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- Mr. and Mrs. Love, with their young son, are so happy that hubby is usually late for work. The stenographer in Mr. Love's office who is in love with the bookkeeper places a note and handkerchief in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. Hubby spills some of baby's milk on his coat and when wifey is cleaning it she discovers the note and demands an explanation from hubby, who knows nothing about it. Wifey decides that she must live in the same house with hubby on account of the baby, but apart. She puts a chalk line on everything in the house, even the maid, and tells hubby that the line is to be considered a six foot wall. A friend of hubby's calls and is much embarrassed when Mrs. Love ignores him when he speaks to her. It is then up to Mr. Love to explain that the chalk line is a six foot wall. The stenographer, in the meantime, is angry because the bookkeeper failed to answer her note and asks for an explanation. She is informed that the note was not in his pocket that it must have been placed in Mr. Love's pocket by mistake. They decide to explain the situation to Mr. Love, and upon calling at the house are confronted by Mrs. Love to whom they explain everything. Mr. Love is holding baby and feeling a damp chill on his arm he places baby on the floor. Baby gets busy with its little body and rubs out the chalk line. Wifey returns to the room and is pleased to see the chalk line removed. She awakens hubby, who informs her that he did not remove the line. They miss baby and find him looking at them from under a chair and of course, due to the explanation from the stenographer and bookkeeper Mrs. Love apologizes to hubby, who forgives her.
- Harry La Pearl, a rube, visits the grocery store, and as he is about to leave, is attracted by a pretty girl. In endeavoring to make a hurried exit he upsets things in general, including the flour barrel, fruit stand, etc. His wife, however, is close upon his heels and to make a getaway he steals a pig and rides through town, followed by his wife, the marshal and others. The pig finally finds his way back to the pen. Harry is captured by his wife and resolves not to look away from the straight and narrow path in future.
- The little town of Hicksville is proud of their new uniformed police force, and a wire comes that a desperate criminal is at large and that a reward of $500 is offered for his capture, dead or alive, great excitement prevails at the central police station. Dud and Slim, the two new additions to the force, are determined that they will capture the bad man. Their search begins, but Miss Ethel comes between them, and for a time they almost forget that it is their duty to capture, dead or alive, the terrible "Giant George." When the "Giant" comes leisurely walking before them with six-shooters drawn, our two brave policemen desert their duty and flee for safety. A riot call is sent in and the town police force finally locate the bad man in his room. When they attempt to arrest him, however, he quietly takes away their revolvers and orders them from his room. Bud and Miss Ethel find a huge mallet, and when the bad man attempts to leave his room it falls from Bud's hands and the bad man falls in his tracks. Bud receives the reward, and peace and quiet once more reign supreme.
- Nellie has many suitors, but she yearns for a necklace. While strolling in the park a policeman becomes enraptured with her charms and gives her the desired necklace, but as Nellie will not satisfy the policeman by kissing him he wants his necklace back. Nellie returns the precious jewelry and Mr. Policeman finds a willing customer in the person of one Billie, a love-sick four-flusher, who is also enraptured with Nellie. Along comes "Long Arm Jim" and soon relieves Billie of his love token. Jim knows woman's weakness and succeeds in selling and reselling the necklace many times, each time extracting it from the purchaser. Billie is the first to discover the loss and is soon joined by the other victims. "Long Arm Jim" is finally captured and the necklace is returned to its original owner, the policeman. Billie, however, succeeds in getting it from the policeman and when he presents it to Nellie he wins her for life.
- Ethel, the daughter of Kate, a boarding house mistress, is loved by Snooky, a social pirate, and one of her mother's boarders. Babe, another roomer at Kate's house, and head salesman at the ribbon counter at Cohen's department store, is also in love with Ethel. On account of Babe's effeminate manners and small salary, Ethel refuses to have anything to do with him. Filled with a craze for diamonds, Ethel secretly covets the beautiful pendant worn by Mrs. Carver, a wealthy roomer living at Kate's domicile. Snooky also covets the pendant, but with an entirely different motive. Watching his chance, Snooky is about to steal the pendant when he is interrupted by Babe, who also has designs on the jewels. Before Babe can escape he is discovered by Mrs. Carver and Babe seeks safety in flight followed by the irate husband of Mrs. Carver. The husband follows Babe, who, after a perilous journey across roof tops, rushes into the boarding house just as Snooky, with the pendant in his pocket, is trying to escape. He seizes and exposes Snooky, and receives the praise of Ethel and the others.
- Just because Mrs. Price, known to her old associates in Shanty Alley as Kate, has suddenly acquired heaps of money, she decides that as a suitor for the hand of her daughter, Florence, Babe is as welcome as a glass of poison. Babe is in despair, but learning that Kate is planning a big reception in honor of Count Brekski, to whom she hopes to marry Florence, Babe has his friends kidnap Kate and with the help of Florence and the maid, dresses up in Kate's clothes and receives the guests. What Babe does to the guests and the Count in particular, is a shame, and although the money looks over-inviting to the Count, nevertheless the wallops handed to him by the supposed mother, takes away all the ardor of the poor Count. Kate, meanwhile, is putting up the battle of her life with the kidnappers, but finally they subdue her and bind her securely. Babe appears on the scene, and after pretending a wonderful fight, succeeds in releasing Kate, and bringing her home. The grateful mother decides that our hero, even if he is fat and of humble birth, is good enough for her as a son-in-law.
- Plump and Runt are street musicians who are rivals for Florence's affection.
- Pokes is hit by a car, and instead of damages, the driver gives him the car. Pokes and Jabbs go out driving, but are mistaken for car thieves.
- Plump and Runt are on opposite sides of a mountain feud. Then government revenue agents arrive and both families join together to run off the common enemy.
- Pokes and Jabbs have been sent to the border to report events for a sensational daily newspaper, but things are quiet and news is scarce. A telegram, tolling them to send in some thrilling news items or quit arouses them to action. A Mexican is seen skulking through the woods clutching a jewel box. Their attention is attracted and they see visions of columns of thrilling news, so decide to follow the mysterious stranger. The trail leads to the foot of a tree, where the stranger digs a hole, plants the box and then departs. Pokes and Jabbs start to dig the box out and have almost reached their goal, when the stranger returns. They take refuge in a tree. The stranger, noticing that someone has discovered his hiding place, digs up the box and is about to depart when Pokes and Jabbs demand to know his business and the contents of the box. The stranger relates a wonderful and thrilling tale of persecution, privation and hardship. Pokes and Jabbs take down the main facts for publication, but when the stranger tells of his wife and two pretty daughters being held in captivity, they volunteer to rescue his loved ones. The stranger accepts their assistance, and agrees to lead them to the dungeon in which his wife and children are confined. The way leads through weird places and strange mishaps are encountered, but all obstacles having been surmounted, the three arrive at their destination, where Pokes and Jabbs are thanked for the return of Mysterious Pedro, whose mania is hiding empty jewel boxes in the sand.
- Jabbs the ladies' man makes Poke and Runt jealous, and steals away Ethel, the object of their affections.
- Plump and Runt are shanghaied by a group of sailors. They jump ship and swim to an island where they make themselves at home with a family of castaways.
- Plump and Runt leave their wives for a 'rest cure' at the seashore, where they meet two lovely young ladies. Unfortunately, their wives decide to follow them.
- Willie Walrus, a baker, is ordered by the court to pay alimony, but this Willie refuses to do, as he thinks his wife can earn her own living. Wifey, however, imbued with the militant spirit, decides to force him to pay her and visits the bake shop where Willie juggles the dough. Willie, assisted by his fellow bakers, succeed in getting Wifey out of the shop. Knowing she will return again, he decides to poison her by placing rat poison in some candy. His is friends see an opportunity to play a practical joke and instead of sending the poisoned candy to Willie's wife, they send her a box of good candy and the poisoned candy is replaced with castor oil nuggets which Willie presents to the cashier. Explanations are now in order, and a reconciliation takes place between Willie and his wife.
- When his uncle arrives for a visit, Plump has to find a wife and baby in a hurry. With the help of his friend, Runt, soon there are wives and babies everywhere.
- The fad that an unfortunate member of the canine race possesses n rather lurid appellation should not necessarily mean that the free passage of his breath ought to be prevented by means of a piece of hemp, Plump and Runt were jail birds. A religious revival hits a burled chord in their being and they reform in so much as they get jobs as a butler and as a chef. The same household shelters a wayward son, who is being bled by a woman of the world. To meet his demand for money his sister steals her friends' money and jewels, the blame falling upon our (this time innocent) heroes. How they emerge from the clouds of suspicion and finally bring the real culprits to justice is graphically told in the picture. The closing scenes show them, covered with virtuous indignation, vegetables and a few clothes, enthroned among the household gods.
- Mr. and Mrs. Runt are traveling on a train. Runt falls asleep in the smoking car, which is detached from the train. When Mrs. Runt discovers her husband is gone, Plump offers to help, and escorts her to her hotel. Runt arrives at the hotel, sees them together, and goes into a rage.
- A professor has invented a special glue. As burglars are robbing his house, the laboratory explodes, catching the burglars, the housekeeper, and the housekeeper's two suitors in a sticky mess.
- Country boys Plump and Runt are sent to the city after one too many pranks. Arriving at the wrong house, they make themselves at home until the owners return.
- Bungles is having a bad day. First, he's rained on, then his girlfriend is robbed, then he's beaten by a pair of piano movers after he gets in their way.
- Babe, the pride of Cheestown and his mother's darling, arrives at Tidewater College at the opening of the school term. Babe's idea of a good time is a volume of the Iliad and a bag of peanuts. But after he has laid eyes on Florence, the prize peach of the Co-Eds, he deserts his book long enough to start a mild flirtation with her. This is directly in violation of the rules issued by the upper classmen to govern the conduct of the freshmen. Babe pays no heed to the rules, and thereby incurs the hostility of Tom, the Sophomore leader, who orders Babe to be subjected to the hardest of initiation and hazing stunts. However, after Babe has had a few rough stunts pulled off on him, his mother comes to visit her darling boy and, seeing the way he has been treated, decides to take a hand in the hazing game herself. Disguising herself, she lays in wait for the sophomores, and when they visit Babe's room for the purpose of hazing him, they receive the surprise of their lives.
- Mrs. Plump hides some money in her traveling coat, but it's stolen by tramps. On his way home, Plump is caught speeding and thrown in jail, where he finds the tramps, takes some money from the coat, and pays his fine.
- After the entire staff quits, a desperate hotel manager hires a pair of street cleaners (Plump and Runt) as his porter and bellboy.
- Wifie reads that every woman must create an artistic atmosphere in her home to avoid becoming old. She thinks she already shows signs of age, and takes up painting, the first thing that enters her head. Hubby stands for the litter of artist's paraphernalia all over the house, but objects when Wifie decorates his collars with her landscapes, causing him to become the laughing-stock of the men in the office. When Wifie gets his best friend to pose as a model for "A Perfect Man," Hubby is fired for staying at home, jealously watching lest a love affair develops. Hoping a baby will cure her mania for painting, Hubby adopts one, only to find that babies are not in her line, and he puts it on a rich man's doorstep. A policeman is about to arrest him, but Hubby claims he was only going to change its diaper, producing his handkerchief to prove it. He takes it home, gets it to sleep, and goes out to look for work. Wifie tells him to get something artistic. He gets a job as butcher. Returning home, he sees the painting outfit flying out of the window, finding that Wifie has discovered a Caruso in the person of the baby. Hubby is overjoyed to hear that Wifie intends to find her "artistic atmosphere'' cultivating the baby's voice.
- Mr. and Mrs. Plump are both prone to jealousy. When Mr. Plump is called back to the office late at night, she gets suspicious and follows him dressed in his clothes. When he comes home and finds her not there, he dresses in her clothes to tries to catch her with another man.
- Stooge, manager and truck driver of the Fall-a-Part Furniture Company, is successful in selling the complete furnishings for Mr. Groucho's new flat, and arranges to make immediate delivery. Stooge experiences considerable difficulty in loading all the furniture bought. Finally it is placed on the truck and Stooge starts for his destination. Upon arrival at the flat he is met by Mr. Groucho and his wife. The latter insists upon giving instructions and in attempting to follow these instructions Stooge becomes tangled up in the furniture and the carpets. Groucho and his wife, assisted by the landlady, attempt to adjust matters by holding on to one end, but they only make matters worse, for a tug-o-war ensues and Stooge is knocked out of a window and falls into a garbage can below. In falling he upsets the can and rolls away from the trouble.
- Babe and Kate, two ex-convicts and former underworld pals, have drifted apart since their prison days. Kate has reformed and is now a reporter in a distant city. Babe, overflowing with ideas of how to separate the unsuspected citizens of their hard-earned cash, comes to the city. Creating some comment by his free way of dispensing coin, the newspaper sends Kate to interview the illustrious stranger. When Kate recognizes Babe, she almost faints, but Babe, by his suave speech, shows Kate that if she will join him in his scheme they will reap a fortune. The two insert a notice in the paper to the effect that the man who is so anxious to conceal a certain questionable deal had better pay hush money at once to Babe or his arrest will soon follow the exposure. The result of the notice is extraordinary, as it appears that every man in town has pulled off a questionable deal. Just as the two crooks are about to leave the city with their ill-earned gain, their Nemesis appears in the form of an amateur detective, who has overheard their plans. Babe and Kate are arrested.
- Jabbs is serious about business, but Pokes just wants to flirt with the stenographer. While Pokes is preoccupied, crooks break in and steal the safe with a large sum of money, entrusted by an important client.
- Kate, president of the Suredeath Street Railway Company, has a daughter, Ethel, who is the apple of her eye. Babe, an inventor of a safety device for the controller of a trolley car and possessor of a funny little wink, arrives to demonstrate his invention to Kate. Through the aid of Florence, his confederate, whom he has managed to install in Kate's office as a stenographer, Snorky, president of a rival traction company, learns a demonstration will be given on a certain date. Snorky plants a bomb underneath the car so that when the lever strikes a certain mark the bomb will explode. However, Babe has asked Ethel to accompany him on a trial spin a few hours before the demonstration, and their entrance blocks Snorky's escape. Finding himself trapped in the death car, Snorky raves and a desperate struggle takes place between him and Babe. Babe overpowers Snorky and hurls him off the roof of the fast-flying car just as the bomb explodes. The explosion throws Babe and Ethel high in the air, but with Babe's usual good luck, he and Ethel land safely in Kate's auto.
- Plump and Runt are out sailing, but their boat sinks and they swim to an island. There they find a millionaire and his family camping nearby. When a disgruntled suitor kidnaps the millionaire's daughter, Plump and Runt have to rescue her.
- Plump and Runt have never met their wives' wealthy aunt, but they brag to their jealous friends about the fortune they expect from her. When she comes for a visit, the boys mistreat her, thinking she's one of their friends dressed up to fool them.
- Kate, the prize kitchen mechanic of the Goldrox home, has always envied the fair maids she has seen promenading the avenue, and resolves that, no matter what the cost be, she herself, is someday going to enjoy the life of a society leader. Babe, the driver of one of the city's garbage carts, also has daydreams of the life he would like to lead. In the park one day Kate, adorned in her best, encounters Babe, also attired in his Sunday best. The two entertain each other with stories of the thrills and bores of the lives they pretend to lead, greatly to the delight of the other. When the Goldrox are away for a day, Kate seizes the golden opportunity to indulge in the joys of living the life of the social grand dame of her dreams. With the help of the family servants she invites Babe to the house, where she proceeds to entertain him. Babe is greatly impressed and the affair is progressing rapidly, but on the following morning, Babe, dressed in his overalls, drives up to the back of the house to empty the garbage cans. He meets Kate coming out of the kitchen with the scraps of the morning meal, and each learns of the deception of the other.
- Plump's wife is about to give birth. He rushes out for a doctor, but is mistaken for a burglar and has to elude Runt and the police, and get a doctor in time.
- Pokes, the property man at the Vim theater, incurs the hostility of Prof. Jabbs the wonderful Escape King on the opening day of the performance. Jabbs is very fond of posing in the lobby of every theater where he is featured as the star act. Here he meets Ethel, Poke's sweetheart, and invites her into the theater to watch his act. Pokes sees his fickle sweetheart in the front row flirting with Jabbs and in his rage he resolves to get even with his lordly rival. Discovering that the secret of Jabbs' escape from the padlocked barrel, consists in a false bottom. Pokes maliciously nails up the bottom securely. Jabbs does not discover the trick until after he has been securely locked into the barrel by Pokes in full sight of the audience who become alarmed. Pokes with fiendish glee packs dynamite into the barrel on top of the almost suffocated Jabbs and after lighting the fuse rolls the barrel out of the theater. Then seizing Ethel, who of all the audience has remained in the theater, the arch villain rushes her to the office of a Justice of the Peace. Just as the marriage ceremony is about to commence, Jabbs who has been hurled high in the air by the force of the explosion, falls into the same office, and throwing Pokes out through the window, proceeds to marry the now-willing Ethel himself.
- Babe and Raymond, two pals, and tenants in the Riverside Apartments, are both ruled by wives who insist on their remaining home nights. The night of a big poker game at the club, the pals frame up a scheme whereby, appearing to flirt with each other's wives, a fight will follow and in the melee, Babe and Raymond will beat it to the club. The scheme works fine, for after the fake fight is over an ambulance is summoned to carry Raymond off to the hospital. On the way to the hospital, Raymond makes a spectacular escape from the ambulance and reaches the club only to learn that Babe has not yet arrived. Raymond with the assistance of the other club members, masked as burglars, force an entrance into Babe's flat. Kate, Babe's husky spouse, mistaking Raymond and his pals for regular burglars, enters the combat, and routs the entire crowd, reserving Raymond as her last victim. During the confusion, Babe escapes and arrives at the club, where he learns with consternation of the treatment meted out to his club mates. Raymond has fared even worse than the others, and when Kate gets through with him he surely is a fit subject for the hospital, and this time he makes no objection to being carried there, where he is bandaged and put into bed. Babe, in the meantime, has been a heavy winner in the card game and also has partaken of innumerable liquid refreshments. When he arrives at the apartment house he stumbles into Raymond's flat. Mrs. Raymond, waiting well armed for the return of her nubby, brings down with full force on Babe's head the rolling pin meant for Raymond's reception. Stunned and battered, Babe is also carried to the hospital, where he finds himself in the next bed to his pal.
- "The thoughtful husband" decides Wifey needs a vacation and sends her to a quiet hotel. Her hand baggage is placed in the wrong room by a "dime-novel crazed" bellboy, who also places another guest's baggage in her room. The similarity of the numbers "66" and "99" cause the error, and when Ethel, a newlywed, arrives and is escorted to her husband's room she is astonished to find woman's wearing apparel thrown about. Ethel decides to make trouble and therefore removes the lingerie and places it in room 99, where it is discovered by "the thoughtful husband," who has also arrived in response to Wifey's telegram. In the small hours of the morning "the cabaret rounder" returns to the hotel, and when he attempts to retire in Ethel's room a general mix-up ensues, which ends satisfactorily.
- Dud and Bert are enjoying a stay at a fashionable summer resort. Realizing that in order to continue they will have to raise funds, Dud secures a position as lifeguard. His wife sees him surrounded by a number of beauties and chases him into the briny, she after him. She forgets she is unable to swim until she is over her head. Dud rescues her and receives a reward of $5,000 for bravery. His pal, Bert, feels that he is entitled to a share of the reward and when it isn't forthcoming he threatens to blow up Dud. Bert places a bomb in Dud's home and Dud enters just in time to plant the bomb behind Bert, who is making his retreat. The bomb explodes and Bert takes a flying trip through the clouds and when he returns his wife receives him with wide open arms.
- The mayor hires Bungles as a policeman, and sends him out to take care of three down-on-their-luck European aristocrats, who are competing for the attention of the Mayor's daughter.
- In front of a saloon and a private graveyard two cowboys are on the verge of a fight when Kate looms up in the doorway. The men immediately separate. In No Man's county everyone holds Kate in awe. In one instance, she takes drastic measures to stop a brawl in her saloon, and, as a result, another grave is added to the others in her private graveyard. On another occasion she demonstrates her marksmanship by hitting a reflection in a mirror. One day, however, she meets Bill, a man of iron will, who proves his caliber on his arrival by starting a little gun play after blowing smoke in the faces of a few strangers. As Bill goes to the saloon, he passes the graveyard and the epitaphs on the tombstones set him thinking. At the saloon he introduces himself and treats to drinks. When he refuses to pay. Kate starts a scrap in which Bill is victorious. In another encounter Bill is again the victor. Kate finally becomes submissive and marries Bill, who is very domineering and is in the act of scolding her when his wife wakes him with the aid of a rolling pin and Bill appeals for mercy.
- Dud, a henpecked husband, while doing the weekly ironing, burns his hand. He leaves by a window and is met by his friend Bert, who has left his wife because of her biscuits. Bert steals a cigar cutter. The two ex-husbands enter a saloon, followed by a policeman. The cigar cutter serves as a weapon of defense, and after Bert has succeeded in ejecting the proprietor and the officer the two ex-husbands take over the thirst parlor and become hilarious, proceeding to invite all who enter to join them. While in hiding the two heroes see double and they decide to visit their wives at Bert's home, where they receive a peppery reception and are forced to retreat to the dog house, where, wrapped up in each other's arms, they depart for the land of dreams.
- Pokes and Jabbs are hired as secretery and butler for a wealthy man. They both immediately fall in love with the maid, and try to steal a diamond from a wealthy houseguest to give to her, not knowing there's also a notorious jewel thief in the house.
- Believing his sweetheart, Ethel, has spurned him, Babe wends his way to a cabaret intent on drowning his cares. He falls victim to the wiles of Florence, a dashing vampire who has discovered that Babe will fall heir to a fortune if he is married within a certain time. She lures him into a mock marriage and then announces her intention of sharing his fortune. Later Babe learns that Ethel has really been the victim of circumstances and she intends to marry him at once. In a quandary, he endeavors to escape from his dilemma, but Florence holds him fast to his supposed marriage vows. The vampire, however, has been followed by Pussey Foot, the detective, who recognizes her and unearths the plot against Babe. Just as Florence and Ethel are about to battle for possession of Babe, Pussey Foot appears and denounces Florence, exposes the mock marriage and reunites the lovers.
- Peggy Plump marries Pokes, but he deserts her after they move to the city and he finds a prettier girl.
- Ethel loves Pokes because he plays the violin, but Pokes is too poor to marry her, so he sells his violin. Without the music, Ethel won't have him and marries someone else.
- Plump and Runt follow their girlfriends on a trip to Spain, where they're temporarily distracted by a beautiful Spanish dancer.
- Pokes, the porter poses for Ethel, a struggling young artist. Ethel unfortunately is very short of ready money and in consequence is asked by her landlord to vacate her room at once. As a last desperate resort, Ethel tries to sell a painting of Pokes posing as an archer, but the rebuff handed to her by the critical and unsympathetic art dealer, is the final blow to her spirit, so she resolves to make a getaway from the apartments. She conspires with Pokes to smuggle her trunk from the studio and when the latter comes to remove the trunk he unwittingly locks inside it, the landlord, who, while inspecting its contents and hearing his wife's voice on the corridor outside, had taken refuge in the trunk. Pokes starts to carry the trunk to the railroad station where Jabbs, the baggage man is anxiously awaiting the arrival of a trunk containing a shipment of gold consigned to a local bank. Some crooks, who have learned of the expected shipment of gold mistake Ethel's trunk for that of the treasure chest, overpower Jabbs, and load the trunk with the unfortunate landlord inside, upon a truck which they have commandeered. Upon Ethel's arrival, Jabbs' plight is discovered, the alarm given and the pursuit of the fleeing crooks is started. The police follow the desperate thieves and overtaking them through the help of Pokes and Jabbs finally succeed in releasing the landlord from his perilous position.
- Babe is happy over his engagement to Florence, but the minute he thinks of breaking the news to her mother, Kate, his dream of joy is ended. For Kate's ex-husband was a pugilist and his friends always considered him "some pug," yet at home he was Kate's little lambkin, for Kate carried a wallop in each hand that had a bigger kick than a Krupp gun. Babe thought "safety first" should be his motto; yet, instead of being rough with him when she heard the news, Kate only smothered Babe with hugs. Later, however. Babe meets Ethel, a blonde vampire who drives all thoughts of home and Florence out of Babe's head until the time came to tell Florence that she was no longer a member of the "engagement club." Kate hears the news and her past training with her ex-hubby stands her to good effect until Babe, declaring truce, proclaims Kate the lady of his choice. Trouble begins between Florence and her mother over the possession of Babe. During the melee Babe escapes and seeks safety at the side of Ethel, only to receive an awful blow when he learns Ethel already owns a husband. Then Babe figured, although her mother may be a little rough, it was cheaper to get married than to work, so Babe beats it back to Florence and Kate, where a happy reunion occurs.