Desc: The Red Flame of Passion: Jim Borden, a big loving, good-natured fellow lives in the woods with his wife, Alda, his crippled brother, Jack, and his baby, who is the apple of his eye. He struggles to keep up the expense of the land which he is trying to improve, by working at taxidermy and selling his specimens. He also studies medicine and chemistry in his spare moments. Jim has a great affection for Jack, who became crippled in his early youth, in saving Jim's life. Jack, the cripple, is very fond of Jim's baby. Alda, the wife, however, denies Jim the joy of romping with the baby, contending that his crooked shape will have an ill influence on the child. She refers to him as an imp. The very first quarrel between Jim and his wife is the defense of Jack, whom he hears his wife speak ill of. Jim declares that Jack's poor bones were twisted in saving his life, and no one, not even she, his wife, shall speak ill of him. Hardy, a hunter, is accidentally shot in the mountains while hunting. He is found by Jim, Jack and their dogs. He is brought to Jim's home and cared for. The wife falls in love with Hardy. Jack surprises them in embrace. He refrains from exposing them, knowing the pain it would cause Jim. He orders Hardy from the house. The wife induces Jim to turn all his property over to her. She and Hardy leave together, taking Jim's baby. The property is sold and Jim and Jack are driven off. Jim, who adores his wife and baby, is crushed beneath the mighty blow. Gradually there comes through the daze of the terrific blow a desire for revenge upon the guilty pair. Jim records an oath, but he does not call upon high Heaven to witness that oath. He starts about it in a secret, systematic, subtle manner. He labors arduously with his medicine and chemistry. Ten years pass; Jim is in Spain. He is a wonderful doctor, having won the world's highest honors. Under another name he is loved and respected. Through his great skill he has been able to correct his brother's misshapen bones. He meets a Spanish woman of great beauty, who has a crippled arm. He operates, correcting the condition, thus winning the Spanish beauty's undying gratitude. Jim, still with the thought of vengeance most prominent in his mind, takes advantage of her gratitude to extract from her a sacred oath at her shrine, to do his future bidding. A short space of time has passed. A terrific epidemic of spinal meningitis has broken out in the South. Jim having a specific cure, starts for America with Jack. Alda, Jim's former wife, and Hardy are living in a southern city. Jim and Jack arrive in the South. Jim works day and night to relieve the suffering of the stricken. Like an angel, worn and weary, never thinking of himself, he works on, on. He gathers up the stricken, carrying them through the streets to the improvised hospital, where he operates. When others fear, he is at hand to aid. Hardy, the snake in the grass, is stricken. Alda reads of Jim's phenomenal cures. Not knowing he is her former husband, the man she has wronged, she goes to Jim to help Hardy. Here comes a great surprise when she recognizes Jim. He consents to see Hardy. He meets his own child. Jim consents to save Hardy's life for two purposes, one condition being that Alda tell the child that he, Jim, is its father, and that she also tell the child of her own shame and guilt. She does this in order to save Hardy's life. The child shrinks from her. Jim saves Hardy's life for future vengeance. He sends for Mama, the Spanish beauty, who in time wins Hardy away from Jim's former wife, so she suffers the same pains she inflicted upon Jim. Alda, deserted by Hardy, becomes poor and wretched. The child leaves her, seeking a home with Jim, her father. Later Jim takes the Spanish beauty from Hardy; thus, he, too, feels the hand of vengeance. The wife seeks peace beneath the hood of a nun. Jack becomes happy in the arms and love of the Spanish beauty. Jim. after years of suffering, gathers his precious baby within his big arms and silently thanks God for the one blessing bestowed. When not employed comforting the ill and suffering, his thoughts wander back into the purple past of what seems so long ago, and he thinks of what might have been.