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- María Valdez, known as the Virgin of San Blas because of her charitable acts and great beauty, falls in love with David Kent, an American who is in Spain to investigate the death of his father years earlier. María and Kent set the date for a wedding, but Ricardo Ruiz, an excellent duelist and rake who desires to marry María to recoup his fortunes, informs the girl that her father was killed by Kent's father in the distant past. María then decides to avenge the family honor and immediately enters into a companionate marriage with Ricardo. Kent goes to María seeking an explanation for her sudden change of heart, and Ricardo finds them together. He challenges the American to a duel, instructing his valet to shoot Kent if he seems to be gaining the advantage. But in the course of the duel, Kent extinguishes the candles, and the valet inadvertently kills Ricardo. María and Kent are reconciled and make plans to be married.
- Harry Willis returns to Helen Hendon discouraged by his failure to make a fortune in 6 months as he promised. Accepting a job that will pay him $10,000 for following instructions for a day, Harry soon finds himself in a series of adventures that include an imbroglio at a costume ball, a doctor's attempts to transplant a gorilla's brains into his head, and a brawl in a temple with some Chinese who want a small idol belonging to him. When he applies for a marriage license, Harry discovers that these incidents were created to test his capacity to become a movie star. He wins both Helen and a movie contract.
- While en route through the western prairies an attack is made upon a wagon train of settlers by a band of bandits. Rescue comes, but too late, for all but two of the wagon party, a young boy and girl, have been slain. They are adopted by Jim Holmes who led the rescue. Years pass and the young girl has grown to womanhood and Jim falls in love with her. She consents when he asks her to become his wife, although her heart is already given to the other survivor. Cattle rustlers raid the settlement and Jim is accused of being the gang leader. Later it develops that the leader is a woman and Jim is cleared. He realizes that the girl he loves has bestowed her affections on the young companion of her childhood and he goes away, leaving them his ranch and to each other.
- Alec Craig has a good position in a manufacturing company, however, is brought close to financial ruin by his wife and daughter, who live beyond their means and who have fallen prey to installment sharks. Grant Elliot, an aviator, loves Ruth and waits for the day when his invention will be a success so that they can marry. To delay the installment collector, Ruth illegally pawns a ring that is not yet paid for. She is tricked by Howard Steele, an agent of real estate speculators, into divulging information on the location of a valuable site on which the company has taken an option. The company blames Craig for the leak, and he is fired. The collector calls for the ring and finds that it has been pawned. Ruth, realizing she has been tricked, gets even with Steele by taking him up and making him stay up in an airplane past the time when the option expires. Craig's widowed sister and her son, Gene, redeem the ring and make Ruth and her mother promise never to fall prey to installment sharks again. Ruth's flight has proved the value of Grant's invention, and their future is assured.
- Inventor Peter Marchmont has discovered a purple light that renders the user invisible. On his release from prison, Marchmont, disguised as Victor Cromport, uses the light to revenge himself against his former wife, Jewel, and her partner, James Dawson, who framed him for theft. Making himself invisible, Marchmont gradually ruins Dawson. He so wins Jewel's confidence and love that she is willing to kill Dawson at Marchmont's request. Finally, Marchmont leaves the scheming couple to their own misery and marries Jewel's sister, Ruth Marsh.
- Grand Duke Alexis of Russia possesses two priceless emeralds, known as the Drums of Jeopardy, which allegedly exert a sinister power over their owner. They are willed to the duke's private secretary, Jerome Hawksley, who brings them to New York City and places them in the care of Banker Burrows. Bolshevik secret agent Gregor Karlov steals the jewels, kills Burrows, and kidnaps Jerome. The banker's daughter, Dorothy Burrows, assisted by Cutty, a member of the U.S. Secret Service, trail Karlov to a café and he is killed in the ensuing battle. Jerome recovers the jewels, and he marries Dorothy.
- Raoul Lesage suspects his wife, April, of infidelity with Herman Bennett, an artist, and forsakes her, living for the next 20 years in a hermitage surrounded by high walls. He is accompanied in this solitary life only by his young son, Paul, who, at the age of 21, has not seen anything of women or the world. One night, Paul walks in his sleep and wanders from his home. He falls into the company of his mother (whom he does not recognize), Bennett, and Bennett's beautiful ward, Helen, with whom Paul soon falls in love. After a series of thrilling adventures, Paul foils Bennett and reunites his parents; he and Helen hear wedding bells.
- When a stranger named Smith arrives at Don Luis Alvarado's Southern California ranch looking for work, he is hired as a hand. Smith and the Don's beautiful daughter, Senorita Carmelita, become attracted to each other until one night, when Carmelita surprises Smith as he and a gang of thieves are stealing her family's jewels. Smith is arrested, along with the thieves, but his true identity is established in court when he reveals that he is Michael Cochrane, a U.S. marshal who infiltrated the gang of thieves to obtain a conviction. He brings the gang to justice and marries Carmelita.
- After dodging the speed cops, Barry Macklin arrives in his hometown of Hillsboro, where he is supposed to act as negotiator between his father, Andrew Macklin, and the mayor, Ezra Sprowl.
- A young man is sent by his father to Mexico to investigate his mine. On the way he meets a girl, whose life he has already once saved, who is traveling to the same place. He is kidnapped by some men who are misdirecting the mine shipments, and escapes in time to save the girl from death.
- When he is jilted, Alan Remington, the son of a wealthy Washington politician, falls into a state of deep depression. On the advice of Professor Hollister, from whom he is purchasing a death ray, the elder Remington attempts to divert Alan by providing him with excitement. At this time, a gang of foreign agents, led by Darwin Kershaw, Remington's secretary, kidnap both the inventor and his daughter, Carolyn, and steal the death ray, but not before the resourceful girl has thrown the control key to the ray out of the window, where it lands in Alan's car. The conspirators attempt to regain the key, but they are mockingly foiled on several occasions by Alan, who thinks they are men hired by his father to jolt him out of his depression. Alan eventually realizes that the men are seriously trying to kill him, and he sets out to bring them to justice. Alan prevents the agents from destroying several naval gunboats, rescues the Hollisters, and rounds up the aliens, handing them over to the F. B. I.
- Corinne Adams, a young American girl touring Egypt, meets a British soldier, Maj. Egerton, in Cairo, and they fall in love. She doesn't know that the major is suffering from a terminal illness. They and some friends take a trip into the desert and are attacked by a Bedouin tribe. The women are captured and the major is knocked out and left for dead. Can British troops arrive in time to save the women from a fate worse than death?
- Reared by Montgomery Rogers as his own child, Emerie Rogers seeks to marry a titled Englishman, as instructed by Aunt Gertrude. On an ocean liner she meets Dick Clark and later turns to him when Rogers' death reveals her to be the daughter of servants and leaves her penniless. Emerie returns to her parents, the Pages, and her happiness is complete when Rogers' second will leaves the bulk of his estate to her.
- Disowned by her family for marrying beneath her class, Alice Larkin lives in a modest home with her husband, John, and their children. Meanwhile, wealthy Ethel Lewis is separated from her husband, Robert, because she refuses to have children. On Ethel's behalf, a lawyer offers Alice $50,000 in exchange for the adoption of her youngest child, Louise. After Alice reluctantly accepts, Ethel presents the child to Robert as their own. Alice visits the Lewis home frequently, rekindling Robert's long-dormant romantic feelings for her. John is consumed with jealousy and attempts to shoot Robert, but accidentally hits Louise. Alice then awakens to find that it was a horrible dream. She refuses the lawyer's offer just as her Aunt Martha enters with apologies and Christmas presents.
- Dave Allen, secretary to James Pendroy, a wealthy banker, is accused of stealing bonds from his employer. Dave rounds up the thieves, who include one Josef Le Baron, a suitor of Pendroy's daughter. Dave marries the girl.
- When his wife threatens to leave him because of his weakness for drink, John Stedman, finding her with another man, provides grounds for divorce in an open affair with Bobo, a dive entertainer. Later, Stedman is nursed back to health by Bobo. He returns from wartime service, marries her, and becomes governor, despite efforts of his former wife to win him back.
- Reggie Dillingham, a socialite who has squandered all but $70,000 of his million-dollar inheritance, is upbraided by his attorney, who bets the young man that he cannot support himself for six months. The attorney invests the remaining funds while Reggie sets out to find a job. He fails at his first few attempts, but when he photographs newspaper publisher and political boss Clint Taggart in a compromising situation, Reggie is hired as managing editor to maintain his silence. Immediately after taking charge, Reggie liberalizes the paper's editorial policy and falls in love with Clint's secretary, Mary Ryan. With Mary's help, Reggie discovers that their boss is involved in a bootlegging operation and uses Clint's own paper to expose him. Despite threats from his employer, Reggie refuses to resign, and employs the help of his loyal staff in resisting the bootlegger's thugs. Following Clint's arrest, Reggie is informed by his lawyer that his money has been doubled through a fortunate investment.
- Young heiress Helen Stuart is engaged to Monty Barnes, a restless young man. Since Helen is not yet 21, her estate is controlled by her guardian and uncle, Jack Peasley, who is not above using Helen's money for his own purposes. He takes a large chunk of her money to buy a block of railroad stock, that turns out to be worthless. Red Sweeney, who sold him the phony stock, assures him that if Helen marries before she turns 21, she'll never know the money's missing because the estate will revert to him, as her guardian. They force her to marry Monty, who is unaware of their scheme. Complications ensue.
- Carol Kingsley and Jimmy Mason, who are both employed in a fashion emporium run by Pierre Ronsard, fall in love and are married. Victor Ronsard, the son of the owner, falls in love with Carol and designs to break up the Mason marriage. He falsely informs Carol that Jimmy, who is the Ronsard bookkeeper, is short in his accounts and that, if she will have dinner with him, he will give her the incriminating papers. Carol reluctantly goes to dinner, and Ronsard is felled by a shot fired by an unknown intruder. Jimmy is later proven to have been in the vicinity at the time of the crime; he is arrested, tried, and sentenced to death in the electric chair. At the last minute, Jimmy is granted a temporary reprieve and given a new trial. Carol seeks to sacrifice herself for Jimmy by confessing that she committed the crime, but Ronsard's butler comes forward and informs the jury that he killed Ronsard in self-defense when Ronsard attacked him.
- Jane Brower wants nothing more than to leave behind her ranch life in the West and go East. When she happens upon a party in the private railroad car of wealthy August Van Dorn, Jane gets the idea to finance her trip by kidnapping his son, Donald, for ransom. While Jane is negotiating with the senior Van Dorn, his son is kidnapped by two bandits. Donald soon escapes and seeks out Jane, with whom he has fallen in love. After Donald rescues Janes from the bandits, they decide to marry and spend their honeymoon in New York City.
- Robert Lanning, a proper Bostonian who owns an estate in southern New Mexico, suspects that some of his employees are smuggling arms into Mexico, and sends his son, Robert Jr., to investigate. During his journey west, Robert meets Mary Hamilton, a stranded actress from a roadshow company of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Because Mary is still in costume as the character, "Little Eva," Robert mistakes her for a child and takes her with him to the ranch. He ultimately discovers the identity of the arms smugglers and, with the help of the Mexican Rurales, brings the gang to justice. Robert then realizes that Mary is not a child and wins her for his wife.
- Chorus girl Mary Brown promises to give herself to playboy cad John Duane in exchange for $2500 so she can pay back a theft her brother made from his employers. Her sweetheart, race-car driver Jimmie, learns about it and gives her a check for $2500, but the check is worthless unless he can win the Big Race that afternoon. He leads through every lap but blows a tire on the last lap and finishes fourth. It appears that Duane will soon be hugging sweet Mary, unless Jimmie can find a buyer for a race-car with a flat tire.
- After young Robert Wade throws a lavish party at the family ranch, his father, Dent Wade, sends Bob to California to mend his wastrel ways by making a success of the family's faltering ranch in California. During the trip, Bob and his friend, Chub Biggs, are robbed of their papers. Upon their arrival at the ranch, they discover that manager Russ DeLaine is not happy that they have come. Unknown to Bob and his father, DeLaine has been embezzling the ranch profits. When two of DeLaine's men become rough with Bob and Chub, DeLaine's daughter Margy intervenes, and soon she and Bob fall in love. Sometime later, after Bob finds his stolen papers in DeLaine's safe, he gives them to Chub to take to the local sheriff. Meanwhile, Blacky, one of DeLaine's henchmen, kidnaps Margy. Bob comes to her rescue, knocking Blacky into a pit during a fight. As he is dying, Blacky informs Bob that DeLaine is not Margy's real father. Later, Bob proves himself to his newly arrived father and the sheriff when he captures the escaping DeLaine.
- Tommy O'Toole, copy boy on the news, hears the editor assign a police reporter to investigate a big jewelry robbery. Tommy asks for a chance at reporting and is told in jest he can have a job if he gets an interview with Toler, big political boss. He is thrown out of the Toler mansion by the butler, but scrapes acquaintance with Toler's youngest daughter and through her gets to see the father. The result is that he gets a job as reporter. Later he discovers the den of the Owls, the gang which stole the jewels. After a variety of thrilling adventures, during which he is wounded by a bullet, he rounds up the thieves, proves the police reporter to be a crook, gets back the loot, and is appointed star man on the paper.
- Pretending to be an outlaw, Marshal Dan Paterson joins the Carson gang. They're holding young Alice Allison captive, but when Dan tries to help her, Alice--not knowing who he is--doesn't trust him. Dan must gain her trust before he can rescue her and help destroy the gang.