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An inventor starts a family with his childhood sweetheart, but after he becomes successful, he becomes restless and takes up with another woman. However, the woman's true nature is revealed, he realizes his mistake.

José Fernand, leader of a gang of bootleggers, has designs on Helen Barnes, a shop girl who supports her delicate sister, and with the aid of Olive Wood, an adventuress, he lures the sisters to a supposed yachting trip. At sea, Helen is attacked by Fernand and dashes to the wireless operator for assistance, but a storm arises and an SOS is barely sent before the ship sinks. An ocean liner, picking up the call, starts for the rescue, and Jack Seville, Helen's sweetheart, a Navy aviator, comes by plane. The sisters and Fernand are cast up on an island and are there sheltered by a hermit, its only inhabitant. Seville and his pilot make a forced landing, and following a struggle between Seville and Fernand the entire party is rescued by the ocean liner.

Girl, in love with newspaper man, who is disapproved by father, returns home after several years of travel to find father, a widower, married, much to her displeasure. They are invited to an entertainment in hotel on top of mountain, where someone shoots the father. Daughter is held on murder charge. A rejected suitor testifies he saw daughter with revolver, but newspaper man discovers revolvers in rejected suitor's room and latter also is arrested, being placed on trial with daughter. Rejected suitor is acquitted, but daughter sentenced to death. Then the father, wearing heavy beard and tanned, appears on the scene, informing them that he is not the dead man whom they supposed and daughter is freed to go to the one whom she loves.

Sea captain "Hurricane" Hardy searches for treasure in the Sahara Desert and encounters Helen Maitland, the last remaining member of a missionary group. He offers her protection and carries her to the coast, with the intention of claiming her for himself when she recuperates. At a rundown seacoast hotel, Helen befriends Ralph Alden, a young man fighting off addiction and despair, as well as a three-year-old orphan named "Peroxide" whom Leon Roche, the proprietor, is rearing. Hurricane Hardy decides to attack Helen, but the touch of the child's white hands fills him with shame and remorse. Hurricane reforms and adopts the child, leaving Helen free to rehabilitate Ralph, her new love.

Young Marcia Saville has a boyfriend, Martin Kent, who loves her but she prefers the "excitement" of shady gangster Tom Smith. What she doesn't know is that Smith is setting up a scam to swindle Marcia's father.

Secret service man, posing as crook in order to capture counterfeiter, rescues girl from death in stream, but grandfather, recognizing the man as one whom he believes a crook, orders him not to try to see girl again. Crooks steal gold from mine of grandfather and are aided, apparently, by secret service man who desires to learn their secrets. Secret service man finally brings about capture of crooks, making a thrilling jump from cliff into automobile, driven by girl he loves, who is threatened by crook in car with her, in capturing the last of the crooks and recovering the grand- father's gold.

Captain Markham charters the boat of the evil Captain Blackton to search for a treasure he once buried on a South Sea island. Accompanying him are his daughter, Lois, and first mate Steve Maitland. They arrive at the island in time to witness a native ceremony of choosing the Fire Bride for sacrifice to the gods. Blackton accompanies Markham to the island to search for the gold, kills him when they find it, and reports to Lois and Steve that they were attacked by natives. Blackton goes ashore to bury Markham but incurs the natives' wrath when he dishonors Atel, the Fire Bride. Steve warns Blackton but, when he learns that the villain caused the death of his sister, helps the natives subdue him.

Gordon Townley comes from the city to a fishing village in Maine on secret business, and Nan Corwin finds him sufficiently attractive to rebuff her long-time sweetheart, Ned Weatherby. Ned goes to the city to make something of himself, fails, and returns to find Nan disillusioned with Townley. The latter is able to leave gracefully when he rescues Ned from a fight and learns that his wife has withdrawn her alimony suit.

The influence of "Huckleberry Finn" is shown by three boys who, after reading pages of "Huck" decide to emulate him in his adventurous and mischievous pranks.

Sim Calloway has been unscrupulously acquiring Capt. James Strong's fleet of ships. Therefore, Strong is horrified to learn that his daughter, Mary Anne, is in love with artist David Calloway, Sim's nephew; forbids her to see him; and locks her in her room. Furious, Calloway causes David to be taken on a long sea voyage, intercepts his letters to Mary Anne, and finally tells her that David has died, thus causing her mind to become unbalanced. Strong is eager for revenge, but Calloway is trapped in a cellar, where he gloats madly over the purloined love letters. David returns, recognition slowly returns to Mary Anne, and they are united.

A story of stern parents rearing a family of girls. The conflict comes when the elder daughter takes her affairs in her own hands. She does as she pleases, at first quietly and without the knowledge of the parent, then when it is known to her parent, she tells him to jolly well like it or jump in the lake. After a series of dramatic incidents she paves the way for her younger sister and younger brother to make their own happiness and in the bargain she converts the father into the new way of ruling by love and understanding rather than by a strict course of "Don'ts."