The Mountaineer's Romance

A magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.

A wife and mother in 1915 Tennessee copes with the loss of her husband and the necessity of raising their children alone.

As a mother enters a store, she leaves her child outside in a carriage. Another woman standing nearby quickly snatches the child out of the carriage. Soon afterwards, another mother is playing with two children in the park, and when she leaves one of them unattended, her child is also seized by the same woman. These are only two of a number of children that an unscrupulous couple has captured for their own purposes.

A young art student frantically tries to prove that she is being stalked by a mysterious man who has threatened her life, and finds her sanity questioned by her stepmother, the family attorney, and even a psychiatrist.

The Lieutenant stops rebels from extinguishing a lighthouse beam as a signal for an uprising.