Sid Nee, a Chinese laundryman, is sought by officers of the law. He escapes to a small town where he opens a laundry. Kate Kelly, who takes in washing soon finds that Sid Nee has robbed her of her business. She determines to wreck his establishment, but this scheme being frustrated, she hits upon the still more profitable plan of going into partnership with the Chinaman. Meanwhile, the police have traced the fugitive. Kate's sweetheart, Mike Doolan, who believes that she is going to marry the Chinaman, leads the officers to the house of the Justice of the Peace, and when Kate and Sid Nee comes out with their document, the latter is grabbed and hauled away. Then Mike finds that what he had supposed was a marriage license is merely a business contract.
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