- As a last resort, alcoholic millionaire Jack Leonard sees Countess Iva Ivanoff, famous for being a fortune-teller to the New York City rich and famous. She falls in love with him and promises to help him, but locks him up in her home. Her brand of "tough love" endangers Jack's health and his relationship with his wife and children.—frankfob2@yahoo.com
- Countess Iva Ivanoff, a Russian seeress and crystal-gazer, is taken up by fashionable people. In New York, Jack Leonard, a millionaire, is rapidly "going the pace." In a half-maudlin condition he hears of the powers of the Countess and makes his way to her apartments. He attempts to push the servant, a burly Russian in uniform, out of his way so that he may gain the presence of the seeress. In the struggle he is easily knocked down. The Countess comes out and looks at him. In spite of his dissipated and battered appearance, she recognizes that he is just the type of man that is meant for her. Jack Leonard is held a prisoner by the Countess and in spite of his pleadings is not allowed to have any liquor. Finally he seems to have recovered himself and to be a man again. Then she consents to his leaving so that he may test himself by contact with the world. He goes to the club, where he is at a loss what to do. Finally he makes up his mind that he will not allow himself to be dominated by the thought of the Countess. He gets intoxicated and instinctively staggers back to the presence of the Countess. She is shocked and angered and has her servants bind him with a rope. Then she whips him furiously until he faints. She is overwhelmed by remorse and tenderness, but the man seems to get a new hold on himself. He soon buys a seat in the Stock Exchange and devotes himself to business. An awakening sense of duty, which the Countess cultivates solely for her own purposes, leads him to return to his wife and baby. Mildred Leonard can hardly realize the change and is backward about accepting his advances. At the urging of a friend, Mildred goes to the Countess to ask her advice. The seeress tells her to take her husband back and not reject his advances as he loves her. Mildred goes away overjoyed. She leaves her bag and the Countess finds her card in it. She is furious on the return of Mildred and craftily changes her advice, but Mildred divines her motives and scorns it. There is a struggle between the two women, in which the Countess is superior but she is contemptuous toward the woman's weakness and lets her go. Leonard comes to the seeress once more and she attempts to win him back by her hypnotic wiles. When he is about to yield, she repulses him on account of his weakness. He goes back to his wife and baby, and there is a happy reconciliation.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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