Pete is killed in a mining accident and Ella in an Indian attack, leaving their daughter Nellie in the care of Buck, who has never had any patience for children.

Chariot racer Ben Hur competes against his enemy Messala and against Rome’s occupation of Jerusalem.

Doreon is in love with Babette but she favors Blake, who has skipped town to avoid arrest. Doreon vows to find Blake and bring him back.

The Squire hopes to marry his widowed neighbor. After a night of spooky stories, he thinks he has found a way to scare off his rival and win the widow’s heart.

On his way to become a friar, a man falls in love with a woman and chooses to marry instead.

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

Kitty questions whether leaving her station master husband to pursue a singing career was the right choice.

A honeymooning couple crash land a balloon onto a cannibal island, but their enchanted bagpipes protect them from the headhunters.

May loses at cards and must borrow $250 from Captain Stiles, but the wealthy roué’s loan does not come without an expectation of repayment.

The president of a notorious railroad fights dirty against a lawsuit while, aboard one of his trains, his daughter unwittingly speeds toward her doom.