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The Torch Bearer Synopsis

Millionaire John Huntley-Knox, the owner of the Boston Star , fights political corruption with the aid of William Wendell, the reform district attorney. One day John receives word that he will be visited by Janet Dare, the daughter of a man who once saved John's father's life. John's mother, apprehensive about the "Western" girl's visit, writes a friend about it, but her letter gets crossed with one extending an invitation to Janet. Although she is Eastern bred, Janet decides to play the part of a wild Westerner. Despite her tricks, she and John fall in love. One night, while looking through some papers, John learns that Janet is heiress to a large fortune. He also discovers a confession signed by a man who committed a murder of which John's father was accused. When the gang that is trying to ruin John attempts to kidnap his sister Henrietta but gets Janet instead, John and a group of boy scouts come to her aid. They discover, however, that Janet has held her own against her captors with a gun. All ends well when Janet is freed, John wins an important city election, and Wendell, who loves Henrietta, discovers that she loves him too.

The Love Hermit Synopsis

Young Tom Weston romances Marie Bolton, who is the daughter of his boss, but the relationship doesn't last long because Tom finds out that she is engaged to another man, Jack Hillman. Marie dumps him. and an embittered Tom vows that from then on he will treat women the way Marie treated him. He keeps his promise, and as his reputation in the business world grows, so does his reputation as a ruthless womanizer. After he becomes wealthy, he decides to take his revenge on his former employer, James Bolton, and ruin him. However, things don't turn out exactly as he had envisioned.