The Marked Woman

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The story of this release is that of the Boxer uprising in 1900, the coming of the American troops to the relief of the legations and the adventures of Olga Petcoff, the Nihilist. The drama opens with the peaceful little home of Olga in Riga, Russia. Her little sister is run over by Count Bobrikoff and his Cossacks. This arouses the hatred of Olga and she is easily persuaded by her brother Ivan on his return from St. Petersburgh to join the Nihilists. She is sent by the Brotherhood to China with an important paper hidden in the heel of her shoe, denouncing the Russian Ambassador. To escape suspicion she travels around the world and on the voyage meets Lieutenant Dare, U.S.N., who falls in love with her. On her arrival in Port Arthur she goes to the headquarters of the Nihilists and finds the Russian police in charge. She is saved from being sent to Siberia with the other prisoners by the Russian Ambassador, who sends her in a Chinese junk to Kan-You-Way at Nankin. On her way there, the junk is wrecked in a fog and Olga is washed ashore where she is found by Dare and taken to the house of Kan-You-Way. Here she meets Prince Ching, Prime Minister to the Empress Dowager and eventually is forced to marry him, to save Dare and the Russian Ambassador from being put to death. Four years elapse and she becomes a mother. In the meantime Dare has been unsuccessfully seeking her. Kan-You-Way, who has been thrown into prison by Prince Chang, is liberated by Olga and he, with his blind daughter, find their way to the headquarters of the American forces, who have come to the relief of the legations. Dare recognizes him and he is told that Olga is in the palace of Prince Ching. Dare takes a force of marines and soldiers and attacks the palace successfully. He finds Olga and her little boy, who is later killed by a bullet fired unintentionally by his father, Prince Ching.