Marjorie
Three young New York men decide to travel South for a few days away from the Big Apple. They pick up a beautiful, mysterious young sight less woman with a strange and unsettling past. All three are captivated and fascinated by her, but can she be trusted?
One of the Children
Molly (Mary Pickford) é a mais velha dos órfãos que moram em uma fazenda. O dono do local, o malvado e manco Sr. Grimes (Gustave Von Seyffertitz), além de explorar a mão-de-obra infantil, vez ou outra ameaça jogar uma criança para que afunde no pântano. O que vai mudar tudo é o arriscado negócio que ele fez: combinar o sequestro de uma criança, a filha do rico Dennis Wayne (Roy Stewart), que fica sob os cuidados de Molly, que, assim como outras personagens de Mary, é sofredora, porém decidida e corajosa. Ela não hesita em enfrentar Ambrose (‘Spec’ O’Donnell), o mimado e glutão filho dos “patrões”.
Peggy
Rich club-man Kirk Rainsford, attends a charity bazaar at the home of Marjorie Vail, the society girl he hopes to marry. A fire breaks out among the booths and everyone is pulled to safety except little Peggy, Marjorie's kid sister. Marjorie pleads with Kirk to save the child, but he lacks the courage, and Randolph Sherman, Kirk's rival for Marjorie's affections, plays the hero part. For Kirk's public display of cowardice, he is disowned by his father and rejected by Marjorie, who soon marries Sherman. Kirk drifts to the South Seas, eventually landing in Manila, where he becomes a derelict. When Lillie, a fellow drifter, is roughly handled in a bar, Kirk goes to her assistance; she expresses appreciation for his bravery and soon effects his regeneration through her faith in him. Kirk and Lillie journey to the interior, and they obtain work on a plantation recently purchased by Randolph Sherman. During a native uprising, Sherman is killed, and Kirk saves Marjorie from certain death.
