W.J. Allen

Dans un camp militaire, de nouvelles recrues s'entraînent avant de partir à la guerre en France. L'entraînement est épuisant pour Charlot. Aussitôt l'exercice fini, il s'endort. Une fois arrivé dans les tranchées, il doit s'accommoder de l'insalubrité et du mal du pays, tandis que les obus pleuvent et que les batailles font rage.

As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He makes good beating up a gang of roughnecks picked for the purpose, and secures the mysterious job that is filled with danger. It is to guard the heiress Lady Chatfield, but the hero is told nothing as to the secret in back of it all. Dick poses as Lord Grantmore, wears a monocle, and otherwise acts like a titled Englishman. They proceed to the mining town of Goldbrook, where the heiress is to occupy a mysterious mansion on the occupancy of which hinges a great fortune. The engineer of the mines is deeply interested in thwarting the plans of Lady Chatfield, and with his gang of roughneck miners makes things lively for the pugilist star in a series of fights that are hair raisers.