Summary
A moonlit farce detonates when Paul—reedy, moonstruck, and absurdly resolute—plots a midnight flit with the slyly radiant daughter of a granite-jawed paterfamilias whose roar could buckle girders. Between the lovers yawns a domestic fortress: bellowing patriarch, a colossus rival whose shoulders eclipse doorframes, and a mansion that becomes both jail and tinderbox. Courtship ricochets across rooftops, haylofts, and a kitchen turned munitions dump of flying crockery. When words fail, the heroine rewrites the rules of engagement: she strikes a match, gifts the ancestral manor to the flames, and in the crimson pandemonium waltzes out arm-in-arm with her scorched but jubilant Romeo, ash drifting like confetti around their getaway heels.
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Paul is trying to elope with a girl whose father offers vigorous opposition. A rival suitor, who is a giant in stature, is also an impediment in the pathway of the swain and "his girl," but opposition to the runaway is finally overcome when the girl in the case sets fire to the house in which she is held captive and in the ensuing complication of events escapes with her Romeo.
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