The girl was the daughter of a prosperous businessman, and the young man whom she promised to wed was a clerk whose salary was barely large enough to support himself. The two young people felt that “father” should help them solve their little problem by taking the young man into his office, but when the subject was broached to the elderly gentleman he refused. He had other plans for his daughter, as a wealthy and very desirable suitor had appeared. The newcomer was an elderly banker, and his possession of an ample supply of this world’s goods was all that “father” desired for his child. The girl did not care for her elderly suitor, but another woman did. She was the elderly housemaid in the girl’s home. She did not attempt to disguise her feelings, much to the alarm and dismay of the unwilling captor of her heart. “Father” told the young man that if he desired to win his daughter he must show $1,000 in savings. He made this condition fully aware that the youth did not have anything like that amount saved. For two months the boy worked and saved, but was still eight hundred dollars short of the required amount. One day he went to a Turkish bath, and his visit there resulted in winning success. That day a stranger jostled the wealthy banker in the street and disappeared with the elderly suitor’s watch. The only clue to the robber was a brief glance of his back. The vanishing back was clad in a coat of very loud checked cloth, and when the banker saw it disappear into a Turkish bath he felt sure that he had run his quarry to earth. The very unsympathetic clerk at the bath refused to let the banker search the establishment unless he first took a bath. The banker garbed himself in a sheet and entered the hot room. There he found the youthful suitor and another man whom he did not recognize, but who was really the owner of the loud checked suit and the man who had relieved him of his watch. Inquiries made by the banker soon made the thief aware that he was in danger, and, watching his opportunity, he secured possession of the young man’s key long enough to open his dressing room and secure possession of his clothes. In the meantime the elderly banker was having a most agonizing time, for a burly bath attendant, bribed by his rival, had locked the doors of the hot room and turned the heat on full tilt. The elderly man danced up and down the hot room until his tormentors took pity on him and released him, but he was immediately seized by the attendant and rushed into another torture chamber. When the young man went to his dressing room he discovered that his clothes had vanished and in their place was a suit of loud checked cloth. He complained of the disappearance at the office and then left the bath, but not before the elderly banker had recognized the suit and come to the conclusion that his youthful rival was the man who had stolen his watch. The youth met his sweetheart, her father, and the faithful housemaid on the street and was chatting gaily with the girl when the banker entered with a policeman. The young man was arrested and searched and the missing property found upon him. It would have gone hard with him if the real culprit had not been arrested, and the boy’s innocence proved. So the banker had to face a suit for false arrest which the boy could have brought against him, or settle out of court, and he wisely did this, giving the youth his check for $800. “Father” had to give his consent to his daughter’s marriage to the man she loved, while as for the banker, well, he ran fast and far, but not fast and far enough to out distance the affectionate maid servant, who captured him and bore him off triumphantly to the altar.