- Shorty decides to become a detective and makes such a nuisance that finally the townspeople create a fake robbery to keep him busy. At the same time, someone robs the post office for real and the burglars take Shorty prisoner. He escapes and captures the robbers with no help from the townspeople, who don't believe him.—Anonymous
- Shorty, who has been reading "The Sign of the Four," is much taken up with the idea of becoming a detective. He thinks it a great idea, and going out to the stable pulls enough hairs from a horse's tail to make himself a beard; this he dons, together with a "sleuth" hat, and getting himself a large microscope, defies the world to conceal a thing from him. He trails everybody in camp, and spies upon them so much that he becomes a pest and they frame up a "jool'' robbery. Norah, the cook, pretends to have lost her diamond pin and Shorty undertakes to find it for her. That same night the village post office is robbed, and Shorty in hunting for the diamond pin happens upon the robbers, who are burying their loot. They overpower Shorty and binding his hands and feet, make him their prisoner. While they are reconnoitering, Shorty burns the ropes off his hands with his trusty microscope. When he hears the robbers returning he throws himself back onto the sand, and gives the appearance of still being bound. While the robbers have their backs turned he covers them with his pistol. He shoots one robber and marches the other before him to the village sheriff, the robber carrying the mail pouch containing the loot. Ella, the village postmistress, who has been taken into custody pending an investigation of the robbery, is released when Shorty appears with the real robber.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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