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Lucile Ames is engaged to an English Lord. Capt. Jack Harding, an English Army Officer, recently returned from Africa, visits the Zoo the same afternoon that Lucile and her friends are there, to look after a lioness and two cubs he ...See moreLucile Ames is engaged to an English Lord. Capt. Jack Harding, an English Army Officer, recently returned from Africa, visits the Zoo the same afternoon that Lucile and her friends are there, to look after a lioness and two cubs he presented the Zoo. Lucile ventures too near the lioness' cage, and is saved from injury by Harding. He receives a serious wound in the arm. He conceals the fact from Lucile, and is not able to reach a physician for several hours. The physician tells him that only the best of care can save the arm from becoming useless. Calling on Lucile the next day, and not wishing to arouse sympathy for himself, he removes his arm from the sling. Several meetings follow and Harding asks her to marry him. But while she loves him she announces her intention to marry the Lord. Harding later learns that his pride has cost him dearly; in removing his arm from the sling he has caused complications to set in which render the arm useless. Unfit for service, he is forced to send in his papers, and accepting a commission from the Zoological Society to secure wild animals for the Zoo, he leaves for Africa. Lucile persuades her father to allow her to accompany him on a trip to Africa to inspect some mines. Arriving there, Mr. Ames finds that trouble with the natives demands a perilous trip through the wilderness. The Ames party is attacked by the natives, and Lucile is captured. Her refusal to become queen of the tribe so angers the chief that she is condemned to death. Placing her in a native hut, they steal the cubs from a lioness and tie them in her arms. Harding and his men have been trying to capture these same cubs and trace the lioness to the hut, arriving in time to save Lucile from a horrible death. Their gunshots arouse the natives, and a battle follows. A runner sent by Ames' party notifies the army post of their peril, and a detachment of cavalry arrive in time to rescue them. When questioned by his old associates of the army post, Harding is forced to tell them why he sent in his papers. In this way Lucile learns of his sacrifice for her, and love triumphs in the end. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis See less