1921-1935

A 'coward' resigns his commission and poses as an Arab to save his former comrades.

A woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.

A widow's son refuses to be adopted by a Lord when he learns the Lord is her father.

Elliot Straive is a college professor who has left the evils of civilization behind to raise his son Eric in the purity of the Canadian wilderness. James Heatherton sends Mark Grant to get the mining rights to Straive's land as vast deposits of iron ore have been discovered there. Grant arrives as the elder Straive lies dying and has written a final note to his absent son. Grant tears off the portion of the letter with Straive's signature and forges a concession to the mining rights above the signature. Heatherton, dissatisfied with the unwitnessed signature of a dead man, decides to to himself to get Eric Straive to sign the concession. He sends his family on ahead on vacation. The family hires Eric as a guide, thinking him to be a mere backwoods barbarian. Eric and Heatherton's daughter Floria fall in love, but the relationship falters when she confesses that she has lied to him about why they are there. Grant returns upon the scene and tries to force Eric to sign. Eric nearly kills Grant with his bare hands before the look of horror on Floria's face brings him back to his senses. Eric nurses Grant back to health. Grant, won over by Eric's goodness, reforms. Eric agrees to sell the land to Heatherton in order to establish the music conservatory that Floria has told him that she always wanted.

A clubman's country jaunt with friends leads to a breach of promise suit by a landlady.

A Labour leader inherits an MP's estate and gives it to his daughter who later marries the MP.

A sacked agitator inherits an ironworks, loses it by another will, and leaves his rich wife for a poor girl.

A cashier and his wife suffer ten years of poverty to replace a lost necklace before learning it was fake.

A king declares war to force a princess to wed his hunchbacked brother.

The life of a happy, close-knit French family from Aisne who must flee the German advance in 1914.

A headmistress recognises a married JP as her ex-lover and stops him from sentencing the Mayor's son.

Dick Dawson decides against going into business with his father and goes west to become a forest ranger. He is thought to be a mollycoddle until he levels Slim Dixon, a whiskey runner disguised as a ranger. Dixon seeks revenge and informs the leader of the gang, Red Hobbs, of Dick's potential danger. Dick meets Red's daughter Ann, who is prohibited from seeing Dick again. When she is caught signaling him from the mountain peak, her father binds her hands and feet and places her in a mine. Dick rushes to save her but is first confronted with Hobbs; a fist fight ensues, and Hobbs rolls into the river and drowns. Dick reaches Ann just as Dixon is about to carry her off on horseback; undaunted, Dick disposes of Dixon and proposes marriage to Ann.

A henpeck inherits a fortune and starts a club for women-haters.

In 1882, Jim Logan arrives in a small town in Wyoming to inquire about his sister Alice, whose husband, Wade Curry, a dishonest mine speculator, has deserted her. Logan finds Alice fatally ill in a cabin and learns that her marriage was fraudulent. When Curry arrives at the cabin, a fight with Logan ensues, and Curry shoots Alice dead. He hurries to the local saloon and blames her murder on Logan. Finding it impossible to convict Curry of his crimes, Logan goes to the Southwest with Winnie, the daughter of Curry's late partner whom Curry had arranged to be killed. Ten years later, Logan is a successful rancher and Winnie has returned home from a convent school. By coincidence, Curry arrives in town, discovers the girl's identity, and conspires with a lawyer to get possession of Winnie and have Logan charged with murder. However, Logan appeals to an assembly of citizens, and after hearing the whole tale, the judge acquits him. Curry, conscience-stricken, is arrested.

A brewery heiress and a Lord's nephew open shops in the East End and build a People's Palace.

A Yankee planter buys a squire's hall, installs his exiled mother, and learns he is the squire's son.

A rich man's mean wife dies and his daughter elopes with the chauffeur.

A rogue poses as the Comte he killed and weds the Princess, but the heir to the throne steals their child.

A poor bart's daughter weds a rich secretary but leaves him when he pretends to lose money on the horses.

A student makes a fortune in Mexico, is blinded in a war, becomes a teacher, and weds a reformed flirt.

Bill Warren goes West to claim his inheritance, the Bar-L Ranch, situated over a large petroleum deposit. While traveling to the ranch, Bill meets Natalie, a young woman who is planning to meet her brother. Unknown to Natalie, her brother is head of a gang that will stop at nothing to gain access to the Bill's oil. The gang deceives Bill into selling stock in the ranch, then cheats him and the local townsfolk of their money. Bill is blamed for the subterfuge but is eventually able to prove his innocence. While pursuing the gang, Bill and his horse ride fall from a high cliff to the rocks below. He soon brings the gang to justice, saves the ranch, and wins Natalie's love.

An MP's adopted daughter loves the son of a blackmailing financier who turns out to be her biological father.

A stableboy poses as his cousin to foil a kidnapper and is forced to wed his sister.