After a lightning courtship of but a few days, a young couple unite in a hasty marriage, just in time to catch ship at Frisco for a cruise to the South Sea Islands. All goes lovely the first few days, but when three days out the charm of the honeymoon loses its edge and the young bride becomes rather more attentive to other young men on board than to her spouse, In desperation, the husband is mad enough to murder every man on board, but with the connivance of the steward, decides on a better method to kill them in his wife’s affection, by the use of ipecac. It is served in their tea as they are about the pretty girl and as it takes its effect, each beats a hasty retreat to the railing to lose his, well, dignity, to say the least. A few hours stop at Papeete, on the Island of Tahiti, and the wife is given another shock, the native girls fall in love with her husband, and are not bashful. This proves the best cure of all and on the return trip all but the husband find the atmosphere extremely chilly within a radius of ten feet of the bride’s steamer chair.