- The King of Kurland, a small European country, suggests a marriage between his son and Angela, the Princess of Arcacia, a neighboring small country with whom Kurland has been having problems. The fiery Angela angrily rejects the idea of marrying someone she doesn't know, but the prince is determined to go through with it. He visits Arcacia disguised as a minor nobleman and Angela, not knowing his real identity, meets and falls in love with him. Complications ensue.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Angela is the seventeen-year-old daughter of the King of Arcacia, a little kingdom in war-stricken Europe. The disappearance of her brother when a child, fifteen years before, was so great a shock to the Queen mother, that she died. The death of the Dowager Queen, her grandmother, left Angela solely in the care of her father, the King. Brought up without feminine influences surrounding her and being reminded constantly by the King of her dead brother, and his ambitions for his son had he lived, Angela, in such an atmosphere, readily acquired boyish tastes in both dress and manners. Trouble between Arcacia and the kingdom of Kurland, due to ravages by a band of Kurland soldiers, and the internal disquietude occasioned thereby in both of these countries, leads to strained relations between them. To close this breach, the Cardinal suggests a marriage between the Princess and the Crown Prince of Kurland. This proposal meets the approval of the Prince, and he rides into Arcacia as Count Bernardine, to meet her incognito. But on his way he meets Angela, out riding, whom he mistakes for a boy. He asks her to direct him to the castle and she tells him to follow her. On the way to the castle, they meet the Cardinal and he introduces them, the Prince as Count Bernardine. The Count explains the purpose of his mission and Angela orders him to return to the Prince and say she refuses his offer of marriage. Interested herself in the Count, she prevails upon him to tarry a few days. Frequent meetings between them increases Angela's interest, for she begins to show signs of falling in love. The seriousness of the situation between the two countries and the prospects of war pictured to her by the Count and her reflections thereon when alone, prompt Angela to agree to a marriage with the Prince for peace purposes. The Count has come upon a clue to the border outrages and this clue is a lead which involves in a conspiracy many closely allied to the Kingdom of Arcacia, among them Countess Varensa. The Count makes love to the Countess for the purpose of furthering investigations. When Angela finds him with his arms around the Countess, she misconstrues his motives. In a freakish moment of anger she cuts him over the face with her whip. On his departure, Angela secretly follows the Count, and unexpectedly into an affray, in which the Count, disguised in the mask and clothes of the messenger of the raiders whom he has attacked, has a hot fight. In the general melee that follows, Angela is made prisoner by the Kurlands. Angela is rescued and is taken temporarily to an inn, where she is concealed by the Count, still masked, with the assistance of a youth attracted to Angela by her face, which seems familiar to him. Another fight ensues and the Count picks Angela up and carries her above the heads of the mob to safety. Upon his return, he pulls away his mask and discloses to the ruffians that he is their Crown Prince. On horses, the Count escapes with Angela and the boy back to the castle, which is surrounded by a mob of Arcacians demanding that war be declared against Kurland. To the multitude Angela proclaims she will marry the Prince and thus end the trouble between the two countries. At a later meeting between the Count and Angela, she discovers both his real identity and that of the boy who helped in her rescue. The boy is none other than her own brother who disappeared years before.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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