The young clerk, enjoying his vacation at the seashore, receives a curt note from his employers that they were reducing expenses and his services were no longer required. He has very little money left. He confides his troubles to the bright little girl, the hotel's cashier. She likes the young fellow and straightway goes to the hotel proprietor and tells him the young man will be of value to him as lifeguard. The little cashier's brother is the present lifeguard, but though a good swimmer, he is homely. There was one thing the proprietor did not know. His new lifeguard could not swim. The little cashier knew it, but cautioned the clerk to say nothing, for, as she expressed it, "my brother is a life saver and he can do the work. Your job is to look pretty and kid the girls." And the arrangement worked beautifully, for the clerk saved the old ladies and children who fell down in shallow water, while the real lifeguard rescued those who had wandered beyond their depth, but so cleverly was it done that all the hotel guests believed that the handsome young lifeguard was a very wonderful person, and considered his homely assistant to be useful, but not in a class at all with his handsome superior. The constant flattery the clerk received from the hotel guests turned his head, and he treated the little cashier very indifferently. The girl had grown to care for him, and when she saw him passing much of his time in the company of a wealthy old maid, she was heartbroken. Her brother, the homely lifeguard, soon reassured her. "It's all right, Sis," he said, "he really doesn't care for that old maid, and what he needs to bring him to his senses is a ducking. And he will get it. Believe me." The clerk, at the old maid's request, took her rowing, and at the psychological moment, the homely lifeguard, adopting the method of a submarine, dived under the water and swam beneath the surface until he reached the boat and flung the clerk and his "fair" companion into the water. "Why that lifeguard is an impostor," sputtered the old maid. "He can't swim a stroke. He must be discharged at once." The clerk looked lovingly into the little cashier's face. "I am sure to be fired for not being able to swim." "Don't you worry, kid," replied the girl," and her statement thoroughly satisfied the young man. Written by Moving Picture World synopsis

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• Comedy
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