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The Challenge Accepted Synopsis

Postmaster's daughter Sally Haston, living in the Blue Ridge Mountains, loves Steve Carey but wants him to enlist and fight the Germans during the Great War. At the training camp, Steve is unhappy and frequently argues with his roughneck tentmate Billy Murphy. Steve deserts to visit Sally, who quickly accompanies him back to the camp, where Captain Roderick Brooke sympathetically explains the purpose of the war. Later, moonshiner James Grogan holes up with a gun to escape the draft and holds Sally prisoner. Her father organizes a posse, but Steve, on leave, rescues her and announces that he is leaving for Europe to fight for democracy.

One Hour Synopsis

Opal, who knows nothing about her ancestors, falls in love with G. D. Stanley, the strange young man who is her closest neighbor in the Canadian wilderness. One day, Opal is informed that she is really the princess of a small country and must return to her native land to marry the neighboring king to save her people from invasion. Opal decides to sacrifice her love for Stanley, but before she departs, she spends one hour alone in his cabin. On the eve of her wedding to the dissolute king, it is discovered that Stanley is actually Stanlai, heir-apparent to the throne. When the drunken king attempts to attack Opal in her boudoir, Stanlai kills him, thereby becoming the ruler of his country, and Opal becomes his queen.