The Countess (1914)

• 70%
• 1914
• Romance
• Francis X. Bushman
• Beverly Bayne
• Lillian Drew

Richard Hasbrook, an ambitious reporter on the Morning Globe, is assigned to get a feature story for Sunday. An idea occurs to him to look through the wants ads. There he discovers that Countess Ysioff "wants a reliable butler." His appearance gets him the position, and a day or two later the Countess returns from Europe. She tells him he is not only to be the butler, but to be her personal representative and bodyguard, that she fears trouble. Some time later, as she is partaking of her evening's repast, a burly man of questionable appearance tries to force an entrance into her home. The athletic butler stamps furiously on his foot and the man flees. Later he succeeds in entering the house, where a furious battle ensues between the butler and the crook; the former finally overpowering him. The countess then confesses of a broken vow she had made to the leader of a notorious gang in Europe, and the man whom Hasbrook had saved her from, had come to seek her life. Hasbrook then reveals his identity and his feature story in the Sunday Globe is the announcement of a weeding to take place soon.