Lieutenant Malcolm, of the United States Army, arrives at the Casa Verdugo and reads the proclamation authorizing the occupation of Southern California by the United States government. The lieutenant orders all Mexican flags lowered and the United States emblems hoisted instead. Don Luis Verdugo, a feeble old Spanish grandee, unreconciled to the American occupation, refuses to allow the lowering of the Mexican flag. His daughter, Dona Maria, intercedes with the American officer, who temporarily allows the flag to wave. Struck with the brilliant beauty of the little senorita, the Union officer falls a slave to her charms and the attachment seems mutual. Don Luis, however, refuses to allow his daughter to receive the attentions of the American officer.
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Informed by her doctor that she is going blind, Carol Trent tearfully breaks off her engagement with...
John Stoval, a guard in a New York subway, thinks that Philip Hurd, who owns a concession at Coney I...
In the Kentucky hills a store keeper tries to win the love of an innocent schoolteacher. She runs aw...
For five years Dorothy had put up with her husband although all his refinement, delicacy and love ha...
Neglected by her husband, Beth Stanford becomes interested in Arthur, his friend. Although their fri...
While vacationing with his father Edward at a Palm Beach hotel, George Welston becomes smitten with ...
Compelled to keep house for her father and her younger sister and brother, Martha is deprived of all...
Molly Boone's father has been sent to prison for twenty years for alleged complicity in the killing ...
Mabel Mack's mother is deserted by her father and the mother dies. All that Mabel retains of her fam...
While out hunting Wheeler and his daughter rescue a prospector, Tom Andrews, from a ledge where he h...
The will of old Dr. Andrews left the bulk of his property to his niece, Mary, who was an orphan livi...
Oliver and Elizabeth wed. He is a famous lawyer, careless of his personal conduct, but has implicit ...
The son falls in love with his millionaire father's stenographer, against the parental wishes. To ge...
May and Annie work in a fashionable millinery store, where the buyer, struck by May's beauty, advanc...
Helen and Joe are in love. He receives a letter from his uncle offering him a good position in his l...
Mary Alden and her brothers Matthew and George have extremely different political views. Matthew is ...
Tom Wells is dissatisfied with his lot in life. Wondering aloud whether he'd be happier if things we...