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- Our picture opens with a beautiful mountain scene and Cora, the belle of a mountain tribe, decking herself with garlands of roses. In the evening Lord Martagne, in disguise, appears at the cave of the mountain tribe and is fascinated by Cora's weird dance. They become lovers, but Lord Martagne soon wearies of the mountain girl and discards her. She calls at his home but is repulsed. She enters secretly at a masked ball in fancy costume to kill her unfaithful lover, but is foiled by his having left the city on urgent business. Lord Martagne goes on important business of a diplomatic character, and becomes a guest at the home of Irma, an attractive young woman who is engaged to be married. Irma is fascinated by Lord Martagne. Cora, the mountain girl, starts out in search of her unfaithful lover. She discovers him seated in a box at the theater with Irma. She leaves the theater when he does and follows him to his home. On account of financial difficulties Lord Martagne writes a letter to Irma, whose father has recently died, leaving her a fortune. He leaves the letter on his desk and Cora, who enters the house, finds it. The note asks Irma to meet him on St. Martin's Bridge the next night and loan him $5,000. Cora meets Lord Martagne on the bridge and forces him to fight a pistol duel with her. She kills him and he falls from the bridge into the river below. Irma comes to keep the appointment and looking over the rail of the bridge sees the body of her lover below. Then she finds the pistol lying on the bridge and her mind gives way. She is crazed and in her delirium she imagines that she committed the murder. At her home. Albert Norton, her fiancé, listens to her story, which is overheard by a maid. He advises her to leave and escape punishment. The maid informs the police and Irma and Norton are arrested. Then Irma recovers her mind and tries to prove her innocence, but fails. She and Norton are condemned to death. In the meantime, Cora has become a famous dancer. She learns of the conviction of Norton and Irma. It worries her greatly and on account of her high strung nerves, she falls into the fire while executing a wild fire dance and is terribly burned. When lying in bed she reads that the execution is about to take place and she confesses and insists on being taken to the scene of the execution in an automobile. She arrives just in time to prevent the double execution, and after telling her story, dies of excitement and exhaustion.
- Lord Herstell is seated in the Café Chantant with his friends watching the famous dancers, when a note is brought to him, saying that Nellie, the daughter of John Channing, a commoner, whom he has abandoned, is dead, and that she had left a child named Fedora. John Channing writes to Lord Herstell that he does not want aid from him, and that he is leaving the city at once, taking little Fedora with him. Lord Herstell overcome with remorse, bids his friends good night, and starts for the house of John Channing, which he finds deserted. Six months later, while coming home from the club, Lord Herstell hears a cry of a child. A baby is discovered with a note pinned to its dress asking whoever finds the child should take care of him, for the sake of his unfortunate mother. Lord Herstell decides to adopt this baby in the place of Fedora. Twenty-five years later, Robert Herstell, grown to manhood, is ignorant of the fact that he is not Lord Herstell's son. Lord Herstell, in financial difficulties, risks the remainder of his banknotes on a horse race, and loses all. He is threatened that unless he agrees to join a band of anarchists, he will be ruined by parties holding his notes for a large sum of money. Lord Herstell consents to join the band. He is taken to the meeting-place of the anarchists. After Lord Herstell has signed and taken the vow of allegiance, the place is attacked by the police, and a terrific battle takes place. A number of anarchists escape, Lord Herstell among them, but as he is running away, he loses his seal. He climbs over a roof and jumps down into a boat in the river, and finally arrives home. The police, in the meantime, have found the seal. Lord Herstell discovering the loss of his seal, writes a note to his adopted eon, telling him of the circumstances, of his adoption, also enclosing the note which was pinned to Robert's dress when he was found. As the detectives arrive to arrest Lord Herstell, he ends his life. Robert changes his name, and becomes a reporter. In the meantime, Fedora, grown up, becomes a famous actress. Robert goes to interview her in the capacity of a reporter, and falls in love with her. He becomes a frequent visitor at her house and theater. A very wealthy man, John Dormer, is also in love with Fedora, and one night John Dormer is refused admission into Fedora's dressing-room, while Robert is admitted. At a meeting of the Rivoli Club. John Dormer denounces Robert and tells the guests that Robert is the son of lord Herstell, who was mixed up in the anarchists' plot, and committed suicide. There is a bitter quarrel between the two rivals, and Robert slaps Dormer. A duel is fought, and Robert is wounded. In the meantime, Fedora, knowing that she is the daughter of Lord Herstell, believes that Robert, the man she loves, is her brother. She hears that he has been wounded, goes to him and tells the doctors that she will nurse him. In his room she finds some papers, and is convinced that Robert is Lord Herstell's son. When Robert is nearly well, she is so much in love with him that she decides to take real poison in the act where she is supposed to take poison, to end her unhappiness. She writes a note before the show starts, telling Robert that she is the daughter of Lord Herstell, and being that a brother and sister cannot marry. She is going to end her life at the show in which she is playing tonight. On the envelope of the letter she puts a memorandum for her servant, telling him not to mail this letter until the next morning. As the servant enters and arranges his desk, he spills ink on the desk, and over the letter, blurring the memorandum and leaving the name and address only. The servant, thinking that the letter has been forgotten, mails it. When Robert receives it and reads its contents, he immediately goes to the theater where Fedora is playing. As she is about to take poison, Robert staggers to the stage and is in the nick of time to prevent her from swallowing the drug. When the excitement is over, Robert tells Fedora that he is only an adopted son of Lord Herstell's. The production closes with Robert and Fedora enjoying their honeymoon in a villa in southern Italy.
- This subject portrays the incident of two parents, becoming infuriated because of minor differences of their children, engage in mortal combat and are rescued only by the persistent pleading of their children who have managed to adjudicate their differences and are bent upon establishing peace between the two households.
- In Bombay, Count Adolphe elopes with Vasca, although engaged to a lady in Rome. In that city two years later the Roman lady's father hears of Adolphe's wife and child. He sets the Black League to work. As a result, the young wife is met by death. The baby daughter is abandoned. The deed is committed by Michael, a confidential servant of the Roman lady. Adolphe eventually marries the Roman lady and Michael becomes their butler. Twenty years later Adolphe, now the Duke of Torini, for the first time receives news of his daughter. He sends his secretary to Bombay to fetch her. The young couple falls in love. The mind of Michael is unhinged by the sight of the young lady, and in his temporary insanity he tells the Duke where the proofs of his crime are to be found. The Duke finds the papers, sends them to his secretary, Genovo, makes his will in favor of his daughter, Zania, and dies of heart disease. Michael, having no knowledge of what he said or did in his delirium, thinks the proofs have been taken by Zania. The father of the duchess is compromised by the missing papers, so Michael confides in her. They seek the help of the Black League. Zania cannot give up the papers she has not got. She is kidnapped and taken to the Tower of Terror. Then next morning Genovo, her lover, sets out to rescue her. He discovers where she is and has a terrific fight with her jailer. In the struggle a lantern is upset, and the place set on fire, and the jailer meets his death. Genovo reaches his sweetheart, but escape is cut off by the fire. They get free by climbing down a tower over 200 feet high, the most sensational feat ever shown in a film. The Duchess and Michael arrive at the Tower of Terror just as the fire reaches some powder barrels, and the guilty couple are blown to bits.
- Portrays the heroism of a young school mistress who jeopardizes her life to rescue one of her charges, and is well rewarded by the grateful parent of the little girl.