Though the Turk has 15 wives, he yearns to make our heroine his 16th.
Olette is posing in Russia as a dancer of the ballet. She is supposed to be French. She has as a maid a black woman, Zula, represented to be a Nubian. Hackel, her manager, plays up Olette's proclivities in dress and mood and makes a great success of her. Kadir II Raschid, a noble and wealthy Turk, falls in love with her and showers rich gifts upon her. He pays Hackel a great sum to cancel her engagement in Russia and come to the ballet at Constantinople. There he offers her as a treat a view of the harem. Once inside among his fifteen wives he offers Olette the honor of becoming the sixteenth. Olette's embarrassment is heightened by the violent jealousy of Mimi, the fifteenth wife. She wants to escape, but huge slaves bar her way. Although Kadir has trapped Olette he intends to win her fairly or not at all. Olette forms an alliance with Mimi. Who aids her to escape. She flees to America, followed by Kadir. Here he renews his wooing. Jimmie Warburton, a lively young New York newspaper reporter, comes to interview her about her reported engagement to Kadir, which has been used for publicity purposes by Hackel. During many adventures while Kadir hounds her, she and Jimmie fall in love and conspire to get rid of the Turk. Jimmie incidentally having penetrated her identity as a girl he had known as plain Mary Ann in the old home town in Kentucky. Jimmie dresses up as a rival Turk. This does not get rid of Kadir, but only makes him more determined. He disguises himself as Jimmie, whom he has kidnapped, and so secures an audience with Olette. Jimmie gets free in time to spoil the effect of this coup. At length the Turk is eluded by Olette. Setting sail for Europe, he shadows her on the same boat, but she slips away out in the harbor with the pilot boat to rejoin Jimmie and marry him.
