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Midnight Synopsis

Edna Morris, daughter of the American Ambassador to a South American republic, weds Potter, an embassy attaché; on the same day, Potter is threatened with arrest for embezzlement, and to escape he leaps into the bay. Believing him to be drowned, Edna's father retires to the United States. Edna soon falls in love with Jack Dart, and their engagement is announced; then Potter reappears and reveals himself to Morris, demanding payment for his silence; and Morris, fearful of scandal, forbids Edna to marry Jack. Edna nevertheless elopes with Jack, and on returning from her midnight wedding she finds Potter dead in her father's library. She is horrified at the thought that she may have married Jack before Potter's death, but it is later proved that he died 10 minutes before the marriage took place.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.