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- A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:48 a.m., and he can't find his fiancée.
- Algie Allmore has one year to prove he's a man in order to wed Harry Lyons' daughter.
- Trixie believe the only way she can save her older sister from dying of tuberculosis is by preventing the autumn leaves from falling, so one night she steals into the garden in her nightie and fastens fallen leaves to branches with twine.
- An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
- Frank Watson was spending a month in New York when one day he receives a letter from his father requesting him to come home and also that a surprise awaits him on his return. This aroused Frank's curiosity, so immediately he made preparations to leave at once. One arriving home he went at once to the drawing room and there to his surprise he saw a very attractive girl sitting by the fire-place seeming to be perfectly at home with her surroundings. Frank coughs. The girl turns around and then nods to him but leaves the room at once. Just then his mother and father come in and greet him. At once Frank begins to question them about the girl. For an answer Frank's father walks to the desk and brings Frank a letter. There he learns that this girl is the daughter of his father's best friend who has just died and has made his father guardian. The girl's name is Peggy and she has been left a large fortune. Frank does not approve of this and begins to offer his objections. At the same time Peggy is seen coming down the stairs at the back of the room and accidentally overhears what Frank is saying. She then comes into the room and they are introduced. Six months later we find Frank in bad company. He has started gambling and has hard times settling all his debts. At present he owes $500 to a very miserly Jew who has Frank's promissory note to pay in a week's time. Poor Frank is almost a nervous wreck, for he has no means by which he can lift this debt. The day has come and we now see Frank nervously awaiting the Jew's arrival. The Jew is ushered in and at once starts business. He then learns that Frank is unable to pay and then swears that he will go to Frank's father for payment. Frank pleads not to tell his father. The Jew looks around the room in order to find some plan with which to force Frank to pay. Suddenly he notices a small safe in the desk marked EMERGENCY SAFE. He calls Frank's attention to it. After much arguing the Jew has persuaded Frank to get his payment from this safe with the hope of winning it back and then replace the money before the father finds it out. Frank takes the money, gets a receipt from the Jew and orders him out. Frank leaves the room at once. Suddenly we see Peggy getting up out of the large chair by the fireplace. She has accidentally overheard all that has passed between them without their knowledge and she realizes Frank's position at once. She decides to help Frank out of his trouble and starts to think of a plan. Later we see her coming into the drawing room all ready for a journey, carrying a suitcase in her hand. She puts a letter on the table for Frank's father and then leaves the house. The girl makes a splendid sacrifice to save Frank and later, in an impressive scene Frank admits his guilt and asks for forgiveness of the girl he has grown to love.
- A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
- The first story begins with a young and pretty girl named Isabelle sitting upon a hill. It is then that she is attacked by Pedro. And following the common thematic trajectory of the time, Isabelle is then rescued by the kind and brave medical student who spends his time as a minister for the poor, Alonzo. Pedro is insistent on revenge and applies to the local monastery where Alonzo works in order to frame him. He hopes to frame him for the mysterious and sudden disappearance of the church's jewels. The frame ends immediately after Pedro plants the jewels in Alonzo's home and the monks are quick to punish Alonzo and Isabelle.
- A married couple decide to "live separately together."
- A chance find of money makes the penniless Sam a good match for the nouveau riche Lindy. But Sam soon loses the money at cards - and with it the favor of the unfaithful Lindy.
- Slowly and painfully a long line of suffering political prisoners were being brutally driven through the blinding snow to the barren wastes of Siberia, where they were destined to spend the balance of their lives in toil and sorrow. At the rear of the line patiently trudged a feeble old man, who in spite of his advanced years had brought the cruel vengeance of Russia down upon his head by daring to speak his mind in the interests of freedom. In the distance could be seen a small sleigh driven by an aged woman at whose side sat a strikingly beautiful girl. They were the wife and daughter of the exile, who were sharing his sad lot. In the camp of the prisoners they were allowed to live in a small hut, where they tried in vain to make the father comfortable, and soon realized that unless he could be taken back to civilization he would surely die. They sawed a hole in the floor of their hut and placed a trunk with a movable bottom over it. Then placing the old man beneath the floor they put some of his clothes and a note telling of his suicide on the riverbank and waited. For weeks they fed and cared for him secretly while the officials thought him dead. Finally they were given passports and told to return to Russia. The trunk was searched and found to contain clothes, but it was no sooner locked than the exile dropped the clothes into the cellar, and taking their place, was safely on his way across the border. In Russia, General Romanoff had ordered a massacre and his son had been stripped of his uniform for refusing to carry out the general's orders to slay the innocent. Sadly he left his father's house resolved never to return. On the road he met the exile, whose sleigh had been overturned and while helping him, fell under the spell of the large serious eyes of his beautiful daughter. Together they joined a revolutionary society, and when lots were drawn to destroy General Romanoff, the girl found herself called upon to do the dangerous work. Not knowing that the general was the father of her gallant lover, and embittered by her own father's death she consented. A bronze statue was presented to the general, who received it as a token of appreciation of his work, little dreaming that it contained the girl who was bent upon his destruction. But her lover had decided to save his father and the girl at all costs, and the deed was prevented at the very last moment with the general still innocent of his near approach to death. Mourning his son, the general wrote him a letter of forgiveness, but tore it to bits when he learned of his application to the revolutionists. Likewise the son wrote his father begging forgiveness, but destroyed the letter when the general ordered a new massacre. A terrific battle was fought in the streets, the father leading his troops in person against the forces of his sun. In the thick of the fight the general, seriously wounded, experienced a strange realization of the equality of man as he gave his last drink of water to a common revolutionary soldier and clasped his hand in brotherly love ere his soul had fled. So the general's son and the exile's daughter found the two old soldiers peacefully sleeping in each other's arms and their grief was tempered by the mute evidence of the general's change of heart as they smiled tenderly through their tears.
- The police are on the lookout for Jim Spike, alias Jim Nail, a dangerous highway robber, who has been working with more or less success without being apprehended. The chief of the detective bureau puts two new detectives on the case and enjoins them to be very careful in their investigations, and not to come back without landing the prisoner. The three detectives soon come upon Edgar Carroll, in whom they immediately see a striking resemblance to Spike, the crook. They shadow Edgar from place to place, and soon his life becomes one long game of hide and seek with the detectives. Finally Edgar consults his friend and they both decide to give the detectives a merry chase. Edgar and his friend dress as women and parade the streets in their ludicrous feminine attire. They flirt with the detectives and entice them away from their duty. They do not discover the real identity of their charming feminine companions until they accidentally come upon them one evening and see them leisurely, and with enjoyment, smoking clear Havana cigars. This shocking and unfeminine spectacle arouses their suspicions, but the boys are too clever for these cousins of Sherlock Holmes and, with the aid of an automobile, give them the slip, but the detectives eventually turn up again and arrest the masqueraders. However, they do not remain long in the police station, for the real Jim Spike turns up soon as the crook who tried to snatch Jane Ellery's purse on the ferryboat. Jane is Edgar Carroll's sweetheart, and she recognizes him. A few more complications arise, however, until Edgar and the crook are seen side by side and their likeness discovered, and the cousins of Sherlock Holmes see they have been misguided in their investigations.
- A great number of prognosticators often terrify us with visions of what will be when women shall rule the earth, and the time when men shall be subordinates and adjuncts. It is rather a fine question to decide, for chivalrous men, anyway. Today, with the multiplicity of feminine activities and the constant broadening of feminine spheres, it is difficult to predict to what height women will ascend. In the Solax production of "In the Year 2000," the release of Friday, May 17th, a serio-comic prognostication is unreeled on the screen with such magnetic force, charm and rich imaginative detail that one is compelled to accept the theories advanced on their face value. The conditions are reversed. Women in this film are supreme, and man's destiny is presided over by woman. No attempt is made at burlesque, but the very seriousness of the purpose of the theme makes the situations ludicrous.
- Falsely accused of the theft of a million dollars in securities from the safe of his wealthy employer, an honest young private secretary finds himself powerless to prove his innocence because of the perjury of an unprincipled butler who has been bribed to testify against him. The daughter of his employer is the innocent cause of the activity of his powerful enemy, who is an influential banker and the rival of the secretary for the hand of the girl. One of the secretary's cufflinks found near the looted safe suggests to the banker the possibility of fixing the crime upon him. The butler accepts a large sum of money from the banker in return for bearing witness, but is suspected of dishonesty by the maid because of his sudden show of wealth. Detectives are put upon his track, but he learns of his danger and succeeds in effecting his escape, thus making it appear that he himself is guilty of the theft. As a hunted criminal with the police instructed to arrest him on sight he becomes a desperate character and selects the banker as a likely subject for a successful scheme to obtain money. By a clever ruse be obtains an audience with the banker, leaving him bound and gagged several thousand dollars poorer. But his bold move leads to his discovery by the police, who follow him successfully in spite of a spectacular flight in which Broadway, the Bowery, the Brooklyn Bridge and Flushing, Long Island play an important part. The opening of a large cantilever bridge at the psychological moment places the butler in the clutches of the law, but the banker is afraid to identify him as his assailant and there is no direct proof of his connection with the million dollar robbery. Experts find only the safe owner's fingerprints upon the combination of the safe, and a famous detective becomes interested in the peculiar case. He looks up the life history of the victim of the robbery and finds that the old capitalist suffers from a common but little understood affliction. By substituting a hypnotist for the old gentleman's barber he succeeds in obtaining a statement which proves that the capitalist removed the money box from the safe with his own hands and hid it in a fireplace while walking in his sleep. The butler is immediately accused of perjury, but fights desperately against arrest and when finally cornered leaps from the top of a high building to his death. The capitalist carefully follows the instructions given by himself while hypnotized and finding his lost wealth intact, begs the forgiveness of his falsely accused secretary and welcomes him as the husband of his daughter.
- The play opens with the escape of John Forsythe from prison, where he has been sentenced to a term of ten years for counterfeiting. He is seen running through the woods in striped clothing until he emerges on an open road. He there holds up a passing chauffeur and secures a linen coat and cap. These cover the stripes to the knees, and he blacks the remainder from the mud of a swamp until those who sit in front can't tell the difference. In this guise he makes his devious way to the house of his brother Robert, a highly respectable member of good society, who has just been made guardian of person and property for a young lady he has never seen, charming Rosalie Clarke, just fresh from boarding school. John enters the house of Robert and demands protection. Robert offers a small sum of money and tells him to get out. John tears up the money and insists upon a larger amount. The good brother goes to another room, while the wicked one responds to a new criminal impulse. He shoots through the door and kills the man who sought to befriend him. He swaps clothes with the dead man, makes up to resemble him, and rings for the police; the latter is an act of insane cunning. Meanwhile, Dublin Dan hears of the escape of a convict he was instrumental in sending to jail for a long term. He goes to the country home of Robert Forsythe and watches at the railroad station. Who should come down by the next train but charming Rosalie. In gathering together her effects she drops the card of Robert Forsythe, and it falls into the hands of the detective. He promptly makes her acquaintance and assists her to find what is to be her future home. His pleasing appearance and manners, he is a winner, inspire confidence, and Rosalie consents. Thus it happens that they arrive simultaneously and opportunely just as the police John has summoned come on the scene. John claims that he is Robert and asserts that he shot a burglar whom he caught in the act of breaking into his house with the intent of committing a felony. This part of, the plot is replete with dramatic possibilities. Detective and criminal both fall in love with Rosalie, and it is man to man from this moment through exciting situations to the end. Dublin Dan's suspicions are excited by some trivial clue he finds, and he manages to examine this silent testimony while the others are variously engaged. He also objects John to sharp scrutiny when the latter receiver Rosalie. The criminal betrays that he did not know she was coming, and the fact that he has not had time to adjust himself to his new environment is shown in his conduct. Forsythe is savage and brutal, or merely sensuous and lazy as the mood strikes him, but in all cases an instinctive malefactor. Forsythe naturally gravitates to his old haunt, a den of counterfeiters, and there renews relations with confederates who have been operating in a small way. Their laboratory is shown behind a long screen, and John takes up his former occupation with the fanatical enthusiasm of an artist. It is revealed that the adventuress, Jumo, is still infatuated with him, though she has ostensibly given her affections into the keeping of his pal, Bill Steele. Mag Steele is an old hag whose services are those of guard over the safety of the retreat. Forsythe has the temerity to take these people to the house of his slain brother and there make merry to the discomfiture of innocent Rosalie. Rosalie escapes and goes to faithful Dan for advice and help. Dan places her with his mother. Dan goes to the Forsythe house in disguise and informs the merry party he meets there that his motor car is stalled not far away from lack of gasoline. Forsythe offers to send a servant for a new supply. Dan extends a hundred dollar bill, the smallest he has with him, in payment, but this does not attract suspicion. Forsythe takes it and gives counterfeit money in exchange. He is certainly suffering from induration of the occipital. The detective detects, but no matter, just wait. He must locate the den. Forsythe locates him and attempts to abduct Rosalie. She barely escapes the first time by the timely intervention of Dublin Dan in the disguise of a cabman. The second attempt is more successful, and Rosalie is carried away to the den. She is there incarcerated in a prison cell; the den is almost as well equipped as a motion picture studio, to languish while Forsythe resumes his nefarious work in the hidden laboratory. Now comes a closing in of all the elements. Juno is so cruelly jealous that she releases Rosalie from the cell after the others have retired for the night and proceeds to torture her, at least she makes ready, when Rosalie's screams bring the others and the former status is restored. Dublin Dan is not idle. He chances upon Matt, the thug of the counterfeiting gang, in a nearby tavern. In preparation for this encounter the detective has brought along a makeup bag which contains among other wonderful things a live carrier pigeon. Matt the thug has become interested in a drunken sailor who rashly flashes a roll. Dublin Dan interferes and conducts the drunken sailor to a bed-chamber. There the detective has an inspiration. He disguises himself as the drunken sailor, secretes the carrier pigeon in his bosom and contrives to encounter Matt the thug near the counterfeiter's den. Matt takes the drunken sailor into the den to rob him. Dublin Dan not only sees imprisoned Rosalie looking out from behind the prison bars, but is given a full view of the secret laboratory. Feigning sleep while the others play cards, he manages to write a note and attach it to the carrier pigeon's legs. As he sends the dove up the chimney, Matt the thug turns suddenly to help himself to whiskey and catches Dublin Dan in the act. The entire gang assaults the detective in a terrific struggle, with a result that he is overpowered, bound and thrown into a dungeon through a trap door. Is he done for? Ask of the white rats that crawl over his prostrate body and gnaw the ropes that bind him. Dublin Dan rises and rids himself of his bonds. He creeps up an iron ladder, opens the trap and seizes a brace of pistols. Now he has the whole gang at bay. After effecting Rosalie's release, he marches the counterfeiters, one by one, into the prison cell and there he holds them until the police arrive. Best of all, he is so cool about it. When the officers come on the scene he is calmly smoking a cigar.
- A father who is obsessed with music won't let his daughter marry anyone who isn't a musician, so the girl's fiancé poses as a violin player
- In the eastern part of New Mexico is locate the little mining town of Gatlach. There, however, we find an active mining camp dependent largely upon the famous Gatlach mine for its existence. Living in the camp we find Florence, who is loved by Jake. Florence, too, loves Jake. A new superintendent arrives to take charge of the mining property. The new arrival meets Florence and the man and girl fall in love. Discontent among the Mexican and half-breed miners develops. They mutiny, coming to the office making demands which the super promptly refuses and orders them from the place. The ruffians withdraw to arm themselves and then plan an attack upon the office and the death of their boss. Jake overhears the plot, and while he has no love for Harry, determines for the sake of Florence to save them. He rushes to the office and warns them just as the mob appears. They are pursued and finally take refuge in a narrow pass. With only one horse, escape for the party is impossible. Jake forces Harry against his will to take the horse and Florence and escape. They depart seeking aid, which is found in the shape of a troop of cavalry out scouting. Thus reinforced, they rush back to Jake's aid, but too late, he has fought his last fight and given up his life for those dear to him.
- James Warren, a poor artist, becomes desperate because his wife, Editha, is discontented with their poverty-stricken existence. During an excited scene he vows he would sell his soul to the devil for success. A gust of wind blows out the light and when he relights the lamp, the devil, in the guise of a stranger, immaculately clad, enters and inquires for a rich neighbor with whom he is to visit. Seeing one of Warren's pictures, he pretends enthusiasm and commissions him to paint a picture. James and Editha are overjoyed. The next day, the devil arranges a meeting between Editha and the rich neighbor's son, Lawrence. Editha and Lawrence become infatuated with each other at first sight. Lawrence invites Editha to attend a ball at his home, and she is about to refuse, not having suitable clothes and knowing her husband would not care to accompany her, when the devil offers her money, advanced on the picture James is to paint, and tells her she can secure a gown. He also contrives to make the way clear for Editha to accept the invitation by telling her that James must accompany him to the city on that evening to arrange a setting, and consequently would know nothing of her having gone. Urged on by the devil, Editha promises Lawrence to attend. As she reaches her door, a stranger (Conscience), in the guise of a crippled beggar, asks for food. They enter the house and Editha becomes conscience-stricken, but persuaded by the devil she does not tell James of her intentions. The evening of the ball, James and the devil start for the city, and a few minutes later Lawrence calls for Editha who is clad gorgeously. The devil, wishing to arouse the husband's jealousy, suggests that he 'phone his wife. Jack 'phones and finding his wife does not answer, believes what the devil has told him of Lawrence and Editha's infatuation, and in a fury starts for home. He arrives at home to find his wife absent. The devil insinuates that she may be found with Lawrence, and Jack believing her faithless goes with the devil to find Editha. They arrive at Lawrence's residence and the devil leads Jack to the conservatory from where they see Lawrence making violent love to Editha. Jack denounces Editha and returns home. The devil is overjoyed at his success. Conscience enters the room and leads Editha back home. She changes her gorgeous costume for clothes in keeping with her position and enters the room in time to see a struggle between Conscience and the Devil in which the Devil is vanquished. Conscience then affects a reconciliation between Editha and James.
- Clay Woodruff objects to the way his wife dresses when she goes for a walk, so she changes to a suit exactly like his. He, to get even, puts on her dress and hat, but when they see each other they are about to compromise and put on their own clothes, when in walks Aunt Mariah in a harem skirt cut in a very extreme style. Seeing this, Clay decides that this is the limit and forthwith goes on a drunk. His wife and aunt try to cure him by means of mental suggestion, telling him the liquor he drank has been poisoned with morphine and that he must keep dancing or he will die. The butler, coming in with a milk antidote, learns why Clay is dancing and he forthwith begins to execute the same movements, for he too has been at the decanter. The maid arrives upon the scene, and learning the reason, immediately starts to dance too. She has not been behind the others in sampling the bottle. In a like manner the wife and aunt join the party and they all dance to the telephone and call the doctor. The doctor arrives and before anybody can stop him he has sampled the beverage, and when they tell him that he is poisoned we see that he is as vigorous a dancer as any of them. Finally, after they are all worn out they find that it was a mistake arising from the efforts of Mrs. Woodruff in trying the mental suggestion cure.
- A Parisian doctor, infatuated with the wife of his benefactor, drugs and kidnaps her, and tries to convince the husband that she is dead.
- Mr. Sollemn, the man of the house, detests all unnecessary noises. Coming home from a fatiguing day at the office he sinks wearily into a chair and prepares to beguile away the evening hours by reading his daily paper. No sooner is he comfortable seated when his daughter Jane seats herself at the piano and begins to pound out some ragtime, and Willie, the small boy, starts the blaring phonograph. Sollemn cannot stand it, and in disgust he leaves the room and starts for the dining room. No sooner is he seated when he is again disturbed by the shrill voice of his mother-in-law's pet parrot. Maddened to a great degree he seizes the offending bird by the neck and swings it around his head, hoping thereby to stop its noise. That noise is stopped temporarily, but no sooner is his grasp relinquished upon the bird when in comes Willie with a rattle and in a very enthusiastic manner proceeds to demonstrate the noisy contrivance. Sollemn takes the kid and gives him a good spanking. Poor Sollemn going from room to room in search of peace and quiet, but being unable to find it, decides that he will go to bed. In the quiet of his chamber he finds it almost impossible to sleep for the thump-thump of the boys' punching bag, the rattle of the coal going down the chute, the clash and smash issuing from the department of cookery, etc. But finally dropping into an uneasy doze he is suddenly awakened by a strange noise. Investigating he finds there are burglars in the house, and upon going down to intercept the burglars he forms an idea, and the idea is to have the burglars take all the noise contrivances away This he makes the burglars do at the point of a revolver and after this duty is attended to he goes to bed.
- A priceless diamond stolen by a British attaché from a statue of Buddha brings bad luck to all who possess it.
- Mrs. Reggie Jellybone has her husband completely under control. She places a reflector on her sewing table in such a position that every movement and expression and manifest desire of her husband become known to her. She is, therefore, able to anticipate his movements and interfere in his plans. He seldom gets a chance to go to the club on the pretense of sitting up with a sick member. One night the boys at the club need a fifth hand very badly, and when they call up Jellybone, Mrs. Jellybone answers the phone, but they are not daunted. Mr. Resourceful is sent to get Jellybone in spite of his wife. A scheme is concocted and Jellybone goes to the club leaving a dummy on his side of the bed. When Mrs. Jellybone comes up to the room to retire, she finds blood-stains on the bed-clothes and grows excited. She shakes the dummy and the head is severed from the body and rolls under the bed. She excitedly concludes that her husband had been murdered, and immediately she calls for Burstup Homes, the renowned private detective. Burstup Homes arrives puffed up with importance, makes a very ceremonious investigation and deduces that the man is really dead. Furthermore, he deduces that a man wearing a ten size shoe is the criminal. In the examination Burstup Homes forgets essentials and takes up his time with details. He follows the blood-stain clue and a foot print clue. The visible stains on the improvised bed-sheet ladder which Jellybone used as a means to effect his escape also attracts the detective's attention and gives him strong evidence of an entrance and an exit from the house through the window. In fact, there are clues galore and Burstup Homes feverishly goes to work. Everyone he meets is a suspect. Deacon Stronghead, whom he meets on the way from the knife grinder where he had a knife sharpened for his wife, offers the strongest causes for suspicion, because he carries a concealed weapon, and the story is more complicated when Mrs. Jellybones plays a trick on her husband. Off she goes to the club, and here comes the big surprise, she does not pounce on her husband, as one would expect, but is so delighted that he is alive that she embraces him most rapturously. Jellybone begins to think that his wife will soon be stricken with an attack from over-indulgence and suffer untold agony. The farce ends up in the police station where Burstup Homes' failure is provocative of much laughter, but he is not at all dismayed and retorts that the police are jealous of him.
- Proud old Major Neal disowns his only child, a beautiful girl, because he considers her marriage a misalliance. Years pass. The old major becomes a recluse feared by all. One Christmas morning, a hamper is found beneath the Major's covered driveway. The butler and housekeeper (in the secret), carry the hamper to the library and present it to Neal. He is greatly puzzled and finding a card attached inscribed "To Major Neal," he opens the hamper, only to slam it hastily shut with a startled and angry expression: The hamper contains a baby girl. The old man orders the child taken from his presence, and advertises for the one who presumed to leave it to take it off. But no one claims the child, whose sweetness and innocent joys soon begin to move the old fellow's heart. The baby constantly makes advances, in spite of rebuffs, until the old man succumbs and worships the child, calling her "Little Sunbeam." Sunbeam is stricken with fever. Now is the mother's chance. She comes (the old family doctor aiding and abetting her), disguised as a nurse, and with a mother's untiring love and care nurses Sunbeam back from the shadowy brink. Old Major Neal and his disowned daughter meet at the bedside of the child, and through their great and mutual love for Sunbeam become forever reconciled.
- A naturally-told story of the 8-year-old daughter of a workman who is on strike. The mother falls sick and has no money in the house to buy medicine prescribed by the visiting doctor. The little girl, discovering this, starts out to sell her doll, and by a strange coincidence meets the owner of the factory where her father is on strike. She finally sells the doll to a storekeeper, but the employer, seeing her sad face and winsome way, immediately purchases the doll and returns it to her. The closing scenes of the strike and the intervention of the little girl preventing bloodshed bring about a happy sequel to a pathetic story.
- Norma, a dancer, receives many presents from admirers. Among them she finds a peculiar looking box, out of which spring several poisonous snakes. Nelson, a detective, is called upon to solve the mystery. On the box he finds a peculiar trademark, which he seizes as a clue. At his home he finds the same odd mark on an ashtray bought by his mother in a Hindu curio shop, and he learns that the box containing the snakes was purchased by a Hindu woman. Calling upon the woman, he is surprised to find himself in the home of a Priestess of Buddhism. The Priestess tries to fascinate him with her beauty and, not succeeding, drops a powder into an incense burner, the fumes of which begin to throw him into a stupor. He fights his way to a window, blows a police whistle, and is attacked by three giant Hindu attendants. But the police arrive in time to save his life, and the Priestess is arrested and thrown into prison. The dancer, Norma, is attracted to Nelson by his bravery, and they become friends. Meanwhile, the Priestess succeeds in working a psychic miracle in which she goes into a trance and, while her earthly form remains in prison, her soul is freed and appears before the horrified detective in his study. His nature is changed immediately by the Priestess's mystic influence, and his face becomes the face of a hardened criminal. Changing his clothes for one of the rough suits used in his detective work, he visits a den of crooks and aids them to rob a bank, the plans of which he has been entrusted with in his professional capacity. Later he is called to the bank to investigate the robbery and, not knowing of his dual personality, makes every effort to find the man who had committed the crime. He finds his own scarf among the scattered papers taken from the safe. A threatening letter, which he receives from the followers of the Priestess, is seen by Norma, who is so greatly concerned for his safety that when he asks her to marry him, she quickly consents to an engagement, so that she can do all in her power to protect him. His old mother is puzzled by seeing him leave his own house through the window, when he is again visited by the spirit of the Priestess and influenced to aid the same band of crooks in the robbery of his own home. When his real personality returns, he finds himself in his own office, where he has been discovered by his mother, sleeping in a chair, dressed in his old clothes. Upon discovery that his house has been robbed, he calls the chief of police and is seen by the companions of his criminal personality, who thinks that he is acting as an agent of the authorities merely to place them in the hands of the law. When he is again transformed toy the spirit of the Priestess and returns to the thieves' den, they regard him as a spy and plan to do away with him, leaving him bound and gagged in the care of an old hag, while they celebrate his capture. But Norma, who, with his mother has been watching him, follows him to the den of thieves and, overpowering the old woman, helps him to escape. Meanwhile, the followers of the Priestess succeed in rescuing her from her prison cell and are speeding away in an automobile when Nelson, who still retains his criminal personality, asks them to assist him to escape from the crooks, who are closely upon his trail. Thus, he unwittingly places himself and his fiancée in the power of the Priestess, who makes them prisoners in a temple of Buddha. Norma faints, and when Nelson's real personality returns, he finds himself bound hand and foot in the temple. Norma quickly explains the situation to him and, by burning the ropes that bind his wrists with the fire in the incense burner, he frees his companion and makes his way to the roof by the aid of a heavy chain from which a large oriental lamp is swung from the ceiling. He succeeds in helping Norma to the roof by the same method and they reach the ground with the aid of a large tree. The chief of police, who has been summoned by Nelson's mother, overtakes the crooks and arrests them after a desperate struggle. But the Priestess cheats the majesty of the law by the aid of a poisoned ring with which she does away with herself during one of her wild fanatical dances. Her death marks the end of her influence over Nelson, and he at last feels free to marry Norma.