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Much Mystery Synopsis

Lucy Knowles, a rich young girl, has just fallen heir to a Chinese prison ship and she hires a couple of lawyers to look after her interests. The prison ship is a valuable piece of property as it is a money-maker-a concession at a local amusement park. Charlie Bong, a half -breed Chinese, realizes its value and tries to induce Lucy to sell it to him. She refuses and starts with her lawyers to see the ship. On the way the lawyers take a cab but run out of gas on a hill. The car chases them down one hill and up another, finally cooping them up on the rear bumpers and depositing them, along with a gentleman of color they have picked up on the way, on the gang-plank of the ship. At the entrance of the ship they are greeted by the sight of several of the instruments of torture u d on the old ship and the colored gent gets the first shock. While they are looking over the ship a trap door opens, depositing the visitors into the under-deck dungeons filled with more torture instruments. George and Phil, the lawyers get separated from each other and find themselves in various parts of the ship. An old Chinese caretaker, seeing the strangers tries to entrap them in the various torture machines while the visitors seek to escape.

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.