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A Polish exile in Naples finds love while carrying papers that could imperil an empire.
Exiled by his own pride, a reckless nobleman accepts a stranger's miraculous bargain.
A traveling journalist arrives in supposedly uneventful Nashville and discovers that its quiet streets conceal tangled loyalties and danger.
Two old friends keep a twenty-year appointment, but the lives they built have carried them to opposite sides of the law.
A shopgirl living on six dollars a week faces the glittering promise of dinner and the danger hidden behind it.
A young man sends a street boy to plead his case to the woman who has forbidden him to write or speak to her.
Two veteran swindlers target a Pittsburgh millionaire’s passion for antiquities, while one partner tries to keep his conscience intact.
A young architect spends his carefully saved evening posing as a wealthy clubman when he invites a stranger to dinner.
A millionaire father bets that money can solve his son's romantic dilemma, while the young lover searches for one uninterrupted moment.
A yellow dog surveys his unhappy New York home and decides that he and his henpecked master both deserve a better life.
A carefree young heir must explain how he spends a thousand-dollar bequest before learning what the money may truly be worth.
A struggling typist finds spring, memory, and a lost love hiding among the daily dishes on a restaurant menu.
A plain waitress mistakes one impulsive kiss for her long-awaited entrance into the glamorous world of romance.
A detective recognizes an old friend as a murderer, but an unpaid debt makes arrest more complicated than duty should allow.
A shy paper-box worker arrives at her Saturday dance with a glamorous escort and suddenly becomes the center of attention.
A homeless New Yorker tries every trick he can think of to secure a warm winter bed behind bars.
A boarder in mourning attracts a would-be suitor with a tale of a dead count, but wedding plans bring other secrets to light.
A proud former Confederate officer is offended when an actor turns his old-fashioned manners and clothes into a theatrical sensation.
A young man searching for a vanished singer rents a decaying room whose lingering traces seem to answer his longing.
Della has one dollar and eighty-seven cents, and one day left to buy her husband a Christmas present worth giving.
A young man devoted to adventure follows a mysterious green door and finds a chance to make romance matter.
In a Greenwich Village artists' colony, a gravely ill young painter ties her fate to the last leaf on a neighboring vine.
A timid pharmacist helps his rival elope with the woman they both love by preparing a very questionable love potion.
When his wife unexpectedly leaves for the night, a bored husband discovers how much of his ordinary life he has taken for granted.
