Desc: The Little Jewess: With Edith Luckett, Edward Mack. Isaac Zangwill, a discouraged Jewish book agent enthusiastic over the tales of fortunes made in America, sails with his wife, Sarah and daughter of eight on a trading ship to the new land. A storm wrecks the vessel. The daughter is tied to a mast and cast overboard, in an effort to save her. The mother, half-crazed, leaps after the child into the water and manages to keep afloat. Husband and wife are separated in the water. The husband is picked up by the yacht of a millionaire Jew and is taken to Paris while the wife and daughter are rescued by an American-bound vessel and befriended by a passenger who offers them a home. Both believe the other to have been lost at sea. Attracted by the personality of Zangwill, he is taken into the home of the millionaire to catalogue his library, and interest in his career is created by his faithfulness and intelligence, his employer deciding to give him a start in life. Zangwill, prosperous under Stern's friendship, being installed as Paris manager in his wholesale jewelry shop. Both he and Sarah have given up hope of ever seeing each other. Rebecca, grown to womanhood, takes her mother to New York; in her efforts to find some clue to her father's fate she becomes interested in detective work. She causes the arrest of Jim Dayton and Eva Lumley, crooks and confederates, who later figure prominently in the story. Zangwill's eyes, under the strain of work, begin to fail, he becoming temporarily blind. A sea voyage and complete rest is prescribed as the only possible chance of restoring his sight. Accompanied by his secretary, Zangwill sails for America in the hope of learning something of his wife and daughter. Dayton, who has seen Zangwill in Paris, recognizes the diamond merchant and plans with his accomplice to rob him. In the meanwhile Rebecca has become a detective in the Secret Service, having risen to a position of importance. Shadowing Zangwill's private secretary, Dayton discovers him to be in search of his missing family. He conceives the idea of substituting Eva as the daughter, gaining access to Zangwill's home and robbing him. Rebecca, who is trying to trap a criminal, overhears the plot of the two crooks, while pretending to be in a drunken stupor obtains the address of Zangwill's home and plans to save him, unconscious that he is her father. Dayton decoys the secretary to his office, locks him in and proceeds to Zangwill's. Rebecca arrives first at Zangwill's house and hides behind the piano. Dayton gets Eva on the telephone and she explains the loss of the address, but hastens to the home. Dayton introduces her as Rebecca Zangwill's long-lost daughter. Zangwill finds her features those of a Gentile, but believes Dayton. He describes the wreck, and Rebecca realizes he must be her father. Impatient to get Zangwill's money, Dayton proposes a toast to their reunion. Eva puts a sleeping powder into Zangwill's wine. As he is about to drink it, Rebecca appears from behind the piano, dashes the drugged wine to the floor, skillfully disarms Dayton, summons the police, and delivers Eva and Dayton to them. To Zangwill she recalls a personal incident of the wreck, which establishes her, unquestionably, as his daughter. Husband and wife are reunited. Thornton and Rebecca become mutually interested in each other.