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A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.

Dries, Manus and Ton are returning from conscription service. 'Aunt' Piet tries to break Dries' relationship with Greet, so her son Leendert can take her.

A rich woman thwarts a pottery manufacturer's plans by exposing his daughter-in-law's past.

At Castle "De Werve", debt-ridden Colonel von Zwenken's daughter and her husband John Mordaunt await the birth of a child. Mordaunt's aunt has promised that if it is a son named after her late husband, she will allow the boy an annual allowance of 20,000 guilders. When a daughter is born, Mordaunt, anxious to keep the money, telegraphs Aunt Roselaar that he has a son called Francis, or Frans for short. When the mother dies, father and grandfather bring up Frans as a boy. The nursemaid tries to prevent this by teaching her a girl's manners, but is thwarted by Rolf, Von Zwenken's adjutant, who teaches the girl to ride and to fence and nicknames her Major Frans. When Frans is ten-years-old, her father dies and Aunt Roselaar, who has never seen her "nephew", visits the castle. The deception infuriates her. She will send no more money but will pay for her education if Frans is sent to a boarding-school. Thereafter, Von Zwenken and Rolf go to the East Indies with the army. For Frans, accustomed to do as she pleases, life at school is a misery. During an excursion, the head-mistress leaves her handbag in a tram. Frans, mounting the horse of a cavalry soldier, dashes after the tram and retrieves the bag. For this exploit, she is expelled because of her unladylike behavior. With her nursemaid she returns to "De Werve", where she is joined by her grandfather and Rolf, back from the Indies, and resumes her life as wild "Major Frans". She witnesses how Von Zwenken gives money to his son Rudolf, a student, telling him that because of his own debts he can give the young man no more. Back at the University, Rudolf spends every penny. Forced to give up his studies, he joins the cavalry, deserts and lands in prison. Shocked by his son's behavior, Von Zwenken is advised to go to a health resort. This he can only do after Frans pawns her jewels. Helped by Frans, Rudolf escapes and, in a foreign country, works as a croupier in the hotel where his father is staying. He sees his father lose all his money and money borrowed from a friend. Forced to return to "De Werve", Von Zwenken, hearing that Frans was responsible for the death of their coachman, promises to care for the widow. When the promissory note he has signed arrives, he accuses Rudolf of having forged his signature. Rolf now re-joins the household and contributes to the upkeep of "De Werve". Leo van Zonshoven, a cousin of Frans, comes on a visit. He is welcomed by Von Zwenken on hearing that Leo has been made Aunt Roselaar's sole heir. She had told Leo that it would please her if he were to marry Frans, whom she has disinherited for fear that the grandfather would waste the money. When Francis and Leo fall in love, Von Zwenken, seeing the end of his financial difficulties, gladly consents to their marriage. The young people are happy until Frans reads a letter from her grandfather's money-lender suggesting that Leo is only marrying her to get the inheritance. She breaks off the engagement without giving Leo an opportunity to defend himself. Back at home, Leo becomes seriously ill and is confined to bed for many weeks. When Von Zwenken dies, the castle is distrained upon his creditors. Frans, forced to leave, writes to her uncle Rudolf, now a jockey in a circus, asking for a job as an equestrienne. Rolf sees her in the circus and tells Leo. Together they persuade her to give up this unfitting profession. Leo tells Frans that he has bought "De Werve" and urges her to live there as long as she wants. One day Frans finds in her grandfather's room an unopened letter written by Aunt Roselaar to Leo and sent by Leo to Von Zwenken in justification of his visit. Frans realizes how wrongfully she has accused Leo. Before long, Frans and Leo are united in marriage.

The young poacher Hendrik van Norden has seriously wounded a game-keeper, who has not recognized him. However, there was one witness to Hendrik's misstep, the old sea captain Van Oort, but for the sake of Hendrik's old mother he promises to keep silent. Five years later Hendrik has become a lighthouse-keeper and is courting Annie, the housekeeper of the miser Van der Meulen. Van Oort, one of the miser's few friends, is also trying to win Annie's affections - in vain. One evening, when he sees Annie and Hendrik embracing, Van Oort, in an access of jealousy, reminds Hendrik of what he knows about his past as a poacher.

A young woman is neglected by her husband, who devotes too much time to his business affairs. When he brings a friend to stay at their home, the housekeeper warns him of the danger of the situation by relating the legend of Castle Arco. It happened three hundred years ago that the owner of the castle, ever occupied with his studies, always left his wife alone. A young man who was to paint her portrait gained her affection. Feeling that his honor had been betrayed, the husband took a terrible revenge. It is said that a headless man lies somewhere in a dungeon beneath the ruins of the castle. The story is proved to be true when the married couple's little child falls through the rotting floor of the cellar and, after three centuries, the remains of the body of the headless man are found.

A usurer cancels a woman's debt in return for wresting a financial secret from a minister's wife.

Three sailors, known in the working-class quarter De Jordaan as Dries De Dolle (Crazy Dries), Manus De Schele (Cross-eyed Manus) and Toon De Blauwe (Blue Toon), return to Amsterdam. Dries will see his girlfriend Greet, the owner of a small laundry. Manus hopes against hope that his girl Jans has been faithful to him. Toon's homecoming is dismal because his wealthy father rejects him on account of his dissolute life. During the absence of Dries, Greet has been courted unsuccessfully by Leendert, the pampered pet of his mother known as Auntie Piet, who runs the local pub. Piet browbeats her husband Gerrit, treats her poor relation Doortje as a drudge and idolizes her wastrel son. Determined that Leendert will marry Greet, Piet whispers in the ear of Betje that Greet is "indecent". However, when Betje tells her son Dries, he will not believe such gossip. In the pub one evening, when Leendert importunes Greet, Dries knocks him down. In the ensuing fight a knife is drawn. Policemen intervene and Dries is taken to gaol. Making use of the street-singers Na Druppel and De Mop, Piet spreads the rumor that Greet has been seen dancing with many men. When Dries is released, he asks Greet whether the story is true. She admits that she went to the dance-hall, but is given no chance to explain why. Disillusioned, Dries tells Manus and Toon that he intends to enlist as a colonial soldier. His comrades, equally unhappy in Amsterdam - Manus because of the way Jans treats him, Toon because he cannot find work - agree to join up at the same time. In a melancholy frame of mind the three mates leave for the Dutch East Indies, where they spend the following six years. When their term of service expires, the young men set off for Holland and home. Only two return, as Toon dies on the ship, a victim of his alcoholism and the tropical climate. Greet eagerly awaits the arrival of Dries. He has a surprise for her, namely the two half-blood children he has fathered. Greet has a similar surprise for him, namely that she is a widow and a mother. Nevertheless, their reunion is soon followed by an exuberant wedding.

A poor fisherman's wife sends the remaining family members, her two sons, out to sea on a boat that has seen better days.

The secret from the title is the lost recipe for shiny Delft pottery, that Jan Vogel is desperately trying to rediscover. For his attempts he needs platinum, but the funds run out because the factory owner Van Haaften has lost his money in stock-speculations. Luckily for Jan, he finds a farewell letter in the park, including a large sum of money. Meanwhile, the owner's son Leo confesses his love for Jan's daughter Annie, but Van Haaften forbids their marriage. Because of Jan's nephew Willem Berg's ongoing spying attempts to gain knowledge of the secret recipe, Jan buys Van Haaften a gun to defend himself against the villain. One night, as Willem has secretly entered the factory, Van Haaften enters his office to find a letter from a friend with a sum of money, that is not nearly large enough to cover his losses. He writes a suicide note and shoots himself, after which Willem enters the office and steals the money and the note. When, on the following morning, Jan has finally succeeded in rediscovering the recipe and goes to show the result to Van Haaften, he finds him dead. With all circumstances against him, he is thrown in prison, but he manages to slip his daughter Lilly the just-discovered recipe. While Willem's attempts to gain hold of the recipe get more and more violent, Lilly tries to gather evidence of her father's innocence. When she has finally succeeded, she sends off a letter to her sister Annie, who by now is guarding the recipe. With the recipe she goes on her way to Lilly, but is chased by Willem...

In Venice an artist has an affair with a Countess but returns to his model.

A group of acrobats saves a girl from a burning windmill.

In Holland a Royalist jails the ruler's son to obtain the secret of black tulips.

A blind Orthodox Jew is saved by a gentile doctor but disowns his eldest daughter for loving that man.Since she was the family breadwinner, the result of the father's stubbornness is that he and the younger daughter sink into poverty.

Ruth Herwood adopts Mary, the daughter of Jones, a drunken cobbler, whom she sends to Australia. When Jones returns, he opens a tavern with Palmyra, a dancer, who is connected to Ling Soo, the keeper of an opium den. Palmyra demands that Jones blackmail Ruth to force the beautiful Mary to work in the tavern. After meeting Jones, the desperate and nervous Ruth serves him a poisoned drink.

About a father and daughter who are completely opposed to each other, because the father is suspected to have killed his daughter's fiancé and has to prove his innocence in court.

A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.

A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child and marry an heiress.