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The Invisible Power Synopsis

Ex-convict Sid Chambers, while lodging with the Millers, meets schoolteacher Laura Chadwick, and in spite of his record she believes in him. They are married, move to the city, and are happy. Shadwell, the detective who sent Chambers to prison, tries to obtain information from him regarding a former friend and gang member, Bob Drake, who has committed a robbery; and refusing to cooperate, Chambers is sent to prison again on another charge. Meanwhile, Laura's child is born, and fearing that it will develop criminal instincts she gives it up for adoption. When Chambers is released, he vows to kill Shadwell, and Laura, in her effort to warn him, finds her child in Shadwell's home. Touched by her grief, Shadwell arranges to give Chambers his freedom, and the couple is reunited.

The Tongues of Men Synopsis

Rev. Dr. Penfield Sturgis, of fashionable St. Martins-in-the-Lane, finds himself face to face with Jane Bartlett, a grand opera prima donna whose opera he has denounced on grounds of morality, and who comes to his very vestry room to make him "eat his sermon word for word." Out of the encounter a strange acquaintance develops, Jane Bartlett interested through vindictive reasons, the rector through the challenge to his church. She prevails upon him to visit the notorious opera, which but deepens his previous convictions, but meanwhile he discovers a surprising humanity in the woman herself. Just as it is beginning to dawn upon him that maybe he takes himself a shade too seriously, word comes that the Mayor has closed "Zaporah" on the strength of his own condemnatory sermon. Repentant, Sturgis decides to apologize in an open letter to the newspapers, at which his vestry and congregation, already perturbed by the ascendancy of the Bartlett woman, are up in arms. To preserve her dignity the young rector offers to marry her, and she accepts him, thus at last making him "eat his sermon word for word," as she had set out to do. But her vanity appeased, Jane Bartlett proceeds to make peace between her young rector and Georgine Darigal, daughter of the rector emeritus and formerly his fiancée, and the reconciliation assured, Jane Bartlett gracefully withdraws.