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- Ben Darwin had been a widower since Gilda's birth and the responsibility of being both father and mother to the girl weighed very heavily upon him. At present, however, what troubled Ben Darwin, was Gilda's friendship for Frank Boardman, a stranger in those parts. To keep the young man from the house was quite simple, but might the girl not meet him outside? As indeed she did, at her own little nook in the mountains, where from childhood her small treasures had been hidden. It was here that Gilda found Frank's note asking her to meet him at the glen, a lovely spot in which their troth was plighted. But before the old man could be persuaded to give his consent, the elder Boardman arrived, and learning that his son was on the verge of marrying the mountaineer's daughter, he showed Darwin a letter in which Frank declared he didn't love and had no intention of marrying "the girl in question." "The girl in question," however, was Miss Grace Elkins, and although Mr. Boardman knew this quite will, he silenced his conscience with the "All's fair in love" adage. White with rage, old Darwin insisted that his daughter at once make preparations to visit her aunt, and indeed had already started with Gilda for the railroad station when Frank appeared, and learning of their departure, hastened to head them off. Then sending the astonished father up the road at the point of his gun, Frank jumped into the buggy beside Gilda and dashed off to the minister. But scarcely had the young couple been pronounced man and wife, when Darwin, accompanied by Mr. Boardman, whom he had met on the road, came galloping up. With a glance, the elder Boardman realized that he had lost. However, being a practical man, he accepted the situation gracefully and even went so far as to acknowledge the deception he had practiced upon Darwin, ask pardon, and give the young people his paternal blessing.
- Joe has become a fugitive. While the sheriff's posse is hunting him, one of the men, Bill, is wounded and falls from his horse. Joe returns after the posse have gone, and after blindfolding Bill, Joe takes him to his shack, dresses his wounds and takes care of him until he is able to travel. Joe then takes Bill to the edge of the town and points out the way. Bill goes immediately to the sheriff. Having blazed the trail, he tells the sheriff that he can take the suspect alone, but that the boys are to follow. Bill returns to Joe's shack, much to the surprise of the fugitive, but Joe, nevertheless, gets the drop on the newly-made deputy, and leaving him in the shack, starts outside for his horse. The sheriff's posse, riding up from the rear, fires upon him, the shot going through the window to where the deputy is seated. Joe makes his escape on his horse. The sheriff and his men run into the shack to investigate, only to find Bill, the deputy, dead, and a letter addressed to Joe from his brother, explaining that it is the brother and not Joe who is wanted.
- The prologue shows Cyrus returning from his club with some of the members, and the next morning, he finds the following note on the table, "Cyrus, I have endured your intemperance for the last time. I am taking the twins and going where you will never see me again. Matilda." Little Alma, his favorite twin, entered as her father was reading the note, her mother having returned to get the other twin's hat, and so Cyrus hurried her to the train with him and they were soon on their way out West. Matilda searched diligently for Alma, but hearing nothing from either Cyrus or the child, decided that they were both dead. Many years later, Cyrus and Alma, now "full grown" are seen in the west, while Elma, the other twin (also full grown) now married, starts west on a visit with her husband and mother. Chance brings them to the same town and trouble begins. Alma's friends mistake Elma for her sister, while Patsy, Elma's husband, after quarreling with his wife on this account, follows Alma home, and enters her abode to beg forgiveness. Her screams bring Cyrus to the scene, who throws Patsy out and turns him over to an officer. The next morning the twins and their father and mother arrive at court and a general reunion takes place.
- Stan and Teddie go to the city and have some amusing experiences. However, their adventures turn out to be a dream.
- The Joneses have been married a year and their proudest possession is Jonesy, Jr. Around the corner live the Browns. Mrs. Brown has a great love for animals and when her husband wants to smoke she sends him outside, as her pet poodle is annoyed by the odor. On the sidewalk in front of Brown's a little child falls. He takes him inside to wash his face. When the latter sees Mrs. Brown he lets out a yell and she orders her husband to take the brat out, as the dog dislikes crying children. The Joneses receive a wire from an uncle who detests children, and does not know that they have one, that he will be with them for a few hours between trains. They hope some day to inherit his millions, and so they take the baby over to the Browns for the day. He finds only Mr. Brown at home, who consents to take care of the child. Jones shows uncle through the house, and all is well until he spots a baby rattle. Mrs. Jones explains that her hubby is such a baby that he loves to play with such things. Brown, when he sees his wife coming, throws the infant into the clothes hamper. All of a sudden she hears it cry. With murder in her eye, she extracts the howling infant. She insists on returning the baby. Brown tells Jones that he is sorry, but he has to return the baby. At this Jones replies that it is not his baby. Mrs. Brown gives her husband one look, tears home and starts packing. Hubby wanders along the street wondering how he will get rid of the baby, when he sees an empty taxi. He dumps the baby into the machine and tells his wife that the Joneses finally did admit that it was their baby. She only half believes him. Uncle leaves, and as soon as he is out of sight they demand their child. Brown confesses that he left it in a taxi, and they all run out. In the meantime uncle has hired this fatal machine, found the baby and the two are getting along splendidly. The quartet hire another car and start in pursuit. Suddenly uncle's machine stops and the driver tells him that he has a flat tire. So he picks up the baby and dashes for the station, and is just about to board the train when the Joneses and Browns run up and claim the baby.
- The way of the transgressor is hard, and indeed, none felt this more keenly than Jim Collins, the only survivor of the Collins-Clayton feud. Forced to flee with, but a hurried farewell to Mary and the baby, the marked man had remained in hiding for four years. Then, prevailed upon by the pleadings of his sick wife, he ventured home only to be captured almost upon the threshold of his cabin. Beyond the closed door, Mary Collins lay dying, while little Regina was being given to Colonel and Mrs. Clark for adoption. Fifteen years passed; Jim Collins had become a trusty in the prison, while his daughter, now known as Regina Clark, had refused her various suitors, among them, the family lawyer, Victor Mills, for the jolly young Lieutenant Walter Warren. Hoping to obtain some valuable information for a case which was to be re-opened, Victor called at the State Prison. Here, he was taken in charge of by a trusty and later turned over to a guard. As the lawyer returned to the office, however, he discovered that his hat and coat were missing; for Jim Collins, taking advantage of the warden's absence from the room, had slipped them on and made good his escape. Two months elapsed, then, as Mills passed a small country story, he came face to face with Jim Collins, the trusty who had shown him around, and later gotten away with the aid of his coat. Mills' first impulse was to inform the authorities; then a picture of Regina and the successful Lieutenant, arose in his mind. He knew that the girl was adopted and that her father might still be alive. Now, if this convict could be made to represent himself as her father, he believed that Lieutenant Warren would hastily withdraw. Hurriedly following Jim to his cabin, the lawyer gave the wretched man his choice, and as a result, the next day found them at Colonel Clark's home breaking the news to that unhappy family. Reluctantly, Jim forced himself to read the letter Regina's mother had left for her husband, only to find that it had been written by his own wife, imploring him to keep their child in ignorance of his past. Glancing at his weeping daughter, the father realized that Mary had spoken wisely, crossing quietly to the table, Jim wrote: "am not your father. I have lied to you." Then with one last look at the girl, he stole silently from the room, and ere sundown presented himself at the warden's office, content to finish out his prison term rather than disobey his dying wife's commands.
- Billie is waiting up for her husband, who has gone to the lodge. She is growing very impatient. Meanwhile hubby is having a great time. He has met some of the Gaiety Theater bunch and invites one to have a little supper with him. Just as things are going nicely, the wife's brother discovers them. The next morning, Billie finds a woman's glove, and, as Eddie can make no satisfactory explanation, she decides to leave him and go back to mother. When he returns home that night he finds her gone, and ho is very blue, but decides that he will not mope around home, so goes to a café. Lee had concocted a plan, and at his suggestion, Billie dresses as a man while he makes up as a woman, and together they visit the same café at which Eddie is. Before long Eddie is flirting with Lee and Lee goes to his table. Then Billie starts shooting up the place and a general chase follows Eddies manages to elude the crowd and returns home only a short time later to have Lee appear upon the scene telling him that she cannot get along without him. About this time Billie comes in dressed in her own clothes and Eddie has a terrible time trying to keep her from the bedroom in which he has Lee hidden. Eddie goes into the bedroom trying to persuade Lee to leave, but she only starts making love to him and laughs at him. Meanwhile, Billie dresses again as a man, and as Eddie brings Lee from the bedroom, she confronts him. They finally take off their makeup and Eddie says, "Never Again."
- Major Bughouser gets possessed with the idea that he ought to censor the movies, so he appoints a Board of Censors, every member of which must be exactly like himself. They visit a projection room of a film manufacturing company and as the film of a stirring drama is reeled off, they order cuts made in the picture which they consider essential, and the scenes in the picture are shown as originally produced, as they appear when the Bughouser Board is through with them. The original picture was already passed by the National Board of Censors, but Bughouser orders the National Board to be cut, and shows how he would like to do the cutting himself. The last scene shows the gallant Major filling up on his usual favorite food, a large dish of prunes.
- Mr. Crabb has a wife who is addicted to flirting. A young novelist receives a letter from a woman admirer who signs herself Alice R., and who makes an appointment with him in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. The novelist and Alice R. start out to keep the appointment. As a stranger passes the apartment house of Mr. and Mrs. Crabb, the latter flirts with him; whereupon Mr. Crabb who has seen the action, sets out with his wife to make an example of the stranger. Meanwhile, Alice R. has arrived at the park with the novelist. Mr. Crabb has a fight with the stranger and is knocked down for his pains. The Crabbs continue on and go for a stroll in the park. The novelist mistakes the wife of Mr. Crabb for Alice R. and speaks to her. Mrs. Crabb in the meantime has been flirting with another man and her husband goes for a policeman. The novelist and Mrs. Crabb chat for a few moments and then the latter suddenly leaves him on seeing her husband in the distance. Alice R., who has been taking a glass of soda, leaves the fountain and comes upon the novelist. The latter is doubly surprised to meet her. Mr. and Mrs. Crabb become separated and Mr. Crabb mistakes Alice R. for his wife. Several amusing situations follow in rapid succession, in which Mr. Crabb is nearly arrested. Husband and wife return home, while the novelist again meets Alice R. and tells her that she was the inspiration for his novel.
- Bob Madden returns home slightly intoxicated and his father angrily commands him to leave the place and shift for himself. The next morning he goes, leaving his father a note: "Dear Dad, I am going out West and try to make a man of myself. I hope some day you will be proud of me. Your son. Bob." His father relents and, after tracing him to the station, buys a ticket for the same place. In the meanwhile, Rob has arrived, and reading a notice that cowboys with outfits are wanted on the Carter ranch, he buys an outfit from a man near the station and starts for the Carter ranch. However, the foreman will not have him, as he confesses that he cannot rope, so Bob rides on until he comes upon an Outlaw's Camp, and is glad to accept their rough hospitality. In the meanwhile, the ranchman, Joseph Carter, receives his new automobile, but being unable to take his daughter, Jessie, sends her with the foreman for a ride. The machine breaks down and the chauffeur returns for parts, while the foreman takes his opportunity to force his attentions upon Jessie, her cries bring Bob and the outlaws to the scene. The foreman recognizes the outlaw chief and returning to the ranch, starts out at the head of the cowboys to capture the band. Bob has loaned Jessie his horse to return home, and the outlaws have just broke camp, so when the foreman and the boys return they only succeed in capturing Bob and hustle him off as an outlaw. Jessie arrives at the ranch, learns where the boys have gone, so together with her father, rides to the rescue, arriving just as his father comes along. The two fathers learn that they are old friends. The man at the station recognizes Bob, and general rejoicing takes place.
- The Chief's son, Silver Water, returns from college and is met at the station by the tribe. The Indians make merry to celebrate his homecoming. Hal Benton, an easterner, rides on to ask his way to the hotel, where he is stopping with some friends, among them his fiancée, Veda Mead, and her father. Knowing that the Indian ceremonies will interest his friends, Hal obtains permission to come the next day and bring his friends. The Chief calls Morning Star, an Indian maiden, telling his son that she is to be his squaw. Silver Water is pleased with her. The next day Hal Benton and his friends arrive. While the others inspect the camp, Veda Mead amuses herself with Silver Water and ere long is thoroughly infatuated with him, while the Indian's vanity is touched by the attentions of the society coquette, and he promises to meet her the next day. Their little tete-a-tete is cut short by the entrance of Morning Star. The next day they meet and, after coquetting with Silver Water until he forgets his Indian sweetheart, the eastern girl gives him her calling card, upon which she writes "To my Indian Hero" and asks him to call upon her in the east. Several months pass, and Hal Benton and Veda Mead are preparing to wed, when a letter arrives addressed to Mr. Mead from Silver Water, telling him that as he is in the east, he will do himself the honor to call upon them that evening. To Veda, who had been reading of the Indians' lives and customs after her meeting with Silver Water, the news is very terrifying. Recalling how she played with him, she fears that he may now make trouble. She goes to the veranda and sits down to think over the situation. Suddenly she sees Silver Water in full war-paint and feathers coming up the steps, he sees her and advances. Touching her upon the shoulder, he beckons her to follow. She obeys. As they reach the garden be tells her of his love, reminds her of her promises when they last met and insists upon her fulfilling them now. She cries out, and her cry brings Hal. Silver Water tells Hal why he has come for Veda, and Hal agrees that she must go with him, but Silver Water is not satisfied. He throws down his knife and insists upon Hal fighting with him for the girl. At a given signal, both men start for the knife. The Indian secures it and soon kills Hal, then, throwing his blanket over the terrified Veda, he drags her off to his camp and commands her to fetch and carry and cook his meals. Veda sinks to the ground as Silver Water stalks off, but no sooner has he gone than Morning Star slips out from her tepee and, creeping down upon Veda, raises her knife to strike the girl dead. Just as the knife descends, Veda forces herself to rise, only to find herself in Hal's arms on the veranda, for the young man has been trying to awaken her to tell his sweetheart that their Indian friend, Silver Water, has arrived, and at that moment stands beside them in the most correct evening dress. At the first glance she gives him, Silver Water realizes that it would be impossible to ever win the white girl, so leaving her with Hal, he tears up her card and returns to the blanket and Morning Star, his sweetheart, before he has learned the white man's ways.
- A young man gets a job as an attendant at an insane asylum.
- Hawkeye, a young Apache brave, happens one day on a beautiful Hopi maiden busy working in the field. He immediately pays court to the lovely Mona. Mona's heart is elsewhere, however, and she scorns his love. Ortega, who is the favored one of Mona, asks her hand of Kolan, the Hopi chief, and wins his consent, hut Hawkeye refuses to be repulsed. He determines to win the Hopi maid. He watches, and when he finds her alone by the creek, attempts to make violent love to her. Mona's scream brings Ortega to her assistance, and the two men engage in a hand-to-hand fight. Ortega finally trips Hawkeye into the creek, and picking up a stone, threatens Hawkeye, who drags himself from the water, and mounting his horse, rides away, threatening the young pair with vengeance. Mona's wedding day dawns brightly and the preparations for the Hopi wedding are made, but Hawkeye, with a band of his braves, attacks the wedding procession from two sides, and during the struggle between the Hopis and Apaches, Hawkeye grabs Mona, and. throwing her across his horse, dashes away. Ortega, with blood streaming from a jagged cut in his face, staggers after them. Hawkeye takes the Indian maid to his wickup, and, finding her unwilling to become his squaw, binds her with rawhide thongs. He then leaves her and goes to the river for water. Ortega, who has followed, quickly frees Mona and taking Hawkeye's gun, escapes swiftly. Hawkeye returns and finds them gone. He shows pleasure, however, when he realizes that Ortega has taken the gun, hut has no ammunition. He follows the fugitives and Ortega and Mona, in fear, hide in the foliage of an overhanging tree. Hawkeye follows and a battle between the Hopi and the Apache takes place in the branches of the tree. Mona comes to Ortega's assistance, and together they throw Hawkeye into the canyon below.
- Fatty and Lucy were secretly engaged to be married, but his two rivals, Tom and Dick, were determined to secure Lucy for themselves; so, when they saw the young people together, they promptly told her father, and the girl was taken to the house and told to stay there. In the meanwhile, the sheriff had offered a big reward for two desperate, masked bandits, and Tom and Dick, thinking to make Fatty ridiculous forever in Lucy's eyes, persuades him to start out to capture the bandits. Fatty was not inclined to undertake the mission, until he heard the boys describing how they would make-up as the bandits, and run Fatty ragged. Changing the revolvers filled with blank cartridges to real ones, Fatty set out, but instead of overtaking the boys, he came upon the real bandits and thinking them the boys, boldly captured them and marched them off, just as they were about to hold up the ranchman. The boys, in the meanwhile, were captured by the sheriff and his posse, and it was not until Fatty identified them at the ranch, much to his secret terror and astonishment, that Tom and Dick were permitted to go, while the sheriff led off the real article. The ranchman was so delighted with Fatty's bravery and the saving of his gold, that he promptly handed Lucy over to the hero, while his rivals slunk away in disgrace.
- The newlywed's first meal after the return from their honeymoon does not turn out much of a success. The bride is willing, but lacks the technical training necessary to an appetizing meal. Hubby, as a consequence, leaves for work in a half-starved condition. Newlywed arrives at the office, gaunt from hunger, and when the boys attempt to rally him on being married, he comes to the defense of his wife's cooking, and blandly states that he has just had a most delicious meal at home. The boys are inclined to doubt his statement, and remark that as he has such a marvel of a cook, it seems strange that he doesn't invite his friends around to have a decent meal some time. On the spur of the moment he does invite them to dinner that night, and, calling the house, tells his bride. The groom's hunger gets the best of him, and he slips the office boy a bill to get some sandwiches. While he is stealthily consuming them, one of the boys sees him and calls the attention of the others to his voracious appetite. They realize there is something wrong, and rather than be disappointed, order a meal for five to be sent to the groom's house that evening. Hubby, knowing his wife's limitations, orders a meal for the hunch to he sent to his house. Wifie goes shopping and gets everything in sight, but every dish she tries her hand at is a failure. As the time for the arrival of the guests approaches, she goes next door to borrow some flour, and sees the appetizing turkey her neighbor has cooked. Wifie returns in time to greet the guests, and realizing that there is nothing to eat, steals her neighbor's turkey and pretends it is her own cooking. The boys think it is the one they ordered, while Hubby believes he sent it. In the meantime, the neighbor misses the fowl, and following the trail of gravy, locates the "'loot." While she is giving Wifie a piece of her mind, the two dinners which were ordered arrive, and things are finally explained. Hubby decides that never again will he try to fool his friends, while they decide that single blessedness is good enough for them. The neighbor is appeased and hubby kisses away his wife's tears.
- The young home seekers, John and Mary Anderson, come over the mountains in a prairie schooner. They select a spot for camp, unhitch their horses and start supper. While John is gone for game, the horses get away and Mary is forced to run after them, but before she comes up to them, both horses have been captured by three gold-seekers, Sid, Bill and a Mexican, and as their burro has just died, the men are delighted to get the horses. As soon as Mary appears and claims them, Sid is only too willing to return her property, not so Bill and the Mexican, however, and in consequence, Sid and Bill retire a short distance to fight it out. Sid is victorious, without having done more than give Bill a slight wound, so sending the Mexican to look after his partner, Sid accompanies Mary on her way toward their camp. John returns in the meanwhile, misses his wife and the horses and at once sets out on their trail, overtaking Mary and Sid just as the young wife's strength has about given out. As a reward for Sid's kindness, John insists upon the other accepting his saddle horse and as soon as Sid rides away, the husband and wife prepare to camp there for the night. Bill and the Mexican are in the meanwhile on the trail of Sid, so creeping up to where John and Mary have camped for the night. Bill is about to plunge his hunting-knife into the sleeping husband, believing him to be Sid, when his hand is stayed by Sid himself, who, having passed his partner and the Mexican creeping toward the camp and fearing for the lives of Mary and John, returned in time to prevent the tragedy.
- The first Universal motion picture released: dying Will Barton has to go to the mountains in search of health and is distracted thinking about leaving his beloved daughter, Netta, behind.
- In order to get a job as a cook on a ranch, a young girl disguises herself as a boy. Problems arise when several of the young women at the ranch fall in love with "him".
- Eddie and Billie are at their first breakfast after the honeymoon. Billie is making the pancakes. She puts salt instead of sugar in them, and Eddie is afraid to tell her of it, so he hides them in his pocket. He throws the last batch under the table and goes off to the office, forgetting them. Just as he is leaving, her old trunk from home arrives. She opens it and finds the picture of the man to whom she was engaged before she met Eddie. She hides it under the bureau cover, but it falls behind the bureau. At the office, Eddie finds a package of his letters from a girl to whom he was engaged before he married Billie. He decides to hide them. She discovers the salt in the cakes, and is sorry for Eddie. She resolves to tear up the picture before he can see it. She goes to the bureau but it is not there. She thinks that Eddie has found it, and reads in the paper that a man has killed himself because he was driven insane by finding a picture of his bride in the arms of her former sweetheart. She is worried. At the office, Eddie reads of a bride who went crazy on discovering letters written by her husband to another woman. He is called to his employer, and Billie enters while he is gone. When he returns the men in the office tell him that she went dippy and that they sent her home in a taxi. Eddie thinks she has found the letters. He rushes home, where each thinks the other crazed with grief. Eddie sends for Dr. Buggs. Each humors the supposed madness of the other. Billie phones the police. At the office, the janitor finds Eddie's letters, which have fallen into the wastebasket. He sends them with a note, explaining that the bearer does not understand English. When the man arrives, Billie takes him for an officer, and Eddie takes him for the doctor. There is a great confusion, during which Eddie finds the picture, and Billie finds the letters. The misunderstood man has dropped them in his flight. When the doctor and the officer arrive, they each try to arrest one of the Newlyweds and both resist arrest. Finally they manage to persuade the doctor and the officer that neither is crazy, and a scene of reconciliation follows.
- Lem Forby, reporter on the Bugle, is a correspondence school pupil. The editor gives him an assignment to cover the Mexican war. Arrived at the border, Lem crosses the line and proceeds to take pictures. General Siesta is much enamored of the pretty Senorita Tamale, and she returns his love. Lem gets a picture of her, and immediately she loses her heart to the Bugle reporter. Lem notices that a messenger arrives with a letter for the General, and according to his correspondence lessons, that is one important thing, to obtain all important documents. With the Senorita he plans to get them. The General with his guitar starts out to call upon the Senorita; she tries to obtain the papers and get the General to show them to her; then Lem, who has hidden in the rooms, takes the papers and runs, closely pursued by the General and his army. Lem and the Senorita are nearly captured, when the Senorita offers to change clothes with Lem. This is done and the General with his army, catching a glimpse of them, decides that he will follow the girl and leave the army to capture Lem. He nearly captures what he supposes is the girl, but Lem manages to elude him and escapes across the border where the guards will not allow the General to come. The army appear with the girl and her identity is learned. Lem grows jealous but is not allowed to cross the border. Lem recalls the document and shows it to the guard, who disgustedly translates the message which Lem had though so important as a message stating that they had found a new recipe for chili con carne.
- Lee, a salesman of women's wear, gets fired. He takes three trunks of samples with him. Eddie, his friend, receives word that he has inherited his aunt's store on condition that he run it with his wife. Eddie is not married, so Lee dresses up as a woman and poses as Eddie's wife. Asparagus Corners received the good-looking young manager of the store and his smart city wife with much acclaim, Hiram Quill, the village lawyer, and his daughter, Kittie, had been making a bluff at managing the store, but it was easy to see that it needed a change. Eddie and Lee established a beauty parlor and did a rushing trade. Trouble started when the wives discovered their husbands' sudden interest in their physical appearance, while husbands, who found no supper on the table when they returned in the evening, began to suspect that their wives were growing altogether too interested in the art of beautifying themselves, under the manipulations of the fascinating Eddie. At last, Mr. and Mrs. Dub chanced to arrive at the Beauty Parlors at the same time. Mrs. Dub was quickly smothered in hot towels by Eddie and Mr. Dub was quickly obliterated from view in the same manner by Lee. Then the two villains joined the hands of their victims, and both went out to flirt with Kittie. Mr. and Mrs. Dub grew tired of mere hand holding, and snatched off the towels, discovering each other. Rushing into the front of the store, they attacked Eddie and Lee. Mrs. Dub won, and getting her hands firmly embedded in Lee's blonde wig, she tore it from his head. Hiram declared that as Eddie was not really married the store reverted to him. "If I'm not married I soon will be," cried Eddie, leading forward Kittie, so all ended merrily as a marriage bell. Moving Picture World, October 13, 1917
- Sam loves Kitty, but her father, the Chief, wants her to marry William, his assistant. The police cannot manage to arrest a crook who does business dressed as a minister. The Chief tells William he must get him. Sam and Kitty plan an elopement. She is to dress in boy's clothes, and he will have the minister waiting. She does so, and is arrested by one of William's men as a crook's accomplice. Sam arrives with the minister and they are arrested too. They are all put in a cell together, and the marriage has just taken place, when William brings the Chief to see his capture. Of course, that is the end of William.
- Daniel Lyttell is very ill, but Doctor Bozel assures Clara that the crisis is over and that her husband will eventually get well. In the dead of the night, a burglar enters the Lyttell home. His silent footsteps reach the ear of the sick man. Clara, too, hears mysterious noises. She pacifies Daniel and tells him to rest and sleep. Softly she steals out of the room to investigate and soon discovers the burglar. Quickly rushes to the telephone, but finds that the wires have been cut. For a moment she hesitates and fears, fears for her husband. Goes to his bedside and rejoices to find him asleep. Hastily dons a wrap and envelops her head in a black veil, leaves the room and busies herself rummaging in the drawers of a desk. The burglar comes upon her but is unable to intimidate the brave little woman. Clara tells him she, too, is a thief; only she came to steal very important letters. When the man attempts to go into the bedroom for his "haul," she commands him to stay where he is. She knows the house well and can go about it without making a break. Clara proposes to get the valuable for him. He agrees, but inwardly decides to watch her every move. Feverishly Clara goes to her dresser and draws forth all her jewels. The patient grows restless and she soothes and caresses him till he's quiet again, then she glides silently out of the room in search of the burglar. The midnight visitor, however, is not a bad sort. He has seen, and the woman's brave deed brings back to him that spark of manhood long since departed. He refuses to accept her sacrifice, and vanishes into the night ashamed of himself and determined to lead a better life. Clara returns to her husband's side and hugs him for very joy.
- Harry Brown is given a vacation, the first one in years. He decides to take his wife and children to see the San Diego Fair. The wife has a lame back and is always complaining. That night they give the youngsters a bath in anticipation of the trip. The next morning everything goes wrong. They have only gone a short distance when Stella discovers that they have forgotten the baby's bottle, so Neal and the baby return for it while the others wait. After looking all over the house for the bottle he finally finds it on the sink. He starts out once more, but forgets the baby, so Stella has to return for it. They arrive at the station just as the train is pulling out, but with the assistance of several onlookers they are helped on board. Neal leaves Stella to mind the children and goes into another car, where he starts a flirtation with Betty, but this only brings trouble, for Stella comes in and takes him out by the ear. Arrived at the fair, they start in to see the sights. Betty's sweetheart is one of the concession men. Neal is anxious to enter some of the concessions, but Stella refuses. He finally manages to break away and runs in to Betty. He invites her to have some ice cream with him, which she does, but one of the children, who has wandered away from his mother to ride on the merry-go-round, discovers his father and goes back to tell his mother on father. Meanwhile the concessionaire has discovered Betty's duplicity and starts out after her. Stella also starts after her husband. They chase each other through the fair grounds. Stella discovers an officer and solicits his aid. They finally catch Neal, and Stella insists upon starting for home immediately, in spite of his protestations.
- Jimmie and his wife quarrel after a week of life. They get letters from Tom and Bessie, who have become engaged. Jimmie goes to his office and leaves his wife in tears. Each reads the letter that has come, and Jimmie calls up Tom and warns him, while Jimmie's wife does the same for Bessie. Tom calls on Bessie and they call the engagement off. Meanwhile Jimmie and his wife make up. Tom and a party of friends have gone to a café to celebrate the breaking of the engagement, and Bessie and some of her girl friends have happened into the same café for the same purpose. Jimmie and his wife go to the identical café to celebrate their making up. All three parties meet. Jimmie tells Tom that there is nothing like being married, and all hasten off to be present at the hasty marriage of Tom and Bessie.