Violet Horner is in love with Billy Quirk. Her father dislikes Bill and tells this to Bill’s father. Incensed at this, the elder Quirk bets Violet’s dad that he (Horner), will beg Bill to marry his daughter. Horner takes the bet. To keep Violet away from Billy, she is sent to a boarding school. Bill, disguised as a girl, gets into the same school and nearly wrecks it. The ruse is discovered by the principal. Billy persuades Violet to elope with him, and while running to the parson, they bump into her father, who calls an officer, but Bill gives the cop the slip. Later, Mr. Horner gets a letter from his old friend, Captain Spar (who has settled in the Canary Islands), telling that his son, the Prince, will call. Violet steals this letter and shows it to Billy, who conceives the idea of hiring a couple of tramps. He makes them up as Zulu slaves, and himself as the Prince. In this disguise they go to the Horner borne, where they get dad’s goat. Pa Horner ‘phones to Billy’s dad to have Billy come over to marry Violet, and collect the wager that the young folks may have as a wedding present.