Summary
A jittery clerk Eddie, always apologizing for his own pulse, stumbles into a municipal scandal when he mis-delivers a perfumed letter meant for the mayor’s wife; the billet-doux lands in the manicured paws of a spinster philanthropist who believes herself adored and promptly bankrolls a charity gala in gratitude. Eddie, frantic to retrieve the note before it detonates reputations, ricochets through speakeasy backrooms, florist shops dripping with gardenias, and a jury-rigged courtroom where every syllable of his habitual contrition is subpoenaed as evidence. Meanwhile a gaggle of cigar-chewing aldermen, smelling reelection in the scandal, hire a flat-footed detective to trail the stammering courier; the gumshoe’s shadow lengthens into slapstick menace—doors slam in triplicate, trolleys uncouple, a Model-T ends up vertical against a lamppost. By twilight Eddie scales the courthouse ledge to snatch the letter from a statue of blindfolded Justice, slips, dangles, apologizes to the gathering crowd below, and inadvertently confesses not only the mix-up but every minor fib he’s told since puberty. The mob, charmed by such public penance, forgives en masse; the mayor burns the incriminating page in a lantern, the philanthropist embraces Eddie as her “honorary conscience,” and the film ends with our hero escorted home by a brass band that keeps stopping so Eddie can apologize to passing dogs.
Synopsis
Featuring Eddie Lyons, an American film actor, director, writer and producer. Lyons appeared in 388, directed 153, wrote for 93 and produced 40 films between 1911 and 1926.
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