When Egbert is ten cents short on his board-bill, out he goes with his trunk on top of him. He loses the trunk, but finds himself a job as an instructor in the Ideal Automotive School, although he knows less about automobiles than he does about the fourth dimension-and that's two dimensions more than he's on speaking terms with. Egbert is assigned to the task of instructing a blonde in the intricacies of putting up a one-man top. After struggling with it for fifteen minutes he gives up when the blonde asks him what he is trying to do. After wrecking everything but his future, Egbert winds up as a first class taxi-driver. One of his first customers is Mary, the blonde eyeful, who comes in with a dangerous looking, high-hatted man. She gives Egbert the signal to stick around and help her. Egbert hears them arguing as they drive away and he becomes so interested that he nearly wrecks them. He leaves them at a big house, but just as he is driving away, he hears Mary cry for help. He recruits a couple of taxi-driver pals and goes in to rescue her. Mysterious doors open and close and from secret panels unseen hands strike at him, but Mary is not to be found, although he hears her voice occasionally in tones of distress. The chase becomes more furious and the mystery more intense until Egbert comes to grips with the high-hatted gent. Just as the villain gets a death grip on Egbert-he wakes up to find himself in his cab, with the high-hatted gent shaking him and the blonde of his dream giving him the laugh.
—Press Sheet from Library of Congress