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The Valley of Decision Synopsis

The story opens with an allegorical prologue, which presents various personified vices, including ambition and greed, then moves into the following drama: Arnold Gray, a fighter against child labor and other social ills, comes under the influence of Rhoda Lewis, an ambitious clubwoman who helps him win the gubernatorial nomination. Arnold meets and falls in love with Jane Morton, a respected writer, and they soon marry. All goes well until Jane becomes pregnant. Hard at work on a child-labor bill and winning the governorship, Arnold feels that a baby would be an encumbrance to his career. Jane is at first elated by her pregnancy, but Rhoda and Arnold gradually talk her out of having the baby. Because she suffers acute depression, Jane visits Dr. Brainard and confesses her troubles. Arnold is elected governor, but because Jane dies soon afterward, he no longer cares about living. After dreaming of his unborn son, Arnold awakens to find his wife beside him, joyful that his ordeal has been only a nightmare.

Bluff Synopsis

Louie, the janitor of a large New York building, leaves New York for a small town to try to work out his formula for the "manufacturing of gold from baser metals." He has picked at random numerous chemicals and intends to try them out. He arrives in Solemn, where lives Mike, a confectioner, and Claire, a young school teacher. Mike and Louie become friends and both are working on the chemicals, into the town comes a young millionaire, who falls in love with Claire, but she will have none of him until he proves that he can do something. He hears of Mike's discovery and persuades Mike and Louie to form a company with him, and they call themselves "The Big Three." They go to New York, and there by bluff interest a Wall Street magnate in their proposition. After many difficulties it is found that Mike's formula will not make gold of baser metals, but that it is a perfection of "puncture proof rubber." This formula brings Mike and Louie riches and Claire discovers that her millionaire can do something and agrees to marry him.