A German spy named Von Bork has been in England since 1910. Through several agents, he has gathered a significant amount of information relating to the British armed forces and foreign policy. He is unaware that a large amount of that information is false because one of his agents is really Sherlock Holmes, who is working for the British government.

A robbed sailor turns tramp and saves a farmer's ship from burning.

A sailor returns from 'death' to find his wife has remarried for the sake of her crippled child.

An old man tells a girl reporter how he solved a crime.

A manager's mistress cons a financier into buying a dud oil claim.

A man poses as the reincarnation of a woman's drowned husband.

In Scotland an orphan competes with a prince for the chief's daughter and saves her from a wicked duke.