Edgar Keller

In the film, Cunard plays a jewel thief pursuing the same wealthy marks as another thief, played by Francis Ford.

Lieut. Wallace leaves his fiancée, Dorothy West, to cross the border with his troops into Mexico. Later he is wounded, captured and taken to the hacienda of the Mexican officer, Senor Paranze, where his wounds are dressed by Senora Paranze. The latter falls in love with the American when he defends her from her brutal husband.

The friendship of Damon, the senator, and Pythias, the soldier, is famous in Ancient Syracuse.

Prospector Harry Farley returns from Alaska to find that his sister, Helen, has gone to New York with Florence, her blind daughter, after being deserted by her husband, Richard Norman. Under the name of Sidney Heaton, Norman has married Blanche Maberly and fallen in with a bootlegging gang while succumbing to the blackmail of Dick Watkins. Helen dies, Heaton kidnaps Florence, but Harry tracks him to the Adirondacks.

A futurist artist paints a portrait of "The Yellow Girl" to get money and inspiration. His fiancée hides behind a screen to spy on him, but she soon learns he is faithful.

The Cost of High Living is a 1916 Vitagraph comedy starring William Duncan and Corinne Griffith.