“Sending my daughter to you for visit. Arrives 3 p. m. today. Hank.” Mrs. De Coin read the telegram and passed it to her daughter and her son. About 3 o’clock there was a frightful disturbance in the driveway, and an auto appeared, upon the radiator of which was perched a striking figure, in wide-brimmed hat, chaps and flannel shirt, with a big gun in each hand. It was Brother Hank’s daughter, who had shot up all the traffic cops in her progress from the station to her aunt’s home. Mrs. De Coin and Kathleen were horrified, but Algernon, the son, found a strange attraction in the apparition. They made her put on “civilized” clothes, but she insisted upon wearing her guns over them. She slept on the floor and insisted upon Al’s giving her a ride on the tea wagon. Count Notta Cent was arranging for the kidnapping of Kathleen, Mrs. De Coin’s daughter, while she was joy riding. Mert, the young girl from the West, saw the affair from her room. She dropped from the balcony onto her horse and chased the machine. Catching the branch of a tree, she swung off it into the car, beat up the count and rescued the girl. The delighted mother could no longer withhold her blessing from the couple, Al and Mert, and it was planned to celebrate the engagement with a ball. A barefoot dancer was engaged as entertainer. Mert, at first shocked, then decided to draw attention to herself by dancing with the butler, who was detailed to hold up her train. She landed the poor man in the fountain, and, tiring of her hoop skirts, rushed upstairs to put on her chaps. Mrs. De Coin, in the meantime, catches her servants robbing the safe. A chase follows the cry of “Stop thief!” all the way to the roof. The thief drops the jewels down a gutter pipe, and they fall into Mert’s lap. She gives chase, too, and finally catches the man on the edge of a drawbridge just going up in the air. She roped him, pulls him down, restores the jewels to her aunt, and plunges the thief into the river, where he finds a watery grave. Moving Picture World, September 22, 1917