Serama, the consort of Lucifer, is driven from Paradise by the Archangel Michael, who commands Conscience to enter human souls to judge and punish them. In the main story, society girl Ruth Somers, a reincarnation of Serama, prepares to marry Cecil Brooke, the wealthiest man of her set. Her guardian, Dr. Norton, an incarnation of Lucifer, constantly accompanies her. Ruth is summoned to the Court of Conscience, where the witnesses, Lust, Avarice, Hate, Revenge and Vanity, testify about Ruth's history of seducing and abandoning men. This behavior resulted in the suicide of Madge, the lover of Ned Langley, whom Ruth enthralled and promised to marry, and also the deaths of two rivals for her love. Ruth is ordered back to earth to learn her sentence. When Ned interrupts the wedding, Ruth scorns him and he shoots himself. After Brooke leaves her, the Court dooms Ruth to live with the torment of remembrance. Ruth sends Norton away, and then kneels and repents.
When a train crash kills Horace Barney, the heir to a fortune that his doctors and guardians were pl...
Unscrupulous stockbroker George Howard convinces Robert Sterling that he is having an affair with Ro...
Former miner Daniel Slade becomes a wealthy investor and runs for political office, ultimately becom...
After being disinherited by their wealthy father for their wild and irresponsible ways, two brothers...
Faced with the tragic responsibility of choosing between the happiness of her 16-year-old daughter P...
Loutish Teddy Brant feeling trapped by his marriage and family commitments to the sweet Rose and the...
After losing his factory job, virtuoso violinist Tommy Breen is inspired by June Norton, who lives i...
Don Sebastian, Portuguese Premier, sets a price on the head of royalist Ricardo Madons. Madons is in...
When jealousy and envy lead Mary Vantyne to make a foolish decision and commit an impulsive act she ...
Sibling rivalry reaches dangerous heights when Ernesto suspects his wife Teodora of infidelity and h...
Fearing that his daughter Patsy is becoming a tomboy, John Primmel sends her to a friend back East f...
U. S. Senator Frank Deering has spent his life trying to alleviate the misery of child labor. Judge ...
Larry Gilmore must marry by a certain date to inherit a fortune. He is besieged by women anxious to ...
Orphaned sisters Kate and Irene are separated as children, but each keeps half of their mother's wed...
Warren Schuyler, a wealthy widower in a small Eastern town, is highly-respected until the citizens a...
Helene Blair is the wife of a prominent businessman who neglects to give her much attention. He is t...
During World War I, Louise, a French girl, refuses to leave her château after the invading Germans t...
John Merrick and Vilma Walden, who fall in love at an embassy fundraiser in Vienna before World War ...
Former Viennese orchestra leader Anton von Barwig has been searching for his daughter, taken by his ...
Dishonored by playboy John Radon, simple country girl Stella Dean flees to the city to hide her sham...