An irate father, a persistent lover, and a pretty girl who solves the difficulty, furnish a tale of elopement that is pleasing and excites the risibilities of the most sedate. The father objects to the marriage, and elopement is resorted to with complicating results. The girl flees to the apartments of her sweetheart, and just escapes the father and his detective, by being carried away in a wardrobe that has been delivered to the young man by mistake. This muddles matters, but the young man sends for the minister and prepares for the wedding. The girl has been delivered to the rooms of a friend, and he assists. The lover and the minister dive through the window into a mortar box, and are followed by the sleuth and the father, and they emerge, sorry looking specimens indeed. The lover and the minister, covered with a white coating, find the girl, and the ceremony is performed, only to be broken into by the father and the detective, whose clothing is also soiled. The old man forgives the young couple and the story ends happily for all concerned.
—Moving Picture World synopsis