- Mercedes orders her sweetheart to prove his love by doing something dangerously heroic. He agrees, breaking into another young woman's house in order to steal a photograph. The young woman catches him and has him arrested, but he is released when a family friend bribes the police. Mercedes eventually returns the stolen photograph only to find her boyfriend in the other woman's arms.—Anonymous
- "The golden sun was sinking in the West, as it was wont to do, at the dying of an Autumn day, bathing the silent landscape in a ruddy glow. There was a suppression that seemed on the verge of bursting, when the distant patter of horse hoofs was heard. Was this the mere simulation of the property man, or was it a reality? This thought held Lucile in breathless suspense as she stood awaiting him. Her fears were soon dispelled, as a moment later the gallant Knight Armand rode up on caparisoned steed, he despised trolley cars. With a leap he was at her side, and-" This was the line of slush that Mercedes' brain was sopping up from a novel by Clara Jean Dippy, when her beau Frank called. Mercedes was a confirmed disciple of the aforesaid Clara, and would be wooed by a gallant knight of "ye olden tyme," and as Frank looked as much like a gallant knight as a mouse resembled a rhinoceros, he stands a poor show. However, she is reasonable and gives him a chance to do something daring and audacious. He is required to enter the home of a friend of Mercedes and surreptitiously secure a photograph of herself. As he does not know the family, the act is indeed an adventure. Disguised as a robber, he enters the house, secures the picture, and is about to decamp when caught by Miss Eleanor. Mercedes' friend, who, thinking him a bold bad burglar, hands him over to Sergeant Reginald Vandyke Worthington, the society guardian of the peace (meaning cop). The situation is precarious for Frank, and it looks for a time that he will enjoy a season of quietude in the "cooler." However, on the way to the detention camp, a friend is met, explanations are listened to, and Frank is released. Taking to Mercedes the result of his daring, he hands her the photograph and then shakes a "day-day." She is so delighted that she doesn't notice his last move, and prepares to return to Eleanor the pilfered portrait, only to arrive there in time to see Eleanor enfolded in the arms of Fearless Frank, for though he stole the photograph she stole his heart. Mercedes, ejaculating that classical expression "stung" falls fainting into a Morris chair.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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