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The Other Man Synopsis

John Stedman, a promising young surgeon, returns home from a business trip to find his wife Lucia in another man's apartment. Shocked and depressed, John abandons his practice and becomes a derelict, earning his living as a handyman in a cheap boardinghouse. Under the name of Martin West, he meets Dorothy Harmon, who, unknown to him, is living in the slums to fulfill the terms of a $10,000 wager that she can survive for a month without money. They fall in love, and when Dorothy wins her bet, she secretly gives him the money, which John, now eager to impress the young woman, uses to re-establish his practice. Once again known as Dr. Stedman, John returns to the slums but finds that Dorothy has disappeared. Shortly afterwards, the doctor, now sporting a beard, treats Dorothy's ailing aunt, but Dorothy fails to recognize him. When she visits the old boardinghouse, John follows her and reveals himself as her missing sweetheart, with the result that they are finally married.

The Hawk Synopsis

The Hawk, Count George De Dazetta, preys upon society with the aid of his beautiful wife. She seems to be in love with a young French nobleman, who is the real aggressor in this triangle. De Dazetta finds that the young nobleman's love for his wife is changing her for the better, that she begins to abhor his gambling profession and his inroads upon society. However, he continues to use her beauty as a lure to his gaming tables and wins heavily. In the meantime the nobleman breaks with a young woman aristocrat whom his mother wishes him to wed. During a transaction with an American from whom he borrows money to repay his gaming losses to De Dazetta the nobleman learns of the Hawk's love for his wife, and that she is helping her husband to win. Marina, the wife, washes her hands of the whole earning enterprise and is accused of infidelity by her husband, who tried to kill the nobleman. Failing, he leaves, and the nobleman protects the wife while attempting to locate the gambler and get his consent to a divorce. Finally this is effected, and Marina herself pleads for the divorce, that is until she learns that De Dazetta is now penniless, having lavished his every cent upon her and really loves her, and has consented to give her up only because he thinks it best for her future welfare. Her womanhood comes to the surface and she goes to him, renouncing the nobleman, her love for the latter having been without sin throughout.