Professor Tidewater tours Ireland with his two daughters to investigate the origins of ghost stories. After the girls leave him at Belmore Castle, reputed to be haunted, the Hindu caretaker Sakes relates the following tale: Henry Claven, Sakes' master, courted his beautiful neighbor Betty Truesdale, but when she became engaged to Captain Bob Lambert, Claven precipitated a duel by telling Lambert that he knew his mother was a negress

Cast

Marguerite Marsh

Betty Truesdale

Vernon Steele

Captain Bob Tidewater

Henry Guy Carleton

Sakes

Charles P. Patterson

John Truesdale

Hal Clarendon

Henry Claven

Leon Danmun

Prof. Juno P. Tidewater

Grace Bryant

Mrs. Truesdale

Harriet Cox

Vera

Katherine Perkins

Caroline