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The Devil's Riddle Synopsis

During a raging Montana snowstorm, Doctor Jim Barnes collapses at Esther Anderson's cabin door. Esther offers Jim refuge, but when he discovers that their food supplies are running dangerously low, he braves the journey into town in order to replenish them. On the way, he is overcome with exhaustion and fails to return. Esther, unaware of Jim's condition and abused by her stepfather, joins a theatrical troop and leaves home. Time passes and Jim finally finds Esther, but a vindictive member of her troupe accuses her of having an affair with the manager and Jim believes the accusation. He leaves and Esther goes to New York City where she becomes engaged to a jealous artist, although she still loves Jim. Sam Tuttle, a long time friend, is aware of Esther's continuing love, and so brings Jim to New York City in time to save Esther from an unhappy marriage.

The Broken Commandments Synopsis

Young Nella Babard is alone in her cabin, left there temporarily by her parents who have gone to the city. A pair of escaped convicts, fleeing from the police, come upon the cabin and duck inside. One of the pair, "Sporting Chance" Johnson, was imprisoned for a crime he didn't commit and he and Nella find themselves attracted to each other. They sleep together and in the morning Johnson goes out looking for a minister to marry them, but he is caught and sent back to prison. Nella later discovers she is pregnant and, realizing Johnson isn't coming back, agrees to marry a writer she is working for. Three years later the writer, looking for material for a story, travels to the prison and meets a prisoner who is about to get out, and when the writer hears his story, he asks the man to stay at his home until he gets back on his feet. The writer doesn't know that the prisoner is 'Sporting Chance Johnson", and Johnson doesn't know that the writer is now Nella's husband and they have a daughter--Johnson's child. Complications ensue.