Henry B. Walthall – MRQE

The Avenging Conscience: or ‘Thou Shalt Not Kill’

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man’s thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle. Becoming convinced that murder is merely a natural part of life, he kills his uncle and hides the body. However, the man’s conscience awakens; Paranoia sets in and nightmarish visions begin to haunt him.

Home, Sweet Home

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a life of dissolute habits, and this soon leads to ruin and misery. In deep despair, he thinks of better days, and writes a song that later provides inspiration to several others in their own times of need.

Speakeasy

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Newspaper staffer Alice Woods persuades the editor to allow her to chase a story, that of prizefight contender Martin, who is about to fight for the championship. However, he does not know that his manager is preparing to double-cross him.

Fighting Love

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Gimme

Tue, 26 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A young woman borrows money from her boss for her wedding dress. After the marriage he asks to be repaid, and she–not liking to ask her husband for money–writes a check on her husband’s account. When he discovers that his wife has written a check to another man and not told him, complications ensue.

The Scarlet Letter

Thu, 28 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

In the seventeenth century, in Massachusetts, a young woman is forced to wear a scarlet “A” on her dress for bearing a child out of wedlock.

The Last Outlaw

Sun, 24 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Johnny Ringo teams up with his nemesis Bat Masterson in order to stop a counterfeit Ringo from committing crimes in his name.

A Girl of the Limberlost

Sat, 13 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Elnora Comstock is the badly abused daughter of Katherine Comstock, who blames her because her father was drowned while on the way home the night she was born. She finds her comfort with Margaret and Westley Sinton, a childless neighboring couple, who help her with her school costs, as does the wealthy Mrs. Parker, who takes an interest in the talented young girl. She meets and falls in love with Phillip Ammon, the nephew of Dr. Ammon, but learns that he is already engaged. The money that Elnora has saved for her college education is stolen, and when Mrs. Comstock goes to retrieve it from a suspect, she also learns of the duplicity of her husband, who had been courting a neighboring woman on the night he drowned. She begs forgiveness of Elnora, and the romance of Elnora and Phillip also begins to flourish.

Ramona

Sun, 28 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Ramona, a young girl growing up on her adoptive mother’s rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian lad Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the two lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the bigotry and greed of the white landowners.

The Trespasser

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a child. Her former boss helps her out to ensure the child’s welfare, which starts gossip that she is a “kept woman.”