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- During the Civil War, the Confederacy pardons five criminals and sends them into Comanche-territory to recover Union-seized Confederate gold and capture a Confederate turncoat.
- Helen Mosby was very happily situated in her southern home, the idolized daughter of her father, and the pet of the younger set. She had never worried her pretty head with any thoughts of politics, so that, one afternoon, as she strolled with her father in the garden, she was immeasurably shocked when a servant handed him a telegram which read: "War is declared; your regiment ordered to Richmond. Report at once, GENERAL LEE." However, she took the shock like a true southerner, and when her cousin, Henry Bowie, appeared, dressed in the uniform of a Confederate lieutenant, she complimented him smilingly on his appearance; then her father joins them, clad in his gray frock coat, sash and sabre, and bids her farewell. Hardly has her father gone, when Arthur Boone, who has long been in love with Helen, enters the garden. Helen rises to greet him, but draws back in horror as she sees him in a Union uniform. Arthur does not notice this, however, and proposes to her, but Helen's answer is a strong negative. "I can never marry a man who fights in the Union army!" Sadly Arthur leaves, bidding her farewell and shaking hands warmly with Henry, who has long been his friend. Four years later a detachment of the Northern army is pushed back by Southern sharpshooters, under Lieutenant Bowie. Arthur Boone is the last one of the Northerners to retreat; he fights until his ammunition is exhausted, and then runs through the woods, with the Southerners bot after him. Lieutenant Bowie, not knowing that it is his old friend, follows close on his heels. Right to the old Mosby mansion Arthur runs, and vaults through the open window. Helen Mosby jumps from the chair she had been occupying and levels a gun, which she recognizes her lover. He tells her of his predicament, and although she is torn between her emotions of love and duty, love finally conquers, and she hides him in a closet, just as Henry Bowie, sabre in hand, comes into the room. He greets his cousin pleasantly and tells her that they believe a Union officer has entered her house. She shakes her head, but allows him to search, which he does thoroughly, even though the very closet where Arthur is hiding, but in prodding the clothes with his sabre, he missed the Union officer, and goes away satisfied that the officer, whoever he was, has made good his escape. Then, the next day, the shoe is on the other foot; Henry Bowie is pursued by Union men, under Arthur Boone. Henry, too, makes for his cousin's house. She hides him, and then steps out onto the porch; as yet, no one is in sight, Rushing back into the room, she hastily dons a Southern uniform that has been in her possession for some time, and then, looking out the window, she sees the Union soldiers surrounding the house. When they have surrounded, Helen, in her man's attire, steals out by a side entrance. They soon discover her, however, and she leads them a merry chase, only to return by a different route to the house, and, gaining on them, reaching the house she tears off the uniform, and when the Union soldiers enter, only a tired little Southern girl stands before them. They demand the prisoner. She protests innocence. Then they arrest her. This is too much for the concealed cousin, and he emerges from his hiding place with a bound, and he, too, is caught in the grasp of the law. Henry is sentenced to be shot. He is guarded by a lone sentry. Helen escapes from her place of imprisonment, and smiling sweetly at the sentry, induces him to look the other way while she has a word with her cousin; she slips him a small piece of wire with which he picks the lock in his fetters. Then Helen goes away and returns in the uniform of a Southern lieutenant. Henry steals away and Helen takes his place. Shortly after the firing squad arrive, then it is discovered that they have the wrong man. When Captain Boone hears of it he orders that they shoot the substitute. Standing erect, they bind her eyes, tie her hands behind her back, and just then, two soldiers enter with Henry. "Let them both be shot!" are the Captain's orders, not noting in his rage that it is his old friend. The guns are leveled. "Ready, aim..." but before the word "Fire!" is given a messenger dashes up and hands a dispatch to Arthur: "The war is over. U.S. GRANT. Commander. U.S.A." Then Arthur commands the firing squad to halt, and as he approaches the prisoners he is violently surprised to see his old friend Henry. Going to him, he takes both his hands: "Thank God, those bullets were not fired!" Henry explains who Helen is. Arthur turns to her in amazement, saluting, she takes off her cap. Then Arthur holds out his arms, and only too willingly does the little southerner enter them, for in union there is strength.
- Nellie Dent lives in the country with her blind father. She is engaged to the young farmer at the next farm. A man from the city annoys her with his attentions and is punished by the farmer. As the girl and the blind man live alone, the farmer gives them his rifle, telling them that a shot from it will be heard by him and bring him at once, if they ever need help at night. The city man determines to obtain possession of Nellie by force. He comes to the house, seizes the girl, who is sitting with the blind man, and puts her in his auto and speeds away. The blind man hears the struggle, calls to his child, knows that she is in danger, and is in despair at his own helplessness. He remembers the rifle, and, groping his way to it, fires a shot. The young farmer hears the shot that tells him he is needed and leaping on a horse, dashes to the blind man's home. The blind man tells of the struggle he has heard and the farmer dashes down the road after the auto. The auto speeding along the country road breaks down. The young farmer arrives on the scene and there is a struggle between the two men. The farmer wins out, and putting the girl on the horse takes her back to the little home, where the blind man is anxiously awaiting them.
- It was a balmy day in June; things were progressing very nicely at the farm, and as Hiram Scraggs sat down to a comfortable smoke, and incidentally to read the weekly Bugle, he suddenly came to the conclusion that the farm didn't need him for the present and that he believed he needed a change, and, with this thought uppermost in his mind, what should stare at him from the front page of the Bugle but the following: "Round Trip $5.98. WASHINGTON AND RETURN. Last Train Leaves Bingville 5.15." "By gum! and it's 4.30 now; well, guess with Mandy's help I can make it," and soliloquizing thus, he calls his faithful spouse, and in the very limited time, they prepare for his trip to the Capital. He even takes a pig to give to the President to raise, and makes off gleefully. His trip and funny happenings in the Capital are most amusing; he takes a sightseeing trip in the rubberneck car and gets into serious difficulty; he wades through the flowers in the gardens at the Agriculture grounds, only to be waylaid by one of the sturdy officers of the law doing duty near-by; he fishes in the White House fountain, and is again held in the grasp of the law; he sees the Capitol from start to finish, he never misses one object that appeals to sightseers, and at every turn he commits unconsciously some misdemeanor that lays him open to an accounting before a blue-coated policeman, and finally, with all his money gone, he decides that there is no place like home, and goes back to Bingville, to Mandy and the farm, only to dream of his eventful trip and to be rudely awakened unceremoniously by his somewhat alarmed spouse, and Hiram opening his eyes, draws a sigh of relief, when he finds out that it's Mandy, and not one of those "pertic'lar fellers" that patrol Washington's streets.
- Nell, a little city waif, is selling papers on a street corner. She begs of Mr. Livingston to buy a paper. He pushes her roughly aside and her papers are scattered on the sidewalk. Dick, a messenger boy, happens on the scene, picks up Nell's papers and in his boyish way tries to comfort her. We next find Mr. Livingston at the home of Edith Travers, a wealthy society girl. He proposes his love for Edith, but she refuses him. A little later we find Livingston in need of ready money. He conceives the idea of sending Edith a note, signing the name of her brother, who is out of town, telling her that he has returned in trouble, and for her to send at once all the money she has to a deserted house on a lonely country road. He comes to her home in advance of the note to see how his scheme works. Edith is in great distress on reading the note and phones for a messenger. Dick is sent to answer her call. She gives him the money to take to the directed spot. Little Nell, on passing Edith's home selling her daily papers, sees Livingston hurrying away in his auto, suspects something is wrong, and climbing on the back of the auto rides away. Dick is speeding along the country road when he is overtaken by Livingston in his auto. The auto collides with the messenger boy and Dick is thrown to the ground unconscious, Nell still clinging to the auto. Livingston takes the money from the messenger, puts it in his overcoat pocket, placing the coat on the rear seat of his auto, and as he speeds away little Nell jumps from the car, taking Livingston's coat with her. Dick revives and Nell gives him the money. They return to Edith's home with it. Dick and Nell by this time have fallen in love with each other, and five years later show them coming from the little church around the corner happily married.
- Bill Mason and his charming little bride have just been pronounced one by their beloved preacher, the guests gather around the happy couple, showering confetti; the bride, according to the old custom, is much kissed, the groom shaking hands until his arm aches: then someone proposes a toast; all raise their glasses to drink the health of the newly wed, when a startling knock is heard at the door. On opening it, a train hand enters bearing a dispatch for the groom. The message directs that he bring up the night express, "Strikers in an ugly mood." Comforting his bride as best he can, he soon appears clad in his engineer's garb, tenderly bids his wife "good-bye," and is off, knowing full well the importance of his perilous mission. The guests disperse, and the lonely little bride sits at the window to watch and wait. Sitting there in the moonlight, strange sounds reach her from the valley below, growing louder and stronger every moment. Listening for a while, she at last ventures out, creeps along the edge of the bank and peers down into the valley, and there she sees the strikers busily at work blowing up the track. Faster and faster they work, and oh! the express is due; it will be wrecked! Quick as the thought she dashes home, and getting a lantern is soon out on a race for life. Clad in her wedding dress, she runs along the road, taking a roundabout way to avoid the strikers, her wedding veil floating behind her in the wind, the lighted lantern swinging by her side. Hark! A whistle sounds on the night air; it is the express. She quickens her steps; at last she reaches the tracks just as the express swings around a curve in the distance. Standing in the middle of the track with the headlight of the locomotive bearing down upon her, she swings the lantern high above her head. Steadily the train comes on; she can feel the hot blasts of steam from the engine, but listen, the brakes are applied and the steam horse stops only a few feet away, and Bill Mason swings down from the cab and takes his bride in his arms. She has won in a race with death.
- Phil Wentworth, a young and wealthy artist, is spending the summer in the country, for the purpose of devoting himself to his art. On being called back to the city, he finds himself in love with Tessa, an artless little country girl, who returns his affection. While confessing their love for one another, and planning their future happiness, they are surprised by Tessa's father and mother who, after receiving a brief explanation on the part of Phil, realize that their little girl is grown up, and give their consent to the marriage. We next find them in their new home in the city, having just arrived. Tessa, with childlike interest, runs around gaily admiring the luxury and splendor of her new apartments, so different from the simple little home she had known. On one of these tours of inspection she discovers the portrait of a beautiful girl, one of her husband's former sweethearts, whom she afterwards meets at a ball and recognizes as the girl of the picture, and notices that she (Madeline) and her husband are both deeply affected by the meeting. After this meeting Madeline determines to win back the affection of her former sweetheart, whom she seeks out at his studio, where she is successful. Tessa, on arriving at the studio, unseen by either her husband or Madeline, finds the latter in the arms of her husband. Heartbroken, she decides to sacrifice her happiness for that of her husband, writes him a note biding him farewell, and returns to her home, where father and mother with loving care strive to heal her aching heart. Upon finding that she is gone, Phil decides to go after her, when his eyes fall on the portrait of Madeline, and with vivid recollection of her visit of the afternoon before him, his weaker nature asserts itself and he decides to stay. A few weeks later we find him painting Madeline's portrait in his studio, but his heart is not in his work. Conscience is calling to him in a loud voice, and Tessa's face is constantly before him. Suddenly, and without warning, he throws pallet and brushes to the floor, and takes rapid strides to the door; Madeline in alarm asks him for an explanation, but he pushes her aside and dashes out of the room. Then losing no time, he returns to the country seeking his child-wife and her forgiveness. Upon arriving at the house, he finds Tessa at the window gazing out with an expression of loneliness and sorrow on her face. Gently he reaches for her and sinks to his knees beside her; with a start she turns to him and, with the "Heart of Tessa" it is impossible not to forgive, and in a few moments all is wiped out, and happiness once more reigns supreme in the rural home.