Chilton, a crooked dealer in antiques, decides on a daring scheme to recoup his finances by defrauding the railroad. A car-load of cheap furniture is shipped with a valuation of $40,000 on it. Blanding, the tool of Chilton and his partner, awaits at Lone Point a telegram giving the number of the car.
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Helen Gibson as Helen
George A. Williams as Chilton - Dealer in Antiques
Hoot Gibson as Blanding
Charles Dudley as The Claim Agent
Scott Pembroke as Chilton's Partner
The Mysterious Cypher Trailer
United States 24 June 1916
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Crossed telephone wires enable Helen to overhear a plot between Joe and Bill, escaped convicts, to join a number of Chinese who are being smuggled into the country in a freight train.
03 February 1917
Helen, the telegraph operator at the Lone Point Station, shields Miguel, a greaser, under suspicion of having stolen some horses, until the real thieves are caught.
01 July 1916
Circumstances make Helen think that Jack, the engineer and son of the road's auditor, is guilty of the theft of $50 that comes to light through a shortage in her accounts.
05 February 1916
When the Limited is forced to stop because of an obstruction on the tracks, the passengers alight for a stroll.
29 April 1916
Following the wreck of the pay-car, it is rifled by a band of conspirators. All but one of the band later succeed in making their escape from the town by automobile, but this one is forced to jump aboard a freight train to which is attached the wreck train and huge crane.
01 January 1916
Tony, a half-breed Mexican is kicked from pillar to post, but he grasps a chance for revenge on society when he peers through the station window and sees Helen, the operator at Lone Point, opening the express company bag containing a valuable shipment to a local rancher.
17 February 1917
Rupert Winslow, traffic superintendent of the railroad that employs Helen as operator at Lone Point, receives a telegram stating that his wife, who is ill, will be on the midnight express.
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21 October 1916
Accused of stealing the annual report of the Great Western Railroad Dick Olney is discharged though it was really the president’s secretary Hodges who took it to sell information to the opposition.
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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.
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