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- At the end of the 18th century, a poor, stubborn, and honest young man rose up socially. But the powerful and shady rulers watch and raise a thousand persecutions against him, so his life is transformed into an erratic chase for the truth.
- An alchemist, about to be burned at the stake, tells his captors that some day the teachings of the alchemists will be generally believed. The alchemist taught that the human character goes through a process of evolution and in the effort to conquer conditions about him, man finds his birth of character. Harry is in love with Grace. She is the good influence in his life. His companions influence him in the other direction. Large losses at cards make him desperate so that at a dance he is momentarily tempted to steal a diamond-studded hair ornament. The impulse immediately and he returns it, explaining that it dropped to the floor and he picked it up. Unfortunately a witness to both the impulse and the quick wit in pulling himself out of the dilemma was Darby, a master criminal. Later Harry is dragged to a gambling joint by his friends; the place is raided through Harry's bitter rival, Arthur Vane, from whom he rescues Alice, a girl who assists her father in the management of the place. All the boys are arrested except Harry, whom Alice saves by means of a secret door. He thus meets her father, who proves to be Darby. This leads Harry to his becoming the tool of Darby, and he is on the downward path. Harry and Grace become engaged. She does not know the life into which he is drifting. A dealer in objects shows them a valuable necklace. This latter is procured by Harry in a successful burglary. He is then sent to a fashionable house party by Darby to see what loot may be obtained there. Grace is a visitor at the same house party, and it is she who shoots him, not knowing his identity. Discovering who it is she saves him; the wound if only a scratch, but with scorn tells him she never wants to see him again. Harry then determines to make a man of himself, surrenders, and is imprisoned to pay the penalty of his crime. As an ex-convict he is welcomed only in the underworld. Alice, because she has fallen in love with him, unselfishly determines to help him, goes to Grace, pleads with her to overlook the past and give Harry a chance. Grace finally agrees to do so, and Alice sends Harry to her. He obtains a position and is rapidly demonstrating a real character. Refusing to have anything further to do with crooked work, he is threatened and only saved from trouble by the unselfish Alice. However, he repays this sacrifice with an open and cruel snub when with Grace he meets her on the street. Her love turns to hate. The master willingly lures him to his den, Alice maneuvers to lure Grace to the underworld, also so that she may be a witness to the punishment of her ungrateful lover. The situation works up to the dramatic climax where Darby is about to kill Harry when the police, summoned by Grace through a ruse, break in and she and Harry are saved.
- In each of the three homes of three distinct classes of modern life a child is born. A boy is born to a poor working man, John Madden, in his East Side home. A daughter is born to the city editor of one of the daily papers, Eustace Miles, and a son is born to John Brown, a wealthy but unscrupulous politician. The children are next shown at nine years of age in their respective schools. The plot of the story begins when the three have grown into young manhood and womanhood and are working out their lives in their particular class. Bill Madden, the poor man's son, is now foreman in a construction work, with great ambitions to become a lawyer. Mary Miles, the editor's daughter, has become a beautiful young woman. The politician's son, a product of his class, is vicious and degenerate. Mary Madden, Bill's sister, working in a department store, attracts the attention of Victor Brown, the wealthy young renegade. She repels all his advances. To show he is the stronger and for revenge, he kidnaps her, drugs and takes her to an undesirable house, where she is saved by a previous victim of the degenerate. In the meantime, Bill Madden has obtained an education in law and gets his degree. He frustrates the efforts of a heroin peddler to sell his obnoxious drug to children, and is thus brought into touch with Mary Miles, who thanks him for what he has done for humanity. He upholds his class in their fight against environment, corruption and the high cost of living, which bears so heavily upon them. This incites the hatred of the politician, John Brown, who instructs a gunman to shoot him. Victor Brown meets Mary Miles, is attracted by her beauty, and forces his attention upon her. Bill sees him and interferes, and the gunman, hired to kill Bill Madden, shoots Victor accidentally, and escapes unseen. Bill is arrested for the murder. In the courtroom the gratitude of a poor woman whom the young lawyer had defended, and who witnessed the actual murder, reveals to the court the real circumstances. When John Brown finds that he is the instigator of his own son's death, he dies from a stroke of apoplexy. Bill, now a hero, receives the nomination for the representative of his district. He also wins the editor's daughter for his wife. This moral story is worthy of mention.