Holmes receives a mysterious telegram from Cyril Overton, the captain of the Cambridge University rugby team. Overton later explains that one of the best players on his team, a young man named Godfrey Staunton, went missing while in London for an important game. Holmes follows a trail of clues back to Cambridge.

In Australia a drunkard hires a gang to kill his ex-fiancée's husband.

Gypsy dancer Dolores flees an arranged marriage and faces ruin by a count. After her admirer kills the count the other gypsies swoop in to save her from destruction.

A flower girl wins £60,000 and takes her family to Paris to save her sister from her murderous husband.

An adaptation of a Sherlock Holmes short story starring Eille Norwood.