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Painted Lips Synopsis

Although Lou McTavish has been reared strictly by her father, Captain McTavish, when she hears that he has been killed in a fight, she allows herself to accept the friendship of music-hall singer Rose. The two women visit a club called the Straw Cellar, where Lou attracts the attention of Jim Douglass, who plans to inflict revenge on Andrew Solman, a male vampire who once insulted his sister by encouraging him to marry a dissolute woman. Jim takes Lou to the country and for five months trains her to act "like a lady," after which he introduces her to Andrew, who proposes to Lou but she turns him down. Later, when she explains Jim's scheme to him, he assaults her. At that moment, Captain McTavish, who has spent months searching for his daughter, sees and tries to save her, but as he is losing the fight, Jim rushes in and shoots Andrew. Finally aware of Lou's true nature, Jim confesses that he loves her.

The Golden Fetter Synopsis

Schoolteacher Faith Miller inherits $10,000. Edson, McGill and Slade, three enterprising crooks, own the Moonflower, a worthless mine. Slade goes East to unload, and hearing of Faith's good fortune, he approaches her and finds her easy prey: she buys a share in the mine for $9,000. Advised by friends to take a rest, Faith goes to inspect her mine. Arriving at the town, she is insultingly approached and the man who has annoyed her is knocked down by Jim Ralston, a young mining engineer. She goes to the home of Big Annie, who tells her that the mine is worthless. The miners, touched by her beauty and helplessness, engage her to teach their school, the only available pupils being Pete, a half-wit, and Jim, who is held in connection with a hold-up committed by Edson and McGill. At first Jim rebels, but when he sees the teacher, he becomes a willing student. Faith recognizes him as her protector. Jim conceives the idea of salting the mine, and wires Slade to the effect that the mine is rich with silver and not to sell. Slade returns. Edson and McGill, pursued by a posse, reach the schoolhouse and persuade Jim to conceal them. Flynn, at the head of the posse, accuses Jim of hiding the bandits and is killed by a shot from an unseen hand. Jim is arrested as the murderer. Faith intercedes, begs him to flee and is handcuffed to him. They escape and take refuge in a mountain cabin. Jim shoots the fetter apart, breaking his wrist, and insists that Faith return home. As Jim tells Slade of Faith's whereabouts, Slade notices the fetter on his hand, takes him to the outskirts of the town and the miners prepare to bang him. Faith sells her interest in the mine back to Slade, and Pete, as he delivers a note to her from Jim, also tells Faith of Jim's peril. The outlaws, Edson and McGill, are shot as they resist arrest, Edson's dying confession of Flynn's murder reaching Jim's executioners just as they refuse to listen to Faith's pleading for her lover's life. Faith, weakened by the trying ordeals through which she has passed, sinks to the ground, only to be taken into the waiting arms of the man she loves.