When her father dies of the plague, Kate sends her servant for help, but the message is lost when Wamba is killed by a lion.

When a heartless creditor comes to foreclose on an old man’s farm, his daughter’s fiancé pawns his watch and stakes it all on the long shot at the horse race.

Gloria disguises herself as a man to lure a vamp’s attention away from her beau.

A listless patrician in Rome is awakened by the love of a dancing slave, angering his jealous wife.

The ladies of Cuddleton begin faking illness to attract the young new doctor, little realizing that he is married.

Ferdie, tired of his wife’s love for the foxtrot, fakes an injury to get out of dancing.

After her husband dies at sea, Madeline travels to the city to study sculpture but her tutor has a more than professional interest in her.

A posse forms to track down a band of cattle rustlers after a rancher offers $500 reward for their capture.

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.

Blackbeard and his pirates sack the island of Martinique, forcing the governor to walk the plank and making a prisoner of his wife.