Billy, a waiter with savings, comes to the summer hotel and registers as a foreign nobleman. He becomes popular with the girls. Bess' mother determines to capture him for her daughter. Billy buys a conjuring outfit from a showman, and invites the guests to a show. Charles bribes a small boy to steal the hat which he has hidden in the trick box. Billy searches for another, and grabs one off a woman's head. Her wig comes with it. This is Bess's mother. The boys from the city arrive and tell the guests that Billy is a waiter. They all chase him. He takes refuge in mother's room. She is hiding her bald head, and he promises to return her wig and say nothing, if she will support what he says. When they all break in, the mother has to offer her daughter's hand to Billy to make him keep her secret. But Charles and the boys are outside the window. They pull him through it and throw him in the lake. Then Charles takes Bess in his arms.
—Moving Picture World synopsis