- A wealthy young man and his clerk discuss their engagements with the mutual interest of all lovers. By accident they exchange engagement rings. When the rich man's sweetheart discovers that he has given her a cheap imitation she breaks the engagement. After much amusing trouble everything is straightened and happiness is restored. Fay Tincher is seen as the clerk's sweetheart, her lover being Elmer Booth. Chet Whitney plays the role of the rich lover. A good comedy well acted. - Motion Picture News 1915.—Pamela Short
- Emily, a servant in the Lewis household, gets a note from Jimmie, her sweetheart, in which he explains a week's absence. (He claims to have been visiting his sick grandmother.) In reality Jimmie has been in jail for the length of time mentioned. Upon his release, Jimmie gets a job in the office of Henry Van Dyke, a lawyer, and sweetheart of Alice Lewis, the young lady of the house in which Emily is employed. Henry Van Dyke has ordered a ring for Alice and he sends Jimmie to the jewelry store to get it. Upon seeing a bargain in rings at the jewelry store, Jimmie decides to buy one for Emily, and for the sum of one dollar and a half he secures a ring very much like the one for which Henry paid one hundred dollars. Jimmie and Henry find a sympathetic subject in discussing their approaching engagements, and in their excitement they get the rings mixed up, so that Jimmie, upon proposing to Emily, gives her the valuable one. and Henry in turn presents Alice with the cheap ring. Alice soon discovers the cheapness of the ring, and sends word to Henry that their engagement is off, no explanation necessary, considering the cheap trick he has played upon her. Henry does not understand and proceeds to drown his sorrows. The jeweler has misplaced a valuable ring and thinks it has been stolen. Jimmie was the last customer to look at the tray which contained the missing one. The jeweler notifies the police, who recognize the description of Jimmie, he having been recently released from jail. Jimmie is arrested, and Emily is heart-broken, thinking her lover a thief. Henry has become disgracefully intoxicated and finds himself in jail with Jimmie. The two men console one another. Emily begs the jeweler not to make a charge against Jimmie, and it happens that at this time the jeweler finds the missing ring in the bottom of the showcase. He and Emily rush to the police station to save Jimmie. Alice has heard from Henry and arrives at the station to bail him out. The jeweler, upon seeing the ring, which is held as evidence against Jimmie, recognizes it as the one which Henry purchased. It is then that Jimmie and Henry realize that they have mixed the rings, and their troubles are at an end.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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