An English nobleman is banished from home because of his attachment to a girl "not of his class." He marries the girl, comes to America with her, and a child, John Burton, subsequently the hero of each chapter of this serial, is born to them. 14 chapters.
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United States 17 July 1916
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18 September 1916
Muriel Flemming secretly marries Graydon Burton before he heads West to make his fortune. Later, when he is about to board a train to return to his wife, he is accused of a murder that was actually committed by crooked attorney Herman Slade.
31 August 1924
Don Counsel, a New Yorker who is traveling through southern Florida, is being framed by Ernest Riever for a murder he did not commit.
01 August 1930
Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
30 April 1917
John Howland travels to the frozen North to build a branch of the Hudson Bay Railroad. There he meets and falls in love with Meleese Thoreau who warns him that her three bloodthirsty brothers, Max, Pierre and François, have sworn vengeance against a man named John Howland, the son of a man who killed their mother, and that torture and death await him along the route to his station.
01 April 1922
A Mormon weds a rich English girl, takes a second wife in Utah, and is killed by his first wife's lover.
08 November 1918
A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
01 November 1920
A war worker wins back her wounded husband with recollections of their honeymoon.
22 April 1915
Ralph Brooks, although engaged to Julia Dean, meets and becomes infatuated with Rita Reynolds. She gains his sympathy by telling untrue stories of her husband's brutality.
11 November 1918
A young woman falls for a flirtatious count only to find that he has no intention of marrying her. To her distress, the count still pursues her even after she has married another.
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21 February 1916
Captain Mills is jealous of Jim Clifford, his fellow officer at the British War Department, so he steals an important document in an attempt to make Clifford look bad.
10 March 1916
Ranger Frank rescues a family from a devastating outlaw band.
21 October 1916
To her aunt's dismay, Prudence isn't interested in society life. She'd rather listen to the butler's tall tales of being a pirate.
25 September 1916
On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage.
16 April 1916
Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage.
22 May 1916
The Suspect is a 1916 lost silent film directed by S. Rankin Drew. Set in France and Russia, the plot revolves around the cruelties of Russian Grand Duke Karatoff, known to friends and enemies alike as "the butcher.
30 June 1916
Fatima decides she needs to reduce her weight. Inspired by the example of famous actress and beauty icon Lillian Russell, she attempts to "roll it off" through various weight-loss methods.
28 May 1916
A young girl is betrothed to a rich Count by her family who have hopes of partaking in the Count's fortune.
04 December 1916
Jim Blake, the playboy son of a New York millionaire, heads west to prove himself a man. He goes to work on his father's ranch in Wyoming, and eventually wins over the locals by turning the tables on a town bully and trying to collect damages from a railroad magnate, whose trains have killed many of the Blake ranch's cattle.
05 June 1916
Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded in the village, stays one night in his home and Olaf falls in love with her.
28 August 1916
When Doris Baker spends her husband Dick into serious debt, he embezzles funds from the bank where he works to cover some speculative investments.
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