A romantic young author, wearied with the rush of a prosaic age, who loves the open, accompanied only by his flute, starts on a spring tour through the rural regions. In his wanderings, disguised as a gypsy fortune teller, he sees a lovely girl and makes her acquaintance. In reading her happiness, he mentions the rover with the magic flute, to quicken her interest. Having inspired the thought, he goes on his way, discarding his disguise. The next day the fair one hears the luring love note of the flute, and follows it to the forest. There she finds a dark, handsome young stranger sleeping. She gazes a moment, spell-bound, then flees. The sleeper is awakened and follows her. Eventually they become lovers; but the maid’s father will have nothing to do with a flute player. Strangely enough this newspaper man is a publisher, and in financial trouble, A wealthy friend comes to his relief, who seeks in marriage the hand of his daughter. The young author betakes him to his desk and writes a romance entitled, “The Rose of May.” He offers it anonymously to the publisher, and it becomes top-listed as “a best seller.” A year passes, the girl, stung by his seeming forgetfulness, is about to accept the elderly suitor, when she hears the sound of a distant flute. Again the lovers meet, but this time to part no more, for the proud parent, now made wealthy by the man who plays with a pen as potentially as he does skillfully with a flute, is very desirable.