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- Gus' uncle won't give him any ready money, but tells him to be comfortable in the house as though it were his. Uncle being away, he rents out rooms for cash. Uncle returns and finds things humming. He is in great need of ready money and so things are easily fixed.
- Jack Deming, rescued by a nun from a watery grave while on his way to the gold fields, promises to send her a token of gratitude. Jack strikes it rich in Alaska and falls in love with a dance hall woman, thus incurring the enmity of the town bully. After winning a battle with the bully, Jack sends the good sister a magnificent golden rosary.
- Harold and John Drexel, heirs to the Drexel estate, live alone with their sister Vivian. John is sensible while Harold is reckless. When John proposes to Ruth Dixon, her sister Mary, who had always been in love with him, is heartbroken. Meanwhile Harold becomes entangled with Lorrane Del Rica, a woman of few scruples who, with her lover, Freddie Brooks, is in the racket of blackmailing the sons of the rich. Through Lorrane, Harold contracts a venereal disease. On the eve of their marriage, Ruth induces John to take her to a bar where she meets Harold. Becoming enamored of each other, Ruth and Harold marry after she breaks her engagement to John. She soon realizes her mistake, however, when their child is born a hopeless cripple. Harold, placing the blame on Lorrane and Brooks, rushes to their home and slays them, committing suicide after the deed is accomplished. Ruth also attempts suicide, but is prevented from doing so. All does not end darkly, however, as John finally realizes his love for Mary and the two are wed.
- Jerry Simpson and Tom Bradford are two happy-go-lucky chaps with a weakness for pretty faces and the fact that they possess two beautiful wives does not restrain them from indulging in their flirting propensities. Mrs. Bradford and Mrs. Simpson, who are sisters, receive a letter from their mother, inviting them to spend a Sunday at their country home. After consulting a timetable, they decide to take the 5:15 train. This is very much to the satisfaction of their husbands, who are more than pleased to be relieved of their wives' presence for a short time so that they may indulge in a little harmless frivolity. Tom and Jerry in arriving at their office receive word by letter that their French model, Madame De Luxe, has arrived in the city. Her husband, Count De Luxe, is somewhat irascible and objects to a sudden departure to the office of her new employers, Bradford and Simpson, but, nevertheless, she at once departs, and her French beauty and chic ways secure for her a hearty welcome. Jerry, knowing that his wife is to have the city that day, extends the Madam, an invitation to visit their apartments, under a pretense that they have a number of new costume plates which they desire her to look over. With a reluctance she consents. Mrs. Simpson and Mrs. Bradford leave for the train, and fate decrees that they meet Madame De Luxe in a tie-up on the boulevard. Madame De Luxe arrives at the home of Jerry Simpson and is received with open arms, while the wives of the gay deceivers arrive at the railway station to learn that the 5:15 train does not run on Saturday. Jerry has ordered an informal lunch with sparkling wine as an adjunct, and in his excitement has overlooked hanging up the receiver which leaves the telephone lines of the apartment closed. The wives decide to take the 7 o'clock train and also decide that while waiting they will call up their loving husbands. They are unable to receive an answer to their call and Mrs. Simpson becoming suspicious, determines to return home and investigate. In the meantime, Tom and Jerry are entertaining their French model royally, giving no consideration to their wives or to Count De Luxe, who is in a rage at the Madame's prolonged absence. The Count discovers a card with the address of Jerry Simpson, and being of a jealous disposition, hurries to seek vengeance on the destroyers of his peace of mind. In the midst of Tom and Jerry's tete-a-tete with Madame De Luxe, the wives arrive and in the endeavors of Tom and Jerry to rid themselves of the danger of their position, complications follow one upon another. The Madame is hidden and Jerry feigns sickness to disarm the wives' suspicion, but they do not count upon the numerous accidents which happen to disclose their unfaithfulness. The Count De Luxe arrives at their apartment, discovers his wife's coat, and realizes that he is also deceived. He vows vengeance and later returns with his child which he forces Tom and Jerry to retain. In their anxiety to relieve themselves of this new burden, they hide the baby in the clock. The wives hearing the cries of the infant soon discover the hidden treasure. Madame is also brought to light and when Count De Luxe, seeking vengeance, enters with a lighted bomb to blow his supposed rival into eternity the story is brought to a climax with many laughs.
- Nephew and niece have never seen Uncle, who is known to be rich and is coming on a visit. Tramp enters the house, puts on a suit of clothes and is taken for the uncle. The real uncle comes while nephew and his wife are setting the table. He is locked in the closet, but breaks out and is taken for a lunatic. Cop arrests Uncle, but on way to prison they meet the uncle's man. Cop and Uncle come back for the tramp, who has skipped.