- Dulcie's once-aristocratic Southern family has fallen upon hard times, so her Aunt Netta decides to take her to California in search of a millionaire husband. While Dulcie pines for Harry, her sweetheart back home, Netta triumphantly arranges an engagement with a wealthy suitor. On her wedding day, preparing to sacrifice herself for her family, Dulcie discovers that her fiance's millions actually belong to other people when he is arrested at the altar on a bank robbing charge. Meanwhile, Harry, who has come West to get Dulcie back, arrives at the wedding just as the police interrupt it. He volunteers to take the arrested fiance's place, and Dulcie accepts his offer instantly.—Pamela Short
- Dulcie, a poor lonely white child, lives in the South with two spinster aunts who will not permit her to associate with the neighbors because of her claim to a dead aristocracy. Though an obedient child, Dulcie has a habit of wandering over the fence to play with her "inferiors," whom she doesn't label as such according to her own code. Sometimes she gets caught; once with a two-month-old pig in her arms; another time, with the grocer's son Harry, who gives her a pet squirrel, which incurs the maiden aunts' dislike. But it is not until after Aunt Emmie's death and the cessation of the small income, that Aunt Netta decides that Dulcie must repair the family fortune by marrying money. To accomplish this, she must be taken where money flourishes. Aunt Netta throws her pride to the winds, borrows $1000 from the town lawyer, and forms a deeply-laid plot. And so one fine day in June, Dulcie finds herself dressed up in grand style and hurried away to Santa Barbara, California; Aunt Netta is bent on making her a highly-successful match. At a fashionable hotel, Aunt Netta lets it leak out that Dulcie is an heiress. Straightaway the girl is the belle of the town, and though she longs to be back home playing with the grocer's boy Harry, she is rushed from one tea to another, and dined and danced till her head is in a whirl. Finally, Dulcie is forced to the accept one of her suitors; her aunt and the village lawyer assure her that Harry is in love with his cousin and doesn't care anything for her. So sad little Dulcie prepares for her wedding day. She has no spirit for the gorgeous wedding clothes, the pearl tiara, the exquisite veil. Her little broken heart is back in the Southland. At last the day arrives. The church is thronged. Dulcie and the man whom she is to marry stand before the chancel rail, when a commotion arises at the door. Detectives hurry down the petal-strewn aisle, and Dulcie is relieved of a husband she does not want by the hand of the law. The groom is wanted for forgery. In the meantime Harry has decided that he will take things in his own hands. He arrives just as the wedding is being interrupted, learns the cause, and offers to fill the vacant place. It is needless to say that he is accepted, and that he and Dulcie now live happily ever afterwards.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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