- A young secretary is locked in an airtight vault by a robber. Only her boss knows the combination, and he is off on a journey. Can the boss's son locate his absent-minded father before it is too late for the girl?
- An absent-minded business man is about to be off on a journey. He leaves his son and his secretary (who, unbeknownst to him, are in love) in charge of the office. The two soon find the boss's wallet on the floor, and the son rushes off to catch up with his father. While he's gone, a poor vendor seizes the opportunity to turn robber. He grabs the secretary's purse and locks her in the airtight vault. The son returns, and soon he becomes aware of his beloved's plight. He doesn't know and cannot find the combination to the vault, so off he goes again to catch dear old dad. He just misses dad's train and sends a telegram ahead to have his father return immediately. But dad wasn't on the train. He had forgotten important papers that he needed for the trip. Now he's back at the office, blissfully unaware that his secretary is dying just a few feet away. Then off he goes again. The son returns and is told (by a man who was unaware of the secretary's plight) that he has just missed his father. Away the son rushes again. This time he catches up with dad. Back they run to the office, and the girl is freed in the very nick of time.—Geezer Noir
- Mr. Curtis, the real estate broker, was in the extreme very absentminded, and his forgetfulness often caused him embarrassment. He is about to set out on a journey of business, and his son Jack visits his office, ostensibly to help him pack his luggage, but in reality to see the girl lie loves, his father's pretty stenographer, Alice, who secretly loves him in return, Curtis is all of a flurry trying to give his typist instructions and at the same time gathering his effects for the trip. In taking from his pocket some papers, lie drops on the floor his wallet, where it remains unseen until after his departure. The father gone, Jack declares himself to the girl, who teasingly holds him oft. During this scene, they discover the pocketbook, and Jack hastens after his father to restore it. While he is away a peddler enters the office and finding the girl alone, snatches up her purse and forces her into the large safe vault, where she is captive, the combination having turned. Jack enters and imagining Alice has just stepped out, sits to wait, when he hears a knocking on the safe door, indistinct at first, then becoming louder, as Alice has picked up a pistol from the shelf and beats with its butt end on the heavy door. He answers with rappings, but the walls are too thick to hear her voice. He is helpless, as he does not know the combination. He is filled with terror, for he realizes Alice must be slowly but surely suffocating. Through the desk he rummages in hopes of finding the combination, but without success. Meanwhile, his father has arrived at the railroad station only to find that his forgetfulness has caused him to leave most important papers behind. At this moment a friend appears and as he cannot hope to get the papers and return in time for the oncoming train, he accompanies his friend to a café for a drink on the way back. The train has arrived and pulled out again when Jack rushes frantically into the station. The train gone, he has a telegram sent to the conductor to find Mr. Curtis and have him return, matter of life and death. The answer comes, "No Curtis on train." Of course not, for Mr. Curtis has returned to the office, procured the papers and is off again to catch the next train. During this time poor Alice has become exhausted and has fallen to the floor of the vault. Jack rushes back to be told by the office boy of his father having been there and just gone again. Jack and the boy rush out to overtake him which they do. The three rush back and release the poor girl none too soon.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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