George Truthtell has a wife who keeps close watch upon his pay envelope and always demands its surrender every pay day intact. Temptation befalls George in the person of Miss Demure and after a few hours in a café, George loses his sense of responsibility only to find at the end of the joyous hours that he has lost considerably more. Unable to summon up courage to tell his wife the true happenings to the pay envelope, he has himself bandaged up by a friendly druggist and concocts a tale of heroic rescue of an old lady by himself and later falling into the hands of a horde of desperate ruffians, led by the ones he first defeated and how, despite a fight he was vanquished and all his valuables taken from him. The tale succeeds in changing wifie’s suspicion and unbelief to faith and tenderness and admiration, but a further complication between Miss Demure and a clever policeman, who recognizes in the girl a misdemeanor, nearly wrecks George’s successful “cover-up,” but quick thinking brings matters to a happy conclusion to all concerned.