater catches on fire in the middle of the performance, and she is reconciled with her husband.
- William Clark sends his son Billy to a brothel to learn of life's necessary evils, on the eve of his departure for college. On his Christmas holiday, Billy, who has fallen in with a fast crowd, persuades his childhood sweetheart, Margery Reynolds, to drink wine and then takes the intoxicated girl to a hotel. Back at college, Billy refuses to marry the pregnant Marge, and she, unable to confide in her father, a minister, leaves for Chicago, where her child is born blind and crippled. When Marge, forced into prostitution, recognizes Billy at a brothel, he is arrested and fined $550 for child support. After the baby dies in court, however, Billy returns home, and Marge is taken to Kate Addams' Coulter House for fallen women. At the insistence of his father, Billy agrees to marry another woman, but Rev. Reynolds, whose wife has died of grief, learns of Billy's betrayal and denounces him from the altar. Billy, taken ill, dies in his mother's arms.
- Johnny, disguised as an old maid, is engaged to chaperone three girls who are carefully guarded by a jealous father.
- The hero and heroine of "Your Wife and Mine" are English aristocrats and are enjoying a protracted honeymoon in southern France. In England we see the man's cousin, who has thought himself the heir to title and estate, discovering that a child has been born to the young pair. He and his sister scheme to get rid of this impediment to their inheritance. They come on a visit to the honeymooners. The villainess sees the wife talking to her unknown acrobatic brother and persuades the husband that she is not true. The husband, in despair, goes on his yacht and orders the captain to put to sea. The villains have had a time-bomb put in the hold. The baby is stolen. The acrobatic brother hears of the bomb. Wireless warns the husband, and the yacht is brought back. The villainess is captured and forced to tell where the child is hidden. The husband has been stabbed and is in bed. The villain goes to destroy the child and finds the mother there alone. The acrobats are hurrying after him. The child is again stolen, the mother tied to a bed post and the house set on fire. The acrobats come and the brother climbs to the room, frees the mother, who jumps from the window. The villain leaves the child on the railroad track, but is rescued by the dog just as the train rushes past. The villain commits suicide and the happy ending is near.