The Renegade

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Robert Graves, a renegade slave trader of Africa, defeats a party of British soldiers sent to capture him and takes as prisoner Captain Marley. On Captain Marley he discovers a letter which notifies Marley that he is heir to the estates of the Earl of Craven. Graves determines to impersonate Marley, which he does, after selling Marley into slavery to Ali-Hamid, an Arabian Sheik. Graves sails for England and takes up the duties of the estate, planning to marry Alice Craven, as per the dying request of the old Earl. Alice distrusts him, though, and is in love with a young man in the neighborhood. Marley is taken to the Sheik's home, where he falls in love with Normah, a beautiful slave girl and a favorite of the Sheik. Normah helps Marley to escape upon his promising to return and purchase her from Ali-Hamid. He sails for England and at the suggestion of the old family lawyer, he appears in the bedroom of Graves, as the latter lies in a drunken sleep. Graves awakens, thinks he sees the ghost of Marley, and overcome with terror, jumps from the bedroom window and is instantly killed. Alice and the young Englishman marry, and Marley sits in the garden and dreams of returning to Arabia for Normah.