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Cheating Herself Synopsis

Patience Hilton is convinced by her father's kindly head bookkeeper, Magnus "Magpie" MacDonald, that one can only be happy by living the simple life. However, she fails to convince her millionaire parents and her boyfriend, Hale Thompson, to give up their lives of luxury. Believing it would be better for her father to work for his money rather than simply worrying about it, Patience and Magpie rob his safe, assisted by their butler, Dugan, an ex-burglar. Two men disguised as policemen intercept Patience and Magpie, chloroform them, and steal all Mr. Hilton's securities. Patience is cured of her "back to nature" beliefs when the family begins a life of toil and drudgery. Hale tracks the crooks and finds that they were led by Dugan. When the money is recovered, Hale proposes to a changed Patience.

The Queen of Hearts Synopsis

While his daughter Pauline attends school in France, Emil Cheraud establishes a fashionable gambling-house in New York. Upon her return, Pauline begs her father to close the establishment, and he promises to do so that very night at midnight, but when she enters his library shortly after the appointed hour, she finds him dead. Determined to bring the murderer to justice, Pauline assumes control of the gambling-house, hoping to trap the criminal into a confession. Three men are suspected, all of them in love with Pauline: one who owed her father a fortune; another who boasted that he would kill a man to win her affections; and a third, Jimmie Dreen, whose coat button was found at the scene of the crime. The evidence points strongly to Jimmie, with whom Pauline is in love, until Pierre, Emil's servant, confesses that he killed his employer upon learning that he had lost his job. Much relieved, Pauline agrees to marry Jimmie.