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Fighting Destiny Synopsis

On the eve of his wedding, reform politician Larry Cavendish sees his fiancée, Caryl Rundlege, emerge from a wrecked automobile and disappear with notorious one-armed political crook Dan Levarro. That night, Larry receives a note from Caryl canceling the wedding because she has a higher duty to perform. With a little help from the police, Larry disguises himself and locates Levarro and Caryl at a beggar's lodge. During a chase along the rooftops, Caryl is shot dead by a stray bullet and Larry pushes Levarro to the pavement. Larry carries Caryl's body through the underworld until he is captured in a Chinatown opium den. When the police arrive and save him, Larry discovers that the dead girl was Caryl's twin sister, an opium addict whom Caryl was trying to help. The couple are reunited and the criminals are arrested.

The Hawk Synopsis

The Hawk, Count George De Dazetta, preys upon society with the aid of his beautiful wife. She seems to be in love with a young French nobleman, who is the real aggressor in this triangle. De Dazetta finds that the young nobleman's love for his wife is changing her for the better, that she begins to abhor his gambling profession and his inroads upon society. However, he continues to use her beauty as a lure to his gaming tables and wins heavily. In the meantime the nobleman breaks with a young woman aristocrat whom his mother wishes him to wed. During a transaction with an American from whom he borrows money to repay his gaming losses to De Dazetta the nobleman learns of the Hawk's love for his wife, and that she is helping her husband to win. Marina, the wife, washes her hands of the whole earning enterprise and is accused of infidelity by her husband, who tried to kill the nobleman. Failing, he leaves, and the nobleman protects the wife while attempting to locate the gambler and get his consent to a divorce. Finally this is effected, and Marina herself pleads for the divorce, that is until she learns that De Dazetta is now penniless, having lavished his every cent upon her and really loves her, and has consented to give her up only because he thinks it best for her future welfare. Her womanhood comes to the surface and she goes to him, renouncing the nobleman, her love for the latter having been without sin throughout.