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- A girl ties a cotton reel to her father's leg and he calls the police to investigate the noise.
- A surgeon's son tries to kill an amnesiac heir.
- A guardian spends his ward's inheritance and tries to make her marry a rich cad.
- A ruined man shoots a burglar and finds he is his brother who has secretly helped him.
- A girl's suitor innocently offends her family and is ejected.
- Ramirrez, a cowboy, incurs the enmity of Foreman Alvarez by fistically opposing his attentions to Mary Gonzalo, daughter of the sheriff. Alvarez detects Ramirrez in the act of a surreptitious visit to Mary and trumps up against him a charge of stealing ammunition. Ramirrez, compelled by motives of honor to remain silent, is condemned to death by the sheriff. Mary aids him to escape. He falls in with a band of bandits, by whom he is accepted as an ally. A raid is planned upon the bandits. Mary knowing that her beloved is with them, disguises herself in men's clothing and under Ramirrez' s wing is also admitted to the band. For some time there they lead the wild life of the mountains as brothers in crime. One night Mary's sex is discovered by the bandits, who, thinking her to be a spy, attack her and Ramirrez. They escape after a battle. Ramirrez is wounded and Mary hides him in a deserted cabin and goes for medicine to the nearby stores. There she is recognized by Alvarez who, after sending for the sheriff, goes alone to track and capture her and the fugitive. He has overpowered her when a shot from within from Ramirrez's rifle kills him. The sheriff and his men arrive and all is explained.
- Horace Blackwell, being mortally injured by lightning striking the tree beneath which he was standing, tells his adopted daughter, Dorothy, of her parentage, and how she, a tiny mite, was found on his doorstep. He gives her the locket found about her neck, containing the picture of a beautiful woman, and which he believes to be her mother. With Horace Blackwell's death, Dorothy is dispossessed of her home, and because of jealousy of her charm and beauty she is forced into the ranks of the unemployed. She, however, finds employment in a department store, but is accused of theft and brought before the proprietor, who questions her closely as to her history. Her story, together with the locket and picture, solves the mystery of her birth, and Dorothy finds a home with her father.
- A dog saves a waif and catches a ruffian.
- Lovers deceive an old uncle and win his consent.
- A detective saves a girl who attempted suicide from being sacrificed by the priest of an Indian sect.
- A wife leaves her debauched man for an actor. He is killed in a duel and she kills herself.
- A coster's lamp summons Mephistopheles to grant wishes.
- A stockbroker in financial difficulties raises a loan through a money lender on securities entrusted to him by a wealthy client. With the proceeds he leads a gay life in doubtful company among whom is "Handsome Charlie," a police suspect. He loses his pocket book which is picked up by the latter. The police are notified of the loss and a detective overhears an incriminating conversation. He is about to arrest Charlie, who escapes. The broker is in despair, the client having demanded the return of the securities. "Handsome Charlie," urged by his lady friend, also an acquaintance of the broker's, restores the pocketbook. He is persuaded by the broker to obtain the pledged securities by handing a spurious draft in exchange, which he does, but he is tempted by the contents of the safe and in defending his property the moneylender is fatally injured. "Handsome Charlie" runs away, hands the broker the documents and, after disguising himself, makes his way to the railway station. Losing the last train, he seeks refuge at the house of his female friend. The place is raided. The hunted man once more gets away. The police are now close on his track in a leap from a roof into the water, crawls along the telephone wires and plunges into the sea from a moving cantilever bridge. He is finally run to earth and the city is rid of its big game.
- A works manager, tempted to rob his employer, meets with a tragic end.
- An English regiment desecrates Goddess Kali by stealing from her supposedly sacred head, the wonderful crown of jewels. Vasantasena, the daughter of the Prince Gab-el-Mandor, the custodian of the jewels, incited by an old priest into a frenzied, fanatical hatred, swears to avenge the insult to the goddess and to recover the treasure. With three of her followers she travels the seas and in England seeks means of entering the vaults of the British treasury, wherein are kept the spoils of war. Lieutenant Hamilton, one of the custodians, falls prey to her meretricious wiles. Out-tricked, disgraced, he is dismissed from his office when it is discovered that the treasure of Buddha has been stolen. Seeking to retrieve his superiors' favor, he embarks for India, accompanied by Bower, a Scotland Yard detective. They strike the trail of Vasantasena and her accomplices. The fugitives, hearing of the pursuit, change their route. Lost in the wilderness, the pursuers almost die from thirst. They encounter a Hindoo magician. With the aid of his mesmeric powers they are shown, while in a hypnotic state, the encampment of Vasantasena's party. Lieutenant Hamilton is captured. Bowers escapes and goes for reinforcements, after having stolen from Vasantasena the much-sought crown. To deceive her he had substituted a spurious imitation. Hamilton is sentenced to die. Vasantasena, aroused by love's longings, offers to liberate him. He spurns her advances. Hamilton, in the midst of the enraged fanatics, is about to be sacrificed to the altar flames, to appease the wrath of the Goddess Kali, when, with a whoop and a hurrah, in rushes the English troops, led by Bower. They snatch Hamilton from the flames, whose red forks lick hungrily at him.
- A shot girl recovers in time to save her framed fiancé.
- A Jewish student changes his name and denies his father until he is dying.
- A man hires a burglar to steal his sister's necklace.
- A Frenchman duels a Jew for a girl and finds she is married.
- A suffragette protests against marriage by openly living with her lover.
- An old sailor's plot is thwarted by a pretty widow.
- A child reforms a burglar who later saves her from an attack.