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Through the unintentional and accidental mix-up of an elopement, two scalliwags get caught robbing a house and two lovers get a fine start on their honeymoon.

Though Madeline insists that she loves Gerald, the country soda-fountain clerk, her father vigorously forbids his attentions. Gerald longs for Madeline. He sees an article on the "Advice to the Lovelorn" column which states that should father-in-law object to son-in-law, but son-in-law not object to father-in-law, then elopement is the happy solution. He writes to Madeline that should she think well of it, he will call for her that evening, beneath her window, at eleven o'clock. He sends the message by a boy whom he finds reading a sign which has just been tacked up by the country sheriff, offering a reward of $500 for the arrest of "Sneaky Bill" and "Slippery Ike." It occurs to Gerald that the money would come in very nicely to him at this time. Madeline gives the boy a written reply that when the clock strikes eleven she will be waiting at her window. The boy, having a mischievous disposition, and knowing the contents of Gerald's message and the words of Madeline's reply, tells all ...