- To obtain an increase in his income from his wealthy uncle, Charles Shackleton must stop his wild bachelor ways and marry. Charles proposes to Lucy Norton, but her father refuses his permission. Undaunted, Charles tells his uncle he has married and receives his increased allowance. A year later the uncle announces an upcoming visit, and Charles begins a frantic search for a temporary wife, offering Jane, the maid, five hundred dollars to play the part of Mrs. Shackleton. Secretly married to William, the butler, Jane undertakes the role without her husband's knowledge, causing him much confusion and jealousy. When the uncle demands to see "the baby," Jane snatches one from an unsuspecting washerwoman, who later catches the uncle with her child and calls the police on him. Further complications lead to Charles' pleading proposal to Lucy and then finally to the truth, which leaves everyone satisfied.—Pamela Short
- Charles Shackelton offers Jane $500 to pose as his wife during his uncle's approaching visit. The housemaid who, with William, her butler-husband, is planning on a chicken farm, accepts the offer much to the relief of the gay young bachelor, who has told his relative he was married in order to secure an increased allowance. Jane finds it hard to lay aside her feather-duster instincts, but gets along very well until the uncle inquires for "the baby." To quiet any suspicion the conspirators fill the vacancy, but unfortunately requisition the infant of a reluctant washerwoman who does not speak good English, and in the midst of the uncle's ecstasies over the "heir to the house" the illiterate mother bursts in and demands the immediate return of her child. Repulsed, she summons the police, who, finding the baby in the uncle's arms, nab him as the kidnapper. Desperate at this new contingency, young Shackelton throws himself at the feet of his true lady love, Lucy Norton, whose father has ruled against him because of his wildness, and she is about to brave parental wrath and become his wife when she, too, discovers the baby and the supposed alliance with Jane. Reduced to the last resort, Shackelton finally has to tell the truth and this proves the best strategy of all. The uncle is mollified, Shackelton gets the wife he had despaired of, and Jane tucks away $500 for the chicken farm.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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