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- Psyche, the daughter of a king, and a mortal, is so beautiful that even the God of Fame is fascinated by her charm. He hurries to tell Venus, Goddess of Beauty, that her loveliness is surpassed by a mortal. The jealousy of Venus is aroused and she orders her son, Cupid, the God of Love, to avenge the indignity. One glance at Psyche and Cupid revolts. He beseeches his mother to relent, but Venus is deaf to his pleading and swears to destroy her rival's powers. While joy reigns in the court of Psyche's father, Venus strikes at Psyche by inflicting an illness upon the king. His malady baffles all, and in desperation the queen consults the oracle. The oracle decrees that when Psyche marries a mortal her father will be saved. However, Psyche's husband will be a monster who will devour her. Psyche consents to the sacrifice and is bound to a tree on a mountain top where she is left to await the prophesied husband, but Cupid finding her, braves the anger of his mother, and with the aid of Zephyr, God of the Winds, and Morpheus, God of Sleep, he sets her free. Cupid confesses to Psyche that he loves her, but must be kept hidden from her gaze since he is a God and she is only a mortal. Psyche agrees to this arrangement and with Cupid she lives in perfect contentment, until the visit of her sisters. They persuade Psyche that her husband must be the monster predicted by the oracle. Psyche is overcome by the temptation and finding Cupid asleep and a veil covering his face, she lifts the veil. Immediately Cupid disappears because of Psyche's broken vow. In the meantime, Venus has sent men to capture her rival and Psyche, wandering on the mountain as a result of her infidelity, falls into their hands. Pardon is offered her provided the girl secures the beauty box from Proserpine, the Queen of the Underworld. Psyche starts on her mission. Charon succumbs to her beauty and consents to take her over the River Styx. Her trip is successful and Psyche returns with the treasure. Venus now assured, of her superiority, makes Psyche immortal and permits her marriage with Cupid.
- The young hero, Frederick, is leaving his country home and going to the city to attend the bull fight, and while there he meets and woos a beautiful maiden, forgetting his own little sweetheart at home. The charming miss strolls with him and he tells her of his undying love and vows to live for her alone. As he leaves her at her home and strolls away her former lover comes along and, seeing them together, remonstrates with the girl, but she coldly tells him that it is all over between them and that she loves another. The next day Frederick meets the girl again and proposes to her and she accepts him, and immediately he takes her to his home to introduce her to his parents, who are a trifle demure in receiving her, knowing his treatment to his former faithful little sweetheart. Everything bids fair for their happiness when the maiden's cast-off lover appears and sends in for Frederick, and upon meeting him presents him with a letter which he had received from her telling him that he was the only man she ever loved. Frederick takes the letter and when he confronts the girl with it she coolly admits her authorship of the missive, and immediately he becomes distracted and denounces her and orders her from the house. She leaves the place and returns to her former sweetheart, while poor Frederick's life is wrecked, for in his heart he loves her with a supernatural love and everywhere he goes he sees her beaming face before him.
- A pianist picks up a young homeless woman from the street and takes her home to take care of her. The young woman becomes a famous dancer and she still has the opportunity to help the man who saved her from misery.
- Jack Landon, an aviator and inventor, has almost perfected a new parachute for use on aeroplanes when he runs short of money. He writes to his rich brother, Philip, and asks him for monetary help. This Philip refuses and as a result Jack tries the parachute before it is completed. The parachute collapses and Jack has a terrible fall from which he eventually recovers, but is left an apparently harmless imbecile. Philip takes him to his home to be cared for. While he is there the sight of Philip throws Jack into a terrible rage, as the only thing he seems to remember of the time prior to the accident is the fact that his brother refused to lend him the money. Philip's secretary, Carl Roberts, is in love with his employer's wife, but she remains true to her husband. Roberts believes that she would marry him if her husband were not alive, so he uses Jack. While Philip and his wife are walking in the garden, Roberts takes Jack to a path they must pass. Roberts then shoots Philip and flees. The blame is placed on Jack, as everyone remembers that he had in his rage threatened to kill his brother. Jack is taken to an insane asylum and placed in confinement. Roberts renews his suit for the hand of Philip's wife and eventually marries her. He uses her money to have a good time, leaving her alone a great part of the time. Under the careful care of the doctors Jack gradually regains his faculties, but has no remembrance of the tragedy. The doctors write to Mrs. Roberts that her brother-in-law is almost better and suggests that she and her husband take him away. Mrs. Roberts goes to the asylum to see Jack. Sight of her seems to bring back to him something of the past. He sees Roberts from the window and the past rushes back in such a flood that he suffers a relapse. He eventually recovers, this time with a full record of the guilty man. He leaves the asylum and makes his way to the home of his brother to accuse Roberts. Roberts has been dissipating to such an extent that his brain has been playing him tricks. He several times thinks that he sees his former employer and when Jack comes into the room the strain is too much for his weakened heart.
- An actress returns from the theatre and discovers her apartment has been burglarized; she lights a cigarette and the room catches fire; the burglar saves her life, and she, in return, saves his, and he returns her jewels.
- George Notman is engaged to Marjorle Vincent, and the young people, though the marriage was arranged by their parents, are thoroughly devoted to one another. George has a friend, Warner, who beneath a polished exterior hides a deceitful and treacherous character. This is plainly shown when he attempts to make love to Marjorie, the fiancée of his friend. His advances are indignantly repulsed and the girl then learns to thoroughly distrust the man and to endeavor to oppose his influence with George. George's father makes his son a present of a large sum of money with which to purchase a splendid pearl necklace for Marjorie. Warner basely suggests that with this money it would be possible to make large sums gaming at the table and persuades him to venture it. The inevitable happens; the money is lost and George is confronted with the necessity of securing funds in some way to purchase his sweetheart her necklace. Warner suggests visiting a certain woman, known to the police as a "fence," who makes a practice of loaning money at usurious rates of interest. At her store they are shown a fine necklace which she is willing to sell and accept George's notes in payment. The necklace is bought and the notes given. Not long afterward at the wedding reception detectives call and ask for George's father. To him they exhibit his son's notes, which they have found in a raid upon the "fence." They ask to see Marjorie's necklace. At once they are able to identify it as one stolen from a jeweler not long before. The heartbroken father writes a check for the value of the necklace to save it from confiscation. Angered beyond all control at this proof of his son's folly, he upbraids him before the whole assembly, then falls in an apoplectic fit which not long after is the cause of his death. After his marriage George falls more and more under the sinister influence of Warner. The combined fortunes of his wife and himself are insufficient to sustain the drains made upon them by his gambling losses. Warner suggests an evil plan and again George assents to it. Finding a man who is a typical "sucker," they work an old confidence game upon him and persuade him that they can give him the names of the winning horses before a race. He loses, of course, and later by plying him with drink they are able to steal the rest of his money. The victim learns the name and address of George and calls upon his wife. He tells her of her husband's crime and threatens him with immediate arrest if the money is not returned at once. When George comes home and learns that his guilt has been found out, he attempts suicide. Moved by the misery of the unhappy wife the victim of the theft relents and for her sake promises to push the case no further. The years pass. Compelled by her poverty Marjorie has placed her little son in her uncle's care, since she is not able to give the boy a proper bringing up. George and David have taken a little country inn, where they prey upon the rural gamblers. Old beyond her time, Marjorie, still faithful to her marriage vows, does the work of a menial around the house. Her uncle, feeling that she should see her son again, gives him a large sum of money and sends him to her. How Warner and George, ignorant of the young man's identity, plan to rob him; how they are thwarted and David suffers the penalty for his many misdeeds, and how the father, sobered by his narrow escape from killing his own son, resolves to live a better life, end a most dramatic film.
- Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
- Gaston Jouvenal, a retired banker, and his wife are anxious that their son and heir, Henry, shall marry the daughter of a favored neighbor. When Henry is consulted in the matter he refuses to consider the proposal, but will give no reason. Mr. and Mrs. Jouvenal storm and rage but the young man is obdurate. By a chance meeting a few days later the elder Jouvenal finds that his son has been married for quite some time and is the proud father of a daughter. His curiosity overcomes him and he visits his son's home. He finds the doctor in attendance upon the baby girl, although the illness is not serious, but the sight of the suffering little one plays strangely and pathetically upon the old man's heart-strings. He begs his charming daughter-in-law not to inform his wife that he has made her a visit and leaves the house with a new joy in his life. Mrs. Jouvenal, however, has herself learned of her son's marriage and fearing that her husband will disown Henry she keeps the knowledge of the situation secret. In their surreptitious visits to Henry's home the elderly couple frequently miss meeting each other by only a few seconds and their efforts to avoid being discovered visiting Henry are highly diverting. When the opportunity offers, Henry and his young wife decide to precipitate matters and accordingly arrange a little scheme which brings Henry's father and mother to the house at the same time. When Mr. and Mrs. Jouvenal arrive their grandchild greets them and they both confess to the happiness they feel.
- Literary adaptation: A boy is given up by his foster parents to a traveling player.