Hogan is the manager of a small dramatic company and a succession of bad houses finally lands the company back in the city broke. The company is dispersed and Hogan finds shelter at the boarding house of Mrs. McStinger, a widow of ancient and acidulated vintage. The blarneying tongue of the witty Irishman and his evident admiration for her, coupled with possession of the company’s wardrobe trunks, wins the heart of the unusually obdurate landlady, and she foregoes her regular rules and takes the shelterless Hogan in. Hogan ingratiates himself with various members of the household, from all and each of whom he borrows indiscriminately. The leading woman of the troupe succeeds in finding an “angel” and the company is booked to open at a nearby town at an early date. But Hogan is found to be in pawn; the landlady has discovered him in a tender love scene with a café entertainer, and after she has inflicted condign punishment on him, she, assisted by the lodgers, incarcerates Hogan in his room. He subsequently escapes and joins the company.