- A wealthy young man's parents arrange for him to marry a woman he has never seen. When he meets and falls for a young woman, he convinces his valet to switch places with him. The idea is that the valet will make a bad impression on the arranged fiancee, the wedding will be canceled, and the hero can marry his true love. There is only one problem: his love and the unseen fiancee are the same woman.
- Raymond Hitchcock goes to the coast on a pleasure trip, taking with him his valet, Mack Sennett. Arriving in California, they take an automobile for a hotel and are driving along the highway when a runaway horse, on which Mabel Normand is mounted, dashes by. Hitchcock orders the chauffeur to speed up and as the car comes abreast of the runaway he leaps to the animal's back and soon has it under control. Miss Normand started for the gallop with a foreign admirer, Fred Mace. He returns and tells her parents what has happened and while they are frantic with fear their daughter returns, displaying Hitchcock's card. The name seems familiar; in fact, it seems to identify Miss Normand's rescuer as the son of an old friend. It is recalled that when the children were young they were betrothed and a note is immediately sent to the young easterner reminding him of this and inviting him to be a guest. Hitchcock receives this note with alarm. He doesn't relish being forced into marriage with a girl he has never seen. It is arranged that he and Sennett shall change places, so as a reversible master-and-man they leave the hotel with their baggage. In their new quarters, Hitchcock discovers that the girl in the case is his rescued one of the morning. He desires to change back, but Sennett threatens exposure. Thrills begin to pile up. The French count ties Miss Normand to a rock while Sennett is tying Hitchcock to a bed post in a room where a pile of newspapers is set on fire. As the tide rises and threatens to drown Miss Normand, Hitchcock frees himself, sees her predicament from his window and floats out over the ocean with an umbrella as a parachute as her parents wring their hands in terror on the beach and Sennett makes a cowardly and fruitless attempt at rescue. As Hitchcock swims ashore with Miss Normand, the police return from a thrilling chase after Mace. Mace and the valet are taken to jail while Hitchcock and his fiancée-from-youth pledge the troth of grownups.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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