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Learn more- Porter Chase thinks he loves Natalie Wall. Following the lead of others in their set, they reverse the order of day and night. Porter's only aim in life is to have a good time. Katherine Weaver is the sole support of her widowed mother and invalid sister. The Weavers were once "well off," but unfortunate investments reduced their position in the social scale. The Weavers get some legal papers from their old lawyer, Cyrus Holt, which compel Katherine to go to the city. Chase is still leading his "happy-go-lucky" life and one day gets a call from his lawyer, Cyrus Holt, to come down to look over some papers. The old lawyer is a family friend and takes Porter to task for his idleness, and in a fatherly way tells him he should do something else besides trying to spend the ample fortune that he has. While they are talking, Katherine's card is brought in, and the old man tells Porter that this girl is a living example of how fleeting riches are. Porter, angered, tells the lawyer that he will take the first job offered him and leaves. Porter receives a wire from Natalie telling him to meet her at a certain train. The train is a little late, and while he is waiting he sees the girl, Katherine, who was in the lawyer's office, running to catch her train. She accidentally drops her purse, and unaware of her loss, catches her train just in time. Porter sees the purse, and running after her, hops the train and restores the purse to her. He is unable, however, to get off, as the train is going too fast, so he accompanies the girl to her home. She shows him where she works, and he, remembering his promise to the old lawyer, applies and gets a job at the same place. Natalie meanwhile arrives, and not finding Porter, goes off in a huff. Porter's Jap valet and chauffeur wait in vain and finally leave. The papers are full of the mysterious disappearance of a rich young millionaire. Porter is made the butt of the rough jokes of his fellow workers, but one day one of them goes too far and Porter thrashes him. Later the two become friends and the man tells Porter of a place where he can get board in a nice home. He is taken to the Weaver homestead, where he meets the mother and invalid sister, and makes arrangements to stay there. Happy days follow and finally Porter's Jap valet becomes anxious for his master and goes to find him. He is seen snooping about the mill, is arrested as a Japanese spy and thrown in jail. He confesses that he is looking for his master, who he knows is working at the mill. Porter has gained the confidence of the invalid sister and she daily encourages him in his suit for her lovely sister. It is hard for him to understand the girl, for she thinks more of the giver of small attentions than she does of the attentions, and he has been accustomed to women who think only of what they are getting out of him. Aided and encouraged by the invalid sister, he finally gains the love of the girl, and in the midst of their happiness the old family lawyer arrives and discovers the deception Porter has been practicing. There is a happy ending and the little invalid is in a good way to be able to some day be cured, as she has been the means of "checking the flight of a night bird" and showing him the way to a happy nest.
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