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Body and Soul Synopsis

Claire Martin, niece of the wealthy Mrs. Taylor, suffers from loss of memory. Under the effect of this, Claire acts as an entirely different person. She wanders through the woods seeking shelter and food, and finally reaches a cabin temporarily occupied by a New York sportsman, who is fishing and hunting in the woods. For a week, Claire accepts the shelter from this sportsman whose love grows with each day's stay. Finally a strange rider passing the cabin asks for a drink, and Claire in her innocence shows her admiration for the new man, making him finally accept the temptation of her eyes to kiss her. At this moment Houghton, the sportsman, returns and bursts into the cabin. He drives out the stranger and then takes a knife and marks the woman so that she will always remember that her love must be for him alone. Houghton returns to New York. While walking down Fifth Avenue he sees in a photographer's showcase a picture which closely resembles the girl he thinks he lived with in the woods. He finds out who she is and decides to visit Great Neck and see if it is the same girl. Returning to his boat, Houghton looks at some pictures which he had taken of the girl and decides it must be she. He returns to the grounds of Mrs. Taylor's home and meeting Claire declares she is the woman who was with him at the cabin. Pushing back the dress from her shoulders, he points to the scar. She begs him to tell her what he knows about the scar, and he thinking she is bluffing, tells her to come to the houseboat and he will tell her. There Houghton proves that she must have been with him at the cabin and when he demands that she love him now as she did then and attempts to take her, she picks up a knife from the table and kills him. Kent, who has been over to the Yacht Club to a committee meeting, sees this when returning to his launch. He rushes to the boat and carries the fainting body of Claire home, gets her to her room and calls the doctor to see if he can help her. The doctor declares that the girl is guiltless of the crime, having gone back to her old personality, and they decide to make the case appear as one of suicide. When Kent is returning to the boat the following morning he finds there some pictures of her and her scarf, but when he himself is charged with the murder by the man who heard the quarrel, he is made to believe that Claire is innocent by Kent and the doctor, who point out to him the terrible weakness of circumstantial evidence. After Charlie goes, the doctor tells Kent that Claire needs care and attention and must be protected, and Kent in his great love takes her to his heart.

What Happened at 22 Synopsis

Louise Lloyd comes to New York to obtain a position and applies to the Hollister Employment Agency, which caters to high class trade, but which is run by a crook and forger named Wilson, with a Mr. Hollister as figurehead, who meets the people and sends applicants. Wilson falls in love with Louise, but she does not reciprocate. Wilson passes a forged check and decides to leave the city till the excitement blows over. Hollister gets him a position with a Mr. White, Toledo millionaire, as private secretary. When the New York job blows over, Wilson returns. While at the White home, he has noticed that Mr. White's New York representative resembles him and plans to cash a check on White's account, disguising himself as Mr. Hart, the New York representative. This he does by forging a check for $35,000 instead of $35.00, his salary. He divides the profits with his co-conspirator, Hollister. The bank calls to its assistance a celebrated lawyer, Edward Knowlton, who, desiring to engage a companion for his elderly sister, stops with his son, Frank, at the Hollister Agency. There the Knowltons meet Louise and offer her the position, but Wilson wants to keep her out of the situation so that, in her poverty and distress, she will accept Wilson's proposal of marriage. Unable to get Louise, Knowlton leaves orders to send someone. When Wilson learns that Knowlton has taken up the case, he says he must get in Knowlton's house as a servant of some kind to watch what clues Knowlton finds. He tells Hollister to send Louise, where she is installed in the house as companion. By her wonderful charm and sweetness, she captivates the entire family, including the son, Frank. Wilson soon finds a way to install himself as valet to Knowlton, just at the time when Knowlton's clues lead him to certain suspicions. As these suspicions point to him, he decides to put Knowlton out of the way. Knowlton and his son, Frank, after dinner, have a parley on the division of the Knowlton property. The will, as made, gives Frank the greater share of the property and Frank's sister the smaller part, whereas Frank believes his sister's share should be increased to equal his own. When the family has gone to bed, Wilson finds Knowlton alone in the library. Wilson strikes, there is a struggle, and he leaves Knowlton for dead, after having stolen and changed the will so that it goes back to the original unequal division of the estate. The body is found and the police called. Wilson, who is supposed to have left for Brooklyn, enters. Questioned by the police, he says the only suspicious circumstances that he noticed was the quarrel over the will between the son and father. The police get the will, notice the change in the son's favor, and accuse the son of the murder. Louise, who has had her suspicions of Wilson, takes the will and says, "Whoever changed this will left a finger mark and blot on the paper." Wilson slyly looks at his hands and. as he does so, Louise calls the police's attention to his queer acting. She orders him arrested, and Wilson, frightened, says, "But I have no blot on my hand," and she holds out the will and says, "Nor is there such a blot on the paper." Wilson, realizing that he is tricked, attempts to escape, but is caught and led away by the police. Louise is taken into Frank's arms as the doctor comes from the father's room saying that Mr. Knowlton will live.