Billie Ritchie, who is blessed with a numerous family, many bills and a small income, has great trouble in avoiding his many creditors. His adventures are too numerous to mention. He is rather attracted to a neighbor who has a jealous husband, but his efforts to see her are interrupted by a mysterious man, who finally corners Billy and tells him that he wishes to hand him a legacy. Billy, who has employed various subterfuges in order to get a chance to talk to his fair neighbor, at last sees his opportunity and arranges with her to meet him at the telephone company's masquerade. The wires get crossed and wifie becomes suspicious. She goes to the ball followed by her large family. These she masks and mixes in with the guests. Her husband's gay actions finally cause him to become a storm center and in order to escape a mobilization of angry husbands he has to flee across the telegraph wires. They follow him and he is captured and punished after a spirited chase.