A padre, acting for a dying soldier, poses as the heir to a slum property and becomes a Labour MP.

Middle-aged Glasgow grocer Dickson McCunn ventures into the Scottish countryside in search of adventure, and finds a Russian princess imprisoned in a castle. Aided by a gang of Gorbals Die-Hards and a young Englishman, he rescues her from her captors and proves a hero, in spite of his qualms.

Emperor Napoleon divorces his wife to marry an Austrian Queen and have an heir.

A cleric enlists on learning he loves his brother's sweetheart, saves his life, and finds he is really an Earl.

In Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.

A divorced knight nearly becomes the lover of his married daughter.

A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.

Mr. Blackwell discovers a relic that informs him about Blythe (as Ayesha, or "She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed"), who loved his father and others in the ancestral line. Blackwell accompanies pal Heinrich George and handyman Tom Reynolds to Arabia.

Hessian officers' flirtations with an artist's daughter accidentally give signals to the attacking English.