Centaur

A guy is sitting by the pool when he gets killed.

Dunstan Leech, an unscrupulous gambler, victim of drugs, plans to marry his mother's ward, Kate Heathcote, that he may hide the embezzlement of funds entrusted to his care. His mother summons him from London to their country home, where he discovers Kate to be in love with Richard Blunt, who is tutoring his crippled half-brother Cecil. Unable to make Kate listen to his love, Leech plans to kill Cecil to gain possession of the money which will revert to him upon Cecil's death. He injects morphine into a prize bunch of grapes which is being saved for Cecil's birthday. The boy eats the grapes, dying from the effects. Leech's mother, Mrs. Jelf, determines to ruin Blunt in Kate's eyes by making it appear that a robbery has been committed and having the money discovered upon his person. The plot fails, and Blunt, whose suspicion had been aroused in connection with Cecil's death, leaves the house. Determined to stay in the neighborhood to protect Kate, he visits the keeper of the lighthouse, where he is followed and trapped in a closet by Leech. Leech, who is in a half-drugged condition, is pursued by the vision of the murdered Cecil and upsets the lamp in the lighthouse, causing it to catch fire. The rescuers, guided by the burning building, reach Blunt in time to effect his escape. Upon recovering, Blunt urges Kate to immediate marriage, and they depart for the diamond mines of South Africa, accompanied by three ex-acrobats. Leech later follows and with a band of Arabs abducts Kate and her child. They are rescued by Blunt and the three acrobats but later, when upon the point of recapture, the acrobats form a span of life by throwing their bodies across a chasm, over which Kate escapes. Blunt is made prisoner in an Arab camp. Kate, believing him to be dead, returns to England. With the assistance of a Christian Arab girl Blunt manages to escape and makes his way to an English army post. In England Leech's mother, finding herself upon the point of death, summons Kate to her bedside, divine her a key to a silver box, indicating that through its contents she can protect herself against Leech. Leech learns of her possession of the box and determines to steal the evidence it contains. He goes to her room at night and is horror-stricken when he discovers the hypodermic needle left in the grapes years ago, which had been found by his mother. Blunt, arriving at the house, is startled by Leech's cry of horror. He hastens to Kate's room and overpowers Leech, who tries to escape, but is confronted with the phantom of his drug-crazed mind by the spirit of Cecil. Before anyone can prevent him, he takes an over-dose of morphine and dies, thus bringing Kate and Blunt together.

Three sisters steal houses on the beach coast in hopes to get enough money for a complicated surgery. But when two strange men enter their lives they are gonna have a hard time keeping their secret away from them.

Bill Carson is sentenced to 12 years for housebreaking. He vows that he will, upon ending his term, have vengeance upon George Devereaux, the prosecuting attorney whose speech swayed the jury to conviction. Carson's little daughter Peggy is being raised by his pal Skinny McGee; the mother died of shock after Carson's conviction. When Skinny dies, the girl Peggy turns to picking pockets for a livelihood, Skinny having brought her to proficiency in this line as her only education. There is a scene pictured in the board rooms of a reform organization. Devereaux accepts a challenge that he cannot take a criminal and reform him by improved and beneficial surroundings. Peggy is brought into a police station on charge of picking pockets, and is chosen to be the one upon whom Devereaux shall practice his experiment. Taking her to his palatial home, Devereaux seeks for two years to train Peggy in the better way. His efforts are variously successful, and finally a young man proposes marriage to Peggy and is accepted. Upon arriving at the church Peggy discovers that she is in love with Devereaux, and flees from the wedding party in consternation. She decides to return to her old life, and departs from the Devereaux home without making her intentions known. About this time Carson ends his term of imprisonment. He seeks to conclude his vengeance by shooting Devereaux, and for that purpose waits for him to come from his house. Carson is hiding behind a tree, when he is recognized by Peggy and when, on the instant that Carson is about to fire a revolver at Devereaux, the girl throws herself before her father and receives in her own body the bullet intended for Devereaux. The story acquires its ending in the recovery of Peggy, the avowed reformation of her father, and the final picture shows Peggy once more established happily in the home where we are led to believe she will, in legal and ceremonial form, eventually become a permanent resident.