Lucie falls in love with a man who is secretly the nephew of the aristocrat who condemned her father to decades of imprisonment in the Bastille.

An honest one-armed beggar gets a less than honest artificial limb — one with kleptomaniacal tendencies that land him in jail.

Father kidnaps a husband for his daughter when he learns that she stands to inherit $3,000,000 on condition of her marriage.

Ruth finds herself speeding to what could be an untimely grave on a runaway boxcar.

An oil syndicate tries to buy oil-rich land from a destitute farmer before he discovers what it is really worth.

Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda’s embittered, grief-stricken heart.

A dog unites a man and a woman at the beach and reunites them when they grow jealous of the picture in each other’s locket.

Unlucky Larry finds himself pursued by the police after he inadvertently steals a man’s car and kidnaps his girlfriend.

Betty is in love with her father’s secretary, but Daddy does not approve and dismisses him. She concocts a plan to get his job back and be near him without Daddy suspecting a thing.

Richard moves to a remote island to escape from the memory of Eve, who had been forced to marry another man, but Fate still has more in store.