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Time Flies Synopsis

Action gets under way with a duel between Colonel Amos Blackwell - the deadliest shot of his day - and Major Wimpett, the latter furnishing the cause for a combat which is to settle an argument as to whether a "full house or five aces" is the better hand. News of the duel is carried to the Colonel's family and to prevent the demise of the Major, the Colonel's son mounts a trusty high wheeled cycle and crashes into the field of battle in time to effect a cessation of hostilities - the bullet having hit the boy's watch when he appeared in the line of battle. Beholden, the Major presents him with his own "Waterbury." Time passes and in the meantime the boy - after bidding his sweetheart good-bye - reaches the cold, cruel city to build his fortune from a capital of ten cents. Hovering around a lunch counter where a customer is drinking a cup of coffee, the lone coin is accidentally dropped in the cup and disappears down the drinker's throat. Disheartened, the boy seeks a country road and meets a repulsed lover who is attempting suicide with a harmless gun. However, the gun suddenly goes off and hits a lamp globe which drops on the boy's head. He is taken to the home of an adventuress who tries to vamp him after linking up the "Waterbury" with a newspaper article which seeks to locate a missing heir to a fortune. The other suitor appears and at this point Lane displays a lot of his tricks in his endeavors to dodge his pursuer. The boy escapes the scheming pair and with his "Waterbury," returns to claim the fortune and his sweetheart.

An Amateur Devil Synopsis

Carver Endicott, a young sophisticate, is rejected by his fiancée for being too foppish and dull. When she feigns an interest in his father, Carver attempts to disgrace his family name by working as a farmhand and later as a busboy in a hotel. However, the newspapers only praise him for his self-sacrificing principles; and finding that he cannot bring shame to the family through menial labor, he takes up with a notorious actress. But when this maneuver also fails, he returns to his former fiancée, who has no further complaint about his being an inexperienced dullard.