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Something for Nothing Synopsis

Kid Roberts, seeking the championship crown, gets lost in the wilds of Mexico with Joe Murphy, his manager and Ptomaine Tommy, his sparring partner. In their attempt to locate Tia Juana where the big fight is to be held, they come upon what seems to be the beautiful estate of a wealthy man. On entering, however, they find that it is the retreat of a famous bandit, who, on learning that Kid Roberts is the head of the party, decides to hold them for ransom instead of killing them. After making this startling announcement, the bandit points out two men, loitering near by, and warns his new guests that if he catches them talking to them, he will have them executed forthwith. Consequently our heroes repulse the several advances made by the gentlemen during their stay. Later the bandit sends some of his men to bring the champion heavyweight to his retreat so that he can witness a fight between him and Kid Roberts. Bob Young, the champ, arrives tied to his manager and the fight is arranged. The bandit announces that the loser will be shot, before he can get up from the floor. The result of this announcement is a corking good fight. At the end the bandit has become so excited that he nearly has a fit. Several of his attendants rush to him and carry him away. It is then that Kid Roberts learns that the bandit is nothing but a mentally deranged man who is being taken care of by his relatives. The gentlemen to whom they were forbidden to speak on pain of death were the men in charge of the sanatorium. He is certainly sore that he put up such a good fight for nothing.

The Dragon Synopsis

Messalla, the embodiment of youth and innocence, lives in an old house in Washington Square, New York City, with her father, who has been ruined financially and lost his wife through the lure of Fifth Avenue. He tells Messalla that the thoroughfare is a dragon lying in wait for victims. Messalla starts out to find the dragon and goes up the avenue. Her meetings with various people bring destruction and death to those who had wrought her father's ruin, although she is unconscious of the effect she is having on their lives. Messalla escapes the wiles of the white slaver. She allows a discarded flame of a big merchant to take her place at dinner to which she has been invited, and the merchant suffers at the hands of the discarded woman. A policeman's attention is attracted to Messalla and a man is killed by an automobile while he is looking at her. At a lacemaker's shop a wealthy young woman is tempted to take a bit of lace because Messalla has admired it, but she is caught and jailed. There is a robbery affecting some papers which have been taken and replaced by a bomb, and Messalla gives the package to a woman who turns out to be her father's lost wife; the house is destroyed after the woman and Messalla leave. There is a reconciliation. All those injured were people who had injured her father, and the dragon has been slain by Messalla's youth and innocence.