A little girl wakes from a dream about the old armchair in which she has fallen asleep. The dream concerns a hidden letter, a hidden hoard of money...

An ex-convict tries to kill the detective who once posed as a member of an American hooded clan.

A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.

A crofter's daughter has a child by an outlaw and is condemned to death when it is stolen by a midwife's mad daughter.