The note warns Hargreaves that the members of the Black Hundred are aware that he has withdrawn his wealth from the bank and that he plans flight. The first intimation that Hargreaves receives that his identity has been discovered is a note slipped under his door by Braine. They watch him as he withdraws his wealth from the safe deposit vaults of a Wall Street bank they learn through the unsuspicious servants of his preparations for a hurried departure, and they view from a distance his secret interview with Stevens on a Long Island aviation field. One or another of the Black Hundred shadows him constantly. From the moment he leaves the Fifth Avenue restaurant Stanley Hargreaves is a marked man. Two members are delegated to spy upon Hargreaves while the rest mature their plans for his downfall. The conspirators, their faces covered with black masks, are sitting about a long table in a secret room when the Countess and Braine tap on the door and are admitted. This picture, now carefully preserved by Countess Petroff, is handed around among the band for identification. A picture of Hargreaves, taken in his youth, when he was a faithful member of the society, has come into possession of the New York chapter. There they inform resident members of the Black Hundred that they have recognized in Hargreaves a former member of their band and that the opportunity to wreak the vengeance of the Black Hundred is at hand. So sure are they of their identification that both hurriedly leave the restaurant for the local headquarters of the Russian secret society. Hargreaves, as he sits down to dinner with the reporter at an adjacent table, little realizes that his nearby acquaintances, Braine and Countess Olga, are watching him closely and that they recognize in him the man for whom they have been commissioned to seek the world over. Hargreaves invites the reporter to dinner and introduces him to Countess Olga Petroff and her companion, Braine. He is recognized as he enters by James Norton, a reporter. He sends a note to the Farlow school demanding the return of Florence Gray, settles his daughter's bills and then, to celebrate his departure, enters one of the most fashionable of New York's restaurants. Feeling assured that he will not be remembered if he returns to his old haunts, Hargreaves determines to claim his daughter, dispose of his estate and servants, liquidate his holdings, and return to Russia. The passing of years had changed his appearance, however, and now, nearly twenty-five years after his departure from Europe, he hopes that the beard and the moustache he has grown, together with the changes which time has marked upon his features, have altered him beyond recognition. Branded as a traitor by his fellows, the young millionaire knew that a price had been set upon his head. Circumstances made him an exile from Russia. This was an organization of Russian millionaires. Hargreaves, when a young man, had joined the Black Hundred. The scene changes to the home of Stanley Hargreaves, father of Florence Gray. Throughout her girlhood she has never wanted for anything and from time to time liberal remittances and presents reach her from her parent. Florence Gray has become a young woman and one of the most popular girls in the Farlow school. The other half of the enclosed bracelet will identify me when I send for her." Seventeen years pass. "The name of this child is Florence Gray," the note reads. Pinned to the child's silken outer wraps is an envelope and inside the letter a note and a gold bracelet. Before her on the threshold lies a baby, wrapped in garments of expensive texture. Puzzled by the tap on the pane Miss Farlow swings open the doors. Hargreaves hurriedly steals back to his carriage and drives off. A sharp rap brings Susan Farlow to the window. Cautiously he crouches up to a window of the office, where the matron of the school sits attending to her correspondence. Tenderly he wraps up the child and puts it down in a spot sheltered from the wind. While his coachman awaits at the carriage entrance to the school grounds, Hargreaves makes his way across the lawn and terraces to the veranda of the institution. In his arms he cradles his baby daughter.
"node_modules/browserify/node_modules/browser-pack/_prelude.This twenty-three episode serial told the story of a secret society called The Black Hundred and its attempts to gain control of a lost million dollars.Įpisode 1: "The Airship in the Night" The first reel of episode one shows Stanley Hargreaves, father of Florence Gray, stealing up from his carriage to the entrance of the Susan Farlow Select School for Girls.