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- The Princess of Monte Cabello is divorced and is granted custody of her beloved daughter. Her ex-husband's mistress hires private detectives who take seemingly incriminating photographs of the Princess with the actor Jacques Wilson. The Princess is devastated when these cause her daughter to be taken from her, and the Princess then falls into the clutches of Wilson. In order to pay his gambling debts, Wilson forces her to humiliate herself by appearing in a play. The Princess sends a note to the Prince of Monte Cabello saying that after the first performance she will not compromise his name again.
- The young and naive Pierrot is led astray by the evil wine merchant Pochinet. He hopes to distract Pierrot with drinking and gambling while he tries to seduce Louisette.
- Richard Gillett, a young medical student, has won the love of pretty Mollie Dupont, daughter of a wealthy country gentleman and heiress to a considerable fortune. Mr. Dupont has every respect for the clean-cut young man, and heartily approves the match, so the course of true love runs smoothly along until the appearance of Lathrop upon the scene. Lathrop, a gentleman crook of the "Raffles" type, is also a keen sportsman, and one day, while fox-bunting near the Dupont estate, is thrown from his horse and painfully injured. He is carried to the home of Mollie and her father, and is nursed back to health and strength by the girl herself. Dreaming of the possibility of a rich marriage, he does not let this opportunity escape. He exerts himself to charm the girl and succeeds in making a profound impression upon her. Richard soon notices the gradual change in his sweetheart's attitude toward him and her growing tenderness for the handsome stranger. Finally he finds himself entirely supplanted, and in despair leaves for a distant city to seek forgetfulness in the enthusiastic pursuit of his medical studies. Five years pass. Richard is now a highly successful practicing physician and Mollie is married to Lathrop, knowing nothing of his shady past. Naturally, his former accomplices try to draw the greatest profit possible from the good fortune of their old friend, and when at last the man refuses longer to pay "the price of silence," rebelling at being blackmailed by his former pals, there is an encounter in which he is seriously injured. It is impossible to conceal the truth from Mollie any longer. Overcome with grief, she takes refuge with her father, who buys up all existing proofs of her husband's former rascality, and then forces the man to give his daughter a divorce. Two years later we find Mollie at the bedside of her sick child. A doctor is sent for, and it is Richard who answers the call. The young doctor succeeds in restoring health to the child and wins first the gratitude of the mother and, after the violent death of the adventurous Lathrop, the love of the sweetheart of his boyhood days.
- Count Bertrand is an army officer who enjoys the utmost confidence of the military leaders of his country but who nevertheless finds time to devote himself also to the interests of several charitable institutions. He and his wife are always among the first to offer their services when some charity fete is planned, and both being splendid riders, are chosen to take charge of a pretentious society circus designed to raise money for an orphanage. In order to stage the production in professional style, they hire Ivanoff, a circus manager, to assist them. Ivanoff gladly accepts their offer of the commission, not only because of the liberal payment promised, but also because of the fact that he is in reality a spy in the pay of a neighboring power and thinks that through association with the count, he will be able to gain possession of some valuable government secrets. He bides his time and finally, by drugging the count, succeeds in getting into his own hands some maneuver plans which had been entrusted to Bertrand. These he delivers to the prime minister of the hostile power, and Bertrand is arrested on a charge of having sold the information to the enemy. He is convicted on circumstantial evidence and sentenced to twelve years in prison. Countess Bertrand is prostrated by her husband's disgrace, but confident of his innocence, sets herself to find evidence which will set him free. Certain clews lead her to suspect that Ivanoff is the real thief of the plans. To find him is in itself a difficult task, for he has disappeared and left no inkling of his whereabouts behind him. Finally the countess hits upon a plan. She will disguise herself, join a circus and seek for Ivanoff among the haunts of circus people. This she does, and it is not long before the famous "Lady of the Mask," a superb equestrienne who never allows her features to be seen, even by her colleagues, is one of the best known performers in the circus world. The masked rider, of course, is none other than the countess herself. The time the circus with which she is connected plays a long engagement in the hippodrome at the capitol of Rugaria, the country which Ivanoff serves. Alexis, the countess's servant, locates Ivanoff's divorced wife, Nadia, and from her they learn that the spy is in the city, living luxuriously on a large sum of money paid him for the stolen plans, and several days later they see him occupying a box at the hippodrome. Ivanoff is struck with the grace of the masked rider and asks for an introduction, which is granted. The countess, never taking off her mask, leads him on until he invites her to take dinner in his rooms. She accepts, and as they are dining suddenly removes her mask and covers him with a revolver. She forces him to give her the plans and his correspondence with the Rugarian officials and is delighted to find that the papers prove conclusively her husband's innocence. Still covering Ivanoff with the pistol, she makes her escape from the house. In her haste she drops one of the documents, but Alexis, the servant, whom she has left on guard at the door, picks it up and jams it into his pocket. Now that she has the precious proofs, the countess loses no time in leaving the Rugarian capital. Ivanoff, however, has not lost his presence of mind and succeeds in getting a warrant for her arrest. He charters a high-powered motor car and starts for the border at top speed. There is an exciting race between his machine and the train which bears the countess. The auto wins, and when the daring woman reaches the frontier, Ivanoff and a squad of military police are waiting for her at the border station. The papers are taken from her and she is hustled across the border into her own country. She returns heartbroken to her home. Several days later, Alexis, who has follower on another train, arrives and gives her the paper which she dropped in fleeing from Ivanoff's house. It proves to be a letter from the prime minister of Rugaria to the spy and conclusively proves the innocence of the count. This letter, turned over to the military authorities, wins a pardon for Bertrand and brings back happiness to the woman who dared.
- The sculptor Alberto has remained a widower and has a son in boarding school in Tivoli. Returning from the village he meets Francesca, a shepherdess, who agrees to marry him. But the woman, who has come into contact with the world of the capital, soon squanders all the wealth of her husband who, desperate, has to deal with the director of the boarding school, who wants to send his son home.
- Charles Raleigh is a cousin of Miss Clara Burton, and is secretly in love with her. She returns his affection in secret also. Time parses and George Conway makes love to Clara. She considers his proposal of marriage long and seriously and makes entry of it in her diary. About this time Charles is called to America to look after his mining interests. He arrives in time to find himself a pauper as the result of a terrific conflagration that has swept his property. He decides to make a new start, but finds the battle difficult. Meanwhile, believing Charles indifferent towards her. Clara marries George and is very happy. George receives a letter from Charles, saying that he has about given up the battle in America, and is willing to accept any position that George might offer. Despite the remonstrances of Clara, George invites Charles to come and live with him. His arrival, two weeks later, is fraught with much embarrassment by him and Clara. Living in the same house, they are naturally thrown much together, and soon gossiping; tongues spread scandal of the young couple. For the sake of her own peace of mind, as well as to stop the scandal, Clara beseeches Charles to leave. This he promises to do and takes up lodging in another part of the town. One day a gossiping neighbor calls and deeply wounds Clara by referring to the old love affair, Clara is found in tears by her husband, George, and confesses to him all that she has heard of the despicable gossip, George flies into a towering rage, hurries to his club, where he finds the husband of the woman who offended Clara and challenges him to a duel. In the meantime, Clara is panic-stricken, and, believing that George is about to light a duel with Charles, rushes to his rooms to notify him. From the club George goes straight to his old friend Charles to ask him to be second and to borrow his dueling pistols. He reaches Charles' rooms just as the latter secretes Clara behind a curtain. In the conversation that follows, George suddenly spies his wife's pocketbook on a chair. In an instant he seizes one of the dueling pistols, throws the curtain back and fatally shoots his wife. He then rushes from the house in the hope of obtaining evidence to justify himself in the murder. At home he finds Clara's diary, and as the innocence of her relations with Charles is made plain to him through the sacred confidences of the diary, his mind gives way and he falls across the table senseless.
- The young teacher Noemi , only support for her sick mother, is the object of the attention of the school inspector Speri. Upon her refusal, the young girl is transferred to the small village of Rocca, where Count Marni asks her to be his son's governess. Slowly the young girl and the Count fall in love. But the inspector, jealous, instills in the Count the seed of doubt.
- Count Albert has taken the gypsy Sonia into his house. Olga, Albert's girlfriend, meets Sonia. She doesn't like the situation and writes to Albert that Sonia has to go to a boarding school. Sonia is sent to a nun's school. She doesn't like it and flees back to Albert. She declares her love for him but is rejected and returns to the gypsies. Albert becomes blind in an accident. After a while, Olga gets tired of nursing Albert and goes on holiday with her lover. Albert places an advertisement for a nurse and Sonia is hired. When her lover has left her, Olga returns home. Albert shows her the door, he loves Sonia now.
- Penniless after he has squandered his foster daughter's fortune, which he has held in trust, Martin becomes the leader of a gang of counterfeiters who flood the country with spurious currency. Detective Sims is assigned to the case and immediately begins operations. The subterranean den in which the headquarters of the band is located, is carefully protected by a series of trap-doors and pitfalls, and into one of these tumbles Lieutenant Tom Gordon, who is paying attentions to Martin's foster daughter in spite of the counterfeiter's objections. Sims, who has secured employment as the Martin's gardener, but who as yet has been unable to locate the presses upon which the false banknotes are printed, is attracted by the young man's cries for help. By following the "trap-door clue" he is able to capture the gang, expose their operations and pave the way to a happy marriage of the two young people.
- The beautiful young Princess Louise of Duxbaria. one of the principalities of southern Europe, loses her father and comes to live with her uncle, the ruler of the country, in his medieval castle of Sonnenschloss. There she meets Conrad Werner, a young composer, who has been the college chum of her cousin, Prince Henry, and a romantic love affair follows. Soon afterward, however, Countess de Berne, a fascinating Parisienne. visits the Duxbarian court and Werner falls victim to her siren charms. He follows her to Paris, leaving Louise heartbroken, and it is not long until the engagement of the composer and the countess is announced. To please her uncle the princess consents to become the bride of Prince Henry and thus heiress to the throne, but at the state dinner given in connection with the betrothal ceremony, she collapses and the marriage is of necessity postponed. Meanwhile Werner has been driven to desperation by the flirtations of the countess and one of them finally involves him in an affair of honor with one of the most expert swordsmen un the continent. He is seriously wounded, but with recovery from the wound comes also recovery from the effects of the countess' wiles. He then realizes that he loves only the pretty princess of the south. And he makes the journey back to his native land. The old ruler of Duxbaria has died and Henry is now seated upon the throne. Realizing that his beautiful cousin can never bring herself to return his love, he releases her from her promise. One evening she is sitting at the piano thrumming the strains of Werner's most beautiful symphony. In the mirror opposite she suddenly sees his face, and turning about finds him kneeling at her feet. And a moment later she is in his arms.