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- "Although we must be enemies for a while," Sally read, "I will come to you as soon as the war is over and ask you the question in my heart." Sally then turned her attention to Belle and her luggage. Sally and Belle were daughters of the Southland. Therefore. Jim Holly's reference to "enemies" in the letter, which Belle brought her in coming to spend a few weeks with her was to be construed as meaning that her beau had joined the army of the North. Sally deplored this, for her father was General Warren of the Confederate Army and she herself was devotedly as a Southerner in her sympathies. Yet, when shortly after the arrival of Belle her love for Jim Holly was put to a test, her Southern sympathies became a secondary consideration. Holly, because of his daring, was sent by his commander to penetrate the Confederate lines and secure information as to the next move contemplated by General Warren's division. Blackening face and hands and attiring himself in the dilapidated garments of a plantation hand, he mounted a mule and, in sight of the enemy's lines, goaded the animal into a run. Holly passed by the outpost with their guffaws ringing in his ears. Divesting himself of the disguise, Holly found it necessary, in order to gain admittance to the conference of General Warren's staff, to eliminate the sentinel who stood guard at the flaps of the general's tent. A blow on the head, before the man could turn to discover his presence, and the work was done. Dragging the inert form into the brush, Holly appropriated the uniform and cap and in a few minutes had taken a position where every word so valuable to his cause could be overheard with ease. General Warren summoned the sentry to come before him for instructions. "I thought the sentry was bearded,'' one of his staff vouchsafed, as he studied Holly's face. "So he was," confirmed the general, "What's the meaning of this?" Holly had reached the open flap of the tent by this time. In a moment he had vanished. He eluded the outposts and made for a house nearby, in hope of shelter. Even as he recognized it as General Warren's mansion and sought to turn away, the sounds of pursuit reached him. There was no time to spare. He swung himself through an open window. Before him stood Sally. "Quick, hide me, I am followed," and Sally, already hearing the heavy steps of booted men on the veranda, indicated the nearest object offering shelter, the dress shape on which she had draped flowered material for a crinoline. She barely had time to arrange the dress before an aide of General Warren stepped in. The aide left shortly after. Evidently Sally's statement that she had seen nothing of the fugitive sufficed. But her agitated manner had not escaped the officer, and he returned by another door to see Holly emerging from his cramped hiding-place. The iron discipline of war imposed one of its sternest mandates on General Warren when he presided at the court martial which condemned Holly, whom he recognized as his daughter's beau, to death for espionage. While Holly lingered, locked in a room in the Warren mansion, awaiting the day of execution, General Warren was called away to attend a conference of the general staff at the commander-in-chief's headquarters. That gave Sally the chance she had been praying for. She had not forgotten the trap door under the carpet of the room above Holly's; she wondered if her father had. Need it be said that all turned out well? Of course, Holly was assisted to freedom via the trap door, but what is more, Sally went with him, the military pass and a disguise for Holly being valuable aids in their decampment, and their destination was the nearest minister. The Northern general promoted Holly; the Southern general forgave Sally. To-day they live happily at the old Warren place and of evenings delight in recounting to the young ones the story of the crinoline and the trap door.
- Nan, the Confederate spy, is involved in action and romance with a Northern spy.
- John Ainsley, Sr., at his death, unable to make provision for his son, Jack, exacts from his more fortunate business partner a promise that he will take care of the lad. In accord with his pledge, Morris Cobb sends for the youth at the completion of the latter's college term. Jack then enters upon a business career with the firm of Cobb and Company, and promptly falls in love with his benefactor's daughter, Florence, much to the chagrin of Richard Hunt, business manager for Cobb and Company, also a suitor of the girl. Hunt is an unscrupulous adventurer, but he has managed to hide his defalcations and forgeries. Jack's activities and quick perception, however, cause him grave apprehension. At a ball given at the home of Cobb, Florence receives two proposals: one from Hunt, which she rejects; the other from Jack Ainsley. The latter leaves that night as the accepted suitor. Hunt is goaded by jealousy and hatred, and determines to rid himself of so formidable and dangerous a rival. He introduces Jack at his club, and readily advances money to him on his personal notes. To recoup his loses, Jack becomes a nightly habitué of the gambling palace. At the end of his resources and pressed by Hunt for payment, Jack is obliged to give in exchange for his debts a valuable Saracen ring. Hunt sees to it that Florence is made acquainted with Jack's habits and precarious finances. Therefore, when a robbery and assault is committed by Hunt, the circumstantial evidence is subtly made to point conclusively to Jack. Florence is rudely shaken when she finds Jack's Saracen ring on the scene of the crime, and is convinced of her lover's perfidy and guilt. In withholding the ring during Jack's trial, as an act of delicacy, Florence unwittingly robs the defense of its only tangible evidence to prove his innocence. The unraveling of the plot, however, moves speedily to a happy conclusion once the girl has the right key to the situation. In the end, guilt is punished and love is triumphant.
- In Kentucky, a longstanding feud between two families is inflamed by the love of one's son and the other's daughter. Together they learn the real reason of the feud.
- Set in the late 1790s, a depiction of Irish villagers rebelling against British occupation (Red Coats) over the right to bear arms.
- Two rival railroad corporations determine to push their lines through the Canadian Northwest regardless of expense. Creel and Locke are the rivals in charge of the engineering work. Creel is in love with the daughter of the railroad president for whom he is working, but he is strongly moved by the beauty of the Canadian half-breed girl who came to the camp to sell scarfs and mittens. Locke, being an unprincipled man, detains Twilight in his camp against her consent. There is continual fighting between the men of the rival construction camp, and Locke vows to get Creel. Twilight waits for an opportunity to escape and makes her way to Creel's camp pursued by a gang of men with torches. Alicia Jordan and her father visit Creel's camp. When Alicia discovers Twilight in Creel's tent, she immediately concludes he has been unfaithful to her and she greets him coldly. The half-breed girl seeing how things are drifting, leaves Creel's camp and is recaptured by Locke's men. Twilight is just in time to overhear a plot to take Creel's life, and by risking her own life she saves him from a horrible death. Touched by the girl's loyalty and beauty, Creel forgets the call of civilization and takes the half-breed girl to himself to live in peace in the great North Woods.
- Helen, the daughter of a poor backwoods farmer, is fascinated by the heartless city chap who makes her humble home his headquarters while on a hunting trip. A short time after the sportsman's return to the city, his letters cease. Poor Helen, in disgrace, is driven from her home. In the city she finds work as a laundress, earning barely enough to live and care for her new-born babe. She meets a rich man. Humphrey, by name, who lends her money to buy new clothes. In an incredibly short time she finds herself completely in his power. Escaping from his apartments, she seeks death in the river, but is saved by the Salvation Army Captain, and consecrates her life to the cause. In her work of saving souls. Helen enters a café and there comes face to face with her own sister, now a dancer. Here follow several touching scenes, showing the redemption of the wayward sister and her happy marriage to a worthy fellow. Helen's final surrender to the Salvation Army Captain provides a fitting climax.
- Nell, an orphan of the lumber camp, becomes a wonderful violinist; then saves her lover from the convict labor gang.
- The story opens in an inland village in Ireland, where Jerry, the village blacksmith, toils, that he may wed Peggy O'Malley in a style befitting her beauty. Peggy's father, Michael, favors Jerry's suit, but Peggy has a mind of her own, and takes passage on a steamer bound for America. Landing in New York, she fortunately secures a position as a parlor maid in a wealthy home. Peggy attends a dance, where she falls into bad company. Two weeks later young Jerry reads in a New York paper, dropped by passing tourists, of Peggy's arrest for the theft of her mistress's diamond tiara. In another week he is by her side, and after a series of eliciting adventures, causes the arrest of the real thieves, recovers the diamond hair ornament, and secures his mavourneen's release. With tearful eyes and a joyous heart, Peggy marries young Jerry, and returns with him to the little cot in Ireland, where her sorrowing father is waiting hopefully for his runaway daughter.
- The professor holds captive by hypnotism his daughter, Marjorie, from the time she is a child until she has grown to womanhood. Tarred, feathered and driven out of town, leaving his child to be adopted into the family of Judge White, he returns after many years to reassert his complete mastery over her inner mind. The child obeys him and steals away from the foster parents and they employ a detective to run down the thief. The latter falls in love with the girl. The professor causes his child to become a thief stealing jewels, and finally the two disappear and the detective begins a world-wide search for them. The closing scene occurs In a great New York theater. Marjorie appears on the stage as an Egyptian mystic with a huge snake entwined around her neck. In the midst of the scene the professor drops dead. Her father's death has broken the spell and thus true love and Innocence again secures its just reward.