Mrs. Prunes is the keeper of a boarding house. She has a charming daughter, Patsy, with whom Otto and Clarence, two of the boarders, are in love. Clarence is a member of the militia and on account of his uniform is in the lead of the race for the heart and hand of the fair Patsy. When Otto proposes he is promptly rejected by Patsy who informs him that she is determined to marry nobody but a hero. While nursing his woe Otto chances to read a newspaper account of a band of highwaymen being put to flight by the timely appearance of a famous football star. Otto decides to hire a couple of yeggs to hold up Patsy and Clarence so that he may rescue them and reveal himself as a gallant hero. The deal is made but just before the hour for the fake holdup the highwaymen send him a letter demanding an increase in wages for their job. Otto loses the letter and it is found by Clarence who makes a hasty call on the highwaymen and engages them on his own account to holdup Otto and Patsy with Clarence playing the hero role. Otto, however, has followed Clarence and from concealment overhears the bargain by which the yeggs are to hold up the auto containing Otto and Patsy. The latter then sends her father and mother out on an auto ride over the designated route while he and Patsy in another auto speed to a minister's house to be married. The highwaymen hold up the other car, but Mr. Prunes puts up a stiff fight. Mrs. Prunes faints and Clarence hurries away to get a minister with the intention of stealing a march on everybody by marrying Patsy. At the minister's house he finds Patsy and Otto hand in hand. Mr. Prunes arrives a moment later and assaults Clarence. In the mix-up a lamp is overturned and everybody escapes from the house but Patsy, who has fainted. Mr. Prunes, finding his daughter left behind, frantically calls for a hero. Clarence sees the opportunity and makes the rescue, and "so they were married and lived happily ever after."