No último dia de aulas numa escola privada de rapazes, um novo diretor chega, para se familiarizar. O seu antecessor, Crocker-Harris, é muito odiado na escola, mas a sua jovem esposa parece ser mais popular e não só com os alunos. As tensões emergem, fazendo deste um dia que ninguém na escola jamais esquecerá. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Agnes "Astra" Huston, a fortune teller at a run-down fair, is found strangled in her bedroom. As the police question five suspects, their interactions with her are shown in flashbacks from their point of view.
The father of a girl in an orphanage, who doesn't remember him, has been writing to her with tales of his success in business. Actually, he is impersonating a friend, a handsome gambler. When the father dies, the gambler takes the girl from the orphanage and tells her the truth. But the girl is now a full-grown beauty and complications arise, including those provided by a black-sheep brother.